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Yes, it's all too easy to forget your C. Some of these CEOs think because they are good at their chosen business they have wisdom to share with the world on host of subjects about which they are both ignorant and incompetent. But normally, CEOs of major corporations don't try to pick fights in public with national leaders, for the simple reason that it is almost invariably bad for their business. Musk is positively encouraging the UK government to impose new obligations on social media corporations to police the content they disseminate. And whining about the "First Amendment" won't cut any ice outside the USA. Actually I may just have found the answer to my question, in an article in the Independent this morning: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-x-far-right-b2592740.html In summary, Musk's son Xavier announced, on his 18th birthday, that he was transitioning to a woman, changing his name including surname, and disowning his father. According to Musk's ex-partner (Claire Boucher, a.k.a. Grimes) this traumatised Musk. Searching for something to blame he lighted on "wokeness" as a "mind virus" and vowed to try to destroy it. Xavier's birthday was in April 2022. In October of that year, Musk bought Twitter, rebranded it to X, sacked all the stuff exercising editorial control over content, re-admitted far-right posters who had been banned from Twitter - and reset the platform's algorithm to give prominence to his own posts. Since then, the speculation is that Musk has become radicalised by his own platform, being fed by his own algorithms a diet of far right stuff that further entrenches and amplifies his hatreds. It all starts to make sense. The implication would be we have a billionaire, in charge of a global social media network, who is off his trolley for personal reasons and conducting a far right vendetta. Shit-stirring over immigration riots in the UK would make sense in that context.

Unfortunately for your claim the recent discoveries around submarine hydrothermal vents concerning sulphur based life would suggest otherwise. In 1823 German Botanist G Ehrenburg published a paper "Symbolae Physicae", explaining Manna as a secretion of the Tamarix Mannifera, which grows around Mt Sinai. In 1927 Bodenheimer and Theodor led a scientific expedition to the ara and studied firther, producing the first photgraphes of the Manna. +1 to the Americans

The other day members of the EDL (English Defence League) came to our city to try and extend their campaign of racial violence and anti-immigrant slander in the wake of the Southport killings ten days ago. You may have read about this recent wave of violence across the UK, including a riot in Liverpool the other night where thugs burnt down a local community hub and library in Liverpool because some posts on social media had spread a lie that all the books in the childrens section of the library had been replaced by copies of the Koran - (they hadn’t). When they arrived in our city however, the EDL supporters got a surprise. They had intended to attack a Mercure Travel Lodge that was allegedly being used to house asylum seekers, but they found themselves outnumbered 4-1 by a well organised protective cordon of counter-protesters and local community leaders who were also protecting our local mosques and LGBT sites, and who successfully held the racists at bay until the police belatedly arrived to stop the EDL from setting fire to the Travel Lodge. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgrrl0zlg5o The following day I met a female friend and lawyer on our local village green who said “Are you coming to the protest tomorrow ?” When I asked for details, she told me that the EDL were now planning to attack the premises and staff of law firms in our city centre who regularly assist asylum seekers (often on a pro bono basis). There is apparently a hit-list of such law firms circulating on far-right Telegram channels. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c624r77gnm2o The Playboy of The Western World (1907) was the title of a play by the Irish playwright John Synge which tells the story of a braggart who falsely claims to have murdered his own father. It came to mind as a suitable epithet for Elon Musk - the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla and X (formerly Twitter) who has recently restored the X accounts of notorious UK hate speech trolls such as Tommy Robinson (EDL co-founder who recently fled the country), Katie Hopkins, and the violent misogynist Andrew Tate. https://www.independent.co.uk/space/elon-musk-tommy-robinson-prime-minister-southport-spacex-b2590114.html Within the last day or so, Elon Musk has put up incendiary posts on his X platform claiming that “Civil War in UK is now inevitable” and has also attacked our new PM Keir Starmer for disputing the accuracy of these irresponsible claims. According to Sky News, Elon Musk is now also planning to sue major companies for “Conspiring to withhold advertising revenue from X/Twitter” and causing it to miss out on billions of advertising revenue. https://news.sky.com/story/its-war-elon-musks-x-sues-companies-for-not-advertising-on-its-platform-13192318 The reality is that many large corporations stopped advertising on X after finding their adverts were being run in tandem with blatantly neo-Nazi and racist content - which happened as a direct result of Elon Musk gutting the staff at X, and removing most of the content moderation procedures that were formerly in place. The Playboy of The Western World” indeed ! - welcome to the land of consequences Elon.

