Curious layman

Iran plane crash. Experts doubt 'Technical failure'.

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Doubts have been cast over Iranian claims that a plane crash near Tehran was the result of technical failures, with experts saying a "shootdown" was the most likely reason...."This is catastrophic and not the type of crash that comes from an engine failing...."It is very unusual, you would expect to see some wreckage but all we can see here is debris."

 

https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/01/08/iran-plane-was-most-likely-shot-down-say-experts/

What a wonderful start to the new year. A new war. 

Ok I'm no scientist and someone more qualified than me will surely give a better answer, but, in layman terms, the galaxies aren't actually moving faster than light. It's not the galaxies moving but the space between them, giving the appearance that the galaxies are moving faster than light.

https://phys.org/news/2015-10-galaxies-faster.html

The brain has it's limitations just like everything else. But there impressive nonetheless. 

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The human brain may be able to hold as much information in its memory as is contained on the entire Internet, new research suggests.

Researchers discovered that, unlike a classical computer that codes information as 0s and 1s, a brain cell uses 26 different ways to code its "bits." They calculated that the brain could store 1 petabyte (or a quadrillion bytes) of information.

https://www.livescience.com/53751-brain-could-store-internet.html

Not sure if this will help you or not.

Some of these are online and some are international, and they're expensive too.

https://www.switchup.org/rankings/best-coding-bootcamp

https://www.cio.com/article/3222718/the-10-best-coding-bootcamps.htm

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/coding-bootcamps-in-nyc-2071394

Edit- just read your OP title, 1-2 weeks. These will be useless then. Sorry. 

A - Yes, it's called 'thinning', but it's controversial. Quick search found this from 2009.

Quote- "Fire-science experts say that overgrown forests must be thinned. Environmentalists say that thinning is really an excuse to engage in destructive logging. And then everybody heads to court".

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Bright-Green/2009/0902/wildfires-the-causes-and-solutions

B- I imagine this would require so much removal of forest when added up you'd run into the same problems as A.

Sky news- Is the US attack a 'wag the dog scenario? 

Trump saying Obama will start a war with Iran at 1:25.  

Not likely soon, but...

New research has put forward another idea for what such a radical stellar engine might look like.

The XENON1T detector has allowed scientists to observe an ultra-rare event: the radioactive decay of xenon-124.

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In a subterranean laboratory, about a mile below Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, scientists are hunting for dark matter using an incredibly powerful detector full of liquid xenon. In their search for the elusive particle, they observed something else entirely.

Their dark matter detector witnessed the rarest event ever recorded: the radioactive decay of xenon-124.

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/dark-matter-scientists-observe-the-rarest-event-ever-recorded/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral

Happy Christmas everyone 🎅🏻

Charles Darwin's work was based on observation and research over many years. 

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Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species...

His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's conception of gradual geological change, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author.^[18]

Brilliant. Especially love the serpent, never heard of this before now. 👍🏻

Let me get this right, You think nuclear and alien technology couldn't destroy a Pyramid? Why would aliens travel all this way and only bring one bomb 

And the reason people put themselves so deep into the soil is usually because they've died. So no need to worry about aliens or a nuclear attack. 

Abby the spoon lady. Check her out...

https://www.definitions.net/definition/metametaphysics

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1. Metametaphysics

   Metametaphysics is a branch of philosophy that explores the foundations of metaphysics. "Metaphysics is concerned with the foundations of reality. It asks questions about the nature of the world, such as: Aside from concrete objects, are there also abstract objects like numbers and properties? Does every event have a cause? What is the nature of possibility and necessity? When do several things make up a single bigger thing? Do the past and future exist? And so on. Metametaphysics is concerned with the foundations of metaphysics. It asks: Do the questions of metaphysics really have answers? If so, are these answers substantive or just a matter of how we use words? And what is the best procedure for arriving at them—common sense? Conceptual analysis? Or assessing competing hypotheses with quasi-scientific criteria?"

