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Me, too, but I'm curious about foreign materials that don't seem to depart tissues once lodged in them. Diesel exhaust of the sub-micron variety is one, plastics another. Many things that are nasty can be expelled after a time, like chelation of heavy metals or flushing out of toxic chemicals. Submicron particulates raise questions of where they go after passing through alveolar membranes or intestinal villi, and how long they stay. That seems like an area for further research, given that the plastic nanoparticles just keep coming no matter where you live. Antarctic samples have this stuff.

I also wondered if calling it an hypothesis was inaccurate. It struck me as more an untestable conjecture. The WOW signal, for example, its intensity variation represented by 6EQUJ5, appeared to be an unmodulated continuous wave. Nothing digitally coded, nothing promising an information density that a "legacy of our species" message would certainly require. The ONLY reason it caused interest was its location at the Watering Hole frequency, 1420 MHz. And other explanations immediately presented themselves as stronger and more satisfying Ockham's razor. But really, anything in science that fails replicability is essentially failing testability in this sort of observation based methodology. And my other objection didn't feel well answered - if your civilization is in its death throes, then the terawatts needed to send out a final Story of Us with any hope of being noticed are very unlikely to be allocated. And it fails the Popperian standard of falsifiability - we can't really sit around hoping a tech civilization somewhere in the MW will collapse in just such a way as to send out a legacy signal that demonstrates the Farewell Scream Hypothesis. Sure, it could happen, for weird alien reasons, as could many other anomalous events which we also can't test.

It's not branded - a local tea shop makes various blends with names like "vanilla almond," so I will have to ask my partner if further leaf identification is possible. My nose says there's jasmine in there, with a pekoe leaf grade, and possible touch of hibiscus. Ours is definitely a FOP, and very possible there's Darjeeling in there. 5 minutes is usually good, 3 minutes yields colored hot water that smells pleasant.

As someone commented earlier (been a while since I looked at the thread), loose leaf steeps a little slower. Well worth it imo and it seems to taste better, though this could be an overactive imagination at work. I admit I do spend a little more time scrubbing tannin crud from the cups, but why should environmental stewardship be expected to be easy? Maybe someone should write a book called 50 HARD Ways to Save the Planet. And win a Pulitzer prize in a special honesty category.

I've taken a similar approach. Encouraging plant fiber based packaging seems more effective and, from the data I've seen, lower carbon footprint than recycling plastic. Petro industry is really pushing plastics and construction options like vinyl flooring and fencing, as they seek ways to keep pumping crude oil from the ground while the world's transport shifts towards EVs.

Yes they're the worst kind of quacks. The son should be facing criminal charges, and not anywhere children or the levers of my country's healthcare system. This appointment is like putting Ted Bundy in charge of a women's shelter. RFK Jr's brain worm has clearly won.

Assume your opening paragraph is an abstract (I had TLDR issues), I see a conceptual weakness, which is that a techno civilization would realize that due to light speed limitations no other civilization could respond to an SOS in time to assist. Also, wouldn't they have already broadcast powerful signals, if their orientation is towards interstellar messaging? Why wait until a time of collapse when all available wattage is desperately needed for keeping infrastructure going a bit longer?

LMAO. Such an awakener would likely beg to be returned to their coma. AFAICT, 47 sees government as primarily military and police who serve to defend the property and business operations of the wealthy.

As Emily would say, Emo, held dumb, all Lab muddle home. (yes, I like Labradors - smart and good companions)

Well put - and Wordsworthian. Wordsworth wrote that poetry came from emotion recollected in a state of tranquility.

I believe Emily's response, in her biochemistry class was: "Cire to HPM, aminos acidic, a son? I'm amphoteric!" Emily, btw, worships dogs. Because, as she put it, "God deified dog."

With Milk's album, "So many dynamos," a close second.

If you're familiar with today's GOP, then you will see they're already back. (sorry, couldn't resist)

The ethical question would seem to depend on getting more data to address the scientific question of how plastic degrades, what chemicals leach out, and what microparticles or nanoparticles might do in both soil and water. Since plastic nanoparticles are being found in animal tissues, including humans, it would seem relevant to matters of public health and ecosystems that sustain us. Why someone would do a drive-by post blandly dismissing all these questions is more a question of ideological gaslighting, I would suspect. This being a science thread, I'd prefer to keep the focus on how to gain more scientific knowledge on the topic.

While working as a geologist, and taking Ritalin to help her focus on her study of Mount Pinatubo, she wrote: Pinatubo, top drawer, nil a tiramisu, O engine volcano on a cloven, igneous - I'm a Ritalin reward pot - O, but a nip! After her meds were adjusted, she wrote: Draw pure volcano on a clover upward.

Yes, it follows the law. Unlike walnuts. (walnuts stun law) Emily worked hard as a single mom, so whenever her children did well she'd declare: "Diapers repaid!"

Never odd or even? So, large t(n) integral?

And keep him away from the grandkids! www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rfk-jr-swimming-grandchildren-contaminated-rock-creek-dc-bacteria-rcna206416

Yes. Reportedly her E-car aged all at Talladega race. And the motto seems likely. Though she sometimes gets angry at her dog and cries, "He goddamn mad dog, eh!" Sometimes in the morning she has to remind herself to "Face decaf."

IFLScienceFoot Orgasm Syndrome: Genitals And Feet Can Have A Curiou...It's been proposed that the parts of the brain that process feet and genitals are very close....In essence, they argued that nerve damage had resulted in sensory information being misinterpreted by the brain. The brain was getting confused between sensory inputs to her left foot and her genitals, resulting in this unusual case of foot orgasm syndrome. The idea is perhaps not as out-there as you might assume. Vilayanur Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, once proposed some people have foot fetishes because the part of the brain that processes the sensation people get from feet is close to the part that registers genital stimulation.

Emily Lime likes a regal lager on a hot day. When she's hungry, she calls out "Yo, banana boy!" When she gets a headache, she takes one lonely Tylenol. Tell us more about her. Or just sit quietly, drab as a bard.

She vanishes from view for weeks at a time. This means they will have time to find a body double who can pass for her, in the event that she is eaten. This would make a darker version of the popular film comedy "Dave," perhaps.

Shhh! Zzzzzzzzzz.

I found the Disney "men's restroom the cleaning crew missed" extremely realistic!

Smellivision, then. Your receiver would need a quite sophisticated chemosynthesis unit to make small amounts of organic chemicals and volatilize them. The expense would probably be so much that it would be used first in moviehouses, with an advanced ventilation system to distribute the odors through the audience. (and it might be too expensive for the multiple scent wickless candles you mentioned)