StringJunky

If there is just you and a rock for company, in space, which you are sitting on with uniform velocity, and you see another object getting larger; who is moving, you or the other rock? If you can't answer this small scenario, you can't have an answer for the complicated ones. Frames can only be arbitrary.

Thanks. Is the problem of understanding spacetime curvature analogously similar to that of whether wave functions are considered real, rather than just an abstract means to describe the phenomonolgy presented to the observer in a shareable, consensus-built format?

Is the curvedenature of spacetime just a mathematical abstraction that happens to model mathematically as a curve on paper, its actual manifestation is something competely different and not mirrored verbatim enough in our 'commonsense' view.

Could the arsenic consumption problem not appear post-useful life, when it is buried and eventually leaches? Are we not kicking that can down the road for a future generation to deal with? Is this not the major issue we are not addressing: the consequences of our present day activities have tangible consequences for those not present in this time period?

Sometimes things take a little longer...

I was thinking last night how the 'pure digital generation' are losing something that we 'analogues-cum-digital' have, and will disappear as we die off. Perhaps this paradigm change has been replicated throughout history, with other profound changes of communication symbology/media. Yes, there are tapes and phono records still being made but they are of restricted demand and not ubiquitous.

What can be plausibly done? It seems to me, through no fault of their own, the those-yet-to-be-born are going to get lost in a sea of BS and played by whoever has the misinformation upperhand at the tme.

Look forward to seeing the 2040 ultra-stealthed furry-winged variation of the F35 fighter.

Look guys, if it's more than five years old, it's probably offensive in the modern vernacular.

As long as it's unique, it might be worth a punt?

Rock Climbing Goby

With the ubiquity of camera phones to close the gaps, the aliens should have been conclusively recorded by now.

You mean like this: conflating sexual preference with his preference to be disgusted with it as genetically programmed? The latter is not innate, I've changed my own opinion on it over time, and my disgust has changed to acceptance. I suppose that answers the OP...it is nurtured by negative messaging/exposure in some way.

I think the comparison with fashion taste is unfortunate because one can change it on a whim, but not who one is attracted to. Fashion, by definition, is ephemeral in nature.

Calcium acetate powder is white.

Chalk and vinegar would give you a cleaner product. The yellow component is someting else.

Same as glasses for long-sight. They are called plano-convex lenses: https://www.firebirdoptics.com/blog/intro-to-the-plano-convex-lens#:~:text=A plano-convex lens is,the lens being bowed outward.

Relativity is established science and the onus is on you to understand it if someone cites it. From your sigs: You do not possess belief, belief possesses you... I'm always open to new ideas, I just don't let them crawl into my skull and take a dump... And Religion evaporates in the light of critical inquiry much like the morning dew in the light of the rising sun... Which could read: Visiting aliens evaporate in the light of critical inquiry much like the morning dew in the light of the rising sun...

Despite their posturing, I think the named belligerents, except probably Kim, understand they still have some ways to go in military techology before they can be confident of attacking NATO. Number of boots on the ground and land area can create an exaggerated projected image of power. Manpower numbers is becoming less important with the advent of increasingly autonomous systems and hybrid warfare methods. imo. Motivation and commitment by personnell is massively important as well, as evidenced by Ukrainians.

Right, ok. It looks like to me that's what happens if you haven't been trained to fight and just given weapons, then thrown in the deep end.

It's not a matter of mere taste, which can be changed with will and repetition.

But they do care about getting the credit and Prighozin is whining the regular army is stealing his glory.

The witterings of the defeated seeing the writing on the wall.

Also known as 'intersubjective consensus'.

The thing is, who one wishes to make a nest with is intrinsic to the person, to any organism actually, i.e. it's not a choice. Wouldn't you say it was unfair/counter-productive to openly criticise something they are hard-wired to feel and do, if it causes no tangible harms to how a society functions?