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I wonder what surviving human held the record before balloons (excluding edge cases like jumping gaps on a mountain bridge). Probably it was someone falling from a cliff into snow or water, but maybe it involved something weird like a gunpowder explosion or volcano.
Speed limit c arcminutes^2 per steradian
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How many furlongs per fortnight?
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I am reminded of this video about cursed units: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkfIXUjkYqE
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OK I just HAD TO compare it against EU efficiency classes - large American-style fridges using 0.70 kWh/day are efficiency class C, apparently. 👀
tbd
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Ackchyually, IIRC without radioactive decay our planet would have cooled down below life-sustaining temperatures long before any complex life-forms would have had the chance to evolve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget#Heat_and_early_estimate_of_Earth's_age
The part where it took 800 million years of before life evolved something to do with all that toxic oxygen that those damn cyanobacteria were producing was a particularly difficult hurdle.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130124200735/https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2009/02/bands-of-iron/
Funny how that one never pops up in discussions of "great filters" - the Sun is 4.6 billion years, will burn out in another 5. Life spent almost 10% of that time repeatedly almost killing itself before some life form figured out how to use oxygen. What if that's the part where we got lucky, and that on average most habitable planets get stuck in this self-destructive oxygen cycle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget#Heat_and_early_estimate_of_Earth's_age
The part where it took 800 million years of before life evolved something to do with all that toxic oxygen that those damn cyanobacteria were producing was a particularly difficult hurdle.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130124200735/https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2009/02/bands-of-iron/
Funny how that one never pops up in discussions of "great filters" - the Sun is 4.6 billion years, will burn out in another 5. Life spent almost 10% of that time repeatedly almost killing itself before some life form figured out how to use oxygen. What if that's the part where we got lucky, and that on average most habitable planets get stuck in this self-destructive oxygen cycle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
The zoo takes special care to keep kings separated from opposite-color pieces as part of their conservation program to prevent mating in captivity.
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Somehow, this makes bishops appear the most peaceful as they comingle. But the pawns: put those vicious monsters in the farthest corner inside a double-walled enclosure. They eat everything!
You don't want the nitrogen percentage to be too high or you run the risk of eutrophication.
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