What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf?
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The aviation industry can absorb a whole lot of sin before they're on equal danger footing with automotive, if for no other reason than sheer volume. Most people, unless you fly constantly for work, get on a plane once a year or less. Most people drive to work almost every day. Roads have traffic, the skies do not (at least, not nearly to the same extent, midair collisions can happen but they're rare).
I have no doubt the skies are about to become noticeably less safe, but they've got a looooot of catching up to do before they dethrone the automobile as one of the top 3 leading causes of death in America.
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Has anyone ever sent you nudes cause of your name?
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Isn't it still a straight line from the perspective of someone travelling it? It just appears curved because you're looking at it from outside the curved surface.
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Well, hardly ever.
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Alternatively, if sound worked in a vacuum, the way light does, The Sun would be the loudest thing in the solar system.
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I'm fortunate enough to live in a walkable neighborhood. When I moved here walkability didn't really factor in; I have friends here and I liked the apartment.
Man, it is so nice. I definitely appreciate it now and will try to factor it in in the future. I am absolutely convinced that walkability fosters community and cars reinforce social isolation.
I still have my car but I consider it and driving a burden. If I had to replace it I'm pretty sure I wouldn't.
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I'm pretty sure in that case the sound alone would kill us..
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it's the lactose tolerance pyramid scheme
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to be fair, most of the calculations were done on Earth
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Voyager 1 is the antithesis of planned obsolescence¹, with it long outlasting its mission
¹the real kind, no the meme kind liberals often say that things are the result of
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In the staff fridge at work someone used to label their milk as "breast milk" and people would go eeeww. Like it was snot or something. But from a cow's breasts? Fine! So weird.
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Homelessness. But I don't occasionally think about it. I see it every day. In the richest nation in recorded history.
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Well humans do be gross
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It's always been a rich man's country. All for one, none for all.
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You're talking about great circle routes, which is why long distance airplane flights look strangely curved on most flat projection maps.
What's even more fun is Coriolis force, which in the Northern hemisphere will deflect your path slightly to the right. Pilots tend not to think about it because the wind is a much greater force for deflection but it's there.
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i don't even understand what you think 'straight' and 'curved' even mean at this point.
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Fortunately, there is a Tom Scott video.
IIRC it's not even the only sterilized insects US government air drops from planes. ( Fruit flies over LA? )
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What country? Is it really rich if it can't look after its citizens?
