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You can refute the assumption rather easily by not cherry-picking examples. Turtles have longer lifespan than most mammals of equivalent size. Many simpler animals have incredible lifespans (e.g. corals) or are virtually immortal (hydra). A part that is connected to lifespan is metabolic activity, but that does fully correlate either. Moreover, animals with very short lifespans simply do not have enough time to accumulate more biomass, so even theoretically there would be a limit on how big they can get. But even if we limit ourselves to a narrow group of animals, we see exceptions. Bats, for example are tiny, but some species have lifespans beyond 20 years. Considering what you wrote following that start, it does not seem that you are quite clear on what a scientific explanation is. Instead of providing literature that supports your notion you write some new-age inspired random thoughts that are based on nothing but gut feeling perhaps (and again, starting from a wrong premise, to boot).

Did someone open a large canister of nuts this week at SFN? Wow.

This is incorrect. Domestic cats and dog have the same approximate life expectancy: 10-20 years, depending on breed. Bears and giraffes both have an average life expectancy between 20 and 30 years - the giraffe being on the lower side. Humans may live 70-100 years, given hospitable environment. "Fizzling out" is not, AFAIK, a scientific principle. A little more time at the drawing-board may be advisable.

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Interesting idea +1 But why stop at government buyout ? Other bodies can also be involved, and are in the UK. On the other hand in the UK, there has been a debate for a couple of decades now about the folly of the authorities, not just permitting, but actively encouraging development on flood plains. I was told today that the storm surge up the river Medway reached 1.7 metres above the predicted storm surge, causing substantial damage and flooding in North Kent. This would not have happened if the Thames Barrier has not been closed, so surge water that would normally have reached far up the Thames was prevented fro doing so and flooded the Medway area instead. On the other hand, the Dutch authorities seem to manage things pretty well. Finally, have your read the book The Attacking Ocean, by Professor Brian Fagan, on the historic follies of trying to hold back the floods ?

I've wondered if government funds would be better spent buying out people on low lying land than on dealing with disaster remediation, infrastructure repair, berms, etc. I have had forehead slapping moments as I've watched such neighborhoods in the US furiously at work rebuilding neighborhoods that are just going to face the same nightmare all over again in a few years. Both governments and private insurers need to find ways to discourage this idiocy.

I hope you know that, just like so many other "quotes" from Einstein, Einstein never said that. Einsteins insanity quote (alternatememories.com)

OK, to show good faith I'll answer again (in the dim hope that you'll do the same); BTW, you not liking my answer, doesn't mean it's not an answer. No, I wouldn't refuse all attempts to extract information and yes I would draw the line at torture, because no matter how small can't be calculated (unless you can provide the numbers). How do you know the sandwhich and cup of tea has failed? (because no matter how small can't be calculated (unless you can provide the numbers).) How does one pretend to be philosophical? Now that I have answered you in good faith, it's your turn (he asks knowing the answer, does that make me insane?)

It's not surprising as they are assessing different things: 2 looked at warfarin for thromboembolism (surprised this was still being looked at in 2003), 1 at warfarin risk of arthritis and 2 at particular dosing regimens for peri-operative care in high risk populations. You'll be hard pressed to find many such studies as its deemed unethical to have no-treatment controls when there is a known viable treatment. To find such you'll have to look at some very old studies, maybe the clinical trial data submitted to the FDA in the first instance. But what do you actually want to know? This statement makes it seem like you are interested in the role of dietary vitamin K and DVT. If this is the case, pursuing the warfarin literature (though it might be where you got your initial idea, and have implications for it) is a red herring. Isolate the precise clinical question you want to answer, something like does increased vitamin K increase risk of DVT? If so, what is the likely causal mechanism? Restrict your question to as few variables as possible: once you have a handle on that, you might consider another variable and so on...

Love it. The two stories I'm thinking about most right now? That Russian tank that swerved to crush that civilian vehicle, and how the tough old man survived while his fellow Ukrainians helped free him from the crushed wreckage. I'm juxtaposing that with a story I heard about what the Ukrainians are doing to Russian soldiers they've captured. They're encouraging them to phone their families and friends back in Russia. "Let them know that you're safe and unharmed, because your loved ones must all be freaking out that you were fighting and now you're captured, right?" These are the kinds of things Putin can't stand up to. Right isn't always in might's corner.

Kyiv vs Moscow, since 996 A.D.

"The difference between a drug and a poison is the dose" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison

I may not be a GR giant, nor a physics giant, but I really find that hard to accept and believe in these days of giant particle accelerators etc. On your overall claims re universe or rulers shrinking, GR did originally tell us that the universe was dynamic, that is expanding or contraction. Nothing about atoms, planets, solar systems, galactic groups shrinking, just that the universe was expanding or contracting. Hubble not long after solved that for Albert with cosmological redshift and expansion. While expansion is only over large scales, and gravity decouples that expansion over galactic group scales, the other three forces also do a job in maintaining a planet stay solid, a body stays in one piece as is, and atoms molecules etc also hold their positions, that is the EMF, strong and weak nuclei forces.

strontium has been banned as a sockpuppet of Ragingmoron. This was not in evasion of a ban.

I have to hand it to you guys and applaud your persistence in ignoring, deflecting, creating strawman arguments, and continuing to make misleading statements in a convincing manner. I take my hat off to you, that is a skill - you'd make very good politicians, I hear Klaus Schwab is looking. beecee is a prime example of this, ever keen to keep pushing the false notion that covid19 vaccines are safe and effective despite me pointing out on many occasions that this is incorrect - how can any vaccine or drug be claimed to be effective, with any shred of honesty, when it is still in it's trial phase, and when the vaccine / drug company / medical authority refuses to release all the data? The Pfizer covid19 vaccine's phase III trial doesn't finish until March 2023. I think it's time to stop flogging a dead horse. I thank you for opening my eyes to the realisation that some people are wedded to a particular narrative, cannot think outside the box, and will stick to that narrative regardless. With that I will take my leave and wish you all well.

It's not certainty in what I believe old friend, its certainty in certain events. Your question has been answered, and really your rhetoric to avoid appearing hypocritical, is not really working. Again your question has been answered, and there's no way I will be forced at your coercion to answer it again. The shoe's on the other foot now dimmy. Wrong old mate, again. Either way, success or failure, there is only morally one course of action, as I have explained and linked to various summaries many times. That is when all avenues to extract information that will potentially save thousands of human lives, then it is morally acceptable to use torture in such extraordinary events.

How about instead of removing that third post you quote it and explain why you think it's incorrect? Idk how much time you had on the problem but y was 12 and x was 52+½. STV needed to be 90°; 90°-66°=T=24. & STD=180° && D=180-(66+44)=108 &&& x=(48+9)-(108/24)=52½ &&&& y=½T=12 &&&&& f(b(C))=slope(x/y)=12/52.5=0.22857142857

Are there advanced civilisations on other planets?

you say cats live longer than dogs, but thats just nitpicking. on principle, the bigger the animal, the longer it lives. otherwise trees would have a lower longetevity than cats, which would never be the case. not trying to be pert or cheeky, jussayin.

You sound like a big fat black lady