One thing that might be a factor is the Bernoulli effect (moving air has lower pressure than still air). When your head is in moving air but your chest is in relatively still air, that would create a pressure differential that makes it harder to draw air into your lungs. On a motorcycle, your whole body is in moving air so the pressure differential wouldn’t exist.

Trump also alluded to the role the US had played in the targeted assassinations of the Iranian leadership. “They had leaders. They’re gone. And they had another set of leaders. They’re gone. Now they have another set of leaders. They may be gone,” he said.

The US president noted, “I may be gone, too, because I’m their number one target.” “That’s the way they act,” he added, claiming that he is doing “what’s right for the country”.

So “that’s the way they act”, after describing himself acting that way.

Since Ben Garrison is the one human whose output most closely resembles AI, I imagine this is him having an existential crisis.

“Pinkeye” has two definitions: bovine pinkeye is a specific bacterial disease that only affects cattle; otherwise, “pinkeye” is a generic synonym for conjunctivitis.

Dogs can’t get bovine pinkeye, but they can and do get other types of conjunctivitis. It may just be less noticeable in dogs because the white sclera of their eyes isn’t as prominent as humans’.

They’re not selling gasoline, they’re selling the experience of living in an alternate reality.

Wouldn’t being mixed-race imply that half their family is white, and the other half at least associates with white people?

Over 50% of the U.S. population is white. That means that if everyone chooses a partner at random—or at least without bias due to race—people from all groups will end up with white partners most of the time. So that statistic means nothing with regard to your dating possibilities.

Maybe search for highest-altitude reservoirs instead of dams?

I mean, the Whig party hasn’t lost an election in 100 years…

It depends on how you (or the Supreme Court) defines “persons”.

They might technically have to become corporations.

It’s not using the ribosomes for metabolism, though—it’s using them to translate the proteins that make up its membrane. So it’s more like a virus, in that it contains the DNA for its unique proteins but needs to use another cell’s machinery to produce them.

Not sure I’d call it a complete cell cycle if they have to keep feeding it pre-built ribosomes for protein synthesis.

Think of particles as bundles of conserved quantities like charge, energy, mass, etc.

In interactions, these quantities can be shuffled around and re-bundled into different particles—but the re-bundling isn’t creating or destroying the conserved quantities themselves.

Virtual particles appear and disappear in the course of interactions between real particles. The general phenomenon of particles appearing and disappearing in interactions happens with both real and virtual particles—but the interactions are such that momentum, charge, etc. are always conserved. So the things you should expect to see persisting in existence aren’t particles themselves, but those conserved properties.

Safety issues aside, I don’t like the power grid topology they create—where power is distributed radially from a single centralized source. Systems like that are fragile and inflexible, with a single point of failure; and they promote similar institutions to control them.

Networks are more robust when they’re distributed and redundant, with lots of interconnected local sources. Solar and wind are a lot more amenable to that kind of structure.

Are they counting homes lost to climate-induced catastrophes?

Every egg that hatches was previously fertilized (at least for sexually-reproducing organisms). The animal that hatches from the fertilized egg became a genetically distinct organism when its egg was fertilized, not when the egg was hatched or laid.

In the case of chickens, eggs are fertilized (if at all) before being laid; and when we talk about “unfertilized eggs”, we usually mean eggs that were laid without being fertilized. Such eggs were not part of the discussion until you introduced them.

A quote isn’t “literal” if you insert a word that completely negates its meaning.

What’s your point? Unfertilized eggs don’t hatch, so they’re not part of the scenario in question.

No, but the fallacy is in thinking the new species appears when the egg hatches, rather than when it’s fertilized. The egg is already the new offspring.