You_Yew_Ewe

You_Yew_Ewe t1_jdnze2x wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in If earth was a smooth sphere, which direction would water flow when placed on the surface? by Axial-Precession

The magnitude of earth's gravity varies [pretty haphazardly across the globe](https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-06/esa-satellite-maps-earths-gravity-3-d/). It's not closely correlated with the equator.

Maybe you mean because of the sum of gravity and centrifugal force makes means the mass has less weight?

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You_Yew_Ewe t1_j8lznxl wrote

Reply to comment by Atypicalicious in Once manufacturing moves almost entirely into space and the workers want drugs, gambling and prostitution and wanted criminals on Earth can escape to space, the solar system away from gravity wells will become largely lawless. Who will do the policing and how? by [deleted]

If you think that the situation in the Tenderloin or Skid Row is the typical state of things in the U.S. you either need to get out more or are not thinking very clearly.

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You_Yew_Ewe t1_j8lycng wrote

Reply to comment by Atypicalicious in Once manufacturing moves almost entirely into space and the workers want drugs, gambling and prostitution and wanted criminals on Earth can escape to space, the solar system away from gravity wells will become largely lawless. Who will do the policing and how? by [deleted]

What country do you live in?

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I live in the U.S.

I live in a "high crime" neighborhood in the U.S. in fact.

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I have travelled to third world countries where a *lot* more crime happens. And even there people don't just "let crime happen", there are laws and police and it's still a lot more functional than very few places that actually have no functional police force (Haiti is an example right now.)

And even compared to them my high crime neighborhood is highly ordered. Have you traveled much? Because if you live in a first world country and you think it is lawless, and people just let crime happen, you are in for a real shock at how bad things can get. If you live anywhere at U.S. levels of crime or better, you have it really good.

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