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00zau t1_je6wde1 wrote

In real life, the scope doesn't line up perfectly. You "zero" a scope so that the bullet will hit on the crosshair at a certain distance, and at every other distance you adjust.

A real sniper will determine the range to the target, adjust for wind and other factors, and aim for a point some distance above and to the side of a target to account for the factors that will result in the bullet hitting away from the crosshair.

For example, you're shooting at a target 500m away. You know that at that distance your bullet will hit 3m below the target, and the wind will push the bullet .5m to the right in that time. So you aim 3m up and .5m to the left of where you want to the bullet to land.

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00zau t1_je6vjhs wrote

They're getting your pageviews, clicks, and just generally interaction. If you aren't blocking ads, and they've got a 100 question quiz, with each question on a new page, they can get hundreds of ad views out of you clicking through the quiz.

Basically they make money the same way Google does... they just attract you with a fake service instead of actually providing something useful like Google.

I even used one of those types of things that did actually pay out a long time ago. It was a knockoff search engine that 'paid' you a couple points to use it, along with doing quizzes and the like, and after earning several thousand points over several months, I successfully "cashed out" a $5 or $10 gift card.

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00zau t1_iujpb2g wrote

Think Bubble Wrap, but with water instead of air.

Bubble wrap is probably 50% air by mass (though you can't feel it because air is weightless in air) and like 75-90% air by volume... but you can't just waft it around like 'normal air' because the plastic gives it structure.

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