Rob Bos

Market cap? Which stock symbol is it? 😉

Asdf.txt, asdf2.txt, asdf.m3u, asdf.odf…

Linux has some advantages in that a lot of the basic stuff, someone from 1985 would pick it up pretty fast, I think. Commandlines are very conservative. I have scripts I haven’t changed in 15 years.

The math is pretty simple. We’re travelling at 25km/sec around the sun. You have to get that to zero to hit the sun. Getting to Jupiter means getting up to like 37km/sec (made up number). Way easier.

edit: I looked it up because it didn’t feel right. Outer planets move SLOWER the farther out you go because gravity is weaker and they don’t need as much angular momentum. So the math isn’t quite as simple as that. :)

Yeah, which is why I added the note about cleaning power per unit volume. But it’d have to be a fair bit more powerful to make the effort worth it, I think.

We use maybe 50ml of Tide (so that’d be probably 100 loads) when doing our laundry, so if that’s equivalent to like one tablespoon of the Borax mix, I could see it saving me $20 or so overall, if it’s three times stronger.

So it’d come down to how much time I spend shopping and combining the mixture vs just buying it.

Mind, that’s just the borax. Bar soap and baking soda are cheap but not free.

(edit: and before someone jumps on me about “baking soda”, I was thinking of it in terms of decomposing it into carbonate in the oven. I haven’t priced out washing soda)

I’m not convinced about the cost. A kilogram of borax seems to run about $10CAD. 2 cups, at 1.7g/CC, would be about 850g, so $7 just for the Borax. Unless there’s a much cheaper place to get it…

A ~5L jug of Tide costs $31, or about $6/L. If they have approximately equivalent cleaning power per volume, Tide wins.