orbital simulation

Orbital Distance Speed Intuition

3 June 2021

Or something like that XD I was discussing with a friend the deltaV requirements to fly to the Sun (~30km/s) for a simple route and we struggled a bit to intuitively grasp, why this requires more energy than leaving the solar system (which is a much bigger distance). But in space, distance does not matter. […]

Bitcoin Gold Visualisation

1 May 2019

Recently I was wondering how much gold a Bitcoin is currently worth.I calculated that it would just need a coin, little bigger than a 2 Euro coin. Since this is an easy calculation, but can be a good visualization of the worth of a Bitcoin, I created a dynamic representation of it in Java Script. […]