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SenorTron t1_j2835dh wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in has the speed of light always been constant? by 2bornnot2b
This doesn't seem quite correct:
"During inflation the speed of light (C for ease of conversation here) was obviously higher because C is the fastest anything can travel in the universe."
While no information can travel faster than C, inflation of the universe doesn't necessarily count for that because no information is being transferred faster than light. Indeed we're pretty sure that in the modern universe it is expanding at a rate such that some points are moving away from each other faster than light.
SenorTron t1_j27ry79 wrote
Reply to Ever wonder if anyone else on the globe was ever watching the same exact show at the same timestamp by Double-Working1990
Netflix says that in the first three weeks there were 150 million different households that streamed Wednesday.
There are 1,814,400 seconds in three weeks. If viewings were equally spread out (in reality they'd be more clumped) that means 83 households had to start watching each second, so there were definitely a bunch of people watching at the same time as others.
SenorTron t1_it2axsy wrote
Reply to comment by Pluto_and_Charon in Curiosity Mars Rover Reaches Long-Awaited Salty Region by Pluto_and_Charon
What processes have eroded the deposited layers away since then, and why is it more eroded in the center of the crater?
SenorTron t1_it0fvbl wrote
Reply to comment by auyemra in TIL the Empire State Building opened during the Depression, and took 20 years to become profitable. by licking-windows
"Besides the size of the aircraft" is a hell of a thing to dismiss.
A fully loaded B-25 can carry 670 gallons of fuel. A 767 carries over 20,000 gallons.
SenorTron t1_isnb317 wrote
Reply to comment by TocTheEternal in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm
Yeah but the people and equipment to gather it were already there in Boston. Are you factoring in the time and cost to transport people down to and back from Antarctica, house them, and the higher wages they'd need?
Someone elsewhere in the comments used the analogy of modern supply chains and it's entirely accurate. It's the same reason it's usually cheaper to buy a household item produced on the other side of the planet than one produced locally.
SenorTron t1_isn7cl7 wrote
Reply to comment by TocTheEternal in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm
Sounds like a whole lot of costs, when the alternative is to buy it from a company in Boston already producing ice and just pay for a few extra weeks of shipping time.
SenorTron t1_jdmvmip wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL: Thanks to poor internal communication at NASA, information about a spacesuit water leak wasn't properly communicated. Later, Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a July, 2013 ISS space walk, his helmet filling with several liters of water before they could get him back inside. by OvidPerl
In this case it was a leaking cooling tube leaking the water used as a coolant.