• FleetingTit@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    What the hell are people debating here? A 150.000 tonne object crashed into a structure made of thin sticks (comparatively speaking). There is no doubt that the bridge would collapse. Especially since an arch is only stable if it is undamaged.

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        7 months ago

        George Carlin never fails to be accurate: Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are even stupider than that.

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          7 months ago

          He’s not accurate, though. That’d be the median person. With the average person I’d expect much more than half to be stupider than that.

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            7 months ago

            Mean, median, and mode are measures of central tendency aka average. It’s usually context that indicates which measure we are using when we say average. A lot of the time, when speaking of the average person, we’re using the median or mode rather than the mean.

            How many fingers does your average person have?

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      7 months ago

      “Can a cargo ship really lose steering even if power is lost?”

      That’s the caption of a video I just went and found on Facebook shared by one of my distant hillbilly acquantances. I’m not even going to watch to see what it’s about.

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        7 months ago

        Honestly it wouldn’t be a terrible idea to have backup power for the steering.