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  2. My experience with GoPro from a few years back is that the battery only lasts a few hours. You’d need an external power source, unless they’ve gotten a lot better.
  3. Just kidding; lyrics not evidence; It was too easy to pass! Is it random molecules masquerading as "thinking"? Authors give the impression that is does not seem so! https://scitechdaily.com/breaking-the-brain-muscle-barrier-scientists-discover-hidden-neural-network-like-abilities-of-self-assembling-molecules/ This should have been a stand alone post, not attached to Dim post!
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  5. Wow. A bit like appointing a fox to head the henhouse department of health. This sort of thing is why I favor noncorporate controlled outlets like The Guardian or NPR.
  6. "Told you I was ill." - Spike It was a case of the brain adapting to the body it's given, without the deaf death thing, so no it's not a support for your position.
  7. Given that politics includes moral philosophy, I think one should consider that the actual use of a WMD tends to open up a tactical (and utilitarian) conversation that can drown out the moral one. For example, justification on the basis of saved lives is not always a compelling argument in other aspects of human life. A worldwide totalitarian regime which forced contraception on every person on Earth could save billions of future lives. Worldwide tobacco ban and death penalty for growers would save millions. And so on. Humans are not really utilitarians, for the most part. What is your moral sense of what America became, by using a nuke on civilians, and likely accelerating an international arms race? And based on that, what should we do NOW?
  8. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941, the plan was to cripple the US Pacific fleet for just long enough to allow Japan to seize control of other southeast Asian countries such as British Malaya, Singapore, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies, and consolidate them into their ‘Greater East Co-Prosperity Sphere’. The Japanese hoped they could force the USA to negotiate a political settlement from a position of weakness that would validate Japan’s seizure of these territories, and leave them in control on much more favourable terms than existed in the 1930s. Perceptive Japanese strategists like Admiral Yamamoto who planned the Pearl Harbour attack knew full well that Japan could never defeat the USA in a prolonged war of attrition - so a negotiated diplomatic ending to hostilities with the allies was always a key part of the original Japanese war plan. It went wrong from the outset because the Japanese failed to destroy the 3 main US aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbour (they were all at sea). The US carriers subsequently inflicted terrible damage on the Japanese fleet at the Battle of the Coral Sea, and the Battle of Midway in June 1942. Meanwhile the USA’s war aims became the total destruction of the Japanese military machine, and the unconditional surrender of their nation. In the summer of 1943, Japanese Navy chiefs asked Admiral Sokichi Takagi who was one of their best strategists to carry out an independent survey of the course of the war. His report concluded that Japan must sue for peace if the USA captured the Solomon islands. The Japanese subsequently lost control of the Solomon Islands at the end of 1943, but the Japanese Army leadership defied all warnings from the Navy and carried on fighting - refusing to countenance any possibility of diplomatic negotiation or surrender.
  9. Hi everyone, I'm a medical student, and we are conducting research, and we encountered a problem along the way. After some research, it led me here to this website. I've seen a similar question and have taken note of the answers provided by other members, such as GoPro and Borescope. I messaged the author of the post, but he/she was last active in 2018. I'm unsure if I will receive a response, but I'll remain hopeful. We are conducting research where we will grow fungi in our modified culture media. To facilitate fungal growth, we need to place it inside the Thermoline incubator for several days. Recording a video of the growth process would be beneficial since we will be observing the exact hour/day of their growth. The incubator will be set at 37 degrees Celsius. We're wondering if it's possible to place a wireless camera inside the incubator. Given our limited resources as broke medical students, any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
  10. Hello, @morrisey3, I'm a medical student who is also using an incubator like yours, not for growing crickets rather we are studying Fungi, and we are working with a culture medium. So, to observe the growth, we were also thinking of putting a camera but we don't have any idea what kind. I Did some research that somehow led my way here haha. Your post has been 6 years now, I would like to ask what you did. A little insight will do. Hoping to get a response from you.
  11. Not entirely. They have been different factions and while the peace camp was arguably less influential, it is not a clear split between emperor and military leadership. Yes indeed, but my point is that diplomatic solutions were considered before the bomb, including an uncharacteristic overture by the emperor himself. In fact, the official position since 44 was that they were willing to negotiate conditional surrender. The hope of Japanese leadership was always hat they could retain some of their occupied territories (from the onset of the war) while suing for peace after a series of conquests. By 44 they were ready to broaden negotiations, with te exception of the position of the emperor. This was of course counter the Casablanca declaration.
