NimrodTheGoat

4 hours ago, DrP said:

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Grandmother in Law?

 

I got that too. 

Koti, i don't get the joke can you explain it to me.

Found him living behind my drawers. 

What kind of spider is it? I don't know what kind of spider it is. In any case, if it isn't a long leg, it isn't going to live anywhere near me. I regret smushing its guts all over my clean tile floor, I should have put him in a container with Hector the Brown Recluse. 

Pennies for scale. 

I wonder how long he will survive for.

Just now, dimreepr said:

Immigrants, statistically, are a financial benefit to any society; I'm certain they're persecuted for different reasons. 

Good point. 

4 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

Then ethics is a non-subject, it's just politics in fancy dress.

The Neanderthals would be tosseled by politics. If they prove to be a financial burden on society, I am certain most governments would refrain from giving them human rights.

14 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

So, ethics is just what the majority says?

its relative (subjective?), yes

On 5/20/2018 at 4:23 PM, arc said:

The one that all men’s fate hangs in the balance of - 

Does this make my butt look big?

no, it simply makes the pants look smaller

Something like statistics and probability for when your battery will discharge.

If you want an online calulator and graph then I would guess something like Desmos. 

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/2rnqgoa6a4

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/zzxbryrahc

Start with a full battery, record how many hours you can go, and how far you went before you need to recharge. If you graph the numbers and they turn out to be a Normal Distribution you can then find the standard deviations and then the probability of when you will need to recharge.

Hope this helps.

8 hours ago, steve crr said:

 

I was wondering about that as well. I had learned about it a couple months ago. Notice how plastic gets warm whenever you bend it or chew it.

On 5/18/2018 at 1:22 AM, Sensei said:

The same can be said about lands on regular path of tornadoes, hurricanes.. lands below sea level, or on the edge.. lands with tectonic activity.. etc. etc.

The problem is these territories, the most of time, are considered attractive for people and for developers (Florida, Hawaii)..

 

 

Don't forget California.

3 hours ago, CharonY said:

some of those resistances can be transmitted to other bacteria via horizontal gene transfer.

Never heard of this. Sounds interesting. Do you have any or know of any interesting cases on this?

3 hours ago, CharonY said:

manure contains these antibiotics and they are spread to the environment (as fertilizer in wastewater etc).

Never thought about that effect either. 

The same thing could be said about humans using antibiotics.

" Also, it may increase the antibiotic resistance, making the antibiotics useless against the disease. It loses effectiveness." I see no immediate problem to this other than livestock passing harmful diseases to wild animals. If you create an antibiotic for pigs the pigs will recover, but there is still a chance that the disease may spread on to hoards of wild hogs which would prove fatal to the group. 

"1.Capping antibiotic use in farm animals 2. imposing a fee for veterinary use of antibiotics."  Imposing a fee on use of antibiotics will only increase the cost the consumer has to pay at the end of road. Not worth it if I were to be honest. 

"3.limiting meat intake that together can reduce the use of antibiotics in food animals by up to 80% by 2030." I have read articles that hypothesize the decreased consumption of red meats which claim to reduce air pollution, the cost of food, and can prove to be beneficial to the human body.

On 5/7/2018 at 6:48 AM, Silvestru said:

My username is my nickname derived from my real name. My avatar is a selfie of me taken a while back.

you look very cute

No worries about GPS failure, we will revert to using giant arrows on the ground for means of direction. 

https://savingplaces.org/stories/the-true-story-behind-those-giant-concrete-arrows/#.WvXgaWinHrc

16 hours ago, Velocity_Boy said:

The Great Gatsby.....F Scott Fitzgerald

I agree. 

What are your opinions on Animal Farm by Orwell? I enjoyed it. 

15 hours ago, OldChemE said:

Mine should be obvious-- I'm an Old Chemical Engineer (and Nuclear Engineer, and Former Square Dance caller, and briefly a teacher)-- and yes that's me in the avatar.

Got anymore of those pixels?

21 hours ago, sci-man said:

why did we evolve like this and only us 

Everyone forgets about the poor Neanderthals. 

1 hour ago, MigL said:

I'm waiting on Nimrod the Goat to post an explanation for his/her user name...

YEs me too I wonder how the username originated.

It originated because I love goats and the first one I owned was named Nimrod. I had another goat and I called him Szpor (after an ambitious, but unconsiderate teacher of mine). So I just stuck the two together. Therefore, knowledge is not possible. 

THe profile picture and the cover image in my profile were recently updated to reflect my current tastes. 

19 hours ago, Phi for All said:

Belief in the One Horn takes a special kind of person, and it's OK if you aren't enlightened, and don't understand the cosmic wisdom involved (I have a pamphlet if you like). Btw, unicorns destroyed all alien life eons ago, otherwise we'd see them, since aliens can't become invisible like unicorns. And I'm sticking to that. 

Gimme the pamphlet, please sir

You may have to uninstall and reinstall the  Lan driver in safe mode.

What is your PC model?

Overheard a conversation about car tires. One person said that instead of air they just use Nitrogen. Why use nitrogen, what is the difference? Could we therefore fill our car tires with helium to make them lighter, or even .... float? What challenges would a helium filled tire face?

Try Khan Academys computer sciences. Ill leave a link. https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science

1. The traditional Islamic/Judaeo/Christian God consists of three main traits, omnipotence, omnibenevolent, and omniscience.

2. I haven't read much on "being" or "god", but I am certain some philosophers out there have argued of the meaning "be" and "god". How could God/ a god be? Can existence exist? Descartes thought of such, you may have heard of his rather infamous Dream Argument, and "I think, therefore I am."

3. The sheer numbers of probability in the creation of the solar system, sun, position of the earth, composition of the earth and so on may have resulted in the belief that our existence was not random, when in fact it may just be so. Maybe humans are just too grateful about life to give credit to probability and numbers. 

4. The Bible itself says that it was written by men inspired by God. And I agree with people when they say that self reference is not a good justification. WIP.

5. The possibility is arbitrary. To say the least. You can look at this as how Pascal did once. Search up Pascal's Wager. "Pascal argues that a rational person should live as though God exists and seek to believe in God. If God does not actually exist, such a person will have only a finite loss (some pleasures, luxury, etc.), whereas they stand to receive infinite gains (as represented by eternity in Heaven) and avoid infinite losses (eternity in Hell).[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager

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Impact smoke pellets? From a quick google search it seems that it only requires powdered sugar and potassium nitrate.

If such thngs exist in humans, the infection would most likely inhibit the frontal lobe in order to manipulate the human host. How it would manage to do this, not entirely sure. But I am certain that its main purpose is to spread and to do so, it would need the body to have as little voluntary movement, or make the host create it a habitable environment. Such a thing happens with a specie of orb weaver spider. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/science/a-wasp-that-turns-a-spider-into-the-walking-dead.html