Random Interesting Things. Part 3.
Nothing about Venture Capital. Interesting thoughts in order to provoke interesting thoughts -- Part 3.
Charles Dickens (Author of “The Tale of Two Cities”, and “Great Expectations”) was paid per word he wrote. Additionally, he wrote and released his stories in 10,000 word segments, because his boss wouldn’t pay him beyond 10,000 words.
Balloons move forward in a car when it accelerates (rather than people, we fly backwards when we accelerate). I thought about this over the weekend and realized it’s because your car functions as a vacuum and when you accelerate you trick the balloon into thinking that forward/backward is up/down.
Balloons are stupid, so easily tricked.
I wonder what happens if an F-16 fighter jet accelerates past mach-1 with a balloon… I bet it freaks out… balloons, so stupid, you can convince them of anything.
Prior to 2019, only 3 people had ever explored the lowest point on the planet, the Marinas trench, one of them was James Cameron the movie director. Roughly 600 people have reached space, none of them were James Cameron.
I don’t think Balloons would survive in either of those places.
This also means that 200x more people have been to space than the deepest part of the ocean.
After more than 100 years of flight, people still aren’t agreeing on what causes planes to fly. I’m a firm believer in Bernoulli’s theorem, but I also appreciate the debate. It kind of forces you to keep an open mind about everything, especially why balloons aren’t smart enough to stay put in a an accelerating vehicle.
You park in driveways and drive on parkways.
The most popular street name in the US is “2nd St.” because most of the 1st Streets became “Main Streets.”
Have you ever written a card to future you? I think often about communicating with “future me,” every once in a while he’s really pissed at past me, but past me holds all the cards about how “Future me” feels later. So present me is often just a mediator between the two.
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My grade 9 science teacher made my whole class cross out a spot in our textbooks that had been disproven by the then-new discoveries, was cheaper than printing new books. I forget what the thing was we corrected, but I learned in that moment as a kid humans know far less than we think we know, and teaching is not of hard facts, but only of what we 'knew' when the lesson was constructed
I love the Bernoulli’s <> Newton debate and others like it, amicable debate leads to exploration leads to discovery