u/MrMrsPotts

This is a fun but I suspect really hard question.

Imagine a date in the next 1000 years where the Sun, along with its gravity, suddenly disappeared. When that happens, all planets in our solar system would stop orbiting and carry on in a straight line. Is there a date that would then cause two planets from our solar system to collide?

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I’m in the UK and ChatGPT Pro appears to be priced at £200/month. In the US it is advertised as $200/month.

Has anyone in the UK successfully been billed in USD for ChatGPT Pro, or is GBP billing mandatory for UK accounts/payment methods?

Is there any way round this?

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Suppose the Sun disappeared instantly tomorrow. By “disappeared,” I mean both its light/heat and its gravity are gone, so Earth stops orbiting and continues roughly in a straight line through space.

I am not asking what happens to civilisation in the first few days — I assume panic, infrastructure collapse, crop failure, and mass death happen very quickly. I am more interested in the outer limit of survival.

Could any humans survive for years or decades by moving underground, using geothermal power, nuclear power, stored food, hydroponics, or scavenged supplies? What would be the true bottleneck in the long run: heat, food, oxygen, energy, maintenance of technology, or something else?

For a reasonably prepared but not pre-warned group of people using present-day technology, what is a scientifically plausible estimate for how long the last humans could stay alive after the Sun vanished?

After 8 minutes the Earth would stop orbiting and it would start cooling. But how quickly would it cool down?

I don't mean when would it start cooling. I mean how much cooler would it get per day.

It's pretty popular to finetune qwen models but I never hear anyone say anything positive about them.

With all this talk about Mythos being able to hack into. US government systems, I was wondering if anyone has tried to get root on their own system using a local model?

My understanding is that every galaxy we know about has a black hole at its centre. Does this mean that eventually all the matter in the galaxy will collapse into that black hole?

I have to get a train from Oxford to Durham tomorrow afternoon. Should I expect the air conditioning to make it reasonably cool?

The mail app shows me the text in emails in different colors. When I print an email I want it in black and white and not in grey scale. How can I do that?

If you turn up at 8:30am on a weekday, you can get an xray, see a doctor and be out in half an hour!

I just bought a day return for £26. Is this a promotion or are they really charging less because it didn't stop at Didcot?

I am hoping there is

I am guessing they will both be released in June

It's not a good idea but I feel someone must have tried.

Are there independent schools that are not private?

Just because people are also wondering about public schools. Those are only Merchant Taylors', St Paul's, Eton, Shrewsbury, Harrow, Winchester, Rugby, Westminster, and Charterhouse, at least officially.

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hey got a couple of months remaining and i want to spend this time properly exploring and spending time with oxford. I have done the basics, the formals and college visits, the chapels, the famous bars, the student life essentials. Im looking for niche things i ought to do before i leave this gorgeous place!

It's for an elderly relative who can't maintain their garden any more.