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  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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].
  5. 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]
  6. It is common knowledge the emperor wanted an end to the war: the military leadership was of a different opinion.
  7. Something like an adblocker (e.g. ublock origin) on firefox should work on Linux?
  8. ! 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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/
  11. 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.
  12. 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!
  13. 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.
  14. 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
  15. I feel your pain. Perhaps you should stop dating tennis players, Moon. Love means nothing to them.
  16. What caused the bridge disaster? The fact that a SINGLE support was so vulnerable to large container ships. After giant container ships started going under that bridge, they should have built up a concrete island around the single support so that if a ship crashes into the support, it will crash into concrete surrounding the single support. Pile up concrete blocks all around the single support, and pour concrete on top of it so there is a smooth, gentle slope, that will stop the giant ship before it can reach that single support. Thank you. Great, you noticed the structural deficiency. No mention in ANY news about this that I've heard. I posted before I read what you wrote. Thank you.
  17. That reminds me, are you interested in joining my professional hide-and-seek team. Turns out, good players are hard to find.
  18. Give me some time. I will try to study first GTR better. Later I will answer when I understand it better.
  19. Useful as an exercise, perhaps, but it’s not the universe we live in. Your opinions mean little; in science it’s the evidence you have to support a falsifiable idea Can we stick to the topic? You keep avoiding addressing the question of the connection of relativity to the expansion of the universe
  20. "That death dumb and blind kid, sure plays a mean pinball". The brain adapts to whatever body it has, if we could cut the head off and keep the brain alive it would adapt to that too.
  21. It wasn't a criticism it was an observation, but however you spin it them = people. Because it's subconsciously dividing people, it's not about how you talk about them, we can all hide our feelings when them is bigger than us, it's about how we think about other people; it's easy to call them assholes, when everyone else does. Like I said it's an insidious word/concept.
  22. Psychedelics show that brain activity reduces, the more intense the psychedelic experience. See the research of Robin Carhart Harris of Imperial College London of the brain on psilocybin. (magic mushrooms). see here: Neural correlates of the psychedelic state as determined by fMRI studies with psilocybin | PNAS The remarkable effect was: the more intense the experience, the less brain activity was seen. A negative correlation between consciousness and the amount of brain activity. This, and many other phenomena, confirm the 'filter theory' of consciousness, where at a certain point, we get access to Mind at Large or 'the block universe' or 'the universe as a whole'. This is the unity experience of mystics where there is no time. This correlates with a bad working brain, with no or less oxygen indeed. The more damaged the brain is, the more people experience Mind at Large and 'all events simultaneously'. This is a hypothesis, but this 'no time experience is another piece of the puzzle to see that time is an illusion of a mind connected to a body. Or to an observer in time and space.
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