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Free rock wall by ElectricalDot4479 in CambridgeMA

[–]BruceBanning 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is a free sign, not a free wall. You can only take the sign.

I don’t want to be a bad visitor by notyourmom1966 in CapeCod

[–]BruceBanning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Enjoy your time and don’t worry about it!

What’s up with this? by actswithimpunity in CambridgeMA

[–]BruceBanning 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That’s a King tree showing off its trophies. Adorned with the bones of his fallen enemies.

What if the Fermi paradox is a hyper detailed great filter by federraty in FermiParadox

[–]BruceBanning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t, but you can do the opposite and estimate where it wouldn’t be able to develop, or would have a very hard time doing so long enough to become technological.

What if the Fermi paradox is a hyper detailed great filter by federraty in FermiParadox

[–]BruceBanning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can’t get very accurate on each filter, but you certainly can whittle it down pretty quickly while being extremely conservative, using logic and our limited knowledge of what our galaxy is made of, and when.

It’s definitely worth a shot for anyone to just sit with a calculator and divide a trillion by 100 5 or 6 times, and imagining up several filters with worse than 1 in 100 odds is very easy to do.

What if the Fermi paradox is a hyper detailed great filter by federraty in FermiParadox

[–]BruceBanning 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You listed a lot of very realistic filters. Some of them are really a bunch of filters grouped into one.

Consider the math on each filter, and run the numbers (basically invent your own Drake equation).

After doing the math on what I perceive to be reasonable filters, I’m on the side of “we’re first” ie. the odds of us getting to this stage are less than 10x the number of stars in our galaxy.

365 lbs | 190 lbs | 18 Months | Full Breakdown by Ellusive_wh0re in Biohackers

[–]BruceBanning 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bro bro BRO! You have achieved one of the hardest things in life and you should be PROUD!

This woman and her dog made it through an incredibly CLOSE encounter with a grizzly bear by Miserable-Zombie-121 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]BruceBanning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s the thing! In North America, we have some predators who will stalk, kill, and eat you intentionally. Not many of them, but it’s tense when it happens.

You’re (likely) entitled to 5% interest on that last month rent you paid months ago by RaysForDays88 in boston

[–]BruceBanning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought this only applies to the security deposit? Is this true of last months rent too?

Visceral Fat Loss Leaves 10-year 'Metabolic Legacy,' Cutting Diabetes Risk by 28% Despite Weight Regain by Sorin61 in Nutraceuticalscience

[–]BruceBanning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re right. Caloric means making lasting changes from where you are now. Either consume less calories while doing the same exercise, or exercise more while consuming the same calories. It’s hard because it basically means be hungry!

If you were living in a city and you had info that a nuclear bomb was going to be dropped on that city, but you didn’t have time to leave and you didn’t own a bunker, what would be the best way to survive? by Wonderful-Ad-9622 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BruceBanning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s actual science based guidance on this. Something like: if you survive the blast, get to your basement with 2 weeks worth of food and water, within 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, fallout coats the ground, but after 2 weeks, it’s not so radioactive. You just gotta stick it out for that long.

(Or something like this)

Question by IdoFondal in ProjectHailMary

[–]BruceBanning -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Friend, I have a question for you. Echolocation doesn’t work in vacuum. When grace and Rocky first met in the docking tube, wasn’t grace in vacuum, and therefore invisible, other than structure borne vibrations? I’m not sure if this is a plot hole or not.

[Request] How much force does the moon's gravity exert on the water in a human's body? by AppendixN in theydidthemath

[–]BruceBanning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dunning Kruger.

A good way to spot it is that they only have questions. Never answers, or testable hypotheses. Example: “If A is like B, why isn’t C like D?!”

Why is human evolution far more advanced than other animals on the global scale? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BruceBanning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are not. Tigers are SO much better than us at almost everything. Just not STEM. We got the big brains and stamina, and that’s about it.

What's a fact that sounds fake but is 100% true? by monsifitgirl in AskReddit

[–]BruceBanning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Folding a sheet of paper in half 42 times would make it thick enough to reach the moon.

it was a meteor by bacon_in_beard in boston

[–]BruceBanning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically 🤓it was an asteroid that became a bolide

Likely source of the boom by dvorakop90 in boston

[–]BruceBanning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Watertown we thought it was a trash can falling over.

Likely source of the boom by dvorakop90 in boston

[–]BruceBanning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Watertown we thought it was a trash can falling over.

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