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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Ok, now I can’t tell if you’re just being funny, so I’ll answer you in good faith.

    Yes, but it’s a negative pressure compared to the pressure of our atmosphere, so also… No.

    There’s an inherent property of an object with mass to be attracted to other objects with mass. It’s a somewhat weak force, but it does exist. This force is known as gravity. Now picture a sheet being held at all 4 corners, then having a bowling ball rolled to the center of it. The sheet is like space and the bowling ball is like our planet (or any other celestial body, really) that sag of the sheet is gravity. Now put a marble on the sheet and you’ll see the force in action. Put that marble fast enough away and it won’t even roll toward the bowling ball.

    The Earth’s mass produces enough gravity to retain a bubble around it, otherwise known as “atmosphere”. The atmosphere has weight, due to the mass of the gasses that are being produced on the planet. The further you get from the center of the planet, the lower the weight of the gasses above you. This is what causes the pressure known as “atmospheric pressure” which is around 14.7lbs inward toward the center of the planet on every in^2 of surface at sea level, whether liquid, solid, or gas.

    Beyond a certain point of our atmosphere, this weight becomes virtually non-existent. There are still other gasses, dust, rocks, particles, radiation and other energies, etc… but there’s not enough of them close enough to sufficiently pressurize the space between the stars or planets to the degree that our own gasses do to us.

    This negative pressure differential is colloquially known as a vacuum, albeit an imperfect vacuum.






  • I’d probably go back to around 2000 and tell myself that my stupid decisions were going to catch up to me in about 24 years, and they will definitely cost me the relationship I have with only person in this world who had ever genuinely loved me, and that it will drive her mad and she will react in a most brutal and callous way.

    I would remind myself that the way I think other people are feeling is almost always wrong, to some degree, and that i should listen better to her about her feelings while I still have a chance to salvage what was once true love.

    I would explain that, if I’m not careful, I will misinterpret everything she says about her feelings, and i will lose all my friends and hobbies, one by one, trying to be someone for her that she doesn’t even want.

    I would describe the way it feels to be with her, then illustrate the way it will feel when she starts dating other guys while you beg her to please work with you on your relationship, and that it would already be too late no matter how much you want it to work.

    I would suggest that, if I decide to proceed while ignoring all my other advice, then I should at least not buy a house with her in 2023 when she is so insistent. Just hold out for one more year before making that mistake.

    She wanted to be my forever person, and i didn’t know how to deserve that. We were fucking teenagers when we got together, and neither of us knew how to be. We were just spitballing.

    And I’m a fucken dumdum.

    I probably wouldn’t listen to me anyway