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- Should Police Departments Be Given More Money?
I created this schema to better understand the problem. Reforming the police would require dismantling the main nodes in this system thus eliminating the secondary and tertiary consequences.- What got you into science?
PBS programming when I was a kid. They had shows that were entertaining and science based such as 3,2,1 Contact! and Mathnet (a spoof on Dragnet where detectives solved crimes using math). That, and my Dad had one of the first Macintosh computers, which had science based games on it. I remember one game in particular allowed you to pilot a space-shuttle, performing tasks such as docking and maneuvering a robotic arm. There was also a museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I lived, called the Discovery Place. It was a huge science museum on 3-4 levels with an endless array of exhibits in every conceivable area. They had interactive exhibits, live demonstrations, a massive Omni-Max theater with science based programming. We'd go there about once a month on Saturday morning and it was always fun.- A unified theory of our social world
Interesting ideas. I see some similarity with the construct outlined here and the work of Roland G Tharp, who wrote Delta Theory and Psycho-Social Systems. Some advice: your visual schema is somewhat hard to follow and could be clarified for greater effect.- Should Police Departments Be Given More Money?
Thanks - I'll check it out. My position from the beginning has been that more training would equal less likely use of force. But when force is required it would be applied judiciously and effectively to result in the least possible harm. By training I mean both psychological, physical, and tactical.- Time to talk about UFO's or now as the military calls them UAP's?
A few more recent articles from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/16/pentagon-ufos-leaked-photos-uap https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/13/cia-thousands-documents-ufos-cache- Is Suicide right or wrong?
Probably moral again. I was thinking more generally in regards to the average citizen's life, not in terms of SAS / SEAL Team 6 missions or encounters with ISIS.- Time to talk about UFO's or now as the military calls them UAP's?
There's a report due out later this year about these UFO / UAPs, thanks to a clause in the first COVID Relief Bill. It will be interesting to see what information is disclosed. Source: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/299157 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/10/us/ufo-report-emergency-relief-bill-trnd/index.html Excerpt: A stipulation in the bill’s Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2021 mandates, under the heading “Advanced Aerial Threats,” that the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defence draft a report outlining everything the American government knows on the subject of UFOs. The report must be made available to the pubic, according to the stipulation, and must include details analysis of the UFO phenomena, including data and intelligence from the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and the FBI. Former intelligence director John Ratcliffe said in an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo last week that when the government report on UFOs is released it “will be big.” “Frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” Ratcliffe said. “The report could document sightings from all over the world,” Ratcliffe said. “There are instances where we don’t have good explanations for some of the things that we’ve seen… And when that information becomes declassified, I’ll be able to talk a little bit more about that.”- Human - Monkey Chimera Embryos
Recently a paper was published in Cell confirming the successful creation of human / monkey chimera embryos. Source: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00305-6 Introduction: Interspecies chimera formation with human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) represents a necessary alternative to evaluate hPSC pluripotency in vivo and might constitute a promising strategy for various regenerative medicine applications, including the generation of organs and tissues for transplantation. Studies using mouse and pig embryos suggest that hPSCs do not robustly contribute to chimera formation in species evolutionarily distant to humans. We studied the chimeric competency of human extended pluripotent stem cells (hEPSCs) in cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis) embryos cultured ex vivo. We demonstrate that hEPSCs survived, proliferated, and generated several peri- and early post-implantation cell lineages inside monkey embryos. We also uncovered signaling events underlying interspecific crosstalk that may help shape the unique developmental trajectories of human and monkey cells within chimeric embryos. These results may help to better understand early human development and primate evolution and develop strategies to improve human chimerism in evolutionarily distant species. Bioethics: There are significant ethical considerations involved in generating and studying human-animal chimeric embryos, particularly when non-human primates are involved. Different guidelines exist at the state, national, and international levels, and it is important for scientists, bioethicists, policy makers, and funding agencies to stay engaged in keeping these guidelines up to date with the relevant science as well as for the welfare of society. For the studies presented here, extensive reviews of research plans and protocols were conducted in advance. Ethical consultations and reviews were performed both at the institutional level and via outreach to non-affiliated bioethicists with experience in state and national bioethics policies regarding these matters. This thorough and detailed process helped guide our experiments, which were focused entirely on ex vivo chimeric embryos. Furthermore, we limited our studies to early-stage chimeric embryo development. Questions for Discussion 1. What is your view as to the morality of these experiments? Acceptable or not, why? 2. Do you see any ethical considerations that would preclude moving the experiments to late-stage chimeric embryo development?- Is Suicide right or wrong?
