You have Mars set to 4.8685e24 kg, but it should be 6.4171e23 kg.
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#112I never knew Halley’s Comet was heavier than 6e10 grizzly bears
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#113I quite enjoyed that. Few (hopefully helpful) bits of feedback: 1) Would be nicer if it wasn't just an endless list of question cards. Maybe have new ones sliding in on the right, with answered ones going off to the left. 2) Visually separate the question, your answer, the correct/incorrect answer and the explanation. 3) Scores! How many right, how many in a right in a row, how did your guess compare with others etc…
came here to add some similar feedback. while all aren't necessary, giving a visual clue when you get a correct and wrong answer its
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#114This is fun! I don't know if this would make it too easy, but it would be helpful to have the numbers in scientific notation (like 1.6e12), at least as an option. It would make it much easier to read for the larger ones.
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#115I feel like modern statistics has taught me that no matter how big you think the moon is, when you have 3 quadrillion of something....
the moon weighs more than 3 quadrillion of the rockets that we used to get there.
space is big, human brains are small
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#116I feel like modern statistics has taught me that no matter how big you think the moon is, when you have 3 quadrillion of something.... the moon weighs more than 3 quadrillion of the rockets that we used to get there. space is big, human brains are small
3 quadrillion Saturn 5 rockets would be more than it would take to cover the surface of earth (standing up) - but would have less mass than the moon.
Sorry- this question blew my mind.
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#117My friends and I always talk about how big a social problem scale-blindness is, so this is awesome! Suggestions: 1. Show progress towards some fixed number of questions so you can see your score at the end so you can see how well-calibrated you are and compare with friends. 2. Add other things than weight, so people can get calibrated for other things too. Time. Probability. Money. Risk of death. Deaths (in war or fr…
What is scale-blindness and how big a social problem is it?
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#118> a space shuttle weighed 2,040,000kg
It's common sense that a space shuttle would be heavy, but this heavy? The thrust needed to lift the damn thing must be weight x 9.8m/s^2 = 19,992,000 Newtons.
Why can't it be lighter?
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#119My friends and I always talk about how big a social problem scale-blindness is, so this is awesome! Suggestions: 1. Show progress towards some fixed number of questions so you can see your score at the end so you can see how well-calibrated you are and compare with friends. 2. Add other things than weight, so people can get calibrated for other things too. Time. Probability. Money. Risk of death. Deaths (in war or fr…
What is scale-blindness and how big a social problem is it?
It is hard for humans to visualize in their heads the difference between 1 billion and 10 billion. Our brains weren't created to think of such massive amounts of objects. I don't think it is too big of a social problem though.
It's probably because cavemen had to carry 10 rocks at a time, 15 max. We didn't have to use such large numbers until recently in human history.
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#120> a space shuttle weighed 2,040,000kg It's common sense that a space shuttle would be heavy, but this heavy? The thrust needed to lift the damn thing must be weight x 9.8m/s^2 = 19,992,000 Newtons. Why can't it be lighter?
I think the weight listed in the game is for the shuttle, boosters, and a full load of fuel