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by Pinckney 11y ago
As a TA, I've actually seen students do this in numerical analysis.
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by Pinckney 11y ago
The methodology note at the bottom clarifies that they considered only type 1, 2, and 9 FFLs.
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by Pinckney 11y ago
Imagine your startup is unwelcome at VC events because you're considered a coward after declining a duel. Or if you're an employee, you're passed up for promotions on the same basis. You can think it bogus all you want, but t
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by Pinckney 11y ago
Not yet, but perhaps in the near future. The National Space Society has a proposal up for capturing 99942 Apophis via gravitational slingshot, which would be fairly damaging if we managed to crash it.
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by Pinckney 11y ago
No. Any asteroid we could reasonably capture is much too small to have any significant impact.
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by Pinckney 11y ago
Kill claims are notoriously overestimated during this period, frequently by ratios of 5:1 or more. The only reliable way to estimate kills is to look at enemy records and see how many aircraft were recorded as lost during a given period. Ta
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by Pinckney 11y ago
De Gama and Magellan actually had a reason for their expeditions, namely, making shitloads of money in trade. Let me know when Mars ceases to be anything but a colossal gravity well for us to throw money into.
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by Pinckney 11y ago
The iP1 which nearly went on sale last year was going to be sold for $1800 with the watch, and was only available in .22lr. AFAIK, nobody has posted dissassembly pictures or video yet, but I would be surprised if the electronic disconnect c
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by Pinckney 11y ago
"Panzer" just means "armor", and was the label used for all German tanks. Everything from the tiny Panzer I to the Panzer VI Tiger. Presumably you're thinking of the Panzer IV? But only about 8000 were built, of whi
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by Pinckney 11y ago
Panzer is just the German generic term for tank (or more literally, "armor".) Everything from the tiny, machine-gun armed Panzer I, to the Panzer VI Tiger. The standard, 75mm Sherman was roughly equal to the long-barreled Panzer
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by Pinckney 11y ago
Doesn't work with joe.
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by Pinckney 11y ago
You'll need to cite sources for Chicxulub or any other impact producing temperatures like that globally. It is thought that Chicxulub may have produced global firestorms, before a period of global cooling. The point still stands: it&#x
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by Pinckney 11y ago
The threat from asteroids is that years of perpetual winter shut down our agriculture for years or even decades. But even in the case of a really massive, Chicxulub sized impact, earth will remain more hospitable than mars. The temperatures
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by Pinckney 11y ago
What sort of covert op? Who would want to start WWIII?
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by Pinckney 11y ago
But consider survivorship bias.
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by Pinckney 11y ago
I graduated four years ago, and am currently in grad school. As an undergraduate at a small private college, I can only recall two professors who required their own books. One was a paperback physics reader for a very large class, available
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by Pinckney 11y ago
A truck is stealthy. It doesn't necessarily look like anyone is living there, which means you're much less likely to be hassled by the police. Compare carcamper's experiences below.
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by Pinckney 11y ago
He mentions on his blog that he already had a run-in with company security. The verified that he was an employee, apologized for waking him up, and left him be.
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by Pinckney 11y ago
Reminds me of this account of ditching during a ferry flight to Hawaii: http://www.equipped.org/1199ditch.htm
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by Pinckney 11y ago
"The continuation and survival of the human race is the top priority among a large population of people. Some contribute by researching new medicines (Why do this?), others improve quality of life for others (Why do this?), others have
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by Pinckney 11y ago
And this should affect my behavior why? If I cared about perpetuating my DNA, I'd donate to sperm banks to produce more genetic offspring than I have any hope of supporting on my own. From the Darwinian perspective, I would be regarded
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by Pinckney 11y ago
Why is the perpetuation of Homo Sapiens a moral imperative?
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by Pinckney 11y ago
In warfare. A commander can be criminally liable for failing to prevent criminal actions by their subordinates. Most famously, Tomoyuki Yamashita. Or from the prosecution brief during Ernest Medina's trial: >'When troops commit
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by Pinckney 11y ago
Most of this appears to be copied from the wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster
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by Pinckney 11y ago
What do you think the weigh stations are for?
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by Pinckney 11y ago
I'm not asking why they might want to tamper with evidence. The motive for doing so is obvious. I'm asking why, if they did decide to tamper with evidence, did they do such a bad job of it? If they were already editing the video,
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by Pinckney 11y ago
I watched the video too. If someone edited the video, why did they choose to make their cuts at times where cars or people are in scene? They would have gone unnoticed had they occurred a few seconds earlier. Who would be so stupid?
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by Pinckney 11y ago
No it isn't. It's just an artist's fantasy. It has no more basis in history than the Nazi flying saucer depicted in the other renders of the set.
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by Pinckney 11y ago
They had to be disconnected, reconnected, and recalibrated every time the nose was opened and shut. https://books.google.com/books?id=l4fSx5HoZWAC&pg=PA94&lpg=P...
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by Pinckney 11y ago
And for some reason, anyone who posts anything about it online seems obligated to put it alongside those stupid battleship hybrid renderings.

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