36 thoughts on “January 13, 2025: Game Night”

              1. Yep, that explains it pretty well. In our orbit we are going very fast sideways relative to the Sun, and if you don’t slow down, you will keep going sideways and not be able to hit the Sun.

                You need to get rid of a lot of angular momentum in order to hit the Sun, and that takes a lot of rocket fuel.

                This is also why planets can exist, and therefore why we are here. If it was easy for orbiting material to fall into the Sun, the gas cloud that formed our solar system would have all collapsed into the Sun. Because of angular momentum, some material stayed in a disk around the forming Sun, and that disk eventually became the planets.

    1. I had a real hard time with the Steelers v. Ravens game. I've hated the Steelers a lot longer, more than half a century, but I hate the Ravens with the wolverine intensity of a scorned woman.

        1. From CBS Sports:

          Minnesota is a 2.5-point favorite in the latest Vikings vs. Rams odds from the SportsLine Consensus, up a half-point from the opener, while the over/under for total points scored is 47.5, also up a half-point from the opening line. The Vikings are -143 money-line favorites (risk $143 to win $100) after opening at -125, while the Rams are +120 underdogs (risk $100 to win $120) after opening at +105.

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