PhysicsGuy

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I’m assuming Trump will be there, right?

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Would be a pretty bad look for any sitting, former or elected President to not attend the State Funeral for another President.

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To be fair, there's no practical reason for the average high school or college student to understand how Newton improved Kepler's laws of planetary motion (amazingly accurate at solar system scales and beyond), why the ISS is moving at 17,500 mph, the importance of Lagrange Points and why the James Webb scope is orbiting at L2, and reasons for GPS satellite cesium beam clock time corrections per Einstein's relativistic theories, mainly related to time dilation. Physics and some engineering students yes, for students outside those disciplines that knowledge is interesting but unnecessary. Practically, IMO trig by itself is sufficient and useful for life long use. Classical mechanics, calculus or quantum theory, not so much. The OP's statements are correct; yours are not. If you disagree, then your thoughts to reconcile Einsteinian space-time gravity with quantum theory would be very interesting, the Holy Grail "Theory of Everything" in physics. Or, a simpler problem is why it would be so difficult to establish a GPS system orbiting our moon, a NASA thought experiment for many years.

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Respect.

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I'm not a chemist or physicist so please explain to me how does a 6 pound gallon of gasoline create 19 pounds of CO2 gas when burned?

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The O2. Gas only brings carbon to the party, your car takes in O2 from the air. Give or take a pure conversion will make 19 lbs of CO2 and some amount of water from the hydrogen in the gas combing with the O2.

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So, yes it's Constitutional just not liked.

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It’s absolute necessity though.

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That used to be true in the steam engine days. Around the 50s they developed a much better breaking system but allow and even magnify the rumors that it takes a long time as a way to keep insurance rates low.

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The railroads self insure. This is also non-sense.

Pretty sure this is like 2-3 years old.

Is ETA some kind of TD inside joke?

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Federal Reserve and then coming off the Gold Standard are what caused this.

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The gold standard is to macroeconomic discussions like flat earth is to a physics discussion.

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Pull directly from a google search from the last 20+ years Another search said 2.5% over the last 30 years Investopedia also provides numbers since 1929 here you can reference that show it is around 2.5 or less as a baseline.

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My question wasn’t how to look up inflation stats, just use FRED for that. I wanted to know what time frame you were using to make that statement.

The reason I asked is if you didn’t include all the years from 1976, and you clearly hadn’t, what years did you use and why did you pick a different time period?

Really your statement read in a vacuum is if inflation remained constant since 1976…which would have actually resulted in the average home prices being around 500k. This is because the average rates of inflation in 1970s and 80s were significantly higher than 2.5%.

So, I was thinking maybe he meant if inflation rates had remained consistent with rates before 1976 vs since 1976.

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Amtrak is almost fully subsidized by the govt. You need to reset your expectations.

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Nope, sadly it’s worse. They are heavily subsidized by the freight railroads too, in that they run for next to nothing.

Imagine being so bad a business model that even with nearly all your fixed operating costs paid for…you still set money on fire like that’s actually your model.