Everything posted by StringJunky
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Making jelly (that's jello in USA I believe)
I'm like that with vodka, so Everclear would probably be worse.
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Mysterious Havana Syndrome
This Havana syndrome anomaly has come up again in India. Any scientist here have any hunches what spectrum might be being used? Officer accompanying CIA chief develops ‘Havana’ symptoms -AP Could sub-sonic be beamed sufficiently narrowly to pick out a narrow area in the direction of someone?
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Curvature in space-time is shown as a "fabric"
Do you really need to know stress energy tensors before you can visualize curved spacetime properly?
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Show me the evidence that inbreeding between species is wrong?
This seems an interesting paper on consanguinuity and distribution: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419292/
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Suicide Prevention
If one becomes inexplicably depressed , with no known current cognitive/emotional issues, either internal or external, that, would imo, probably point to a persistent endogenous or organic cause. I'm a 40 year+ on/off chronic depressive, and can experience it spontaneously, even when my life seems to be going well and basically happy in myself. Being acutely depressed over one-off life issues, such as job loss and bereavement are responses to known events... and natural. The ability to distinguish between endogenous and reactive states is likely down to assessing behaviour patterns and life events timeline. There is everything in between, of course.
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Anti-abortion law in the USA
It's almost as if "It's not in the rules it's allowed". That's a path to more criminality and disorder. We generally act in the spirit of our laws, which are not necessarily specific, and the GOP seems to be mining into that type of subversive abuse of principles society stands on to operate with some degree of amicable consensus.
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Anti-abortion law in the USA
Just thought I'd add that I think current methods of the GOP regarding the OP are beyond the pale.
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Could the real size of the universe be infinite?
Ironically, Airbrush's flight of fancy will then appear to be true to a future observer with no prior knowledge of the earlier state.
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Synchrotron Wavelength
I would have thought you'd enjoy knowledgeable feedback.
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Anti-abortion law in the USA
... for once! :p
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Is Gravity a Force?
Very good. Pat on the head, Sir! Your post heads in the direction of how my own sense of science has been emerging. It has been regularly reiterated by swansont over the years that physics is about behaviour, so we need to get rid of these 'thingies'.
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Nothing can come from nothing so something always existed!
My undersrtanding is that if a particle is subquantum, it's 'nothing' in the sense that it can't interact with quantm-level particles of the Standard Model. They are nothing because, ordinarily, their behaviour has no quantum level consequences.
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Slaves out of Africa...
Externet. You may find this BBC article of use - It's about somebody's Nigerian great grandfather who dealt in slaves with white slave traders: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-53444752 CharonY is correct in that this subject is massive and complicated... you can't tell the story with one sweep of a general brush covering 3+ centuries.
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Could the real size of the universe be infinite?
It was just a descriptive to differentiate from an explosion. In inflation, there is no central point of expansion.
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Could the real size of the universe be infinite?
Someone here may have an idea of the steps leading to the initiation of inflation.
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Could the real size of the universe be infinite?
The process is one of all-over inflation, not a leading-edge explosion.
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Could the real size of the universe be infinite?
WAG
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Delta variant, breakthrough infections and related consequences
I don't think freedom to harm others is in the Constitution, they should realize.
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Lifetime of LED replacement light bulbs.
Some food for thought, maybe: https://www.thelightbulb.co.uk/resources/5-reasons-why-my-led-light-bulbs-arent-lasting/
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Looks like Afghanistan is in Taliban hands...or VERY soon to be
Sorry, I read it the wrong way... the limitations of reading text.
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Looks like Afghanistan is in Taliban hands...or VERY soon to be
It's easy and consequence-free to be an armchair military tactician with hindsight to work with.
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Updated to latest forum software
Read some of the upgrade blurb and spam should go down.
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Looks like Afghanistan is in Taliban hands...or VERY soon to be
What was that saying: 'Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"
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Looks like Afghanistan is in Taliban hands...or VERY soon to be
Lets just forgive them the most audacious attack in living memory, dig three thousand graves and forget about it. I think not. Nobody knows the consequences of their "solutions" until they are carried out.
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Cleaning air after residential fire
As long as one is absoluteley sure it's not smouldering in any way. I wouldn't bring spent charcoal in, just to be safe; it can produce carbon monoxide if stll glowing unseen. You probably meant that anyway, but I'm just highlighting that point for those not familiar.