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grease is slippery so what if it helps them move faster

by tenaciousDaniel 8y ago

rytill 8y ago
Spacetime is pretty slippery already. At least, I haven't been able to stop moving through it yet.
- _jal 8y ago
  I think the secret is crankiness. I have a family member who is stuck in the 70s.
  - coldtea 8y ago
    To their defence, that's a way better decade to be stuck at compared to anything that came after...
    - smt88 8y ago
      That's true for a minority of living humans[1]. In the US, it's certainly not true for LGBTQ people, women, or racial minorities, all of whom have more rights now than we did in the 70s. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/28/is-the-world-really-better-than-ever-the-new-optimists https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/28/is-the-world-re...
      - coldtea 8y ago
        >That's true for a minority of living humans[1]. In the US, it's certainly not true for LGBTQ people, women, or racial minorities, all of whom have more rights now than we did in the 70s. It could just as well be true for all of them as well (assuming it is for the rest of course). The "but now X group has rights" argument doesn't mean much. Such rights are a small, and rather insignificant part of life. Women, gays, lesbians, and racial minorities had huge great movements and tons of fan in the 70s in their everyday life as well. It's not like their whole existence was diminished by how others conceived them or whether they had this or that law. A black who had a steady Detroit job in the 70s in a nice home, family and so on, felt much better off than an unemployed same-aged man in Detroit today, even if the second has more nominal rights and articles about him now (not to mention that there are probably more police shootings of blacks today than in the 70s, and let's not even compare Trump to Carter or even Nixon on that regard). Or go talk to gay people, and see how they feel about the 70s and 80s, and various scenes that existed then compared to today. You'd be surprised Living in a looser and laxer decade can be more important than having some right in some law book (gays then partied far more widely and extravagantly than the meagre contemporary scene where they have rights, sure, but society is run by prudes and money spoilt most scenes). Heck, in the same period we had a full blow military dictatorship in my country, and people can still wax poetically about the times and the fun they had. Even people persecuted then and even tortured by the police at this point or another.
  - Chris_Chambers 8y ago
    Please stop trying to turn this site into reddit with your terrible, useless wisecracks.
mkl 8y ago
It wouldn't. Grease is slippery relative to e.g. metal sliding on metal, but still has friction. A vacuum has no friction at all, and so the tiny amount of matter present in space, hydrogen, this grease, dust, etc. can only slow you down.

grease is slippery so what if it helps them move faster

rytill 8y ago

Spacetime is pretty slippery already. At least, I haven't been able to stop moving through it yet.

_jal 8y ago
I think the secret is crankiness. I have a family member who is stuck in the 70s.
- coldtea 8y ago
  To their defence, that's a way better decade to be stuck at compared to anything that came after...
  - smt88 8y ago
    That's true for a minority of living humans[1]. In the US, it's certainly not true for LGBTQ people, women, or racial minorities, all of whom have more rights now than we did in the 70s. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/28/is-the-world-really-better-than-ever-the-new-optimists https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/28/is-the-world-re...
    - coldtea 8y ago
      >That's true for a minority of living humans[1]. In the US, it's certainly not true for LGBTQ people, women, or racial minorities, all of whom have more rights now than we did in the 70s. It could just as well be true for all of them as well (assuming it is for the rest of course). The "but now X group has rights" argument doesn't mean much. Such rights are a small, and rather insignificant part of life. Women, gays, lesbians, and racial minorities had huge great movements and tons of fan in the 70s in their everyday life as well. It's not like their whole existence was diminished by how others conceived them or whether they had this or that law. A black who had a steady Detroit job in the 70s in a nice home, family and so on, felt much better off than an unemployed same-aged man in Detroit today, even if the second has more nominal rights and articles about him now (not to mention that there are probably more police shootings of blacks today than in the 70s, and let's not even compare Trump to Carter or even Nixon on that regard). Or go talk to gay people, and see how they feel about the 70s and 80s, and various scenes that existed then compared to today. You'd be surprised Living in a looser and laxer decade can be more important than having some right in some law book (gays then partied far more widely and extravagantly than the meagre contemporary scene where they have rights, sure, but society is run by prudes and money spoilt most scenes). Heck, in the same period we had a full blow military dictatorship in my country, and people can still wax poetically about the times and the fun they had. Even people persecuted then and even tortured by the police at this point or another.
- Chris_Chambers 8y ago
  Please stop trying to turn this site into reddit with your terrible, useless wisecracks.

mkl 8y ago

It wouldn't. Grease is slippery relative to e.g. metal sliding on metal, but still has friction. A vacuum has no friction at all, and so the tiny amount of matter present in space, hydrogen, this grease, dust, etc. can only slow you down.