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We ALL wish you had his eloquence, Dim

I appreciate the math guys, but the OP's assertion is easily disproven by molecules, where each proton doesn't 'bind' to only one electron, the residual Coulomb attraction is responsible for intramolecular bonds, and some even makes molecules 'polar', resulting in measurable intermolecular effects.

Maybe you're dyslexic. And you meant to say "multiple beers"

Keeping in mind also, that big game hunting wasn't a day trip, but would have taken weeks , if not months, to travel to the migratory areas of the big game, hunt/kill, and carry the meat/game back. The women could be used to carry supplies/provisions there, and back. And did not leave them vulnerable and undefended back in the village where they wintered. Assuming of course, they even had a permanent village; maybe they just followed the herds, north and south.

Can only speak for my brain ... More and more, it is the same area of the brain that I use to 'read' the News.

Yes, they certainly are .

Suck it up, buttercup ! You are going to die, along with the rest of the universe, in a 'heat death', where even protons have ( possibly ) decayed, and there is no more useable energy left for any processes to happen … … In several billion billion billion billion years. ( and quit using the 'reveal' button, it's annoying )

Again I ask because I'm not very familiar with all American States. I am familiar with New York State where minimum wage currently stands at $12.50/hr ( I believe ), and is scheduled to increase to $15/hr over the next couple of years. Is minimum wage a state responsibility, or is it federal jurisdiction ? Does every State have their own min wage, and how low is it in some of the poor Southern States ? Seems a lot of the poor Southern States are very good at attracting industry, with 'Right-to Work' legislation and low min wages. Are they purposely keeping people at low wages/non-union to attract industry/jobs ? Would a federally mandated equitable minimum wage help lift the poor states out of poverty, or would industry/jobs go out of country ?

I had read about this a week or two ago in, of all places, Daily Mail, but could not find a link to the actual study, or their publication. The report I read did not specify Milgrom's MOND, but simply MOND as in "modified' gravity. The explanation was rather vague, and hand-wavy, but essentially uses the Machian idea of ALL other mass-energy in the universe affects local gravity at galactic scales. If anyone has been able to find the actual study, and any publication of it, I would certainly appreciate a link. PS Found it buried in the NBC news link, buried in SergUpstart's link. Testing the Strong Equivalence Principle: Detection of the External Field Effect in Rotationally Supported Galaxies - IOPscience

I thought you already were world class .

Again, my apologies to all, including Phi. This didn't need to be public; I should have taken it to PM.

No. Markus will explain that gravity is not due to magnetism, or motions of opposite charges, or even mass. It is due to energy and momentum, that space-time experiences the curvature that is gravity. Particle and anti-particle pairs are created from the same energy, and annihilate, releasing the same energy. Energy which causes the same curvature and geometry of space-time which the particles and photons follow. Why would you think particles and anti-particles move differently in a gravitational potential ?

Sorry CharonY. I didn't mean to drag you into a long-running spat I've had with Phi. My previous post was meant for him; I didn't mean to turn it into a definition of Conservatism. It was a rebuke of assertions he's made concerning my political leanings/morals.

It's a known fact that if you're constantly on your phone while on a date, you're not getting any sex. Is that equivalent to infertility ?

Just the fact that you use 'Conservative' interchangeably with 'Republican' is worrying. Conservatives in Canada and Europe are more progressive than American Democrats. At least half of American Republicans are just plain nuts. The implication is that some of us who tend to be a little fiscally conservative are interchangeable with American Republicans. You have used that wide brush on me, a few times … And used perceived, or imagined, offense to unfairly lash out at me. ( bottom of page 3 )

Doesn't sound like a bad person. A little misinformed, and ignorant of what is actually happening, but just a regular Joe, with a few problems like many of us, who expects either a little help from his Government, or to get out of his way. There are many such people; liberal in some ways, conservative in others. That doesn't make them good or bad; what does is when unscrupulous, self serving 'leaders' and news organizations start feeding them lies, conspiracies, label them as one of their own, and introduce doubts about the 'other side', such as election fraud, QAnon, Hillary's eMail, etc. There were Conservatives in the 50s and 60s, and even the ones in the 70s and 80s were nowhere near as bad as what Conservatism, actually the Republican Party, has become in the US; Hell, George W Bush looks like a champ next to the current chump. This is a new phenomenon of the last couple of decades. And I fear a lot of Democrats, or Liberals, are falling for the Republican party/leader ruse. Just like they used 'fear' of Muslims after 9/11, they are using fear against the American people, the left fearing Republicans, and the right fearing Democrats, further sowing discord. If the Democrats fall for it, and hate all conservatives, America will never get past this. The answer is to approach any 'reasonable' Republican leaders that may be left, and working together to restore trust by the populace. Let them understand that the Government is concerned with the well being of the country, not simply staying in power. And shut out ( if not convict ) those Republicans who supported the worst President in American history If the Democrats start acting like the current Republicans, this will never end. In 100 years, Democrats and Republicans will still be blaming each other, like Palestinians and Israelis, living to 'avenge' the past, and doing nothing for the future. I notice a little 'understanding' in you above post, Phi. I'm glad you used a 'detail' brush, instead of that wide brush you usually use to describe Conservatives.

