Velocity_Boy

I like that burning idea. Gives a whole new meaning to the old term, Scorched Earth Policy. In Texas we have this especially pernicious and resilient weed called nut grass. Impervious to Glyphosate, even. It has to be removed mechanically and carefully just as you described. Tis the bane of my gardening existence. Along with the squirrels who nick my tomatoes.

If there was a grammar question in there I missed it. Guess it was hidden among all that convoluted and unecessary verbal pedantry. LOL. The best writers have always been the ones with the leanest and most pithy style. The ones who abhorred purple prose and felt no need to flaunt their vocabulary. Think Kurt Vonnegut. Hemingway. Twain.

Well, this is the best answer so far but still only partially correct. By declaring war on the US three days after Pearl Harbor and just a couple days after FDR declared war on Japan, Hitler..As well as italy.. Declared war on the US because he was hoping that Japan would provide some assistance on his eastern front, with Russia. You'll recall that Russia and Japan were old enemies, going back to the Japanese Russo War some 35 years earlier. And also he knew anyway it was only a matter of time before we entered the war in Europe, as we had been supplying Great Brittain with arms and materiel for over a year, via the Lend Lease Act. Thus, he figured that any other diversion of troops and weapons for the US, like a protected Pacific Theater war, could not be anything other than beneficial to Germany and its quest for world domination.

RIP Dr. Huskey. But let us never forget that ENIAC would never have been built without the genius of Alan Turing. Who arguably deserves the title as "Father of the Computer" more than any other. Not only that, he was a war hero. (sorry for the tangent--but Turing was so heinously mistreated and under-appreciated that I give a shout-out to him whenever possible.) Some interesting facts about ENIAC (which, btw, had less memory and computing power than your Smart Phone!) This list pasted from an online site about ENIAC.............................. Random ENIAC Facts!?! 15 random points about the computer you never heard of: 1) Short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer 2) The first general-purpose electronic computer. 3) ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory. 4) The ENIAC contained 17,468 vacuum tubes, along with 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 1,500 relays, 6,000 manual switches and 5 million soldered joints. It covered 1,800 square feet of floor space, weighed 30 tons, and consumed 160,000 Watts of electrical power. 5) ENIAC was conceived and designed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly of the University of Pennsylvania. 6) The six women who did most of the programming of ENIAC were inducted in 1997 into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. 7) At 11:45 p.m., October 2, 1955, with the power finally shut off, the ENIAC retired. 8) In one second, the ENIAC (one thousand times faster than any other calculating machine to date) could perform 5,000 additions, 357 multiplications or 38 divisions. 9) The ENIAC was not originally designed as an internally programmed computer. The program was set up manually by varying switches and cable connections. However, means for altering the program and repeating its iterative steps were built into the master programmer. 10) For example, a skilled person with a desk calculator could compute a 60- second trajectory in about 20 hours. The analog differential analyzer produced the same result in 15 minutes. ENIAC required 30 seconds–just half the time of the projectile’s flight. 11) In addition to ballistics, the ENIAC’s field of application included weather prediction, atomic-energy calculations, cosmic-ray studies, thermal ignition, random-number studies, wind-tunnel design, and other scientific uses. It is recalled that no electronic computers were being applied to commercial problems until about 1951. 12) A classified military project known only as Project PX. 13) Some of ENIAC’s competitors, namely the ABC and Z3, were far slower and could tackle only small problems. 14) Used a word of 10 decimal digits instead of binary ones like previous automated calculators/computers. 15) A controversy developed in 1971, however, over the patentability of ENIAC’s basic digital concepts, the claim being made that another U.S. physicist, John V. Atanasoff, had already used the same ideas in a simpler vacuum-tube device he built in the 1930s while at Iowa State College. In 1973, the court found in favor of the company using Atanasoff claim and Atanasoff received the acclaim he rightly deserved.

You're wrong. Hoyle originally derided the Big Bang theory and the term was used in derision. He came around later, but not at first. You are the one who seems confused and has a misconception, sir. Hope this helps................... https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/54/2/2.28/302975/Big-Bang-the-etymology-of-a-nameBig-Bang

As far as somebody apologizing by saying they're sorry, to me it all depends on how sincere I think they are. A quick, emotionless, eyes down, sorry is basically useless. Almost as bad as that recent annoying and overused term, My Bad. That one usually had the opposite affect on me, as I sometimes want to slap the person, especially when it's said with a smile or smirk and clearly with not a grain of remorse.

