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9 hours ago, dimreepr said:

Try reading one...

Your right I'm wasting time talking to you. You have nothing worth learning.

10 hours ago, Phi for All said:

Some stupidities are worth a civil war if they can be fixed forever. Is that really what you call "people dumb"? Or is it perhaps the only way to deal with certain issues?

Yeah once you start pushing killing people as a solution I'm done. 

Just now, zapatos said:

Google is your friend. I assumed you understood it already as you stated you have a problem with it. Perhaps you can tell me what part is a problem for you and we can start there.

Dodgy... Very good. I like. But Google will not tell me the type of evolution you believe in. 

I explain some issue or problem with the theory. You say I'm wrong. Your answer above is nice because it leaves you open , you haven't claimed any position on what evolution is.

Plus the truth is not everything is on the internet.

Don't feel rushed to answer. I have to go to sleep. Have a good night.

26 minutes ago, zapatos said:

I think it is safe to say that no one believes "in evolution as spelled out by Darwin's origin of the species, nothing more nothing less."

Out of intellectual curiosity, would you please waste some of your time telling me about this evolution. How does it work? 

On 10/27/2018 at 8:56 AM, StringJunky said:

This regards non-ss steels. Why do some steels only rust very superficially with a thin layer and others rust in a fluffy manner and rust right through? Is it the manner in which they are made/moulded or the composition or both? 

Off the top of my head I would say grain structure. Could also be level and types of impuritys.

Do you have some examples? Is it tool steel vs a car panel? 

1 hour ago, iNow said:

Fortunately for us all, evolution is not one of them. 

For clarification. You believe in evolution as spelled out by Darwin's origin of the species? Nothing more nothing less?

https://www.livescience.com/4719-laser-zaps-viruses.html

I think this might be very effective against more then HIV. 

If its a femtosecond pulse laser, my guess would be that its a YAG laser. Maybe around 1064 nm. 

you could input the beam into a fiber acupuncture needle and use it to target viruses inside of human tissue.

There's a reason politicians run things not scientists. Book smart, people dumb. Just my opinion.

There is no picture on cigarette container in America, you must be Canadian. 

29 minutes ago, StringJunky said:

Yes. Being "pro-choice" in this matter as though the consequences are only to oneself is as absurd as it irresponsible; there is only one ethical position to being a potential  vector for a communicable disease or not.

In the end you'll lose both battles. Sometimes its not what you say but how you say it.

On 3/3/2019 at 8:29 AM, Vexen said:

Is it a contradiction to believe in evolution and be a Christian?

Simple answer is no. You can believe what ever you want. 

Science is just a process really. Think of it like Zen. You can be a Zen atheist, or a Zen Christian. So to with science.

Evolution is a problem with me. But that's a whole other problem. 

Don't forget there's a reason some fields of science are called theoretical. 

47 minutes ago, Phi for All said:

Business models treat medicine as something to be prolonged for maximum profit. In the US, when a cure for polio was discovered, there were many physicians who objected because it ruined their businesses treating the symptoms. Illness and suffering shouldn't be evaluated with the same plans used for unlimited growth.

Education is the better option. It's a civic responsibility to make sure you do your part to keep everyone in your community safe from harm. Immunization is just as smart as trash removal and cleaning public lavatories. You probably aren't required to serve in the armed forces, but citizens do have other duties to each other. I don't mind being told to wash my hands, don't litter, drive on the correct side of the road, be quiet in the library, cover your mouth when you sneeze. Vaccinations should be thought of in those terms, and not with the weird conspiratorial paranoia the anti-vaxxers use.

Every day you'll see ads on tv for some product, don't really matter what. The ad will state that the product is "all natural". Everyday people are told natural = good. This creates a bias, natural = good, and man made = bad. If you look this argument is everywhere. 

So all it takes is to say vaccinations are man made. And the preconditioning takes over. 

You place some miss trust in the medical establishment. Its not hard to understand why people believe what's being sold.

4 hours ago, koti said:

I have some „unsold customers” as you portray them in my close family and I do think they’re idiots. Not because they’re risking their own health and lives but because they are risking health and lives of children who cannot decide for themselves and are completely helpless. I guess you could call them unfit parents or potential child murderers or complete, utter morons too. 

I would guess that most of them don't know how many people/kids used to die from the diseases that vaccinations prevent. 

To some extent the success of vaccination programs in the US has removed peoples fear of disease.

