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I think they look cute. But I still don't think any of this really counts as a wheel.

Topological insulators Quantum computing High-precision tests of the standard model (not science-spectacular, but extremely important) Neutrino physics (flavour-changing neutrinos) Observational cosmology (gravitational waves, supermassive BHs, accelerated expansion, exoplanets, etc.) Negative tests of proton decay (negative-result test are extremely important) Non-linear optics And the list goes on... As to other sciences, Ancient DNA Gene therapy Stem-cell therapy Ribozymes Cloning techniques And the list goes on... I think it's the other way around: It's very hard to keep up, really. It's because we're piggybacking on the shoulders of giant breakthroughs that it's so hard to tell how fast we're going --relativistic metaphor-- and even harder to relate the information in order to get a glimpse of any kind of big picture. I think there hasn't been a major change of paradigm, and that's easy to be misinterpreted as no advance. Whether these major advances will coalesce into a paradigm shift is neither certain, nor necessarily the case to be expected.

Really? Nothing new since 1973?

Police in Albuquerque New Mexico have arrested a disgruntled Republican party candidate in connection with a recent spate of six targeted shootings aimed at the homes and offices belonging to Democratic party state officials and politicians in New Mexico. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSzIkNz_CMM Solomon Pena - the suspect now in custody - was an unsuccessful Republican nominee for a seat in the 14th District state legislature election in which he was comfortably beaten by the Democratic incumbent. Police have now linked him to four of the six shooting attacks that took place last December and January. They say there is firm evidence Pena carried out one shooting himself, and hired other parties to carry out another three. According to reports, Solomon Pena already had 19 prior felony convictions for burglary, larceny, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and receiving stolen property, and had spent seven years in prison before becoming a Republican nominee.

Apo(gee] and perigee _refer_ (to an) orbit (=around) //Earth// (while?) aphelion (and__) perihelion ..&refer**.. (to_an!) orbit around ((Sun---))

No, you learn it from the truth table for "therefore". There is a reason for it though, more of a convention.

! Moderator Note You’re missing the point. This isn’t your blog, and there isn’t a “share your stories” section. There should not be a “next time”

I think they should contribute to the cost of their accommodation .They are having far too good a time. Same goes for tobogganing penguins.

The seeds are alive, and they travel on "wheels"

It did. Example: tortoise.

Vagueness, vagueness everywhere, nor any prop to think! --Rime of the Ancient Physicist

I came up with some bizarre suggestions on the subject of global warming, would like to share them here. I did some research on this subject and it appears to me the solution to global warming might be a simple equation. Apparantly Carbon dioxide, a prime global warming institute, when combined with carbonates, (a secondary compound) gives you Bicarbonates (a family friendly, organic, tree hugger of a compound.) So basically, build factories near the sea, dispose of carbon dioxide into the ocean (where carbonates the compound is found is bushels) and whoosh, the carbon dioxide enters the surface of the sea but gets no further. It does not, as some have suggested, re enter the atmospehere. It meets a tardy bunch of carbonates (which are widely prevalent underwater, as a result of undersea organic reactions in their myriad forms) and carbon dioxide forms bicarbonates overnight as it were. As stated earlier, these carbonates are harmless non toxic envioronmentally friendly compounds.

"bad physics"...it was a sc fi story!! "I’ve got a bridge I want to sell you"...oooh i see you're still an unbeliever, you are one of those fellows in the new testament "ye verily even if they brought back a dead relative from hades they wouldnt beelive in the kingdom of god" ...no changing a closed mind. " That was Star Wars, not Shaolin. " Why nitpick

Well, we still don't have a warp drive. Physics has already stagnated for the last half century (because of relativity, IMO), but there's certainly plenty more out there to be discovered.

Where are we headed? To answer this question, its important to consider the obvious facts: history revolves in circles. The cosmic equation, if there were one, is inclined to go round and round like a merrygoround. In other words, what has happened before must happen again and again and again. Come now, it is surely not a far fetched supposition, that, swansont etc. Does the bee not buzz repetitively? Do humans not reproduce, and die, then live, and die again in that order, eternally? 'Course they do. And that manifestation of cyclic rebirth and death, of a myriad forms of existence, is surely a big player in the question of 'where is the universe headed?' I reckon we've been going round and round like that merry go round ever since the big bang happened. WW2 for instance, was WW1 incarnate in a different time space continuum, as it were. WW3, well it's around the corner, very likely, going by what's happening in Russia. The crimea, the boer war, the medivial wars, all were fought again and again. Only the weaponry were more advanced with every successive war. The sticks and stones gave way to the biplanes and triplanes, which gave way to the dogfights with supersonic jets in the modern era. The world, history, travels in circles. Round and round. To discern where we are headed, look to the past. Where were we once upon a time? As far as the generalities go, we were always where we were. Therefore the basic goals of humanity have always been the same, will always be the same.

when you say 'familiar with'....are you a shaolin master yourself? Or alternatively, are you in possession of the full repertoire of the Shaolin Monk Ethos? Unless you are, its unlikely you could say offhand, as a casual observer, what those freaks are capable of. Ive seen videos and I'm pretty sure they can in fact levitate their powers are vested in them by virture of "being one with the cosmic energy" something like that. I mean, Jesus could levitate because he was full of the holy spirit. Shaolin Monkeying is similar in a sense, they are possessed by the spirit of the Force, and as such their powers are beyond the beleivable, the rational.

Jesus, an example of They That Could Do Extraordinary stuff. Just an example, or Sai Baba, or Moses, if you prefer it. All these fellows could levitate because they were "on the Force" or 'possessed by the holy spirit" or "demon possessed".. And that brings us to the definition of "demon possessed"....parallel dimesnions might have the solution. If there are parallel dimensions overlapping these dimensions, then surely there must be a manifestation of that occurence on the physical plain, like people developing special powers...on that note didn't einstein say each successive dimension controls the next one? in which case, the previous dimension overlapping this one at intervals, would manifest in out of the ordinary abilities in the denizens it possesses.

oh aright i was just guessing with that one but that aside, back to the shaoulin monk topic..shaoulin monks do have weird powers vested in them via the Force...they can do extraordinary stuff. People who levitate can probably be classified as a special creed of shaoulin monk.

There was a time when most of the universe was an unexplored place. Today we have thanks to time machines, hubble telescopes etc, what it takes to have gleaned the depths of the known universe. You will say there is a lot to be discovered yet; but how much of those discoveries would make the progress of mankind a less futile objective? We have for example invented everything of practical importance there is to invent; the light bulb, facebook, the wheel, electricity etc. The human race appears to have stagnated in the annals of scientific discovery. Again, no doubt there are stuff out there to learn about science, like for example, how many toes does a virus on Mars have? How far does one have to walk from point A to point B on Pluto to obtain fresh water? Any possibilitity of setting up a restaurant on the moon? All these childish attempts at discovery, leave them to people like Trump to discover. But as far as science has progressed, havent we already run the course of novelty?