If you are 20 years old, expect to live to 100, and can imagine maybe spending $1 million per year, your maximum lifetime expenses are only $80,000,000. Once you have a large enough share of this that investment returns can earn the rest, you do not ever need to work again
The threshold for “no need to work” is way lower than $1,000,000,000. More than 12 times lower, in fact.
By that definition, scolding a child who nearly walked into traffic is terrorism.
Terrorism is a problematic word. Some adults use it to mean “violence I dont like”, but that’s just a kind of lying.
I dont like discarding words, however, so here are two workable definitions for you:
(Broadly covers most mainstream reporting and legal criminal enhancements)
(Very specifically targets the action without regard for the actor.)
Also, while this may be obbious, my dislike for any definition of terrorism as just “bad violence” means I need to acknowledge that sometimes terrorism is a morally right action. Guy Fawkes, John Brown, and intentional riots would be plausible examples of the same.
Our models do not specify a shape for the universe, because we have not seen any evidence for a spatial (as opposed to temporal) limit to how big the universe is.
In fact, we infer that since what we can see becomes homogenous on a surprisingly small scale, the whole infinite universe is similarly filled with galactic clusters, and thus there is an (unreachable) infinite number of galaxies.
This quickly gets into the weeds of “can we even say trees fall in the forests of planets no humans will ever observe”, possibly followed by an argument over if infinites are equal or comparable.
The whole universe? Absolutely. Even the smallwst infinity is larger than any countable sum.
The visible universe, meaning those close enough that a photon could have passed from there to here since the “big bang” faded enough to allow such transmissal? I don’t know offhand.
A simple web search suggest that our galaxy has less than 1011 stars – 400,000,000,000 or so. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way )
Finding our other figure is a bit harder, since trusty Wikipedia doesn’t include a direct figure and the first few articles I could find was from the BBC and used number names instead of scientific notation, which is ambiguous at this scale. ( in the long scale we only have milliardaires, and Elon Musk’s brief paper fortune was a billion rather than trillion.)
Thankfully a NASA articke linked to what appears to be the underlying research paper, and gives us a helpful number of 2x1012. (2,000,000,000,000)
So, if the paper is right then, yes, there are more galaxies in the observable universe than stars in the Milky Way. But, the paper was an indirect measurement that increased the galaxy count by a whole order of magnitude, so there may be only 2x1011 galaxies. Except, of course, that the estimate of stars in the miky way was an estimate and could be as little as 1/4 of the number I cited above…
And if the paper is wrong and the truth of the estimate is in the middle, both of our numbers could be 2x1011, with approximately one star in our galaxy for every galaxy in the observable universe.
the event horizon of black holes is not universally spherical. Rather, it can vary from a perfect sphere due to rotation or other movement.
Living in Europe in a country where you are more or less protected against layouts, were unions are allowed to exist. Jet it is so difficult to get the people to get their head out of their butts to do some solidarity or even improve their own conditions.
It sounds like you’re in an anti-Union country that is only pretending to care about worker’s rights.
Here in the horrible individualistic pro-capitalism USA workers are struggling to get their unions recognized, largely because once a union is organized there is a whole industry of advocates and lawyers who will push for the bargains to be made, for those bargains to be (at least slightly) better than the law, and for the rights in law or bargain to be protected viciously. And even if you’re not in a union, there are sharp public and private mechanisms to respect labor rights.
Not all of the USA is anti-union, and the parts that arent can and do strike when they don’t get an honest and fair deal.
More pedantic:
C: is just how windows refers to its boot partition. You can have a PC boot from one of several partitions on your fastest internal drive, a different internal drive, a local external drive, an optical disk or USB device, or even a seperate network location.
Pure logic does not include axioms like “you need to breathe or you don’t”, nor does logic lead from the axioms “not all beings need to breathe” and “you can’t breathe in space” to conclusions such as either “all creatures who breathe cannot survive in space” or “no beings who can survive in space are able to breathe.”
A and not-B does not lead to if-not-B-then-A.
“Logic” doesn’t generally mean what you’re trying to say here. Well written stories and fictional universes have consistent reasonable logic that only differs from our own wirh intentional changes like “magic is real” or narrative biases like “we would have told this story a different way if the hero lost.”
