• @FleetingTit
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    4710 months ago

    What the hell are people debating here? A 150.000 tonne object crashed into a structure made of thin sticks (comparatively speaking). There is no doubt that the bridge would collapse. Especially since an arch is only stable if it is undamaged.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      3010 months ago

      Yes, but you forget: lots of people are stupid.

      • @CompostMaterial
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        1910 months ago

        George Carlin never fails to be accurate: Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are even stupider than that.

        • @[email protected]
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          710 months ago

          He’s not accurate, though. That’d be the median person. With the average person I’d expect much more than half to be stupider than that.

          • @[email protected]
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            510 months ago

            What measure are we using? Standard IQ is normal distributed so the mean and median are the same

          • @candybrie
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            310 months ago

            Mean, median, and mode are measures of central tendency aka average. It’s usually context that indicates which measure we are using when we say average. A lot of the time, when speaking of the average person, we’re using the median or mode rather than the mean.

            How many fingers does your average person have?

      • @Burn_The_Right
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        810 months ago

        How dare you insult our nation’s precious little conservatives!

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      “Can a cargo ship really lose steering even if power is lost?”

      That’s the caption of a video I just went and found on Facebook shared by one of my distant hillbilly acquantances. I’m not even going to watch to see what it’s about.

      • Logi
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        210 months ago

        Honestly it wouldn’t be a terrible idea to have backup power for the steering.