chordatum

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by chordatum 10y ago
Now they jump in and intervene to play the role of hero, begging the question: why not sooner? Rhetorically, the answer implied is that, had they made their voices and opinions known earlier, it might not have seemed as heroic as it does no
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by chordatum 10y ago
I don't feel that the second paragraph is realistic. But where to start in explaining why? Cop life is so complex that a weekly home economics shift isn't going to repair relationships, normalize psyches or adjust attitudes. There
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by chordatum 10y ago
Not yet .
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by chordatum 10y ago
I agree. That particular horizon figure is the only one I know off the top of my head, due to reading up on naval ballistics. Hence the remark about sea level. Anything else requires some napkin math about the circumfrence of the earth and
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by chordatum 10y ago
Huge horizontal buildings would be pretty neat if they used high-speed express tramways in a manner similar to elevators, but only provided walk-up access to maybe 5 floors, maximum.
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by chordatum 10y ago
150 meters = 45 floors @ 10 feet / story I guess that's a large building to enter and experience as a human space, but how does it affect the skyline? If the horizon crests at ~25 miles at sea level here on earth
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by chordatum 10y ago
Animals don't exactly have the same willpower and reputation requirements that one finds in typically civilized human social order. If animals have rape, it's a subset of human-on-human rape, and carries fewer of the nuanced conse