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by smkellat
2154 days ago
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People are not code. People are, for lack of better terminology, messy. We are still finding unanticipated outcomes from this mess. I was reading a journal article yesterday about a separate unanticipated consequence of the coronavirus shutdowns that we may start to have trouble with weather prediction. Why? All those grounded airplanes doubled as automated airborne meteorological observation platforms to help provide the most accurate data possible. There are not enough drones with sufficient altitude rating to replace all those missing commercial air flights as to weather data capture. |
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I have to assume that's a misunderstanding of something I wrote?
I was saying that pain doesn't follow anything like physical conservation laws. If I fall down the stairs and break my leg, that's not a thing that had to happen to anyone.
Statistically, a lot of people will hurt themselves in similar accidents every year until the end of time, but if I don't live in a house with a staircase, no cosmic law makes someone else get hurt to compensate.