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  1. Your graphs show we've already had ~120m of sea level rise for the ~ 9ºC rise in temperature from the glacial maximum. Why would we expect an additional 50m?
  2. "Motion" isn't a variable in any equation. We have displacement, velocity and acceleration. Using imprecise terminology is a detriment here, not a bonus. And this is not reflected in your equation. I'm not interested in that. Just what happens to a celestial object that's moving in space. Sure it can. What experiment is this? GPS satellites have a non-equatorial orbit. You seem to be able to summarize it in a picture. You would need to do better. Can you explain the motion of these dwarf galaxies? You can't just have it drop out If this is Newton's gravitational constant, as it is in MG/r2 then it has units. If it's not, pick a new letter This is simply not true. G has units. Force has units. All the terms in the equation have units Simplifying does not mean mangling the math.
  3. It’s not access to more news. Allowing one owner to control more outlets ensures that their bias can be more widespread. News used to be closer to just being news. Before Fox News, and when the Sinclair Group controlled fewer stations.
  4. Meaning this belief of yours is just that - a belief, of the religious sort. If there’s no evidence, you can present, then this is patently unscientific
  5. Do you get notifications from that person? That doesn’t seem right. Other members don’t have your email. I see options to get notifications from SFN when new content is posted in a thread you follow.
  6. Probably referring to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which expanded the number of radio stations one could own and the reach of TV stations one could own.
  7. Canceling two negatives here, it will have a positive acceleration in the direction of absolute motion? This isn’t shown by your equation; it shows no direction and is proportional to an unrevealed factor f. That’s not the equation for gravitational force. F = GMm/r^2 Why? Not because of any valid math you’ve done. G has units and it’s not equivalent to an acceleration Who is “we”? Claiming that mass “converts to acceleration” is not part of mainstream physics, and AFAICT has an advocacy of just you.
  8. Combined with Henry Ford (automaker and Nazi sympathizer)
  9. Perhaps we can dispense with the notion that he’s a genius, and stop paying attention to his nonsensical ramblings.
  10. There can’t be a pattern without the data. If you destroy the data, you have no pattern. But that has nothing to do with the wave function. The wave function collapses as soon as you detect the photon or electron.
  11. If this is the issue, doesn’t it assume you have a right to discriminate? Is that the case? I thought that this was covered in the Human Rights Act of 1998. I would assume you comply with the law. What rights are involved here? Surely violating the law isn’t a right. Simply having laws doesn’t deprive people of rights. If the government has the authority to compel action or punish, it can’t have involved a right. Wanting something to be a right isn’t an uncommon feeling, from what I’ve see and heard, but it’s not the same as what actual rights are.
  12. From what I’ve read, desiccant dehumidifiers are less energy-efficient than refrigerator types.
  13. ! Moderator Note Luc is having difficulty posting replies; we hope that the expiration of the 24 hour limit on new members fixes the problem
  14. Are any of these things actual rights? How does someone’s desire to be referred to in a certain way interfere with free speech? Is that enforced by some government agency, who will toss you in jail or fine you if you don’t comply?
  15. Depends on what’s comfortable. 90% relative humidity at 10 C will be 50% at 20 C. There’s about 9g/m^3 water; it takes 4.18 J/g to heat the water. Still, 50% isn’t particularly comfortable. If you want to reduce the humidity, you will have to condense water out of it. That means cooling it a few degrees and having the water condense, the reheating the air. Condensation takes 2259 J per gram. Removing the water takes a lot of energy.
  16. Laws are, or can be made to be, mathematical statements. We have to do more than see that B always happens after A. We have to know that B doesn’t happen unless A does, and there is not some hidden causal factor involved. You might find that shark attacks correlate with ice cream sales, but buying ice cream doesn’t cause shark attacks.
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  18. This was about LGBTQ rights, so I’m at a loss as to how this is infringing on/ interfering with anyone else’s rights, or “power” Or did you have some other example in mind?
  19. That’s not how math works. The equation says if f has a nonzero value, there is a force. (as long as K and RM are nonzero) For your description to hold, f would have to depend on the change in some variable, e.g. it could be a derivative. So an object accelerates in the direction of absolute motion. What direction is that? “south” as you’ve implied before?
  20. Force is a vector. What is the vector term on the right-hand side of the force equation? What is the direction of the force?
  21. Entanglement does not cause a wave function to collapse. The individual states in an entangled state are undetermined, and superposition does not require entanglement.
  22. It’s not the same $100. At the very least, it’s $94 after the first purchase. You’re adding an extra $6 in each step. But yes, more transactions means more tax. But it also means more income for the business in each step, and more income for the workers. The government is not the only beneficiary of a robust economy. $100 spent does not generally turn into $100 profit, that can be spent in the same fashion. The item purchased had some wholesale cost, and there is value added by labor. Not all money that is spent is subject to sales tax
  23. swansont replied to Capiert's topic in Speculations
    Pi squared is approximately the magnitude of g. The half-period of a 1m pendulum is very close to 1 sec, and T = 2*pi sqrt(L/g) (This was a very early realization of the second but is lacking in consistency since g is not constant on the earth’s surface) —- g varies with height, so trying to use the surface value for a geostationary satellite is problematic. It’s actually 35,786 km in altitude, or 42,164 km from the center of the earth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit

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