The largest known black hole has more mass than some galaxies and its event horizon is 100 times larger than the distance between the sun and pluto.

As far as our understanding currently allows us to calculate this, the centre of a black hole is the coldest place in the universe.

"nobody can hear you scream in space!"

Thank you for linking that. However, it's 36 pages of technical medical language that I don't think I will have the expertise to follow! :)

Thanks. You're very kind. I'm sure others will appreciate it too.

Thank you very much.

So, is that saying this could be the cause of "long covid" or that it makes us vulnerable to other viruses in future?

Would anyone be kind enough to tell me what this means in Layman's terms please?

You don't think they buy replacements once they've been used?

Edit: imagine being so upset by a basic question that you feel you have to downvote it. Some people are weird.

Part of the wind section along with the bum trumpet.

Satan is so oldskool. I'm all about bowing down to the almighty Pig Sage.

You sir, are a titan.

(Or madam, non-binary etc)

It's a comparison against others, not an independent and absolute rating. Assuming our sample population is not biased and is a fair reflection of society, then it does have to be normally distributed.

What this graph is saying is that, compared to others, most people are better at something. That's not possible. That would be like having a race and saying most people finished in 3rd place (assuming there aren't joint finishes).

As someone else pointed out, this is an example of the Lake Wobegon effect.

Indeed.

Had forgotten the name for that. Thank goodness Google exists.

Ha ha, yeah!

Too embarrassed to answer. :)

The question was "how do you compare yourself to others". Yet, the graph is not normally distributed but skewed to positive responses.

Unless the survey happened to pick an abnormally large group of the best present givers, it means that the people responding are overrating themselves.

They can't all be amazing!

I love graphs like this where this is an implicit story!

For OP if they want to learn more about what you've mentioned in your excellent comment:

https://youtube.com/@tods_workshop

I fear an incoming Bobbitt-ing for that poor carrot.

https://youtu.be/Ca9CJ1u6ACg

Yes, I checked. It is a boner fide farm.

Love the one you're with. Just wanted to make sure someone who isn't into that finds themselves in a predicament!

Before everyone gets too excited and stands to attention for this opportunity, just notice that it's for a farm...

Light always travels at the same speed. So, nothing slows it down, not even a black hole.

What mass does is warp space-time. This appears to "bend" light (the light is not actually bending but rather space-time is) that travels past it. Think of a stretched piece of plastic that has a metal ball placed in it. The plastic will dip in towards that ball. A marble rolled in a straight line on the plastic will, when getting near the metal ball, strart curving with the depression of the plastic. So the marble (analogy for a light photon, or could be a planet orbiting a star) is actually travelling in a straight line but the plastic is warped under it.

At the event horizon of a black hole, space-time is warped by the exact amount to prevent light from escaping.

Wherever you watch it, make sure it's a very large screen and you can have the sound way, way up. It makes a difference.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-richest-1-percent-more-double-emissions-poorest-half-humanity

The top 1% emit twice the total amount of emissions of the bottom half of the human race.

I'm not even hating on them here. I'm stating a fact and then saying that it's encouraging that they are realising work needs to be done and are, it would seem, putting their money where their mouth is. This is a good thing.

Thanks. I don't suppose you have a link to the figures at all do you? If not, I'll have a Google later (not trying to be lazy!)