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An age of information? An age of misinformation? An age of Trump? gang gang Seriously though how would you describe the age we are living in with a simple title if you could? God bless everyone

Words like like blue orange there voltage George tube range and hundreds more, to the point of boring overdose. With all the passion for shortening writing in english, why is the silent e not eliminated ?

I encountered a website with statistics for a large number of video games, specifically regarding their availability across various platforms, their sales over time and some other things and methods to visualize them I found this really helpful. Might there be other services like this that people find helpful, other than obvious ones like weather forecasting and data?

hello, I believe I am a good composer and music producer , but unfortunately currently this consists of only a belief. but as you know,all we are trying to implement our plannings and or the things that we imagine. Therefore,I am planning to fly to romania. as far as I know ,they are good in popular musics. have you any recommendation for me? I shall try to remain open to ideas...

I heard Solidworks may be a good program as it offers digital simulations. What im interested in is: Vibrational Analysis, decoding waves "cryptography" and being able to separate waves that are all bunched up or entangled. Before I invest a lot of money, I wanted to ask first... ThnX in advance..

IF you look at Greek and Latin scripts, you should see that it looks similar to it's predecessor the Phoenician script. How and why did Arabic script go into opposite direction evolution-wise? All other scripts derived from the Phoenician script also look kinda blocky.

On 9/20/2020 at 10:40 AM, farsideofourmoon said: I can prove time travel is real and occurs all the time but that is for another discussion all together Moderator Note We require more rigor than you’ve been providing, so please, do not open a new thread if it’s going to be like this one: assertion with no science to back it up.Don’t open a new thread in this topic, either” Swansont, you take things far too seriously. At one point in the past I was posting to another poster who was actually in Europe somewhere and at the time/date of our exchange was as follows The European poster made the post @ 3:45 on a Saturday I received the post an…

You can help scientist to find solution for design of vaccine and how the virus works and simulate shape of its molecules. Just make sure you have good cooling, it works either on gpu, or cpu, or both. If you have older computer, it may be problem, because it will render your pc useless. Because cpu and gpu will be maxed on 99% (number of cpu cores can be set). Geforce 3000 will be amazing for this. But i can watch tv, or play pc games and i don't have even latest Windows build, which has gpu scheduling and have only geforce 2070 super. It is faster on linux btw. Just go to device manager (windows) to find your components, than find max temp. for your cpu and gpu and…

I was wondering if I could use these forums again as I will be getting back into teaching myself some STEM subjects and would like to use these forums every time I have a question that is important to ask. Totally up to the staff of this site and hopefully you guys give me a chance, just know that life has taught me lots of stuff while I was away from forums such as this and hope to apply it whilst in the internet world. Hope you all have a great day reading this :)

I have a leak that I am finding hard to pinpoint and I have an idea to put dye in at the in end and see where it comes up. Is there any dye that would work better than others? The pipe is running under a gravel courtyard and so it should be easily visible if the dye comes up (maybe a foot at most) to the surface. Otherwise it continues through a long section of the long grass of an overgrown orchard and I have never discovered a damp spot so would simply need to replace the whole length of this ancient outdoor plumbing if that is where the leak(S?) is. This is not drinking water so I can be quite unrestricted in any dye I use.

Something I've seen in nuclear materials research is that all of them are basically, I have a material, I am going to shoot energetic particles at it, I am going to record the numbers, take some before and after pictures and talk about what I saw. It does make sense that you would research like this considering most materials in nuclear environments do suffer bombardment from energetic nuclei and subatomic particles. The consistency in the formula of this research process, however, is something I did not expect. Is this how it works for every field when you get into something very specific and become an expert on it like in a PhD? For example, would experimental study of …

Hi. Am not good enough and less when as blurry as this... Can someone translate the pharagraps following "14" ? Is that for a motor? 🤔 It is an image and do not know how to get a translation from images Thank you.

