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Perhaps they don't think we're ready, or they're still trying to figure out an interface through which they can communicate with us. How do you communicate effectively with a species that reacts to you with violence and fear? (fight or flight) How do you communicate with an intelligent species that has never encountered extraterrestrials before? One possible answer is the ETs are simply making themselves known. Dr. Jacques Valleé, a leading researcher of the ufo phenomenon, has suggested that the current revelation of ufos with greater and greater frequency could be an intentional form of mass collective conditioning. In short: we are in a preparation stage. The ETs come into our atmosphere, elude our fighter pilots with aplomb, and disappear. Message: We're more technologically advanced than you but are not choosing to hurt you. You don't have to be afraid, and should not attempt to attack is. Such attempts are futile. They continue to show up, seemingly at random, and allow themselves to be periodically witnessed. Slowly but surely the idea of their presence is less and less frightening or taboo in human consciousness. The problems of societal panic and collapse are circumvented. No sudden moves. As a side note, Arthur C. Clarke explored this idea in his classic novel: Childhood's End. @Moontanman You will recall from the film "The Phenomenon" that the schoolchildren who claimed to have interacted with physical alien beings in Zimbabwe in 1994 said they received telepathic messages. This would indicate that the ETs do not communicate verbally as we do. Obviously this poses a major problem for establishing an interface of direct communication, especially since human beings like to "shoot first, and ask questions later".

Vaccinated folks are less likely to get infected from the virus in the first place, and even if infected they overall viral load tends to be lower. I.e. they produce fewer particles and the overall (population-wide) reservoir of viruses that could mutate is lower.

I have addressed the issues for the most part above already but I can give a more detailed breakdown for clarity. Overall I do not think that the tweet is well informed (but then so are most, I guess). 1) the mRNA in the vaccine is fragile and we know that it degrades over time. In the Pfizer report we see that the test mRNA they used vanished from the liver within 48 hours. In other words, if we expect effects due to the mRNA, they would need to happen before that time frame, and likely need to involve a higher accumulation than in the liver (as liver inflammation does not seem to be a major issue). 2) it can be expected that the LNP and their load seep out from the injection site, and typically eventually reach the liver. Over time, they would be metabolized and eliminated from the body. The Tweet seem to claim that the liver values are stable but that is not necessarily what we expected. Rather we have steady state situation where elimination is balanced with additional accumulation (i.e. likely the liver is doing its work). In fact, between say hour 2 and 48 h we see a loss of ~30% of the total signal. I.e. even if distributions shift, the total levels will obviously go down, rather than up. As such, very long term effects are unlikely to happen due to accumulation of stuff. If anything happens it is more likely due to something stupid our immune system is doing that could affect the body long-term. 3) We see that much of the short-term accumulation happens in the liver (which again, does most of the lipid metabolism) but also spleen (same reason), each of which have about double the concentration than ovaries. The other site to look for for short-term effects (again the mRNA is gone pat 48 hours) could be e.g. also adrenal glands, where quite a bit accumulates in the 24 hours but I have not seen reports that indicate issues here (again, the issue with endpoints, I outlined above). 4) The kinetics are likely going to be different. The rats got a 50 ug dose whereas the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is about 30 ug (IIRC). Given that the average human weighs about 240 times more, the elimination is likely going to be faster. There are a couple of other points I could point out, but I hope that this explains most of it (and let me know if something is unclear (as often I am in a rush and did not proofread it properly).

The conserved quantities are certain properties of particles or systems - such as linear and angular momentum, and energy. Not spacetime. (also, mass is not a conserved quantity. This is the invariant mass, not the so-called relativistic mass, which is a proxy for energy) The symmetries involve whatever spacetime symmetry you are looking at - translation in space (momentum), translation in time (energy) and rotation (angular momentum).

Hal Clement wrote a short story dealing with telepathic aliens communicating with Human. The basic outline was a spaceship containing renegades from their own race, has to do a forced landing on Earth. They are a telepathic race. They land in a remote place where they contact a single human, and they spend a good time learning how to read and interact with his mind. (The idea being that once they learn to do this they can use it to control all humans. And their plans were not good. Once they succeed with this one person, they try and implement their plan, only to have it fail. The problem was, that Humans, not being a naturally telepathic race, had thought patterns that varied from individual to individual. The mental link they had formed with the one human didn't translate into forming it with any others.

