127 HTTPS requests, each building a new TLS encrypted TCP connection, makes for quite a latency for anyone not living in Japan (aside from the fact that doing 127 independent requests sequentially just asks for trouble)
Getting stuff to mercury is hard though. IIRC it takes around 16,000 m/s of dV to get from LEO to the surface of mercury. Titan would take even more (19,000) but a huge chunk of it can be reduced by making use of aerobraking.
Yeah, it was just a parody of the articles The Onion regularly releases regarding another topic and to be honest I didn't quite expect my post to take off the way it did.
I'm also sorry I posted it on Medium, which I personally dislike, but since Medium is frequented by many JS devs it seemed the ideal place to put that joke.
The jobs at risk are not only those in the coal industry but also the jobs powered by the coal. You can't run a business without electricity. So if coal makes up about a third of the power then about a third of the jobs in Germany could be lost.
That is one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever heard.