Here are a couple of interesting CGI Youtubes I found. They are 10 minutes each. Maybe any other enthusiasts of the history of WW2 would be interested. They are produced by Japanese, so I think they tried to be accurate about their famous battleship. Yamato is to the Japanese what the Alamo is the Americans, according to the producers of these youtubes. When you watch the videos, notice that for quite a few minutes the 200+ US warplanes swarmed the Yamato without attacking. Why is that? Then pay attention to the part where 3 Helldivers drop 2 bombs each (6 bombs) and they all land within a couple of seconds in the same general area. At the end the Yamato capsizes…

Google did changes to the search process and capability a while ago and cannot access some foreign things now. Trying to locate a russian brand/factory of electric bicycles from several years ago, to find if they are still in business or production. From USA, cannot see internal russian sites any more ¿? That manufacturer had also a video of the bicycle; and a full site for the product. Can someone capable of doing such search inside Russia post a link where I could see maaaany results to choose the correct one ?

Trevor Noah produced this wonderful campaign ad for Trump.

Hello everybody, I used to be a lucid dreamer. I would realize that I am dreaming while in a dream. I saw many things in my dreams that seemed to have long history. that made me wonder if it is possible for things in actual life to not really have any long history yet seem like it does.

Hi. Does wiring in concrete, block, stone walls runs mandatory inside metallic conduit?; with several insulated single conductors or multiple bundled conductors ? Is 'Romex type' multiple conductor wire used there ? Is the 230V two 'live' wires from a centre-tapped utility transformer or is one of the conductors neutral ? Are neutral and earth ground joined somewhere ?

I wonder what English speakers around the world think of this ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53941008 The article compares existing spelling with proposed new versions, using passages from Shakespeare's Hamlet. So troubles becomes trubles. The are examples of some writing characters that are even worse than my hand script as well.

This catch 22 is screwing me over. I had some traumatic life circumstances get in the way during my college experience, thus preventing me from getting undergrad research in. I've had one interview in two months and it's starting to get very discouraging. I really have a strong passion for the sciences and doing anything else like customer service or retail would drive me insane.

I just caught part of a TV program called Spy in the Wild. BBC1 1735 - 1835 today. I will have to complete it on iplayer /catch up. It shows the most amazingly realistic robotic artificial animals designd to fool real animal herds in the wild in order to video the. These robots look like the real thing, orangutangs, crocs, egrets, penguins, sea otters etc and have sound vision and realistic action. These are unprecedented scientific tools but watching them made me wonder the title question How soon before we can make a Terminator ? They are so nearly there. Watch the programme if you get a chance.

Hello Everybody, I just wanted to express my opinion on magic tricks. I have seen many magic tricks on YouTube and other media platforms. And, most of them are extremely hard to explain. My opinion on it is that some of them are just illusions, and some of them are real. What do I mean by "real?" By that, I mean that if a magicians disappearing trick is real, it means that the magician has actually disappeared.

And three things are worth more or less mentioning in a science forum: In Pisa, I did not find any souvenir that somehow refers to Galileo throwing weights from the Leaning Tower. 😢 If in Newton's time such fine fabrics as nowadays used in flags would have existed, the question if light is particles or waves would have decided immediate against him: (My own picture of a patch of light seen through the Italian flag) I've been reading Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time, by Peter Galison. It is a great book, showing how Poincaré and Einstein were in very close contact with the practical problems of timekeeping. Po…

I had to delete the Apple notes app from my phone because it suddenly decided that I should be notified about one of the notes. I did everything I could think of to make sure I didn’t receive any notifications from that app. It didn’t work. Since the notification was appearing on my lock screen I went so far as to block all notifications from my lock screen. It didn’t work. A few days later there it was again. In frustration I tapped on it so I could examine the note to see if there was something specific to the note that I had done that was causing it to appear. Expecting, to be greeted with a request for my passcode or my finger print since I was after …

Hello, I've been plagued by a question for several days. Is there such a thing as a science chat? I'm looking for a chat where people write about their thoughts on the world, the science books they've read recently. I'm not looking for a forum, because I would like to talk to someone face to face, for example.

Perhaps because we are living through a post-apocalyptic movie, the forum seems to be attracting a larger that usual number of people with their own wacky ideas about how the world works. So I put this together, partly based on my own observations but also a few pinched from the Crackpot Index (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html).