Well you don't need a fancy laboratory or to spend lots of money. Although you haven't given us much to go on, I hope you already have lots of enthusiasm and an enquiring mind. Chemistry is fun and is about stuff and how it interacts with other stuff. And there is lots of stuff all around you to play experiment with. Starch, paper, soil, oil, water, iodine, air, calor gas, leaves................................... You can start to look at why some are solid, some are liquid, some are gas and some are something in between (eg waxes). What happens when you mix things; sometimes there are changes sometimes not. And some changes are big and/or fast (combustion) some are small and/or slow (staining, corrosion, rusting) I said paper because 'chromatography' - look it up and find out what it means - is a very important technique (Covid lateral flow test) is a very important chemical technique that allow you to do some chemical analysis. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chromatography-be-a-color-detective/ Electrochemistry is another area for experimenting and finding out, as exchemist has already mentioned. Also growing crystals can be great fun and many suitable chemicals can be obtained from a chemist and kept in clean household jamjars. Some simple (and cheap) instruments might be a pH (acidity) meter (from a fish tank supplier) a Thermometer, a multimeter and a simple U- tube pressure gauge (manometer). Judging from the time of your posting you could be in the bush or outback or other remote place. Also not sure what skills your dad has to help.

I agree with @chenbeierthat you need to learn at school. There is not a lot of point in just starting practical work if you don't really understand what you are doing. Having said that, it is fun to do simple things at home to supplement what you learn at school. Learning about acids and bases is a good starting point, with immediate application domestically. (Even little things like when you wash out a bowl that has had red fruit in it, the colour changes from red to purple, if you live in a hard water area, or how baking powder, or oven cleaner, works.). A bit of electrochemistry can also be fun. You can make a battery from copper and zinc rods and a lemon, or a potato. With a low voltage DC electricity supply, e.g. from a train set, you can electrolyse various solutions and see what you get. I would also recommend that you read up a bit about the types of chemical bonding before you start anything. You need to understand the difference between ionic and covalent bonding, and between molecules and giant structures, before you can get vary far. And you ought to have a good look at the Periodic Table and see where the various chemical elements that you come across appear and what sort of properties they have.

I chose "Another planetary system". However, my personal beliefs are as follows: 1, Life most likely exists elsewhere in the observable universe, though technological life is most likely extremely rare. 2, There is no reason to assume UAP's/UFO's are anything as fanciful as aliens visitations, and most likely not. 3, Space is so vast and the odds of simultaneous existence so low, even if technological life did exist elsewhere, then the likelihood of communication between any from differing star systems is pretty much zero 4, If technological advanced intelligence exists then we have absolutely no way of even contemplating what it looked like, or what, if any, its intentions might be. 5, It's possible we (humans) are the only technological intelligence in the galaxy. Its also possible that if we continue to advance technology and also manage to survive long enough we may spread out across our galaxy. However Its my personal belief is that our A.I development will attain the singularity that some predict and that this will then become the dominant intelligence capable of interstellar migration and occupation (assuming this becomes one of its goals). Obviously all this is speculation and just my personal beliefs based on what I currently know or understand. Out of all the possible answers to chose from in the poll, I felt this was the most likely of the options.

Better is to go to a school for chemistry instead to do Experiments at home. I think it will be difficult to get chemicals for normal persons anyway.

Laboratory gllassware i.e. beakers, flasks, condensers. Entire starter kit set will cost couple hundred USD. Vacuum pump costs ~ $500. Here you have the list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_glassware You should read methods of separation to learn what equipment you will need: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_process

The principle of teleportation uses quantum entanglement. Mathematically, to be upstream of the source, that is to say the singularity, is intersserant insofar as one breaks the laws of the celerity of the light during the measurements of the entangled pairs, due to the distance which separates them thereafter. Remember that you are only allowed one measure of the entangled pair. The question is whether a superluminal teleportation is possible by the 'unknown mechanism' of the information transfer of the entangled pairs. See EPR paradox - Wikipedia and Inégalités de Bell — Wikipédia Bell's theorem - Wikipedia

If you go to https://theconversation.com/concerned-about-the-latest-astrazeneca-news-these-3-graphics-help-you-make-sense-of-the-risk-162175 and scroll down about 2/3 of the way, you will find the exact cite given in the article. It's the 2019 version of the links you've shown. If it is not specific enough it's not iNow's fault. Blame the author of the article. (all I did was add "TTS blood clot" to the search to find the article)

What are you expecting? discussion of quantum physics? Pheromones' were used to influence the ants behaviors. I can't find the specific article so I'll withdraw the claim, I apologise.

This I understood, thats why I created the analogies, why it would be difficult to communicate with a significatly more intelligent and advanced extraterestial entity, even the interest is there from both party.

Why any advanced civilisation would wanna communicate anything to a civilisation which can not even speak the same universal math they do. Like someone would expect from Einstein to repeatedly explain on different channels the theory of Relativity to a streptococcus bacteria.

