I'm trying to help a new user here, but my first try didn't help and I'm about to leave after making my second try. If any of y'all see a way to help an earnest but confused new user, please do.

@MonicaCellio It might be some kind of stretch, but knowing the protocols in theatre when people are sick/giving birth (not saying it's the same, but protocols might be), might somewhat fit the scope... that would not be the most stretched question, IMHO.

However it needs to be a bit more specific, as you mentioned in your second comments, without details, it is far too broad...

Need to make new scifi based on this

Hole hopping highway

Oh man, you'd be dumbfounded by the sheer variety and amount of data contained in my trash pile.

@Secret Saw that a few days ago, thought it was pretty interesting, but one thing confused me. So light (in a vacuum) is already going at the speed of light, so why would bending it around a black hole help? Then I got to thinking. if you have a light sail and a laser, mount the laser on your ship, and then shoot it at the sail, nothing happens because the light pressure from the laser cancels out the light pressure on the sail. Also why you can't mount a fan on a sail boat to get speed.

But, if you were to aim the laser out the back, bend it around a really small black hole, and then have it hit your sail, then you'd have the light pressure from the laser and the light pressure on the sail both pushing you forward. But it only gets useful if you can drag the black hole along behind you. But does that violate physics? (aside from having to drag all that mass, even for a really small black hole.)

Also, unless you bring it with you, how the heck do you slow down, unless your destination also has a black hole to bend light around?

The idea is that as the light bends around the black hole pair, it steals some orbital energy thus blueshifting the laser. Hence the light pressure before and after do not cancel out

And the author in that video also mentioned, you need to find another black hole pair to slow down by basically doing the laser thing in reverse direction

So the light would be going faster than light?

Or just be more energetic I guess...

nope, it will be shifted to higher frequency (since the speed of light cannot change)

hence more energetic

@Secret "steals some orbital energy" queue a period far in the future where millions of ships have used a black hole pair in a popular location, and the orbital energy loss actually destabilizes the system

Also, if you have laser failure, you're suddenly plunging toward a black hole at superluminal speeds without brakes... sounds exciting

@Feeds WT*???

Some of those maps seem close to the opposite of what I'd have guessed.

Including the Donald Trump one...

Unless the uber-liberal states didn't even know he was running until after he won, which makes sense, in a way, LOL :P

And were busy looking up who the heck he was, while the rest were going "oh no, he won".

@Hosch250 Looking at that map that doesn't make sense... but we also don't know what time period was used, the exact trends looks up, lots of other stuff

I think the main point is that google trends can be used to generate mostly meaningless noise without too much trouble, hence the "least informative" label.

@AndyD273 Hey guess what other dad in chat!?!

My wife took the kids to the in-laws and I have the house to myself. Be very jealous.

@James Oh I am jealous. How long?

I edited my question, de szart sem érek vele, if feedback isn't provided

Next week is the kids spring break, and they are going to the mother in laws for at least half the week, and most of those days the wife is also working until very late, so it's almost as good.

@AndyD273 They'll be back sometime friday.

nice

and I talked my boss into letting me work from home today.

Sweatpants and coffee make me happy.

heh, well with such a quiet house I'm sure you'll be extra productive

...sure. lets go with that.

Next step is to convince him that you can be just as productive with a telepresence robot

Hmm, apparently you can buy those for only $2,140

Hmm... I'm going to see if MIL can keep the kids most of saturday too. That would simplify things quite a bit.