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Soooo ... Not relevant to you ?

Is that a rebuttal or agreement ? I thought that's what I said ... Did you miss the bolded part ?

Excuse me for injecting some science here, but the Earth re-radiates in the infrared range ( black body radiation of 20o C ) The same infrared range that is absorbed by water vapor molecules and CO2 molecules in the atmosphere and re-radiated back towards the Earth. That is how greenhouse gases work; to trap re-radiated planetary heat back on itself. Unless we are measuring the infrared illumination of the Moon by the Earth, those numbers may ( or may not ) be meaningless, in relation to atmospheric CO2 levels. It may be just a result of changing surface cover, such as melting ice, vegetation covering, city sprawl, etc. All these may indirectly result from CO2 levels, and directly from climate change.

Definitely agree with you CharonY, If he was black he would have never made it to trial; he would most likely have been shot in the street by police. But I don't see how it is partisan to mention that the victims of the shooting, although they didn't deserve to die, were there to riot and raise hell, just as Ritterhouse was, Stringy. In any other place, this might have escalated to a beating; when people are armed, it escalates to shooting and deaths. I don't mean to deral this thread, and make it about guns, Stringy. But I don't think a protest that might escalate to a riot is anywhere guns should be allowed. We've seen it countless times, people ( usually right wingnuts ) showing up at protests in full army gear and armed to go to war; even if not used, guns are an intimidation to the oppostion. Nothing good can come of allowing ideological people to open carry firearms to a 'confrontational' event.

See, now I would think personality traits play a big role in social interactions, dominance behaviour and related things. But what do I know, I'm a Physicist ( ... is good for the gander, or biologist 🙂 ) Let me lay down on your couch and tell you about my childhood ...

This verdict, and trial, are just another data point in the 'crazy' that passes for 'normal' in the US these days. And am I missing something ? I thought the people he shot were all white, and brandishing various weapons ( a skateboard even ). If someone intends to do me harm, or kill me, does it matter if I run them down with a car, although I don't have a licence and can't legally drive ? The problem, other than the farcical trial, is thinking that it's OK to carry assault rifles to a protest which is escalating to a riot. ( The victims of the shooting were not fine upstanding citizens; not that it matters, but I don't think thy were there for a peaceful protest either )

Easy, INow. It seems that when JP discussess biology he is rightfully condemned by all for being outside of his area of expertise, and CharonY does point out some valid objections to his understanding of biology. Yet when he discussess human behaviour, and our thinking/emotional state, an area where he is a prominent accredited expert, being a much published Psychologist,you guys still insist he doesn't know what he is talking about. When did you, and the others, get your degree in Psychology ?? ( what's good for the goose, ... 🙂 )

Not just conservatives, Phi, although sane voices, advocating for gun control, are mostly left. When we last discussed the problem of guns in the US, some very liberal thinking members of this very Forum, objected to gun control. It is one subject which is not as politically polarized in the general population. There are roughly 400 million guns among the US' 340 million people, and only about a million are registered. It is an American problem, not a right or left wing issue. ( seems to me, an 'amendment' is already a change; why the big resistance against another change ? )

Holy cr*p ! 6.2 % ? Well, that makes my raise meaningless. ( thank God I don't have a mortgage, once they start trying to control inflation )

Have a friend who recently got a Legionella infection. Not pleasant; His kidneys shut down and he underwent dialysis several times, before treatment rid the infection and kidney function returned. But he does have other underlying health issues, which could have contributed. The facility where I work, being European owned, has to test safety showers/eyewashes for Legionella contamination ( mandatory in Europe ), and one of our buildings tested positive. When we did our weekly checks on them, we had to run them for a minute or two, to clear out the bacteria, until they tested negative. ( that's the tie in to rinsing )

Would you say that this is the reason why gravity is modelled in 2 ways - spacetime warping and/or particle exchange? No, but it is the reason gravity is not renormalizable and can't be easily persuaded to play well with Quantum Field theory.

Gravity wells are spherically symmetric, and don't impart any particular orientation to orbits. Conservation of angular momentum is what determines orbits and planes. That being said, multiple gravity wells, depending on configuration of course, will affect orbits and their planes.

Well, for one, people tended to believe their Government. There were no anti-vaxxers then. That's one better aspect, at least.

Error bars apply to the 'experiment', not the 'experimenter', Stringy. But I understand your analogy 😄 .

I am not making the claim; we are examining JP's claim. I did read your response in the other thread about serotonin and anger, and I agree with your assessment, as it seems to re-enforce something I previously said ...

