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Affectionate-Buy2539 t1_j1ii63n wrote

I'd suggest make a list of everywhere you go during the week and on the weekend and then in the next column list how far each of those places are from where you live. In the third column write in minutes what walking/public transit would take.Live in JC with no car (sometimes get a zipcar for huge pantry restocks/grocery hauls) and it's just fine--but definitely depends on what your key activities are and how easy they are to get to. Like if you would be miserable without it for your 10% of activities, then you need to determine how much of a deal breaker that is (or if it's not actually a deal breaker).

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HappyArtichoke7729 t1_j1ig2y2 wrote

Reply to comment by D_Empire412 in New PATH line concept by D_Empire412

It wouldn't require new tunneling, but a cut-and-cover under the streets could make it a lot more useful.

But yeah, no tunnels under non-streets except perhaps in two specific places, or one specific place, just to get underneath an existing track.

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DirectorBeneficial48 t1_j1iezmx wrote

That's a lot of rain. Tons and tons of water. That's about 22 inches of snow, for comparison's sake.

Now understand that if you put out a bucket to capture rain water and got 1.8", everywhere got 1.8". The river got 1.8". All of the land next to it got 1.8". All of the land higher up got 1.8". All of the land further upriver got 1.8". All of the land at higher elevation upriver got 1.8".

Now do you get it?

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nasty_brutish_longer t1_j1i6xf2 wrote

Sort of. High pressure areas of a storm can "bulge" seas into low pressure areas, but most surge force by far is from wind moving in the same direction.

Atmospheric pressure is absolutely a thing on this planet, but the difference between typical high and low pressure systems isn't that great compared to the total mass of air.

*Edited to add link and remove "compress." As another poster points out, water is essentially incompressible.

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fruit__gummy t1_j1i6ukz wrote

I’m not sure the water “decompresses”, I think it’s more like, higher pressure regions of the ocean push up lower pressure regions of the ocean. Think hydraulic pistons etc.

Water is pretty incompressible. If it wasn’t, a gallon of water at the bottom of a swimming pool would weigh more than a gallon from the top, but this isn’t actually true in real life

So water isn’t actually “expanding”, it’s just being pushed up by regions of the ocean with higher atmospheric pressure

I could be wrong but this is my understanding

Edit: actually pretty much every part of your comment is wrong lmao. Why do you speak with such authority on things you have no clue about

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