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  1. RisingFury

    Numerical Epidemics

    If the virus infected 25% of the population and the the cured could not get reinfected, the average distance between a sick person and a susceptible one is increased significantly, but currently only a few percent of the population got infected with the new virus and we're not even sure you...
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    News COVID-19 pandemic

    Probably best given the magnitude of the disease in Italy. Slovenia is reopening schools on May 18th. We closed everything quickly and we never had an explosive exponential growth period.
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    News COVID-19 pandemic

    And nobody complains about socialism when they get a Coronavirus check deposited into their account :P
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    Science Artificial Intelligence for Beginners (1)

    This is the worst possible place to start if you're learning AI.
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    News COVID-19 pandemic

    The incubation period is 2 to 14 days, with the average being 5. But yes, overreaction is best. I'm glad we're reacting. I wish we closed more places. While I may not be at high risk of death, a lot of my family members are older. They certainly are. This thing is probably at least 10 times...
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    News COVID-19 pandemic

    Slovenia "overreacted" to the outbreak a few days ago. We imported a lot of our sick from Italy and it didn't immediately start spreading. Once it did, we decided to immediately ban gatherings over 100 people and closed our schools. We have more places to close, though. If it was up to me, I'd...
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    Updates Sentinel News

    In the days following the September 11 attacks, vast majority of US air traffic was grounded. As a result, fewer clouds were created because there were no contrails and the temperature over the US increased by several degrees.
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    News COVID-19 pandemic

    20 to 30 kids in a classroom together for many hours every day. Hundreds in one building. Then they come home sick, infect their parents, who go to work sick, infecting coworkers, who infect their kids and send them to school. Wildfire.
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    News COVID-19 pandemic

    Everywhere the coronavirus has spread, it's growth has matched the logistic curve very well. I don't think any place has :censored::censored::censored::censored:ed up or done exceptionally well. ---------- Post added at 13:46 ---------- Previous post was at 13:38 ---------- Actually, there is...
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    Launch News SpaceX Dragon Test 18/1/2020

    Welp, SpaceX still knows how to blow :censored::censored::censored::censored: up. Nice show today. Congrats, SpaceX!
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    Science Y-chromosomal Adam.

    That's a whole lot of incest...
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    Science Could relatives of measles virus jump from animals to us?

    Of course the old USSR vaccines worked! They were loaded with radioactive isotopes!
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    News Ethiopian 737 crashed on way to Kenya, 157 people on-board

    737 Max may be as much of a blunder for Boeing as A380 was for Airbus. Difference is that Airbus missed the way the aviation model will change in the future and Boeing screwed up the tech.
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    Humor Random Comments Thread

    By that logic, because distances contract in the direction of travel, at the speed of light, from light's perspective, the universe seems a flat plane. And the movement of light is perpendicular to it.
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    News SpaceX Starship Mk. 1 Bulkhead Failure

    "Don't worry! We totally expected our rocket to blow up and send its lid 150 m into the air!"
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    Supersonic car targets 1,000mph

    Now they only have to deal with: - 4 times the drag - 4 times the forces on the wheels - trans sonic and supersonic effects - increased control issues - increased run length - twice the speed - twice the dippers Oh... and they have yet to stick a rocket engine on it.
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    Thermal radiation and water freezing

    Does the astronaut have to take off the helmet to drink from the bottle before or after unscrewing the cap?
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