Everything posted by StringJunky
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Does space have mass ? If not, how does it accelerate ?
Or take a long walk on a short pier....
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Examples of Awesome, Unexpected Beauty in Nature
A spoonful of sugar.
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James Webb Telescope and L2 Orbit Question
I found this but way over my head. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/284/why-should-the-james-webb-space-telescope-stay-in-the-unstable-l2 The maths seems to be here, as mentioned at the end of the first link: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/286642/why-are-the-lagrangian-points-l-1-l-2-l-3-unstable
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James Webb Telescope and L2 Orbit Question
@Janus might know.
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Why am I suddenly being pestered with adverts covering the bottom half of my screen ?
I thought iOS users basically avoided adverts because they paid for much of the stuff... silly me. That's not advertising, that's spamming.
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Scientific establishments control over human evolution.
Perhaps the OP doesn't appreciate that the scientific community encourages an adversarial environment at research level. No one is going to give someone a leg-up to recognition, and apart from that, it is good for the pursuit of scientific fidelity.
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Why am I suddenly being pestered with adverts covering the bottom half of my screen ?
You can get that blocker for edge
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Why am I suddenly being pestered with adverts covering the bottom half of my screen ?
uBlock Origin should sort it. They make it for different browsers.
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Scientific establishments control over human evolution.
I will invoke Newton: If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. You can't create anything from a vacuum.
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A decent free backup software
Have a lool at Macrium Reflect Free: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree?mo
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Wire Black Coral helix ?
Could it be a response to the direction of the local current? How big that locale might be, I have no idea.
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What are you listening to right now?
About 15 years ago, I heard Julian Byzantine's version on lute of this, and proclaimed to my guitar-playing friend that I wanted to play like that, and he responded with "Just buy the record"... way to suck my ego out.
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What are you listening to right now?
@joigus Bach for lute on guitar:
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STVoy Class 9 Warp Core Energy Generation
"It's logical, Captain".
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How can I learn more?
University is no longer a filter for the brightest in a subject. Opportunity should be equal to all, but ability isn't equally distributed. This is an example of how good intentions lead to mediocrity. Industry's job of finding the right candidates is made increasingly harder as time passes.
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How absorbable is arsenic (in water) through the skin?
That figure was for bathing/showering water and transdermal absorption risk, as per OP. The OP's water is 1-2% of that figure, so it should be pretty safe for that use.
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How absorbable is arsenic (in water) through the skin?
It seems up to 500ppb is safe.
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Political Humor
This made me smile, from the leader of the China-leaning opposition party in Taiwan:
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How unsafe are the gullible ?
I was going to make a thread called "You couldn't make it up", with this as the subject. They contain thorium oxide, an alpha emitter. They are supposed to ionize the air but alphas don't do that.
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The next pandemic : What have we learned ?
Yes, I think the draconian measures needed to start there. Maybe they'll do that next time.
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The next pandemic : What have we learned ?
I think the way some in the US talk about freedom is way overrated, It's not to be at any cost.
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Human Rights in a pandemic
There can be no freedom without civic responsibility. This needs to start with embedding it into schoolchildren from the beginning of their education.
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hijack from Roclket air polution
Thanks. I remember that from someone here some years ago. Pretty spot-on I thought.
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What does 'emergent' mean in a physics context (split from Information Paradox)
OK
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hijack from Roclket air polution
I think this is the overall MO of the forum: when you open your mouth, your brains are on parade. It is that which is judged, along with any evidence. Markus is a case in point, being a rather good autodidact without a PhD iirc.