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At an average of 18" in length (not including tail) and 4" width, that's exactly 2 cats per square foot, assuming a face-centred cube...

By the time there is 0.001% of that number, they won't be housecats any longer. They'll be yardcats and streetcats.

I suspect we all agree with this. The controversial parts come when some people think they are managing to adapt their learned use of...

If the fan is just replacing warm air with different warm air, why would that feel cooler?

An easy way to view (and teach) such problems is to consider the missing material. Here is what I mean. Start with two identical metal...

Yes. That, and Poe's Law. There's no credibility quotient on social media, so there's no disincentive to troll, or merely just have a...

That's gotta be it. I drew some diagrams for them. Let em chew on those. The real takeaway here is: don't argue with people on social...

Yes, I think the double hole case is a good follow up question to ask after explaining the single hole case, in order to check if the...

Exactly.

If someone tried to claim a volume of air should cool when it's compressed I wouldn't need to verify that it's wrong. :wink:

Something I noticed many people assumed: nowhere does it say they're "holes" they're "cavities", which does not suggest they cut all the...

Make the radii of the holes tend to zero: we have a body tending to look close to a coin. If all the molecules of coin increase at once...

The point i am now trying to establish is why did ANYONE think x would decrease? At first I thought they had a point, but i cant even...

Right. Sorry. That's why it's so bad to quote from other sources without proper context. Context: Some people (I won't call them fools)...

TIL: "The US uses metric, they just disguise it. All* US standard units are defined in terms of metric units, and have been since the...