Global warming - an urgent problem requiring radical solution (no politics or religion)

It’s either a bad joke or an unintelligent thought. He’s losing either way.

Doing a greater distance than you have done before has that effect. But the next time you do the distance you have the benefit of some adaptation.
But there are several points worth making.

1. It is best not to increase distance more than 10% in one go. Increasing it a bit increases endurance without grinding to a (near) halt. The aim can be to increase the distance you can run at a reasonable pace rather than distance alone.
2. Hydration is essential for long runs. The reason is that you dehydrate steadily and when it gets to more than about 2% of bodyweight it slows you down
3. Fueling - mainly taking on carbohydrates - avoids some of the slowing down and is beneficial over an hour and increasingly important at 2 hours and beyond. The reason is that glycogen is quite limited in the body and when you run out it's very debilitating! It's called "bonking" by marathon runners. Legs lose all power and you can hardly keep going.

Of course, those who run 2 hour marathons have to take it a bit further than that! It was a major team effort involving multiple companies and experts to get a very talented runner - 31 year old Sebastian Sawe - to sub-2 at London. He has been working with the same coach for 6 years to get him from when he was a 1 hour half marathoner to being a 2 hour marathoner.

To bring this back on topic, most of the thousands of international participants in the London marathon had to fly long distances to get to the start line, but the entry fee included £26 used to buy carbon offsets in order to achieve net zero emissions.

Will Elon Musk earn carbon offsets for his upcoming vacation to the planet Mars?

Inquiring Minds surely Want to Know.

I think you mean will he buy them? As long as he goes away, it's fine.

plz dont go to venus ..plz ?

The nasty one there was the 94 74.
But the table there doesn't say if that was the nighttime high or low.
If 74 was the nighttime low - that's extra-nasty.
Better to make the table unambiguous. Even if it seems obvious.

This one's for Endgame... If the airplane thing doesn't work out,...maybe you could drive a Waymo car.

Maybe they'll stop making DUIs illegal

As long as they don't make alcohol illegal as a fuel.

@EndgameEnthusiast2357 is entirely consistent about laziness. He washes all his own clothes by hand and dries them using a mangle.

I never want to allow my vehicle to drive for me. All the fancy sensors + my hyper aware driving style keeps me plenty safe. Aren't most vehicles connected to WI-FI? Doesn't this mean a hacker could take control of it? I feel so safe in my vehicle when I'm the driver but my last thought is unsettling. 🤔

Current self-driving or partially self-driving cars are imperfect - making a few well-deserved headlines - but have lower accident rates than average drivers. This means that most people would be safer if they let the car drive itself. The endgame is definitely self-driving cars that are way safer than people. Ten times safer or more (perfection being the obvious target).

EDIT: looking up the latest data, Waymo cars have 80% fewer collisions and 90% fewer pedestrian impacts, so the argument is pretty much over within the relevant context. It is perfectly reasonable to extrapolate that to an inarguable general conclusion as the technology develops even further. There can be no argument in the end for tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths to please irrational people.

AND, if you want a mirror image of Elroch's materialistic/scientific/BS perspective above, as applied to FOOD consumption in general. Simply try to read "Metabolistic" (2021) by Dr. Lustig.

It reads just like this 55 thousand post thread above. Some might argue. Or not.

Entirely too many people in America drive like it's a NASCAR race. They aggressively draft from behind while tailgating, and pushing through traffic.

While in Italy, people simple tap or bump your car from behind. Giving you a wake up call to simply GET OUT OF THEIR WAY ! And let them pass.

Both techniques are nutty dangerous. Don't you think?  

Should EE's stricter licensing standards be implemented there will be more people that need the self-driving vehicles or taxis. Also, the physically handicapped, visually impaired, senile, children and others who can't drive themselves. Not to mention the drunker partyers. Others just prefer to let the vehicle do the driving so they can take care of business on their phones/laptops or just relax and avoid the stress of heavy traffic.

I've shared the streets of San Francisco with Waymos for the last few years and I have never seen one roll through a stop sign, accelerate to get through the yellow light, cut off other drivers, fail to use their turn signals, tailgate, drive well above the speed limit, drive through a crosswalk while pedestrians are crossing, lean on their horns when impatient or frustrated, of any other of the unsafe manuevers too many human drivers indulge in.

How do you suggest people whose vision is too poor to pass the eye test "earn their license"? Or someone with a debilitating condition/injury that severely limits the use of an arm or leg? Or the elderly who can no longer drive as well as they used to? Children whose parents don't them getting into taxis or Ubers driven by strangers can be assured they are safe in a Waymo. Some people who are perfectly competent drivers might prefer to use the time it takes to slog through crosstown traffic to sit in a robotaxi taking care of correspondence or their social media connections.

It's pretty ridiculous for you to rail about people being "too lazy to drive" themselves when you make your living off people who are too lazy to drive over and pick up their takeout meals.

There are also those who don't.

A confusingly disconnected post. There are no posts about food above. Also, what is a BS perspective? Bachelor of Science?

People in robotaxis don't sit in the driver's seat. Should a passenger attempt to take control of a Waymo it's programmed to shut down. Models under development, like Amazon's Zoox (currently being tested in San Francisco) have no steering wheels, brake or acceleration pedals, etc.

How are robotaxis "not the same as a cab" in an emergency? What if a taxi driver has a medical emergency and the passenger needs to take over? In your benighted fantasy, no one who cannot get a driver's license should be allowed to ride in any sort of vehicle. Should the fact that you do not have a license to fly a jetliner or drive a passenger train disqualify you from being a passenger? What if "something goes wrong"?

Yes, many elderly people are perfectly competent in most ways, but if you had any sense you would have noticed that many others are not.

i’ve seen a robotaxi before and they are interesting………