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In our lives many things we are used to using "possibly" shouldn't have been made due to long term problems> IMHO plastic bottles are something that could have done without and the world would be a better place if they were invented.

In a video where an old abandoned mine was being explored the people with a death wish type curiosity (the explorers) noted that the mine was cut into what had been a volcanoes pyroclastic flow. I'm not sure what had been mined but it looked like a conglomerate rock bed, lots of large rocks with smaller and even dust type grains holding it all together. The commented the eruption had been many millions of years ago but later on they found remains of trees in the rock. Would these wood fragments still been wood? They asserted they were but they didn't get samples which almost made me think they should have been beaten to death with a volcanic rock. The material cert…

Like if your life depended on it to survive. Deez is said to be scientifically proven but is only know by a small group of people.

I am Grade 9 right now, and I felt that I might be forgetting a few things since it's lockdown, and our school came from 5 schooldays to 2 call days and 2 homework days (friday is free :D) so I decided to use my time to study. thing is, what should I study? where do I start in relearning things? thanks!

I remember reading a small physics book on light and Einstein when I was a young boy which was pretty much where it all started. Then I went to high school learnt about basics of electromagnetism and thats when I was most passionate. I read up on Nikola Tesla about his inventions such as the AC motor and fell into the trap of wanting to know more about "free energy" that Nikola Tesla may have done work on and that kind of spiritual mix of science stuff as well . Then I got psychosis and stuck on antipsychotics which make me feel like a zombie. And that's my story. What's yours

Neal deGrasse Tyson made and amateurish post ( which he should have qualified ), and was soundly rebuked by Steak-Umm's social media postings. I actually find it kind of humorous. Steak-umm's Twitter Account Feuds With Neil deGrasse Tyson Over Science: 'Log Off Bro' (msn.com)

Seems like it was yesterday. Promise of jobs for physicists, a new era of almost limitless energy, and what not. The goose that laid the golden eggs died without a bang, and after months-long whimpers. And the world never recovered from it. Or did it? We lost a lot of our former innocence anyway. I did. Very interesting Nature article on it: Lessons from cold fusion, 30 years on https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01673-x Reflections welcome. Sorry that the topic is a bit old. It's not the anniversary that I'm interested in.

My condolences to all my British friends, on the passing of the Queen's husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.

I could swear on a stack of bibles that I just posted a news item. Now it's gone. Puff, vanished. It's not in trash, just ghosted away into thin air. Did it get moved by staff? Did I even post it? edit: Ok worked it out, it's the same as studiots post. ignore the pissy remark that was here before if you read it please 😬 No problem, thanks.

Use to frequent scienceforums (on an old acc i Can't remember) in the past and it was much more lively from what i remember. seems like new members just get negged out to the ban list and the same old farts just pointlessly argue the same old stuff lol... maybe if the forums made some changes/improvements things would do well.

Hello you all! Brass instruments (labrophones) use to have a cylindrical portion before the flare. The longer cylinder and short flare give trumpets and trombones a brilliant sound, the cornet is intermediate, and the flugelhorn and lower saxhorns have a short cylinder and a long flare for deep mellow sound. A air column conical right from the beginning gives also the natural harmonics in tune. But these instruments are rare. The Alphorn is endemic to the Alps, more present in Switzerland, and is normally made of wood. The straight 3-4m are an eyecatcher, but a French horn is as long. It's a natural instrument played on modes 2 to 12 and more. Groups of ins…

What if the people who make antipsychotic medication actually injected it into themselves to see how bad the side effects are and then maybe they would think twice about releasing it to the public. I see a bunch of 90 year old men discussing on YouTube the medication I'm taking and all they have to say from their old wrinkly asses is how good it is for people and the comments and google reviews BY PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY TAKE IT SO UNDERSTAND have nothing but bad things to say. What's even a bigger joke is the way they diagnose psychosis which is basically by asking you a bunch of questions that you say yes or no to. A lot of room to just make mistakes and misdiagnose and nex…

About the universe, ideas, people, the world etc

The physics section specifically. Can you read it like most people are able to read the newspaper? Do you understand what they are writing. Is that like a news place for scientists? Has anything big come from arXiv? Thanks

Dear All, I am going to take a hiatus from the forum from today. As some of you might know, the natural sciences are not my only area of interest; in particular, I am committed to a form of spiritual practice as well, and have been living in a Buddhist monastery as a lay person for the past few years. I have made the decision to deepen this practice further by ordaining as a monk in the Theravadin Thai Forest tradition, and for various logistical and monastic-political reasons this should ideally happen at a traditional training monastery in Thailand. So tomorrow I will be departing for Thailand to seek ordination there. I think it doesn’t need pointing out that…

Happy St Patrick's Day!!!

hi, may I request help from the ones who have interest to this issue, my queries will be: 1) whether the direct opinion would be correct , thinking like entry to prosperous countries would be better (i.e. will bring more income).Furthermore, turkish patent office (i.e. tpe) 's international preliminary examination shows that my invention has no inventive step. So, does this mean that the examination phase will fail in national phase of another country. (especially for prosperous countrys') (note: according to ISR (ISA=TR), the invention is novel,industrial applicable but lacking for inventive step as said. ) 2) whether there are any organizations or assoc…

I was looking at some preparatory materials for a state government test Its syllabus are full of quantitative aptitude questions . I am not familiar with questions like those Am i supposed to know the shortcut methods of all these ?

Or Urban or Martian if you prefer. Here's the first

If I had a bitcoin in a virtual wallet, and the restaurant accepts such 'currency'; how would the restaurant give me the change from buying a $3 hamburger from a bitcoin 'valued' at $15,000 ?

Wow! How ingenious!! I want one!

I've often found it odd when people who are in relationships will comment on the attractiveness of other people. I don't mean kind of dispassionately saying that some person is objectively attractive, but in a really animated way talking about how hot another person is. I'm talking about celebrities here, not people in the person's general social circle. Here's a specific example: A friend's girlfriend used to talk about how hot a famous athlete was (in my friend's presence) and had photos of him on her phone. My friend's attitude was, what do I care, it's not like she can end up with him. This is not how I see this. I see this behavior as completely unacce…

This isn't Risa... I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Aldebaran!"

Hi everyone. Is there an "about" link for this forum, similar to the type of thing most websites provide? Can I ask the following sorts of questions: 1. In a short paragraph, what does this website or forum aim to do? 2. What affiliations or structures exist (e.g is this a subsidary of We-are-foums-dot-com)? Where does the funding come from? 3. Is there a registered office and/or a conventional postal address for this organisation? 4. Is there an internal complaints procedure? - - - - - End of introduction, setting the scene etc. Informal, chat type discussion to follow --- (Briefly) What is the history of developm…

This is a great little video showing oarfish in shallow water. Some reports of sea serpents are thought to have been inspired by these animals and it's easy to see why.