U.K. police officers aren't above the law. Can't find a recent survey, I think they do them every five years. From 2015:-

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A total of 1,629 police officers were arrested in the last five years for criminal offences which included assault, grievous bodily harm, and manslaughter, report the Sunday Times. Out of these, 500 were convicted of offences, or suspended from duty on suspicion of committing offences.

Officers convicted of offences

• PC Keith Wallis was jailed for 12 months for lying about witnessing an altercation in Downing Street involving the former Tory chief whip, Andrew Mitchell.
• Osman Iqbal was given 7 years of jail time for prostitution, supplying a class-A drug, and money laundering in 2014.
• Chris Higgs admitted to 16 crimes, including blackmail, fraud, perverting the court of justice, and witness interference, in March 2015.
• Constable Trevor Jones jailed for 14 months after bombarding vulnerable women with sleazy text and voice messages in June 2015.

Sources: Sunday Times, The Guardian and Machester Evening News

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/1600-uk-police-officers-arrested-criminal-offences-5-years-1519573

Not a TV series (25 years old) but still very, very good. The Day After, on YouTube.

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A new black hole search method has just yielded fruit, and boy is it juicy. Astronomers have found a stellar-mass black hole clocking in at around 70 times the mass of the Sun - but according to current models of stellar evolution, its size is impossible, at least in the Milky Way.

https://www.sciencealert.com/an-impossible-black-hole-has-been-found-in-the-milky-way-galaxy

Two heads better than one?

They probably complimented each other, if it was engineering or something similar, then I can see why being around biology experts would give you an advantage over another lab which didn't.

Edit- Misread the question, thought they were asking why? Oops.

Edit 2- Have looked all over the internet (bing), can't find nothing.

Top dark matter candidate loses ground to tiniest competitor.

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Physicists have long searched for hypothesized dark matter particles called WIMPs. Now, focus may be shifting to the axion — an ultra-lightweight particle whose existence would solve two mysteries at once.

The ADMX experiment at the University of Washington uses a strong magnetic field to search for hypothetical dark matter particles called axions.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-dark-matter-might-be-axions-20191127/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral

ADMX’s main magnet produces a field that’s about 150,000 times stronger than Earth’s. 

40 minutes ago, LaurieAG said:

So the single engine 2WD has a claimed range of 500 miles and the 3 engine AWD has a claimed range of 250 miles.  Would the 3 engine version be the fastest or would the single engine beat it as it has to pull less weight (2 less engines)?

From wiki :-

What do you think. Anybody thinking of buying one?

(From wiki) Tesla Cybertruck is an all-electric battery-powered light commercial vehicle in development by Tesla, Inc. Three models have been announced, with range estimates of 250–500 miles (400–800 km) and an estimated 0–60 mph time of 6.5–2.9 seconds, depending on the model.^[9]

I really like it, it's different. I love trucks, especially the Hilux, but I've got to say, if I had the money to buy one of them I'd definitely pick the Tesla. There's something about this that makes me want one. At least it's different. I'm not sure if it's futuristic or retro though, a bit of both really I think.

Having said that, given a choice between the Cybertruck and this (below), I think I'd probably buy this. Ain't she a looker...

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Sorry for going off topic, but I'm confused, what type of spam is this? what's the purpose?. This is very high brow spam, I normally get sent click bait and funeral plans, crap like that.

5 minutes ago, PrimalMinister said:

this is interesting for me because I don't believe that is magically mathematical, there surely must be some sort of logic, some reason or reasons why it is mathemathical.

So why do you think it is mathematical? If why is too philosophical, how is the universe getting reality to conform to mathemathics?

Maybe I've misunderstood you, but are you suggesting God is responsible for these mysteries?

34 minutes ago, Wheniwasakid said:

So, when I was around 8-9 years old my older brother tortured me by forcing me to watch scary movies. I still vividly remember the dream I had almost 20 years later. After I awoke from the dream I had 3 deep knife marks on my arm with no explanation of how they got there. I had short nails which I tried scratching myself afterwards to make sure I couldn't have done it to myself, which I couldn't. How is this possible?

What makes you think they were knife marks? Were you bleeding? I've woken with red lines on me before, usually my face, I've always thought it was just the way I slept.

Unless it was Freddie Kruger...