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Western democracies generally include protecting the rights of minorities, yes. It’s not difficult to find abuses of majorities where these protections are absent or ignored. If you’re jot a minority ypu might not care, but if you are, you probably care quite a bit. There are few examples, and (speaking as a moderator) we aren’t going to litigate that here. But this seems like a common tactic of trying to present uncommon cases as being typical, and also is based on not knowing biology past grade school level That’s a problem? Most people have them in their homes. I respect her views in physics. Outside of that it would be the fallacy of appealing to authority, and presenting opinion as fact.

I’m not sure what the Standard Model has anything to do with galaxy formation. Discrepancies with existing models has nothing to do with the validity of other models. IOW, you need evidence to support your model, which is what I pointed out, and what you continue to sidestep.

Yup. I think Bannon already suggested deportation. Perhaps others have, too. It would certainly be interesting, should Musk leave the country for some reason, what happens on his return.

What is the weighting factor? Range of values, what does it depend on? What are Psi and “gravitational influence”? Forces? Accelerations? What is the coupling strength? What are these various functions?

Anyone wondering when the Musk/Trump rift would happen, here you go… https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-blames-musks-criticism-decision-cut-ev-tax-credits-2025-06-05/

What are the properties of this medium and how do we do experiments to confirm this? You need to explain what these variables (or constants) are.

I think this came up in a thread not too long ago - how phone responses are used a lot less precisely because the response rate had dropped. I agree that fakery requires deliberate intent to deceive, which has not been demonstrated, and is not sampling error or bias.

Star Trek is pretty consistent about this - normal transporters have a limited range, so you can’t go planet-to-planet, much less to the next system. They used it when they are in close proximity (a few tens of thousands of km) I think they ginned up a special kind that went longer, because a story line required it.

AFAICT it’s vinegar that’s been absorbed by some solid “carrier” (maltodextrin or modified food starch) and then much of the liquid is evaporated. You can buy vinegar powder.

The thing is, there are plenty on the left who believe in healing crystals, psychics, astrology and the like. They just tend to not be the elected officials, at the higher echelons at least.

By repository do you mean like ArXiv? Having a paper there doesn’t mean it’s been peer-reviewed, or published in a journal, where it might get professional feedback and pushback. So, not peer-reviewed as it’s normally understood.

No problem. But we will want some rigor

You just saw your de-militarization claim debunked, and here you repeat it. I don’t see how Fukushima is related to Putin, and Germany’s electrical capacity from nuclear (just over 20 GW in 2010) is much smaller than the installed renewables that have been added since 2010 (~60 GW in 2010, ~180 GW in 2024) https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts# Maybe stop trying to push a narrative without checking to see if it’s supported by facts

Which is quite different from claiming that spending decreased (“reduce funding of their armies”) Easy to claim, but what evidence supports it?

That’s beside the point, though. The issue was about your claim about Germany, which is false. They are not importing more oil. Trying to move the goalposts does not help your credibility. I’m sure I’m not the only one to notice your habit of making arguments based on dubious (and unsourced) claims.

I agree that consistency is far more important. Getting detailed actually boxes you in if you invoke some technology of dubious (at best) feasibility. There are stories that flat-out ignore some scientific principles, but they generally don’t try to do too much to explain anything regarding the contradiction. Anything with FTL travel/hyperspace or even just very fast travel, where relativity ignored (e.g. Star Wars, Forbidden Planet). Star Trek mentioned “Heisenberg compensators” for the transporter, but no detail beyond that.

Oil generally refers to crude, and petrol is used in automobiles. What’s the connection to nuclear power, which was part of your premise? In any event, Germany’s imports from Russia dropped to basically zero since 2023. The decrease began in 2022 https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/crude-oil-imports-from-russia

I think the main issue is that you’re jumping the gun looking for an astronomical explanation when the first task is corroborating the observation. Somebody would have noticed, and documented an extended darkness. Dust doesn’t give you the mass you require for your conjecture.

If you could reduce gravity then the atmosphere can more easily escape the planet completely. If you were far from gravity, or if you made the tube in a circle around a planet but then you’re in a situation where a vacuum is likely preferable because atmosphere gives you drag

Pre-teens and teens win a lot of (open) weightlifting competitions, do they?

The big space sausage

“From six o’clock darkness came over the whole earth until nine o’clock” That sounds like an eclipse, and dictates a minimum angular size. Either you use this or you don’t, but if you’re going to waffle, there’s not much point to this, is there? You’re admitting that the document is not a valid source of information. That the darkness account is a gross exaggeration, much like global flood is. How is this determined? Mersa? What’s that? More fiction? This is a great example of something that’s speculation and lends itself to scientific analysis. A pity that you aren’t willing to present the science and just want to push a narrative.

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Colorado, Utah and Oklahoma in the US. https://www.usgs.gov/publications/uranium-bearing-carbonaceous-nodules-southwestern-oklahoma https://nmgs.nmt.edu/publications/guidebooks/downloads/32/32_p0165_p0170.pdf

Nope. EU spending was (in USD) $176B in 2005 and $258B in 2022. There was a post-2008 decline, almost like there was an economic crisis, not caused by Europe, that might have had an effect. And budget cycles are long, so anything happening in the last few month is likely not driven by the current Trump administration https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/euu/european-union/military-spending-defense-budget Care to revise your premise? And explain the “anti-democratic” issue here? And people are free in the US to vote for representatives who align with their wishes. But in several states, they don’t do this.