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Good point, but what I meant by "old age starting at 40" was more about an increased risk of cerebrovascular accidents, heart attacks, arthritis, gout, loosing your teeth... All those aches that nowadays start at 70.

Also I meant for it to be a funny silly comment, I don't really believe anyone is more willing to risk their life just because their average life expectancy is lower. My bad for not saying "/s" at the end of my comment I guess...

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Clearly you haven't been to Washington Dulles C terminal. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inside_Concourse_C.jpg

Granted the main terminal has a huge soaring roofline, but the C building is the opposite with lower normal height ceilings.

Was that a comedy (mis)correction? A joke I'm missing? Or an error on your part?

The other thing not mentioned here is movement.

If you drop say a phone or a computer on a carpet the carpet will move slightly as the object is dropped dissapating the force. If you have say a see through case on your pc and drop it on a hard floor then the floor won't bend but the metal on the case will and that pinches the glass.

This is why it will still break even if the ceremic never actually touches the glass

Yes, I've seen many of them.

Evil idea: He should have made it an open world digital monster game but the monsters are ads you have to watch to capture and you make the ads fight each other or something.

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There is nothing special about ceramic that breaks glass easily. Glass is just very brittle to begin with so if it encounters anything harder than itself, the lack of flexibility in glass causes it to shatter. Ceramic just happens to be a common household material that's harder than glass but if you had diamond floors that would work just as well.

But where does the energy from the sunlight come from? You can keep going with your argument - all the way back to the big bang. What makes you think the true source is sunlight?

Yes, you have that exactly correct.

From wikipedia:

> The Stechzeug in particular developed into extremely heavy armour which completely inhibited the movement of the rider, in its latest forms resembling an armour-shaped cabin integrated into the horse armour more than a functional suit of armour

So yes, late period jousting armour was heavy an impractical for anything other then jousting. It was heavy and stiff enough that either they had to be put onto the horse with help, or had special sets of stairs which they would climb before getting on a horse.

Just to be sure - this is just for a late period jousting armours. Regular armours were not like that.

Im dimmer than that I think.

Air handlers handle air like the name says (they cool or heat air and then blow it where you need it through duct work). The cooling of the water is done by a chiller and the resulting heat would be dissipated by a cooling tower or heat pump.

A lot of (mainly American) manufacturers maintain that pushrod can be superior due to lower centre of gravity. i.e. the main cam is deep inside the engine.

I think the most significant is higher RPM. pushrod engines have a tendency to fly apart at higher RPMs, whereas DOHC do not.

Common misconception. The life expectancy was so low because lack of vaccines and antibiotics meant most people didn’t survive childhood. Once you were 30 you had a pretty good shot of hitting 60 even before modern medicine.

Some reasons are known and there also some unknown reason (or at least can't be explained by the current science and there is also a chance those unknown reasons would never be figured out)

That’s one of those envisioning things at play. Most people can’t detect slight variations in color even when they can see them, so while you do indeed see a gradient your memory tends to trim it down to less variance. It’s estimated that we can discern around a million distinct colors, but remembering that is difficult for all but a very small number of people. Most of just remember the idea of a rainbow and then reconstruct the imagery later.

The heart will automatically try and start, provided that it has oxygen, energy, correct pH and the correct electrolytes.

In surgery, the heart has its blood supply replaced with ice cold potassium chloride solution. The potassium is completely the wrong electrolyte, and the temperature is low, so the heart stops.

To restart it, the blood supply is reconnected and once warm, fresh blood with oxygen and the correct electrolytes reaches the heart it will restart. It may restart erratically on ventricular fibrillation, so it may need a shock to get back into normal rhythm.

The reason during resuscitation you can't usually restart a stopped heart is because you have to reverse the cause of the heart stopping first. Often it is severe illness, with major biochemical abnormalities or multiple organ failure, which can't easily be reversed.

Imperialism.

The British spread their language to all reaches of the world.

But then again, so did Spain and France. (And to a much smaller degree, the Dutch and Portuguese).

But the British Empire accounts for the UK, Canada, USA, Australia, Hong Kong, India, and huge swaths of Africa.

But then America came along and began exporting culture all over the world, primarily in the medium of Hollywood films.

Over the last century, English-language films have been a huge driver of informal English language acquisition. A lot of iconic quotes and slang infiltrated other languages. Things like “OK” became commonly used outside of English because it was easy to understand and pronounce.

And then, following WWII, there was a period of American Imperialism that further cemented English in more places. The US occupied parts of Germany and Japan, Korea, Vietnam, etc.

And as the UK, and then the US became dominant world superpowers, if became apparent to other language bases that knowing English was beneficial in terms of doing business on the world stage. It”s easier to learn and teach it as a second language that to rely on everything going through translators.

The inconsistency man. You said "we don't know why" and then in the next second you said "it is partly genetic luck".

But how do you know if it was effective, you can have a metric saying X amount of people saw your ad but doesn't necessarily equates to sales, how do you know the conversion between the amount of people that saw an ad and the sales that generated?