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Acme

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  1. Best starting advise...don't sweat the small stuff. Dig up some dirt, put in some seeds, put on some water and see what grows. If you have specific questions for your circumstance then ask away, but don't get all balled up in trying to learn it -or spend it- all in one season. That's a sure way to suck all the joy out of growing some of your own food.
  2. Because of tidal forces. Tidal acceleration @ Wiki PS Because the Earth collects meteors and meteoric dust at a higher rate than it loses gasses to space, it's mass is actually slightly increasing over time.
  3. Seismographs regularly detect and track ground shaking that is not normally detectable by people at the surface. While it is technically possible to send modulated acoustic signals through the earth I suspect the power requirements would be prohibitive. A downside might be disturbing certain wildlife that use extra low frequency to communicate, e.g. elephants. The US Navy experimented on-and-off with low frequency sonars in the oceans, but -by most accounts- stopped because the signals disoriented whales.
  4. Yes, exposing roots to air, and per se oxygen, can bring a healthier growth. While the specifics are conditional as others have pointed out, lawns are frequently aerated using mechanical means that remove cylindrical plugs of soil or make wedge-shaped indentations. Lawn aerators @ Wiki
  5. At the poles they experience ~ 6 months daylight and 6 months night. Here's a link describing an experiment to see how this works. >> Six Month Day, Night at Poles You can use the same setup to look for effects at other latitudes. By photographing the Sun at Zenith everyday and then putting the photos together you will see this "wobbling" as a figure-eight form called an analemma. The exact proportions and orientation of an analemma are determined by your location. There are diagrams at the link in the preceding sentence. Try the experiment I linked to and see if you can answer the question. The day/night line is called a 'terminator' and I'm not sure you can see it from 'tall' mountains. You can see it from aircraft if you happen to be at the right time. You can watch it right now every 45 minutes from the new HD cams mounted to the ISS. Here: >> ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment Here's a Google link to analemma photos: >> https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=analemma&fr=yfp-t-901-s&fr2=piv-web&ri=7&tab=organic&ri=2
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  7. Oh Studiot; I feel so used. Theory discharged. The Electric Universe Theory Debunked
  8. I'm no Sunshaker, but I found it fascinating. What I can't find at the link is anything about the author(s) or any supporting references. How did you find this? What is your opinion on it and/or the opinions of others? Please spill your guts Studiot before I get z-pinched at a double-layer and go all super nova.
  9. Sure. Ed's overarching beef after all is that any meat is bad. I note that the article linked to in the OP doesn't even define "processed". Moreover they say: source Meat an important source of nutrients & vitamins!? Imagine that.
  10. The issue here is not the effects of raising & processing stock but the direct effects of meat eating on human health. Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. ~ R. Heinlein
  11. Tesla's towers and the rod-in-the-ground were not free energy devices. His idea was to use a conventional AC generator to power the tower which then was to act as an antenna and charge the entire atmosphere. Then -his idea went- all anyone would have to do is put the rod in the ground, connect it to one lead of an appliance and connect the other appliance lead to an antenna and the circuit would be complete. It was in effect a wireless transmission scheme, but the power generation still required conventional means such as a dam or coal-fired turbine generator. Moreover, it did not and would not work. Electrical power can be transmitted without wires using microwaves but the method is focused and localized. Such a setup is the means behind schemes to put solar panels in high orbit and beam the power to Earth.
  12. A critical thinker posting as you have would leave this with "I was mistaken".
  13. I didn't say rant. Your opinion is without merit.
  14. Stop using large text. You have been warned/advised several times now. I read the entire paper you linked to about the Q of rocks. The piezoelectric stimulator is still not direct stimulation of the rock sample by radio frequency. Piezoelectric effect is electric, but not radio in the experiments, i.e. it is not electromagnetic radiation. Your further feather posting is pseudoscientific word salad.
  15. According to Wiki: GPS @ Wiki So yes, GPS satellites can currently detect nuclear explosions but not missile launches, and SBX-1 can detect missiles in flight but not nuclear detonations. So installations such as SBX-1 do not duplicate GPS capabilities. SBX-1 is a radar installation and does not use HAARP capabilities. SBX-1 @ Wiki Nah; but you should know better. As to HAARP causing earthquakes by causing rocks to vibrate, Swansont offered the proper analysis, saying: If electromagnetic ELF waves could vibrate deep rocks acoustically then acoustically vibrating deep rocks could generate electromagnetic ELF waves and we could use radio detectors to measure earthquakes as we do with acoustic seismographs. They can't, they don't, and we can't (and don't). EDIT: Moreover, if ELF waves could vibrate rocks directly then the folks doing the study you linked to would not need to glue magnetically vibrated metal disks to the rocks in the test chambers. Can we hear him now?! *Some cross postage. Please dock my pay.
  16. imatfaal pretty well covered your objection. I would only add that virtually all space bodies rotate/spin and while it is theoretically possible that they would briefly not spin, that would be a case of imatfaal's 'vast external torque' being applied to stop the spin and -should the body survive intact- that applied torque would set it spinning in a different direction. Since applying the necessary torque to Earth to stop its spin would destroy humans and virtually every living thing, then no humans would be around to witness what happens when Earth stopped spinning and so the question is moot, or as I initially said non-sense.
  17. This is as much nonsense as Ed's ongoing thread-after-thread claims that any meat is bad for you. So ridiculous is your claim that in the interest of saving space I see no need to mention any plant-derived foods other than fruits & per se nuts. Human's are omnivores, plain and simple. Good grief.
  18. Mike, With all due respect, this post and your others in this thread are just so much pseudoscientific bullwash. Other than repeating that over & over or using other terms to say the same thing, my first sentence covers the issue.
  19. Arguing from personal incredulity is a logical fallacy Mike. One you employ far too often I might add.
  20. Post #3 is incorrect. Post #2 is correct and here's the explanation. Why Skin Wrinkles When Wet
  21. The question is nonsense as it will never happen.
  22. It's just a coinkydink. Correlation does not imply causation.
  23. Based on some new findings I think yes the weather will be affected by changes in the solar wind. Evidence for solar wind modulation of lightning To clarify, the magnetic field protects the atmosphere and the atmosphere protects the surface from charged particles. Also, the magnetic field does not affect UV directly. Earth's biota has survived multiple pole changes and there's no reason to suspect anything different now or in the future. The biggest danger to humans from the solar wind -regardless of the state of the magnetic field- is the damage it can do to our electrical technology. We recently dodged such a bullet by sheer luck. Fierce solar magnetic storm barely missed Earth in 2012
  24. Thank you for sharing your insight with me John. Perhaps the original poster will return and clarify which metal or metals prompted the question.
  25. Physics aside, physiologically you don't feel/touch metal the way you feel/touch water. That is, at normal everyday range of temperature you don't immerse a body part in metal nor does metal flow over a body part as does water. I expect touching ice and touching metal at ice temperature or putting a finger tip in boiling water or on metal @ 212ºF would feel similar. Yes molten metal flows but I don't think a person in contact with molten metal would be thinking about comparisons.
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