You want a citation to the self evident fact that "they do need larger (wider, most importantly) car to feel comfortable"?... (notice how I didn't say they actually have such cars; just wondered if it might be the reason for the trend, "perhaps partly because..")
And based on my personal observations it might work like that...so there (but then, I don't really see any " particularly heavy" people around)
...and what TFA very quickly mentioned about the study is - also trying to determine how much of this car size increase is due to drivers not fitting comfortably into smaller ones (with the only photo in TFA touching on just that)
The first section of TFA clarifies that they looked also at the size increase of cars / tried to determine the influence of obesity on the trend of buying larger ones. After all, what size of a car / seat is comfortable to you (and as far as I can tell, there's not really any gain in going above "yup, it's comfortable" level) is quite tightly related to your shape - the photo in TFA is quite telling.
They also touched on the increased risk of crashes - apparently not only because of car sizes, also because obese drivers are less likely to use seatblets (troubles with fitting them...)
They do need larger (wider, most importantly) car to feel comfortable...so yeah, it's not only weight increses of passangers, also cars; perhaps partly because the average comfortable size lies somewhat higher.
All this while a large portion of my surroundings does think it has some kind of comms channel with the dead ones; quite a common thing, really. So - upsetting?
WTF are you talking about? Have you ever looked at the vast number of unmanned spacecraft doing work for us right now? Ever noticed how many were launched & operational even before Vostok 1?
It is really hilarious - those claiming we don't need "inspiring" manned programmes...completelly taken by them themselves, apparently, to the point of not noticing how humans are not, and never were "our primary means of getting work done in space"
I suspect that is, more or less, the way we will achieve "immortality" (which would, granted, dissapoint some) - more and more information we leave behind, living its own life so to speak; the process accelerating with advancing augmentation of...us. And at some point a shift, hardly noticed by anybody, which will give raise to some actual continuity.
Not of the same kind of course - why would it be? Most functions of our brains are of low-level/"primal" kind, vast majority of high-level ones routine; and besides, the people who were us died few times already, in a way, with how we are changing and merely perceive ourselves as remembering a lot. I'm not sure if firmly holding to such kind of existence would be even interesting - especially since it probably won't be really the case to such a degree anymore, when close to "shift."
It almost looks like they just took the number of active FB accounts, supposedly a bit over 500 million...and divided by 365? I don't think there's such level of recycling of population, nvm how FB users aren't in the age groups with mortality even close to average of the population.
And if one day they will become representative - that, sort of, will at the same time resolve the issue. People "dissapear" all the time and societies manage to cope - if only because of how death is typically a process, poeple often tend to vanish from social life some time before actually dying. It will be similar with FB probably / their accounts will be typically long abandoned.
Roundabouts don't have to be a problem. Of course I can't comment Orleans, but usually one can easily simply avoid them (and I'm saying this from a perspective of, literally, a roundabout city - think Paris-like, rebuilt in XIX century by the same urban planist who redesigned Paris, and with that style used ever since), as well as largish roads in general (abundance of avenues and large parks does help with that)...and such daily ride to work sounds like something also for public transport, if too far;p
It probably was too far, IMHO (for me a bike is about being lazy, using what is often the most convenient way of commutng, with an extended range in a given amount of time & without trying too hard / sweating; just an effort of fast walk) - a car is fine if used sensibly like that, it only gets ridiculous when people go overboard...
(personal anecdote time: morning, the city wakes up, I'm sitting on a bench near some junction in a housing area (low traffic, abundance of walkways), some semi-older (but with visibly good health & stamina) guy drives his car to a grocery store 200m away...OK, that might pass; then he returns, parks the car near the junction, starts walking towards a newsstand that's on the diagonal of the intersection, just over a dozen meters away, changes his mind after a few meters and returns to the car; then he takes it on a few hundred m trip around one housing area (two arms of the intersection are unidirectional), at the beginning passing said newstand within 5m, the trip including some waiting due to venturing into a semi-major road, just so he can park directly in front of the newsstand...WTF?)
OTOH aerobraking doesn't have to end up with immediate full reentry; some of our unmanned spacecraft performed many gradual ones when arriving at their destination (and becoming artificial satellites there), many "orbital tug" projects envisioned using aerobraking routinelly, and it is generally an extreme form of skip reentry - a good way to save on weight.
