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.

Common core made an effort to teach kids to think about numbers this way and people flipped the fuck out because that wasn’t how they were taught. Still mad about that.

If you want to learn more about it than is frankly reasonable, Jamie Loftus recorded a detailed history including an interview with Naomi H.

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I get not voting for Harris. Voting for Trump, though? That’s contemptible.

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.

Remember kids, when brown people do something bad, it’s terrorism. When white people starve an entire population after a failed occupation, that’s just because we are very concerned about misogyny. Now, starving an entire country en masse has (to my knowledge) never caused a government to be overthrown, and in this case has no chance of improving the treatment of women in the country. Nor have women in Afghanistan ever asked for sanctions, nor do they support them now that they are in place. But don’t let that fool you in to thinking we’re doing it for any reason other than to help women in Afghanistan.

Before you respond, please take a look at my post and notice I said _nothing positive about the Taliban _. This is about the disingenuous use of women’s rights to excuse and even celebrate mass starvation.

Because US & European sanctions are doing just that

[Edit: and the post is implicilty celebrating that with the “Taliban is broke” lines]

Next you’re going to tell me you can solve homelessness by giving people housing

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

P.O.S is ruining my life

As a Minnesotan in district 1 I wish he were still our house rep. Not because I’m wild about him but because it’s been red ever since.

Flanagan will do fine as governor, I think. Just hope the governor’s seat doesn’t turn red, too.

Credit where credit is due, he did go back and negotiate on behalf of the rail workers and get a lot of concessions (iirc)

But good riddance. Not that Harris is much better.

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