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Yes, but grounding makes certain no charge lingers in the containment vessel. With a very strong EMP, this insures you won't get a shock touching it. Grounding can be as simple as just letting it touch the ground or a cellar floor. No, you are not. 😀

Indeed. One can imagine a Hitler who didn't have a difficult childhood (all his siblings died in childhood, and dad was domineering and abusive) and then didn't have a high school teacher who espoused German nationalism (kind of atypical of Austrians at that time) and strived to indoctrinate his students. With a whole different life following that, perhaps as a regional landscape painter or a professor of political philosophy. But even though no one invents their evilness ex nihilo , we still have to hold them responsible. Adolph and Vlad had choices, forks in the road, and any moral order must hold them responsible for the consequences. They were not totally coerced.

Did you take an angora management class?

Carbon capture, and other clean coal schemes, are pretty much backed only by fossil fuel industry groups, as a sort of greenwashing. And none deal with the dirty and energy intensive aspects of the mining process to obtain the coal (which is why the industry has so rapidly switched focus to NG). Here's some background on the myths surrounding carbon capture, which speak to the OP idea as well: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2021/07/20/top-5-reasons-carbon-capture-and-storage-ccs-is-bogus/ The soil infusion idea has been already debunked here, and elsewhere, but the OP seems unresponsive to this. Hmm.

I found this a helpful breakdown of the types of propaganda that Russia is using to gaslight its citizens.

There is no clean coal dream. Delusion, perhaps. Releasing CO2 adjacent to tree foliage is still releasing it into the air, where most of it will disperse into the atmosphere. And the cost of most of what you describe would make coal power even MORE expensive per kwh, and so solar/wind/geo/tidal would look even better. Where I live, wind is already considerably cheaper than coal, as it is many places. Base load power will be cheaper through storage technologies to even out troughs. And the CO2-to-arable-soil makes no sense at all. Soil is porous and gases can't be contained in it, or transform the soil in the way you conjecture. Plants absorb CO2 through leaves, i.e. from the air.

Once you've got a good Faraday Cage, drop your cellphone in there, and try to call it from another phone. A pretty reliable test. (My spouse has some valuable data stored at home, so we made several FCs in case of EMP attack) Avoid things that have power cords going into them, even if they appear to be a tight metal box. Moon's trash can is a good one. Be sure it's lined with something so that your computer hardware isn't touching the walls (i.e. air gap). Antique dealers sometimes have old double boilers, or any large metal cooking vessel with a tight lid. Small items, like thumb drives, can go in old metal food tins if tightly lidded. May you never have need for this.

LoL. Apparently the moon now has an atmosphere.

OTOH, perhaps the accident was God's way of telling him to die, and so all that fine automotive engineering and medical treatment thwarted the divine will. If people often argue that we cannot plumb the mind of God, being limited creatures, then they have to accept such possibility as part of their faith. (Just playing here...)

Not downloading anything until you summarize what this is about. Advances in tillage?

Charles Trevelyan says hello! One word for you: Picard. Outstanding first season. (JK about Charles Trevelyan) Much better than tormenting tardigrades. Not that the tough little buggers can't take it.

Thanks. Yup, I found the amusing downtime thread from October 2019 ("it was perfect!") I had to read a book. Made of paper. You can't imagine the ordeal of paper cuts and tired wrists! Seriously, I think it's a lovely tradition, reminds us all of the inherent fragility of the net...

Would it be possible to know who the owner is? Like others here, I used whois search and figured out it was a failed DNR, and wondered who I could email which of course was no one. I've experienced this with a few other websites where the owner hides behind a veil of anonymity and can't be reached about issues where only owner permissions can access the problem. I wondered if one of the mods was an owner or knew the owner, so tried to find email for them, but found only a PM button for swansont at thenakedscientist website. And his last activity there was 2015. A nice site, btw, having several members who are also members here.

I come from the American Midwest, where loess is more.

In case Peterkin's formatting above is not clear, that quote begins several paragraphs of expert opinion I was greeting with skepticism. Not sure about the ground zero thing. I understand the motivation, but just haven't firmly committed. Buck Turgidson, yes. Perfect.

https://www.newsweek.com/nuclear-war-bombs-us-safest-place-protection-1750293 (Text of article below video) I find some of the scenarios of survival presented in this article bordering on absurd. And the notion of "rebuilding." Rebuild what, exactly? With what food supply? Newsweek does its readers a disservice, giving a false idea that a few places blessed by distance from strategic targets, favorable wind patterns and rain shadows, and what? A decade of canned goods for all? An amazing supply of engineers, educators, physicians, stored gas and diesel and heavy equipment? will somehow rebuild civilization as we know it. My favorite expert quote in the article was: Days? Really? I rarely use emojis, but....😂 It gets better here: Sure, pal, heading to Home Depot as soon as the mushroom cloud s appear! Oh, wait, the intense multiple EMPs fried my car's electronics. More handy tips.... Aside from the idiocy of thinking you can drill a deep aquifer well after the fact, someone needs to point out that that east-of-Rockies rain shadow zone (where I live) is bristling with missile silos and heavy bomber bases and other attractive targets to an adversary in a nuke exchange. And lots and lots of loose dry surface soil...

