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John Cuthber

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  1. Well, this would be a novel idea for a project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube
  2. I doubt it. My not very well informed guess is that we are not even half way. I'd say it's certain that we don't. There are people doing research on that sort of thing Lots more than we currently know about.
  3. Did you consider the obvious reason for not finding it?
  4. Perhaps it would be good if you actually told us what your hypothesis is. Not that it helps, because the data already show that you are wrong- as I said people would have noticed when they studied the data.
  5. They did the study. It doesn't agree with your "theory".
  6. Memory and intelligence (for any given definition) are strongly correlated; you can't figure stuff out if you can't remember it. All those people I cited also had good memories so the point is moot.
  7. Just for the record and not because a single data point makes any real difference; Richard Feynman- noted polymath, genius and bright bloke was born 11 May 1918 under a new moon. He is, in fact, a counter example to the OP's assertion. (So are my brother, my mum and my dad- though I was born fairly near the full moon). Based on this laughable sample size of 5 it seems that most bright people are not born at the full moon.
  8. Women should not marry men who make their choice on the basis of a misunderstanding of a correlation with body weight (and nor should men).
  9. Even if there were no specific legislation about unlicensed transmitters, you would still be causing a nuisance* to whoever it is you are trying to jam. That would get you sued. It's also likely to annoy them and people with legitimate transmitters are often parts of organisations you don't want to annoy. * in the legal sense an act which is harmful or offensive to the public or a member of it and for which there is a legal remedy.
  10. Actually, we kind of know that this idea of cycles isn't true. People have looked into this sort of thing- you can Google it, as I did, and find reports. Those people analysed the data in detail. If they had found anything interesting, they would have reported it. But they didn't. That very strongly suggests there was nothing interesting to find.
  11. It wouldn't be legal. Also, to cover that range would also be difficult.
  12. You are wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force
  13. It seems to be a neat demo of how not to extrapolate from very limited data.
  14. Well, maybe the 9 points on that graph are real data. He knows the birthdays and IQs of 9 people and plotted them. It's cleanly not enough data to show any useful pattern. But maybe someone has done some research on the idea. It seems they did http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/2/e012406
  15. I suspect it won't matter much in most applications. The only real way to find out if it makes a difference in the system you are using is to try both.
  16. Yes you do; you have several. You call one of them the Internal Revenue Service. They make sure that people who are lucky enough to be born to rich families have access to tax havens, avoidance schemes and so on so they don't need to pay their share of the costs of the nation. Then there's the military industrial complex who make sure that those lucky enough to be able to pull strings get huge government investments to play with. And don't forget the defence Dept who make sure that, if you are lucky enough to have influential family ties you can sit out wars - like Vietnam- in nice safe homeland jobs. On the other hand there are departments like transpiration security- who penalise those who have the poor luck to be foreign, non-white or just plain poor, don't get any luck. Even the police and courts contribute to this- if you are unlucky enough to be anything but rich and white, you can expect to be punished more harshly for any crimes you might actually commit.
  17. Actually, lasers are just about the only thing you can get with a negative thermodynamic temperature. Very cool indeed.
  18. Or you can use a candle flame. If you want to do it electrically you will need an arc welder- typically rated for about 40 volts. It's plasma, not "magic". Which incidentally explains why the OP doesn't make much sense.
  19. Have we ruled out the idea that younger women only married older blokes if the men were healthy?
  20. First, you stop trying to run before you can walk. Then you take classes in physics, maths and quantum mechanics. Then, with luck you can apply time dependent perturbation theory to the question. Alternatively, you can read it off the graph posted in the OP
  21. Glaze is essentially a slurry of powdered glass in water.
  22. That makes no sense. I can; I did.
  23. Somewhere along the line the Dallas cowboy fans who might beat you up were told that it as the appropriate thing to do by someone. Are they guilty of a crime?
  24. Apparently differently from you. My view is that the language has to be mutually comprehensible otherwise it's not the same language. Otherwise you run into the problem that, for example, Dutch and Afrikaans are the same language because there is some mutual understanding. I believe that some TV shows made in England have to be subtitled for an American audience. Why do you need to subtitle something that's in your own language? BTW, is Mexican English American English?
  25. In case you didn't notice, I said that it's far from clear where the blame lies. Is it right to violently protest against someone who is inciting violence? Is it better to contact the police and get them to deal with it? Should the police stop Ben Shapiro making peaches that might result in violence or is the responsibility for that violence with those who participate in it? If you shout fire in a crowded theatre and people get hurt in the crush, are you the one who is responsible for the injuries?
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