In that instance I think its moral.- Is Suicide right or wrong?
I don't it's morally acceptable unless a person has a serious and irreversible terminal illness.- Aliens from space (split from Time to talk about UFO's or now as the military calls them UAP's?)
Very true. In order to communicate there must be some baseline interface for communication. We can teach lower primates how to use sign language, for example, primarily because they share a genetic structure similar to our own and have a cognitive capacity that enables them to understand the meaning of the language. We can't do much with a fish or an insect, however (except perhaps frighten them off).- Aliens from space (split from Time to talk about UFO's or now as the military calls them UAP's?)
What did you think about the purported physical evidence that they discussed? This section is at timestamp: 1:18:00. Dr. Jacques Valleé (PhD) and Dr. Garry Nolan (PhD) analyze the results of a multibeam ion imaging scan of several purported metallic fragments from a UFO. This device can analyze substances down to their atomic structure. Nolan stated that the results of the scan showed the isotopic composition of the elements in the metallic fragments did not match anything that exists on Earth. To paraphrase Dr. Nolan: "Whoever made this material created it at the atomic level, working with individual isotopes, and not just elements." My question: Is there any technology that anyone is aware of that can construct a synthetic material by manipulating individual isotopes? Dr. Nolan's credentials here: https://profiles.stanford.edu/garry-nolan Here is an article explaining the technology they were using: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20753-5 (Images below)- Should Police Departments Be Given More Money?
I agree; it all comes down to an inability to de-escalate, which indicates lack of training. Everything is needlessly framed as a life or death situation. Yet another case in point: Second Lieutenant Caron Nazario, who was pulled over in Virginia recently. Immediate escalation by the officers for no good reason.- Time to talk about UFO's or now as the military calls them UAP's?
That encounter happened at the Ariel School, in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, September 1994. It's featured at the end of that documentary, The Phenomenon, I referenced, with interviews from all those involved (staff and former students). What would you think of humanity, were you an outside observer? On the one hand we're a vicious and primitive species that engages in never ending tribal warfare in the most cruel fashion; a bunch of petty apes exercising power over one another to satiate our egoistic shortcomings. On the other hand we're capable of great scientific, artistic, and technological triumphs - including the creation of nuclear weapons, which we've actually deployed countless times. That, in short, is a dangerous and unpredictable species, despite whatever positive qualities we may possess. Dangerous and unpredictable species require observation. Which, if they exist, could be why they let us "live and let kill". Another possibility though is they have an interest in Earth, not us. Earth is a real gem - replete with heavy metals of all kinds, home to an abundance of species (flora and fauna). We live on paradise, basically, and we're destroying it as fast as we're able to. Just the other day Japan announced it was dumping more than 1 million cubic metres of irradiated water from Fukishima into the Pacfic Ocean. An intelligent species that observed such actions from afar would have to conclude we're a deeply ignorant and destructive species with respect to our own environment.- Time to talk about UFO's or now as the military calls them UAP's?
It all depends on how one views the Drake equation. Originally Carl Sagan cast aspersions on the idea that any two intelligent civilizations could exist simultaneously. However, with SETI estimating the current number of habitable planets in our galaxy at 300 million, I think the odds of intelligent civilizations existing simultaneously are much higher than Sagan predicted. Regarding near speed of light travel or unknown physics, nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman demonstrated that practical interstellar travel can be accomplished using known physics, primarily a nuclear fusion reactor. Of course that wouldn't be "near speed of light" but it would get us from point A to point B. Yes, here it is: https://www.amazon.com/Phenomenon-John-Podesta/dp/B08HR9BVNM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+phenomenon&qid=1618328526&sr=8-1- Alternatives to the World Health Organization
This is not an "opinionated insinuation - it's part of an ongoing debate spurred by two WHO insiders: Jamie Metzl and Dr. Peter Dajak. Both were recently interviewed on 60 minutes about the WHO investigation, and have differing theories about the cause of COVID. What leads me to be highly skeptical of Dr. Dajak's claims is that he and his team of experts had limited access during their investigation, and could only rely on the sceond hand information provided by the CCP, hence my comment about them feeding the WHO information. It's common knowledge that the CCP frame events to fit their self serving, politically expedient narrative. Again, this is all part of a public, spirited discussion that has been broadcast on mainstream media. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSaqOHypxTI- Unsupported conspiracy claim (split from Biden and the $15 minimum wage)
Biden and the Corporatists don't really want the 15 mw. Their actions are a charade.- Time to talk about UFO's or now as the military calls them UAP's?