Actually, we are debating the cause of a novel situation relating to lipid nanoparticles, mRNA, and immune thrombocytopenia about which there isn't much literature. Pretty important, if you ask me, if we're to ensure the utmost safety and efficacy of the COVID vaccine moving forward. Perhaps you might offer some meaningful information pertaining to this issue at some point. Correction: Lipid nano particles were only approved in 2018. Interesting, thanks. So as to this point: Blood clots do not seem to be different between unvaccinated and Pfizer/Moderna vaccinated folks, but seem elevated in certain population subsets in AstraZeneca vaccines, which is likely to related to the adenovirus used (there have been reports in the past for issues with certain adenovirus-based vaccines, but I am not sure what they were in detail and in any case, they are not related to mRNA-based vaccines such as Pfizer/BioNTech. In your view, what about this adenovirus might be causing the blood clot issue in the AZ vaccine? Also, I noted that Australia and now the UK have advised young people against getting the AZ vaccine. (I believe under 30s in the UK and under 50s in Australia have been advised against AZ, according to the latest news. Is that cautionary measure justified, in your opinion?

Due to the extrem extent of space, I voted another planetary system. In my opinion life is quite common in the universe, considering that every sun has a habitable zone, during their entire lifespan. I think there might be billions of intelligent life’s out there with different levels of evolution. type 0 = 99.999999999…9% type 1 = 00.0000000000…4% type 2 = 00.0000000000…3% type 3 = 00.0000000000…2% type 4 = 00.0000000000…1% I think distance (Space) with time can be conquered, by the help of Science, so an aged, matured, advanced intelligent life form could be able to pay us a visit.

BTW Russia has Kirov class battlecruiser which has a displacement of 20,000 t, roughly the same as earliest dreadnaughts. Remember that during ww2 the Yamato required aircraft from 5 carriers and 11 torpedoes to be sunk. And it was all alone without air cover or any other kind of ship around What do you think of something like this? Alexander Kolchak class battleship Displacement: 50,000 t armament - 4x 380 mm L/55 smoothbore gun, autoloader, guided shells with radar, laser or TV guidance - 6x 127 mm L/55 smoothbore gun - 8x CIWS - 144x guided missile cells - nuclear propulsion - active and passive sonar - AESA?PESA radar 500+ km range - 1x helicopter, 4x recon/ASW/EW drones -

Hehehe

Yeah, you're a peach.

Well following the same logic, (using a sample size of one) I could judge all Americans as rude and ignorant. You are lucky enough to have the right and the resources (unlike many in this world) to receive the vaccine or to reject it. Make your choice and shut the f up about it.

Nonsense. I see tremendous beauty and feel an immeasurable sense of awe at the cosmos… and all without believing in silly human fairy tales and myths. Why do you keep posting such tripe? It’s not, though. If you’re not intentionally arguing against strawmen, then you’re showing your ignorance and lack of valid understanding of the perspective of others.

Your opinion on what is plausible is of no interest to me, what the medical community has to say is of interest. You see I am of the opinion that when you want to have the best most up to date information you should consult the experts in that field. What a concept, huh?

Even if so, it's moving the goal posts. I was discussing our understanding of safety and risk. Now Alex is referring to date of first government level approval for widespread human use (which itself only comes after many years of data and study).

Either make an argument or don't spam the thread.

The medical community.

We’ve been studying mRNA vaccines since 1989. The safety and risk is quite well understood, even if not by you personally.

Given your neg rep to me and disregard for the thoughtful answers already provided, I’m unconvinced you truly are all ears.

. Because ... an atheist is one ... who knows only a part of reality. He only knows the ugly part of reality, hence his pilgrimage; his adventure towards God ... ceased ... or probably didn't even started ... . And if God is perfect ... he cannot create any kind of ugliness ... hence God doesn't exist ... . This is the reasoning of a so-called atheist ... . However, he totally misses the fact ... that ... the other part of reality permits the existence of the ugliness ... . Futhermore ... with the other part of reality ... ugliness can be transformed to beauty ... . This other part of reality ... is the inner light ... that every human being carries within him ... . Certainly, with the presence of Light ... you totally miss darkness ... but that's just a consequence. With Light ... or ... with a higher state of consciousness ... you are aware ... about the existence of lower states of consciousness. . For example ... an intelligent man easily identifies a mediocre. But a mediocre cannot identify an intelligent man ... . And this inner light can be discovered through meditation ... . An atheist is not a meditator ... . Otherwise he could have discovered the fact ... that ... God is within us. . Karl Marx was not a meditator ... . Yes ... the ... Theological God does not exist ... It's a Myth ... . But it doesn't mean that Life has no meaning ... because of this fact ... on the contrary. . If God as a judge existed ... sitting in Heaven ... then ... Man's Life would be condemned ... with no freedom ... . But Man has freedom ... precisely ... because he can turn to a God ... . He is just a seed ... ready ... to blossom to a God. . He is just a potencial. He is not complete yet ... he is just a process. . And ... the key ... is meditation.