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Genady

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  1. The Sun.
  2. Were they? Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster - Wikipedia
  3. Something is off in this image on the back of an old British one-pound note, scientifically speaking:
  4. This is not my default assumption. To start with, it is not true that "Google estimates that 4 to 10 thousand advertisements are seen by a person on a given day." The truth is that if one googles this question, then one gets this answer. Where these numbers come from? Here is an interesting story, How Many Ads Do We Really See In A Day? Spoiler: It’s Not 10,000 | The Drum.
  5. I suspect that the critical word is "Pastor."
  6. I am not sure why to call this a head. I'd say it has its eyes, brain and the mouth in its torso.
  7. That URL does not work for me, but this does: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerlisting/images/2/29/GAN21961.jpg/revision/latest
  8. Yes, the method has changed. The WAGing has not.
  9. Could help to have more than two pairs of appendages. E.g., insects.
  10. In the late 400s BC Democritus proclaimed that “atoms and void alone exist in reality.” He offered neither evidence for this hypothesis nor calculations on which to base predictions that could confirm it. (Weinberg, Steven. Foundations of Modern Physics.) 2500 years later: Speculations must be backed up by evidence or some sort of proof. If your speculation is untestable, or you don't give us evidence (or a prediction that is testable), your thread will be moved to the Trash Can. (Speculations Forum Rules.)
  11. It was Russian literature in my case. We read a lot! Some of the books, that most of you guys perhaps know about, were: War and Peace - Wikipedia Anna Karenina - Wikipedia Crime and Punishment - Wikipedia The Idiot - Wikipedia The Brothers Karamazov - Wikipedia Dead Souls - Wikipedia The Prisoner of the Caucasus (poem) - Wikipedia Eugene Onegin - Wikipedia
  12. Saw this article, Computer Science Is No Longer the Safe Major - The Atlantic and realized that it was Not Yet the Safe Major when I decided to take it. It was then a brand new, just opened, never existed before major in the university I was applying to, and as I struggled to decide which major to take, this sense of adventure made it to stand out for me.
  13. Mathematical models do not have such limitations, IMHO.
  14. Chances are that they are headless. The brain should be better protected and insulated than ours. More like our heart, lungs, etc.
  15. Excuse me for quoting myself, but in SI units the ratio between the Newton's gravitational constant and the Planck's constant is:
  16. I am glad to report that he apologized for the cheating. The peace is restored.
  17. Literally! Add to this that usually the instructor deals with a group rather than one student at a time. So, there is a human group dynamic in play. Sometimes there are couples, and, for example, you see that only one of the partners is really interested while the other feels that they 'have to' go along, which is a bad sign and needs to be addressed.
  18. It seems to me that all efforts of spacetime interpretation of quantum states are akin efforts to prove Euclid's fifth axiom. The discovery of states which exist independently of spacetime sheds light on a deeper structure of the world of events.
  19. Yes, this is right, when what they say is at least correct. Unfortunately, it is often not so.
  20. I suspect that it is a wrong place to look for knowledge.
  21. Is it entertaining?
  22. And the other way around: geodesics define the parallel transport, the covariant derivative, and the connection. But not necessarily a metric.

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