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Obviously the earth's a sphere Could you share the source of your NO quote, please?

"burden" in the sense of road maintenance costs is majorly caused by heavy vehicles (trucks etc.), and obviously this burden is greater if you have more roads to maintain. Again, here it would be interesting to compare NYC to Oklahoma+Kentucky. I believe traffic speed is also a factor, a rural...

That's simply a consequence of them not having any evidence of their own. There is no proof—none!—that "water always seeks its level" is true ("water follows any force" is demonstrably true), nor for any of the other FE claims. Mercator mapped the globe in the 16th century, but today's FEers...

Globe Earthers: all swans are black Flat Earthers: behold this black swan Globe Earthers: nice. what's your point? Nathan Oakley: Most photographs presented look like they take place on a sphere. I dare say that all of them do. What's worse, there is no set of photographs taken at a distance...

I really don't want this to be a discussion thread, so let me just point out the sun and the moon tracks in the "star-stabilized sky" video: they don't have parallax against the "star dome" (except for a tiny bit).

Yes, and there's nothing wrong with that. These acts can embody compromises of the type, "I'll vote for something you want if you vote for something I want". Otherwise, some things could not get done at all. AFAIK the main problem with the election act isn't unrelated bundled stuff, but...

Source: https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1590729203485356034

Eric Brummel has 3 of these on his youtube channel. Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w8OK7M2_hUg Here's a beautiful visualisation of how it works: Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JmCNNHQ86NE P.S. the stars look the same (no distortion) from any place on Earth where you can see...

The problem with the Calvine photograph is a general lack of evidence for any of the explanations, including the UFO theory. If it's a hoax, we can't trust the photographer's testimony, and the sparse set of verifiable facts in that testimony have so far been impossible to verify (the Harrier...

and then you can suspend cloture for that bill with a simple majority, but not all democrats would support that even if they supported the compromise bill that was up for voting on. Like I said, all explained in that wikipedia article: Democrats attempted to pass the Freedom to Vote Act again on...

Source: https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1590685999549796353

Yes. It's all explained in the wikipedia article I quoted, but I thought that led too far afield to include in my post.

this harkens back to the pre-clock days when people told time by the sky. It's amazing that this method is more exact than a digital clock today.

However, 14 CFR 91.225(e)—which provides comparable exemptions to the ADS-B Out requirement—specifies “any aircraft that was not originally certificated with an electrical system, or that has not subsequently been certified with such a system installed, including balloons and gliders.” If you...

@Ann K mentioned Michigan, where Republicans demand paper ballots: All paper ballots Because Michigan uses all paper ballots and prints paper tallies of the counts, there is always a physical record of all votes. Additionally, the physical record ensures reporting errors are caught and...

not really for medical decisions, you ought to consult with a professional, i.e. a doctor they would probably tell you that carcinogenic substances typically require prolonged exposure, and have small "success" rates, which is why studies like to use small (cancer-prone) animals and expose...

In the face of Ukrainian advances in the region, Russian troops across the Kherson region will withdraw from the west bank of the Dnipro River, an area that includes Kherson city, Russian state media reported Wednesday. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Surovikin said that "Kherson...

yes, but I don't think it's valid? if you take stats per capita, cities look good if you take stats per area, cities look bad if you pick one over the other without a good reason, you're either not thinking, or biased if you compare a city to a rural area, what you're trying to do is compare...

are there numbers for this? quite so. i still think the "per area" measures are misleading for most purposes