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According the the World Health Organization, climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter. Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs266/en/ Apparently the right to life and liberty isn't very high on the Republican totem pole.
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There's no burden to prove something doesn't exist. I don't know you, but I'd unequivocally suggest you've never been peer reviewed. Perhaps you ought to start practicing what you preach instead of pretentiously pivoting upon others. The very embodiment your own OP. Hypocrisy.
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Too close to a star, you burn. Too far... freeze. Diverse biology can only occur within an upper and lower limit of temperature and gases. While that might describe other planets, I'd dare say the moon has a considerable role in life on earth. After all, reproductive beings have lunar oriented menstrual periods and flora and fauna are dependent on tides and/or diurnal cycles.
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You need to bring evidence first. Not maybe later. Telling us how many goals you scored before the game starts doesn't win the trophy, just because you say so. In the science game, experts in their respective fields are the referees, not the fans. When you cheat, you get a penalty. Too many penalties, you're ejected from the game. Ejected from too many games, you're banned. Any functionally cognitive juvenile knows those rules. Any adult that doesn't is just an embarrassment to themselves and everyone surrounding them. There are no participation awards in science for ineptitude. Just failure.
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Trump loves Wikileaks. So Obama said fine and let the leakers go free. Clever bit of last ditch spite, as republicans trip over themselves again. Wikileaks bad. No, Wikileaks good, No, Wikileaks bad.
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You believe that mass duplicates itself and goes through both slits?
rangerx replied to pittsburghjoe's topic in Speculations
I'm willing to believe this thread will be locked. Here's supporting evidence: http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/102157-is-the-double-slit-demonstrating-emc2/ http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/102088-e-t/ http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/101605-is-the-quantum-classical-boundary-correlated-to-quantum-wavelength/ http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/101989-could-space-time-be-what-changes-in-the-double-slit-experiment/ -
Whilst angrily and divisively identifying as Republican. Everyone else be damned. The height of irony and epitome of ignorance.
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Partial pressure of oxygen greater than two atmospheres is toxic to humans. Then of course, oxygen and hydrogen present an explosive hazard. It's far more efficient and infinitely safer to scrub carbon dioxide then re-breathe the air.
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Apoptosis (from Ancient Greek ἀπόπτωσις "falling off") is a process of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms. Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes (morphology) and death.
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Yet again, not one shred of evidence to support a claim. Just drivel.
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Belief is not earth science. Speculation, maybe. Not earth science either. Religion maybe. Nope. Not earth science. Trash can maybe. Not one reference cited mentions, no less supports any part of the OP
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You're right. I am confused. Unless of course that wasn't you whining incessantly about your president and a liberal candidate with fabricated tales then goose-stepping the current president elect for actually doing those things you derided so vehemently then? And yes, you are gaslighting. Spiteful and hypocritically.
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I'm not American (thank my luck stars) but if you think a pay-to-play commie loving email hacking turncoat Manhattan liberal is the magic bullet to all things great and won't rob you blind in the meantime, we'll have this chat again in four years, K? Meanwhile, you're just gaslighting. Nothing more.
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Lets discuss the questions not allowed to ask on this forum
rangerx replied to pittsburghjoe's topic in Speculations
Because "god did it" is not an answer to any of them by default, no less in complete absence of evidence. IBTL -
No. There are no reasonable or rational rebuttals for unreasonable and irrational comments. That's why they have down votes.
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Minutes and seconds are increments of degrees latitude or longitude for measurements in navigation. 1 degree = 1 hour 1 minute = 1 nautical mile
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A snow clearing challenge for those who like them.
rangerx replied to Dovahkiin's topic in The Lounge
The cable needs to be fastened to the bottom. Otherwise the bucket will stand on its end -
Rather than draining the swamp, he's adding alligators instead.
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Canada has a three party system (excluding Greens and others). Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats. New Democrats have never held the federal office of Prime Minister, but have been Premiers in the provinces several times since their inception in the 1950s. They gained traction having established universal health care and collective bargaining in the federal system. The other thing Canadians have is "coalition" government, where the minorities can collectively outnumber the majority and take power. They also have the power to bring down the government by a "non-confidence" vote. Very often, Liberals have succeeded in this manner, hence beholding to more socialist fundamentals. Otherwise they're more central in ideology. Canadian leaders can call an election at any time, especially when they want a mandate for certain issues. They can hold office for a maximum term of five years. The three party system puts the government on notice much more readily than the highly polarized two party system in the US. Again, this can be laid at the feet of the two party system. When one side wins, the other lives in fear. America is exceedingly polarized in their respective ideologies.
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No, of course not. You have the right to hold his feet to the fire. To criticize what was said and demand promised expectations. Unlike America where you'd be considered un-American for not fawning over a conservative president.
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Harper was anti-intellectual. He muzzled scientists and burned DFO libraries, determined to expunge from the public record anything that impeded development of tar sand resources. The contractor tasked with digitizing the collections admitted less than 15% was captured. Most of it was incinerated or sent to landfills in dumpsters. The Freshwater Institute Library is no longer staffed and the public is free to walk in and take whatever they want of the ransacked books, grey literature and periodicals strewn about on the shelves or the floor. I read Fahrenheit 451 when I was in school, but never in my wildest dreams ever expected it would happen in my own country during my lifetime. I don't expect much from Trudeau keeping his promises either, but unlike Harper he's been compromising, not intransigent. For example, allowing the the Kinder Morgan pipeline twinning and disallowing the Northern Gateway Pipeline. While that may anger industry and environmentalists alike, the average individual sees that as a fair decision. To stay on topic, there was the Barbaric Practices Act which was a whole other Orwellian can of worms that ultimately led to Harper's political demise. So in sense, what you've suggested has already happened and has since been brought closer to the center again. It seems when Canada has a liberal leader, America has a conservative one or vise versa. It keeps North America balanced. If Trudeau is anything like his father, he won't take any shit from Trump. "Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States." P. E. Trudeau
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Science is based upon fact issues. Your denial of those facts and the rhetoric borne of it, is what's alarmist.
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Extremely high oxygen worlds
rangerx replied to Moontanman's topic in Evolution, Morphology and Exobiology
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Through this entire thread, you've pigeon-holed protesting as un-American. So your president elect pledged to uphold the constitution, yet proved in his own words he's anti- 1st Amendment. Oh yes we can pick one tweet, that's yet another example of being dismissive. Again. Liberal troll, conservative apologist. If this were gun control and the 2nd Amendment, you and the waitforufo types would be in everyone's face like ugly on an ape.