An average bowling ball is 8.5 inches in diameter, giving it a cross sectional surface area of roughly 60 sq in. Restricting ourselves to feathers made by non-human animals, the longest feather measured was on a Yokohama chicken at 34 feet / 400+ inches. I can’t find the width of the feather, but it’s still likely it outdoes an average bowling ball.
Huge missed opportunity: could have been God made Adam and Eve, not Maple and Leaf
A feather has smaller surface area than a bowling ball.
Depends on the feather and the bowling ball. Even relatively small (by volume) feathers might outdo a bowling ball thanks to the numerous fine shapes they have.
If you want to learn more about it than is frankly reasonable, Jamie Loftus recorded a detailed history including an interview with Naomi H.
Easier travel is definitely a great reason to increase density. Walking & biking > cars
If the island were 100 times larger, the houses would take 1% of the land area, leaving 99%. The apartment complex would take up .04%, leaving 99.96%, which isn’t much of an improvement. The proportions of our planet are much closer to my scenario than this made up island. That’s a reason why we might not “prefer apartments in our own town.”
There are good reasons you might want density, this just isn’t one of them.
Came here to say this. Cops kill just so many dogs.
Good question! I have heard that there are people who exchange money for labor, and I require money to purchase basic necessities such as food and shelter
Are those graphs accurate? The modern one seems right, but I have no idea about pre-revolution France
Q: What did Marie Curie say to Albert Einstein?
A: At speeds approaching c, I still have one more Nobel prize than you
The song goes “Pinky and the Brain, one is a genius, the other’s insane”, which, if it implies anything, implies Pinky is the genius and Brain is the insane one
I spent way too long trying to figure out what “tgis” stood for
Why not? They’ve been boosting a far-right, anti-Muslim Israeli extremist for years
We downvote conservative propaganda here, enjoy
The idea that “we should take drastic action to stop global warming” is more extreme than “we should do nothing and allow the planet to become incapable of supporting civilization” is a huge problem.
Well, no, but there’s a big gap between “not helping” and “wounding”, and this is much, much closer to the “not helping” end of that gap.
What wound?
I mean the critique behind “why didn’t he do it when he had the majority” still applies: calling for a constitutional amendment is ineffectual. There’s no way a constitutional amendment is going to happen in today’s political environment.
Also the court reform he’s proposing isn’t a constitutional amendment, but since he waited until he didn’t have a majority, that can’t happen either.
It’s almost like he doesn’t want change.
She should be bankrolled by the state for the grievous harm it did to her, but she’ll probably get nothing.
I’m surprised that works for you, given what happens to him immediately after