But the main factor here is that you have to cut them exactly in the middle. And not one card off! So you need to do it yourself, because if you allow somebody else to cut, as is the custom in most card games and tricks, the almost certainly will not cut them evenly. And when that happens your magic will not work. But if cut exactly and distributed from the top, all you are doing is equally redistributing the original set of cards. With only four suits, and the same amount of people to deal to, the only possible distribution result is yo have each person get four of the same suit and face. Think of the cards being numbered from one to four and co!Or coded in four colors. Every fourth card begins a new color, so every person of four gets that same number, in all four colors. When the cards are thought of in this manner....Colors and numbers...The trick seems far less magical.

Just so, warhead. And to add, and another interesting stipulation and clarification for the OP, a lot of people don't know the very term Big Bang Theory was originally used as a term of mocking and contempt. That is when it was first postulated. Up till that time, the pervailing theory, and the one even Einstein believed, was the Steady State model. As you said, proposed by Lemaitre. I think it was Fred Hoyle who came up with the phrase.

Really? I never heard about the lesser gravity at altitude? For instance, I used to live in a town that was 7200 ft. Elevation. And while we all knew about the thinner air and it's effects....I'm a runner!...I never heard about less gravity. I'm sure it's negligible though, eh? Like I maybe weigh half of an oz. Less in Flagstaff than in Austin? So, Denver. The Rockies baseball team. Their stadium Coors Field. Renowned for balls going farther, more home runs, a pitcher's nightmare. I always attributed all that to thinner air. Do you mean to say lesser gravitational pull is also part of the equation? How can I never have heard this? LOL

I have a quick question. One that I really should know the answer to. And am almost embarrassed to ask. But I was watching a documentary on the history of our space program the other night, and this question came to me. I could look it up but this is more fun. So....here goes.....Gravity. as in....The Earth's. Does our planet's gravitational field lessen as one rises in altitude toward the boundary of space? Or is it uniform all the way up? Until we escape it totally and enter the weightlessness of Space. Which, if memory serves, is agreed upon you be about 60 Miles up? So....Yeah, do you weigh less up at, say, thirty miles than you do at one mile? Or is it all uniform and equally spread? Like going through a jar of honey till you break the surface? Thanks.

Impossible to say with any degree of accuracy. Such a guess would be speculation in the wildest sense. And, of course, the idea that homo sapien sapiens never would return is just as valid a speculation. Most anthropologists agree that we are here by accident. Or, St the least, via a series of very fortuitous and capricious occurrences, that could have gone easily another way. In which case we wouldn't be here in the first place. Much less rise to the top, thrive, become extinct, and then somehow flourish again. Over 95% of all the species of fauna and Flora that ever existed on this planet went extinct. None of them returned, so far as we know. Why then should we? We are in every way possible just another species of mammal here. With abberently large brains. And horribly fragile bodies. Fragile and vulnerable to the point of absurdity, insofar as the rest of the animal kingdom is concerned. We went awry! Truly naked apes. We are like idiot savant naked apes. Incredibly needy. Nah, for my money, if we go tits up, we are down for the count. Did I just mix metaphors? LOL

Hello Teo and welcome to SF. Did you happen to notice the Education Section of our Forum? It's listed on the main front page with all of the other different Forums and Departments. I think it might be your best bet here. You can access study materials, tests, as well as prep courses for those tests. And since you obviously have American internet access, you will also have availability to online Universities where you can obtain a degree in your chosen field. So check it out, and then you can always come back here to ask us or the site moderators any questions you may have regarding the specifics of the Educational Forum. Most of those links will walk you right through, however. Thanks for coming here and sharing your story. I think it is highly commendable that you are not letting an unfair treatment by your past school system keep you from pursuing your goal. It's awesome, in fact. Best of luck with it! Just think how good you will feel about yourself after you prove all those past teachers as being wrong. Your hard work will be well worth it.