While I apprecate the amount of work involved in posting/typing all that crap, I have to remind you, this is not a mental exercise. The Earth has been measured and observed to be approx. spherical. IOW, NOT FLAT !

I don't think you really know how theoretical Physics works. Someone doesn't just pull equations out of their a*s. Maxwell |( and Einstein ) based their work on years, if not centuries, of observational and experimental evidence. You would have someone tell J C Maxwell, and A Einstein, "Your equations might describe the workings of reality, but they don't make sense to me, so they must be wrong." ??? I will, however, admit that in the latter half of the previous century theoretical Physics has, in some areas, far outpaced the abilities of experimental Physics to verify. Areas such as string theory, LQG, GUTs, Cosmology etc.

Sttill not an expert in biology, but Phi's quote in the spun-off thread indicates that it is an area of ongoing research. Maybe 'certainly' is too strong a word to use until further research clarifies the matter. I did, however, learn ( relating to Studiot's comment ) that lobsters may never have evolved the ability to feel pain; as they are usually swallowed whole by their predators, the ability to feel pain in a particular area so as to protect it, has no selective advantage.

That would be why I put lobster "brain' in quotations. Arthropods don't have a brain as we know it, rather a bunch of nerve endings ( ganglions ). Neurotransmitters such as dopamine, adrenaline and serotonin are common to arthropods and primates ( us ), and serotonin is highly connected to dominance and aggressive social behavior. ( that last bolded part is what JP claims, but I don't know enough Biology to know whether it's true )

I stand by my 'cruel' assessment of Psychology. It is not quite a science. At best, what JP sells is opinion, not facts. You, as a biologist, would know that what we consider the 'brain' of a lobster, is actually still incorporated into a part of our brains. This purely instinctive, hard wired, response mechanism is controlled and kept in check by the rest of our brain ( which allows for thought and social behaviour ). The Psychologist's job is to determine when a 'thinking' individual loses control to the base, instinctive part of their brain, and engages in anti-social and physically aggressive behaviour. JP is entitled to his opinion as to when that happens, as are other Psychologists you may actually agree with. The 'error bars' around these opinions are huge.

The astronaut actually 'grew' 3 inches, but the inch unit stayed the same; there was no dilation of length in lessened gravity. What actually happened is that, his body, exposed to a prolonged period of lessened gravity, de-compacted, and his joints moved apart. I myself am usually 1/2 inch taller in the morning ( after having slept horizontally )than in the evening ( after standing most of the day ). Sometimes the difference is enough that I have to adjust the rear-view mirror in my vehicle.

I, OTOH, see a difference. It seems as if most, if not all, of German society ( excluding of course, the persecuted and exterminated ) was ready to follow their leader's ideology, even sending their kids fo fight in the war. Italian Fashists, not so much; they simply went along for the ride until the tides of war changed, then they switched sides. Even the US, over the past 5 years, although heading in the wrong direction, it is still only a minority that support MAGA/Trump. If half the eligible voters ( 240 million ), voted in the 2016 election, and roughly half of those voted for D Trump, that gives roughly 1/6-1/5 of the total US population supporting D Trump; almost a fringe element ( although it increased slightly in the 2020 election ). You seem to think these kind of things ( totalitarian, auhoritanianism ) only happens in fashist/capitalist states. Tell me how equal were/are people under Communism ? Or do you want to compare the number of people that their ideologies have killed ? ( just Mao Zedong killed more people than the NAZIs in WW2, don't even need Stalin and Pol Pot's numbers ) Ideology can be a dangerous thing; all people who have one, are convinced it is right, and will do whatever it takes to acheive that end.

The science I'm familiar with tests for repeatability. A Psychologist can take any two subjects, and the same stimulus will produce differing results. The best outcome expected is a statistical correlation ( because it is almost impossible to isolate other variables ).

All of those elements existed in many countries in those times. Even in Canada, we had the Residential Shool System for native children at the time. The difference is, that in a lot of countries, these elements simmered under the surface of society; and in some cases, still do. In Germany ( and some other places ) these elements actually boiled over into mass exterminations and genocide, requiring a world war and millions of casualties to restore ordered societies. I find it beyond belief that so many people could have been so easily convinced that hese elements were/are a good thing. It would be interesting to hear the opinions of a 1930s era NAZI, understand their motivations, and see where we are in danger of repeating those mistakes.

Well, he is a psychologist. At the risk of offending some people, it is a fair stretch to call Psychology a science.