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F was supposed to be C? Otherwise, their lab is located at 46,000 feet elevation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/26/dr-oz-debate-abortion-local-political-leaders-satire/ Greg, the local political leader, makes a decision on abortion... (Screenshot for nonsubscribers: https://archive.ph/KymKl

Bear in mind the minimum orbital velocity has to be around 7 km/s. So your cannon ball, first encountering many miles of drag - air resistance - before reaching an orbit, would need to be moving faster than that as it departs the muzzle. Watch that first step!

I promise you, @StringJunky, that every thread you start on US politics will soon be depressing as hell. Though I think there's still some mirth to be had at the political level of municipal dogcatcher. We know the dogcatcher won't achieve what they are promising, and it's often hilarious watching them get outsmarted by a dog.

Double plus one, and a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie to you. (my personality is sometimes prone to hyperbole) (and then taking it back, ha!) And yes, a few moments of working on one's listening skills in conversation is worth a hundred personality tests. Not to get all maharishi on you guys, but meditation is really helpful to this. You really got something useful from whichever test you took. But then you would, being a Libra. (couldn't resist - after all, astrology is the Ur-personality mapper, and people have a habit of emulating whatever their "chart" says) But jokes aside, yeah, there are some tests that can give a sense of people's communication styles and life priorities, perhaps, at least as a snapshot at the time of testing and maybe that holds up for a while.

Given the sordid business some of the more fringe candidates seem to get up to, that comment verges on literal truth. US voters rarely listen to economists, who in this election cycle would be pointing out that current inflation has global causes and in no way reflects policy missteps on Joe's part. Media consumers in the RW bubble are hermetically sealed away from such facts. The form of populism that attaches zero importance to actual qualifications for public office. The dumbness of this came into blinding clarity in 2008, with Sarah Palin (and poor John McCain having to hold his nose and take her aboard his presidential ticket).

As the Jung part in the Vox article suggested, the questions require one to approach everything as a binary, with a yes/no answer, when the answer for many people is really "depends." Also worth noting a large percent of those who take it a second time will get a different result. (I know we're not obligated to read posted articles, but I really recommend the Vox coverage, especially on the rather pseudoscientific history of Myers-Briggs)

I believe Lakota is preferred, nowadays. (am easily amused by autocorrect)

Mine is ILPT (intuitive loathing of personality tests). https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless

Spotted dove. Indigenous to S/SE Asia, but I've seen them on the west coast of the US where they have spread to. They are seen where common pigeons are seen, in cities. They like it warm, so I haven't seen them in Oregon, where I lived for several years, but did spot a couple in a downtown park in Sacramento.

Yes, but grounding makes certain no charge lingers in the containment vessel. With a very strong EMP, this insures you won't get a shock touching it. Grounding can be as simple as just letting it touch the ground or a cellar floor. No, you are not. 😀

Indeed. One can imagine a Hitler who didn't have a difficult childhood (all his siblings died in childhood, and dad was domineering and abusive) and then didn't have a high school teacher who espoused German nationalism (kind of atypical of Austrians at that time) and strived to indoctrinate his students. With a whole different life following that, perhaps as a regional landscape painter or a professor of political philosophy. But even though no one invents their evilness ex nihilo , we still have to hold them responsible. Adolph and Vlad had choices, forks in the road, and any moral order must hold them responsible for the consequences. They were not totally coerced.

Did you take an angora management class?

Carbon capture, and other clean coal schemes, are pretty much backed only by fossil fuel industry groups, as a sort of greenwashing. And none deal with the dirty and energy intensive aspects of the mining process to obtain the coal (which is why the industry has so rapidly switched focus to NG). Here's some background on the myths surrounding carbon capture, which speak to the OP idea as well: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2021/07/20/top-5-reasons-carbon-capture-and-storage-ccs-is-bogus/ The soil infusion idea has been already debunked here, and elsewhere, but the OP seems unresponsive to this. Hmm.

I found this a helpful breakdown of the types of propaganda that Russia is using to gaslight its citizens.

There is no clean coal dream. Delusion, perhaps. Releasing CO2 adjacent to tree foliage is still releasing it into the air, where most of it will disperse into the atmosphere. And the cost of most of what you describe would make coal power even MORE expensive per kwh, and so solar/wind/geo/tidal would look even better. Where I live, wind is already considerably cheaper than coal, as it is many places. Base load power will be cheaper through storage technologies to even out troughs. And the CO2-to-arable-soil makes no sense at all. Soil is porous and gases can't be contained in it, or transform the soil in the way you conjecture. Plants absorb CO2 through leaves, i.e. from the air.

Once you've got a good Faraday Cage, drop your cellphone in there, and try to call it from another phone. A pretty reliable test. (My spouse has some valuable data stored at home, so we made several FCs in case of EMP attack) Avoid things that have power cords going into them, even if they appear to be a tight metal box. Moon's trash can is a good one. Be sure it's lined with something so that your computer hardware isn't touching the walls (i.e. air gap). Antique dealers sometimes have old double boilers, or any large metal cooking vessel with a tight lid. Small items, like thumb drives, can go in old metal food tins if tightly lidded. May you never have need for this.

LoL. Apparently the moon now has an atmosphere.

OTOH, perhaps the accident was God's way of telling him to die, and so all that fine automotive engineering and medical treatment thwarted the divine will. If people often argue that we cannot plumb the mind of God, being limited creatures, then they have to accept such possibility as part of their faith. (Just playing here...)

Not downloading anything until you summarize what this is about. Advances in tillage?

Charles Trevelyan says hello! One word for you: Picard. Outstanding first season. (JK about Charles Trevelyan) Much better than tormenting tardigrades. Not that the tough little buggers can't take it.

Thanks. Yup, I found the amusing downtime thread from October 2019 ("it was perfect!") I had to read a book. Made of paper. You can't imagine the ordeal of paper cuts and tired wrists! Seriously, I think it's a lovely tradition, reminds us all of the inherent fragility of the net...

Would it be possible to know who the owner is? Like others here, I used whois search and figured out it was a failed DNR, and wondered who I could email which of course was no one. I've experienced this with a few other websites where the owner hides behind a veil of anonymity and can't be reached about issues where only owner permissions can access the problem. I wondered if one of the mods was an owner or knew the owner, so tried to find email for them, but found only a PM button for swansont at thenakedscientist website. And his last activity there was 2015. A nice site, btw, having several members who are also members here.

I come from the American Midwest, where loess is more.

In case Peterkin's formatting above is not clear, that quote begins several paragraphs of expert opinion I was greeting with skepticism. Not sure about the ground zero thing. I understand the motivation, but just haven't firmly committed. Buck Turgidson, yes. Perfect.