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Yes. If you turn up the bass.

A problem is that a small greenhouse is not very analogous to the earth's biosphere and atmosphere. Also worth mentioning that the GH effect of CO2 (as neatly explained by exchemist) is amplified by a feedback from an increase in atmospheric water vapor which is also a GHG. Estimated at around 60% of the GH effect. Not sure how you would reproduce that in a greenhouse, let alone all the other mechanisms in play on the earth. Aside from questions of how to simulate an ocean, winds, Coriolis effect, day/night cycles, seasons, atmospheric particulates, clouds, etc. there is also the fact that a greenhouse is already structurally a, erm, greenhouse, rather than a sphere with an open layer of atmosphere. My guess is that a "mini Earth" is terribly difficult to make in a lab.

What I find hard to believe is that Buzz Aldrin keeps remarrying and is now reported to have done so again on Jan. 20, his 93rd birthday. As Samuel Johnson said, remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

A decipede. (it's a ten-footer)

We all have impressions of how others tick that may not be easily answered with evidence. I have no idea if social science based surveys have been done on this, or what percent of straight males are uncomfortable (phobia might be too strong a term) with sexual advances from men. That's probably more a matter of social conditioning in childhood, and defining one's identity within a culture, than any other factor. As a midwestern straight male, I would definitely be nervous about such an advance while recognizing that a citizen of ancient Athens would likely just get a pleasant ego boost.

Culture war over talking candies and Tucker Carlson mourns the loss of sexually alluring candies.... https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gzqa/mms-says-its-spokescandies-are-retiring-amid-conservative-culture-war

As Coyne points out, science is supposed to be where you leave your identities at the door. Where the Carolinian zealots lost me was here: What? FFS, the entire arc of the Enlightenment and its valuation of reason and science and egalitarianism was AWAY from enslavement and exploitation. That it took a couple centuries for the "female-bodied" (dear God what an idiotic phrase) to reap the benefits of this arc is an indication of the sluggishness inherent in vast social change not an indictment of Enlightenment values.

Anarcho-syndicalism...a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in broader society. The end goal of syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery. Anarcho-syndicalist theory generally focuses on the labour movement. Reflecting the anarchist philosophy from which it draws its primary inspiration, anarcho-syndicalism is centred on the idea that power corrupts and that any hierarchy that cannot be ethically justified must be dismantled. The basic principles of anarcho-syndicalism are solidarity, direct action (action undertaken without the intervention of third parties such as politicians, bureaucrats and arbitrators) and direct democracy, or workers' self-management. ...creating an alternative cooperative economic system with democratic values and production centred on meeting human needs. Anarcho-syndicalists perceive the primary purpose of the state as the defence of private property in the forms of capital goods and thereby of economic, social and political privilege.... (from picky weedia) A Rolling Stone says, "hey you, get off of my cloud!" while a Scotsman says, "Hey McLeod, get off of my ewe!"

https://coinsweekly.com/the-forgotten-d-day-10-versus-12/ Seems like the Brits had some base 12 going on for a while. Divvying up money would be easier, due to the large number of nontrivial factors.

Not sure this opinion is supported by studies finding a lower average IQ in impoverished countries. Clearly nourishment, societal development and education opportunities make some difference. Also worth noting that temperaments that are anxious when any part of testing is timed may, however deep their minds, do less well on IQ tests that have timed problem solving portions. (I know this applies to chess, too: there are brilliant chess players who avoid timed chess because time pressure clouds their thinking)

My observations growing up were that certain traits (task persistence, impulse control) seemed to correlate with functional intelligence. For example, kids who took music lessons early in life and responded well to strong encouragement to buckle down and practice, tended to be smart and do well in school. (similar with families that pushed reading time in evenings and limited tv) Probably less because of inherent neurological advantage and more because they could transfer the learning skills acquired early in music training to other fields. We might do well, so far as children are concerned, with focusing on what promotes elongated attention span, creative resourcefulness and task persistence. And do so without stifling social interaction and blocking emotional intelligence. (maybe why music kids seemed generally smart, because music has both task persistence challenges and built-in social interaction)

The problem, well documented now, of tree planting programs is that they are often greenwashing - species are planted without consideration of their hardiness and water/soil requirements in relation to the bioregion. There's a brief period of being attentive, then most of the saplings die off. A better approach is restoring ecosystems, sometimes called rewilding... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/19/the-promise-and-the-politics-of-rewilding-india What do you think of massive increases in microplastic pollution, as the balls erode over time? Microplastic pollution is already a major global problem, and threat to oceanic food chains (including phytoplankton).

The universe is essentially a large kidney bean and consciousness is the gas that arises from a god digesting the bean. Or as TS Eliot wrote, the river's tent is broken.

I guess why anyone would want to track Musk is another question. Is there anti-tracking software that would entirely remove all Elon Musk news from any news outlets I'm browsing? Even better, software that allows me to target Musk with a Rothschild XP-42 Orbital Laser the next time he shares one of his stunted adolescent gibes and/or Dunning Kruger Effect opinions via social media.

