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swansont

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  1. Still too broad. Behavior and government are not really interchangeable Please narrow your focus.
  2. James Burke. Connections just blew me away as a teen and The Day the Universe Changed as a young adult.
  3. Beam of energy? Slowing particles with photons (the closest thing here) is inefficient; photon momentum is E/c. The force you can exert with photon absorption is P/c (P is power) so 300 Megawatts gets you a whopping 1N of force. Single atoms subject to visible light only change speed by a few mm to a few cm per second (depending on the mass) by scattering a photon.
  4. Fallout isn’t the radiation from the explosion, it’s contamination - the radioactive material leftover or activated in the explosion i.e. the radioactive fission products and anything that becomes radioactive from absorbing neutrons. These things can be radioactive for years
  5. The material from the explosion might eventually enter the atmosphere
  6. Some/most of which will go to pay his lawyers
  7. Yeah, it’s not going to be a nice sine wave, so you’re going to get a bunch of Fourier components, and probably with multiple different principal frequencies
  8. ! Moderator Note Responding to a request for credible sources with more conjecture isn’t really the direction we were hoping this was going to go. Even if this had been posted in Speculations it would be closed down for a lack of rigor, but you posted in a science section without making any attempt at presenting any science. We don’t have a WAG section. Stop posting WAGs. (Wild-Ass Guesses, in case you’re not familiar with the acronym)
  9. I don’t accept this as true. Any group might not have an inherent feeling for some of the issues of others, but governments do have the capability of solving problems for diverse constituents. They just need to study the problems and have empathy. Some lack the desire or ability to do so, but that’s not universal.
  10. This is not helping convince me that you have a rigorous, scientific argument. Perhaps you should start with some credible sources, researching how anxiety can affect breathing.
  11. ! Moderator Note What is your inquiry? I don’t see anything but some hand-waving and a tenuous connection between breathlessness and drowning. Nothing resembling rigor.
  12. “everything” is rather open-ended. Can you narrow this down?
  13. You’ve given no explanation of how one might find “time” in matter. This is just way too vague to be testable. Not enough to comply with the rules of speculations.
  14. ! Moderator Note Does this “theory” make any testable predictions that might falsify it?
  15. ! Moderator Note moved to politics
  16. Some early radio telescopes were built by amateurs, though they were very dedicated amateurs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grote_Reber (an astronomer friend at work made me aware of Grote Reber, and several of us agreed that the reber should be the unit of effort put into any hobby. Most of us would register millirebers)
  17. I wonder how much of that is from the limits of human hearing. They might be very different above ~20 kHz, but we’d never know just by listening.
  18. You’d be better served by comparing to existing data, but you’d need to do some actual science.
  19. Only if it leads one to a more refined model, which can then be tested, and given the time constant for civil wars that seems like it’s not going bear much fruit.
  20. Making a prediction doesn’t make it science. There’s the joke about economists predicting nine of the last four recessions. Science requires more. Does she say when the next US civil war will start?
  21. He’s a know-it-all, and some would extend that to insufferable know-it-all. Some fraction of the population gets annoyed at nit-picking, and some fraction enjoys diving into minutiae. There will always be conflicts of this sort with public figures. (I mean, some people didn’t like Mister Rogers)
  22. ! Moderator Note Speculation about accident or assassination is premature. Let’s stick to facts as they are revealed.
  23. How about posting stuff that has context and explanation, that’s on-topic? That might help. I mean, what does “It's the people who pay for protection, that inspires a war...” mean? Who are the people to which you refer? How are they paying for protection? How does this “inspire war”? How is any of this relevant?

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