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spywaregorilla
on Sept 6, 2022
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NASA can now reliably produce a tree’s worth of ox...
If you have the capacity to use that information, you also have the capacity to understand the ballpark of what is meant by "a typical tree".
pessimizer
on Sept 6, 2022
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And if you don't, you don't, and a comparison to something that you understand would be better. Give me man-minutes.
spywaregorilla
on Sept 7, 2022
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Man minutes in a suit with controlled oxygen? Man minutes in a cockpit? Man minutes in open atmosphere? A bunker? A ship? Large man? Woman? Obese man vs fit? Golly this is as poorly defined as the tree problem isn't it.
Tade0
on Sept 7, 2022
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Actually, no, because the variance is so high that the "ballpark" is meaningless.
spywaregorilla
on Sept 7, 2022
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Seems like a pointless appeal to non cognizance to me.
Show me the distribution and I'll show you the median.
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