The mention of punctuated equilibrium by @joigus reminded me about the recent Nature paper studying the dropoff in "disruptive" groundbreaking research. Here's a pull-quote from the New York Times coverage today... https://archive.ph/hwOGJ (screenshot of full article) Miracle vaccines. Videophones in our pockets. Reusable rockets. Our technological bounty and its related blur of scientific progress seem undeniable and unsurpassed. Yet analysts now report that the overall pace of real breakthroughs has fallen dramatically over the past almost three-quarters of a century. This month in the journal Nature, the report’s researchers told how their study of millions of scientific papers and patents shows that investigators and inventors have made relatively few breakthroughs and innovations compared with the world’s growing mountain of science and technology research. The three analysts found a steady drop from 1945 through 2010 in disruptive finds as a share of the booming venture, suggesting that scientists today are more likely to push ahead incrementally than to make intellectual leaps. “We should be in a golden age of new discoveries and innovations,” said Michael Park, an author of the paper and a doctoral candidate in entrepreneurship and strategic management at the University of Minnesota. The new finding of Mr. Park and his colleagues suggests that investments in science are caught in a spiral of diminishing returns and that quantity in some respects is outpacing quality. While unaddressed in the study, it also raises questions about the extent to which science can open new frontiers and sustain the kind of boldness that unlocked the atom and the universe and what can be done to address the shift away from pioneering discovery. Earlier studies have pointed to slowdowns in scientific progress but typically with less rigor. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5

Why don't you try that, then? Being mindful what a basic antacid does, perhaps you can hypothesize what the result will be. Grind up some eggshells (or use powdered garden lime) in water, add some baking soda, see what if anything happens. You are the observer 1, right?

You may want to look into the area of quantum computing.

There's just one goal??

To your stomach? Sounds like an antacid blend. The baking soda part (NaHCO3) part will react pretty quickly with the stomach acid (HCl). The calcium carbonate will also neutralize the acid. Not sure but I think the baking soda works a little quicker. Both lower the concentration of H+ radicals.

https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-072833 Abstract Objective To compare the rate of energy expenditure of low efficiency walking with high efficiency walking. Design Laboratory based experimental study. Setting United States. Participants 13 healthy adults (six women, seven men) with no known gait disorder, mean (±standard deviation) age 34.2±16.1 years, height 174.2±12.6 cm, weight 78.2±22.5 kg, and body mass index 25.6±6.0. Intervention Participants performed three, five minute walking trials around an indoor 30 m course. The first trial consisted of walking at a freely chosen walking speed in the participant’s usual style. The next two trials consisted of low efficiency walks in which participants were asked to duplicate the walks of Mr Teabag and Mr Putey (acted by John Cleese and Michael Palin, respectively) in the legendary Monty Python Ministry of Silly Walks (MoSW) skit that first aired in 1970. Distance covered during the five minute walks was used to calculate average speed. Ventilation and gas exchange were collected throughout to determine oxygen uptake (V̇O2; mL O2/kg/min) and energy expenditure (EE; kcal/kg/min; 1 kcal=4.18 kJ), reported as mean±standard deviation. Main outcome measures V̇O2 and EE. Results V̇O2 and EE were about 2.5 times higher (P<0.001) during the Teabag walk compared with participants’ usual walk...

Sulphates form compounds at altitude that are especially good at reflecting solar radiation (you'd have to look it up, but there's some sort of scattering index that indicates the relative degrees of scattering and absorption - I'm a little rusty on this). Also, they make good condensation nuclei. You will recall that diffuse water vapor is a GHG (and CO2 effect magnifier), but condensed droplets (i.e. clouds) increase albedo and reflect radiation. That's why there's an anomalous cooling trend (or rather, flattening of the global warming trend IIRC) during the decades 1940-1970s, due to a massive escalation in burning of high-sulfur varieties of coal. As soon as this was curtailed, as governments started dealing with the acid rain problem, that cooling effect went away.

For someone new to the field, Will Buckingham's "The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained" is a nice intro. For wading a tiny bit deeper, there is Bertrand Russell's classic, "The Problems of Philosophy," which brings a lot of clarity to difficult concepts. If there's a particular branch of philosophy you are interested in, I can also suggest more specific works.

I see your point on topic relevance, but would suggest the relevance lies in asking why have a thread that duplicates all the back and forth on cavemen, invisible images, etc. More of a "meta" relevance. Especially when served up by what is obviously the same person after they encountered critical headwinds in their first thread. I would have been agreeable to a request to edit the sockpuppet portion of the post out, but your acceptance of Zapatos mockery while deleting mine struck me as a little inconsistent. None of this is of burning importance, but I thought you deserved a reply.

Not sure why Zapatos wisecrack stays, but mine was just deleted (though it's partially preserved in exchemist's reply). I am not the one posting under two forum names or trolling on their unsupported assertions and apparent psychic knowledge of stone age peoples cognition. If mods are going to start disappearing people's posts, I think that's going to chill discussion here.

And if we could trigger them, there's the problem that eruption is often pretty unpleasant for those who live nearby. (also, lots of dust can backfire if it deposits heavily on glaciers or snowfields, lowering the albedo for an extended period) I'm surprised they don't erupt more, given that we have stopped sacrificing virgins to appease the volcano gods.