Wandering Adventure Party

@techvvitch @0xabad1dea it is just as unreasonable of you, to expect your computer literate friend to implicitly recognize & understand your limitations and unfamiliarity with the tech, as you seem to think they are, for making suggestions outside your own comfort zone.

@techvvitch @0xabad1dea they're not intentionally being assholes y'know. They're telling you what they themselves would do or have done. One can only speak from one's own personal experience, it's not their fault that other people have different experience.

I got a lot of flak over the years from "unrealistic" expectations of others, about things that I had already done for myself. It's natural to assume everyone else thinks like you, even though it's usually untrue.

@badastro "K2-18b (note the lower-case “b”, denoting it’s a planet) is about 2.6 times the Earth’s diameter and 8.6 times its mass. Some people call it a super-Earth, but in my opinion that’s misleading; it’s more likely a mini-Neptune at that size and mass (so a small gas giant instead of gigantic rocky world)"

8.6x Earth mass with only 2.6x diameter is way too dense to be a gas giant.

Hm, I take that back. volume = 4/3 pi * r^3, 2.6x diam is 17.5x larger volume. Half density of earth, ok.