[Request] The Hercules Globular Cluster is estimated to have 300,000 stars. How was that number calculated?
Do you take into account that stars are constantly being born/dying too? What assumptions do you have to make to be able to solve this?
[Request] What percentage of the world's population could seat in large (>10,00 seats stadia?
[RDTM] Casual fact-checking of Laura Loomer
Careful out there this weekend, everyone. For every person you encounter, there's a 1/85 chance they'll be a Democrat-welcomed jihadi sleeper agent - they're reported to be waking up this weekend. Possibly coming out of hibernation. Better watch your backs, because after they they have a nice poop and find their first meal, it's over for anyone not wearing a red hat.
This sub got part of this wrong yesterday. The triangle is not always worse than the square. [Self]
After seeing how insistent people were that the triangle is always worse than the square, I had to do the math. It depends on the coefficient of friction, and as can be seen, it's not unreasonable in this problem to assume the square and the triangle require the same amount of force.
