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No, I quoted a clip from her blog. http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2015/06/does-faster-than-light-travel-lead-to.html Not clear on why this led to a thread split, given that the question of paradox seems pertinent to FTL travel.

Down in Costa del Soul.

So, peeling away the pompous pseudoscience gibberish, this is another version of "how to turn on women and get laid." LoL. Making her come. (SEE the diner scene in When Harry Met Sally)

Yes, I've seen that, too. Social standards for female beauty seem traditionally more linked to health and fertility (dewy smooth skin, full red lips, voluptuous curves, facial symmetry, clear bright eyes, etc), while male attractiveness is traditionally more tied to the appearance of strength and boldness, apparently giving a higher value to power displays than to systemic health. I think society in modern urban societies is moving on from that, but I still see vestiges of that in how young people try to enhance their attractiveness. Bad skin, for example, seems far more accepted on men than women, though for either sex it can indicate problems with nutrition, nervous ailments, autoimmune system, endocrine balance, Crohn's, etc.

It would be great to return more to the OP topic, to which the 1968 Minot sighting is relevant. Of the cases I've read about, it seems like one of the better documented, with trained observers, and pointing more strongly towards some kind of structured vehicle with flight characteristics inconsistent with 1960s level aerospace technology. There seem to have been other sightings also around Minuteman ICBM complexes, like the one at Malmstrom AFB over in Montana, a year earlier than the Minot sighting. https://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm In the Malmstrom case, and also in another one in 1966 at Minot, the ICBMs went offline and became unlaunchable for a while. https://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2021/12/military-veterans-urge-truth-told-about-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-incidents/ Living in this part of the country, I have been aware of these strange events for a long time, and had conversations where there is speculation about them. I have wondered if some sort of EMP device could have been involved, but other details pointing towards that seem lacking. AFAIK, Minuteman missiles and the silo power supplies have always had pretty formidable Faraday shielding. .

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2015/06/does-faster-than-light-travel-lead-to.html ...The relevant point to take away from this is that superluminal travel in and by itself is not inconsistent. Leaving aside the stability problems with superluminal particles, they do not lead to causal paradoxa. What leads to causal paradoxa is allowing travel against the arrow of time which we, for better or worse, experience. This means that superluminal travel is possible in principle, even though travel backwards in time is not. That travel faster than light is not prevented by the existing laws of nature doesn’t mean of course that it’s possible. There is also still the minor problem that nobody has the faintest clue how to do it... Maybe it’s easier to wait for the aliens to come visit us.

Have never seen Sabine slip a cog. Clean that pine tar off your hands. Does she have a blog segment on this? I can't watch video atm.

Almost afraid to ask - what was the nature of this novel research? If you want peer review, it helps to know who your peers would be, i.e. what branch of social sciences, and have a complete description of the research setup, what groups you sampled from (college students? singles? married couples? suburbanites? random people on the street? rave attendees?), the data collected, how data is analyzed and interpreted, etc. So far, we have an enigmatic diagram.

I found this helpful, though the equations didn't paste too well. (from StackExchange) The lift generated by magnetic field B on a superconductor of area S is: F=B2S/2μ0 disregarding lateral forces and assuming superconducting cylinder (or similar shape) with area S at the top and bottom and height h, we need three forces to remain in the equilibrium: magnetic pressure on top, bottom and gravity force: Fb−Ft=Fg denoting density of the superconductor as ρ, Earth' gravity as g and magnetic field at the top and bottom of the object as Bt and Bb, we have 1/2μ0(B2b−B2t)=ρgh assuming the vertical rate of change of magnetic field is nearly constant and denoting the average magnetic field as B, we have −B* dB/dz=μ0ρg Compare with diamagnetic levitation (superconductor's magnetic susceptibility is -1). Now, Earth magnetic field is between 25 to 65 μT. For the derivative I have found this survey from British Columbia with upper point on the scale being 2.161 nT/m. Assuming this to be the maximum for vertical derivative we get the required density of 1.1394e-08 kg/m3. For comparison air density at the sea level at 15C is around 1.275 kg/m3, so required density is 8 orders of magnitude smaller. Even assuming a very high vertical derivative where B goes from its maximum 65 μT to 0 on 1 m of height results in density required of 0.00034272 kg/m3.

