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Everything posted by Cap'n Refsmmat
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Ah, that'd be it then. I checked the database and there exists a listing for it in one database table but no corresponding title/text entry in another table. I deleted one without deleting the other, it seems. Next time I'll remember to be more careful when deleting spam PMs. Be sure to report them if you receive them.
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Hmm. Does it say who sent the message? This may be a consequence of me mass-deleting spam messages, but I'm not sure.
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I think it's perfectly safe to say, however, that psychiatry can stand to improve a great deal. There is still much to learn. ArjanD, would you happen to know where I can find a source for that WHO quote about the best predictor of non-recovery? I'd like to see the context in which it was published.
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bascule: I'm expecting to have the same happen to me. But hey, it's free. If you have any other philosophical books you might recommend I'll see if I can get them. I'm in college. I'm supposed to break my brain occasionally.
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Sounds like fun. So, in a surprise turn of events involving a free gift from a credit union the recipient did not want, and thus passed on, I now have a Kindle. There are quite a few public-domain books available for free for Kindle, so I'm now building up a reading list: The Communist Manifesto, because this is college and I should be rebellious. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, because this is college and I should be engaged in deep thought. Leviathan, because this is college and I have to read it for Philosophy of Religion next semester. On the Origin of Species, because this is college and I should be well-versed in the fundamentals of many fields. Who knows if I'll actually read all that. I'll at least glance at them. Hey, it's free!
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POM: There is no longer an infraction system, and any moderation decisions to be made about this thread (or any other thread) will be made by moderators not directly involved in the discussion. We dislike biased judgments just as much as you do.
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I don't see how having airports in midair will help anything. You still need airports on the ground to board planes to get up to the airports in the air.
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How do parental chromosomes know how to reform?
Cap'n Refsmmat replied to Genecks's topic in Genetics
This diagram may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Major_events_in_mitosis.svg Chromatin is just the stuff that DNA is composed of. -
How do parental chromosomes know how to reform?
Cap'n Refsmmat replied to Genecks's topic in Genetics
The DNA doesn't "form into chromosomes." They're stored in chromosomal form -- as lengths of double helix. In other words, they don't form into chromosomes -- they stay as chromosomes the entire time. They never need to figure out how to remake themselves into chromosomes. -
How do parental chromosomes know how to reform?
Cap'n Refsmmat replied to Genecks's topic in Genetics
I'm not sure what you mean by "get into." They're already part of those chromosomes in the parent. -
How do parental chromosomes know how to reform?
Cap'n Refsmmat replied to Genecks's topic in Genetics
We're diploid organisms. We have two copies of each chromosome, one from each parent. Each parent thus just donates one copy. It's not that they slice and dice their chromosomes and then the results are reassembled to form a complete human genome. (Admittedly, however, I had the same question several years ago, and it took me a while to realize...) -
Do you consider psychology a science or complete blasphemy?
Cap'n Refsmmat replied to Capita's topic in Other Sciences
Note the date on his post. -
This was in a "private" email, not in any document intentionally reviewed to the world. Had the researcher willingly made the same statement in a journal or to the public, it would be a different matter.
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Take a look at Cryptonomicon as well. It's my favorite Stephenson, ahead of Snow Crash and Anathem (which suffered from terminal weirdness). Curiously, my reading is now the New Oxford Annotated Bible, as I picked it up for a philosophy of religion course next semester and decided to finish up the New Testament while I'm off school.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
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I am not sure you can easily construct a small scale nuclear reactor that meets the following criteria: Lightweight Good power output Minimal radiation exposure to those nearby Remember, power is generated in a reactor by boiling water into high-pressure steam and driving a steam turbine. The piping and turbine will add significant weight. And when you have a reaction going critical, you have lots of neutrons running around, as well as other radiation, so you need a significant amount of shielding. (Think lead.) Even a small mass of uranium going critical is enough to kill someone from radiation exposure. Remember you have to achieve a sufficient mass of uranium to sustain a nuclear reaction. You can't just put in a tiny chunk and expect anything to happen.
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Then how do you get to the airport?
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Wait, are you thinking of nuclear fusion with deuterium? In a model?
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If you are the only one who can correctly interpret your words, there's something wrong with how you are presenting them. Clarification, not defensiveness, may be of some use.
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Regarding Severian's request for a study: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/979435/mens-porn-study-fails-to-find-smut-virgins
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Damn. I was hoping you would at least quote my post for irony. My point is that you are not "responding to their center and their core." You asked D H "what specifically .. is significant enough to cause someone ... to still have "doubts about the veracity of key scientists in that field?" He responded with evidence. You responded by reinterpreting his response to mean "I doubt climate science because of these three reasons, and only these three reasons." Do you not see the non sequitur jump there? You chose to take one post of his and consider it in isolation, as though it were its own self-contained argument against climate science in its entirety. It was not.
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Must you insist on pretending D H has made no other posts in this thread? You asked why D H had doubts about the veracity of key scientists in the field, he answered. D H never even insinuated that those were the reasons he dismissed climate science altogether. There are many reasons, which he has presented throughout this thread. But I will allow D H to defend himself on this, since he best knows what he meant. (You know, a year or so ago I made a post questioning the use of quote tags. I suggested that quote tags made it too easy to split an opponent's post into small pieces, each taken out of context with relation to the rest of the post, so each piece can be attacked individually. Because the pieces are out of context, strawman arguments become almost natural. Reasoned argument is thrown away, since simply objecting to every little detail is far easier.) (Curiously, iNow agreed with me when I made that post.)
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I don't think "dismissing climate science as invalid" was his point. Look at the quote D H was answering. But then this thread seems to be about sticking words in peoples' mouths...