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As an example of 'free' speech, you can use any of the above words, "Fire', "Shoot" and "Poison Gas" in a sentence, so as to express an idea. "I should be able to kill SNAKES by SHOOTing, POISON GAS or FIRE" See, no problem.

Speaking is an 'active' process. You do it to convey YOUR ideas. Listening is a 'passive' process. It interprets others' ideas. So again, if you want to convey your ideas accurately, the onus is on you.

There are certain rules that make it less of a 'crap-shoot', but you can definitely go to certain parts of my city, and speaking proper English, you will not be understood, or, at best, misinterpreted. So, yes the onus is on you to use the 'best' tool available to convey your thoughts. ( sometimes that might mean drawing pictures, or pointing to a picture/reference of Attila the Hun in a textbook )

Me neither; I don't believe you...

Words mean whatever the listener interprets them to mean. If the listener interprets them incorrectly, the speaker has used the wrong words to convey his ideas to his listener. EG. I may use a French word correctly, but if you don't understand French, I an using the incorrect 'tool'.

I guess we'll have to wait and see if other detectors ( other locations ) pick up these decays from hi energy particles. Or maybe the Earth is like Swiss cheese and there are 'holes' everywhere .

Well, since Markus has expressed his desire to join a Monastery, I think that definitely answers the OP question. But, some words to Markus... ( no offence meant, just trying to lighten the mood ) A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head monk to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies. The head monk, says, “You make a good point, my son.” He goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held in a locked vault. Hours go by and nobody sees the head monk. The young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing. “We missed the R! We missed the R! We missed the R!” “Father!” cries the young monk. “What’s wrong?” The head monk with tears in his eyes replies, “The word is CELEBRATE!"

It would be extremely boring. You do realize the scale of the solar system, and the time lapse to show any appreciable change on a very minute scale ? ( it will take about a week for Mars to move 1/100 of its orbit. never mind the outer planets )

I would like to see a moderator say "No, you cannot talk about whatever you please; Answer the question." And if they continue with their talking points that have nothing to do with the posed question " So, you refuse to answer the question ? Let's move on." So that the audience understands the situation. Would have loved to see K Harris have a Biden moment, and tell M Pence "Just shut up, man !"

Nice historical perspective. Thanks Studiot.

That article postulates the passage of highly energetic particles through the Earth ( from the other side ). Not originating from a fantasy inner Earth, and escaping through polar gaps.

Just finished watching the vice-Presidential debate. Moderation ( trying to keep M Pence from abusing set time limits ) was even more ineffective than last time. And why don't politicians ever answer the questions that are actually asked ?

Electoral College or not, INow, if enough voters actually get up off their asses, take an interest in the future of their country, and get out their vote, I don't think even a stacked Supreme Court will side with D Trump. No more of this 50% of voters stay home. All 170 million eligible voters need to make their voice and opinion heard, and vote !

You're gonna have to re-phrase that. I haven't a clue what you mean to say.

Sorry MSC. I mistakenly quoted your reply to Pussstmpy. ( I just fell off my nit-picky high horse )

Don't you mean rots in the dirt ( or a mausoleum ), Phi ? I thought you didn't believe in God, Heaven or Hell. Or, is it true strong emotions bring out the Religiousness in people . I was confused by the statement about the stimulus package also. I didn't think any money had made its way out to people yet, because of 'playing politics'. ( although I seem to have heard some corporations and D Trump's rich buddies have gotten some )

It IS currently inhabitable and will remain so for some time, as it means 'suitable to live in'. You probably meant uninhabitable ( unsuitable to live in ). I think most understood what you meant, but I'm feeling nit-picky today.

The link to proper acceleration, and differences from coordinate acceleration, was, unfortunately, split off to the hijack thread. Here it is again ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_acceleration It is easily understandable at first, but does get quite mathematical later on.

Just how big Black Holes can get. Massive enough to affect galaxies in a cluster. And possible effects of Dark Matter in their creation. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/monster-black-hole-is-caught-feeding-off-galaxies-trapped-in-its-spider-s-web/ar-BB19LywO?ocid=msedgntp

There are two concepts that need to be distinguished. Proper acceleration is relative to a free-fall or inertial reference, while co-ordinate acceleration is based on the choice of co-ordinate system. They are equivalent in an inertial frame in flat ( no gravity ) space-time. The moon, being in free-fall ( orbit is a 'fall' ), is not considered to be accelerating in GR, while you, standing on the Earth's surface, are being accelerated 'up' at 1g by the surface. This link may dispel some of the above confusion... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_acceleration

The thing about accelerated frames of reference is that there is an inertia change, so you can always tell when you are in one. You accelerating away from the universe is only equivalent to the universe accelerating away from you if you subscribe to a Machian viewpoint. ( see Ernest Mach and the 'Newton's pail" thought experiment ) They could very well not be equivalent. Try accelerating the universe and let me know how you make out

Is there any other kind ?

When did the Bible become 'the word of God' ? It is simply an imperfect interpretation by men, sometimes centuries later, of events. Religions ( most ) have constantly changed through the ages; so has the interpretation. I am not a believer, myself, but don't look down on believers. Science is based on facts and observations. Religion relies on an entirely different thought process; it does not require explanations or experimental observations. It relies on FAITH. Science does NOT.

For science that interests me Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, Wheeler ( not exactly introductory, but my favourite ) For modern military aviation ( Aerospace Eng ) Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach by Raymer ( does not include Stealth ) For computer hardware MaximumPC magazine (before that Micro Cornucopia and BYTE ) For history the list could be huge depending on time period The Decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon ( sets the standard ) All except Gibbon are available in paperback, so I consider them ( or at least parts of ) introductory. And incidentally, my field is Chemical Technology, but I just read ( and sometimes write ) SOPs for that, and they are proprietary information.

Dang ! I thought this was my year. I was sure I'd be getting the Physics prize, and D Trump, the Peace prize.