Comment Re:Casting bricks in place? (Score 1) 202
Yep they were poured in place. Soft limestone, natron salt, fly ash, and water. Portable stone. They also used it to make thousands of identical stone vases.
Yep they were poured in place. Soft limestone, natron salt, fly ash, and water. Portable stone. They also used it to make thousands of identical stone vases.
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They also cut down the last tree on their island to make them and descended into cannibalism. Read Guns Germs and Steel and Collapse by Jared Diamond.
No the Aliens came down fucked the monkeys.
Nope! They are poured concrete, and now we use the same method to make landing strips in Saudi for the first Gulf War. You can land a c130 on them 48 hrs later. Nova had him cast 5 blocks in place in 1 day with 5 men. With copper tools it takes like 6 months just to cut one block. Who cares how they moved them, how did they machine them? Geopolymer answers all those questions and more.
The Pharos were also they only ones on the planet that knew how to make beer. The labor was paid for in BEER! They had two teams peer day that would race to see who could complete more blocks. I have no proof but I think the winning team got MORE BEER!
What? I gave two personal examples one college one public bar.
No its not because most people are profoundly math illiterate. Not that I think using hyperbole is right. But don't overestimate people's inability to know what statistics really mean.
SJW?
P.S. the media is was LITERALLY owned by the military industrial complex until it became easier to sell to Comcast.
Here you go this is the ONLY skit that was censored for rebroadcast by GE.
Yes it is fair to say. Any social structure that diminishes responsibility is suspect. Add to that the feeling of self importance and a culture of administrators and coaches who are financially motivated to protect them and you have the opportunity for things to go terribly wrong really fast.
As N grows sufficiently large the sample mean will begin to reflect the true population parameter. I know how statistics works. I also know that if I have seen something twice I stop operating on best practices for statistical analysis and start operating as a human being. The number one killers in the US are...
Cancer: 576,691
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 142,943
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,932
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 126,438
In my whole life I know 1 cancer victim, 1 lower respiratory disease victim, 1 stroke victim (who was 90 and smoked 2 packs a day) and 1 accident victim.
So even though it is not statistically valid my count of 2 seems extraordinarily high, yes I know it can be attributed to chance but I also know that that chance is fairly small.
Don't conflate the two. Just because thing A is abused a lot doesn't make mitigating harm from thing B ANYTHING. Xiaran point about a moral backstop was a red herring and complete bullshit.
Double negative. As the grandfather I am supporting your opinion.
It gets them out of the gene pool.
Yep, sometimes good thing can be used for bad. That's why we have logical fallacies to call out people have no fucking idea how logic or debate works.
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
