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Such cornea jokes are the myopia of the people.

Sometimes people get psychology, which remains a mix of art and science, confused with neuroscience, which is more the scientific approach. Seems like there are branches that are closer to neuroscience, like psychopharmacology, where they draw on disciplines like biochemistry, genetics, etc. Other branches, like Jungian analysis, tend more towards an intuitive art of observing a human psyche. There are interdisciplinary categories like behavioral science or cognitive science which, as their names imply, lean more towards the array of techniques called "the scientific method." There's a fairly wide spectrum in how all these branches work, with counselors whose primary tool is empathy at one end, and neuroscientists whose primary tools are technology, clinical studies, and rigorous data sifting, at the other.

Driving a car here in the winter (Dakotas), we definitely put that waste heat to use, warming the cabin space. Recovering heat from the coolant jacket is easy, getting it from the exhaust would not be economical as others have noted. Hardly anyone up here drove the old VWs in the winter, with the air-cooled engines, because the cabin heating systems simply couldn't capture enough radiated heat from the engine through passive airflow. And on hot summer days, the Beetle would overheat and vapor lock.

Count me among the dubious. What happens if a jet accidentally flies through the beam? (Murphy's law cannot be violated) Why wouldn't ground solar arrays with battery or gravity storage (to even out the supply) be orders of magnitude cheaper? A kilo to geostationary orbit is estimated around $7000(US). And they're talking an array that's a km each side, plus all the maintenance, robots, stabilizing jets, flare shielding, etc. In any case, with research progress on ambient temp superconductors, I would think there's a brighter future for grid distribution on the planets surface.

This thread has massaged loose a recollection of enjoying Sam Kean's book, Caesar's Last Breath, which touches on many aspects of gas diffusion, entropy, and atmospheric chemistry... as the title whimsically suggests. I thank Studiot, Ken, Seth, and Exchem for illuminating some of the tricky aspects of concentration gradients and a possible fresh excuse for avoiding retrievals of boxes stored in the attic (not well ventilated, and a perilous trip via ladder is required). I hope I am correct in understanding that the troposphere tends towards homogeneity, where longterm gases are concerned, while the stratosphere is a bit different with a higher ozone concentration.

Not sure what that means. Sorry - a minor language confusion. In death cults, people believe they will die and are okay with it because they are rewarded in heaven or their souls are harvested by benevolent extraterrestrials or whatever.

I think a lot depends on how Ukrainians hold up in the winter. If infrastructure is destroyed to where many are freezing to death and Western aid can't get through, he may feel there is no moral choice other than negotiating.

Doubt it's anything but a cult overfed on propaganda. They might be Millennarians who believe it's inevitable. Somewhat akin to that doomsday cult Mike Pompeo and Pence are members of. https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/mike-pence-mike-pompeo-belong-doomsday-cult-may-trying-bring-apocalypse/?mc_cid=d1d2f0da07&mc_eid=7bd263b041#.XD4aPp1NIMQ.reddit

I would hazard a guess that many people in the central Front Range area of Colorado are getting tired of mealy-mouthed politician responses to mass shootings. Littleton, Aurora, Boulder, now CO Springs - I haven't broken it down statistically, but that seems like a high concentration there. And the latest shooting, at the gay nightclub in CS, it seems the shooter evaded the Red Flag law that should have taken his weapons from him a couple years ago. I hope this tragedy will prompt some modifications in enforcement of such laws. In any case, heroic job done by the fellow who went all Liam Neeson on the guy - probably stopped the body count from going into double digits.

Fasting for a week, it's not uncommon for fasters to drink lemon water with a tiny pinch of salt. Metabolically, it doesn't have enough to activate calorie absorption (or stop ketosis), and it helps keep electrolytes up.

Lake Nyos disaster is worth googling, on the dangers of CO2 accumulation on a large scale when there's a sudden belch of a lake. The cloud hugged the ground and moved down valleys, killing 1700+ people.

I'm sure others have addressed some of the long established science on CO2 and radiative forcing. I'm just here to point out that you forgot that water vapor amplifies the GH effect of CO2 and throws off your calculations. Increased water vapor in the atmosphere amplifies the warming caused by other greenhouse gases. It works like this: As greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane increase, Earth's temperature rises in response. This increases evaporation from both water and land area. Climatologists have made more predictive models by accounting for this increase in water vapor as a positive feedback mechanism in global warming. As absorbed energy radiates up from the Earth's surface, water vapor is very good at absorbing and holding that heat in the lower atmosphere. And the atmosphere can hold a lot of water vapor - it's a very long way to saturation.

But they don't. The travelers in the Triplet scenario exist in two inertial reference frames, while the earth observer exists only in one. The only reference frame an observer "uses" is her own. The point of the fly-by scenario is to remove deceleration from the picture and get to the core of the paradox and resolve it with the multiple IRFs flashing digital readouts to each other. As long as we're in effectively flat Mink spacetime, with no large masses around, that's all that's needed. Maybe I'm not really understanding your problem with that, but you seem to think Don hasn't really explained it. If I skimmed past something my apologies - I was probably too near c.