I agree that many postmodern thinkers were engaging in a useful interrogation of science and its methods and choices of study. I was directing my earlier remark at the branch of postmodernism that construed science as a politically driven "metanarrative" that has too sweeping an explanation of how reality works. Thinkers like Lyotard (or Foucault, who rejected any chance of fundamental principles to discover truth) went too far, imo, in their characterization of knowledge as intrinsically political and ruled by a group in power. He and others seemed to say that science simply could get no foothold in objective truth and all its aims and findings should be subject to radical skepticism. Attacking the complacency of modernism doesn't have to mean dismissing the quest for solid models of objective reality. And, for sure, I think the PM scrutiny of areas like race or intelligence (IQ, e.g.) or how minds work, or realist theories of quantum physics, is incredibly valuable. Your example is one where PM critique was sorely needed. And yes, possibly this derails the topic, but what fun! 😀

First, down pillows are made to have the case removed and washed. The outer case, and liner, absorb hair and face oil keeping the inner pillow clean. The inner pillow is not meant to be washed. Down pillows need to be plumped, only. Just pat them with hands when rising in the morning and spin them in the air a couple times. You may be okay because the wet interior was in constant motion, which would make mold growth less likely. If it had just sat wet for a couple days, it would be a different story. Please save yourself a gigantic electric bill (and huge waste), and just wash the case next time.

My god that time lapse is eerie. I remember the final test ban was in 1996, but I guess not everyone signed onto that one.

Am going to try and read this thread this weekend, not only to better understand the scientific attitudes towards realism, but also how someone broke Joigus. JK. Years ago, I had this notion that entanglement was analogous too two distant astronauts tethered together. When the tether breaks in the middle, there is no FTL signal, but their state changes instantly to "untethered." Nothing spooky. Just a change such that, if we measure either astronaut for tetheredness, we will find them unmoored. Yeah. That was when I realized it was a mistake to map RW situations onto QM.

Defining such words nowadays points to one of the core challenges postmodernism has made to the classic Enlightenment idea that we can determine objective truths and arrive at principles that may be universally applied. IOW, such terms as "success" underscore the subjectivity of their use, and their critical dependence on cultural norms. If we use it in the larger sense, i.e. success in life, then it becomes clear there is no epistemological height that would allow us to determine what is best - no objective set of facts is going to sort out evidence and decide for all which life is best. Is the monk more successful than the wealthy merchant, is the physician more successful than the mechanic? Depends on all these cultural, or maybe subcultural, sets of priorities and valuations. I don't think postmodernism was correct in its attacks on science, but I think it did take Enlightenment assumptions of universal ethical and moral principles and ask hard questions, especially when one particular society could have dominance and global power and sort of erase other cultures. That's not a good sort of success.

My seventh grade math teacher could do that, too. Very effective at keeping order.

I have questions. If you use holy water and soap to wash your dishes, does that make the dishes holy? Or just cleaner? How does holy and unholy balance? Is there a way to quantify them when, say, I eat pork (unholy to Jews and Muslims) off the plates washed with holy water? Could the holy and unholy cancel out in that situation? If I drink holy water which then hydrates my stool, does that produce holy s--t? Or was drinking the water a bad action which taints my innards? Also concerned about sources like the Jordan River - if someone dumps garbage or effluent in the river, does God get irate? Will he punish the person? Were is the scientific proof you mention that Zamzam Water decreases fatigue? This needs a citation.

True. Putin's ego is such that I'm not entirely confident that he will be able to grasp the magnitude of all his losses that you describe. Like Trump, he may prove to have that pathological knack for declaring a win where none exists, and boast that the retaking of Ukrainian soil is a glorious step towards reunification of the old Empire. I'm not sure he would even be that concerned about retaking irradiated soil, though I still haven't seen evidence that he's quite that demented. One of the tragedies of Hiroshima, beyond the horrendous deaths, is that its geography was such that a lot of the radioactive plume blew out to sea and vanished. I've always had this nagging fear that some ruthless leader will see that as a way to think, "Hey, it's not that hard to contain the effects of a nuclear blast, it will just be a few square miles, we'll be fine...." and block off any awareness that detonations in the middle of a large landmass have very different consequences. I give credit to Putin for not suffering from kind of this delusion, but as INow and others noted, the NEXT guy could be better at blocking off inconvenient facts in their quest for glory.

The quote btw is not "money is the root of all evil" but rather "the love of money is the root of all evil." The finding that experiences contributed more to reported happiness than does material stuff seems generally true, though the number of Americans who cannot penetrate to that truth is sadly pretty high. An American named Henry David Thoreau pointed out that you don't own things but rather things own you. When you cease being so owned it's quite pleasant and freeing.