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"Any questions, gentlemen?"

A short clip from "Beyond the Time Barrier" (1960)

Explanation (spoilers) 

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The rhetorical issue with this is that the words "speed" and "electricity" are are imprecise terms.

Usually the word "electricity" is referring to the electromagnetic signal or wave that flows through the wires, not the actual charge carriers -- especially in the context of telephone wires.

The word "speed" is not accurate because when we say "speed of electricity" we're usually referring to the *velocity* in a direction along the wire.

So, most people reading the statement would think that it's referring to the signal velocity (or wave velocity, or field velocity) which is typically on the order of about 50%-90% of c, depending on the type of wire.

However, the electrons in the wire actually move, on average, very slowly along the wire, about 1mm per second or slower. This is the drift velocity of the electrons.
(Also, each individual electron moves on it's own in mostly random directions within the wire, which is a much higher speed than the drift velocity.)

So "the speed of electricity" can be interpreted as the drift velocity, which is very slow.

Another rhetorical gimmick was that the statement said, "less than 5% of the speed of light" which seems to imply that the speed being referred to is very fast, which it is not. It's referring to the drift velocity.

So the statement in the toot is technically true, because 1mm/s is slower than 5% of c.

c = speed of light in vacuum
DC = direct current
AC = alternating current

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The truth is...

The speed of electricity through a copper telephone wire is less than 5% of the speed of light.

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(photo Attribution: Rembert Satow, wikimedia commons File:Birds_on_telephone_wires_at_Beeston,_Nottinghamshire.jpg)

Congratulations to the crew of Blue Origin's NS-19 flight for a successful flight into space.

The December 11, 2021 flight took 10 minutes and 13 seconds from blastoff to touchdown.

The crew included Michael Strahan, Evan Dick, Laura Shepard Churchley, Dylan Taylor, Cameron Bess, and Lane Bess.

youtube.com/watch?v=MpaiuDg_DN

In developed countries, we have the tools needed to avoid dying from COVID-19 -- respirators, vaccines, testing. Unless someone is a child or is in an institution of some sort, at this point if they get COVID-19, it's because they chose to be exposed to the risk. So...

Should (most) COVID-19 deaths be recorded as "suicide" on the death certificate?

(from qoto.org/@lucifargundam/107449)

>"Is there enough infrastructure to support going on a trip, longer than 200 Km?"

Yes, there is. Before this decade is out, there will be cars with a range exceeding 1500Km.

>"For this technology to reach any sort of adoption, the electric grid is going to need massive retooling too."

Too late. It's already here, it's been adopted. Nearly every auto manufacturer is now into electric cars and most will stop making the old putt-putt cars in a few years. (The grid can handle that expected increase in load today, no retooling needed.)

@lucifargundam @marathon

>"sub micron particles are considered aeresol. They arent really produced in any detectable quantity with normal breathing, though they arent non existant. However unless its humid out they are going to evaporate super fast as well."

Actually sub-micron particles are created in infectious levels with every breath.

@freemo @torresjrjr @NEETzsche @mkljczk @ducheng

Even when all the H2O has evaporated from a particle, there can remain lipids and the protein shell of the virus itself can help keep it viable. This is one of the reasons why variants can become more transmissible, because outer proteins can allow them to survive even when all the water has evaporated. UV light also plays a factor.

>"The point here is that airborne isnt airborne in the same sense as smoke."

The particles are roughly the same size, and can stay in the air the same amount of time, its survivability that makes the difference, not the time it's airborne.

Temporal loops are a common trope in science fiction. A character gets stuck in a loop and remembers each iteration. (e.g., Groundhog Day) However, if a time loop actually occurred, no one would remember the previous loops because everyone's neurons would be reset to the previous point in time along with the rest of all matter and energy. So...

Is it possible that the entire universe is stuck in a time loop?

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Anti-vax, anti-mask televangelist dies from COVID-19
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A prominent TV Christian evangelist who often told his followers not to take the vaccine or wear masks and to use quack cures instead, has died after becoming infected with COVID-19 in early November.

He would tell his followers to pray instead of getting jabbed.

Well, I guess those who prayed for him had their prayers answered. They just didn't get the answer they expected.


nytimes.com/2021/12/01/us/marc

The Anime NYC conference at Jarvis Convention Center (Nov. 19-21, 2021) was super-spreader event for the Omicron virus.

nytimes.com/2021/12/04/world/o


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If President Biden had worn a respirator instead of a cloth mask, he would not have caught bad cold from his grandson.

Where is the Secret Service????

COVID-19 Natural Immunity

The truth is...

If you become infected with the COVID-19 virus and don't recover, you are 11 times less likely to become reinfected.

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Just a reminder, a properly worn respirator stops all variants of the COVID-19 virus -- past, present and future.

Respirators are more effective than the vaccine at preventing the spread of the virus, but you should probably do both, along with the other prophylaxis to fully protect yourself.

Since the COVID-19 hand-washing mandate went into effect there have been 1,234 deaths due to chafing.

Source: Darrel Terd's Corona ConspiracyBlog, April 20, 2019 (Now peer-reviewed!!!!!)


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This is a on antivaxer and antimasker protests. The image shown here has been modified from the original which was actually a vaccine protest. The original image is at: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

original pic credit: Anthony Crider at mediawiki commons

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COVID-19 Anti-Hand-washing Protest

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