But in neurology we do have the basic mechanisms the brain utilizes during dream states pretty much down pat. I'm not sure how close you've been following the neurology of sleep and dreaming of late, but significant advances have been made over the past five years or so. And it is indeed broken down far beyond your do called declarative and non d. Memories. We go down to the neuronal and neurotransmitter level. But the basic and metaphorical explanation I gave in my OP is very accurate. Enough for any layman. Even for medical professionals who aren't directly working in dream neurology. My filing system analogy with the photos is a good one. I welcome any psych or neuro pro reading this to deny that. At the risk of sounding arrogant. We just know how dreams are generated. That's it. If you wish to get a deeper explanation you might enjoy this...... http://dreamstudies.org/2010/01/07/neuroscience-of-dreams/

Thanks for the chuckle! I really did LOL. Can't believe some blokes thought your OP was a serious article. Say, mate, you must have a Brit version of our parody news site called The Onion? The fake article reminded me of an Onion bit. "..With an option to continue after death." Priceless. Cheers, mate.

Nah....Just a whiny little malcontent who is....To Nick a line from the movie Good Morning Vietnam...In more need of a blowjob than any man in history. LOL

I agree with the video and disagree with you. As do, btw, the vast majority of neurologists, psychiatrists, and other medical professionals in the sleep and dream biz. Dreams are not that mysterious yo us anymore. Sadly, they don't hold the mythical and elusive inner drives and desires of the human Subconscious. Rather, as the vid posited, they are just vestigial images emitted by your brain as it embarks on its nightly process of trying to figure out where to file the past day's new memories. Picture a file clerk in a photograph warehouse with a handful of new photos his boss just gave him. And as he tries to put them in properly appropriate and accessible sub file folders. He also is tasked with discerning which photos...Memories to you...To throw away and which to keep. That's it. A closing caveat...I use the term days and nights assuming the dreamer is typical in that he had a diurnal biorythym, and thus sleeps at night. But it matters not to the brain, as it will just do it's filing duties the following day, should the host organism be nocturnal. Hope this helps. Hmm.just occurred to me this is the second time today I've explained the dreaming process. LOL

Don't pay attention to that cretinous comment above. I thought the surro piece was beautiful. Reminds me of the oboe, which is my favorite woodwind used in classical music. It's a bit brighter than the oboe, I think, and not quite as plaintive or reedy sounding. The oboe also uses a double reed setup. My wife plays, and she makes her own reeds, which to me is an amazing process that I love to watch. Thanks again, enthalpy. Classical music is salve for the soul.

How are you getting away with posting rants like this on a Science Forum? Ya have something on Swannie? LOL An idea for you........... look-up the word "misanthrope." check all that apply to you. How many checkmarks? Uh-huh.

Well, it seems to me you're claiming that your dreams and the things you create in them, like music, are true genius. And not, as almost all neurologists and psychiartrists claim insofar as the nature of dreaming is concerned, merely the imagery that is emitted into your waking memory from your brain's filing activity of the previous night. Dreams come from when thre brain takes new memories and experiences and thoughts from the day past and tries to find the best place to file them into your short and long-term memory banks. It would be cool if dreams DID represent our sobconscious and its secret agenda and attempts to communicate with us, as some of the early Psycho-analysts like Freud and Jung believed, but there is simply not any evidence of that being the case. Much less proof. Very few professionals in the field any longer give credence to that notion. Your brain--more accurately, your mind--does not try to prevent you from accessing your full potential, or any hidden genius you feel you might harbor. Rather, IF this genius exists, its always ready to be annexed, and all you need to do is exercise self-discipline and commit time to accessing it. Some dedication and time is often needed. A true attempt must be made. The vagaries and distractions and egoisms--the daily mental detritus--must be swept away. Meditation helps us do this. But alas, that too takes practice for it to be effective and render positive results. And its perfectly OK, hell, it is by far the NORM, to enjoy and revel in your creative attempts, even if they are nowehre close to true genius. Ninety percent of us who enjoy dabbling in the various arts are most decidedly in this camp.

