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That was short lived: Explosions rock Kyiv again as Russians rain fire on Ukraine | AP News
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If I was able to live for millions of years
Genady replied to Snowbeaver's topic in Evolution, Morphology and Exobiology
To be able to live for millions of years while interacting with environment, you'd have to evolve. It wouldn't be a Darwinian evolution, but rather evolution in a generic sense of changing in time. Simply because the environment changes in time. -
Of course, I'm not the first asking this question. Here is a 10 years old article, The advantage of ambiguity in language -- ScienceDaily. The opinion of these MIT linguists is that a context disambiguates well enough, so that a language can reuse some parts: "once we understand that context disambiguates, then ambiguity is not a problem -- it's something you can take advantage of, because you can reuse easy [words] in different contexts over and over again."
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The so called centrifugal force acts like a gravitational force, or a horizontal component added to the Earth gravitational force. The rest goes according to Archimedes.
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Their picture is that movements in the core cause changes in both the gravitational field and the geomagnetic field. The changes in geomagnetic field affect the cosmic rays behavior very fast. The changes in gravitational field affect the movements in the crust, but this takes time, thus the two weeks delay.
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In this study the authors found a significant correlation: global strong seismic activity followed about two weeks after detection of variations in cosmic rays. Causal connection is not clear, but the authors suggest either effects of massive movements of the liquid iron in the Earth core, or some effects of the Sun. They have noticed some additional correlations and periodicity, but these need more data. [2204.12310] Observation of large scale precursor correlations between cosmic rays and earthquakes (arxiv.org)
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Perhaps you could measure this by displacement in a liquid that doesn't dissolve them.
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It is interesting that finds like this still happen, in a long and densely populated place, in an agricultural field rather than under some old construction... Plus, I drove through Khan Younis 40 years ago... Palestinian farmer finds 4,500-year-old statue of a goddess while working his land - CNN Style
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AFAIK ambiguities exist in all human languages. I wonder, is it a bug or a feature? Or, maybe, a side effect?
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It is effect of buoyancy. If it floats, it will move to the center. If it sinks, it will move outside.
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Perpetuum Mobile in action
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More "textbook" examples (from Yule, George. The Study of Language) : Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Annie bumped into a man with an umbrella. Their child has grown another foot. I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know. (Groucho Marx) These are designed for small boys and girls. The parents of the bride and groom were waiting outside. The students complained to everyone that they couldn’t understand.
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Star Trek is here: US Navy shoots down drone with a laser.
Genady replied to StringJunky's topic in Science News
Curiously, the fresh news from Israel on the same topic: Israel carries out successful laser interception trials - Israel News - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com) -
In about year 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer - yes, the poet - wrote a step-by-step guide, A Treatise on the Astrolabe, where he described in a clear, technical prose the use of the instrument, to his 10 years old son! A Treatise on the Astrolabe (chirurgeon.org)
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Star Trek is here: US Navy shoots down drone with a laser.
Genady replied to StringJunky's topic in Science News
It can be interpreted - as intended - that Navy used laser to shoot down drone. But it also can be interpreted that Navy shoots down drone which had a laser on it. Here is a snapshot from an MIT lecture with a similar example. -
Star Trek is here: US Navy shoots down drone with a laser.
Genady replied to StringJunky's topic in Science News
"shoots with laser" or "drone with laser" -
Star Trek is here: US Navy shoots down drone with a laser.
Genady replied to StringJunky's topic in Science News
(This is OT, but the previous comment is so too) The title is a textbook example of language ambiguity. -
Trolling (split from Quick Forum Questions)
Genady replied to Kittenpuncher's topic in Suggestions, Comments and Support
Exactly. I have to answer to my conscience only. I can express my POV, if I want to. I can learn POVs of others and understand them, if I want to. There is nothing more can be done about them. If another person doesn't agree with my POV, it is not because they don't understand it, but because their POV is different. So, there is no point in explaining my POV again and again, is there? -
This relationship is needed because fields and particles don't only exist inside a curved spacetime, but they tell spacetime how to curve.
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Yes, but I think (1) time was not compressed, (2) IIRC, the time when it was compressed to a nucleus size was before inflation and then even the unified force did not exist yet; it supposedly appeared in decay of inflation field, when the universe was of a size of a marble.
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The Consciousness Question (If such a question really exists)
Genady replied to geordief's topic in General Philosophy
Going back to the OP topic, I think it belongs rather to biology than philosophy forum. -
The Consciousness Question (If such a question really exists)
Genady replied to geordief's topic in General Philosophy
There are MRI and other similar methods; many brains are already well known and reexamining of the existing images might be sufficient. I don't know why would they look for more. -
The Consciousness Question (If such a question really exists)
Genady replied to geordief's topic in General Philosophy
Where did I say that I would do any of this? -
The Consciousness Question (If such a question really exists)
Genady replied to geordief's topic in General Philosophy
I'm sorry, but I still don't know what your question is. Can you just ask it in a straight form, please? -
The Consciousness Question (If such a question really exists)
Genady replied to geordief's topic in General Philosophy
Gained from what?