Nod2003

So then the Democrat Party’s demonization of Shultz is misplaced, as if he mostly takes white votes, Trump would be hurt far more then the Dem candidate.

Interesting analysis on past 3rd party candidates ten oz. I’m curious though on how valid it is to extrapolate those results to conclude that all third party candidates are going to lack diverse backing. This is especially problematic as Nader was left of Dem, and Perot was a centrist, which seems more like 2 dissimilar situations with a single data point each.

Did the Azolla event create significant hydrocarbon deposits in the Arctic?

when considering electric cars, I know that batteries often use rare elements. I’m not sure how much of those are in the batteries of say a Tesla, but are there enough of those ores at reasonable price to actually replace the petroleum using vehicles?

Based on google, acetic acid freezes at 16C. Could I just put the jug of vinegar in the fridge and pour the cold jug through a strainer to get the acetic acid ice which I could then store until needed?

I want to use acetic acid for weed control, but the 5% food grade stuff doesn’t seem to be acidic enough to kill most of the grasses growing in the sidewalk joints. What would the best way to concentrate it so that I have 1-2 liters of it at 20-30%?

I struggle with the Utilitarian approach to ethics, because it seems really easy to define things so that most anything could be justified by that approach.

Ah, thought that was just this latest time.

I’m sure they could put in a loophole to not include bills which were passed but vetoed by the president.

Might be a good law, but they would never pass it. Unless maybe it was slated to take effect in 2060 or something.

5’=60” 60”*.01= 0.6”

Well a 1% difference in a 5’ tide would be +/- 0.6”, which would be measurable certainly, but not visibly obvious.

Not really... That would be assuming that the thing preventing mammals from getting any smaller is the blood oxygenation issue, when it could be one of a thousand different variables. A better question might be, how much smaller can human red blood cells get before they would fail to oxygenate sufficiently to work. of course, shrinking the blood might also cause flow problems due to viscosity changes or something as well.

Do bacteria have a human style respiratory system, or do they exchange oxygen by a different means? Or do they even use oxygen? I think some do, but not all.

If a person could be shrunk a-la Ant Man, how small could they get before their lungs and/or blood would be incompatible with the air? I would have to assume that their red blood cells shrank at a similar ratio and could get small enough to not hold oxygen properly?

With regards to tides on earth from a Ceres capture, as Ceres is only about 1% the mass of the moon, unless the orbital distance was significantly closer then the moon currently gets, wouldn’t the effects be essentially unnoticeable to the general public?

My question is do more candidates strengthen the Dem bid, or weaken it? The jungle primary systems, which often excludes participation from the other party, which both parties use tends to weed out the moderate candidates and push the more extreme ends of the political spectrum. This may have the effect of a strong primary candidate underperforming in the general election. Do more choices then tend to hurt that party because the primary voters have more extreme options, or is this simply a misperception I have? In 2016, the R’s had like 16 primary candidates to 3 on the D’s. Trump is pretty extreme and won the primary, Clinton was the more moderate, but there is a chance that the Dem primary was biased in her favor. Logically she should have won the gen election, but she made some very poor marketing decisions and assumptions that very likely cost her the electoral college vote while winning the popular vote.

Plus there is still the Cyprus situation straining relations with Greece, and the Kurd situation straining things with the US. This kind of thing might not be new to NATO. I am unsure if Franco in Spain might have done some dictatory things.

My expectation is that Trump loses the 2020 election to a Democrat, (which one, I haven’t a clue), likely due to the US entering a recession in 2020.

So no then?

Sure, lots of empty space there too, but how many orders of magnitude different from a galaxy? After some quick research, low density glass is about 10^30 times more dense then the avg for the Milky Way galaxy.

>99.99999% of a galaxy by volume is vacuum, and outside the event horizon on a black hole generally would be too unless it happened to be in a binary system or inside a nebula or something.

If you are on earth it’s the same thing right? Assuming you aren’t on a merry go round or something.

Russia is more North Atlantic then Greece or Turkey...

So it’s inherent to wheat, not an added chemical like I originally thought.