As far as the Major Players on the Global Stage are concerned, that is, that handful of true Powers that comprise the global oligarchy that really runs things and calls the shots on the planet, North Korea has always been and will always be an also-ran. A wannabe. So, like the petulant little kid who feels ignored by his parents, or thinks Mommie and Daddie pay to mauch attention to his brothers and not him, he sometimes "acts out" for attention. This is a perfect metaphor for NK and the cartoonish Kim Jong Un. In global politics and military affairs parlance, what he does is called "sabre rattling." And he does it when he thinks he and his also-cartoonish country are somehow being slighted, or not given sufficient respect. (Which, btw, of the latter, NK deserves zero.) So KJU will rattle his sabre, make some empty threats of using nukes, when he wants attention. Make no mistake, however. We (the USA) are not in any way intimidated by them. Let alone afraid. Let alone afraid to use military action if it is ever warranted. The only aspect of this that would give us pause is the idea of China stepping in on behalf of NK. Again, olong these lines, please make no mistake. NK is like that little bratty kid that everybody hates and would love to punch in the face ot throw through a window. BUT! The little kid has a big ass very mean and very potentiallly-violent BFF. So, we think twice before punching that brat in the face. NOt because of him and what he is capable of, but because of his Big Friend who lives down the street. As far as your idea of "might makes right" or "Peace through Strength" I reluctantly admit it seems to be the most effective method for ensuring that you and your country are left alone. But history has also shown us that, no matter how strong you are, if you abuse your power to a sufficiently egregious level, you WILL be dealt with, usually via more than one other Power ganging up on you. (see Nai Germany and the vaunted Wehrmacht of the 1930s). I predict the events of this past week have been just another sabre rattle by the spoiled brat. And that, as Trump just yesterday admonished him to do, He will soon "settle down" as he realizes that, at the end of the day, he is just a Wannabe.

Well...I am pretty certain that as of yet we have found no viable method to tweak gravitational fields emitted from objects of mass. And we certainly cannot in any way alleviate the force of Earth's gravitational pull. The last I heard on the subject, some mathematician in Belgium...Maybe his name was Fuza, or something like that?...Published a paper claiming a hypothesis for weakening gravitational force. Albeit, very very slightly. On orders of approximately one to two percent at best. His device for doing do was composed of large and powerful electromagnets stacked stop each other. Similar to the setup that's used in some of those large atom smashers or super colliders like the LHC in CERN. The resulting magnetic field was in some way supposed to interfere and thus lessen a bit the gravity waves emitted from the earth. I think I remember reading an analogy of this that compared the action here to that of a wake of water from one boat colliding with that of another, and thus eradicating it's original strength and shape. It's form. Something like that. Sorry I can't be more technical, but I'm nobody's physicist. Why do you think ET visitors....I assume that is what you really meant by UFOs...Would have to have mastered gravity to visit us? Just curious. I'm assuming it's because of the fact distances. Like, over four light years to the nearest star system. But personally I feel that gravity mastery is not so much of a requirement for those guys as would be the need for propulsion technology that we cannot come close to yet. Since our current bestest fastest technology wouldn't get us to the Proxima Centauri binary stars system for several thousand years.

Are you still awake? LOL I turn the crown on when I can't sleep. Does the trick Everytime. I used to watch golf or soccer for that, but Das Crown bests em both. As far as my latest Netflix binge watch, I finished the awesome Lilyhammer... So now I'm on to Luke Cage.

Base stacking is just the way of getting the structural integrity of the DNA double helix molecule. Its just A section of DNA. You already know that The bases lie horizontally between the two spiraling strands. So.... The DNA double helix is stabilized mainly by two forces: hydrogen bonds between nucleotides and base-stacking interactions among aromatic nucleobases. That's it, amigo!

You sound kinda like my ex wife used to when she'd go off her lithium for a few weeks. LOL. Then, she was bipolar, and hopefully this is not the source of your newfound motivation and energy. Seriously, sounds to me as if perhaps you just found some subjects that truly interested you, or maybe even you've decided upon which career path to pursue, so you're just going for it balls to the wall. Enjoy it while it lasts, as this is a good thing. It's like being an artist or a writer. Or a musician. The Muse is not always upon you, unfortunately. Do, when she is ya gotta milk it for all it's worth and get as much productivity out of your session as possible. Trust me, this feeling you have will diminish to St least some degree, at some point. So enjoy, boy!! And no.....Don't fret it in the least.

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