  12. For those who could be interested in the new model I have proposed, with no vibrations in the particles (atoms/molecules of a substance), I think I have advanced in the direction of the energies' quantification. Of course the proofs of several (intuitive) assumptions made still remains to be accomplished. I show here just the straightforward quantification already developed only. I have considered: H = U + PV is the total energy supplied to the system considered at rest in a Thermal Equilibrium U = Er = Thermal radiation energy of the photons present in the system PV = Es + Ek where: Es = Energy stored in the electromagnetic structure of the substance (electrons' atomic levels and electrons' molecular bonding levels) Ek = Average Kinetic energy of the particles The Equi-partition Principle of the model would apply as: U = PV = H/2 = 3NKT/2 always So: H = U + PV = 3NKT always (K = NKb where Kb is the Boltzmann constant and N the number of the particles in the system) Depending on the nature of the substance of the system: PV = Es + Ek partitioned someway in Es and Ek Particular cases: 1) Ideal gases Es = 0 (negligible) Ek = 3NKT/2 Er = 3NKT/2 H = Er + Ek = 3NKT 2) Ideal solids Ek = 0 (static particles) Es = 3NKT/2 Er = 3NKT/2 H = Er + Es = 3NKT 3) Liquids Es + Ek = 3NKT/2 partitioned someway (depending on the nature of the substance) in Es and Ek -something between the cases of the ideal gases and ideal solids- Er = 3NKT/2 H = Er + Es + Ek = 3NKT As I already said, everything made just intuitively in the calculations must be yet proved valid. I will continue working forward on the subject as far as I could.
  13. As someone who seems to be unaware that the media is manipulative, you are.
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  15. I’m not sure deficiency is the right word. Ships were smaller when the Key bridge was built in 1977. https://commercial.allianz.com/news-and-insights/expert-risk-articles/shipping-safety-22-losses.html “Container-carrying capacity has increased by around 1,500% since 1968 and has almost doubled over the past decade [referenced to 2022]. Ever larger vessels are on order.” The Dali’s capacity is almost 10000 teu, almost triple the biggest ship when the bridge was designed.
  16. Yeah it looks like it should be roughly cubic, because newton's law of cooling says that the rate of heat transfer from a fluid to another substance is proportional to the temperature difference between the fluid and the substance. This should be indepedent of the rate of temperature increase. The system involving ocean, atmosphere, and ice mass may be a little complex but this is also what is observed in the ice age cycles, and I know someone came up with a semi-empirical relationship agreeing with this (Newton's law of cooling is a more "microscopic" law for simple systems, but it agrees with this more macroscopic semi-empirical relationship somehow describing a complex system). The name of the author is Rahmstorf S Rahmstorf, A semiempirical approach to projecting future sea-level rise. Science 315, 368–370 (2007). Rahmstorf found empirically a correlation consistent with this relation between rate of heat transfer and temperature, and since heat transfer is linearly proportional to mass of ice melted (latent heat law) and hence proportional to sea level rise, that means rate of sea level rise is proportional to the temperature difference between ocean and ice mass.
  17. There is an entire chapter devoted to this subject in The Fall of Japan (1968) by William Craig [Ch.3 ‘The Diplomacy of Defeat’ ]. There were some covert attempts made by high ranking Japanese officials to initiate diplomatic contacts in great secrecy with the Soviet foreign minister Molotov by passing messages between Jacob Malik the Soviet ambassador in Tokyo, and Naosoke Sato - the Japanese ambassador in Moscow. The idea was first raised by Emperor Hirohito in person on 22 June 1945 within hours of the death of General Ushijima on Okinawa. This initiative stalled when Malik the Soviet ambassador failed to respond. The Emperor Hirohito offered to send Prince Fumimaro Konoye to Russia as his personal envoy to meet with Molotov in July 1945, but the Soviet leadership who were preparing for the Potsdam Conference failed to provide any opportunity of a meeting with Molotov. Stalin had already privately decided to declare war on Japan at a moment of his choosing very soon after the conference ended, and he regarded the Japanese initiative as moot. On Monday 6th August 1945, the very day that Hiroshima was bombed, Shigenori Togo the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs sent an urgent telegram to ambassador Sato noting that Stalin and Molotov had just returned to Moscow that very day. Togo instructed Sato to demand an immediate meeting with Molotov and seek a definitive reply from him as to whether the Soviet Union would help broker a peace deal with the allies. Before Sato could reply, Togo sent another even more frantic telegram - he had just received an eye-witness report that said “The whole city of Hiroshima was destroyed instantly by a single bomb”. Ambassador Sato sent a telegram back to Togo on the 7th August to say that Molotov had finally agreed to meet the Japanese diplomats the following day at 17.00. This meeting duly took place on the 8th August 1945, and Molotov used it to declare war on Japan. [see The Fall of Japan ch.5 for the timeline and full texts of the diplomatic cables].
