It's probably best to think of this as a reminder that physical intuition needs recalibration when dealing with a non-inertial reference frame (i.e. when your reference frame is accelerating, turning, spinning). The Coriolis force (I won't quibble about whether this should really be called a force) means that, at…
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came here to say this: i trust the gov more than companies, but i await the day when a computer oversees all work and law. a computer is not petty, greedy, nor eleitest.
Minority report was a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.
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Sounds straight out of Person of Interest.
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"Warp signature or GTFO." - aliens
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I like this video to put it all into perspective...
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Black guy became president.
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I'm just glad that Anders likes an ontological loop time travel story. In the past she said she didn't like them very much.