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John Cuthber

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  1. I think it's got something to do with being an intelligent owner.
  2. They have two choices. They can inbreed- to maintain the "purity of the breed" or they can outbreed- " to diminish the chance of genetic defects." They can not do both- because that's the way genetics works. Which do they do?
  3. The uncertainty principle says that the position of a particle isn't knowable. How do you propose to calculate the forces on it using Coulomb's law if you don't know where it is?
  4. A system that lets a woman with mental health problems get access to a gun (of any sort) is a system that will lead to this sort of thing.
  5. Yes, the big difference it makes is that your model is plainly wrong because it violates the uncertainty principle. (In fairness, I should point out that Bohr's model violates classical electromagnetism, which is why it's no longer in use.)
  6. The way to prevent the diseases brought about by inbreeding is to stop inbreeding.
  7. I don't think it can be. According to the Wiki article that's the study of proper nouns. But the word "grandfather" is (usually) a common noun.
  8. You would have been nearer to making a point if you had cited the scanning tunneling electron microscope. But you would still have been wrong. The uncertainty principle wins. Because it gives the wrong answer. Pretty much the whole of classical physics fails at this scale. Learn to live with that fact.
  9. Probably best to ask Trump not to attend then. I favour the option of inviting them, but giving them the wrong date and venue.
  10. What, exactly, does "lubricate the plasma" mean? Incidentally, a plasma containing oxygen and/ or water will still destroy any C60 as I already pointed out.
  11. Please show the experiments that tell us how ghosts move. Like I said, you are so wrong, it's funny. ...you have broken the uncertainty principle. And according to the uncertainty principle, it can't. So, it doesn't. We have two "laws" which give contradictory results. The way to find out which gets broken is to do the experiment. We did. Coulomb "lost". Not many of those things were as ridiculous as your idea.
  12. Technically, I think that may be a medical diagnosis and I'm not formally qualified to make one but... Yes.
  13. How had trump and Palin come to the conclusion that they deserved to be invited?
  14. There's a synthesis of C60 based on running an carbon arc in helium. I suspect that's what they are on about. Since soot isn't stable in the presence of water vapour, this idea is doomed from the start. It has that in common with the rest of the thread.
  15. C60 is not a good lubricant. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8720/a8e72e772e2ee6cf1090ab502c965dfe8a24.pdf
  16. It wouldn't be easy to get a valid answer. People who pay for designer pets are probably able to pay for better treatment; that would skew the figures.
  17. I used to work as a spectroscopist. I really don't need to browse the subject. You, on the other hand, have no idea what you are talking about. You have rehashed the bits of Bohr's work that gave the "right" answers for hydrogen, and ignored the problems where it gives the wrong answers. The "lines" in the hydrogen spectrum are actually split by spin- orbit coupling, and as far as I can see your idea doesn't deal with that. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/hydfin.html
  18. It would be interesting to see the survival figures for mongrels and pedigrees.
  19. Nobody should be surprised when a mongrel dog is fit and healthy. It's a well documented (and explained) biological trait. In plant breeding it's' called "hybrid vigour"; more formally, it's this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis
  20. OK, Imagine I'm intelligent and looking to get a dog. I have essentially two choices. I can get a puppy from the bloke down the street who didn't realise his pet bitch was in heat (God only knows who the pup's father is). Or I can pay a lot of money for a dog whose genetic defects are so predictable that I can research them in detail on the web. As an "intelligent owner", which should I choose? The breeders seem to want it both ways. They tell me that breeds of dogs have characteristic traits (a few have been listed here) and then they tell me (for example) that Rottweilers are not really innately aggressive. Incidentally, Asthma is triggered by dander, rather than the smell of a dog.
  21. Leaves are green, gold is gold. You are so wrong that it's funny. For what it's worth, sodium - as a solid is a shiny metal- it looks like aluminium. However sodium vapour is blue. so, not only do you not need to make it into a gas to see the spectrum, but if you do so, you change that spectrum enormously.
  22. That's interesting- perhaps you should explain it to my my mum + dad (both born in Africa) They complain about the UK weather- but they don't "go home" as you seem to think they should. Also... you do know that the "prepper" community are not overly troubled by logic, don't you?
  23. LOL It's also the mark of an educated man to use a capital letter for Aristotle. I can, indeed, entertain the idea you put forward. I contemplated it for a while and I realised that there were issues with it. And I asked you to address those issues. I'm still waiting...
  24. Then why did they take Apple to court?
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