Are you kidding me? Sideways scroll with no way to use my scroll wheel? It's choppy and unreadable scrolling using the scrollbar, and using the right arrow is just too slow.
Sorry you have a shitty computer, or OS, or both.
If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel
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#12I feel like it's not the vastness we can't comprehend, it's the relation between such "tiny" planets and such big distances that's hard to grasp. You can't zoom out or else you stop seeing the planets, you can't zoom in or else the map gets even larger.
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#14I cheated :)
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#15Nit: kM -> km; meters are abbreviated 'm', usually.
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#161. Nice.
2. Obligatory question - how many working hours were just lost?
3. Why on earth would you use capital M for meters? I really hope I will not look really dumb in a minute, but I immediately knew something was wrong, but it actually took my quite some time to recognize it.
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#17Nice way to see that my computer monitor is very dirty.
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#18Are you kidding me? Sideways scroll with no way to use my scroll wheel? It's choppy and unreadable scrolling using the scrollbar, and using the right arrow is just too slow.
I think it was designed for a Macbook's excellent trackpad. That said, I can see how it would be really difficult to scroll without one.
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#19"were". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood
But this should not use the subjunctive, because he has indeed drawn an image using the scale of the Moon being one pixel wide. This shows it's possible, and hence the subjunctive is inappropriate.
That's not really correct. Even if we assume that this is no longer a hypothetical/counterfactual case, then the correct grammar is to use the present tense ("This is the moon as one pixel"). But, in this case, it still is counterfactual. This is really short for "If the moon were only [the size of] a single pixel", a statement which we know is not correct.
You're probably confusing this with the rule surrounding verifiable facts (ie, "I asked John if he was happy").
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#20Are you kidding me? Sideways scroll with no way to use my scroll wheel? It's choppy and unreadable scrolling using the scrollbar, and using the right arrow is just too slow.
I just clicked and held the middle mouse button to move to the right smoothly.