StringJunky

Millionaires are common. Mainly those with it tied up in houses. Musk's daughter has him sized up: All the world's a stage, eh?

Yes. a lot of the 60-plussers attitudes are generally shocking and antiquated in my area. It tickles me greatly that Elon now has a trans-daughter. Binarity is at the historical cusp of being seen like the aether, I think. The increase in variability of expression will bode us more favourably to surmount adverse circumstances in the future. It means individuals can move away from restrictive traditional social expectations into activities and cognitive pursuits they excel at, which should benefit the societies that welcome them. "Vive la difference", as the French say.

He looks mature, with sufficient gravitas, not old. He doesn't look like he's pushing up against gravity; that's the important thing.

To dim this is a parlour game, not to be taken seriously. I actively engage with Zionist-type morons elsewhere everyday, who come out with the most ridiculous rubbish and gutter-level insults, so I have developed somewhat of a thick skin, but, yeah, finding a reply from him is like finding dogshit on your shoe most of the time. If he can brazenly come out with the stuff he does, I can respond in kind, like now. I've done my bit reporting, but it's up to the mods.

Ok. The Higgs field is what contributes to mass?

We can talk about space between things and things that occupy space, depending on the focus. 'Space' is just an abstraction to delineate an object within it or outside of it, or the whole inclusive volume. A space is occupied, or not, depending what your focus is. Are their 'actors' in it or not. This is turning into a tautology.

Space aka volume. Distance is a 1D abstraction of space. Space as something material depends on what you want to look at within that volume.

Unoccupied space at what level? That's semantics, depending on what one is focusing on. All space has matter in it. If the space didn't have matter in it there would be no space, since space is the distance between things or that volume a thing occupies. No definition can be all inclusive... to define means to distinguish i.e delineate, or we might as well say 'Universe' to cover every possible instance.

I think so too. Space is that which is occupied by matter and matter is that which occupies space, in the same sense that matter tells space how to curve and space tells matter how to move. They are inextricable. Per Markus, some years ago: "Spacetime is the map, not the territory". It's a conceptualization of a geometrical arena, with volumetric and temporal axes, to describe energy-density-momentum through time of phenomena within it in some arbitrary volume. The ontological nature - what something is intrinsically - can never be known, only what it does. Trying to get a macro-materialistic sense of things outside of our senses is futile.

Trump and Vance are spineless political chameleons.

Shapiro is being like a good scientist: changing his position with the mounting evidence. History will be on the side of the antizionists. The true nature and aims of Zionism is execrable. The US and Europe has fought wars against the governing assembly of fascists and authoritarians who want a monoethnocentric state, and here they are throwing billions and arms at such people so that they can create one. America and the UK has truly been bought. AIPAC, and the like, are an existential threat to world peace.

Or as Trump would like it "Trump 24/7/365!"

In retrospect, my exposure to the history of the British industrial revolution 1740-1940 primed me for appreciating anthropogenic climate change now. Newcomen changed everything. It meant absolutely bugger all to me in my teens. I agree that you need some decades behind you and lived some of your own history to get a proper feel for it. Time means little as a teen... like a billionaire awash with money.

I think this time, you've just got to think about winning. The alternative is too unpalatable. There is the prospect of there not being another election for many years after this one. Those millions of guns could about to be getting very busy in a few years or less.

That's good. I'm becoming more interested in history as well. I never used to like it at school. I've sort of realized that we need to know where things came from in order to know where things are going.

Sometimes, offspring can feel overwhelmed by their parents achievements and have more modest ambitions. One of my cousins was like that. Not everyone is cut out to think in abstract sciency/mathy ways. We are what we are. It takes all sorts to make a world. In chemistry and especially organic chem, there seems to be mountains of stuff you have to know by rote, as you said. I prefer to learn and apply principles to answer questions, rather than have to learn lots of stuff by rote, I get bored with it. My memory is not my strongest point is likely why that is. I see principles and formulae as like a Swiss knife that I can do a number of things with. I can get more out for the effort applied.

LOL!

You are not reasoning. You are, in effect, using a cooking recipe book to describe how to fix a car.

What they'll possibly try to do now is to lose that mess in a bigger mess that'll they'll try to create, going forward. Trash the political landscape with strategic lies and uncertainties to level the increasingly asymmetric situation they now face, and then convince people they are the way of this mess. Sound familiar? Then, pull out Project 2025 again as a solution.

Taken in aggregate with his support of Project 2025 and other stuff, a duck is a duck.

The air blowers will reduce the amount of natural carbonic acid, which is highly unstable in a turbulent environment. You might knock it down to the same pH as the catchment water if you turn off the blowers to find out. You only need to expose the lake surface to the atmosphere for it to oxygenate. The air blowers function is to temporarily disrupt the surface tension to allow gas exchange, it doesn't actually force air into the water directly. A bottom/up circulation should provide sufficient exchange without agitating the water too much, such that it liberates the carbonic acid as carbon dioxide. The carbonic acid is an integral part of the lake's natural pH management system. My reference is experience in dealing with persistently rising pH in hydroponic systems. Took me a long time to figure it out. Look into the carbonic acid cycle if you want to understand it more deeply. TLDR. Aim for water circulation from lower down to rise to the water's surface for gaseous exchange without agitation. I think the pump can be lifted some way off the lake bed, say mid-water, to avoid making the water cloudy and turbid from sediments. Plan your pump arrangement so that the water body moves around in a manner that covers the majority of the lake. The rain and wind will also contribute to breaking up the surface tension for gas exchange, so it doesn't have to be all artificially generated. You could try this as an experiment in a bath of the lake water and monitor the pH as you play around with it. To start, put some lake water in a mini-lake arrangement and leave it undisturbed, whilst monitoring the pH over time. It might take a few days. Then play around with your circulation pumps to find the best circulation pattern.

60-100psi.

Yes, although I'm not sufficiently competent myself, I appreciate that verbosity is no substitute for mathematical descriptions.

Why make a big deal out of it? I see the title as someone who is RELATIVELY knowledgeable on one or more of the 3 main branches compared to the sites general readership. I think you are nitpicking. Careers or degrees aren't made or lost on this forum. Someone doing a degree will not rely on one source.

It looks like to me that it is not possible to relate every single detail and at certain level, like yours, there needs to be a minimum of knowledge on the part of the questioner that needs to be assumed they have.