TheVat

Were you at the now defunct sciencechatforum? Henriette, or some similar name? This seems very familiar. Anyway, looking forward to more info.

Yes, a slow rate of ionization means a double stranded break in DNA (the main cause of problems) can be repaired because the sister chromatid will likely have the homologous sequence intact and can be used as a repair template. And there are other evolved repair methods, too. If a large dose happens in a quick burst however, there is a much greater chance that flood of photons will leave no homologous sequence intact and then there is likely a serious genomic breakdown leading to tumors or cell death.

RIP Stephen Sondheim. Listening to Sweeney Todd later. Maybe some clips from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. A towering eminence of musical theater. I recall an interview where he said his only past work that embarrassed him was the lyrics of "I Feel Pretty," because he has this young Puerto Rican immigrant using vocabulary more suited to Noel Coward. Hey, you were 27, give yourself a break.

I will admit you seem well positioned to make that argument.

Sometimes news editors, in their haste to churn out stories, fail to catch ambiguities in their headlines. Here are a few documented cases... Drunk gets nine months in violin case. Police squad helps dog bite victim. Eighth Army push bottles up Germans. Woman better after being thrown from high rise. Solar system expected to be back in operation.

While the study of algae has many applications, I am not sure criminal rehabilitation is one of them. Though perhaps some understanding of scum is relevant. Sorry, some typos are too fun to resist. These issues of case management are so complex. Some sci-fi authors like to imagine societies where violent people wear shock collars or other devices. Behave peaceably and the collar is just inert, an unattractive piece of jewelry. Get violent and you are zapped. Such dystopian visions are meant to awaken us to the loss of human dignity and free choice when the state tries to exert absolute control. Rehabilitation should be about relinquishing control and replacing it with the person's self-control. We have to accept that doesn't always work and teach people caution in dangerous situations (like the proverbial dark alley). Some people will always slip through the cracks.

I recall somewhere around high school my son felt he was not much good at academics especially math. A few years later he was getting A-pluses in calculus and everything else, teaching himself programming languages, composing music, and trading emails with me on subjects like Bell's theorem or ionization bit flips. Sometimes it's just about finding a calm space to sit down and do the studying or the work without distractions. And some people can jump from one task to another all day, while others reveal their smarts when they focus on one thing for sixteen hours. As others note, there are such a variety of cognitive skills.

Come now. We all benefit from a look in the mirror, from honest self-appraisal. It does not mean there is anything is wrong with you. Gay is cool. You love men. Men have loved other men, in various ways, from the dawn of time. Nothing wrong with that. Love is good. Many of the great minds and creative people of our history were gay. It is something to be proud of. Elsewhere you said you were ugly. So what? Men like Wallace Shawn, Woody Allen, Jon Polito, Michael Emerson, and many many others, have put themselves and their homely faces in front of cameras with great success and even created appealing characters. Some women find irregular features sexy - I know, because I married one! As for scientific BS, again, so what? What is wrong with saying bullshit, if you are among people who can help you spot the bullshit and figure out why it's bullshit? Everyone spouts bullshit, it is part of the human condition, and part of learning. Even as you claim to want to depart, you keep interacting with us. Which puts the lie to your claim. If you really wanted to leave, you would just stop posting and visiting the site. You would not need any dramatically announced breakup to effect that departure.

Time, perhaps, for some candid self-reflection.

It would be 1/c, wouldn't it? Because the field is there, and the switch and light are 1 meter apart? Electrons do not actually flow (just jiggle a tiny bit in an AC circuit), energy is propagated by the EM field around the wire. I think MigL has it correctly. I will watch, and check my work. I don't know if the video will make this point, but there is no hose. I am pretty sure energy from a utility goes through a bunch of step-up and step-down transformers, which means there is no hose continuity. Only field continuity.

What Pete said. Would only add: if you were a defendant, would you want your ordeal to be mass media entertainment? Being a name, and still photo, in the press is one thing. Being an involuntary reality TV star, with a camera trained on you to capture your suffering, is another. Cruel treatment of someone whose guilt has yet to be determined.

