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There are pronunciations listed in most dictionaries nuance is listed as “nü-än(t)s” at merriam-webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuance The pronunciation is described by a phonetic alphabet, dashes indicate syllables and sometimes CAPS are used to show which syllable should be emphasized Different pronunciations could simply be from regional dialects.

We have a lot of technology that we use where we don’t understand why it works - we just know that it does. I’m pretty sure they had e.g. siphons back in the day, before anyone understood air pressure. We don’t notice the ~1 atm of pressure on us, after all. People had barometers and noticed the correlation with the weather without understanding the details. They had evaporative cooling structures in ancient times without knowing exactly how they worked. They just knew that wind passing by something wet cooled the air.

Is that the causative agent, or just a symptom/side-effect of it? (or both) Education may mean knowing about birth control, but it also might just be an artifact of possibly having a white-collar job, and not needing to pump out a bunch of kids to work the land. Education also might indicate decent health care, so you don’t need a high birth rate because the infant mortality rate isn’t so grim. I think the point is that you haven’t clearly communicated anything specific. You haven’t mentioned contraception, so how does one know you are advocating this?

I figured that, but my navy time pushed the warship designation to the top of the list.

I was there late ‘95 through early ‘98 in the TRINAT group (TRIumf Neutral Atom Trap), which was established around ‘93, I think. They needed an atom trapper, which was outside the expertise of the people there. The other postdoc had learned a lot about it, but their background was nuclear/particle. We trapped some radioactive potassium isotopes, and once that system was running they could focus on the nuclear physics experiments. Since I helped build the apparatus my name was on a half-dozen papers after I left. I think Otto is looking for actual engagement, not rhetorical questions that have only a passing relevance to the issue.

I thought guided missile destroyers were supposed to be fast.

It might be helpful to note what OS and browser one uses when reporting issues like this. They might be factors. The experience is not universal.

Why take this as gospel? Ehrlich has been quite spectacularly wrong about a number of his predictions. Nobody has disagreed with this; we are discussing finite numbers.

! Moderator Note While the human population certainly has an impact on the environment, most solutions are political in nature. Moved. Born in the US. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody

When you add 1/2 to 1/2 you get 2/2= 1 The problem isn’t with the math. Millions of kids master this every year.

https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/133848-policy-on-aillm-use-on-sfn/#comment-1265019 “Since LLMs do not generally check for veracity, AI content can only be discussed in Speculations. It can’t be used to support an argument in discussions.”

I would hardly call your pie example “mathematical logic” It’s a semantic argument, not made in good faith.

You are correct. It carries no more weight than “some guy on the street told me”

If it’s small it’s not a threat. Missiles tend to not be large compared to a few-hundred-meters-wide target, and rubble piles do not have tightly-bound components, so not much momentum would be transferred to the rubble away from the impact area. Not to mention the difficulty in targeting, which gets harder as closing speed increases.

As Ken Fabian pointed out it’s the momentum imparted that matters. If you hit a rubble pile with a high KE projectile it might just blast through it; the part it hits would recoil but the remaining parts would continue on their path.

The solid earth acts like a fluid on the right time scale; the “illusion” would seem to stem from an unrealistic assumption that a solid is infinitely rigid. Nope.

That’s more of a what question than why, isn’t it? (and this is rhetorical)

! Moderator Note Irrelevant. If you don’t want to participate, you are free not to, but the OP doesn’t have to justify asking the question. The discussion isn’t about the merits of any of this.

It was and is a very public, reasonably easy-to-understand service for when people ask what impact an accelerator has on every-day lives. My weird-thing-at-TRIUMF story is that we tried to trap Francium, made at the isotope separator (TISOL; before ISAC came online) and the lab got a visit from a nuke watchdog who looked for fallout from bomb testing. Basically a set of huge filters to trap particulates, and then tested for radioactives. We were making tiny amounts of a range of unstable heavy isotopes as a byproduct, but they weren’t far away, so they noticed. Wrong signature for a bomb, but they wanted to be sure what we were doing. (the DRAGON instrument got its name from a colleague’s plot showing the unknown physics space the device would be able to investigate, labeled “Here Be Dragons” like an old map. Certain people liked the name, so they did a backronym)

Some scientists think about it, but most probably don’t, since it’s not necessary in order to do most science. We don’t know why masses attract, but we observe that they do, and can quantify the effect. Why they do so isn’t testable, at least at this time, and thus not science.

! Moderator Note Since you seem to be adamant about ignoring corrections to your flawed descriptions, this is closed. Do not bring the topic up again.

! Moderator Note Moved to philosophy, as these are questions of metaphysics

We had a couple of pretty good ones when I was a postdoc there.

There’s a treaty preventing nuclear weapons in space (the Outer Space Treaty), which would obviously be suspended in this scenario, but you probably aren’t going to be parking nukes in space in anticipation of hitting an asteroid that hasn’t already been identified as a very likely threat. Multiple parts of the plan would have to be in place beforehand.

And why did this happen? What about the NEO Surveyor mission, already in the works? Is there some deficiency in that? Do you have any facts or science to present, or is it just going to be a bunch of hand-waving?