A better term for what comic book stories with a mish-mash of power definitions and unexplained characterization lack is consistency.
(But, as with “literally”, the inaccurate and informal usage you probably mean to decry the medium’s unrealistic conventions is probably in the dictionary already, thanks to the cryoto-Jewish space-elves of a certain fun but overrated television show)
If Trump were under care of a physician for his mental issues, he’d have been institutionalized back in 2015.
The data I heard included the VA actually having better patient satisfaction ratings than any other government medical system, falling short I think only of private concierge care for billionaires who employ their doctors directly.
Plus there’s a political upside to sharing facilities with the most “deserving” welfare recipients.
Talking about “socalism” in a language beset by capitalist oligarchs applying the label to things as mundane as “feeding children” really does require we draw a distinction between the numerous resultant definitions.
Some people use “socialism” to mean the anti-capitalist ideal you describe, while others mean either “thing I dont want my taxes to provide” or “the things those guys keep blocking.”
It’s a grammatical one, not a philosophical one. And, now that I think of it, it’s also one with a definite answer.
If you waved a magic wand and had a chicken come out of a leathery egg lay by a lizard, a watery egg lay by a fish, or the sort of large egg an oatrich usually comes from, we wouldn’t call any of those a “chicken egg”
And, conversely, if by super-advanced genetic engineering we made chickens who lay eggs with bacon or cheese or just all whites, we’d call those eggs “chicken eggs” when we talk about the shells themselves and not the contents therein.
So the chicken came first. And the first chickens hatched from the eggs of some other bird.
You’re thinking about lagrange points – the places in a (dissimilar?) two-body system where the gravitational pull (and kinetic energy?) from both is equal and thus relatively stable.
Not a physicist, obviously.
Also, be aware that the effect of gravity diminishes with distance. We’re pulled towards the earth at about 9.8m/s/s here on the surface, but as you get further away that 9.8 drops off on an exponential curve.
This gives me a chance to repeat the best argument for why Star Wars is higher tech than Star Trek. When the enterprise gets to a planet they orbit, and the artificial gravity is only an internal issue. In star wars we see gravity shift as ships list due to damage or even fall towards planets, because they aren’t orbiting; they’re just hovering above the planet, presumably with their artificial gravity just working enough to stop the ship itself from falling.
Cats are apex predators, and your friend is subsidizing their pet far past what the local bird population can support. (Plus indoor cats live longer.)
Unless you’re on an actual working farm, household cats belong indoors.
Because nurses and doctors aren’t lawyers, and have different concerns that justify and limit anti-testimonial privilege.
To illustrate, consider who should do what if a person approaches them while covered in someone else’s blood and viscera.
I absolutely won’t defend the current system where patients need to be lawyers to know when they should lie to their doctors. Or where the CDC can’t say *warning, DomeGuy has COVID!" but the DA can demand my doctor tattle on my prescriptions.
There things are both a result of the part of the American body politic that espoused an obnoxiously individualistic idea of “freedom”. Because some jerks don’t want to pay taxes or care about other people, they argue against government things that help people – like regulating food and encouraging healthy diets for those with means, or giving the hungry food or money to buy food.
There isn’t a good argument for it, just a bad-faith argument made by mean adults who don’t mind children starving or adults dying early.
A good part of the right-wing anti-muslim bigots in our country blame the kingdom of Saudi Arabia for what a criminal group led by a (distant) cousin of the king did.
Most Americans were 13 or younger when 9/11 happened, and only know what their parents, schools, and friends said.
From the outside, it looks like there are at least three levels of actor.
The distinctions between the second and third groups are very soft and will change with the speed of fashion and rumor, while the gap between the first and the other two is so dramatic that I’m sure someone out there doesn’t even consider extras to be actors.
These warnings DO serve a purpose, even when they are legally void. People tend to follow less closely behind trucks, secure their belongings when parking, and take other actions to avoid the clearly indicated potential loss.
If a load breaks and cracks your windshield the truck is likely liable, but depending on how close you were following you may share some liability as well – especially if you, say, collide with the truck or another car after your windshield breaks. The law may hold that the sign has no effect, but itll be hard to convince a jury that you didnt know the truck was a potential hazard after you say that you saw it.