One problem could be how ISS modules are meant for long term habitation inside of Earth's magnetosphere; on deep space missions it will be good to have something built at least partially as a radiation shelter / essentially inside fuel tanks. Which presents another problem with artificial gravity - it's fairly easy when the spacecraft can be easily divided along the crewed mass vs. propulsive mass lines, not so when it's good for them to partially "mixed"...
Hopefully they will pass on water nymphs, that would be just cruel to the small kittens, and evident to everybody; in however suggestive positions the kittens would be placed for a given shot.
Generally, given the amount of similarities (what is good in us, and also what is bad in us), it almost seems like finding some real differences is sort of more noteworthy.
Of course that would go against our usual notion of "us / them" and seeing primarily differences... (hell, we're absolutely, pardon the pun, apeshit about such trivial stuff as ethnicities; many here are even from places where just one distant ancestor can firmly place you in just his group...nvm that by such criteria we're all 100% of that group, all coming out of one continent relatively recently)
Hm, thiscould perhaps explain things; considering how, for a long time, I slept essentially in a hallway. Not really that great though - alarm clocks hardly ever work and naps in random places can get nervous.
We have a decent idea what trigerred them - too major & rapid changes for most of the species; often actually brought upon by part of existing life...wouldn't it be "funny" if we're going that way, too? (that link focuses on those who are really adaptable - not us (though...you have an order of magnitude more bacterial cells in you than "human" ones), we depend on very narrow range of conditions; sure, we can maintain them for very small number of individuals virtually anywhere, but we're talking about completelly different scale here)
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You want a citation to the self evident fact that "they do need larger (wider, most importantly) car to feel comfortable"?... (notice how I didn't say they actually have such cars; just wondered if it might be the reason for the trend, "perhaps partly because..")
And based on my personal observations it might work like that...so there (but then, I don't really see any " particularly heavy" people around)
...and what TFA very quickly mentioned about the study is - also trying to determine how much of this car size increase is due to drivers not fitting comfortably into smaller ones (with the only photo in TFA touching on just that)
Yeah, and I typically walk, use a bike or public transport...you were saying?
(that said, not that many motorcycles can beat my car, if I do have to / choose to use it, Fabia with an SDI engine)
The first section of TFA clarifies that they looked also at the size increase of cars / tried to determine the influence of obesity on the trend of buying larger ones. After all, what size of a car / seat is comfortable to you (and as far as I can tell, there's not really any gain in going above "yup, it's comfortable" level) is quite tightly related to your shape - the photo in TFA is quite telling.
They also touched on the increased risk of crashes - apparently not only because of car sizes, also because obese drivers are less likely to use seatblets (troubles with fitting them...)
They do need larger (wider, most importantly) car to feel comfortable...so yeah, it's not only weight increses of passangers, also cars; perhaps partly because the average comfortable size lies somewhat higher.
That would imply said roommate discovered a way to not die...
All this while a large portion of my surroundings does think it has some kind of comms channel with the dead ones; quite a common thing, really. So - upsetting?
Should be fun on the Moon - it's just close enough to at least try teleoperation. I hope any future efforts will put a live stream on the web...
WTF are you talking about? Have you ever looked at the vast number of unmanned spacecraft doing work for us right now? Ever noticed how many were launched & operational even before Vostok 1?
It is really hilarious - those claiming we don't need "inspiring" manned programmes...completelly taken by them themselves, apparently, to the point of not noticing how humans are not, and never were "our primary means of getting work done in space"
I suspect that is, more or less, the way we will achieve "immortality" (which would, granted, dissapoint some) - more and more information we leave behind, living its own life so to speak; the process accelerating with advancing augmentation of...us. And at some point a shift, hardly noticed by anybody, which will give raise to some actual continuity.
Not of the same kind of course - why would it be? Most functions of our brains are of low-level/"primal" kind, vast majority of high-level ones routine; and besides, the people who were us died few times already, in a way, with how we are changing and merely perceive ourselves as remembering a lot. I'm not sure if firmly holding to such kind of existence would be even interesting - especially since it probably won't be really the case to such a degree anymore, when close to "shift."