9 hours ago, Phi for All said:

But the basis of true trust is accurate information. The anti-vaxxer movement is ignorant, misinformed, and relies on emotional arguments over intellectual ones. How do you gain the trust of someone who believes emotional lies over scientific facts? What's wrong with pointing out that you don't know about things you don't know about? 

Medicine in general is a poor candidate for business models. But even in a business, don't customers come to you for expertise? And when it comes to life and death situations, don't the benefits outweigh the fears? Medical professionals shouldn't have to persuade their clients that immunization is trustworthy. If the complications from measles and whooping cough were as visible to the masses as the complications from polio, I doubt we'd have this problem. Even the idiots stood in line three times to get Salk's vaccine on a sugar cube so they wouldn't end up crippled.

 

Medicine in general is a poor candidate for a business model.

Very true sometimes you work yourself out of a job. When people are dropping dead from some illness then you have demand. Once you stop that you stop the demand. 

Medical professionals shouldn't have to persuade their clients that immunization is trustworthy.

The only other option would be to use force. And that would only make people not trust you (and the vaccine) even more. No one likes to be told what to do, even you probably.

On 2/12/2019 at 11:40 AM, Sensei said:

Agricultural skyscrapers can be designed in such a way, that they will work without any pesticides. Hermetic single floor. Much easier for selective decontamination.

If we grew food in large green house towers. We could grow the plants in a high CO2 atmosphere.

I don't think pests would be able to survive. We would need robots to tend to the plants.

23 minutes ago, iNow said:

Not necessarily. Some have a low response. Some people just enjoy it. Some people with a high response don’t enjoy it...and everything in between. But it’s the dopamine (and even adrenaline and cortisol) that drives essentially all of this. 

Just say no to dopamine kids!

1 hour ago, StringJunky said:

Wow. It  illustrates how polarised the scientifically-literate from the illiterate are. It's a shame science is quite a hard subject for many.

Its not a problem of science, its a problem of trust. Once Its lost you have to work to get it back. Attacking the intelligence of the people will not help the medical establishment show how vaccinations have save lives.

Think of the people as customers at a buisness. Its bad buisness to call you customers idiots. You have to sell the benefits of your product. 

Sorry saved lives.

On 12/22/2018 at 11:25 AM, The_Questioner said:

Greetings:

Before anything, I am a 50 year young man with Aspergers and ADHD that considers himself a free-thinking Catholic.
This question is in two parts.
And my sincere apology for the length of the second one, it might seem like a wall of words, but i saw no other way to properly post it without changing anything in the question's content, interpretation or meaning.

1) First, a personal question, this is to see just how far math and science is related, in your person:

"How important is mathematics to you, what place has mathematics to you, and how far does mathematics have an impact on your thinking/accepting?"

2) Here we have the actual math question, the one I warned you about:

a) Could you please calculate the odds, percentage-wise preferably, just how big the change is that the universe and everything in it, thus, the universe from Big Bang to this day in age and everything that comes with it, such as the placing of all bodies, the creation of elements,  the creation of our solar system, the perfect positioning of Earth in the solar system which has the perfect sun to sustain life (as we know it, for the record), the forming of Earth, the first start of life (that simple single form cell up to the enourmous variety of life (plant, animal, fish, insectoid, ...) through all time periods) on Earth, the complete evolution of life with human origins and evolution as greatest importation in this part,  the way ecology systems work and how nature has been able to withstand (albeit FASTLY losing this batttle more and more swiftly) the polution and destruction by human(oid) hands (throughout all eras of humanoid existance), actually random luck is, and thus not created by whom- (be it God, Jahwe, Jehova, Allah, ...)or whatever the "creator" (a god, an intellectual energy form, an alien playing the Sims (I said this alien thing here, to show that I leave it in the actual middle what this creator might be as I have not a single clue, NOT to create a mockery. Also, I said this to make sure, in my own unusual and autistic (Aspergers with ADHD, note) way to not insult anyone in any way.), ...)?

Thank you very much.

I agree with the 100% probability of the universe existing. But not everything in the middle.

Just my thought but, the universe is an artificial creation or a naturally event. So there's a 50/50 chance of you picking the correct answer as to its origin.

Is it wrong to say math homework?

On 10/7/2018 at 5:21 AM, John Harmonic said:

Do you think there is glory in war and blood shed and violence in general,  or do you think it is portrayed grandiosely by film and television.

