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Poor Forest management practices, obviously Kidding aside, given we can’t even get 50% of the population to take an obviously safe and effective vaccine or even just wear masks during a global pandemic, I’m not sure how we stop this. It’s as if in the movie Independence Day 50% if people pretended that aliens were a liberal hoax to take away their liberties

If you can give us your location, someone will contact law enforcement and a rescue will be effected. Can you tell if your captor, who bound you to the chair and put in the cervical restraint and eyelid clamps that forced you to read the thread, has you in a fortified underground bunker? This may affect your waiting time.

I'm reminded of Douglas Adams snippet in Salmon of Doubt:

You seem to be mixing MO theory with Valence Bond (VB) theory. The concept of hybridisation, e.g. sp3, comes from VB theory, not MO theory. In MO theory, you would represent F2 as shown in this link: https://www.chemtube3d.com/orbitalsfluorine/ Note that each pair of atomic orbitals combines to give a new pair of MOs and that, in most of these pairs, both the bonding and antibonding MOs are populated with electrons, leading to no net bonding. The overall result is equivalent to a single 2-electron sigma bond. (I only found this website today. I think it is quite cool. You can click the buttons to see the shape of the electron cloud due to each MO.🙂)

It could be infinite. The 96blyr figure is just how far light can travel from out there to the earth before the universal expansion is too fast to reach us. This is what we call the 'observable universe'. We generally don't receive any information outside our observable sphere in any given moment, but the sphere does increase in size, so we gather more information eventually.

The thread topic seems rather trivial until you consider that "possibility", much like the set theory problem above, is really a non-referential linguistic operation that describes our use of language rather than any particular referent or experience except the experience of using language. A statement of possibility describes a hypothetical validity rather than a factual validity because it pertains to the unknown, but as the unknown becomes known then the hypothetical possibilities narrow toward the factual reality. Thus "possibility" pertains to knowledge rather than reality. Even your set theory problem makes more sense after considering that "sets" are a useful product of psychology and language rather than empirical investigation of the world, and insofar that a set is imaginary a set is free to produce the sorts of contradictions that are necessary to guide a logical operation toward its appropriate conclusion. err "factual *veracity*", not "validity" A good analogy is a wrench that doesn't fit any bolts. The wrench still exists, it just doesn't work. If my cult happened to worship that mis-shapen wrench, however, that wrench would suddenly become an important aspect of my world in the minds of myself and culties. 😋

Yes and no. Yes this is the principle of the magnetic impellor in a central heating pump. No you can't get something for nothing. You would need sufficient current to be flowing in the cabling for the magnetic coupling.

The truth of the matter is that reality would not be that tight a tissue. It does not hesitate until you take the most shocking phenomena or dismiss our own imagination's most possible figures. Perception isn't a science; it's not an act, it's not an intentional takeover; it's the context from which all actions come and are meant to emerge. Hhhmm ??

I think this is a stupid idea which, I guess, means it's likely that it is a stupid idea. On the other hand, I can imagine lightning is actually Zeus throwing lightning bolts from the clouds, which seems unlikely to me. "I think, therefore I yam what I yam"... - Popeye.

I can imagine myself lifting a rhino. Or seeing my son being born again. How can that be possible to do in reality?

I personally believe that anything imagined is possible. If you think about it we generalize information based on how our minds perceive the situation and classify it in a common group. For example language it is a human way of communicating but there isn't a wrong way of speaking we just view anything out of the ordinary as unusual and doesn't fit in out category of information understood.