OK, time to take a nap. Still, the point of it not being such a big deal stands...didn't people always want to be remembered anyway?
It almost looks like they just took the number of active FB accounts, supposedly a bit over 500 million...and divided by 365? I don't think there's such level of recycling of population, nvm how FB users aren't in the age groups with mortality even close to average of the population.
And if one day they will become representative - that, sort of, will at the same time resolve the issue. People "dissapear" all the time and societies manage to cope - if only because of how death is typically a process, poeple often tend to vanish from social life some time before actually dying. It will be similar with FB probably / their accounts will be typically long abandoned.
Roundabouts don't have to be a problem. Of course I can't comment Orleans, but usually one can easily simply avoid them (and I'm saying this from a perspective of, literally, a roundabout city - think Paris-like, rebuilt in XIX century by the same urban planist who redesigned Paris, and with that style used ever since), as well as largish roads in general (abundance of avenues and large parks does help with that)...and such daily ride to work sounds like something also for public transport, if too far ;p
It probably was too far, IMHO (for me a bike is about being lazy, using what is often the most convenient way of commutng, with an extended range in a given amount of time & without trying too hard / sweating; just an effort of fast walk) - a car is fine if used sensibly like that, it only gets ridiculous when people go overboard...
(personal anecdote time: morning, the city wakes up, I'm sitting on a bench near some junction in a housing area (low traffic, abundance of walkways), some semi-older (but with visibly good health & stamina) guy drives his car to a grocery store 200m away...OK, that might pass; then he returns, parks the car near the junction, starts walking towards a newsstand that's on the diagonal of the intersection, just over a dozen meters away, changes his mind after a few meters and returns to the car; then he takes it on a few hundred m trip around one housing area (two arms of the intersection are unidirectional), at the beginning passing said newstand within 5m, the trip including some waiting due to venturing into a semi-major road, just so he can park directly in front of the newsstand...WTF?)
OTOH aerobraking doesn't have to end up with immediate full reentry; some of our unmanned spacecraft performed many gradual ones when arriving at their destination (and becoming artificial satellites there), many "orbital tug" projects envisioned using aerobraking routinelly, and it is generally an extreme form of skip reentry - a good way to save on weight.
One problem could be how ISS modules are meant for long term habitation inside of Earth's magnetosphere; on deep space missions it will be good to have something built at least partially as a radiation shelter / essentially inside fuel tanks. Which presents another problem with artificial gravity - it's fairly easy when the spacecraft can be easily divided along the crewed mass vs. propulsive mass lines, not so when it's good for them to partially "mixed"...
Yes, yes, yes, yes...if we could only get rid of them, if only they could be removed from our wonderful civic society...
Or just don't care about it from the start, and it'll be fine...
But he is dead, or so TFS goes; isn't that a "proper" karma?
Hopefully they will pass on water nymphs, that would be just cruel to the small kittens, and evident to everybody; in however suggestive positions the kittens would be placed for a given shot.
We can only hope you have found the tube meant for you.
Generally, given the amount of similarities (what is good in us, and also what is bad in us), it almost seems like finding some real differences is sort of more noteworthy.
Of course that would go against our usual notion of "us / them" and seeing primarily differences... (hell, we're absolutely, pardon the pun, apeshit about such trivial stuff as ethnicities; many here are even from places where just one distant ancestor can firmly place you in just his group...nvm that by such criteria we're all 100% of that group, all coming out of one continent relatively recently)
The s-word seems ever more scary lately?
Hm, thiscould perhaps explain things; considering how, for a long time, I slept essentially in a hallway. Not really that great though - alarm clocks hardly ever work and naps in random places can get nervous.
You haven't changed it a bit too long.
I don't think animal cruelty is what we have in mind here.
We have a decent idea what trigerred them - too major & rapid changes for most of the species; often actually brought upon by part of existing life...wouldn't it be "funny" if we're going that way, too? (that link focuses on those who are really adaptable - not us (though...you have an order of magnitude more bacterial cells in you than "human" ones), we depend on very narrow range of conditions; sure, we can maintain them for very small number of individuals virtually anywhere, but we're talking about completelly different scale here)