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Let's be grateful he hasn't delved into cytoskeleton microtubules and their tubulin dimers as potentially containing qubits. Because bumbling down that rabbit burrow could mean never grasping the quantum decoherence problem and wandering for eternity in QM confusion. (like you know who, at you know where dot com) I compare it to continually checking Schrodinger's litter box and hoping it cleaned itself.

Not sure he was ever "in," beyond being a placeholder at DOGE while he was figuring out whether to run for Senate or governor. Sounds like he's picked governor. Musk can strut around pretending to be the DOGE prince as he has flunkies turn in vague reports on government waste that are handed to Trump who will never read them. Musk will continue on in his role as Groom of the Stool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_of_the_Stool

Not taking that bait, chum.

Maybe. Though my temperament is more of the stay and join the Resistance, I admit to having perused Vancouver real estate ads. I used to think minority rule (which MAGA is) couldn't fly here, but the apathy of half of voting age citizens has collapsed that theory. One can always find parallels to Rome. Trump seems to have elements of both Nero and his uncle, Caligula - whose brief reign (four years) included him planning to appoint his horse as a consul. Of course when we look back that far in history, the lens can be smudgy, so it's hard to say how accurate such reports are.

The "browning of America" seems to be what triggers the nativists. Two of my grandparents came from far northern lands where those emigrating were pale, Protestant and quickly learned English - they got zero nativist resistance. Current immigration is actually helping stave off the inverted pyramid situation, where the elderly dominate and young workers are scarce. One projection is an increase in automation to compensate for the constriction of the population pyramid's bottom. Another is that assisted living workers and other occupations serving older people have their wages rise, as labor (the types where automation would be less welcome) supply drops. Grandpa flushed the bot's CPU down the toilet.

I remember it. One of the Irwin Allen sci-fi shows - the other two were much more successful - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (my favorite), and Lost in Space (which seems to have indelibly printed itself on the synapses of every American brain of our generation). We watched it a few times but didn't much get into it. IIRC, it premiered the same time as Star Trek, which may explain its poor ratings and cancellation after one season. Our parents were fairly anti-TV, so there may have also been some rationing on cheesy sci-fi. And TT was definitely cheese.

Plus 1 for this. I added a vote for Travelers to the poll. Loved the nuances of this show and the psychological and ethical conundrums as the team inhabits these other bodies. It only took me a year to notice this thread.

I think he means abiogenesis. And he keeps ignoring that we also haven't observed the big bang or macroevolution. Bob and weave. SSDD.

Nor has the big bang or macroevolution. Science can use indirect evidence and inference. Distinction without a difference. To describe how something works one looks at underlying mechanisms.

Wait ..."tits" is woke? Starting to think this account is some sort of satirical performance art.

Well yeah, but that's super concentrated brine. Ordinary seawater would still mostly liberate oxygen, with only a small percent staying in solution as NaOH. Oceans are what, 3 pct solution?

And describes people in India. Just as Lakota is a fun word that describes indigenous people in the northern Plains. Didn't your parents teach you to address people by the names they prefer to go by? Yep, for some reason people decided calling a sports team a racial insult was not so great. Would you have also lamented the passing of a team called The Detroit Niggers? (apologies for offensive language, just making a point as crystal clear as possible) Liar. Poor sales led to ending that line. They still call their SUV a Denali, also an indigenous peoples name. Liar, again. Decline in sales. What absolute horseshit you spew on this forum. Also note that a new line of EVs is called Hyperion. A search engine would probably find several more vehicles with Greek or Roman god names So what? Those people are Inuits. Get over it. Would your prefer to be called John Barrow or instead some name a random French fur trader gave you? Would you agree to be called Palpstonk Gleeblepog if it made older men more comfortable eating ice cream sandwiches?

Well, yes, that is what death is. What were you expecting? Did you expect magical fairies to swoop in and save all your memories in an Astral Memory Flashdrive®.?? Absent the magic, many people write memoirs, tell life stories to grandchildren, build towers, etc. If there were any persistence of consciousness, e.g. your consciousness jumps into the nearest foetus, that would not transfer memories. They die with you. Believe me, when you get old like me, this won't seem such a terrible thing. Fresh starts are important.

Science can't be the tool for all aspects of existence. A fMRI could monitor a brain in some meditative state, seeing what areas are most active, but that wouldn't fully address all the subjective aspect of a mystical experience. Those experiences are more to be approached through epistemology and metaphysics, where one acknowledges that scientific claims cannot be made. I don't think some human intuitions or holistic perceptions will ever be scientifically reducible in a way that somehow forms a complete explanation. As others note, science seeks to ask specific questions about the physical world and possibly make an inference to the best explanation. This in no way promises to answer all the big questions of philosophy.

16 inches, 85 decibels and 1.5 Teslas. You can subtract the decibels, if there's no rimshot. But you keep the Teslas, for the MRI your brain needs soon.