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Little boys like to play with their dinks. Rich little boys build huge ones to play with.

These anmalies are no doubt, being investigated by the military/government, as they represent possible threats/problems with our military hardware. Can you understand why the government wouldn't want to publicize the fact that our ICBMs can go ( or be taken ) offline, removing the element of 'deterrence', and possibly exposing us to adversary nuclear first strike ? Can you understand why new technologies, like plasma stealth and others, might be undergoing testing currently, by us or adversaries, and the military has no desire to let the 'cat out of the bag' ( similar to the original stealth demonstrators which were flying in the early 70s, but were unknown to the public till 1990 ) ? Ths thread reminds me of the 'Schroedinger's cat' thread ... The fact that we don't know, is not evidence of the supernatural ... nor of 'aliens'.

If you try that with a home system where you are both, user and administrator, you might get yourself committed to an insane asylum.

Our Mods are sneaky. They like to make it come as a total surprise.

Open 'Start' menu. Scroll down list of installed programs to 'Windows System' ( near the bottom of the list ) Open 'Windows System' and right click on 'Command Prompt'. Click on 'more', and select 'Run as Administrator'.

Any solution that encourages unfairness to one group, so as to make life more fair for another group, should be a non-starter. A bit of 'the end justifies the means' has never worked out well. PS. I'm not British, balding or overweight, brush and use Listerine twice a day, and have had a fairly exciting life so far.

At best, it is a correlation that a specific type of behaviour is facilitated by a certain 'arrangement' of one part of the brain. Religiosity and spirituality merely examples of that specific type of behaviour. Maybe the specific type of behaviour is 'feeling guilty'; most religions encourage, and take advantage of, that 'feeling'. And yes, most of us do care. ( but not enough to give Dim a neg rep )

I would think companies like Amazon are free to include any stipulations they want in their fine printed legalese. And it will usually stick, until tested in court. Then the class action lawuits begin.

You're right. I made the unwarranted assumption that anyone who can measure the CMB temp ( and deduce its origins ), would know about frequency shifting and galactic motion. I believe the CMB was discovered accidentally, so it could have happened before we realized there was galactic motion, or even galaxies.

Would you consider that, the development of imagination ?

I will say yes no We measure the temp of the CMBR to deviate 2 parts in 10000, once the motion of our galaxy/sun/planet has been factored out, which blue shifts the CMB ahead of our path, and red shifts the CMB behind our path. I see no reason why anyone in the universe would measure any larger deviations. As for the quasars , someone in a galaxy 10 billion light years away might see our galaxy as it was 10 billion years ago, when its central BH was active and producing the large jets associated with quasars.

OK, it's Tuesday ... You must be doubly overcompensating 😄 .

On this forum, one of the very first things we recommend to noobs and amateurs, who want a deeper understanding of Physics, are the Feynman lectures. Those clear, concise and easy to understand lectures also did a lot for his popularity.

Why would I be ? They are not making the compettion unfair for everyone else in that catagory. Granted it is unfair to themselves because of their situation, but it is not their 'right' to infringe on the 'rights' of others. I certainly would not demand that my tennis opponent has to wear a patch over one eye, just because I lost vision in one of mine.

If it was always daylight and we couldn't see the stars, except for 1 night every thousand years ? Read the short story 'Nightfall', by I Asimov. Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel) - Wikipedia or the R W Emerson quote "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."

Further to Beecee's excellent post, there are many things we cannot know, like the exact position and momentum of an electron. But the reason we cannot know is quite natural, and in no way does it deviate from known laws of Physics.

I would assume he meant the difference between the aarc-length ( the Earth being round ), and the straight line distance to the top of the tree ( or 50 yards height ). In that case, at the distances being considered ( 100 yards ), the arc length is essentially equal to a straiight line, so the straight line distance to the top of the 50 yard tree is longer than the arc length to the base, or approximately (1002+502)1/2.

That is ridiculous ! I almost want to change my rule of not giving neg reps.

This is way too deep for me. I'm still on the fence about free will. I'll just wait for Eise to tell me what to think about consciousness. Quit introducing your kinky sex life into the discussion 😄 .

True, but the 'dangers' of the internet have nothing to do with AI, or it becoming self-aware. They are more related to faulty programming ( see your opinion of Win10 ) and unscrupulous people who introduce malicious software, and ransomware, into the system.

Henny Youngman ( the king of the one-liners ) would be proud of you ... He sends a +1.

I would think this does deserve mockery ... This is a discussion forum; make a solid argument, and IT won't be ridiculed.

Yeah, I was a teenager when that happened, and, even then, recognized it for what it was. Sorry JC, I didn't mean to include you. My rant was directed at Zap ( who should know better ) and ScienceNostalgia101. Zap used it as an excuse to ramble on about misogyny in sports, when he has been advocating that for many pages. He wants to give physiological males ( with a few missing pieces ) who identify as females, the ability to compete ( and dominate ) against cis women, yet doesn't see that as unfair to cis women. If he's that upset about misogyny in sports, maybe he should ask a woman how she feels about the situation. I'm not saying trans women cannot compete, but they need to compete in a catagory where training and effort, not physiology, are the determining factors, AND which doesn't put women back where they were 100 years ago.

I see no point in going further with this, when SN101 can come in, 23 pages after the fact, and make the absurd claim that gender segregation in sports is due to the fact that opposite genders may 'distract' each other while competing; and no-one bothers to correct him. It is as though the arguments made in the last 22 pages did not even exist. Please get a clue, before you get an opinion.

Cheating implies circumventing rules. Your solution ... Have no rules, so there are no cheaters. Yeah, that seems fair 🙄 !