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TheCatt wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:13 am Image

I can't tell if that map makes my point, or Gordon's.
Was that map created as a joke or a discussion starter?
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Leisher wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:20 am Was that map created as a joke or a discussion starter?
I have no idea where that map came from, just saw it today on the twitters. But it's... interesting.
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The other day someone on reddit asked, "Is Wier trying to personally insult me? I couldn't follow all the nerd science stuff in "Operation Hail Mary," at all."

Heh.

My answer is, "I don't know you personally, but you should possibly examine why you feel personally attacked. I'm sure Wier wasn't singling you out."

For those who haven't read it, this is the guy that wrote "The Martian" and all the "science solves problems" stuff also in O:HM is just more of the same stuff you'd be able to follow if you paid attention in high school biology and chemistry classes.
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GORDON wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 12:15 pm The other day someone on reddit asked, "Is Wier trying to personally insult me? I couldn't follow all the nerd science stuff in "Operation Hail Mary," at all."
"Yes. He thinks you're a god-damned moron after reading that tweet you made 4 years ago, and he spent the ensuing 3 years coming up with this book to make YOU, and ONLY YOU, feel like a fucking moron.

He's very pleased it worked."
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That alarm is useless. You never hear it because you're already dead.
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Damn nature, you scary.
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I understood that reference.
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Leisher wrote: Sun Sep 10, 2023 4:12 pm That alarm is useless. You never hear it because you're already dead.
Well, landslides are pretty fast.
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Community notes added since I posted this, and it says the video is sped up to about twice the speed.

Still a fast moving fucker of one's day.
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Some days you eat the bar...
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What do you think it ate?
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Jackass causes car accident because he saw a tarantula.

The article really undersells that they almost killed a man!
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It's always the person in the back's fault for being too close for safety.
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GORDON wrote: Thu Nov 02, 2023 11:42 am It's always the person in the back's fault for being too close for safety.
Legally, sure. Realistically, no.
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There's no way a motorcycle shouldn't have been able to miss a stopping van as long as they were paying attention, and weren't too close.
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GORDON wrote: Thu Nov 02, 2023 11:48 am There's no way a motorcycle shouldn't have been able to miss a stopping van as long as they were paying attention, and weren't too close.
Yes.
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Not stopping, but slamming on brakes. Also, we really don't know because we have no video. Were they around a bend? Had they just gone through a tree tunnel?

Lots of assumptions being made, but the only fact we know is that an asshole caused an accident because of a spider.
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4Chan needs to start a rumor that having sex with an elephant.. cures aids, or something. Then we can have amusing elephant/idiot headlines.
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