Ah, OK. Cheap dig, then. Got it. Thanks for the generalizations. You so great.

Thanks to those who liked my input. Considering the instructions as to the purpose of the Religous section of ScienceForums I thought that some might have an interest in my sources. Anyway here is a book that attempts proper scientific evaluation of some of the stories in the Bible, including on site investigation, analyses and references.

You posted a circuit diagram which is a standard language for engineers (and others) in this discipline. Two coils arranged against three solid lines has a specific meaning. If you don't know about this, we are happy to help, but that just as everyone must use the same meaning for yes, no, red, black and so on in (written) English in order to communicate everyone must use the same standard symbols in circuit schematics . I am well aware that magnetic amplifiers are not transformers and do not require a lecture on the subject. If your device has two coils and an iron core and is being used in some other manner than a transformer, please show what is actually meant. Yet you express suprise that a DC motor will run on AC. A series wound DC motor will run on AC A shunt wound motor will not and may be damaged. I can't tell what sort of motor it is from the videos. But I do know that it is not a transformer. I saw whatever was on the videos in your link, and yes I saw two motors. But motors do not have primary and secondary windings. I did not see any transformers. The way forward is to take one circuit or configuration at a time and analyse it, not jump around between several different ones.

Actually I wasn't dissing him considering he's one of the greatest actor / comedians of all time.

One issue is that really heavy nuclei don’t remain intact for very long. There might be some isotopes that are longer-lived at the next magic number (filled shell) of neutrons and/or protons. Pb-208 is doubly-magic, with 82 protons and 126 neutrons, and is the heaviest stable isotope. “Further predicted magic numbers are 114, 122, 124, and 164 for protons as well as 184, 196, 236, and 318 for neutrons.[1][4][5] However, more modern calculations predict 228 and 308 for neutrons, along with 184 and 196.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(physics) So that’s where to look. We’ve seen 114 protons.

Really disturbing when Brits starting acting like...Americans. Musk is more and more showing the world the stunted adolescent I've known him to be for years. Fascinating legal argument that a company declining to advertize somewhere is somehow actionable. Not surprising that the lawsuit was filed in Texas, where Musk no doubt hopes a conservative bench will bend our statutes and Constitution into a grotesque pretzel for him.

Ok so physics used to be fun and here is an old fashioned experiment we did at school. Elihu's Exeriment is particularly fun. These should help with understanding transformers and what happens when you remove the keepr or I part from the Es and Is frame. I note that this is still a legitimate experiment in some places.

Would you prefer that I offer friends to whoever can solve the problem? I think mine might object to being given as a prize.

I came to the conclusion this person was a waste of space a long while ago and put him on Ignore to save annoyance. I recommend it.

+1 to the Americans Most Americans don't read. They have Netflix..

If that's all you've got to say, then, I guess, there's nothing more to discuss; good luck with your imagined problem though. 🙏

Not many people, at the same time, that is, if you are watching a TV screen, you don't have time to read (especially technical/scientific articles that require special attention). I wasn't talking about ability, but about how someone spends their (free) time. It was not a prejudice, but a joke. Play of words. And true one. It applies to every nation. But Americans have one of the largest shares of Netflix (53% of U.S. homes had a subscription in 2022, which is counted in tens of millions). If you spend all your free time after work after school watching episode after episode, you don't have time for anything else, including reading valuable (or not valuable) things. You don't have to be a genius to understand this.