It’s bad enough that this post is a direct copy of a trending Reddit post (down to the weird number formatting), to find the comments are also just copy pasted highlights of stunning lack of originality
Not being close to a plate does not necessarily mean only small quakes.
There were a series of what today would be absolutely devastating earthquakes in the Midwestern U.S., far from any tectonic plates, between 1811 and 1812.
Being in the middle of the large and relatively stable Eurasian plate does help, though. The Mediterranean region, being closer to the edge region, does experience quite a bit more, though, and some strong ones have historically been felt all the way up here, too.
Everyone dies sometime, and we all takes risks. Some of us text while driving. Some of us eat shitty food. Some of us make a career of doing things that no one else is willing to do.
These types of people are the exact same ones who got on a boat and floated off to sea never to be seen again. They settled lands and lived a wonderful and interesting life.
In another generation or 12, these are the folks that are going to settle Mars, or make discoveries on the Moon.
We’d still be living naked in the savanna if it weren’t for people like this.
Yeah I also think there is a difference between “I am going to climb a huge rock without safety measurements eventhough they exist and cost only 50$” and “I am going to go on a one way trip to mars for science and humanity but use all safety equipment available on that trip”
People with poor risk management skills probably serve some useful purpose because we still have them, but they are not the cause of all human progress.
Specifically:
We’d still be living naked in the savanna if it weren’t for people like this.
Processing skins of kills has nothing to do with risk taking behavior, nor do the host of incremental adjustments that lead from skinning to tailored clothing.
Similarly our expansion into areas beyond the savannah has nothing to do with unnecessary risk taking, it's just the result of favourable conditions that increased the birth rate.
floated off to sea... They settled lands
Permanent human settlements aren't founded by rugged loners washing up on a new shore. It takes at minimum ~20 people and new sites are scouted well in advance to make sure they have sufficient resources to support a growing population.
It takes at minimum ~20 people and new sites are scouted well in advance to make sure they have sufficient resources to support a growing population.
I guess the argument here would be that the scouts are the risk-takers, which would be true to some extent. But it’s not like successful scouts worked alone, and also there’s no “discovery” happening in the context of free solo climbing.
Kind of curious how you got that value. I think the ratio of circumference to diameter (“pi”) is actually smaller in spherical geometry, in the most extreme case (the equator) it’s just 1. You could say “pi = 5” for circles of a specific radius in hyperbolic geometry, I guess.
my mistake was using the sum of angles in a triangle which was kinda dum but whatever . I also tried calculating via the circumstance of a circle placed at a pole where π was 20x smaller for the case I was using but its not linear so I looked deeper which was a big mistake .
BTW the ratio of circumstance to radius for a circle which is also an equator of the space is ¼ not 1 (r=½π₀ , C=2π₀) .
The math doesn’t care, and what you’re on about only really matters if the units don’t start as all the same or if you start converting between things.
At my work we lost a few good souls to COVID. Weeks later it was like these people that were with the company for many years, never existed. Most couldn’t remember their names, and I’m starting for forget their faces.
I used to see a local band named Calabi-yau. Their sound was kind of a rush-inspired math-rock. Really talented guys. Guitar player got hired by google and moved so the group kind of retired
Spend a day in the library and you’d have an answer 😉
Lots of wfh people end up there a day or so a week to escape the grind. Free internet, no expectation of purchase, away from anyone else who’s home, and it’s quiet.
Edit: As for the crying part, way more potential reasons than being at the library, so can’t help there.
Is there a way to check? It does look like AI since why wouldn’t anything be damaged on the plane. But is there some sort of way to tell? A reverse image search?
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