huthuthike

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by huthuthike 3y ago
To your first point, I think success at doing something that no human has done before is going to be more memorable to the masses than failure to do something that many people have done before. Hence we remember the first people to land on
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by huthuthike 3y ago
You are right about that. My post was answering a poster about "how would Columbus feel that we went to the moon but not to Mars?" The 27 year timeframe is an analogy comparing the distance to the moon vs the distance to Mars, and
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Doing something we've never done before is a lot more exciting to people than repeating our previous success. Think about it this way: who were the astronauts on the first lunar landing mission? Who were the astronauts on the last? Why
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by huthuthike 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones In Micronesia there was a practice of carving massive "coins" out of stone. These "Rai stones" were often too large to move. Yet individuals could "own&
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Well it took Columbus 2 months and 9 days to get across the Atlantic. He never made it to India, which was his original goal. The first expedition from Europe to India via the ocean was by Vasco da Gama and it took him around 10 months. Ear
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by huthuthike 3y ago
I agree with you that for the cost we can do more with robotics, and it's safer. However, we also need to factor in human psychology. It would inspire billions of people worldwide to see a person on Mars. This is not something that can
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Ok, so basically anything that has any forces on it will end up with oscillations. On Earth it tends to not matter, because those oscillations travel from the object down into the ground, which is really good at damping them because the gro
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by huthuthike 3y ago
You can't just make something free floating bigger and bigger without introducing new issues. In particular, as objects get larger in zero gravity, it becomes harder to dampen oscillations. The lighter the object is the more problemati
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by huthuthike 3y ago
That's kind of a high fantasy trope. "Blood and ashes!" from Wheel of Time comes to mind. It's like how they like to use different measures of time and distance. "It took him a fortnight to travel all those leagues.
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Well we know that homo species have been using stone for millions of years because stone doesn't degrade easily. It's not that wild of a jump in logic to think they've been using wood for just as long.
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by huthuthike 3y ago
All things being equal, companies want to sell as little as possible for as much as possible. We all want to make the most amount of money with the least amount of work. You also need to factor in the time it takes to build a home. If I can
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Regarding fruit, I believe that article is saying fruit can be eaten regularly with every meal. You can eat it during the meal or afterward as a "dessert." Foods with added sugars should not be eaten daily but can be enjoyed a cou
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by huthuthike 3y ago
I fully agree with you but governments aren't exactly the ally on this one. Local and state governments in particular are losing out on tax revenue due to WFH. Lower attendance in offices (often in city centers) means less spending in
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Personally I'd remove it from the National Flood Insurance Program. If the buyer can get a private company to insure it then the sale can go through. If the buyer cannot get a private company to insure it then the sale can only go thro
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by huthuthike 3y ago
A lot of these people are stuck in the situation. While they can get flood insurance to rebuild the property, they can't afford to abandon the property, and they can't find anyone to sell it to. So they are in a cycle of rebuildin
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by huthuthike 3y ago
So if Amazon employees have it worse, will it make working conditions better for the teachers and firefighters and contractors of America? By that metric, aren't those jobs pretty privileged compared to the people living in third world
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Get reusable silicone bags. Most sources say they don't release microplastics. I'm not sure how well studied that is but my hunch is they probably aren't as bad as using a ziplock bag.
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Why do find it hard to believe that plastic in contact with water could result in microplastics contaminating the water?
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Most importantly, if you make a lot of money doing it while not recording the results, then it is legitimized.
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by huthuthike 3y ago
I think that film is just oils from the coffee beans. Acrylamide is soluble in water, so why would it float on top? Anyway, a single coffee bean is probably enough to kill someone if you grind it up and inject it into the wrong part of them
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Other than having leaves of three it looks nothing like poison ivy to me. My bonafides are I have poison ivy growing on my property and clear it out frequently. Poison ivy usually has a red stem and typically the leaves have a prominent &qu
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Setting aside the taxonomical debate about whether Homo sapiens sapiens is even a thing, if a subspecies exists, then the species exists. So Homo sapiens are definitely not extinct.
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by huthuthike 3y ago
I would have liked to see the article address this. I think it is pretty easy for an osteologist to tell if a mammal is mature based on the fusion of the long bones, but I'd be interested to hear more.
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by huthuthike 3y ago
It's a lot less spooky when you consider that your desk can hold your coffee mug forever. It's exerting force on the mug, but not doing any work.
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by huthuthike 3y ago
The US only had enough material for 3 bombs. It would have been a big gamble to drop one on empty land.
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Biplanes have twice the number of wingtip vortices, so lots more drag. I suspect the reason biplanes existed in the first place was due to materials constraints. We didn't know how to make the wings strong and light enough to be very l
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by huthuthike 3y ago
Franzen was one of DFW's closest friends.
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by huthuthike 3y ago
I think this is unlikely to happen at typical soldering temperatures. The lead vaporization point is over 3000 degrees F. https://ehs.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/EHS-0167.pdf
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by huthuthike 3y ago
That's interesting but it seems too early to be caused by anthropogenic climate change. The Little Ice Age extended into the 19th century, during which those glaciers presumably expanded. The end of that era would have resulted in the
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by huthuthike 3y ago
It is a bit misleading. He suffered internal decapitation. That means the skull is separated from the spinal column but the tissue around the spinal column is intact. So technically his head wasn't ever detached from his body. But his

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