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A woman was invited out for a night with the girls. She promised her husband that she would be home by midnight. Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easy. Around 3 A.M., a bit loaded, she headed for home. Just as she got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hall started up and cuckooed 3 times. Quickly, realizing her husband would probably wake up, she cuckooed another 9 times. She was really proud of herself for coming up with such a quick-witted solution (even totally smashed), in order to escape a possible conflict with him. The next morning her husband asked her what time she got in and she told him "midnight." He didn't seem pissed off at all. "Whew!! Got away with that one!" she thought. Then he said, "We need a new cuckoo clock." When she asked him why, he said, "Well, last night our clock cuckooed 3 times, then said, "Oh shit," cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another 3 times, giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and farted."

Yes. It's a common physics lab concept.

That really sums it up pretty well. You want a simple answer, and you have one ("God did it"), which is accepted because you're very religious. You get to avoid that whole messy (i.e. unpure and unsimple) critical analysis of everything.

As long as the windows are covered, the light bulbs should contribute the same as the rest of the electrical heating, as you say.

How is this not technobabble?

Quantum teleportation transports information. Not matter, not energy. It's like "burning" a CD to transport energy. It's a non-sequitur. That's not what a CD does.

No. Momentum and position (and energy and time) are conjugate variables, and their wave functions are Fourier transforms of each other. The uncertainty relationship is inherent in that. The best you can do is make one of the two uncertainties involved very large and in a circumstance where that doesn't matter. Then the other variable's uncertainty will be small. This is known as a squeezed state. You can also be oscillating between the two conditions, and do your experiment when the uncertainty of the desired uncertainty is small.

It's probably best to just give the link rather than quoting the whole article, since it's copyrighted material.

Not if you find the iridium in non-volcanic deposits.

I haven't been able to find anything that shows how much gets through, but the sun is a blackbody at about 6000K and radiates a lot in the longer wavelengths. When some satellites are lined up with the sun their signals are basically washed out during the transit because of the solar radiation. So some must be getting through. The radiation from the sun will be absorbed and re-emitted at lower temperatures, meaning that the radiation from terrestrial objects is peaked at lower wavelengths. The average human radiates about 100 watts, and almost none of that is in the visible. So it's IR and longer wavelengths. Is anybody worried that RF from people is causing problems?

Thanks. I was misremembering what I had read. I just ran across another citation that listed ~20% as the field minimum.

How would oxygen be "completely cut off" ?

Since we probably don't have data much past what is shown in the map, it's probably premature to conclude that this is part of a pole shift. That, plus the fact that the pole is actually moving north in the map. Further, from what I've read, the overall field drops by 10-25%, not to that value (I think I referenced this in the other thread on the topic). Do you have links that claim otherwise?

That's assuming the barriers to the shields are technological. Many of them are contrary to the laws of physics.

That didn't transport the energy.

What flooding? There don't seem to be polar landmasses at the time (from maps of the Cretaceous I've run across), and melting icebergs/icecaps don't raise the water level at all - they already displace their mass.

Now you just have to prove they can affect your brain.

Using nanotechnology? They've been doing it for years. That processor in your computer was made using nanotechnology, and it's macroscopic. Perhaps you should be specific in what particular nanotechnology you have in mind. It's a pretty wide-encompassing term.

If you mean the cosmic background, measured by Penzias and Wilson, they noticed it was still there when they pointed their antenna into deep space, and had a siderial day period.

c varying in time leads to energy not being conserved. c not being the same for all observers means that Maxwells equations no longer satisfy the wave equation (as RE touched upon). Which means that your radio no longer sees an EM wave if you are moving with respect to the source. Lots of weird stuff would be happening.