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  • You’re not creating more stick, but you’re making the stick longer. The pressure wave in the stick will travel at the speed of sound in the stick which will be faster than sound in air, but orders of magnitude slower than light.

    Everything has some elasticity. Rigidity is an illusion . Things that feel rigid to us are rigid in human terms only.








  • Other countries get cheap medicine because their health care systems negotiate for medicine supply contracts collectively. Large numbers of buyers collectively negotiating have more buying power than individual consumers. That’s it. In both cases pharma companies are charging as much as they can given their market position. They’re not charging Americans more because other countries know how to bargain. The two aren’t connected. If they could charge others more they would, regardless of what Americans are paying.