One, because although there's an opening on each end, it is a single passage. To have two holes it would have to look something like an extruded figure-eight.

> If they were to have zero ground speed they would immediately crash.

Just some clarification here you probably mean zero airspeed. If the wind is blowing 70mph and a plane's stall speed is 60, it could very well hover above the ground while the gauge reads 70mph.

All good, I first internalized the difference for real after playing Kerbal Space Program. It starts off measuring your velocity relative to the surface, where 0 meters per second means you're not moving with respect to the ground. But get high up enough and it measures your speed by how fast you actually go around the planet, not respective of the spin. It makes a huge difference for space travel. *A geostationary satellite is traveling at some orbital velocity but its surface velocity would be zero.

It depends on how you consider "hovering." If you mean zero ground speed, it would rotate with the earth. If you mean zero orbital velocity, the earth would rotate under it but it might have to maintain some crazy airspeed to keep that location in the sky.

That's a good point too. A lot of what he talks about may be machismo, but not exactly toxic if it's not hurting anyone lol.

Looking forward to their upcoming collab with Enya.

It's too simple to say "only traits that help survival persist." We have vestigial parts in our bodies, we occasionally bite our tongues, and succumb to genetic diseases.

All natural selection means is that a certain setup is generally good enough to reproduce. So if you remember that "B" and "T" in the initialism there don't necessarily mean same-sex relationships only, they would be able to pass on their genes just fine.

As for others, maybe they don't. Look at the straight people who keep having gay babies. :P

Congratulations, I'm waiting for you to either revolutionize several art forms with your wisdom or at least make it big as a performer without listening to those snooty egg-heads.

The closest I've gotten to education in art is an associate's degree in game design (which of course includes art assets) and independent study in writing and music. But I'd be far worse in all of those fields with no instruction.

Anyway, hope you find happiness inside or outside of formal programs.

> If they're advertising, they're not picking from a select group of people with talent.

Yes, they are, if they know things. Have you ever taken classes on these subjects in school? They don't teach you what is and isn't art, just offer you tools on how to create it with more depth and refinement.

/r/im14andthisisdeep . "Anyone who advertises dance, music, painting/drawing lessons is probably scamming you"? There is a wealth of information associated with why and how people enjoy those things. Yeah they can't imbue you with whatever spirit of true art you're talking about, but they can inspire by helping you develop existing techniques. It's only an exceedingly rare prodigy that finds they can make everything they want to make with zero external training.

You had me at coffee and wine.

Seems like 30 for a cat is basically like 90-100 for a human. Not like it never happens especially with good health care, but still very much "holy crap that's old."

Nice of you to defend his honor on here. I have basically zero chance of interacting with him but would prefer to think he's legit, so thanks. :)

That would be a really disappointing turn of events, but not totally unlikely. :/

Having a single super-old cat may be random chance, but the same person having two? Was their water bowl the fountain of youth?

The Ghostbuster-busters?

My strategy for sharing a bed with cats was "You are very adorable, however I am ten times your size and willing to move you." They dealt. :P

Heh I get you, but to be pedantic, a lot (if not all) crimes are like that. If you "nearly" do something, you could only be charged for attempting it at most.

If someone plans ahead of time to kill you and pulls it off, you've been murdered in the first degree. You're just not around to appreciate the charge unless you literally come back to haunt them.

> "one is none, two is one."

Had to copy this again just in case the first one got lost. :P It is truly a priceless saying though.

Evolution selected for men with two. Other than the general fact that humans have "bilateral symmetry" in which a lot of features on one side are mirrored on the other, it helps to have redundant systems. If men mostly only had one and something caused it to fail before they have kids, their genetic line ends. Someone with two might still be able to reproduce if one malfunctioned, or if both are somewhat low-functioning on their own.

It would be ridiculous to suggest that any amount of people praying will take the wind out of Putin's sails faster, but one thing's for sure, I wouldn't want to be him already.

Or just someone to say "Hey if you're praying and nothing bad happened to abortion facilities, either you're not praying well enough or God has made his ruling."

Yes there are a lot of satellites, but space is also very big. We do try to track them and launch new ones so that they don't interfere with each other, but there is a slight chance of collision. Hopefully that doesn't happen in a bad enough way to inflict Kessler Syndrome.

Sorry if it has been commented already but I'm a big enough Billy fan to know the story behind the song "Vienna." He was (oddly enough) sitting at a café in Vienna when he noticed an old woman sweeping outside of a storefront, smiling and seeming as happy as can be. He must have gotten to thinking about the struggles she had in life before getting to this point, and evidently it all worked out alright for her. So the message of the song is that everything will eventually be okay.

It is one of his very best songs so I'm glad you have put so much thought into it. :D