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lemoinem t1_jefh6pa wrote
Reply to comment by misterfriend in eli5: Who does the US owe almost 32 trillion dollars of debt too? If it’s the most powerful nation in the world, can’t it just get rid of it? by brybry0812
More like swept under the wet blanket...
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Reply to comment by monkey_trumpets in Little Johnny's parents wanted to have some "alone time" together... by SexySwedishSpy
From when he was still alive.
lemoinem t1_jaexpmt wrote
Reply to comment by ttlyntfake in Can spiders walk backwards? by MightyKin
Ok, I didn't parse that as intended. Now I feel stupid :P
lemoinem t1_jaej9o1 wrote
Reply to comment by Gederix in Can spiders walk backwards? by MightyKin
> wolf [...] do have vision behind them
Sorry, what?
lemoinem t1_j8jfu2s wrote
Reply to comment by Weed_O_Whirler in Does the mass of the object affect the falling speed? by North_Recognition199
Now I'm sad the free awards disappeared. Great answer 🏅
lemoinem t1_j6n4bd8 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in An Army Captain is sent to Iraq, to a fairly remote desert post. by Arkady2009
Exactly what a bot would say...
lemoinem t1_j6ibypk wrote
Reply to comment by NewsboyHank in eli5: Why do most airlines still use 2-pin audio jacks for the in-flight entertainment systems on their planes? by JJGLC92
They are basically torn apart, inspected and rebuilt from the ground up every 15yrs of so.
No to mention, any (and I do mean ANY, a burned light on the dash included) kind of fault occuring during flight grounds the plane until it has been assessed by engineering.
lemoinem t1_j6dmpby wrote
Reply to comment by WinBarr86 in ELI5- what is the difference between a liquid and a fluid? by stinkybuttttt
Now I'm curious. I know gases can be modelled as fluids but I'm curious about non-fluid liquids...
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Reply to comment by Waitsfornoone in I’m really in touch with my inner self today. by tintedslightly
They don't know how to use the seashells
lemoinem t1_j660xa5 wrote
Reply to comment by A_Cool_Lad in ELI5: Why do objects fall faster towards more massive objects if gravity is not a force? Example : the speed we fall on earth is 9.81 fps while its much higher on Jupiter by Effurlife13
In Newtonian physics, gravity is a force, described as F = Gmm/d²
In general relativity, gravity is not a force but an effect we observed caused by the curvature of Spacetime. In the same sense that inertia is not a force.
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Reply to comment by More_Ad_6196 in eli5 - Wrapped tokens - crypto by More_Ad_6196
Not specific to wrapped coins though. Any transaction that has part of it on the blockchain and part off the blockchain is vulnerable, by design.
Prep (send) the ON part, transact (receive) the OFF part, Revert (take back) the ON part.
You now have both the money associated to both the ON and OFF part.
That's essentially doing a transaction with a credit card and doing a charge back once you recieved the goods. Nothing new here...
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Reply to comment by LibertarianAtheist_ in Is time divided up into discrete quanta? Is time "quantized"? by NulloK
Common misconception that the Planck length is somehow the smallest length that can possibly exist. That Planck units are actually hard units that can be used to make reality discrete. It is not.
lemoinem t1_j4euohu wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Is time divided up into discrete quanta? Is time "quantized"? by NulloK
This is not what the Planck scale is.
It's simply the scale at which our current models don't yield meaningful values anymore and we'd need Full Quantum Gravity to provide an accurate description of these kinds of interactions...
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Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] Every species in the galaxy eventually fell to a robot uprising, leading to the eradication of their people. Therefore the machine-council of the galaxy are surprised when a newly discovered machine civilisation from a planet they designated "Earth" arrives side by side with their creators. by Kitty_Fuchs
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
lemoinem t1_j27k4wn wrote
A fire needs heat, fuel (something that burns), and an oxidizer. The most common oxidizer, by far, is oxygen, but several other elements can fill this role. Among others are fluorine, chlorine, and the other halogens.
lemoinem t1_j1wdqbp wrote
Reply to ELI5: If time is the fourth dimension, then what force is pushing us through it? by quacduck
We're always going through time at the rate of 1s every second... That's constant speed motion (or inertial motion). Inertial motion doesn't require any force. Once accelerated, any object will continue moving unless another force slows it down.
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Reply to comment by SKTwenty in eli5 what is the most credible theory for what existed before the big bang? by waterboy14
You're conflating time units and temporal vocabulary, with the part of the universe described by the part of the mathematical model that we call time.
Humanity not existing didn't prevent galaxies to form and recombination to happen. However, our current models cannot even talk about "before the big bang"
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Reply to comment by M8asonmiller in ELI5: Why does American football is named "football" and football is named "soccer" in America ? by RedAskWhy
I like that the word sucker soccer was seen as posh and high class...
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Reply to comment by Cpt_Copycat in A woman was 3 months pregnant when she fell into a deep coma and woke up after about 10 months by fhqwhgadsz
I had a version with triplets. The middle one was called Theodore
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Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] From a young age, all the signs were there: The penchant for devious traps & maniacal inventions, the massive ego & long monologues, the army of loyal minions, the... unshakable dedication to justice and the betterment of mankind? You are without a doubt, the "evilest" superhero in your city. by Trenerator
He sounds despicable
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Reply to comment by 0000GKP in ELI5 How US Police able to arrest people at protests and take them to jail. by [deleted]
Oh yeah, editing your comment is real smart and mature. You said it was fake and just for TV, it's not and has been in consistent use since the 60's. Take the loss and move on.
lemoinem t1_iya897w wrote
Reply to comment by 0000GKP in ELI5 How US Police able to arrest people at protests and take them to jail. by [deleted]
Just saying
lemoinem t1_iya63p6 wrote
Illegal protest, disobeying a legal order, vandalism, littering, disrupting the peace, blocking traffic, any other of a list of subjective and discretionary bogged up charges.
As long as they have a "reasonable suspicion" of a crime, they can arrest you.
It's always easy to say "well the DA decided not to prosecute in the end". What is the public going to do about it? Go to the police?
Worst case, they can sue them, which would cost quite a bit of money to the individual, the court tend to cut a lot of slack to cops, then there is qualified immunity, then, even if you get damages, it's paid with public funds and there are no real consequences for the officer anyway.
A good interaction with a cop is an interaction you avoided. Protect & Serve is mostly a bad joke at that point.
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Reply to comment by EllipsisMark in [WP] Your Significant Other has landed a book publishing deal! You're very proud of them, even if you don't actually enjoy their writing. One day, on a whim, you buy an actual copy in a book store. It's nothing like the pages they gave you to read. Nothing. by veriverd
I know that. I would still have put Quickie as the answer of "What's for dinner?"
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Reply to comment by Evening-Tomatillo-47 in Why do gay people suck at telling jokes? by do_yu_koto_da
Which makes it tri-sexual (homo, hetero, and try, see, tri)