is there any information on the User-Base by nationality?
some of us were wondering on another thread since there are so many communities in different languages, but I can’t find any way to tell the ballpark nationality percentages of the users here.
sure, i get it.
he did come up with that half explanation 250 what years ago, so I’ll give him a pass.
kind of a bummer that a half explanation is his most famous 'discovery" even though he did so much
I’m partial to the Newtonian explanation myself, I was explaining my interest the first time I saw an illustration of the Bernoulli principle.
in fact, I just wrote about The Newtonian explanation a few minutes ago:
"the Newtonian makes more practical end complete sense to me sense to me as an explanation for a lift.
maybe the confusion comes from calling the motion of pushing air down “lift”
push-off.
hm. what the heck is an appropriate antonym for lift…
spring-hold.
oh, buoyancy?
maybe we should switch our talk from lift to buoyancy.
rather than generating lift, velocity through the air generates aerodynamic buoyancy due to the increase in downward pressure, or rather the compressed air beneath the airfoil."
yeah, I’m with you, the Newtonian makes more practical end complete sense to me sense to me as an explanation for a lift.
maybe the confusion comes from calling the motion of pushing air down “lift”
push-off.
hm. what the heck is an appropriate antonym for lift…
spring-hold.
oh, buoyancy?
maybe we should switch our talk from lift to buoyancy.
rather than generating lift, velocity through the air generates aerodynamic buoyancy due to the increase in downward pressure, or rather the compressed air beneath the airfoil.
“THAT PLANE JUST CRASHED AND BURST INTO A FIREBALL!!!”
not the controlled landing that I was referring to, but I understand your comparison of the consequences.
“and the ground is 5 feet below you, and you fuck up and drive it 150 feet”
this is my favorite part of your scenario. a pilot literally less than a second from touching the ground glances out the window and thinks " well, just to make sure" and lunges forward, arms outstretched, pushing the joystick completely flat against the console hahaha.
thanks, that’s a good article.
oh, go on.
i haven’t heard of the updated dynamics of flight.
I personally think rising is more impressive and spectacular than falling.
boy do I agree.
I fly a lot, and I think about this a lot. it’s absolutely nuts.
I saw a diagram once explaining how planes fly, this is a good explanation of that:
“Airplane wings are shaped to make air move faster over the top of the wing. When air moves faster, the pressure of the air decreases. So the pressure on the top of the wing is less than the pressure on the bottom of the wing. The difference in pressure creates a force on the wing that lifts the wing up into the air.”
so that’s floating around the back of my mind while I sit in my air chair and think:
"and there we are.
We are climbing into the air again in the big flexible metal tube.
The wings have flex and they almost look like they are flapping in the wind right there.
well, this is crazy again"
approximates my thought process each time I fly.
I really like this concept and when I put an all new hardwood flooring in my living room, and I was very precise and careful, and then there’s this one little piece I had to make fit, and I cut against grain, so that the entire floor fit perfectly and the grain was traveling in the same direction except for this one little piece in the corner around a door frame, 1 by 2 in, where the grain traveled perpendicular to all the other grain in the room.
that’s how I wabi-sabi’d my living room.
Thomas payne’s common sense didn’t change everyone’s mind.
and there are people today influencing how everybody thinks with tweets and memes.
language and information is evolving, and that is absolutely changing the landscape of how public opinion is affected.
Gaza is a great example.
Israeli has been bombing hospitals and schools and extrajudicially executing Palestinians for 50 years, but now that people can see that information and hear testimony from Palestinian journalists directly, they care.
what do you mean? like the blackfish documentary?
“Is it risk, or are you just being a pussy”
Risk(especially perceived risk) does stop many people, and many people don’t truly understand risk.
“I bet you risk your life, limbs, and liberty every single day driving into work.”
no. I don’t commute to car by work.
“They never thought THAT was a risk.”
many people don’t truly understand risk.
"Go somewhere you don’t plan to. It aint gonna last forever "
I’ve been traveling spontaneously for the past decade and agree.
especially with this part:
“It aint gonna last forever”
I was stating a general rule, like the shower thought was attempting.
If you understand risk and its circumstances, you can mitigate that risk regardless of your situation.
If I follow, you’re theorizing the unpracticed ability of a small minority of privileged people?
independently wealthy people can be more spontaneous, but are generally more conservative, they’re as afraid as everybody else of spending their money.
not at all.
The ability to be spontaneous is directly proportional to your willingness to accept risk.
knowledge mitigates much of that risk.
has been stuck in my head now for…maybe closer to 2 years?
I have been looking for an excuse to share this clip that has been haunting me for over a year:
talk about not learning your lesson.
“If you’re after a small and affordable electric car then you’re not exactly in the market for a Tesla anyway.”
That’s the point of the headline and article.
since Tesla isn’t making the affordable cars they promised to consumers, countries like Mexico are going to make the affordable cars promise to consumers.
I’m curious, since the federation seems a lot more geographically decentralized then reddit did.