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Yes, that would be one way to make it noticeable. If all land/sea floor lifted, gradually, 1.2km into the air, we wouldn't see it. I also Flubbed the per-km increase of the ruler and edited it to correct the increase down to 20cm per km. So as far as our ability to tell things are 0.02% further, no mere mortal would recognize it. But with a lap band around the Earth, we'd definitely notice the new halo floating above us instead of being a tripping hazard.

That reminds me of a fun fact about how the increase in circumference does not care what your starting values are. If you wanted to wrap a rope around a soccer ball, then make the rope lift 1m above the surface of the ball all around, you'd do probably do the pid math like (pid2)-(pi*d1) :

3.140.022m=0.069m of rope around the ball
3.14(0.022+1+1)=6.349m of rope to float 1m above the ball
6.349-0.069=6.28m of extra rope

Then do it for the planet.

3.1440,000,000m=125,600,000. 00m of rope around the planet
3.14(40,000,000+1+1)=125,600,006.28m of rope to float 1m above the ground 125,600,006.28-125, 600,000= 6.28m of extra rope.

1m above, or 2m greater diameter, can just be fed directly into pid as derived from pi(d2-d1) since we know it's a basic request to lift it 1m

Projecting what he wants to be true, hoping everyone just accepts it. Ti's the fascist's way

I'm wondering the same. Like was it really some standard cut and paste work and then some generative fill? It's got a certain 00s vintage look to it like it's not current interpretations of "AI" with text prompt input.

I've seen many waterfalls over the years, but never really a Gorge waterfall such as this until a few weeks ago. I got there right after a well-below freezing cold snap, so it was surreal to see the snowy buildup on the water where the fall spray was re-precipitating. It gave a real Tomb Raider feel. I gotta find more gorges

Gorges

67% of the Earth's mass is comprised of silicates in the mantle. Solid silicates have very low thermal coefficients of expansion, meaning they change volume very little in comparison to other compounds. So if the mantle was cooled and solidified to 0, then heated to 50, it'd have very little effect. It'd grow something like 0.02% in volume.

Being that the mantle is generally liquid, you'll see a much larger effect from the initial cooling. But how much? I don't know. Liquid rock isn't present in mere mortal online calculators and my ability to dive into the material properties and manually calculate it is long gone from my head.

But "much" larger may not be significant to the human experience, given that 0.02% would be imperceptible as a baseline. If you had a 1km long solid silicon ruler, heating it from 0 to 50C would make it just (edit) 0.2m longer. A circumferential ruler reaching around the Earth along the equator would go from ~40,000km to 40,008km.

Edit: corrected 20m to 0.2m. Flubbed the percentage in the calculator as 0.02 (2%) instead of 0.0002 (0.02%). So really, really imperceptible to a human walking 1km

I take it the Switch/S2 has many non-Nintendo games shared with other consoles? Hard to search through 4,000 titles on Wikipedia to find them at random, but I did see they had one Assassin's Creed (Odyssey) at the game's launch. I never really had Nintendo systems and just associate them with exclusive Nintendo games.

I'm choosing to believe the Steam Machine will do more of the same for PC games. Maybe it won't force optimization at launch, but I hope it maintains itself as a benchmark for builds and provides demand for optimization to a certain spec.

Huh, I thought the cash value wasafter taxes

Most of the land in the US does not have million dollar 3 bed homes, but I bet most of the population lives within a commute's distance where it's true. I was expecting the quotes around "modest" to do some heavy lifting in both directions. Could be an apartment in a cultural center, could be an extraordinary place in the mountains. Winner's preference

I understand the instant payout's attraction. In this case, it makes you nearly a billionaire. It solves every financial problem a normal person has immediately. Take the payout, buy a "modest" $1 million home, live lavishly by spending $1,000 every day for 90 years straight, and still have $800 million left - still nearly a billionaire

No no, I understand the improbability and don't play, which means I'm better than everyone who does. Quit having fun. Right? Right?

It just makes me wonder why they bother stamping the book then if they don't stamp anything supplemental with the card.