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As long as you are basing it largely on pseudoscience, I see no point in trying to justify anything with actual science. Once disbelief is suspended, kick that hairy ball with gusto.

Russell & Whitehead did it in more-or-less 86 pages. Principia Mathematica Alas, Gödel showed their system was incomplete. Therefore, 1+1=2 may not be sufficient for solving every equation/proposition of relativity.

That has nothing to do with Sun Tzu. Yes well, you started the thread as if your point merited a thread. It does not. Your point is neither metaphorically nor actually a substitute for reading the work. A big fat so what?

Given Mr. Wander's admissions of ignorance and his ongoing abuse of members giving thoughtful responses to remove that ignorance, isn't it about time to close this nonsense?

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It is known. Read the article I gave in post #7. Read it in its entirety. >>Ocean Chemical Processes I say again, the subject of Mars belongs in a separate thread.

You can safely discharge deep-cell lead-acid batteries down to ~ 20%. Maybe you can put a suitable lithium-ion battery in as a replacement; check with the manufacturer.

But you did in effect vent by suggesting Sun Tzu's work could be reduced to a quip. The fact is calling for a flanking move in no way conveys the how's and wherefores outlined by Sun Tzu, anymore than calling the Sun a ball of fire outlines the how's and wherefores of solar storms. At best you have given us nothing but a passing observation that may -or may not- be suitable in a quotes thread. It certainly IMHO does not merit a thread.

From what I have seen, it's for skateboards and called the Sharkwheel. Sharkwheel

Nonsense. There are many plants that Native Americans ate as greens that contain Vitamin C (Claytonia comes to mind), as well as the squash, corn & beans they grew. (These three were referred to as the 'Three Sisters' by Native Americans.) source Another source:NATIVE PLANTS AND NUTRITION Edit: From the above reference and concerning Vitamin C. This is an excellent resource on Native Americans uses of plants for food, medicine, and poison: >>Native American Ethnobotany @ University of Michigan, Dearborn; A Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants. Also following up from the link I gave on Claytonia in my first paragraph:

I presume Dr. Funk will simply say that those quotes are examples of outflanking*. While I wouldn't disagree, I do disagree that one can simply start with the idea of outflanking and so have no need or gain in reading The Art of War. By the same token, quoting a few 'choice' passages of the work are no substitute for reading the whole of it. It is to be taken together as a system and that is the art. *

Yes, I think because it is too often associated with conventional religion. Emergence is a back-of-the-mind thing that my brain has been chewing on for years trying to get my head around it, simultaneously viewing the paths from micro to macro levels, but so far always fall short. I think properly understanding it is crucial to understanding the nature of biological concepts like 'life' and consciousness as processes. I look forward to a thread from you on the topics you mention should it ever gel well enough for you to post something about it. Tangled hierarchy consciousness; aka strange loop. As you contemplate/construct/project higher level abstractions -such as alien life- you inevitably return to the starting point, i.e. yourself. The teleological 'thrust' is yourself or per se 'I'. Ouroboros

Meaningless drivel. ... More meaningless drivel. The values are independent of the base chosen to represent them. There is no individual numeral six in any numeration base six or below. The e refers to 'exponent'. Scientific notation

This means war! I'll just bring up our thread on Precision in English, and throw in a Sun Tzu adage to keep it all on the high ground. To take advantage of the enemy's lack of preparation, take unexpected routes to attack where the enemy is not prepared. Follow up: Grammatical errors aside, I'd like to see parallels drawn between some strategic or tactical specifics in Art of War and some specifics from game theory. In perusing your link I found it interesting that of all the areas they mention game theory having applications to, I only saw war mentioned under the heading of political science & under the sub-heading 'war bargaining'..

You implied a triviality by saying 'just another', where 'just' means 'merely' or 'only'.

Having not read Clausewitz, I can't compare him with Sun Tzu. Why trivialize the work? It's like saying The Clouds is just an early comedy. I no longer have a hard copy of The Art of War, so I refer to this online version. >> The Art of War

That's like saying launching a rocket is physics to one degree or another.

If all it takes is three words, why did you add 2 not-so-eloquent paragraphs? Having read and re-read Art of War many times over many years -and never having gone to war- I find it refreshing every time. If your simple analysis were so, then I wouldn't expect modern military academies or anyone interested in strategy and tactics to find the work of interest and value as they do. Therefore, the best warfare strategy is to attack the enemy's plans, next is to attack alliances, next is to attack the army, and the worst is to attack a walled city. ~Sun Tzu

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A doozy of a waterfall! Even today the Med is saltier than the Atlantic and in fact this saltier water is outflowing at Gibraltar in a layer below the less-salty inflowing Atlantic water.* *Strait of Gibraltar @ ESA I can't help but wonder what ruins & shipwrecks would be revealed if the Med's level dropped a hundred meters or so. Alas it looks like that would take a rather sizeable seismic event to close the gap. This paper suggests reduced precipitation and increased winds as major contributors to an increase in salinity and the drop in Mediterranean Sea levels since ~ 1960. Full paper: >>Sea level drop in the Mediterranean Sea: An indicator of deep water salinity and temperature changes?

You've gone adrift here. Perhaps start a new thread on Mars.

Interesting topic. I think the answer is a big 'it depends'. What it depends on is how the increase in temp affects the surrounding areas that contain the river systems that feed the Med, as well as how the local temp rise affects precipitation falling directly into the sea. As we are already seeing, the global climate change is producing more frequent and larger storms in some areas and droughts in others. Then too, local conditions are not always completely responsible for local effects as we saw this week in the US when the typhoon in Japan changed the path of the jet stream and we had unseasonably cool weather dip into the upper Midwest and Northeast. All this is of course off-the-cuff and if you'd like I can seek out some references in support of my sleeve.

No, it wasn't deposited late and no there are not sodium asteroids. The elements sodium and chlorine were here from the start of Earth's formation. While sodium chloride makes up IIRC about 87% of the ocean salts, the other elements making up the remainder were by-and-large here from the start as well. Sodium chloride is readily soluble in water and it's primarily that hydrologic cycle you earlier referenced that transported salt into the oceans as they formed. While there is still much we don't know about these formative processes, one of the links I earlier gave gives a fair summary. Here's that link again: >> Ocean Chemical Processes