Programming Throwdown, Episode 1119, The Art of Vacations.

Take it away, Patrick.

Well, hopefully all you listeners aren't going to be thinking you need a vacation after listening to this episode.

Wait, let's just really quick. I want to talk about just like how important this episode is. Like people might see this title and think, wow, Patrick and Jason, they've run out of programming languages or something. But no, this is super, super important. We preempted all of our other show ideas to talk about this, especially with COVID and everything. So stay tuned. You're going to learn a lot of good stuff. I think a lot of people over, I mean, when we're recording this now, we're at like, what, 18-ish months, 17 months of, you know, kind of like work from home, COVID, all this stuff. I think people are really burning out. Like I, the people I work with, the people like I talk to, I try to encourage them, like, take time off. Even if you are just going to stay at home still, like get away from your computer, people have gone so long without taking vacations or going anywhere. And even if you're worried about health

stuff, whatever, I mean, just the mental, we'll talk about it. We'll talk about it.

Yeah, yeah, totally. But stay tuned. It's really important. Yes, thank you. Don't, don't, don't change

the channel. We're showing our age. The intro topic for this episode,

I wanted to talk about how cool it is.

It's been a somewhat recurring topic on the show,

talking about space technology and going to space.

And we've covered various topics over the years.

That feels weird to say.

And I want to say, like, since our last sort of duo episode, there's been a a bunch of really cool news. And I'm not even gonna really talk about any of the sort of SpaceX related news. That's like highly covered about other people. It's that super exciting. But just like not SpaceX related space news, there's been a lot of cool stuff happen. So Virgin Galactic and had Richard Branson go to, I guess now we have to

put air quotes, space and air quotes. There's a whole feud over that. But I mean, like regardless,

the fact that they got to where they've been headed for for years. Well, wait, real quick, was he weightless?

Because that's how I define space. Okay, that counts of space to me. I mean, I'm not an expert, but. So there's a difference between like the U.S. and like other countries about where the launch. So this wasn't intuitive me. I was explaining it to someone and it's, it's kind of weird, but Earth's atmosphere, and I'm going to get it wrong, but Earth's atmosphere doesn't just like stop at some point, right?

It's like a gradient and it's dense by the surface and then as you go higher and higher and higher,

it gets less and less and less dense, right? But where do you put the cutoff point? Because it's kind

of like a probability thing like or a density. So the density of atmosphere goes lower and lower,

but it doesn't just stop at some point.

Yeah, that makes sense.

So you have to sort of arbitrarily kind of define a line where it's like mostly you're out of the atmosphere.

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