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MigL

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  1. Come to Canada; no explanation needed.
  2. I'm sorry, I don't mean to pile up on you like the rest of these guys, because I've generally presented the same arguments as you ( and had the same incomprehensible discussions with Dim 😀 ), at least, concerning JP. But when your partner asks you "Do these jeans make me look fat ?" DO NOT give an honest answer. As a matter of fact, don't answer at all, just leave the roon; there is no right answer.
  3. You can't cycle up a 75 meter high turbine 😀 . Especially the off-shore ones 😄 😄 .
  4. You get no power until the vanes thaw ? What happens to solar panels when they are covered in snow ( I live in Canada ) ? What happens to a regular wind turbine when its generator needs servicing at 75 metrers height ( I have a 15 ft ladder ) ?
  5. And simple wire mesh ( chicken wire ) would keep small animals and children out of the spinning vanes. If one or two of the generators are stopped, it would not affect the function of the rest.
  6. That ... is a 'revision' of the OP ??? The two don't seem remotely related. And I have to question the following Seems to me, doing nothing, such as not going to work, is a sure-fire way of ending up on social assistance/welfare, rather the opposite of enhancing an individual's socio-economic status. IOW, the first iteration of the OP made more sense, because although it made no sense, at least it wasn't demonstrably wrong.
  7. From the description I would think it would not be very efficient as a 'wall' of your typical suburban home because of the close proximity of other houses, however I can see whole fencelines of these generators encircling suburban properties as an alternative to ( or, in addition to, for those sunless windy days ) roof mounted solar panels. They don't look too bad as a fence.
  8. Those of us ( you two included ) who take part in the Politics Forum revel in political squabbling.
  9. and are equivalent if an 'extended' system has an 'effective' mass. The effective mass usually means the mass that the system seems to have, and acts like it has.
  10. Sometimes cheeses are not solely fermented with yeasts and bacteria ... Casu martzu - Wikipedia but with live parasites. It has been illegal since the 60s, but that has only made it more of a 'delicacy'. My great grandfather used to love the stuff, and yes, I've tried it.
  11. There is no universal 'now', or 'present'. It would also need to be infinitely old. The speed of light is finite, so light from infinite distance will take infinite time to reach us. Expansion means, as you wind back the clock, that the universe had a beginning , of sorts, and we can calculate that to be about 13.7 billion years ago. IF ( big if ) the universe is infinite in extent, light from its furthest reaches cannot have gotten here in 13.7 B years
  12. How about 'google'; are you familiar with that ? "n physics, a plane wave is a special case of wave or field: a physical quantity whose value, at any moment, is constant over any plane that is perpendicular to a fixed direction in space." Plane wave - Wikipedia
  13. You're welcome. ( see, I am courteous )
  14. Olber's paradox was shown not to be paradoxial at all once universal expansion was detected by E Hubble in 1929 ( I believe ). And Michio Kaku is fully aware that A Einstein's theory is not applicable at lo-separation/hi-energy extremes such as the center of a Black Hole or the Big Bang pre inflation. But saying "We just don't know ( yet )", doesn't sell many books. Being controversial does.
  15. What you should be taking from that video is his last words ... "I'll take responsability for what I say; I'm not saying your words." J Peterson
  16. Try that with a cop, or a judge, when your license says Arete, but you insist on being called Bubba. Let me know how you make out. It could also be that "Ze' is just a way to grab attention, make yourself stand out, cause a disturbance, etc. IOW, spuriously made up. Then why would I need to acknowledge and validate his/her made up pronoun ? Other than as a courtesy ? If you would take the time to actually watch the video @ 2:57, so that you could speak from an informed position, you would hear S Paikin ask J Peterson how he would refer to the trans-woman taking part in the discussion. To which he calmly replies 'she'. Which seems to contradict your claim that he will not address trans people according to their own mentally perceived gender.
  17. Exactly. Not sure what the rest of your post was addressing, as I've never stated views that are contrary. We could ALL be more courteous ( I'm Canadian ); but being forced is a totally different matter. Then there is the problem of who is deserving of courtesy, andd who is an attention grabbing shit-disturber, Then please explain how someone would come to the decision that they require everyone else to refer to them as 'Ze'.
  18. Some misunderstand quantum particle behaviour, thinking that they are waves in some circumstances, and particles in other circumstances. They are not ! What they are, in 'reality', we're not really sure. But we have two models, one which treats them as waves, and the other which treats them as particles. If we set up an experiment to test our wave model, we detect wave behaviour from the quantum particles; if, on the other hand, we set up an experiment to test the particle model we find quantum particles to exhibit particle behaviour. All we are confirming is one or the other particular model, and its area of applicability. We are NOT confirming any underlying 'reality'.
  19. Your story, while very cute, is not similar at all. Tell me exactly what 'ze' means? Is it a country of origin ? France maybe ? It's easy to make claims. Proving them wrong is just as easy at 2:57 0f the following video ... Sorry about the idiotic title; it was the first one that came up in my search. It is everyone's right to have their OWN world view, and not have someone else's forced on them. Doing it voluntarily is a courtesy.
  20. Well, at least you upped the number ( by one ) from the number of transgendered athletes competing in professional sports 😄 .
  21. That depends strongly on your definition of 'better'. Without any counterarguments, I see that the race to the top of the 'holier than thou' heap has intensified; there is no need to consider other opinions, and viewpoints, in an echo chamber. Trying to make life better for the oppressed and disadvantaged is a valid and noble cause; appeasing nutbars who want to be 'fashionable' and refer to themselves as 'thou' ( the point Koti was trying to make ), or simply delusional people with mental health issues ( we seem to have growing numbers ) is NOT. Nor is it 'better'.
  22. If you went in your back yard, and made some measurements, you would probably come to the conclusion that the Earth was flat. The extremely large radius oof the curvature makes it 'appear' so.
  23. The original 'goalposts' were 'vague and incomplete', disregarding the rubbish about infinity. I'm not sure as to the meaning of vague in this context, but incomplete certainly applies. Big Bang Theory is based on GR, which we know to be incomplete, as it doesn't apply to all circumstances. And 'how matter came about', at the expense of anti-matter, is certainly a gaping hole in the theory, along with some of the other unknowns mentioned by Mistermack. Suggesting Big Bang Theory is complete ( or that any model can be complete ) implies a lack of understanding of the theory Just saying ...
  24. From your point of view, obviously not. But the point of discussion is to explore alternate viewpoints. As you don't want to do that, or simply don't care, you are preaching. We have rules against that.
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