swansont

Then there’s nothing to discuss. This isn’t going to be used as a back door to discuss mind/brain. You have a thread for that. Don’t bother unless you intend to start a thread to discuss that.

How about we stick to the topic. Do you have any scientific evidence to present?

Mentioning studies without summarizing and linking to them is also not conducive to discussion. What does LSD have to do with death premonitions?

“documented cases” is short of the rigor needed for scientific evidence. If the sampling isn’t random, you have sampling and confirmation bias occurring. So unless your documentation includes everyone who had a premonition, and not just the ones for whom it came true, it’s not scientific. Given your stance on bias in science, surely you knew this.

Sure it does. If you’re going to claim that you and you alone are having a tough time (“the bs I have to deal with in life” while “everyone else is floating on clouds”) realizing the truth might allow you to do things to change your situation. Or you can wallow. It’s your choice. Thinking you are powerless to improve things is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

celibacy: “abstention from sexual intercourse” Which is clearly the definition from the way “incel” is described. If you mean something different, use a better narrative.

If you read the book, you’d probably not be making this connection. Obesity probably isn’t from removing chalk and formaldehyde from milk (and adopting pasteurization) or removing borax or copper sulfate from canned food. And your obesity trend is decades later.

Japan’s population density is almost 10x that of the US, and Europe is several times larger, so you don’t need as much road/rail to connect people. Less per capita is easier to build and maintain.

Plus food quality; Deborah Blum’s “The Poison Squad” is a compelling look at all the junk that was put onto food before we had government protections.

! Moderator Note Come back when you can describe your successful experiment

! Moderator Note You haven’t presented nearly enough for this to be in speculations. No testable predictions, nothing falsifiable. Don’t bring it up again.

Appearances can be deceiving. Everybody, and I mean everybody, is dealing with something. Some are dealing with lots of things. It’s easy to think that you’re the only one. Consider this example: in a country with a constant population of 36.5 million people, and an average lifespan of 100 years, a thousand people die each day, on average. They have friends and family, so tens of thousands of people are dealing with news of this loss. Every day. Many more are dealing with lesser crises. It’s just that most of them don’t show it. You not seeing it doesn’t mean it’s not there.

The added precision isn’t linear in cost. Not that mechanical timepieces are bought/sold for their timekeeping precision; there are reasons we went away from them.

Maybe it’s the repeated mentions of celibacy?

Ref. my Atwood quote. Women run the risk of being hurt or killed when she’s with a man, even more so when he’s a stranger. Survival is enhanced by listening to any mental warning bells, and erring on the side of caution. So, as MSC notes, if you give off a bad vibe, her safe option is to run away. Same if you remind her of anyone with whom she had a bad experience.

Reduce your quality of relationship? The only aspect of “relationship” you’ve brought up is sex. When that’s the extent of things, you’ve automatically narrowed the field of women who might be interested in you.

You haven’t defined what you mean by “turned inside out” You haven’t addressed issues others have raised.

This, and to recognize the irony of allowing yourself to be picky, but complaining that women are doing the same thing. It’s almost like there’s an asymmetry in what agency men and women are to be permitted.

John Oliver discussed Schedule F in his latest episode

I’m not aware of “fairness” being an element of evolutionary theory, or even that this is an issue of fairness.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/04/07/ask-ethan-how-fast-could-life-have-evolved-in-the-universe/ Turns out that it’s not too long, but unlikely for carbon-based life, since building up carbon takes time — carbon is from stellar cycles, not supernovae “the very first stars of all should form somewhere around 50-100 million years after the Big Bang.” “It's quite likely that only a few hundred million years after the first stars turned on — by time the Universe is 300 to 500 million years old — we had rocky planets forming around the most enriched stars at the time.” —- The next step would be to consider if life could continue, since you’d have a fair number of supernovae going off in the early universe, which isn’t conducive to life if they happen nearby. You certainly don’t want your planet to be orbiting a huge star that’s going to blow up just as the planet has cooled down and is ready for life.

The eccentricity makes it elliptical. The axial tilt gives us the figure-8 shape https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-how-the-sun-moves-in-the-sky-throughout-the-year/ “If we only had axial tilt to contend with, and our orbit was a perfect circle, the path the Sun traced out in the sky would be a truly perfect figure-8: symmetryic about both the horizontal and vertical axes. If we lived on an untilted planet that had an elliptical orbit, the Sun’s path through the sky would simply be an ellipse: where the eccentricity would be the only contributor to how the Sun moves.”

You put these statements in quotation marks. What is the source? Quantum tunneling is not electron excitation

Hydrogen is not a fuel, in this sense, it’s a storage medium, like a battery. You need to produce the hydrogen (in most cases), and it’s net energy negative. It’s only as “green” as the method of production; hydrogen made via burning fossil fuels isn’t a solution.

! Moderator Note Where is the speculation (that complies with the rules of this section)?