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As it is a video, I have no idea who Merrifield and Moriaty are, what they say, whether it is correct or misleading. On the other hand, the comments made by other posters here appear to be more or less correct.

Worth clarifying that when they say the galaxy has "died" and "gone dark", neither of those thngs are true. No (or very few) new stars are being formed. The galaxy is still there, still full of stars and still visible.

You have highlighted the lie in that report instead of the truth in the headline. "No links to weapons research" Don't do that. It seems the problem is with your desire to find conspiracies and bad news, not the reliability of the news. Stop trying to spread lies and conspiracy theories.

No.Definitely not. It is moving away from us.

As I never mentioned either (and neither did you, before now), I'm not sure why you would think that.

You are very fond of referencing "studies". For all I know you have made these numbers up. (I'm sure you haven't. But, on the other hand, you haven't given any sources.)

I did. Maybe you are confused by the fact that dietary cholesterol has little effect (which has been known for a long time) but diet does.

Harvard University would appear to disagree: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/fats-and-cholesterol/cholesterol/

They wouldn't. And it isn't.

There is also the fact that when a new virus is encountered, the dangers are unknown so it makes sense to try and contain it as quickly as possible.

You haven't been banned. You haven't had any sort of warning or anything else. Don't play the Galileo Gambit too early.

Why? If you don't know what a great circles is, I have zero faith in your theories (which are nonsensical, anyway). I asked you why you rely on the modern names for a bogus connection between them. Well, if you don't want to explain then we can just request the thread is closed. This is a discussion forum, after all.

Can you name one military program where the technology was decades ahead of anything anyone else was doing? They may be secret, but they use the same technology as everyone else. And when did a lone programmer last produce something that millions of others were not able to do (and are not likely to do for decades)?

The usual argument from incredulity that "we are not just brains". I have never seen any evidence, or a much deeper argument, for this position. Humans learn to understand speech in about 12 months and to produce it in 24 or more. And they are asleep for a large part of that time. That is learning from first principles and so discovering/inventing the rules of phonetics, the meanings of sounds, syntax, morphology, grammar, etc (there is some debate whether the brain is already hardwired for the concepts of grammar, etc. or whether it uses pre-existing abilities related to pattern matching and organising information). I don't disagree. One problem I have with the idea of strong AI being massively smarter than humans is that it is based on the idea that computers can do individual tasks, such as calculation, much faster than humans. But a true, general AI would, presumably, be devoting much of its processing capabilities to just being intelligent that it might be just as poor at mental arithmetic as I am. Plus, I can imagine dialogs such as: Human: "Can you calculate the most efficient trajectory for our return to Earth?" AI: "No. I'm sick of doing that. You do it. I'm going to watch a soap opera." That is not an argument against the possibility of AI. In fact, one piece of evidence that the development of strong AI has succeeded might be that every AI "being" ends up with a different character through their different experiences of things like this. And people are attempting to model simpler organisms at various levels of detail. There is at least one project to attempt to simulate the entire metabolism of a single cell. There are attempts to model the nervous system of organisms like cockroaches. (I am not up to date with any of these, I have just noticed articles on them over the years.) It seems unlikely that one group could have made massive breakthroughs that are years/decades/centuries in advance of anyone else. And then kept it secret. Why would they?

They all have a "T" in the name? (Knoxville is in Tennessee)

That, by itself, is enough to invalidate the idea. Your straight lines and isosceles triangle only work because of the projection used for that map. Does it work for different projections? Does it work for great circles on the ground? Do you understand the difference? Apart from the fact that choosing arbitrary places on the map that happen to fit your desired pattern (and then inventing post-hoc reasons for their significance) is the geographical equivalent of numerology and, so, utterly meaningless. And why do you think there is a significance in the modern names of three unrelated cities? When we recall that they were originally called Aikai, Illion and Augustobona Tricassium it doesn't sound so impressive does it. (This is like numerologists who insist on using English when making claims about the universe, as if modern English is somehow special.) What is the mechanism of this influence? Gravity?

Something you are interested in: eg. database of movies you have seen, cars you own, games your favourite team has played(*), etc. (*) This could be expanded, as you learn more, to predict future results based on past performance of the teams and players.

Blade runner Smuggler Cop Bail bondsman Judge Defence lawyer

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/business/economy/federal-reserve-treasury-bills.html Not an area I have much understanding of, but I don't think it is directly related to the stock market. They insist it is not quantitative easing (aka "printing money") but is just intended to restore balance to the money market. How independent is the Fed? Could it be an attempt to make the economy look strong so the president can boast about it? (I'm sure I never used to be this cynical, even about politicians.)

Programming in general, especially computer security. And, on the other side, cyber warfare

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Who is dan?

It's hard not to find experiments. Good point. Even if some experiments are potentially flawed (and obviously not all are; but the whole point of the scientific method is to eliminate those that are) the existence of even one experiment falsifies the hypothesis that there is no science involved.

i'm better looking, though. 😐