The earth has a lot of angular momentum, in fact the planets combined have more than the sun and planet formation may actually be necessary to “bleed off” angular momentum from protostellar discs for star formation, but I digress. So if you were to aim directly at the sun you’d miss it wildly as the tangential motion of the earth would be added to your motion. Even worse it would miss the sun, go around it, and orbit back to where you came from. A bad thing if you were trying to toss, say, radioactive waste into the sun. To hit the sun you have to bleed off all of that angular momentum by using rockets (very expensive) or do what NASA usually does and use gravity assists swinging by planets to gain or lose energy. The Parker solar probe had to do a bunch of swings past Venus to lose enough angular momentum to get close to the sun.

I’d hike across campus in college with wet hair and it would be frozen solid by the time I got to class in the winter. lol

My wife does this with notecards. I have to hide the passwords on my PC so I don’t have to dig through her notes.

My mom resented anything tech related. I knew she was smart enough to learn it, she just hated being forced into it so we always had to do it for her.

Do what I do with my wife. I say she has to learn how to do it and I sit down in front of her and make her take notes and then have her try doing it. I’ve finally been able to get her to do some stuff on the computer on her own.

They might want to look up how the parties flipped during the civil rights era.

Confidently ignorant people really bother me. Even if I thought that I would’ve thought “Is that true?” and spent a second googling it. It is amazing how some folks are devoid of even the slightest curiosity but are blindly overconfident.

Or people who are pedantic.

“The sky is blue.”

“No it isn’t! It is red at sunrise and at sundown.”

“Ok comic book guy.”

“you know what I meant!”

This is why I’ve learned to repeat what I thought someone said back to them so they can confirm if they communicated it clearly or not.

“Bring it to me.”

"Which one? I see 5 of them here.

“Oh, I meant the blue one.”

How dare you point out something. Stop hurting her feelings by pointing out anything she doesn’t know. “I would’ve pointed out you were about to drink soap but then I’d ‘Always need to be right’.”

How does this person think guided missiles work? “Well the plane moved so we missed.”

"Also you can’t catch up to the moon because the moon is traveling faster then our rockets can go "

1. Not true so discussion over right there
2. Even if its angular velocity was faster than a rocket its radial velocity is nearly 0 so all you would have to do to intercept it is to lead it. No different than shooting a moving target at long ranges.

If you really want to confuse most folks tell them why shooting stuff into the sun is actually VERY hard to do.

People think of fruits as having to be sweet and tomatoes are acidic and are used like non-fruit vegetables in cooking so I can see why someone who hasn’t thought about botanical definitions would think that way.

you can gain infinite weight from one chocolate bar.

Eventually you’ll turn into a black hole.

“holistic”

Aka, “Keep science and evidence out of this”

I’d make trust funds for them and make it clear that this was it. If you give them cash they will hate you because you gave them only $1,000,000 a year ago and didn’t give them more this year.

Any time I think of the lottery I can’t help thinking of this infamous reddit post that should be mandatory reading by anyone who wins.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/chb4v05

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/chb4yin

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/chb51su

Well technically you are both right though she is being pedantic.

Omg we had a Maine Coon as a pet when I was a teen. Go look them up, they are big. I heard yelping one day and say him hanging onto the neighbor’s dog’s tail and swinging around in the air. The dog stopped pooping in our yard after that. Then once I heard my mom yelling in the back yard. There she was being chased by the cat who probably thought it was lots of fun. I asked my mom, “What did you think the cat was going to do? Nibble on your ankles?”

I caught him once trying to open the back door by standing on his hind legs and pulling down on the door handle.

That totally ignores the demand side of the equation. If people didn’t want to buy X believe me, they wouldn’t sell X. I’m pretty sure the horse and buggy industry and cathode ray tube tv industries would’ve loved to have kept selling their products.

“live off the land”? You are about 5 billion people too late for that.

topple capitalism

Would you like to work for me for free then?