  18. IIRC, WaPo mentioned it. Their coverage was extensive, since DC is close to Baltimore. @swansont posted a wiki article that provided a clear description of dolphins (structural). Dolphins are also used to protect structures from possible impact by ships, in a similar fashion to fenders.[2] A notable example of dolphins used to protect a bridge is the Sunshine Skyway Bridge across the mouth of Tampa Bay. In 1980, the MV Summit Venture hit a pier on one of the bridge's two, two-lane spans causing a 1,200-foot (370 m) section of the bridge to fall into the water, resulting in 35 deaths. When a replacement span was designed, a top priority was to prevent ships from colliding with the new bridge.[3] The new bridge is protected by 36 dolphins: four large dolphins protecting the two main pylons supporting the cable-stayed main span plus 32 smaller dolphins protecting bridge piers for 1⁄4 mi (1⁄2 km) to either side of the main span.[3] The cost of the dolphins was $41 million (approximately $90 million in 2017 dollars).[3]
  19. It is common knowledge the emperor wanted an end to the war: the military leadership was of a different opinion.
  20. Something like an adblocker (e.g. ublock origin) on firefox should work on Linux?
  21. ! Moderator Note It looks like that the thread has run its course and if desired, the spin-offs could be discussed in a new thread. Locked.
  22. Ironic, considering "them" was originally used properly in context until you broadened the definition to include the us/them divide, then denounced it as divisive. It's insidious how you weaponized a pronoun.
  23. Missed this one! For memory, I offer the flatworm experiment and organ transplant references. For emotion, I offer the microbiome and two way conversation via the vagus nerve. "We know that in animals the gut microbiome can affect emotional behaviour via the vagus nerve." https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2022/05/stimulating-the-gut-brain-nerve-can-influence-emotion "This narrative review summarizes key aspects of vagus nerve function as a main player in the microbiota-gut-brain axis in depression" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666915323001464 3.For cognition, speculation with a touch of research on cells and thinking. "Do cells think" "A microorganism has to adapt to changing environmental conditions in order to survive. Cells could follow one of two basic strategies to address such environmental fluctuations. On the one hand, cells could anticipate a fluctuating environment by spontaneously generating a phenotypically diverse population of cells, with each subpopulation exhibiting different capacities to flourish in the different conditions. Alternatively, cells could sense changes in the surrounding conditions - such as temperature, nutritional availability or the presence of other individuals - and modify their behavior to provide an appropriate response to that information. As we describe, examples of both strategies abound among different microorganisms. Moreover, successful application of either strategy requires a level of memory and information processing that has not been normally associated with single cells, suggesting that such organisms do in fact have the capacity to 'think'." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17530173/
  24. You do a 'Too long didn't read' then. I just read the Thread OP 1st post just now and I can't make head to tail of it.
  25. My mistake, he did discard the head part, but the point remains that the tail part grew a head and remembered the task, so where was memory stored before a new head was regenerated. The head part of the worm would have remembered the task, because heads store memory. Are you clicking on the links and nothing happens or are you cliking, they open and you expect highlighted text? If its the former, please click on the boxes provided below the post for access and if is the latter, I have not highlighted anything, because it is a quick read. There are clear indications that thinking and memory storage happens in the brain. However, I would venture only at this point that collective consciousness proponents would say otherwise or indicate that it is both as mind and brain form a whole. Like brain appearing to form a whole with the body, except that in the case of mind outside of brain, its a physical entity forming a whole with a non-physical one. A radio without a signal. The only observations hinting at it for me are episodes when a malfunctioning brain is able to spit out any kind of thinking when that should not be the case. Notwithstanding, I believe that there is no proof per say that this hypothesis is even worth bearing in mind. I offered it for discussion, because it is one of many being considered. Again, my position is not that we should be pursuing this or any other model, but that there is something wrong with our current picture of how mind works in the brain. I will get more info on the mind through brain hypothesis and get back to you. Din't catch that one and good one sayiing that the brain has a hard time adapting to death Wow! The Who! Like that one! And body and cells appear to adapt to circumstance to stay alive and do the business that they have to do! And remember that the pinball wizard was "in a quiet vibration land"; so maybe it is also the case for mind!
  26. Not really. Them = used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified. "I watched the kids and read them stories" "I picked up some rocks and threw them in the river" Except there I was not talking about people I was talking about concepts. Also you literally weren't able to make your point, without using the word "them" in the same way except you were referring to people. I also didn't call anyone an asshole that was just an example to try to illustrate to you that your language policing just does not make sense here. Them is not a dirty word and my usage of it in no way speaks to any hidden ill will I have towards anyone.
  27. Try to wrap your study on the difference between an invariant vs a variant measurement. The former all observers agree on literally all observers. That's is what's used to calculate the expansion and age of the universe etc. The commoving observer is used to establish that needed invariance
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