Take into account the average low speed of a taxi, and the numbers are even better. (More airco use, though, probably).

Plenty of otherwise intelligent people are religious. Of all the religions in existence the one they happened to be born in is true. What a fortunate coincidence.

It is not built on verifiable facts, just on a long life of discouragement of critical thinking.

No, that was the excuse. The real reason is that with a 16:9 ratio you need less screen surface to reach a particular screen diagonal. So, the manufacturer of the screens can produce more screens per square meter of screen panel. (Phrased differently, the number of pixels is smaller for a 16:9 screen versus a 4:3 screen with the same diagonal in inches.)

It was just a repetition of history, when apple sold a screen diagonal of 12” (actually useable screen),whereas PCs were sold with 13” screens (diameter of the tube) or even 14” (diagonal of the housing). Honesty in advertising doesn’t pay.

Instead of some promise in the far future, I’d rather have the politicians take some legal action now because we need action now. CO2 accumulates, so any ICE car replaced by an EV this year equates to savings in the future. Demand 5% EVs in 2021, 10% in 2022, 15% in 2022 etc. Manufacturers that don’t make it can buy credits from those that have excess. This will help Wright’s law to demonstrate itself and solve the cost problem sooner rather than later.

If you compress it, the air heats up. This heat will be lost to the sea.

Just pointing out a point of loss. Haven’t tried to calculate the efficiency.

It would also be paramount to anchor the balloon really well.

Could work better with a low density liquid like butane. But your balloon should be really sturdy and impermeable then.

Check out the movie of Tesla’s battery day (starts about 30 mins in)

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FpwBiBpzIBdU

The new batteries are better, cheaper and have no cobalt.

Prayer has been shown so effective over the ages, that it rivals the effectiveness of best homeopathic drugs.

(Reality, it is so unpopular by those that are misled)

And your opinion doesn’t determine what it is. Works for everything, including religions, homeopathy, flat earth, global warming, healing crystals, vaccination-caused autism, and the moon landing.

Your and everybody’s yardstick should be verifiable facts. Not someone else’s opinion, not even if it is from your favorite political party. Reality may have a liberal bias, but no political party has a monopoly on being right. Call yourself a demoblican and fight nonsense and opinions that aren’t backed by verifiable facts.

Never heard of territorial animals? Birds fighting over nesting area?

Yes, that is it. Bad life choices, for example by choosing a job in a line of work killed by Covid.

In any case, it is cheaper for society if people get out of the rut they are in. In my country heroin addicts were given methadone. Drug related rates dropped, less people in jail (which costs tax payers money) and the lives of the drug addicts improved and many could shed their addiction or handle it. And heroin addiction became more rare because they didn’t need to attract new users to support their addiction.

Of course, many politicians were against it on principle. Personally, I care more for the results.

Recently another way of measuring global warming was disclosed (using earthquakes). If the researcher tells the politician, we told you so (that global warming is real), does the researcher’s previous conviction based on other entirely different data in any way affect the objectivity with respect to the new findings? I bet his paper would have had more impact if he had showed it to be false.

It is not unobjective not to be surprised by the outcome of an experiment.

How many car start ups failed? Most of them. How many rocket startups failed? Most of them.

And neither of the two companies make run of the mill products. They are both cutting edge. I think it has to do with their CEO.

I started in the bible. Not very believable, when it goes against established facts. A god would have gotten it right.

Red the Cow, the first chapter of the quran. Crappy read as well.

This fallacy comes up in many forms.

They will (may) be cheaper in two years only because they are produced in the mean time. You can’t skip those years. A stimulus can get us there quicker, saving lots of emissions in the mean time. That is where it pays off.

If you want to know more about how this works. It is Wright’s law.

You could have read that this meteorite is of a very rare type.