Teaspoon of grounds in mug, pour boiling water in, let sit a minute. Grounds will settle, you can drink off most of it without fuss. Kaliningrad is Russia's only ice free seaport on the Baltic. And without Crimea it might be their only ice free seaport except for Vladivostok. I'm all for containment, but that could verge on strangulation.

Durbin is right on with his urging Congress to pass a code of ethics for SCOTUS. Sorely needed. Leaks, failures to recuse themselves (this means you, Amy and Clarence), spousal influence and conflicts of interest... it's a cesspool atm.

The madman is probably Aleksandr Dugin, whose book Foundations of Geopolitics had a powerful influence on Putin and Russian leadership generally. If you read a summary, it makes clear that US/NATO ceding any sovereign territory to Putin is a bad path to get on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics The book expresses an ideology called Neo-Eurasianism. The ideology of the Eurasianism was partially incorporated into a new Neo-Eurasianism movement after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. It considers Russia to be culturally closer to Asia than to Western Europe. This ideology was influenced by political theorist Aleksandr Dugin to publish in 1997 a magnum opus by the name of Foundations of Geopolitics. He later founded the Eurasia Party on the Russian political scene.[12] Political scientist Anton Shekhovtsov defines Dugin's version of Neo-Eurasianism as "a form of a fascist ideology centred on the idea of revolutionising the Russian society and building a totalitarian, Russia-dominated Eurasian Empire that would challenge and eventually defeat its eternal adversary represented by the United States and its Atlanticist allies, thus bringing about a new ‘golden age’ of global political and cultural illiberalism". In a sense. Though maybe sleepy indifference would be a better term than appeasement. I think maybe US and NATO lulled themselves into believing that giving Russia a seaport would pacify it and, hey, the Crimea peninsula was mostly ethnic Russians anyway so why fuss. Not sure if there was much awareness that Crimea was a domino falling.

Longterm prevention, if you're getting the corrosion on the negative terminal, is to run the engine at idle without accessories running for a couple minutes each day. This can prevent undercharge, which is the root cause of the buildup. If corrosion is on positive terminal then it's overcharging. IIRC that's less common. Either way, a failing alternator can cause incorrect charging and so corrosion to increase. Vented sulfuric acid vapor is reacting with the copper terminal and forming copper sulfate. So, as others note, petrolatum is a good way to seal off the copper.

China buying fossil fuel from Russia at a record-setting pace - there is the mother of all blunters.

Just as with other climate changes where there are feedback effects, we need to watch closely and determine what all the effects might be. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/17/microbes-melting-glaciers-bacteria-ecosystems Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of bacteria are being released by melting glaciers, a study has shown. The microbes being washed downstream could fertilise ecosystems, the researchers said, but needed to be much better studied to identify any potential pathogens. The scientists said the rapid melting of the ice by the climate crisis meant the glaciers and the unique microbial ecosystems they harboured were “dying before our eyes”, leaving researchers racing to understand them before they disappeared. Some of the microbes may also be a future source of useful biological molecules, such as new antibiotics. The scientists collected surface meltwaters from eight glaciers across Europe and North America and from two sites on the Greenland ice cap. They found tens of thousands of microbes in each millilitre of water....

Thanks, Pete. The National Geographic primer is pretty helpful. It is somewhat reassuring that the turbines turn slowly enough that most fish can get by without being turned to sushi. I will read further.

America, being a fairly stable continental land mass, I imagine that the trend in plate tectonics will keep America as a portion of the Earth's crust for several hundred million years. The duration of democracy, however, a recent experiment in government after millennia of fiefdoms, monarchies, totalitarian dictatorships, and misc. authoritarian political structures, is difficult to predict. Iceland, Isle of Man, and The Six Nations of the Iroquois all managed to keep some sort of democracy going for many centuries verging on a millennium, but those societies differed distinctly from a large modern industrialized nation and had somewhat more homogeneity and zero would-be oligarchs trying to shoulder in. So, tough to say.

As the OP title suggests, just asking if the Grinding Nemo group has a legitimate objection or do engineers have reasonable confidence that the marine life can be kept away from the screws. It looks like the mobile platform approach will be better than the stationary installations, but I just wondered if anyone had more insight on this.

My talent for misremembering Latin phrases is the ne plus ultra. Hobbes has a famous quote regarding mankind, if left in a state of nature... Hobbes wrote some stupid things, too, like a faulty proof of squaring the circle. As fans of the American comic strip know, he inspired the name of Hobbes the stuffed tiger in "Calvin and Hobbes."

Losing to Hobbs, I assume her life will be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. For her party as a whole, it will be Hobbes' bellum omnia contra omnes.