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A clan is a group based on kinship, i.e. extended families. So no, you probably wouldn’t move to a new chief based on not liking the one you have.

And now he’s ingrained in the government processes to keep funneling money to him.

Relativistic beaming is from the relativistic doppler effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_beaming “In physics, relativistic beaming (also known as Doppler beaming, Doppler boosting, or the headlight effect) is the process by which relativistic effects modify the apparent luminosity of emitting matter that is moving at speeds close to the speed of light. … How all of these effects modify the brightness, or apparent luminosity, of a moving object is determined by the equation describing the relativistic Doppler effect (which is why relativistic beaming is also known as Doppler beaming).” edit: Here’s one of the cited references, by the same author https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/astro-2020-0001/html They mention a Doppler shift of the bolometric flux; this means the “brightness” they are measuring is related to total energy, and blue-shifting does increase that. It’s not simply number of photons. more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity

There’s relativistic aberration (relativistic beaming) which means light is preferentially emitted in the direction of motion, but at speeds of less than 10^3 km/sec (our speed is ~230 km/s) it shouldn’t be that big

Starship troubles “Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning” https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-was-doomed-from-the-beginning “This is why Starship, in my opinion, is just one massive con. That is the real reason why Starship was doomed to fail from the beginning. It’s not trying to revolutionise the space industry; if it were, its concept, design, and testing plan would be totally different. Instead, the entire project is optimised to fleece as much money from the US taxpayer as possible, and as such, that is all it will ever do”

So if I hit you upside the head with a club it would hurt less if I called the club a pillow? Or I called it a hug instead of a vicious blow? Propaganda works, but only to some extent. as in “don’t piss on my back and tell me it’s raining”

How does it do that?

And the “we live in concepts” comment?

I think a lot of the issue is white men who say they are Christians, but whose behavior does not reflect the actual teachings of the religion. (There are a number of clergy who fall into that category) It’s all for show, to claim membership in the tribe, in order to exert power. At best they are “a-la-carte Christians” who pick and choose which tenets they support, while ignoring or actively opposing others, to suit their needs, and never acknowledging these transgressions. (e.g. gleefully deporting immigrants, or supporting those efforts) —— Anyway, if there’s any question about the GOP stance, they’ve erased the Navajo code-talker info from DoD websites. Huge contribution to the war effort, doing a job white men couldn’t have done, so there is no question these people were not hired at the expense of a white dude.

Made up by your mind? An illusion? So if I open a vial of some noxious transparent gas, but say it’s air, you won’t smell anything? I don’t know what “we live in concepts” is supposed to mean.

How is evidence a distraction? Two stories on different aspects that are basically independent of each other. You can assess effectiveness, and you can assess risk. How does that constitute “fake news”? What does that even mean in this context?

I’d guess water, as in a river, and then wind. It looks like the Grand Canyon in cross-section

That would be my (inexpert) analysis. It’s exposed directly to the water and yet it erodes less. In #2, do you expect sharp corners to last in erosion/weathering?

Which is a reason not to use AI, because the AI that’s readily available for such things isn’t very good. Can you do a search and evaluate the quality of the results? But that would not necessarily be objective.

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Orbits are accelerations, and you can tell you are accelerating. But the speed was given relative to the galaxy center.

What’s your attempt at answering? Do resistant layers erode faster or slower than the less resistant layers?

Because people observed the work that they did when they had the opportunity to do so. It’s not who works for them that shows bias, it’s who doesn’t. You could use a search engine to find data, instead of just musing out loud. Who are these two billionaires? Certainly not Musk and Trump.

They do change, but since stars are far away, their relative location doesn’t move much in a human lifetime, or even several lifetimes. The closest ones generally change faster, since the angular motion depends on distance, same as things on the horizon looking like they move slower than things up close. https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/constellations-move-change-over-time

Straight-line motion at constant speed has no effect - it’s exactly the same as if the object is at rest and everything else is moving. Accelerations are another matter. The sun rotates, so it’ deforms as a result. It bulges a bit at the equator, making it an oblate spheroid rather than a sphere.

I guess part of the problem is reading comprehension. I said “I split the thread because quantum fields was not part of the OP, and neither was consciousness” and I posted a modnote noting that posting a video without supporting info isn’t compliant with the rules. I didn’t say anything about a citation for the video. You seem to be supporting the claim of the OP. You certainly aren’t rebutting it. But since your version of events is incorrect, perhaps that’s part of your confusion? That’s information about your knowledge, not information about quantum physics.

Worldwide electricity generation is around 30 x 10^12 kWh (30 trillion) At $0.10 per kWh, that’s 30 trillion US dollars a year. Chasing a few percent of that seems worth a few billion, even discounting peripheral discoveries that might happen.

The lack of US permits after Three Mile Island might have been more about perception than actual activism. i.e. they didn't want the backlash of people protesting or speaking up at hearings, or just negative press, because of what the public felt afterwards. So a PR issue more than anything.

No. The reconstitution happens under very limited circumstances, and the universe is nowhere near that set of circumstances.