Given the dimensions of ship and ‘lane’ I described, then so long as ships turned-about at the edge of the plateau, then they could literally tack back-and-forth more than a HUNDRED times, blindfold, before the average collision. There is an immense amount of space between each vessel, and it’s a shame that the commenters on this site don’t realize such simple metrics when they claim “you’d crash into each other”—you show a lack of comprehension for the scale involved. Your claim does not stand-up when scrutinized in detail.
Will any of them admit that they were wrong, sans rebuttal? So many commenters here ghost as soon as the flaws in their argument are illuminated… It’s a demonstration of their unwillingness to admit fault, which might be related to why they like to frequent a website claiming to absolve them of error—“I must be correct, when I give hand-waving dismissals and I don’t account for the details, because I’m a regular of LessWrong.” Your site does a worse job of catching fallacious reasoning than the philosophy site I moderated 25 years ago, as a middle-schooler. You’re not less wrong than we were; you’re a huge step down in quality.
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Given the dimensions of ship and ‘lane’ I described, then so long as ships turned-about at the edge of the plateau, then they could literally tack back-and-forth more than a HUNDRED times, blindfold, before the average collision. There is an immense amount of space between each vessel, and it’s a shame that the commenters on this site don’t realize such simple metrics when they claim “you’d crash into each other”—you show a lack of comprehension for the scale involved. Your claim does not stand-up when scrutinized in detail.
Will any of them admit that they were wrong, sans rebuttal? So many commenters here ghost as soon as the flaws in their argument are illuminated… It’s a demonstration of their unwillingness to admit fault, which might be related to why they like to frequent a website claiming to absolve them of error—“I must be correct, when I give hand-waving dismissals and I don’t account for the details, because I’m a regular of LessWrong.” Your site does a worse job of catching fallacious reasoning than the philosophy site I moderated 25 years ago, as a middle-schooler. You’re not less wrong than we were; you’re a huge step down in quality.