PlainTrain t1_j7t2w9x wrote on February 9, 2023 at 5:03 AM

Reply to comment by CrustalTrudger in What would happen to a person standing on the edge of a faultline when it moves? by Endorkend

Does the shake time correlate to the time it takes for the earth to move? I.e. if the quake lasts a minute, does that represent the time for the slip to take place in, or is the slip more instantaneous and the shake time measures the propagation of the rupture? Or something else?

PlainTrain t1_j4ju2ow wrote on January 16, 2023 at 5:23 AM

Reply to comment by JustAPerspective in TIL that when Weird Al wrote I Want A New Duck in 1985, he went to the library and researched ducks for a week by ElderCunningham

You really should just quit because you have no idea what you are talking about. Photocopiers were extremely common in the mid ‘80s. My small rural high school had two in 1985: one in the office, one in the library.

PlainTrain t1_j4jqoho wrote on January 16, 2023 at 4:53 AM

Reply to comment by JustAPerspective in TIL that when Weird Al wrote I Want A New Duck in 1985, he went to the library and researched ducks for a week by ElderCunningham

Nonsense. Canon was advertising personal photocopiers in 1985.

PlainTrain t1_j2njf97 wrote on January 2, 2023 at 5:33 PM

Reply to comment by 0ne_Winged_Angel in Does cold temperature make vistas more 'crisp' looking? by colorado_hick

I was on Amtrak’s Empire Builder westbound in Montana. Off in the distance, I could see the mountains of Glacier National Park. I thought they were maybe 30 miles away. They were 150.