StringJunky

I suppose one should really be mindful of the familiarity of the listener to a particular style of delivery and adjust accordingly. Because it is not his intention to instill negativity from his responses, but yet he does, and he wishes to hear other peoples experience about it.

Concerning bluntness: I think science academics appreciate concision* in delivery and this can come across as blunt to those who are not trained this way. *Concision: Writing principle of eliminating redundancy. This may include deliberately excluding social and emotive cues, like delivering in a consciously affable or nice way. It's just to the point. I like swansont's delivery personally, although it took some time to not feel pissed off with the apparent terseness... it's just conciseness.

Seth. LOL! Yes, analogously, it's like a triangle rising to an infinitesimally narrow peak... at the top one approaches total ignorance.

Perhaps some academics fall into the trap of expecting too much of themselves and feel they shouldn't come up short in their area of interest in a discussion. My thoughts generally on this:Those who never made a mistake, never made anything. If we are talking to people who expose gaps in our knowledge, they are the ones to be held onto for more. It's all about how it's delivered. I'm not in this category, but if one has a pHD I suppose some people assume one has very extensive knowledge of a a subject, but it's actually only in the basics. As one rises through academia, specialistion increases depth at the expense of breadth. We can't know everything.

I did too until until around 1980 when the New Romantic music came around, which looking back was a fertile ground for non-heterosexul, non-binary, non-macho artistic expressions and became mainstream. There are gay pioneers who who were doing these things before that but they were outliers. They are the ones that took the violence and contempt on their own in times when it was strictly taboo.

Yes, when there is no other influence, things are in freefall. Freefall is a curvilinear motion (geodesic), with the degree of curvature dictated by the mass-energy of the larger object. The two attracted objects actually affect each other but it's simpler that way. If you are freefalling you feel no acceleration i.e. no change in speed or direction... that's gravity. If either of those changes, speed or direction - which we call velocity because it has those two components - you are no longer under freefall and one experiences a resistance in ourpath of motion. That's when we think we feel gravity.

Mass-energy curves spacetime, which causes freefall in objects in free space. Force of gravity is the resistance one feels when our own curved freefall path (geodesic) is inhibited by a more massive object we are attached to i.e. Earth. Spacetime is the 3 dimensions plus time. It is a mathematically-described geometric platform with spatial and temporal co-ordinates scientists use to describe and track events* in space and time. *From Wiki: In physics, and in particular relativity, an event is the instantaneous physical situation or occurrence associated with a point in spacetime (that is, a specific place and time). For example, a glass breaking on the floor is an event; it occurs at a unique place and a unique time.

It's a good job he's not doing it now. Sounds like a purely political stab with no justification... cheap shot.

What I find ironic, given the disgust, is that many heterosexual people engage in 'unnatural' sexual practices not unlike LGBTQs. I think they call that 'hypocrisy'. The simple solution is to not think about it. There is much I would not do, but if two or more consenting people wish to do such filthy things, I'm not going to judge.... time for golden shower.....

I'll @Kerrowman as that should send them a note you have responded, if they have notifications enabled..

This marketing reminds me of past marketing campaigns targeting peoples insecurities about their social acceptability potential, like deodorant campaigns. The difference I think this time is that scientifically-naive women will cause themselves real harm following this particular campaign because to me it's a new frontier that the idiot is pursuing for personal enrichment. I can see allied products coming in future in a trend that wil cause tangible, long term adverse effects to their bodily function... the thin end of a commercially-motivated insidious wedge. I think goverment agencies should come down hard on this quack science. The first adverse effects could well be altering pH outside of its protective functional range to precipitate population booms of pathogenic organisms, which are always there, but are suppressed by larger popuations of Lactobacillus spp etc I've used this Mirror article purely because it came up first and I think it reasonably presents the issue.

For your reassurance that you are not being singled out, have a look at this niggling thread between members who are pretty well versed in physics matters:

Apparently, reading YT comments, Satie hated peope stopping what they were doing to listen to this. He intended it as Muzak or wallpaper music. I think it too irregular a pace with some dynamics to be muzak.

It might be bagpipe soundsthat are earworms for me:

Beatles. I had as this an earworm today. What songs are earworms to others here?

One should expect it. This is image only slightly exaggerating... I jest not.

"Daddy, why is that F22 flying towards our balloon?"

I think ya gonna need all your planes out.

I realised today how robust we are, even after visceral-level disputes.

Another split on the horizon

Right. Adverse and malign social engineering.

Right. OK.

It seems plausible to me. Countermeasures can be learned and applied. The adversary would then be using a lemon, completely unaware.

Perhaps, in general, governments like to keep this sort of stuff under wraps, so they cn exploit these things geopolitically... stuff like equipment secrets they discover and don't want their adversary to know they know. The balloon we saw was perhaps too blatant to apply the usual protocols of secrecy and so they had to talk about it and react publicly.