5yo mind: The Moon is up, so if you have a fire pole, you slide down, to Earth! How long does that take?
(Years of KSP experience later...)
Oof... Up isn't really what I thought up was, and neither is down. It makes more sense now, and almost less sense at the same time if you try to explain it to anyone.
I wonder if there just stopped being interesting questions to answer. I remember him saying somewhere that he got a lot of questions that read as if the asker was trying to create a specific answer.
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[ 0.25 ms ] story [ 33.5 ms ] thread5yo mind: The Moon is up, so if you have a fire pole, you slide down, to Earth! How long does that take?
(Years of KSP experience later...)
Oof... Up isn't really what I thought up was, and neither is down. It makes more sense now, and almost less sense at the same time if you try to explain it to anyone.
Unfortunately, Randall hasn't added any posts since then.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/column/good-question-randall-munroe-...
It's pretty telling that What-If has 573 subscribers on Inoreader (the RSS feed reader), but Good Question only has 3!
Curiously, it doesn't answer the question.