John Cuthber

OK, let's look at the first of those and count the cockups in just one paragraph. "Over a long period of time this leads to a build-up of copper in your body, which in turn leads to Alzheimer's disease, heart disease and diabetes because your body cannot process the metal." Over a long period of time this leads to a build-up of copper in your body, No it doesn't. Copper is not a cumulative toxin- the body excretes it in the urine "which in turn leads to Alzheimer's disease" The causes of Alzheimer's disease are unknown, but copper is, at best, not strongly associated with it. "your body cannot process the metal." There's a specific disease where people can't process copper properly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson's_disease If you don't have Wilson's disease your body can handle more copper than you find in drinking water. There's a limit for copper in drinking water set by the WHO. It's based on taste more than toxicity.

"Is Political Conservatism a mild form of Insanity?" Define "mild" Once it starts leading to perfectly predictable deaths, I don't think you can call it "mild" any more. I think it should lead to them being kept away from circumstances where they can harm themselves or others. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/10/bedroom-tax-exemptions-stephanie-bottrill http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fuel-poverty-deaths-three-times-higher-than-government-estimates-7462426.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-slammed-brushing-off-3928427

Feel free.

Unless you live in an area where the water is soft. You seem not to have noticed that those don't refer to toxicity from pipework. And actually it makes salt be dewatering salt.

Nope. Lead is poisonous, but is hardly used any more.

The OP's space gun dea is also interesting, the comments from the people to whom he sent it are most informative- I particularly liked the one that points out that the payload would disintegrate.

Nope, read up on the uncertainty principle.

Where do you think the patient keeps his memory?

Yes, and this tells you how to add them if you want the right answer in the real world. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/einvel.html

No, because you could add one to that "upper limit" and get a bigger number. Seriously? You didn't spot that?

This "infinite ˈɪnfɪnɪt/Submit adjective 1. limitless or endless in space, extent, or size; impossible to measure or calculate. "the infinite mercy of God" synonyms: boundless, unbounded, unlimited, limitless, without limit, without end, never-ending, interminable, cosmic; More countless, uncountable, inestimable, indeterminable, innumerable, numberless, immeasurable, incalculable, untold, very many; great, vast, enormous, immense, prodigious, multitudinous; rareinnumerous, unnumberable antonyms: limited, small very great in amount or degree. "he bathed the wound with infinite care" synonyms: very great, immense, supreme, absolute, total, real; More antonyms: very little MATHEMATICS greater than any assignable quantity or countable number. MATHEMATICS (of a series) able to be continued indefinitely. 2. GRAMMAR another term for non-finite. noun noun: infinite 1. a space or quantity that is infinite. "beyond the infinite, the space traveller is transformed" God. noun: Infinite; noun: the Infinite "intimations of the infinite" Origin late Middle English: from Latin infinitus, from in- ‘not’ + finitus ‘finished, finite’ (see finite). Translate infinite to Use over time for: infinite" is not a Korean boy band. What do other people see when they click the link I gave?

This is what an ad hom looks like And you also need to distinguish between particular cultural traits like this "But cultural features are not biological adaptations - agreed? Are we making that distinction, or are we going to label shoes and canoes and the ability to make edible juniper bark soup "biological adaptations" and the propensity to make cultural features, which is a biological trait which serves us very well. Your repeated point about a singe individual being in trouble isn't relevant. A single person, on their own in the middle of New York, would be in trouble- until he made friends. A single worker ant, would have more problems. That trend- forming cooperative groups- is a biological trait and it serves us very well in North America, and elsewhere.

But infinite means limitless. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=infinite&oq=infinite&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61l3&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=define+infinite If there's a limit to your knowledge (concerning my breakfast) then your knowledge is finite. As I said, it's a matter of definition.

Having a big brain is down to biology. So, the skills per se are not a biological adaptation. But being the ape that acquires those sort of skills is a biological trait. Being the animal that survives in spite of having no fur (and the other adaptations for long distance running in hot conditions) as well as perfectly normal dietary requirements for a great ape (Chimps and gorillas get scurvy too) is a biological trait; it's because we are uniquely clever. The long gestation ties in with that (as does an even longer childhood). The idea that we are ill armed is at odds with simple observation. Mankind can kill any other animal on earth. Our powerful brain equips us to live in North America (and most other places too). And the real killer argument is that if this "The lack of fur, the odd dietary requirements, the need for plentiful fresh water and salt both, the long gestation and the slow running and ineffective armament and poor sense of smell, doom them in most planetary environments - biologically." was true, we would all be dead. Doomed as you say, by all those traits. We are here, there and everywhere. And you still need to look up what ad hom means.

