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Comment Re:Not Bikes... (Score 1) 328

Sure. Except there was no nitpicking. OP said/implied "Don't jump on a bike high, you might fail to balance it". Answer is: one of the least likely accidents following riding a bike high would be to (simply) tip over mid-ride due to not being able to balance it.

Next thing I know, you're nitpicking about how technically every action which directly or indirectly keeps a bike upright is "balancing". While true and pedantic in a lovely way, what you said is useless.

Comment Re:Non Keplerian [Re:Kinda notnews] (Score 2) 122

The Earth is layered, with the density changing as you go closer to the center

But in this case we're not only falling towards the center, but moving away from it as well. If we assume earth's layering to be similar in both halves, why aren't the effects you mentioned during the fall compensated for during the rise?

Comment Re:OMNI (Score 2) 122

Their scenario should have started the person off at the south pole, not the north, for the extra altitude.

The problem with a vaccum tube, though, is that it is closed at both ends. As much as it sucks coming to an early stop below the surface, slamming into the airlock is going to hurt, at a speed which would otherwise get you up for another 4km ;)

Comment Re:Sweet F A (Score 4, Informative) 576

No, because the people at the end points can't control what they measure their entangled particles to be. There's no information transmitted in the process, all you get to do is:
1. Measure the entangled property, say, the spin, on Earth.
2. Be like: Wow, on Pluto that must've given <opposite property>.

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