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Depending on if you were a commoner or a noble? For a commoner, the fact that killing a noble for any reason was a death sentence. For a noble? Oh no, you damaged someone else's property, pay a fine.

Map/List of countries that gained independence from Great Britain along with the years:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/List_of_countries_gained_independance_from_the_UK_Flag_version_3.svg

The big areas absent areas are:

• South/Central America where they speak Spanish and Portuguese as they were colonized by them
• North Asia / Former USSR territories
• Greenland - colonized by Denmark

Yeah, that asshole guy!

Ever heard of Second Life? It's basically an online 3D role-playing game where you can make an avatar character and go hang out with others. Zuck wanted to make a Facebook-flavored VR version and marketed it hard to companies as the "future of customer engagement". Zuccboi just happens to have forgotten to check whether people are actually stoked about spending a thousand dollarinos for a VR kit only to spend their time in 3D Facebook Advertisement-Land. So, you know, people who would have been interested stuck to their usual haunts in SL, VRChat etc.

Of course it didn't help that when their actual software came out it had such shitty graphics that it made early 2000s games look photorealistic.

Considering the worlds population is only 7.8bn thats quite a number there.

The real answer is The British Empire. It owned a massive chunk of the planet at one point. The US and UK then went on to be culturally dominating via music, books, films, law etc.

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The metaverse is all of the open world online games that are more about socializing.... Like a life simulator (Second Life, IMVU). A virtual world.

Metaverse is a metaverse that Facebook (now Meta) made. It failed because Mark Zuckerberg didn't know what he was doing in that space.

With the armor being so restrictive, how did the Jousters express their skill?

The real trick is that governments actually auction bonds rather than selling them at a fixed price, so the market decides what they are worth at that moment. Typically though they choose a coupon rate (the percentage quoted) which matches market yields so that the bonds sell at or close to the nominal value.

Can you evaluate what you mean? I thought ELI5 is FOR explaining semi to complicated questions?

They can at most test if it's still UNIX-like. In fact the two diverged as early as what version of UNIX they were based on. BSD -> Berkeley Software Distribution. Linux was modeled after AT&T's UNIX.

Also jousting had its own armor piece, a big wide shoulder sheild that the other knight was supposed to hit. If they missed and hit the body or worse, the horse, they'd be basically shamed and laughed out if the tourney entirely.

If you hit the sheild not only were you precise, but you were far less likely to seriously injure or kill your opponent.

Ironically, concussions in boxing has gone up significantly since boxing gloves got introduced.

Back in the bareknuckle boxing days, people would hit way softer because a 100% force punch to a skull would break your hands if you boxed daily, which many back in the day did.

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Sensory systems transfer tons of information, which requires thick neural medium. That fragile, enrgy consuming and takes a lot of space ( which make it more fragile). Thick nerves also will expirience a lot of stress and noise from muscle systems, that will require more brain activity from brain to filter signals, that even more wasted energy

Worth to mention humans ( and many other animals) has several neural systems beyound brain. Eg intestine has very advanced neural system, which governs only that part of body

I’m going to assume this special telomere repairing protein cannot be used in humans?

Jousting sticks can't be worth more than $250 .. any more and they're dreamin' !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK9h4gRXX9o

This, but with combat sports, american football, etc.

The answer is they do die: normally slowly and painfully, out of sight and sometimes much after the not-apparently-lethal injury.

I don't suppose many cars could drive at their full BHP until their tank was empty, though, so it's sort of comparing apples to oranges.

HP = Torque * RPM / 5252.

I think your statement about push rods vs overhead cams, while mostly accurate isn't completely true. Push rod engines were still used by a lot of American manufacturers throughout the 1990s and I'm pretty sure Ford still has engines using push rods. I do believe Ford was able to get variable valve lift with their modern pushrod engine but I'm not totally sure on that.

That's a 19th century myth

From low orbit the rotation is basically unnoticeable. The ground moves under you at 400-something m/s but you yourself are flying by at 7000+ so you're just trying to spot the ground move by under you slightly slower than expected.

Of course at near GSO you'd observe the earth being almost completely motionless because you have almost the same rotation period over it as the surface (you'd get to watch the dusk/ dawn line move over the surface at the expected speed though)

The point of most sports where you can die is to avoid the dying part, not just boxing. Pretty much every sport has not doing the things that can cause dying as a pretty good strategy. The one you mentioned is actually an exception, where the thing is an integral and mandatory part of the sport. Even football, where you can get yourself rattled up pretty good by getting tackled, recommends you probably don't get tackled. It just so happens there's quite a bit of that.