With air resistance, the cow needs about 0.01% of the sun's total energy output over a period of about 300ns to reach the edge of the atmosphere with enough velocity to go round the moon. This amount of energy is going to turn your cow into plasma very very quickly.

Including air-resistance is complicated but in vacuum, the cow would have to suffer an acceleration of about 62x10^6 ms^2. Or ~6m G. Which is going to result in meat paste.

Originally it was whether or not a cow could jump over the moon. I have a whole Jupyter notebook with the calculations. There were many simplifications (including a spherically symmetric cow with 100cm legs).

I would imagine that once you’ve included staff, marketing costs, the absolutely submicroscopic market of people who will pay £11k for an Ethernet cable etc, the business just about breaks even. Such is the way of things in the world.

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Weird. I find that my web browsing is also amber and nutty when I connect my computer to the router with a gold Ethernet cable. I’ve checked out the ones and zeros and they too have a velvety subtexture.

There’s no diminishing returns for digital cables. The $2 Ethernet cable is functionally identical to the $11,000 one.

The best music doesn’t require high fidelity ears (or indeed high fidelity anything). I’d rather listen to things I enjoy on compressed MP3 through earbuds than something I don’t like through a 400k sound system.

Yes, HDMI is also a fully digital protocol. The cheapest one from Amazon is just as good.

I like analogue audio a lot (e.g vacuum tube hand wires guitar amplifier, stupidly expensive hand made guitars and good cables to connect them) but this is properly nuts. Lovely article though.

It's sort of two different problems. Investment in school mathematics moves the whole distribution to the right which is a worthy goal in itself. A more mathematically literate population is a good thing. Investment in postgrad and above generates innovation which is an engine of growth.

Of course bands will have to move proportionally too.

There are two things going on here. The first is the valuation of the property and the second is the rate applied to that valuation. We could revalue all properties, proportionally reduce the rates in each band and we are done. Revenue and cost neutral.

Nocent Smoothies.

Trauma zone BBC IPlayer. You won’t regret it.

Yes, heard that in the oil/gas sector but in that case they really are delivering molecules whereas nobody is delivering electrons. It’s just pedantry but it’s a hill I would die on.