I think something is only part of "knowledge" if it is known. And, there are only a finite number of things we can know. As pointed out earlier there are problems with the fact that I can be infinitely knowledgeable and infinitely ignorant at the same time. If you don't know what I had for breakfast then there's a gap in your knowledge. So your knowledge is not "without end" so it's not infinite. It's a matter of definitions.

As far as I can tell, it already ticks most of the boxes. Here's a clip from wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins In the Book of Proverbs 6:16-19, among the verses traditionally associated with King Solomon, it states that the Lord specifically regards "six things the Lord hateth, and seven that are an abomination unto Him", namely:[4] A proud look A lying tongue Hands that shed innocent blood A heart that devises wicked plots Feet that are swift to run into mischief A deceitful witness that uttereth lies Him that soweth discord among brethren

OK, so if I brewed up cannabis or opium and ate/ drank it you would consider them to be food. All I can say is I differ in my assessment of the uses of that word. Re "And that is completely typical of the crap you guys are posting here. I" In response to "As you point out, other mammals in NA synthesize vitamin C, so you can eat those animals, or you can eat other foods that contain it" Yes, it is typical of the crap we post. That is to say, it is correct. Are you saying that no north American mammal makes vitamin C or that we can't eat either them or other foodstuffs that do contain it? Or were you trying to say that you hadn't pointed that out? It hardly matters who pointed it out. There are foods present in AN that people can and do eat which contain vitamin C. The OP asks "Are we adapted to...?" Not "Have we adapted to..." So it is puzzling that you think "the OP, which in my reading (and no one has addressed this) asked whether humans had adapted, biologically, to NA" The question is plain- are we adapted to life there and the answer is equally plain- yes, otherwise we couldn't, but we do.. "The percentage of natural or pre-human landscape in NA where a human being without a sophisticated set of tools and cultural inheritance would even survive for more than a few weeks, let alone "flourish", is small." ditto anywhere else on earth, but since a defining characteristic of humans is "a sophisticated set of tools and cultural inheritance" it's silly. It's like saying a single worker bee would die out in a flower garden so bees are not designed to exploit flowers; or that, if you took away a shark's teeth, it wouldn't be adapted for life in the oceans because it couldn't eat fish . It wouldn't be a shark- the natural state for sharks is to have lots of teeth and the natural state for humans is to have a culture. Fundamentally, by being supreme generalists, humans are adapted to life pretty damn near wherever they please. Some of the most extreme bits of NA are "out of bounds" but most of it is perfectly suitable territory for people.

Who cares? It would be absurd to try to create 5 kilos of it anyway.

Whatever you call it, in a finite lifetime, a finite number of us only have access to a finite amount of it.

You need to get into the habit of looking at Material Safety Data Sheets. Some of them are a bit over-cautious, but they give an indication of the hazards involved in working with a material.

Only if you have memory to record the intermediate calculations.

There are a finite number of us, each with finite heads. That imposes a finite limit on our aggregate knowledge.

So, still no real differences between light and the rest of the EM spectrum then? Let us know if anything changes.

Not many people would buy a used car without seeing it run. They probably wouldn't buy it just because the owner (who has an interest in selling it) says it runs OK. They probably still wouldn't buy it just because the sellers friend and his brother say it's OK. Either they would find a trusted third party- someone from the AA perhaps- or they would want to test drive it themselves. All we are asking for is the equivalent of that common-sense approach. A review by someone truly independent (i.e. not paid by Blacklight) Or, even better a chance to test it ourselves. the last of those looks unrealistic but we can get part of the way there. A proper write up in a journal will include the sort of questions we would ask if we were there ourselves. If you can't do that, do you understand why we just won't buy this car?

And, once again, if you read what I wrote... I have tried (briefly)but I couldn't find any valid reports- they were all unreviewed and generally written by people with a clear link to the company.