DoktorL

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   by DoktorL 9mo ago

   You also cannot directly compare a metro line to intercity rail. That line in Tokyo was like what, 20th they built all in the same terrain, they are really good at this by now. Meanwhile, rail tunnels are usually bespoke projects.
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   by DoktorL 11mo ago

   > Going up is the comparatively easy part, it's not exactly rocket science. Some would argue is quite literally rocket science, even if suborbital rockets are much simpler, like they can just burn solid fuel.
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   by DoktorL 11mo ago

   But there was a war, wasn't there? So why not admit that 8000-year-old myth can have got "the rocks went flying" part right. Written accounts are still vastly superior to oral tradition of course, their accuracy is on another
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   by DoktorL 2y ago

   > E.g. "By repeating the process enough times, the probability that you never catch me becomes smaller than, say, getting struck by lightning" doesn't seem to show it's a proof? That's fine though, because the po
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   by DoktorL 3y ago

   Electric scooters and such do create a new danger that didn't exist before: they let (indeed, encourage) you to take the hazardous part (the battery) inside an apartment to "refuel". An equivalent would be bringing a gas-driv