Vaccination is an exposure to the traits of a virus that trigger an immune system response, without the detrimental ( dangerous ) side effects. The 'flora' from human waste has been used to treat people whose digestive system is compromised because of its loss, but no, I wouldn't recommend manure therapy either. There are, however, studies that link eating dirt to better immune system, and digestive system health. Exposure to small amounts of detrimental stresses ( viral, bio, or unclean ) makes the body more resistant to those stresses. Unless the stress is large enough to kill; vaccines are obviously engineered not to kill. I remember reading that Mononucleosis ( kissing disease ) is prevalent among freshmen College students, because they go from their parents clean homes, to much less sanitary conditions in the dorms.

I mean that our bodies are adaptive biological systems; not mechanical systems. If you have a mechanical system, like a 5 hp engine, and you put a 6 hp load, or stress, on it, you burn up the engine. If you have an adaptive biological system, and you put a stress ( toxic, viral/biologic, radiation or even physical load ) on it, the system tends to adapt to that stress. The system ( body ) cleans out toxins. It produces antibodies to viral infections, and purges biological ones. Adapts o UV radiation with melanin and a suntan. Reacts to working out by getting bigger and stronger. Of course, if the applied stress exceeds a system's capacity to adapt, the system, or body, perishes. IOW, you don't get stronger by trying to do 2000 lbs bench presses; you die with a crushed chest .

I would consider a 'system' approach, instead of a 'self-contained' approach. There is little, if any, infrastructure for electric vehicles, so why does a vehicle need to be self contained and autonomous ? Why can it not pick up power as it moves from a distributed power system ? Consider a very small battery used just to get the car on the road's power grid, which could be built into the road itself ( electric streetcars are an example ). The initial outlay ( financial ) is way higher, but the rewards, such as reduced power consumption because you're not pushing around the large mass ( and volume ) of batteries, unlimited range once on the grid, and hazardous ( and limited supply ) refining and disposal of battery materials, may outweigh the financial downside. This is a new way of doing things. Why go with the tried and true; be bold. The world is always ready for a new 'mousetrap'. PS The flywheel effect is only good at constant speed,; that's why it's on the engine. If you are constantly accelerating your wheels ( like in city driving ), increasing their mass is detrimental. Oh, and 'thinner' wheels have less rolling resistance ( think bike wheels/tires, not Formula1 rear tires )

One example that could be cited ( although it has some 'racist' overtones ), happened in Canada about 20 years ago. In a little town, in Northern Ontario, Walkerton, several people died from contaminated drinking water ( bacterial contamination from cow manure run-off ). The person responsible for the Chlorination of the water was a drunk, who went several days at a time without treating the water, and the government had cut inspectors for the water supply systems. The joke I always make, is that if it was Mexicans living in Walkerton, no one would have died, or even got diarrhea ( Montezuma's revenge ), simply because in some parts of the world, we are used to having things too aseptic, while in other parts, their bodily systems are more 'robust' and adapted ( through exposure ) to biological and viral contaminants. My apologies to any Mexicans who might be offended by the above anecdote.

Not funny at all; kind of sad, actually. During lock-down, I've been watching the final season of that new show … The United States of America.

I hope the planned uprisings are just your pessimism, and the FBI preparing for a worst case scenario, INow. Hasn't that idiot, and the Republicans who still support his madness, done enough damage to American Democracy and ideals ?

Oh, I thought the reveal was going to show that Team A is Chelsea, and Team B is Man U.

Balances usually involve compromises. Where the options are not clear cut, but there is some ( subjective ) judgement to be made, someone will come along and 'pervert' that judgement process to favor their personal cause. If drug use automatically gets you a jail sentence, everyone caught with drugs goes to jail. If there is 'judgement' involved and 'circumstances', affluent white people don't go to jail; poor minorities do. If you're an idiot who listened to the President, and some Republican leaders, and stormed the Capital Building, you go to jail. The President will most certainly NOT go to jail ( for this ), but will probably get a multi-million dollar book deal, a movie, and an even more successful reality TV star career. And all those Republicans who supported him ( trying desperately to cling to power, while damaging the nation and democracy ) and encouraged the insurrection, will not go to jail, and will probably be re-elected.

Einstein vacuum is a classical concept; a volume that is still permeated by fields, such as gravity ( or rather, its geometry ). Quantum 'foam' was a concept, or description if you will, of quantum fields at very small ( below Planck ) scales, by J A Wheeler, and, is attributable to the HUP, with 'stuff' chaotically popping in, and out, of existence. Not the same thing, or different hierarchy of description, but rather, different models.