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swansont

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  1. Sure it has. There are no more of them. They are all dead. Thus, they are extinct. Which doesn’t change the fact that there are no more of them. Which really happened. We don’t know who the last of most species are, or when that happened, except for rough estimates, even for lineages that died out. The ones we know are the anomalies, not the norm, and partly because we’re living in a mass extinction event. Their name was not changed on some whim. There are defining characteristics of H. erectus not present in later species. Your argument is like saying red is blue, because we can’t objectively nail down exactly where each color transitions to the next one in the ROY G BIV spectrum.
  2. And I debunked the claims in the other thread. The “pressure” includes buying clothes. The number they cite is medical or social transition. They don’t, IIRC, give a number for sex change operations. The citations don’t support your claim.
  3. He’s just re-upping his assertion from the thread I linked to above. Failed to provide a citation then.
  4. It can’t be often if it’s a rare occurrence. Trying to create an equivalence of teen transitioning rates with murder rates by calling them rare blatantly ignores the rather large difference in the rates at which they occur. I seem to recall dredging up the numbers for genital surgery for teens in the US in another thread; it’s about 20 per year. Compare with the murder count, which is roughly a thousand times larger. That’s not universally true edit: https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/127240-how-best-to-stop-excluding-trans-kids-from-sports/page/5/#comment-1238814
  5. You said I was Homo erectus That’s not how the classification system works
  6. My species is Homo sapiens. Or are the biologists wrong?
  7. I think this is the wrong line of questioning. I don’t care what anyone thinks, pertaining to this. It’s not at all uncommon for people to think things that are not true, and that rare occurrences are widespread; we see this all the time these days in politics. I want evidence.
  8. I’d have gone with the little blue pill joke, but are you going to address the point?
  9. Point to a living Homo erectus.
  10. A cycle, yes. But you haven’t described a cyclic system.
  11. Are you having a reading comprehension issue? “Isn’t within the realm of discussion” comes closest, seeing as Tyson has not declared themselves to be transgender. Is it that outrageous to want to discuss facts and actual occurrences, rather than, as I said, a made-up scenario? The latter smacks of a desperate attempt to stir the pot.
  12. It’s covering more distance by a lot. A geostationary orbit is ~35,800 km in altitude (~42,200 km from center) as opposed to the 6400 km radius. As Janus says, that’s 6.6 times further out, so it covers a circumference 6.6 times as big in the same time - it’s moving 6.6 times faster. But its ground speed is basically zero.
  13. Frequency is the reciprocal of period. To have a period, it needs to be periodic. Just because there are units of inverse seconds, it doesn’t mean there is a frequency.
  14. Or you change the file name (e.g. append ‘A’ to it) to see what happens, which is easily changed back if there’s a problem with a program.
  15. It’s likely that the propulsion system, like these probes, has not yet been realized.
  16. Vaporizing liquid microthruster https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924424799003891 “Experimental testing produced thruster force magnitudes ranging from 0.15 mN to a maximum force output of 0.46 mN” That’s not very much thrust. AFAIK resistojets are used for station-keeping, not propulsion. Why does it have to be a Non Neumann probe? Is that in any way relevant? https://beyondnerva.com/resistojet-electrothermal-thrusters/
  17. The left target gets no light. The target on left was the target on the right before you apply the P transformation. It was absorption. It become emission.
  18. I know I didn’t make the charges, and reported them to the card issuer. They investigated, and refunded the money. And I said waiter, not bartender. It was at a restaurant. —- “There has still to this day not been a report of a single real-world crime that an RFID blocking product would have stopped.” https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/are-rfid-blocking-products-worth-your-money-we-asked-an-expert/ —- I just read that zero liability is now US federal law. Not sure when that was enacted. Also, RFID transactions are encrypted, so you’d need to use your skimmed info quickly, or the code wouldn’t be correct. Right. Which is why a method that doesn’t require you to hand over your card to someone was developed.
  19. IIRC, I had no liability when someone stole my credit card info (waiter at a restaurant was the likely culprit)
  20. Yes, you can have as many nonexistent photons as you want. Dirac’s quote is from 1927, so it’s not like the whole idea of bosons had been developed very much.
  21. And you aren’t liable for most of it, in the US. You’d owe at most $50 per card, and some cards have zero liability. That puts the burden on the credit card companies to have decent security measures. One card I have texts me for approval if the purchase breaks a pattern
  22. The Greek right to bear serpents.
  23. Why would there be stimulated emission under time reversal?
  24. I’m a Gemini, so I never know what to expect
  25. No. With the t reversal, the excited atom in the target emits a photon.

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