I think the duty to retreat, as part of a larger ethos of not provoking violence, can be warped in various ways. An example would be someone carrying an assault style weapon and then taunting people in a crowd. Rittenhouse appeared to be carrying a weapon in part to intimidate, and to provoke, so it is worth asking in what sense his retreats reflected an overall good faith attempt to avoid violence. It seems plausible that had he opted not to bring a gun, and confined himself to verbal acts, there would have been fewer corpses at the end of the day. Wisconsin's law, of course, is an inept one in dealing with the larger picture of what provokes violence. Its purview is too much in the moment.

Given that the Constitution only asserts a right to peaceful assembly for the redress of grievances, it poses no obstacle to banning firearms (or other weapons) at public demonstrations. In fact, six US states already do so. It may be seven now, as IIRC Washington recently passed a new law on this. Several other states allow their cities to ban weapons at demonstrations within their jurisdiction. This should be a trend, given the polling results posted earlier.

Wait, MigL repeats my infrared herring joke (made in the post previous to his) and he gets the plus ones for it?? Do not quite follow the pecking order here, but it's not my cup of tea.

The thread topic is how albedo levels impact warming, and not on the CO2 aspect of it. So it is not about greenhouse gases and infrared re-radiation but rather about visible light being reflected and never heating surface in the first place. I could be wrong but I think the perception was you were bringing in an infrared herring. If not, then sorry to waste time on this.

I suspect MigL was being sarcastic about the standing one's ground. Wisconsin law, among its many flaws, is an "in that moment" interpretation of threat and what created it. Which means that any negligence and provocation leading up to a threat situation is somewhat ignorable. You still get defense points for responding to a credible threat of harm even if you yourself created the threat situation. It is a horrible festering turd of legislation.

He had it coming...

A classic logical phallus-y.

And the phrase "excuse me for injecting some science, " should come from someone well acquainted with three distinct aspects of radiative forcing. Absorption, reflection, and longwave re-radiation. From wiki... Radiative forcing on Earth is meaningfully evaluated at the tropopause and at the top of the stratosphere. It is quantified in units of watts per square meter, and often summarized as an average over the total surface area of the globe. Radiative forcing varies with solar insolation, surface albedo, and the atmospheric concentrations of radiatively active gases - commonly known as greenhouse gases - and aerosols. Almost all of the energy that affects Earth's climate is received as radiant energy from the Sun. The planet and its atmosphere absorb and reflect some of the energy, while long-wave energy is radiated back into space. The balance between absorbed and radiated energy determines the average global temperature. Because the atmosphere absorbs some of the re-radiated long-wave energy, the planet is warmer than it would be in the absence of the atmosphere: see greenhouse effect. The radiation balance is altered by such factors as the intensity of solar energy, reflectivity of clouds or gases, absorption by various greenhouse gases or surfaces and heat emission by various materials. Any such alteration is a radiative forcing, and changes the balance. This happens continuously as sunlight hits the surface, clouds and aerosols form, the concentrations of atmospheric gases vary and seasons alter the groundcover.

An entertaining look at human energy - mood, motivation, mitochondria, and everything else. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/08/energy-and-how-to-get-it

Bingo. And this observation was the core of the Huber family's statement on the verdict.

This may be a Canuck v USA slang issue. "Ya think, " in US parlance indicates agreement, with an undertone of "seems pretty obvious!" Which was in response to your saying something like "having ideological people carry open firearms" to such an event was a bad idea.

What is the evidence that Huber was doing anything but trying to disarm an emotionally unstable teenager on a shooting spree? How was that raising hell or breaking the law? Huber responded heroically to a clear-cut public danger and was murdered. Police, who were, contrary to sanity and any valid procedure, herding the crowd towards the vigilantes, did nothing when Rittenhouse gunned down the first victim. And nothing when Huber tried to stop him. And nothing when he maimed the third victim. And then allowed Rittenhouse to walk away. Who are the real lawbreakers here? Ya think??

Especially Wisconsin, which has very permissive laws regarding both carrying a long-barreled rifle and the standards for self defense. Though we can rightly condemn his actions, his provocations, and that an immature teenager was provided a gun, the law of that state provided reasonable doubt on his responsibility for what happened. What needs to change are the laws that smooth the way for RW vigilantism.

I learned today that an American teenager can illegally arm himself with an AR-15, then go out in the streets and act out his cowboy fantasies by taunting, goading, and then killing two people and wounding another, with zero legal consequences.