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This statement is so detached from reality that it makes me think you're trolling. With both Trump and Pence's history of abusing minority Americans, I find your defense of their "protection" insulting and inhuman. Way to go.

I can only go by the ones intelligent enough to vote.

! Moderator Note If you're prepared to present evidence in a scientific attempt to support your assertions of mind control, please open a thread in Speculations. Please remember that you will need evidence in the OP; no unsupported claims at all. Hearsay and anecdotes are NOT evidence. We're looking for points that would stand up in a court of law, basically. There are plenty of places on the web to discuss this without this methodology, but here we don't chase conspiracies and we don't give medical advice. This thread is closed.

Making the US weak enough to allow Putin to do what he likes in his own region seems more likely than doing it to attack the US, don't you think?

It's because he's lying like a salesman, not a politician. He's lying to set the stage, so when he tells the truth you'll grab at it like a nugget of gold and give it more weight than you would have if he hadn't set the stage with all those lies. It works in a Hollywood sort of way. We were blown away by Spielberg's dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, and equally blown away when we learned that there was only 6 minutes of CGI in the whole movie. Trump lies for the same reason a salesman might start bidding exorbitantly high, in hopes that it will increase the final offer. He suggests ludicrous things that shock people, in hopes that they'll view what he actually does in a better light. He'll get border security that's merely unnecessary and expensive, instead of preposterous and crippling. He'll settle for harmful and costly because he's been spouting off about deadly and ruinous. Unfortunately for us, I think the rest of the world is not so gullible as half the US.

Alfred E. Neuman, MAD Magazine's "What, me worry?" Kid. A body at rest. We'll miss him sorely. Martin was such a passionate cosmologist. He also had a charming way of dealing with the crackpots, where he simultaneously encouraged their wonderment and imagination, AND gave them multiple helpful links to a dozen hours of study.

I think, with your personality type, you should be confident enough to just sit back and do nothing. Let them find you. Seriously.

Science forums everywhere benefit from Janus and D H. Always a pleasure having them with us. Is Martin still around? I miss him. You learn a lot reading Martin's posts, always.

I would say it depends on the personality type you're looking for. No-nonsense people tend to wear no-nonsense clothing, they get right to business with little chit-chat. But not all types are going to be visibly identifiable. Often hard to distinguish between those who like to listen and those who are afraid to talk.

I'm seeing Trump's Misleading Vividness strategy succeeding with the fearful. He implies things that are so crazy and ludicrous, that when he backs off to the merely horrible level, conservatives say to themselves, "Oh, well, THAT's not so bad!", denying the fact that if he'd started out with horrible, these same conservatives would have slammed the door on him.

Over the last decade, we've tried doing without some sections based on the argument in the OP. All it did was decrease traffic, which increased the ratio of noise to signal in many discussions. Ultimately, our goal wasn't to compete with larger, stricter science forums, but rather to provide a place where many interesting things can be discussed rationally, civilly, and with an eye towards providing supported opinions where opinions might be meaningful. We're a science discussion forum that includes just about anything you want to discuss scientifically, even if it's not science. As far as Speculations go, we owe a great debt to the experts we have on staff and to the knowledgeable, long-time, professional and amateur members for their patience in being the tethers that reel in some of our wildest jumpers after they've landed on poor conclusions. Without their generosity with temporal resources, we couldn't have as much freedom to explore, fail, and learn as we do. Thanks, people. It's good to get the input. We're dedicated to providing a middle ground between peer review and Wild West guesswork, and in between there's a lot of judgement calls, and I know the Politics section gets messy more often than we'd like, but we've found it's an area, like Religion, where emotions play a bigger part in our perceptions. Ultimately, it's interesting, so it gets discussed. Since it's discussed here, we try to do that rationally, civilly, with more critical thinking than emotion (hopefully).

! Moderator Note Moved to Engineering.

So, you'll follow the rules as soon as someone can make science do something it's not designed for, to support a point nobody is making, so you can be right about why dimensions are measurable by humans?

Like the Russian meddling into our elections, and the Republican stonewalling of the judicial appointment process, I don't know why more People aren't protesting media in a trust position that can't be trusted. I see this as a national security issue ultimately. An informed public is critical in any democracy. If you can't trust the information you see ON THE FRICKIN' NEWS, how can your decisions be meaningful for you and your family? How can we feel anything but manipulated by this modern media process? Life in the US has become a minefield of misinformation, and there are no islands to steer towards if Trump sets his sights on defunding National Public Radio, which I'm sure his new stategist is just itching to do. Bannon must hate NPR.

Since you seem to have an incomplete picture personally, aren't you just projecting that lack onto science? If you don't know GR, how are you analyzing answers about time that pertain to it?

I've heard a number of stories confirming the "staging" of media events to make them more sensational and viewer-worthy. I was hoping it would be better with a state-run media than it is in the US, where news outlets are free to make up the status of various situations to spice up the news. People change the channel when it's correctly reported that the situation was handled well, but they stay glued when you tell them "It's complete chaos here...".

I got twelve minutes because I didn't do it.

You bicyclists and your insistence on privilege! You don't have to follow the lanes, you can go where cars can't, you don't even have an engine yet we're forced to share the roads with you! You ignore the traffic I'm forced to sit in, and I can tell, as you peddle away into the sunset, you're probably sticking out your tongue in that bicycley way your kind has! You think you're so fit with your normal weight and all! We allowed you to use our roads and now you're like vermin, scurrying everywhere with your bells and your Lance pants and your fitness, taking road space away from cars! You stay in your little lane, two-wheels, because my envy can be lethal!

I'm reminded of a time I watched a guy get hit with a snowball. He was turned around, and his mate yelled "Look out!" instead of "Duck!" He turned back to look and got it right in the face.

I got twelve minutes.

The physics of unregulated capitalism. You're right, it's not a drag. Is it a push? There's pressure being exerted to draw more benefits upward, out of proportion to the work that's been done to create the benefits. It's siphoning off resources whose allocation to the middle class helps the economy more than sequestering them at the top, and it seems to have gotten to the point where the rise of some wealth is only powered by the fall of the lower classes as they're sucked dry.

I'm having a hard time with a standard reaction. When you hear the warning for a really fast-approaching object, is it best to stop and turn your head to see it? Or is it best to assume it's NOT going to run into you? Should you move at all besides turning to see? It's a bit of a toss up when it would be useful. It's good to be informed, but you can overdo it. But ultimately, I guess it would be worth quite a few false alarms and spilt coffees if you turned to see something headed right at you and a warning gave you time to evade.

The ones who've been skewing the benefits of high production their way for the last 60 years, to the detriment of the middle class worker. The selfish folks who profit by corporate welfare while forcing the poor to bootstrap it "the way they did". The people who continue to rig the system to benefit themselves at the expense of those without that capability, because they seem to control all the factors that might reasonably regulate them.

No, because I understand that my country isn't like a BINGO game. I understand that I don't have to be the wealthiest for it to be a pretty great life. I understand that I can't really be as happy as I can be if I know the selfish folks are dragging down others in order to win. I understand that if more people start out under even circumstances, and get the same investment in their potential, our society becomes one worth investing pride in as well.

Since the problem really seems to be the fastest cyclists, because they represent both the shortest reaction time and the most damage in a collision, it sounds like your double pulse sensors could be configured to only alert you when someone's coming up really fast.