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He's too busy. He hasn't noticed. He has forgotten us. He doesn't care. He is still celebrating Genesis. He has a really bad hangover. He thinks it is someone else's responsibility. He is sulking. He is depressed. He hasn't been well. He is dead.

I would strongly advise people NOT to open a Word document from an unknown source. Even if it isn't malicious (and there is no reason to think this is) the creator could be unknowingly spreading malware. (I could also go on about why it is not a good format for publishing for purely practical reasons such as not being cross-platform, not reliably preserving formatting and content, but I shall resist....) If you must post a document, I would recommend PDF. But better still, as suggested, present your idea here.

Sadly, it isn't unique. There seem to be quite a number of people who think science is incapable of making progress (usually because it won't listen to their drivel).

I think he means using less memory. There is always a trade-off possible between speed and size. Really just that (unless the architecture has hardware support) accessing individual bits requires more instructions, and hence more execution cycles, and this will usually offset the benefits of reducing memory used by accessing single bits.

Much of what you say is just obvious, well-known science so I'm still not really sure what your point is. You seem to have that the wrong way round: life evolved to be the way it is because of the environment. It wasn't that life existed and then the universe was created around it. Stars, planets and galaxies appear to survive quite well. And did so for billions of years before life.

You seem (from this an earlier comments) to be under the impression that a 1º rise just means that it would be a bit warmer (on a day when it would have been 20º it will be 21º instead). But it isn't as simple as that. In the last few years, the UK has had the hottest, coldest, wettest and driest months on record. All of these records will continue to be broken in coming years if "global warming" continues. You have claimed that cold weather is a greater danger than hot. In fact, both extremes are dangerous, but even if you were right, climate change will lead to more extremes of cold weather (in some places) and hence more deaths. That might be true for northern Europe (it would nice to see some evidence to support it) but isn't necessarily true for the tropics.

Right. That's why there have never been any advances or paradigm shifts. Einstein's theory never replaced Newton's, quantum mechanics never replaced the old model of the atom, plate tectonics was never accepted and no scientist has ever won a Nobel Prize.

It doesn't need a medium. Well, there would be energy in that part of space as the light passed through. This would contribute to the curvature of space-time (and hence gravity).

Light is radaiation, not the medium.

Reputation and scientific standing should not matter at all: the only thing that matters is the evidence.

Bosons!!!, for!!! example!!! photons!!!, can!!! not!!! only!!! occupy!!! the!!! same!!! spatial!!! position!!!, they!!! can!!! be!!! in!!! the!!! same!!! quantum!!! state!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate

I had a colleague who worked out that he only needed 1-bit resolution for his digital signal processing application and so was able to process 32 channels in parallel in each word, which meant his software was faster and ran on cheaper hardware than any of the competitors.

I didn't mean to say that. Mike makes many interesting contributions. But they are generally philosophical, artistic or just interesting points of view. Little of it is really scientific, even if it is often about science. Being scientific isn't about how much you know. (I know very little.)

There are a few, specialised, architectures that support direct and efficient access to arbitrary bits. The thing is that this introduces a lot more hardware complexity (which means cost and power) which isn't of any great benefit in most cases. Now that memory is so cheap, using a byte, or even a word, to represent a boolean s no big deal. (Now, when I was young and you only had 2K of RAM ....)

But that isn't what I said. Science and technology can and frequently do play an important role in art. And art can be inspired by science (and vice versa). But that is NOT science. Not even close. And that is not science either. No I wasn't. I would disagree with someone who claimed that.

Great question! At first I thought it was a chaperon, but they were out of fashion by then. It actually seems to be a sort of turban-influenced thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperon_%28headgear%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013_September_9#18thC_Head_dress

Invented or discovered? It is a pretty standard term. You could look it up in a dictionary, if you are really unsure. This is somewhat different from you constantly using words in non-standard ways.

If someone is discussing God then the assumption is that they assume the existence of God and that God created humans. It therefore seems very odd for that person to ask "how are hums [or human activities] related to God?" After all, they appear to believe that God created those humans and is therefore, at least indirectly, responsible for what they do. But maybe that isn't as obvious as it seems to me.

Make mine a Mort Subite.

There are many areas of maths which have nothing to do with the natural world. I would still like you to explain what you meant by "absolute value", especially as you admit is not the usual meaning.

Searching for "glyphosate degradation" or "glyphosate metabolism" should produce lots of results. One of the main products is aminomethylphosphonic acid, which seems pretty harmless. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminomethylphosphonic_acid

That was based on this comment: As there is a great deal of scientific evidence quantifying the possible range of effects, I have to assume that you are genuinely unaware of the data or were just pretending not to for dramatic effect. Sorry if I took your stement too literally. I try not to have any. I have almost no expertise and no qualifications of any relevance (I have a "Diploma in Humanities" that I am quite proud of).

Things are not that simple. The question of whether mathematics only exists because it reflects reality, or it exists independent of nature, or it is purely a human invention that we just-happen to be able to use to describe reality, or some combination of those, is a long-standing philosophical debate. There is no obvious answer. Period.

I have done this: as long as you stick to the old-fashioned FAT32 it should work on both. And Linux, I think - which should also be able to use NTFS. (I think I formatted the drive on Windows to use on both. But MacOS should be able to format a FAT32 drive as well.)

I don't know how any of that is relevant. Actually, I was just about to ask what you mean by "absolute value". But noe of that changes the fact that our current understanding (both theoretical and experimental) of electrons says that they have a limited number of possible states and, apart from those different states, they are identical. The only argument presented for them not being identical is "what if they have all sorts of other variables we don't know about". Which is not a scientific argument. It is barely rational.