StringJunky

It looks like he could get served with breaching the US code on insurrection.

Whodathunkit? That it could actually happen in the US?

I noticed, reading the news, the Republican top brass are starting to become more autonomous in their public thoughts. I get the feeling he will be buried politically by them, as well as the other things going on. Insurrection's even been bandied about, with the storming of the Capitol... one woman has been shot and killed in it.

Yes, but the potential is there and symbollically it's good news. There's two or three swing voters on the Republican side isn't there... like Collins and Romney?

Looks like the Dems have the Senate. .. just.

There are named amendments, so it has been in the past. I think the stars haven't been aligned in terms of having the necessary House and Senate votes to have allowed that to happen in recent history, AFAIK

Your reading the pioneering experiment from 1940, which was a semisynthesis. Read the paragraph underneath that for tthe total synthesis done in 1971.

The first stage of a submarine-launched Trident missile is done by high pressure steam generated by the sub's nuclear core. I think it lifts the missile about 30ft above sea level before the rocket engine kicks in.

Sounds like something my mother would do... she misses nothing.

The scientist in question was handling a laboratory-grade compound, which is off the charts compared to what a non-chemist might be exposed to. At the time, the standard safety protocol she followed wasn't sufficient but, obviously, things have been tightened since then.

Do you ever hear scientists speak of 'truth'? It is not a goal serious ones aspire to because there is no way to know. History shows us that it is a moving target.

Somewhere on the evolutionary tree, we had a common ancestor(s) that carried those common traits and then the respective lineages diverged to what they are today..

I corrected your post. You're framing the above as absolute.... it is a spectrum disorder after all.

Being a piano virtuoso doesn't help you navigate you through lthe practicalities ife, although it it may prompt more help because they have gained others attention through that ability.

You clearly don't have a clue how disabling it can be. Much of what we see on the internet is about autistic savants, with specific, extraordinary abilities, and focuses just on that aspect of their life.

Autism is a spectrum disorder, so some can and some can't.

Physical danger, like walking across a busy road without due consideration to traffic, or using knives. The two I know will sit for hours doing the same thing. What we call "commonsense" is lost on them. Bear in mind, as I'm sure you know, they are all different in the challenges they face. Being bullied in school is another because they can send out the wrong social cues and don't respond in the way their non-autistic peers expect. The two I know, one is in his twenties and the other about ten, don't have a realistic prospect of being fully independent, I don't think.

Not all autistic people are socially and intellectually able, it is often a disability. I know autistic people that have no concept of danger... for instance.

Return the item. Did you use Paypal? You probably have recourse there.

Yes. It was too late to edit.

Strong convictions, as well as weak ones are worthless with data to support them. On a science forum, backing up assertions when asked is pretty much obligatory.

This quote seems appropriate: "The average person thinks he is not".

@curiousone So, you think you can bypass the the decades of study that it takes to achieve notability in scientific circles? Science is like any other endeavour... practice, practice, practice. It's my guess that the trmes amateurs have had their ideas 'pinched' on a forum by pro scientistists is vanishingly small. All scientists know that once an idea is 'out there' anyone can use it and they expect/hope it will be used.

What were they thinking?! Mind you, the arming keys to the UK nuclear bombs in the 50's or 60's were kept in a key cupboard in an office on the airbase....

A lump of plutonium from the US WW2 nuclear stockpile. It was to be part of the third bomb dropped on Japan but was used for criticaity experiments instead. Failures in handling the reflector material properly caused brief moments of supercriticality, exposing those near it it to around a 1000 rads of radiation. It eventually killed them.