John Cuthber

Indeed, we shouldn't go putting people down by, for example, accusing them of labelling their opponents when they put forward a question. This "Is liberalism a mild form of insanity?" is a valid question, no matter who asked it, nor what their motivation was. We should discuss that issue-well, it seems we already did. Pending any evidence to the contrary, I think we can say that it has been answered, and the answer is "no".

Please provide a list of questions we can't ask. Incidentally, to me the term "Republican" means a particular sort of loony (based on my experience of those so named). So, from my point of view, as you put it, By 'labelling' the other side of the argument as mad or insane or Republican , you are just trying to lower the value of that argument without having to do the 'heavy lifting' of proving that argument to be invalid.

That does not make sense. The point is that any integer is a rational number Since the OP has no indication of a decimal point, it's an integer- albeit, an infinitely big one. So, it is rational. I can prove that any integer is rational because it's the ratio of twice the integer to 2. Pointing out that you are wrong isn't patronising. For what it's worth, I already said that "No non-terminating decimal without a repeating pattern can possibly be rational" However, someone made the perfectly reasonable point that they don't see it that way, and they would like proof. Can you offer any such proof? ​[Edit Sorry, my mistake there; they said that they couldn't be sure the list of primes didn't repeat itself, and asked for proof. John seems to have offered that proof}

Two things. You can't easily distinguish an overhanging cliff from a near vertical one. Who cares? Both are stupid options as a path. re the Xrays http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2051337.m570.l1313.TR1.TRC0.A0.H0.Xxray+marker&_nkw=xray+marker&_sacat=12576 Problem solved.

Imagine that Fermat posed a question here in 1637 about the generality of the existence of valid solutions to the equation X^n = Y^n +Z^n where X,Y,Z, and n are integers If Andrew Wiles answered it here would "Answering their question" really "has no sense, as they will never read it."? Or is it possible that, even after a while their reply might have been useful, if not to the original poster, but to others? ​Though I grant you the people who resurrect a thread just to say "I don't know" are a pain in the butt and your suggestion isn't a bad one, but I'd modify it. ​I think it is probably sufficient to tell the person posting that they are replying to an old thread. Speaking of old threads, are you in a position to reply to this one? http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/87510-sulfuric-acid-in-ppm/?p=850748

The weather.

That would be valid if someone had said " Liberalism is a form of insanity". But they didn't. They did not actually label anyone. They asked if the label was applicable. The question has been answered. Based on the evidence (or rather, the lack of evidence), we can reject the idea that liberalism is a form of insanity. So, unless someone actually has evidence supporting the idea that liberals are all nuts, this should be the end of the thread.

No, we don't start by assuming it's rational. We start by assuming it's an integer What do you think is the definition of a rational number? Do you think it is that a rational number is the ratio of two integers? Do you think that 2.357,,,,,, is an integer? Do you think that 2 times 2.357,,,,,, is an integer?

From time to time, the moon has had moons. Some of the Apollo missions for example.

Perhaps we should just go with these wise words

23571113... is a rational number because it's the ratio of two numbers, an example of two such numbers is twice 23571113... and two 2 X 23571113... 2 =23571113... Consideration of that makes it clear that any integer is rational On the other hand 0.23571113... is not rational. All rational fractions, when expressed as a decimal, terminate like 1/4 =0.25 or recur like 1/3 = .333333... Similarly, 2.3571113... is irrational

Well, you need to check the definitions of a couple of words in the first line there. In the second one, perhaps you can help me. Can you please force tell me how to force this equation onto nature? n= 0 where n is the number of people dying in poverty today. Or were you trying to say that we use maths to model the world, and the models are generally imperfect? Because that's true, but dull. And it's nothing like what you said.

Bleach will destroy morphine.

Oops! typo 13.534 rather than 15.534

Would you like me to list lost of successful companies so you can claim they are all "the exception"?

In particular, please explain how they succeeded while others failed- even though the government regulation and law were the same for both of them.

Reality and science don't really care what you imagine. Reality carries on regardless and science only takes an interest in the evidence. The evidence makes it quite clear that the heart has no real effect on emotion.

