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What do you think of this story ,Markus? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r7z2ynd2lo4 (A zoo in Denmark asking for pets to be given as contributions to the diet of their resident predators such as the lions, lynxes etc) It is also a story on CNN....

I am also paranoid. For the years I have been on social media my aim has been to ask good -or just useful questions ( I am an extremely poor imparter of knowledge ..) and in all that time I have been rewarded perhaps twice with "that's a good question".(which I do crave ) I nearly always get answers to my questions but rarely get involved in the discussion

Can this kind of stuff be used in disinformation campaigns? Is it possible for agents* to feed content into these programs that is deliberately false? Does AI have any means of "truth weighting" the content it takes in or is it entirely gigo? *obviously totalitarian regimes in first instance but also in a "spy vs spy" context.(or even advertising campaigns?)

That would fairly put us in our place!

During the winter of discontent in around 1970(the 3 day week ,was it?) I left my room when the electricity went ,leaving the 3 bar electric fire on (but off). When I returned, maybe 8 or 9 hours later the electricity had returned and my room had gone up in smoke. I was advised that when the power returns after such an outage it can come back stronger and my chair was so close that it caught fire. I had several fires before and since (well in the past now) so lessons may not have been drawn in my case.

Yes ,that answer had also seemed likely to me. Are there any circumstances where direct observation is not possible ?(aside from the seemingly obvious before T+10'^-43secs) Philosophically (I hope) is all knowledge related somehow to observation ?(if only of one's own spinning wheels) and you can't have an observation that doesn't imply (fleeting) knowledge? ps was I right about the spacetime interval applying to the up and down electricians?

Suppose we have 2 spacecraft and one of them (B) is following the other (A) towards a region of greater spacetime curvature. In A ,which has its own artificial gravity an elctrician(E) climbs a ladder to a fuse box loses his or her balance and falls to the ground . A backup electician (F) repeats the procedure and again falls to the floor. B observes that F takes longer to follow the same trajectory than E . Is this because B actually observes this via a light(or other) signal or because B calculates it from a GR model? Is this a distinction with no difference or does it have any significance? (Hope my setup had no holes in it) Also are the time measured to fall down the ladder and the spatial distance involved the two factors in the spacetime interval in these cases?

Were there other subsets ,with different interpretations of what I gather was their main(only?) source of information as regards their religious beliefs ?(the Old Testament) Did they have reported debates /disagreements along those lines?

Were the "apocalyptic Jews" a subset of the Jews?(first time I have heard of them) Who else would have been considered to be part of that group that we know of? If this is true it is quite a revelation(no pun intended) to me.

(That is a 2020 article) https://www.livescience.com/graphene-hides-rare-magnetism.html I am wondering what would happen if a quantity of such magnetized graphene was released above one of the Earth's poles. If it was stable and presented the same side to the magnetic current and rise up in the magnetic current?

Am I missing something ?

Let's not be irrational.

Tsk-tyk

This is all very ripe for metaphore.I am sure the Magacult will dig its own grave ,Pope or no Pope .....

I doubt that. Itsounds apostryphal to me. Would be nice,though if the new Pope could for Magerica something like what John Paul 11 did for USSR and Poland.

Seems a bit harsh to be targetting bees' knees.That spring-handled welding hammer seems quite a fierce tool. You wouldn't want to use it hammer side first ,though and impale yourself on the recoil.

Yes ,this is Samsung Internet. (btw this is the third time in a row that I thought I had posted a reply only to see a little later that I had not. I willl keep an eye out in case there is some glitch or it is just my own carelessness or the poor performance of my phone)

No I don"t use a VPN (I think that is an anonymous IP?) I never log out (sometimes different sites log me out after a while but I don't really pay much attention to that) I think it is just this site that keeps verifying that I am human ,although it does sometimes happen elsewhere ( on google itself ,actually it might be quite frequent) I wonder if might be down to this phone being quite old (and a bit wonky) although,as I said it isn't happening on other forums I visit.

Is anyone else getting an increased level of "checkong that you are human" verifications? I get this every other time I go to the site and it is a lengthy process. Once i am "in" it is fine but if I leave the session for a while I may have to go through it again.

Or a tad cilious?

They haven"t been finished? I expect they can be made less conspicuous when the individual pictures are added in their places.

If he wants to attack Iran in a full blooded war does he have to get the OK from Putin first? Does that require a "full" ceasefire in Ukraine if the weapons supply from Iran has to be interrupted?

What about Mars? ElonStar?(you need to squint to see it)

From what I have heard that is the time in the model approaches infinite density. Is there anything that would distinguish this universe from any other possible one? Is any asymmetry involved? Do quantum processes dominate for something as small as that ?(I don't know how small that actually is)

A space laser/tweaser? I have wondered that ( as a requirement that may have led to a blunder)