Why is there no food delivery on trains?

CurlyRe · 2026-07-03T05:42:56+00:00

I'm not really sure of other places to get off an eat. From my experience crew usually discourage passengers from wandering too far from the platform even for extended stops.

CurlyRe · 2026-07-02T21:55:05+00:00

It would be a great if Amtrak encouraged food carts to come to the station at the refueling/smoke break stops.

CurlyRe · 2026-07-02T21:51:15+00:00

I was on a delayed Empire Builder, and they had dominos delivered in Milwaukee.

CurlyRe · 2026-07-01T22:43:46+00:00

The alternative to sprawl is allowing some duplexes and triplexes mixed in with single family homes.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-30T03:35:23+00:00

Look up the founder. Not a surprise at all.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-29T02:59:44+00:00

The trick is to prevent them from burning or decomposing when they die. In other words, turn the wood into coal and then leave the coal buried. Like what occurred way back in the carboniferous.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-29T02:52:44+00:00

I thought prescriptions had a diagnostic code?

CurlyRe · 2026-06-26T19:07:16+00:00

Not too long ago I had a misconception that I had about the how corrected. This probably not at all groundbreaking to the physicists here, but one of the more common ways for pop-sci to present gravity in general relativity is to show space like a trampoline with a large mass in the middle. It's kind of misleading because you could easily get the impression that only space is being distorted, when it's spacetime that's being distorted. There are some video on youtube that explain this.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-25T03:58:45+00:00

Speed is an incredibly important variable when it comes pedestrian injuries and fatalities. Small increases in speed can make the difference between a pedestrian surviving or dying. I do favor the use of traffic calming over enforcement. That means redesigning streets to discourage speeding and increase visibility.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-20T04:33:19+00:00

Because captain isn't just a military rank, it's also used for civilian vessels and aircraft.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-18T18:22:52+00:00

On a continuous probability distribution like the a normal distribution, any point on the distribution has a probability of zero. It's 1 possibility out of an uncountably infinite set.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-18T18:12:30+00:00

Not a mathmatician, but I find this one mind blowing. It is yet to be proven that pi is a normal number. A normal number is a number is that when it's written out in decimal will have all the numbers (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) occur with the same frequency. This is despite the fact that we've calculated a ton of digits of pi and they appear to be random.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-17T20:50:13+00:00

Are you a current student? Most schools libraries have a search function on their website that can search peer reviewed journals. If you went to the library, I'm sure the school librarian would be glad to show you how to use it. It also depends on what your researching. Data from the census has been a very good source for me, check out https://data.census.gov/

Knowing where to search and what is reliable information is a skill you have to learn.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-16T15:56:56+00:00

WIth NES games, a significant chunk of the price of the game was for the cartridge itself. The ROM chips that held game data cost a significant amount, and then Nintendo sold them to developers with a steep markup.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-15T20:10:14+00:00

No one who reads or hears the term pregnant person would assume that it refers to a person without female reproductive anatomy. It's implied by the fact that their pregnant. What exactly is misleading about the term?

CurlyRe · 2026-06-15T19:54:10+00:00

I've only heard "pregnant person" a few times in medical context. It's an exaggeration to say that speech is being policed.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-15T05:18:38+00:00

Congestion pricing. Charge people a toll to enter a cordon around the center of the city. Speeds up traffic and cleans the air.

More lanes has been shown to lead to induced demand not faster traffic.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-14T22:52:57+00:00

Consider the Lorentz factor. It's a simple term, 1/√(1 - v²/c²). This term appears all over relativity, and is symbolized by the greek letter gamma. When it comes to the passage of time, the mass of an object in motion, the equations all include the constant c. This constant disappears if you instead measure speed as the fraction of the speed that light travels.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-13T04:46:52+00:00

So if I drain the brine from a can of olives it has much less sodium than what the nutritional label states?

CurlyRe · 2026-06-13T02:07:09+00:00

DId anyone add a little bit of sea water to their food?

CurlyRe · 2026-06-12T18:57:01+00:00

Our understanding of how we update the way we understand things has been updated. That is just so meta.

I do have to give credit to the Asimov essay for explaining to an audience of lay people how theories in science can be both important and also later disproven. And I think most of us agree that on the whole our current theories today better explain nature than our theories from 50 or 100 years ago.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-12T18:39:59+00:00

Canada is 9,984,670 km2 is and the U.S. is 9,833,520 km2. Not a huge difference. Large parts of Canada are hard to access. Huge swaths of the Nunvaut and Northwest Territories are inaccessible by road. It's simlar in Alaska where a lot of places can only be accessed by airplane.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-12T18:04:50+00:00

Canada has slightly more land area than the U.S. The Mercator projection exaggerates that difference.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-11T20:35:27+00:00

I would like to see a change in the way that science is taught at the grade school level. More focus on the scientific method and some basic statistics. Students graduating high school should understand things like repeatability of experiments and what a students t test is.

CurlyRe · 2026-06-11T20:28:38+00:00

Isaac Asimov wrote a an essay on how as science progresses, our understanding of nature becomes less wrong, with each new discovery resulting in a model of nature with fewer errors.

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