What is a "conceptual concept" and how does it differ from a concept? The one thing we do not do when thinking of "circle" as a geometric concept is to think of a specific size. That's the point of abstract thinking about objects: it strips away concrete qualities, leaving the core meaning, i.e. that which is common to all such objects. Common to all circles is a continuous line at a constant distance from a center point.

Would be interesting to take a more random sample, see how many proved true. I hypothesize it would be a small percent. Some of the ones on that Readers Digest list aren't really conspiracies. The FBI surveillance of Lennon was agents following a well-established routine, SOP with those profiled as left-wing influencers and activists. We can deplore it as a bad agency policy, but it doesn't really fit the definition of conspiracy. Same with the Dalai Lama - the CIA regularly compensates foreign "assets" for working with them, and I think that's been widely understood to be part of their SOP for decades. The Big Tobacco suppression, however, would qualify as a conspiracy - a covert and organized effort to silence people and destroy evidence.

AFAIK, RICO cases often extend beyond the investigating state, and involve multiple parties - I'm not sure who all would be charged (Rudy G?) or if Willis would handshake with the feds on this. IIRC, the federal RICO statute lists both offenses that are federally prosecutable and also ones that can be at the state level. Some states go on to clarify further or expand on the state offenses by passing their own RICO statutes.

Just saw this. Sorry to start a separate thread - for some reason, I didn't see this one. I also wonder if more challenging security questions would help in the new user registration form....maybe just make registration a bit more work, not so much as to drive away real members but enough to make spammers not want to bother.

Just wondering if there's a way to, without revealing too much to a spammer who might read the thread, to maybe come up with innovative procedures to deflect spammers when their activity level (like the last half hour or so) verges on a DDOS attack. They (the discount airfare kamikazes) must have filled all the logon ports - I couldn't logon for about 20 minutes. Could IT-savvy members PM an admin, if they know any handy tricks? Or is it already sorted?

You see what happens when I strip away the veil of lies? Immediately the forces of anthropophagy and pod living rush to dismiss it. Do you think it's just a coincidence he shares a name with the leftist Mexican revolutionary who wanted to redistribute land to peasants? 😀

I've seen quite a few studies finding negative health and cognitive effects from working night shifts. Good luck with the search engine.

I have heard that University College-Cork is part of an international cabal that is trying to bring a world government based on socialism and population reduction through legal cannibalism. "Critical thinking strategy" is just a guise for indoctrinating children into pod living, eating their parents and siblings and surrendering all property to George Soros.

Why would that be easier? How much trouble is it to type a logon name, especially when any web browser will store a logon name for you and input it automatically?

How does something a few meters across form a mirror image of Earth's magnetic field?

"We Also Walk Dogs" - by RAH, yes.

The potential RICO charge in Georgia seems like potentially the biggest one, in terms of raw criminality and of having incriminating evidence. Or perhaps tied with the potential treason charge at Mar-a-Lago where he allegedly showed top secret documents to foreign visitors. Those could bring some serious jail time. (btw, anyone else have this weird urge to buy discount airline tickets?)

Odd to list Whitehead but not Russell. And if you are into science, you need McTaggart, Feyerabend, Kuhn, Duhem, Popper, Searle, and Carnap, as well as WVO Quine. Quine cannot be read in a vacuum. Your post is hard to interpret, since you offer no overarching scheme or focus for your choices, while offering a lot of humble reminders that you are being subjective and shallow. I would also warn you that philosophy cannot be.... Almost everyone on your list devoted their life to seeing beyond aesthetics and subjectivity. A good starter list, for the historical arc of the major currents of thought up to the 20th century might be Plato, Aquinas, Hobbes, Spinoza, Descartes, Kant, Hume, Berkeley, Hegel, Locke, Mill, Bentham, Wittgenstein, Russell, Heidegger, Husserl, Sartre, Camus. (these were the major figures covered for me in getting a philosophy minor at undergraduate level)

What chord sounded when they dropped the piano with picric acid covered hammers down a mineshaft? . . . . A flat minor.

Defining what an EoR co. is would be helpful. They handle all the local legal issues, employing people for your company when they are located in another country, right? Probably depends on how many people you want to hire this way, what you can afford, etc.

Isn't the gauss for lifting any significant mass up in the thousands? Earth is 0.25 to 0.65 gauss.