olofscience
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You're becoming like Trump, "some say"... "many people say". Who? Take a stand, Turtle. Do you see it as hypocritical that Kamala Harris' ancestors were slave owners?
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That's like Trump's Axios interview: "it's in the book, it's in the manuals" "What books? What manuals?" You're not getting an answer, because he's just making things up.
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So Turtle's now a Qucumber. Vague "I know the truth", "MSM media is lies" trope proclamations? We have Ron for that already.
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Asking for specific examples? You know who you're talking to here right? He's very evasive in saying what specific good things Trump has achieved. Keeps defending him, though.
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Hit the nail right on the head. The evangelists are hot on their heels though with God telling them to buy private jets and whatnot.
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Oh yeah it is, because heaven is a fictitious concept. But my comment was about you finding the catholic mass offensive. It doesn't matter though.
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And conservatives think people are easily offended these days... People eating unleavened bread, drinking wine and saying words about an imaginary being? Sigh...
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Well only about 3% of the world population died in WW2, so 97% survived. Does that make Hitler less bad? If you choose the perspective where Trump doesn't look incredibly incompetent, you must be squinting so hard that your eyes are practically closed.
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Out of 791,674 (as of right now in worldometers.info) So the US has 5% of the world population, but 20% of the deaths. Well done.
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The bad with 150,000 dead? Oh sorry, my bad. 170,000.
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The logic is as simple as it gets. But the attempts of Trump supporters to twist, distract and deflect are really fascinating. They also think they are "independent thinkers" but so predictably parrot right wing media and Trump. In general it's actually getting very easy to predict their arguments in advance. However for some arguments Trump basically makes it impossible to defend so we get silence on a particular topic. But when the topic shifts to a slightly grey area again, they'll resume posting.
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Well if he only understands that much, there's not much chance he'll understand "exponential growth" any time soon.
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<eyeroll> you're so predictable. Well New Zealand had 13 new cases yesterday and Trump is calling it a 'terrible surge'. Thirteen. The US had 40,612 new cases. Winning.
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Why do I feel we've been down this road before?
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I'd agree that it wasn't a good comparison. Covid-19 is a far more difficult challenge. But Trump achieved next to nothing in the face of it. Not only that, but he liked doubling down on them. I really don't get why. If Trump managed to control Covid-19 much more successfully, he would absolutely deserve re-election. However I think you're just looking for a way to "both sides" this issue...
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Very informative link! Following their sources actually leads to a NASA design: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19730010159 Edit: it seems rock climbers already have something that we could theoretically repurpose:
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Thanks for the link! The overall Gs and lengths I calculated assumed average accelerations, but obviously that's oversimplifying and the charts show it's not uniform. So a mechanism could still reduce the peak force. Actually, this means that you don't need to do jump testing - if you have a machine that can apply the loads like the graph in the link, then you can apply different risers into that machine and find which one reduces the peak.
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Yes I know that. However, I did study fracture mechanics in university and the energy absorbed by failure of the thread is: total energy = energy absorbed by stretching + surface energy of new fracture surface created + kinetic energy released by the fracture + remaining strain energy Of these, the surface energy of the new fracture surface created is tiny - because threads are tiny. You can also assume that the remaining strain energy is zero or very close to zero as after failure there is nothing to constrain the risers. So most of the energy goes to the remaining 2 terms. Now, you want the kinetic energy released by the fracture to be low, too. I mean that was the point, right? Meaning, most of the energy has to go into stretching (or permanent deformation) before failure. And since acceleration is a function of time and distance, it can be calculated independently of any material elastic properties, resulting in the lengths I came up with in the post you quoted.
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Unfortunately some of the attacks are also coming from the far left as she's too pro-police (former AG and all) and not far left enough. (For Turtle: the real far-left, not the right-wing people who dare to criticise Trump). Some of my far-left friends are idiots...
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Thanks, that's quite informative.
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What document would this be? edit: to add, what about recent graduates unable to find a job?
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How about some magnets to hold the slider corners against the start of the line groups until the canopy inflates more? It could help solve sliders coming down too fast. Would also keep the canopy size constrained to the sliders until inflation overcomes the magnets. Just throwing some thinking out there...
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Sounds like a sensible suggestion if the postal voting system can't be fixed in time for November. Will this be feasible Constitution-wise or legally? Who would make the decision?
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Instead of dancing around the issue with tenuous lottery analogies, make your stand. Either: make specific criticisms (with evidence) about postal voting and call for improvements in time for November, or make a claim that postal voting will be unfixable by November, explain why (with evidence) and argue that voting should only be in person. also a proposal on how this can be done during the covid-19 pandemic All this hearsay and dancing around the issue reminds me of a particular person. "Many people say..." "It's in the manual..."
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Don't you guys see, Turtle is doing the exact same as Trump - not making any definitive claims, but just trying to sow doubt. That's because they will need that doubt in November.
