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I think this belongs here, though you probably need to know some German to fully appreciate it.

Wait, what?

Ahh, you're the guy that will sit in peaceful protest until he gets his hands on nukes and then blows the crap out of the whole planet.

What's a reddit?

A type of chair manufactured in Inner-Mongolia. It's prized for it's authentic feel and the noise it makes when one stands up.

Actually, it seems that if you tell someone that something they did just isn't right, chances are that you will get everybody mad at you.

Hmm, that would explain people's reaction. But should people react in such a way? Right now, people are acting as if pointing out that a rape joke is distasteful is worse than the joke itself...

The entire internet is a joke about ruining someone's life in one way or another. If you're going to get offended at every single comment about something horrible, you may as well just give up on the internet because you will spend your entire day offended.

I appreciate your concern, but that's a decision I'd like to keep to myself.

Someone's a bit sensitive. Are you new to the internet or something?

No, I just won a year's supply of energy drink and I'm going to take advantage of that.

This is true, the interwebs are just like that.

That doesn't make it any less wrong, that just means there are a lot of people doin' it wrong.

I'm thinking a dumb projectile type probe, intentionally designed to speed through the system. The antimatter would be something like a couple thousand atoms or something.

Using the following relativistic equation for the mass of antimater needed, I get:


1/2 m1 c^2 = m2 c^2/sqrt (1-(v/c)^2) - m2 c^2
m1 = 2 m2 /sqrt (1-(v/c)^2) - 2 m2
m1 = 2 m2 (1/sqrt (1-(v/c)^2) - 1)
m1 / m2 = 2 (1/sqrt (1-(v/c)^2) - 1)
Plotting that yields the following graph:
http://i.imgur.com/GygFI.png?1


As you can see, to accelerate a probe to 10% of the speed of light, an amount of antimatter equal to 1% of the mass of the probe needs to be expended. Since the change in mass of the probe is only 1%, we don't need to take the dwindling mass into account, so we can assume the probe needs to take 1% of it's mass in antimatter with it as fuel, assuming 100% propulsion efficiency. For a probe of 10 kg, that means 10 grams of antimatter is needed, which, if taken along in the form of protons, would cost 250 billion dollars (short scale) to make, according to this estimation

date rape is bad

So are rape jokes.

Some more tips:
1.) Make sure there are others nearby. Getting asked out is a stressful situation and it helps if she's not all alone.
2.) For the same reason, avoid blocking doors or backing her into walls.