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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.

How easy is it to push a garden stake into the ground there? If it penetrates far enough, then pull it out and see if the tip is damp.

So the thread seems to be asking if there is reincarnation with memory transfer. The answer might be this is a metaphysical conjecture which has not been empirically determined. All evidence to date (usually from children claiming past life memories) is tainted by possible coaching from parents, information leakage, leading questions, and memories so vague or generic they could just be fantasy from an imaginative mind. The prominent investigator in this area, Ian Stevenson, seemed to me to be an earnest and dedicated researcher but gullible. And related theories like Sheldrake's morphic resonance, which posits a kind of memory inherent in all matter, also lack support. Though Sheldrake I give credit for at least breaking it down into testable hypotheses.

Most long distance transport requires something of value to be also shipped on the return trip, to make economic sense. Let's say the Vogons live in a metal-poor solar system and they will pay well for them. But what do they have? If they only have bad poetry, wine, and quasi-bamboo, we don't want that, especially at interstellar shipping rates. (and being metal poor, their whole economy might be so unproductive by galactic standards that their currency would be very low valuation) So they would need some product, possibly a biological whose crafting requires the unique ecosystem of Vogon and esoteric patented production methods - let's say the mind-altering and aphrodisiac musk secretions of Vogon dire-civets when they chew off their own feet after a poetry reading. Simply can't be reproduced on any other planet. Defies synthesis. Maybe.

Exbiologist here. The layout is the same in all vertebrates. Air is priority. Food coming down will automatically close the airway, in this arrangement, to ensure no aspiration. (assuming no pathology)

In very cold climates, PEX eases a lot of suffering. Though now it's being considered for the eco-villain list because it is plastic. Those semi-slit foam insulation tubes with the self adhesive closures are also handy, on the outside of pipes. You can buy them with the little T and L junctions and get thorough coverage of a water line. Another help for sink water lines (because counter/sink are often along an exterior wall) is to open the cabinet space under the sink at night, so warmer room air infiltrates that space better. (just be sure you don't have chemicals under there a pet or toddler could get at) Putting thin foam rods inside pipes seems like a recipe for a future clog - never heard of that. But I see the principle.

Not sure the bucket and pool shape would match, or have same surface exposure to wind and sun. Maybe different surface to volume ratio. Could you put a tarp or similar covering over pool, see how that effects water level change?

Can there be fluctuations in the evaporation rate? E.g. would more windy days increase it? Does humidity drop at some times of year?

Yep, data is very clouded. For example, you find research saying omega 6 fatty acids are inflammatory (when not balanced by omega 3 FA), but then olive oil is also seen as anti inflammatory though the 6 to 3 ratio is 10:1. (because it has oleocanthal and other phenolic compounds, and also MUFAs) Just one example - there are so many nutrients that can impact inflammation levels. Xantham gum is constantly debated as to its inflammatory effect, last I looked. And don't wade into the thickets on FODMAP foods, you'll never come back, lol. Gut biomes vary a lot. A big problem in the US is that so much processed food will have some touted anti-inflammatory food in it, e.g. peppers or spinach or walnuts, but those will be added in too small a proportion to do any good. Whereas in Europe a family would more likely purchase those items individually and then add them in more generous quantities to something they cook themselves. Dishes that don't have stabilizers and emulsifiers and corn syrup and carrageenan and xantham gum and all this other crap.

Since it's about balancing thermal energy and gravitational work, I would think V Sauce (Mike Stevens) would need a way to obtain the thermal energy after the sun has been spread around - seems tricky, given we don't know what energy inputs would be (and losses) to achieve this drastic effect. (more a Veritasium fan, myself, and Derek Muller has a stronger CV for talking about physics imo) The approximation (simplified) formula for Jeans' length is r being the cloud radius. And the T, as I said, is the tricky one. I get 30 inches. Wait.... that's my jeans length. Sorry.

Arguably the biggest bang for the buck in the US would be a massive change in public nutrition and nutrition education. At this point it would probably require a benign dictatorship to get many Americans to eat halfway decent meals. Stern admonition from doctors doesn't work too well. A lot of our healthcare system seems to consist of duct taping up the mess after people have spent years eating junk and avoiding non motorized transport. (the months I spent in France were a real eye-opener - most everyone is thinner, more personally capable of mobility, and there is a collective frowning upon junk food and snacking. In Sweden, they had Lördagsgodis, which is where everyone only eats sweets on Saturday - again, unimaginable in the US!)