Mr. Pais already has a peer reviewed paper outlining his theories on a Plasma Compression Fusion Device on IEEE.org. Anyone who wants to assess the veracity of his ideas can view it here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8871349 I didn't conclude that they were aliens - that's merely one of several possibilities (advanced tech being one of the others). I tend to think aliens are the more likely possibility, but I don't conclude that. The question remains open.- Time to talk about UFO's or now as the military calls them UAP's?
You conclusively stated that they aren't aliens. That's not a logical position. While remaining agnostic on the subject is logical, concluding that something doesn't exist out of hand isn't logical. The only thing we can logically say is "we don't know". Obviously. But in order to make that judgement, one must suspend belief and observe new evidence first, not preemptively dismiss it. Well yeah, of course it doesn't. However it is an interesting line of inquiry for those seriously pursuing this subject.- Time to talk about UFO's or now as the military calls them UAP's?
There was an interesting article in Forbes a while back about a physicist named Salvatore Cezar Pais who claims to have developed advanced aerospace technologies capable of unprecedented speeds and maneuverability, which could possibly explain the recent UFO sightings reported in the NY Times and other media outlets. Excerpt: (Forbes) Dr. Pais’ fusion device is among a handful of outlandish technologies dubbed “The UFO patents” that have, in some shape or form, been pursued by the U.S. Navy. He has been employed by the Pentagon for decades. And this isn’t the first patent filed in his name, and all of them appear centered around what he calls the Pais Effect. Dr. Pais posits that by controlling the accelerated spin or vibration of electrically charged matter, high energy electromagnetic fields can be produced. Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/02/08/what-is-behind-the-us-navys-ufo-fusion-energy-patent/?sh=49d9c5bd4733 Excerpt: (Vice News) One of Pais and the Navy’s patents described what the propulsion system and fusion drive would be used for—a “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft.” According to the patent, the craft could travel land, sea, and outer space at incredible speeds. Other patents invented by Pais and filed by the Navy include a “high temperature superconductor,” a “electromagnetic field generator,” and a “high frequency gravitational wave generator.” Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adpv9/us-navy-has-patents-on-tech-it-says-will-engineer-the-fabric-of-reality More on Pais at IEEE: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37087084137- Time to talk about UFO's or now as the military calls them UAP's?
A confident and conclusive statement...based on what? Quite a fascinating documentary was released back in 2020 called "The Phenomenon", directed by James Fox. Makes a very compelling case that Earth has and is being visited by some unknown intelligence. Personally I think it's extremely naive to conclude that in our universe another intelligent species would not develop the means of interstellar travel before us. An anthropocentric bias, so to speak. Modern day geo-centrism.- Alternatives to the World Health Organization
The WHO's investigation into the origins of COVID is a farce at this point. They're merely repeating verbatim the information that the CCP is feeding them. Highly unlikely that the true cause / origin of this virus will ever be put on record.- Split from Conflicts of interest in investigating the origins/causes of diseases.
Sure, if you choose to completely ignore the fact that the outbreak started only a few miles from a level 4 virology lab that specializes in "gain of function" testing for bat coronaviruses. If you choose to completely ignore that fact then the "just another natural pandemic" argument sounds more plausible.- Split from Conflicts of interest in investigating the origins/causes of diseases.
Following Occam's razor, the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis is the most logical explanation for the origin of Covid 19 at this point. More and more scientists are going on record in support of this hypothesis. There was a great piece in Politico back in March about it. The WHO will never be truly objective, due to political influence from China, and it seems somewhat of a taboo subject in the scientific community writ large (due in large part to the politicization of the hypothesis and other conflicts of interest). It's entirely logical that a respiratory pathogen with this level of infectiousness might accidentally find its way out into the surrounding area. - Should Police Departments Be Given More Money?
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