People dying and suffering, people killing and hurting, what is the value of it all?  

It all depends on your place in the war. If you read history from generals. Its all tactics and troop movement. So clean and wonderful. If you read history from the grunts. Its all dirt and blood. Bad food and death. 

You know the one thing you never get from books or tv is the smells.

Wars all fun and games until someone gets shot.

On 1/5/2019 at 1:49 PM, Ken Fabian said:

Descriptions of ground source heat pumps (GSHP's) talk about extracting heat from the ground for residential heating, but I haven't heard of putting heat back into the ground as thermal energy storage using these systems. Does anyone do that? Would it be efficient - or at least cost effective - where an oversupply of say, solar energy during warmer seasons can be used?

I would say that it would not be an efficient system. 

Heat pump ac systems in warmer areas like the south of US don't need to use the ground, because the number of days that the outside air temp is below 40 f. Is so few. So the extra cost of using GSHP is not justifiable, they us a back up heater.

In colder areas the cost is easier to justify. Using the stable ground temp of around 70 f you can remove that heat and place it inside the building. 

Doing the math to figure out how many BTUs of heat energy to raise the ground temp by one deg., is a little over my head. That's a lot of mass to heat. Plus the loss to enthropy would be massive.

You could use a large water tank. But it would have to be very heavily insulated. And you can only put so much heat energy into it. Or it will go boom.

They already have a water tank that they freeze at night to make heat pumps more efficient in hotter climates.

On 3/2/2019 at 11:59 AM, Vexen said:

Is gaming and watching tv all day a good life?

Not if its your only life. Everyone is afraid of the world around them. But you have to grow as a person and the only way to do that is go out into the world. 

I've spent a lot of time playing video games and there is nothing wrong with it. But I also got a job working at night and went to school. 

Fear and procrastination are something we all fight. Some days you lose some you win but you have to keep fighting. 

Set a goal, make it simple.  Even if its only to go for a 10min. walk everyday. Write it down, put it on your wall in your room. Then work to achieve it. Some days you will some you won't. Just keep trying.

Fake it tell you make it.

1 hour ago, Vexen said:

Exodus chapter 12 verse 43

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "These are the regulations for the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it. Any slave you have bought may eat of it after you have circumcised him, but a temporary resident and a hired worker may not eat of it.

We are all still slaves. We didn't really end it just changed it. 

Why do you except the modern forms if it? 

6 minutes ago, StringJunky said:

My earlier offering is basically the 'scientific method' in different words. We can only go on the preponderance of evidence and besides, 'proof' is for mathematicians.

I feel that it doesn't matter anyways. I don't see OP still on the board. 

Maybe the topic and replys will help someone else who stumbles on to it.

5 minutes ago, StringJunky said:

Yes, but your reply was to the subjective 'I think therefore...' His question pertained to him from our perspective. Prove that he exists.

The only way to prove to him that he exists is to have him prove it to himself. He must learn go see his own doubts and thoughts as proof.

There is no answer anyone could provide that would be believed by him.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink.

10 minutes ago, StringJunky said:

The OP's scenario is from a different perspective i.e. not 'Do I exist?', but 'Do they exist?'.

I think the first question is prove I exist.

14 hours ago, Just wondering said:

Prove to me that I exist. What can be said to make one believe that anything exists at all? Is there any solid proof that this is real?

The last part of my reply was more inline with the last two questions.

12 minutes ago, Strange said:

You need to (a) learn to use the quote function and (b) be less cryptic.

Not all plants are killed when they are used for food. It is not clear what point has been missed.

And do you have any evidence that "most people who eat meat have a lot of respect for the life that keeps them alive"

Point a - fair enough I do need the learn to us the quote function. 

Point b - so if part of host can grow back after being cut off, its morally better than killing the host. If I did that to an animal I would be a monster.

At a certain point a quick clean kill is morally superior. 

The last point. Taking most of human history into account, people have created religions to pay respect to the animals that have provided life to them. Even making the spirits of animals as gods. 

Do the vegans respect plants that much? 

Where's your evidence that meat eater don't?

I would say you need to do a little internet research. Maybe start with,

Cogito ergo sum is a Latin philosophical proposition by René Descartes usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am". "Wikipedia"

You can never be one hundred present certain of anything. Anything is possible the real question is the probability.

Take me, I'm a artificially intelligent toaster oven. Your all part of my elaborate dream.