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You've rediscovered Mencken: To every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, obvious and wrong. Mencken also said that the problem with letting the general public vote for someone who they think is like them means that eventually they will elect a complete and utter могоn. He did not foresee an oppositional malignant narcissist because deep down inside he was an optimist.
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@MegaRagingBunny There are many things that cannot be explained in "easier terms" like, say, quantum entanglement or the dynamic effects of climate change. That's why we have supposedly representative government in which highly intelligent people like Obama choose the best qualified people to advise them via committees.
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@youtubasoarus You can't be effectively vaporised by a 40MPa water blast. I can't even get a figure for the boiling point of water at that pressure but it's over 400C.
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@BigBlueGuy Try filling a bath when the plug is out and the plughole is much bigger than the faucets, that's how.
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@neodimium For a very short period.
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@TardigradeTough Time is a dimension, but to use it in 4D space it has to be multiplied by the square root of minus 1. Also the clock is not a representation of the time dimension. Now go and explain simply how to do geometry in 4D Minkowski space. Stephen Hawking tried to explain it simply and wrote one of the great unread books of the 20th century because the people who understood it already knew it in more detail, and the people who didn't know it did not understand it.
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Why does Musk, who could surely afford decent clothes, wear a scruffy WW2 flying jacket?
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johndoe2-ns6tf What an odd comment, out of proportion. Rich people tend to buy good quality clothes, not stupidly expensive ones. They last. Musk worshippers are such sensitive little snowflakes to any criticism of their divinity.
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Musk wants his and Thiel's puppet Vance for President. He just needs to get Trump elected before the 25th Amendment kicks in.
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@xiaoka There will be places inside the matrix where the fibres are in tension. The pressure on the outside is 40MPa. The pressure on the inside is 100kPa. This means that there is a bowing force trying to push the hull inward which to a degree is resisted by the innermost longitudinal fibres in tension. Of course if the fibres are wound circumferentially that's of no use whatsoever, but it doesn't affect the fact that the innermost layer of the hull is in longitudinal tension to some extent. Which is part of why ships have spars as well as frames.
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@jamesbyrd3740 Take an issue that I do understand; how the ALU works in computers. Now try to explain it to someone who has never done binary arithmetic or Boolean algebra. Those things are pretty simple but explaining them in sequence till you get to an arithmetic unit would take a very long time. Saying "It takes two numbers from different places, adds them and saves them in another place" really isn't useful. For an economics example, explain Ricardo's Law to someone who has not been exposed to the idea of productivity. I'll wait...
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