An excellent point. There's also the other side of the same idea. People with "damaged" hearts have the same emotions as the rest of us. This is not always true of those with damaged brains.Also there are drugs that are known to act within the brain that affect emotion- alcohol is probably the most widely known- but have no direct effect on the heart. The whole thread is just silly. None of it ties in with well known facts.

Setting aside the fact that I don't use my real name here- so my surname is not Cuthber. "What is more famous in the world then god?"! Well, apparently the Beatles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus "Everybody knows that "bull shit" is "holy shit"" No it isn't. You made that up. And the same goes for the rest of it. You mentioned Apophenia. "the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data" You don't seem to realise that you are displaying it.

In space... nothing much happens. It's the blobs of stuff in space (stars, planets and so on) that are interesting. I don't think I'd pay for the extended 12 inch remix of this http://soi.stanford.edu/results/sounds.html but perhaps that's just my weird taste.

I remember the statement; it seems you can't, or you didn't understand it. Here's what I actually said in response to the assertion that only the properties of hydrogen are different between different isotopes "Only hydrogen isotopes have different chemical properties," Not quite true http://www.tandfonli...64#.Umlk__n_kao But the differences are usually only laboratory curiosities, rather than practically useful." The first thing I said was " I can't think of any applications of stable isotope substituted chemicals outside the laboratory, but that isn't because we don't know about them, it's because they are not very different from the ordinary versions and they are much more expensive." So, the first thing I did was point out that they were different- not not very different (apart from the price). The second thing I said was to point out that the differences are not only observed for hydrogen. So, lets be clear about this In the thread you cited I said that there are differences between the chemical properties of isotopes: I said it twice. In this thread, I pointed out that not all samples of an element will contain the same ratios of isotopes. That's because they have slightly different properties- as I had said a year and a half ago. Why do you think there is a "Difference like between night and day" between saying the different isotopes are different and the different isotopes are different? Anyway, would you please let me know the answer to the question I asked earlier. Here it is again to help you: how you you would actually make up a solution- say 1000 ppm m/v of sulphuric acid to such accuracy that it would be possible to distinguish between 1 in a million and 1 in 999999?

Have you noticed how few digits there are in some of these numbers? "31.972071 * 0.9493 = 30.3510870003 32.97145876 * 0.0076 = 0.2505830866 33.9678669 * 0.0429 = 1.45722149 35.96708076 * 2.00E-004 = 0.0071934162" Do you think there might be a reason for that? Do you think that all samples of sulphur contain exactly 94.93% of the light isotope? Do you realise that variations in the natural abundances of isotopes will change the measured mass- and would change how much sulphuric acid you would need to weigh out to make a 1 ppm solution to such a precision that it matters whether you add 999999 or 1000000 parts of water ? Did you really think that I'd be getting it wrong all this time? See fig 1.3 here http://dge.stanford.edu/SCOPE/SCOPE_43/SCOPE_43_1_Chp1.pdf

OK, The vacuum pumps I use most often are my lungs (pretty much all the time) and one of these In the lab I'd still make the decision based on what I want the pump for.

What Nobel Laureate? from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences "It is not one of the prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, but instead was established 73 years later by Sweden's central bank" (or was the spelling mistake deliberate?). "Most people, mainly middle-class employees, actually own stocks in their IRA's or 401k's, through Mutual Funds." I rather doubt that most people are middle class employees. For what it's worth I probably do count as a middle class employee and my pension isn't based on stocks anyway. "One of the main income sources for high-net-worth individuals is tax-free Muni bonds." Main? I'm sure it's one, but how big a component of their income is it? "One of the basic laws of economics is that the reward has to be commensurate with the risk; if it isn't, nobody, even the rich, will invest in the project" As has been pointed out twice, the very rich don't take any significant risk.

Yes, you said about one isotope. e.g. "Sulfur-32 31.97207100(15)" etc. But it's still progress! Now, all you need to do is think about this " natural abundance" and you will see why the table I cited earlier is correct (rather than "nonsense" or "What a garbage!") and why you can't state the molecular weight of his sulphuric acid to 6 figures.