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25 minutes ago, dimreepr said:
If they walk backwards from the start (testing at each step, how level it is), until the start can't be seen, then climb one step; then, as if by magic, the start is visible. 🤣
"Yes, but" replies the flat earther smuggly "the air gets thinner the higher up one goes which weakens the effect of the atmospheric distortion so one can see further."
Simples 🤣
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4 minutes ago, tim.tdj said:
I am entirely in favour of any allegation being properly investigated in an impartial intelligent manner.
I and the team of detectives I supervise do exactly that, thank you very much
QuoteI am as horrified as you are when victims are simply ignored.
Not by me they're not.
QuoteThe problem with the police and criminal justice system is that all too often the people involved take extreme positions on one side or the other.
Utter bollocks.
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E=pc
Thank you @Markus Hanke et al
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How far have you got with trying to answer it yourself?
Post your thought process and I might be able to give you some pointers.
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Are you referring to the 5 (or sometimes 6) I's?
• Inoculation
• Incubation
• Isolation
• Inspection
• (Information)
• IdentificationOr something else?
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Apologies, I omitted the following in error...
QuoteThe ABO blood type is controlled by a single gene (the ABO gene) with three types of alleles inferred from classical genetics: i, IA, and IB. The I designation stands for isoagglutinogen, another term for antigen.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABO_blood_group_system#:~:text=The I designation stands for,the red blood cell antigens.
Sourced from: Klug, William S.; Cummings, Michael R. (1997). Concepts of Genetics (5th ed.).0 -
11 minutes ago, CuriosOne said:
""""""Base 10 must be special""""""🤣😂
I was taught that the reason we use base 10 is simply because we have 10 fingers and thumbs.
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4 hours ago, Vreesie said:
Why is the letter I/i used or where does it stand for?
Isoagglutinogen
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"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?"
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This thread reminds me of the "return journey effect" which has continued to confuse me since my childhood trips to the seaside.
QuoteWe’ve all had the experience of going on a road trip and feeling like we’re never going to get to our destination. And yet, the return trip home seems so much shorter. If you took the same roads and encountered similar traffic conditions, then the time should be about the same. But with the return trip effect, the journey home feels shorter than the outward trip.
The return trip effect has to do with the subjective experience of time. At the biological level, we have a number of internal clocks that are relatively precise. Our hearts beat to a steady rhythm, and our bodies go through daily cycles. And yet at the psychological level, our perception of time is imprecise and greatly influenced by our mood. We’ve all had situations where time seemingly stood still and others when it just flew by. But our ability to judge the actual passage of time is quite limited.
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One explanation for the return trip effect involves familiarity.
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An alternative explanation is that return trip effect results from a violation of expectations.
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QuoteIn a recent article in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science*, University of Miami psychologist Zoey Chen and colleagues offer a novel explanation for the return trip effect, which they test in a series of experiments.
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Chen and colleagues propose a novel explanation for the return trip effect which they call the anticipation account. The researchers start with the observation that the two legs of the journey typically involve different levels of anticipation. You are certainly more excited about going on your vacation at the beach than you are about your return to your humdrum life afterward. And even during your morning commute, you’re usually thinking ahead to all the things you have to do when you get there.
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*The full article is behind a paywall at:
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5 hours ago, geordief said:
They are time travellers?
The Spanish Inquisition was set up in the 15th century,wasn't it?
@Bufofrog is referring to the other, rather niche, Spanish Inquisition...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Inquisition_(Monty_Python)
(I can't seem to embed a video)
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I'm not sure if the US President has studied the Classics or not, but this quote springs to mind...
QuoteIf you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Gaius Julius Caesar
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2 hours ago, BabcockHall said:
I am not sure what you mean by "absorbed topically via the sun."
The OP may mean vitamin D which increases the absorption of certain minerals in the human body.
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48 minutes ago, HallsofIvy said:
But no one said "absolutely identical".
Excuse my ignorance (I'm a detective not a scientist after all), but doesn't this come close to being a pretty good definition of absolutely identical...
On 10/14/2020 at 7:32 PM, Daniel Waxman said:Exact clones, not just in their gross bodily dimensions, but down to the position of every last subatomic particle that constitutes their body. Every molecule, cell, neurotransmitter, ribosome, platelet, etc. is in the exact same relative position in both of these clones.
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17 minutes ago, Kartazion said:
Detergents are not the source of intelligence.
Depends if they're bio or non-bio
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Syme, a Minitrue lexicologist, has this to say about reducing the size of a vocabulary...
QuoteBy 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of The Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like Freedom is Slavery when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
(Editorial, Newspeak Dictionary)Careful what you wish for.
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This reminds me a bit like a fractional distillation experiment I did it my shed a while back.
The first thing that I had to resolve was ensuring sufficient insulation around the heat source and condenser.
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Any reasonable quality control at the design and production stages would eliminate any such flaws.
Unless it's homemade?
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18 hours ago, Trurl said:
Can science produce a utopian world?
For what it's worth... I consider such social engineering to be a human objective, whereas science is just a means to an end.
And as humans are so diverse, tribal and argumentative the classical vision of Utopia is IMO impossible. (I cite the Bolsheviks from revolutionary Russia and then the Soviet Union as an example of a failed Utopian 'experiment' for want of a better word.)
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Metal corrosion requires(?) moisture so I guess* the same would apply for plastics.
Also, as well as any environmental conditions, it may well depend on the type of salt being applied the type of plastic being used.
Not much help, sorry!
*I know it's not a scientific term, but I'm not a scientist!
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1 hour ago, Charles 3781 said:
I used to wonder how sailors could die in agony of thirst when surrounded by water. I thought: "Well, even if the sea-water has got salt in it, surely a little bit of it, would at least help relieve the thirst".
There's a (fairly) famous quote from poem The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge that emphasises this very point...
"Water, water, every where, nor a drop to drink."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834
(Although the modern version has not instead of the outdated nor.)
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Have you noticed the red dots by your right hand? They seem to be in a similar position relative that side's headlight ie at about 1 o'clock.
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On 9/23/2020 at 9:16 PM, joigus said:
Why do they look so metallic?
It seems to be pretty awesome looking camouflage...
QuoteA team of researchers at the University of Costa Rica has found that the beetles' metallic appearance is created by the unique structural arrangements of many dozens of layers of exo-skeletal chitin in the elytron, a hardened forewing that protects the delicate hindwings that are folded underneath
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"The metallic appearance of these beetles may allow them to be unnoticed, something that helps them against potential predators," says physicist and study leader William E. Vargas. The surface of their elytra "reflects light in a way that they look as bright spots seen from any direction," he explains. "In a tropical rainforest, there are many drops of water suspended from the leaves of trees at ground level, along with wet leaves, and these drops and wet leaves redirect light by refraction and reflection respectively, in different directions. Thus, metallic beetles manage to blend with the environment."
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Subtext cipher?
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@swansont , my apologies for extending the discussion.
@Xorim look at your mobile (cell) phone keypad