swansont

A reminder that deleting threads on-demand is not our policy. We remove posts that violate the rules. Removal of other posts tends to gum up the discussion. You need to ponder before you post, or do your editing in the time before that option expires.

Tunnel has been banned as a sockpuppet Delberty, Drakes and Brahms

! Moderator Note I will, for the sake of keeping other discussion in line, note that some are even equating religion with literal interpretations of holy books (e.g. as represented by young-earth creationism)

No, not if it’s seawater, or of similar salinity ”Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier.” https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/drinksw.html

Drink all the salt water you want to.

! Moderator Note This is neither helpful nor on-topic ! Moderator Note And also this. Keep such observations to yourself. Also, if it wasn’t important, perhaps not mentioning it would be the best option, lest the discussion get sidetracked.

Desalination cost is only part of the retail cost of water. This doesn’t rebut my post; I don’t see why I was quoted.

redstone has been banned as a sockpuppet of Trần Thành, Energizer and the logic00x triplets

! Moderator Note Rules still require that you post the material here. Not just upload a file.

You misspelled “It’s aliens”

"Strange chemical in clouds of Venus defies explanation. Could it be a sign of life?" https://www.space.com/venus-clouds-possible-life-chemical-discovery.html

drumbo has been suspended for soapboxing and violating our civility rules

! Moderator Note Citation? This is a science discussion site. Please give responses based in science

Having an infinite number of universes does not equate to all things being possible.

logic001 has been banned as a sockpuppet of Trần Thành and Energizer edit: also the craftily-named logic002 edit2: and logic003

You say this as if it were relevant. And true. You can predict the result of raising the temperature of a gas without knowing the trajectory of each particle. You can predict how many particles will decay from a sample after a period of time without knowing the specifics of the particles. There is a lot you can quantify, without having to (or being able to) quantify other things. My point was that "we can't know everything" is not equivalent to "we know nothing" and you have done nothing to rebut that.

Then you meant "not being able to quantify everything" which is not at all the same as "not being able to quantify anything at all"

WSEN has been banned for inappropriate posts

Brahms has been decomposed as a sockpuppet of Drakes and Delberty

"There are some gray areas so all areas are gray" is failed logic

You are excluding it, and that's not a consensus. Who comprises this consensus? Not the scientific community. In your opinion, perhaps, but stop pretending that this is widely shared. Not particularly relevant to my point.

Many instruments pre-date modern science, so really, trial and error is the only way for it to have happened

Police don’t run prisons, and these are separate institutions, so how is this not a false dichotomy?

Some things have to be done at the WH level, because presidential authority is required. Compelling companies to do certain manufacturing, for instance.

https://www.wave3.com/2020/07/28/kentucky-town-hires-social-workers-instead-more-officers-results-are-surprising/ "Instead of hiring an additional officer and taking on the added expenses of equipping that officer, the police chief at the time hired a social worker to respond in tandem with officers. ... Instead of working at another agency and waiting for a referral from a police department after a crisis, Pompilio works side-by-side with officers to respond as calls come in. ... After four years on the job, Pompilio said there has been a significant drop in repeat 911 calls with approximately 15 percent fewer people going to jail." They saved $45,000 - $50,000 year, from reducing the policing burden and because they didn't have to spend money on all the peripherals a police officer needs