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There are physical difference between any arbitrary group of men, and any arbitrary group of women. Can just anybody succeed at basketball? At horse racing? Is there a lot of crossover participation between pro jockeys and the NBA? We have weight classes in wrestling and boxing. Yes, sexual dimorphism is real. But you’re presenting it as a specific, rather than a general trend. There are different issues when one is speaking of professional sports and amateur sports, where everyone is supposed to be able to participate
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You could go with believing people when they tell you the gender with which they identify. Why does it have to be more complicated than that?
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Why not use an actual example instead of making something up?
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The phrase “become transgender” is problematic. I’m not sure it’s something you “become” Is that how trans people describe it? Are you presenting a scenario where someone who is not trans pretends to be? i.e. they are trying to cheat? No, that’s not a true statement. Men, on average, are stronger. But that statement is assuming there are just the two gender categories. Anyway https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbt-rights/four-myths-about-trans-athletes-debunked/
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But it’s not an example. It’s a boogie-man. It’s a monster under the bed. A made-up scenario to frighten people. A slippery-slope fallacy. You can’t have an honest discussion if you aren’t properly representing the situation.
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I missed where Mike Tyson announced they are transgender. Do you have a link?
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Or low frequency.
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Or not, which is the issue. Hydrogen is a transfer medium, not a source, so it's a separate question. You could commit to hydrogen but burn coal to make it. This is similar to using copper wires to transmit electricity vs some other conductor. Neither one is inherently green or not green. The source needs to be green. Hydrogen efficiency or renewable efficiency?
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You can test this yourself for visible light. Place the box between you and a bright light, so the bottom of the box blocks the light; top open. Can you see the light? If it was a piece of paper (i.e. thin) you could probably see a brighter area, as some light makes it through. For thicker paper (like construction paper) or cardboard, you won’t.
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UV isn't shown there, probably because it does not penetrate paper unless it's very thin. x-rays and gammas are generally much higher energy than the UV we're typically exposed to.
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Yes, that should protect from UV.
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That's fine. But you haven't done any of that. You haven't provided any specific examples where you explain observations or predict new ones. You have no equations or simulations, or a physical model. We already have thermodynamics and a model for entropy. As we do for other phenomena you've brought up. You aren't bringing anything new to the discussion. We already have a concept of causality. Perhaps the better approach would be to learn what we already know, instead of striking out on your own. You're trying to discover a land that has already been mapped.
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! Moderator Note Do you have a model? Can you make specific predictions, which would represent falsifiability? Something more than “stuff happens”
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! Moderator Note Your ASD had no model and no evidence. This appears to be no different in that regard, and is a requirement for discussion.
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! Moderator Note Simply repeating your assertions is not a valid substitute for the model and evidence that we require for discussion. As you have not provided the necessary level of rigor as required by the speculations rules, this is closed. Do not re-introduce this discussion.
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The GOP has outsourced it.
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is it possible to harness gravity to power a motor
swansont replied to darkmatter11's topic in Engineering
You need an input in one part of the cycle to let gravity do the work in the other part (same as the light I linked to); in hydro power that’s done by the sun. -
Is the earth really our planet? Or the planet of fishes?
swansont replied to Biological Combination's topic in Speculations
And it gives 110% effort ! Moderator Note No, by the staff’s interpretation of our rules, it is an assessment of your argument, which is permitted. “you are a silly person” is an insult, but that’s not the comment. You need to distinguish between the two situations, and stop distracting from the discussion. Critique of your argument should be expected.