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I have been shredding leaves with a worx leaf shredder for a few yrs now, and they will need to be lightly covered with soil, or covered with something to prevent them from blowing away, or stored by tarping over a pile. Keeping the leaves/area moist will facilitate decomposition, as moisture (and temp) is needed to jump start the life cycle of microbes that break down organic material. When I piled/stored the shreds over winter, and then topped my beds with them, they would be gone in about 2 months, most likely from earth worms that love dead organic plant matter - especially the invasive jumping worm. While yes, there is a nitrogen sink when tilled into the soil, the nitrogen becomes available again as the leaves break down some more - hence the shredding to speed things up, plus unshredded leaves as a mulch can cause a sheet mulching affect (impenetrable layer of water resistant/gas blocking - cause anaerobic situation) - which is why leaves are used as mulch with caution, often to help insulate perennials trees shrubs over winter, and removed when spring arrives. Wood chips (not shreds) does not form a sheet mulch effect, and the fungal growth with moistened can be very quick. All organic mulch will create a thin contact layer of nitrogen sink with the soil it is in contact with, but as the organic mulch breaks down quickest at the contact level, it releases that sunk nitrogen dependent on decomposition time, so leaves will definitely release its original nitrogen plus sunk nitrogen in a few weeks if moisture is present - more so than wood chips. Both are awesome organic method to suppress weeds and slowly (but surely) condition the soil as it breaks down. Pine needles does not acidify the soil in fast, large amounts, but rather, slowly breaks down... plus most plants prefer a slightly acidity environment, with blueberries and rhodes and others 'acid-lovers' requiring a low pH medium. I love pine needles, and my source, a fellow about 25 miles away from me who has a giant pine, that I fill my SUV to capacity, sometimes using the attachment trailer too, for the last decade. They are a beautiful mulch, esp for ornamentals, and easy to pull back to plant. And they are wonderful for slopes. They do break down much slower than leaves, and sometimes, slower than wood chips. As I don't have enough needles for my extensively cultivated 1/3 acre, I use the leaf shredder, and wood chips as well.2 points
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And nukes, which IMO is a better explanation for European caution than absent spines.1 point
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It’s also possible that this means he produces a report that will be released, which would not happen if he were fired.1 point
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Any unstable elementary particle. For that matter also all hadrons, since the strong interaction behaves nothing like electromagnetism. No one can be sure of such a thing, given that the very notion of “DM particle” is itself speculative. What we can state though is that the statistical decay rate of unstable elementary particles (irrespective which ones) has never been been observed to depend on external circumstances. It seems to be an intrinsic property of those particles. And that’s part of the problem with this idea - all types of clocks, irrespective of their internal mechanisms and composition (or lack thereof), display precisely the same time dilation under the same circumstances. The amount of kinematic time dilation is solely a function of relative velocity. On the other hand, we know that DM, if it exists, cannot be evenly distributed - it must be more dense in some regions than in others in order to match observations, so we’d see differing time dilation effects in different regions/directions, which we don’t. Honestly, I don’t see how you could make this work at all - your DM particle would need to interact with all types of other particles in exactly the same way, and the interaction could not even depend on the density of the gaseous medium. This seems highly implausible, and appears to be incompatible with the Standard Model. Besides, since even quite ordinary clocks on quite ordinary energy levels are easily seen to exhibit time dilation, why do we not detect the DM particle in our accelerators, which detect interactions with many orders of magnitude higher precision? It’s completely implausible that all our precision and high-energy detection experiments have come up empty-handed, whereas at the same time the DM gas interacts strongly enough with (eg) a simple satellite clock to give it a substantial time dilation.1 point
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Do you think you can respond without sounding like a pompous asshole?1 point
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President Kennedy doesn’t agree “The characteristics of these new missile sites indicate two distinct types of installations. Several of them include medium range ballistic missiles, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead for a distance of more than 1,000 nautical miles. … This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base -- by the presence of these large, long-range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction -- constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all Americas“ http://wp.stu.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/08/Kennedy-Speech-Cuban-Missile-Crisis.pdf The Soviets agreed to remove the missiles. Can’t remove something that isn’t there. Recon photos showing the missiles and also them being loaded onto ships for removal in November https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/photos.htm November 5, 1962: Low-level photography documents loading of Soviet missiles at the main Mariel port facility for return to the USSR. On the dock are vehicles later identified by NPIC as nuclear warhead vans.1 point
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y = (((pnp^2/ x ) + x^2) / pnp) pnp = x * y (((((pnp^2 / x) + x^2)) / x) / pnp) where y = 0 If all of these are true in the factors we wish to find, x and y, is there a limit; a range; that could be computed that said if x is this big then y is that big? It wouldn’t be a differential equation that solves a spring. But how do I find and x that is true by testing if y is also true in these 4 constraints? It is a simple idea, but what is the math that completes it? I know that where y on the graph equals zero x has the value approximate to the smaller factor. I have an equation that will tell me y factor knowing x. If you move x larger y gets smaller. Move x smaller y gets larger. There is only a certain range that will prove this true. Combine that with all the other constraints you have and equation that solves a polynomial.-1 points
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Same as a prediction the other way 😝 We didn’t know we needed a wall until Trump built it. Then we see hundreds of people going around the wall😜 Mexico was going to pay for it. At least we got Mexico to hold some of the open border flow. There you go: 2 promises kept.-1 points
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Well I don’t approve everything Trump does but everyone voted for him. I don’t like the cabinet picks. They seem deliberate dismantling of those offices. But I believe we must hold both sides accountable. Like Biden giving long range misses to Ukraine. I understand why a lot of people don’t like Trump particularly his personality and the dangers of changing a system that works pretty well. The elephant in the room is the majority of those who worked for him are now his enemies. Harris had major faults too. They tell you to vote it’s your right. But we don’t get to choose the people we are to vote for.-1 points
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time is key. quantum entanglement, and indeed all quantum observable effects can only be explained as acting outside time. "gravitationally mediated entanglement." at a BH horizon, time stops, then rapidly reverses, like the plunge of a waterfall, but in time. time is, in effect, separated, or acts differently to space here. one would transverse a 000s LY SMBH at increasing acceleration beyond LS, backwards in time. ref Bousso/Englehardt. eventually, one would see the BB as a blinding light all around but getting closer. quantum entanglement can act in this space, as if acting outside time. every black hole feeds into the one white hole, the only WH in the universe, hence we do not see them in normal ST. Sorry Rovelli, but no! Here, as Penrose's CCC predicts, all matter and all time converge in a single point of almost infinite time, where extreme entropy from all BHs become low entropy. This creates a feedback loop which is self-evolving, whilst universal age remains constant, at 13.8BY or 26.7BY, or whatever arbitrary term we eventually come to. Penrose's tensor geometry describes this best, a complex toroidal system acting in 4d and at the furthest reaches, we see only BHs. Penrose got it all correct, except perhaps the conformal bit. DaiRox sees this as a cheat way to complete the cycle, but it doesn't adequately explain the process until it becomes looped through BHs. no loss of information, no inflation out of nothing. perhaps now this should be called the DCC...Dairox's Cyclic Cosmology??? speculation!!!...when we learn to bend time using photons as a guide, we will then be able to create bubbles in time around things, like an apple, an experimental physicist, or a craft of some kind. such craft would be capable of seemingly fantastical feats of acceleration, and even be able to pop in and out of baryonic ST. (good job nothing like that has been observed!). they would be able to pass through a SMBH feeling no effects of matter, gravity or time. one could travel back through Penrose's aeons to see the start of such a universal toroidal shape. i would expect to see an old wizard on a rocking chair who has just blown a smoke ring.-2 points