What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf?
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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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And the wealth of only one single manchild is enough to pay housing for them all - at least in this nation...and probably in some more.
(Just looked some numbers up - world economic forum reported in 2021 that there are 150 million people homeless in the world, that would be ~2700,- per individual homeless person, taking his net worth into account -for 770. 000 homeless people in the US it would be ~525. 000 per person) -
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?
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Thanks for sharing!
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Humans be allowed in, on and across roads in many countries. Jay walking is the most insane non-crime I’ve ever heard of. I still don’t really believe it exists…
So, yeah, car centric cities are both terrible and insane - but not every city in the world is that way; thankfully.
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I believe they're mostly made of alluminium
