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Not clear on definition of shape, e.g. any n-gon? Or literally any shape that's an enclosed space? Does it count as touching only on the perimeter, or must the shape not be around a point? Are fractals involved?

If one is pumping deep water up, why not use it for an OTEC system, producing reliable clean energy? Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is a process or technology for producing energy by harnessing the temperature differences (thermal gradients) between ocean surface waters and deep ocean waters. Energy from the sun heats the surface water of the ocean. In tropical regions, surface water can be much warmer than deep water. This temperature difference can be used to produce electricity... https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/hydropower/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion.php

Pointy headed Hilary Clinton tormentor, Trey Gowdy...

Turns out simpler than I at first thought. Good one.

Wondering if there are leagues with some sorting by weight and BMI, or similar. Some gender disparity between body size, bone density and mass, explosive (fast-twitch) muscle strength....seems like you would need some limits to prevent injuries. American football is already pretty hard on bodies and brains, even among the mutually brawny.

Wait, this is American style tackle football, with both men amd women on teams? That seems...problematic.

IIRC the town of Ukiah, CA has an annual haiku festival. Perhaps it's easy to guess why.

With green burial, conversion into soil, plants, animals that eat those plants, fungi, worms, soil nematodes, and (if your mortician was lazy and irresponsible) residues of mercury from dental amalgam leaching into the soil. Make sure you find a reputable and environmentally aware mortician, if you want a green burial, so that your fillings will be properly removed.

Har! Wonder if those old Up Pompeii shows have survived. Sounds like a series possibly influenced by Stephen Sondheim's sixties comedy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. (which was also inspired by the farces of Plautus)

Seems like restoring a rainforest somewhere, or expanding a seagrass meadow, would fix more carbon than this approach, which sounds more like a recipe for giving marine mammals a case of the trots. MgOH is a laxative.

The spouse and I sometimes refer to AI as Artificial Idiocy. Note that the IBM "Watson" after defeating Ken Jennings and the other contestant on Jeopardy, was not able to participate in the chat at the end of the show. Or figure out that Toronto was not an American city, or that having a leg and missing a leg are not the same thing (a question about an Olympic athlete), or notice that another contestant had just given the wrong answer ("the 1920s") and amend its own answer accordingly. Bear in mind that Waton's entire purpose and design was to play Jeopardy.

So how did that work out for the planet's biosphere?

Hopefully this https://www.climatechangenews.com/2012/01/24/warming-oceans-face-co2-tipping-point/#:~:text=The world's oceans will absorb,cause surface temperatures to rise. will help underscore the necessity of focus on land emissions reduction. And fertilization proposals, like iron fertilization, are pretty controversial given the level of ecosystem tampering involved as well as dubious effectiveness and ROI.... https://www.nature.com/articles/545393a

Side note: when I murder someone and bury their body, it usually involves someone's excessive use of a subwoofer in a car stereo. Hopefully we're reaching the point where most audiophiles experience paranormal anxiety as they pass my house and they then turn down the bass. When considering my death, I always imagine it to be decades in the future. 😀 I have read somewhere that it is more common to die around one's birthday than would be by chance alone. No idea how that could be or even if it's factual. Maybe related to the rigors of celebrating?

My speculation is that absence of consciousness is what would magnify the threat of AGI. Without it we could have an AI more easily arrive at absurd solutions to problems or pursuing one goal to the exclusion of all others. It's what some AI theorists have called "the paperclip maximizer" problem. (Nick Bostrom, iirc) Having self aware consciousness might allow an AGI to question its own drives, especially if they were narrowly focused. Say that it wants to solve an exceedingly difficult math problem and decides to convert the whole earth into computational machinery to implement this.

Still needs evidence that this would absorb more than a miniscule fraction of CO2 emission. The overwhelming proportion of ocean absorption is just the gas dissolving in water. And waters are warming, which would decrease their capacity to hold dissolved gas. And pump sediment, which has mass and is heavier than water, so you would be doing some lifting, too.

Yep, especially given the information that he knew the father living there to be abusive. Humans have a lot of retrospective bias in remembering past feelings. We fit them into a current narrative.

You are clearly off your rocker!

How would your proposed system deal with eutrophication? Seems like red tides, hypoxic zones, cyanobacteria blooms with their toxins, etc could be a problem. Also, what's the phosphorous content of these mid-ocean sediments that are being stirred up?

Some paranormal phenomena are inherently so haphazard, so much fluke events tied to strong emotions and crisis, that they don't seem open to laboratory study. More like something rare seen in field research out in nature, where all you get over a long period are sporadic observations. Determining a sigma value would be really challenging. We can't, say, put people in a lab then kidnap their family members and see if the subjects report unusual and specific impressions. The research on anomalous and improbable events where unlikely details are somehow transfered is often plagued with potential leaks of information that the interviewer fails to consider or rule out. And, as @Genady makes clear, some people are going to be statistical outliers, who just happened to, say, have terrible acid reflux and chest pain at the same time a distant friend had a fatal heart attack. When the person later recalls their pain, they may tinker with the memory and imagine that the acid reflux was accompanied by a sense of something ominous. Self-report data is so often tainted by confabulation.

Galaxies are mostly empty space. https://lovethenightsky.com/are-galaxies-mostly-empty-space/#:~:text=However%2C what we didn't,well over 99.99% empty space.

Trump-Carlson ticket. "Bronze above, bronze below"

Well said. I thought of that episode earlier as I followed this thread. The "casualties" had to go into a suicide booth didn't they? Viewing themselves as already dead. Yep. As @zapatos mentioned, it would be a kind of Catch-22: if foes trust each other enough to know their five warheads won't be attacked, then they wouldn't need the warheads in the first place. Powerful arms tend to lead to arms races and insane buildup of stockpiles.

It could be something so rudimentary in humans that only the most dire and tragic events give a discernible signal. Your sad experience also seems to challenge conventional ideas of time and our perception of it.

What do you think of Carl Jung's idea that paranormal experiences may be us tapping into a collective unconscious? A sort of mental internet. I've tended towards skepticism but have to acknowledge that cases of phenomena like crisis telepathy seem to be pretty well documented.