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Originally Posted by Vexx
As long as you remember that "common sense" used to be "well, the crops failed because she's a witch!! Burn her!!" or "Well, of course the Earth is flat - can't you see?"
That "simple perception" often precludes the "sound and prudent".
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It actually sounds better if the "common sense" wise old people use in their sentences is replaced with "logically speaking" - doing so would make me not want to support the "Gas Geriatrics Group". "Common sense" has become a rhetoric that we don't use its underlying concepts of "logic" and "discovery of detail" anymore.
The term has become a cliche like "reality" that "nonsense" has become synonymous with them. How is it "common sense" to spend all your savings on investments so you can have a chance to beat inflation in the future?
Jounalism fail at its best :
Jaw-dropping video: iPad survives fall from outer space
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The high-definition video shows the iPad falling from a height of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters), with the blackness of space and the bright curve of Earth providing a stunning backdrop. The device free-falls all the way back to Earth to make a crash landing on a rocky Nevada hillside.
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Outer space begins at the Karman line, which iS 100
KILOMETRES (100,000
METRES) from the surface, not 100,000
FEET. Secondly, at outer space, the density of particles is so low that it is almost impossible to float the balloon there - fluid mechanics is almost inapplicable.