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  1. ! Moderator Note You should probably start with a more basic study of evolution to remove your misconceptions
  2. ! Moderator Note Adam and Eve are from the Bible, which has no relevance to a discussion of genetics ! Moderator Note You will need to establish that such genes exist.
  3. How does Quantum Field Theory apply?
  4. It would be that nobody challenged. SCOTUS (and the court system in general) can only rule on a case brought before them. The first SC case about abortion was in 1971 and Roe v Wade was 1973, so it was not about the SC reinterpreting anything. https://www.aclu.org/other/timeline-important-reproductive-freedom-cases-decided-supreme-court
  5. I agree it should be The protons on earth all came from somewhere else. Electrons, too. Does it stand to reason that according to your conjecture, all protons and all electrons would all have slightly different masses, depending on their history? But we know that they don’t - protons are identical, and electrons are identical. And we know that’s the case, because the Pauli exclusion principle only works for identical fermions. If these particles weren’t identical, we wouldn’t have atoms as we know them. But we do.
  6. AFAICT laws generally forbid things (you will be punished if you do X), rather than saying what you’re allowed to do. So, probably not, but it’s not surprising. There were, and it would be an issue of whether any laws restricting them were constitutional. i.e. does the government have the authority to make such laws.
  7. ! Moderator Note Posting screenshots of a conversation you had somewhere else isn't going to work. You need to post the information here, per the rules. We want to be able to quote you in order to respond. So start again, if you want. But starting with your first image in this last post, "gravitons with different velocities" In mainstream physics, if gravitons exist, they are massless and thus travel at c. If you have different velocities, you need to have a model that explains this. You can't build anything on this idea without establishing it first. (this is what I mean by getting ahead of yourself.) You want to do that in a new thread, fine. Anything beyond that - speculation built on other speculation - will get immediately sent to the trash. Anything that is a series of screenshots from somewhere else will also get sent to the trash.
  8. You're missing the point, and getting way ahead of yourself. Explain what these "seedling gravitons" are and how this idea works. Explain what you mean by the "cosmic bean stalk market" Explain how gravitons could possibly go FTL. Nobody wants to get bogged down in the calculations if the idea behind them doesn't work. You have to convince us that it's based on sound physics principles.
  9. That's how such systems are currently implemented, but the OP stated "beds in lieu of seats" I think this is another example of solving but not really solving a problem, that doesn't exist in the first place. Personally, the thing that keeps me awake on long red-eye flights is the someone from the flight crew getting on the intercom every 20 minutes to make an announcement.
  10. What if you don’t want to sleep for the entire flight? How many people want to do this?
  11. ! Moderator Note You have one more chance to explain what this is supposed to mean You can give an example: use your theory of everything to give the orbital distance of a geosynchronous orbit. Show us that calculation.
  12. You don’t have this? Water around where I live gets transported to the Potomac and feed the washington aqueduct. Some parts of the storm drainage system are combined with the sewer system, some are not.
  13. We want useful information. Images with e.g. the square root of 4.13 and 3.14 repeated a bunch of times isn't what I would call useful. We want the science, not the algebra (or art) edit: I’m sure your explanations and manipulations make sense to you, but since you aren’t giving the context, they aren’t going to make sense to others. You need to explain why, and it needs to start from something that’s demonstrably correct.
  14. Triangle STD: angle STD + TDS + TSD = 180 TSD is given as 48º There are two other triangles which you should be able to write down, and you have TDS + TDV = 180 The rest is algebra, which you need to be able to do, and no, nobody is going to do it for you.
  15. swansont replied to Buai's topic in Trash Can
    ! Moderator Note From rule 2.7 (emphasis added): Links, pictures and videos in posts should be relevant to the discussion, and members should be able to participate in the discussion without clicking any links or watching any videos. Videos and pictures should be accompanied by enough text to set the tone for the discussion, and should not be posted alone. Also, as it is UFO nonsense, this falls well short of the rigor we need.
  16. ! Moderator Note From rule 2.7: members should be able to participate in the discussion without clicking any links IOW, post the material for discussion here. And note that we are poised to add a new part to this rule: no shortened links. You must post the url where you are sending people.
  17. ! Moderator Note Correlation does not imply causality, though in this case, posting crap (incorrect info, unsubstantiated assertions, logical fallacies) does cause a thread to be moved to the trash.
  18. Angles of a triangle add to 180. Angles at D are on a line, so they add to 180 That gives 4 equations with 4 unknowns
  19. Retinal camera https://lombartinstrument.com/store/canon-cr-2-af-non-mydriatic-retinal-camera-with-dvs-system-and-motorized-table
  20. This is bull. Trump was the one that got support for the Ukraine removed from the GOP platform in 2016 and Trump did nothing but suck up to Putin at every opportunity during his presidency. Support for Putin would be one thing that would be entirely predictable. The one thing that would have been out of Trump's control would be the reaction of the US, which might have forced him into acting, and possibly making Trump look weak. It's entirely possible Putin waited for Trump to be out of power so that the GOP could attack Biden regardless of his response; whatever happened would be "wrong" (their stance for virtually everything)
  21. roger4464 has been banned. The sockpuppets Roger Dynamic Motion and Roger larouche were previously banned, so use of this account violates our rule on sockpuppetry to evade a ban, despite registration predating the others.
  22. ! Moderator Note And you were told to link to the material or use the quote function properly, neither of which you have done. AFAICT you just copy/pasted the post. Don't bring this up again.
  23. Yes, we all know the history of when Galileo had a discussion thread closed. It's exactly like that. This board is not an agent of the government and we are not a democracy. We have rules that you need to follow. If a thread gets shut down no rights have been violated. We steer clear of rants and lecturing because we're a discussion board, and not your personal blog. We shut down threads where religions get bashed (any religions) because that doesn't foster discussion. We also ask that threads be posted in the appropriate section of the forums. (again, that's exactly like Galileo! /s) It's not just one moderator. Often mods act in response to complaints from other members, who can't really engage in discussion in these situations, and moderators might be having discussions before acting. One such discussion might be identifying a trend in a posting style, and deciding to give less leeway in posts to try and improve the quality of the threads.

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