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Because a controversial centibillionaire didn't do the math on 0 atm tube transportation and proclaimed it to be so. Also, people hate people like Thunderf00t w

Because a controversial centibillionaire didn't do the math on 0 atm tube transportation and proclaimed it to be so. Also, people hate people like Thunderf00t who tear down dumb ideas that people desperately want to believe in because feelings and tribal toxic positivity > logic.

titanomachy 3y ago
Hectobillionaire, “centi-“ means 1/100
- eesmith 3y ago
  "Centi-" as a prefix can mean 100, though metric use is more common. For example, "centipede" nominally means 100 feet, though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede says "Despite the name, no centipede has exactly 100 pairs of legs; number of legs ranges from 15 pairs to 191 pairs, always an odd number." Centibillionaire is the obvious extension of centimillionaire, and "centimillionaire" has been around for a long time. https://archive.org/details/per_chicago-daily-tribune_the-chicago-daily-tribun_1883-01-19_42/page/n3/mode/2up?q=centimillionaire https://archive.org/details/per_chicago-daily-tribune_the-ch... shows a use in 1883, explicitly referencing $100,000,000 of Vanderbilt capital. (A Google Books search finds two other uses of centimillionaire in the 1800s.) Another old word using centi- to mean 100 is "centimillennium", for 100 thousand years. Here is an 1882 use: https://archive.org/details/loverinschartoft00love/page/36/mode/2up?q=centimillennium https://archive.org/details/loverinschartoft00love/page/36/m... and Wiktionary adds several more recent uses at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/centimillennium https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/centimillennium .
withinboredom 3y ago
> didn't do the math on 0 atm tube transportation I thought of this idea when I was 14 and immediately dismissed it- long before this guy came along and claimed it was such a "great idea." Why did I dismiss it? Terrorism. In the best case, all you'd need to do is punch a hole in the side of the tubes, and any train would hit a wall of air at supersonic speeds. In the worst case, it would derail catastrophically when it hit my hole if it were big enough. It's a terrible idea for so many reasons.

titanomachy 3y ago

Hectobillionaire, “centi-“ means 1/100

eesmith 3y ago
"Centi-" as a prefix can mean 100, though metric use is more common. For example, "centipede" nominally means 100 feet, though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede says "Despite the name, no centipede has exactly 100 pairs of legs; number of legs ranges from 15 pairs to 191 pairs, always an odd number." Centibillionaire is the obvious extension of centimillionaire, and "centimillionaire" has been around for a long time. https://archive.org/details/per_chicago-daily-tribune_the-chicago-daily-tribun_1883-01-19_42/page/n3/mode/2up?q=centimillionaire https://archive.org/details/per_chicago-daily-tribune_the-ch... shows a use in 1883, explicitly referencing $100,000,000 of Vanderbilt capital. (A Google Books search finds two other uses of centimillionaire in the 1800s.) Another old word using centi- to mean 100 is "centimillennium", for 100 thousand years. Here is an 1882 use: https://archive.org/details/loverinschartoft00love/page/36/mode/2up?q=centimillennium https://archive.org/details/loverinschartoft00love/page/36/m... and Wiktionary adds several more recent uses at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/centimillennium https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/centimillennium .

withinboredom 3y ago

> didn't do the math on 0 atm tube transportation I thought of this idea when I was 14 and immediately dismissed it- long before this guy came along and claimed it was such a "great idea." Why did I dismiss it? Terrorism. In the best case, all you'd need to do is punch a hole in the side of the tubes, and any train would hit a wall of air at supersonic speeds. In the worst case, it would derail catastrophically when it hit my hole if it were big enough. It's a terrible idea for so many reasons.