swansont

Republicans have shown themselves to be innumerate and they love a good conspiracy theory. Probably just a matter of time until they blame this on Biden.

Moderator NoteAll you’ve done here is just google to find that a technical term appears in discussion, and then ignored the science they discuss and blindly claim it applies to some unrelated phenomenon. And you invoked T-symmetry, which you’ve already beaten to death and why you’ve been forbidden from opening threads on the topic

Energy is a property of something, so there’s no situation where you have energy alone. It’s possible that the energy involved in the BB was zero (the energy we see that entities have being balanced by the negative gravitational potential energy) No, not really. Not to me.

I think the main goal was to give him leverage for companies to bribe him so he’s grant an exemption. Money refunded to companies might make them happy, but that scenario goes against Trump’s ego and his belief that he can do whatever he wants. I have doubts that he’d considered that the justices he bought would rule against him.

As exchemist said, the animals in question are all descended from a fish-type thing, and evolution modifies body parts, so four fins means four limbs. The question becomes why do fish have four fins. I suspect it’s because more than that wouldn’t be beneficial. Appendages create drag, which slows you down. But some animals did modify other body parts to be useful. Some animals have prehensile tails, and some have a prehensile snout, and prehensile lips and tongues exist.

The resonance might be set by not only the drive but how it’s mounted to the laptop.

Moderator NoteRule 2.7 says, in part, “members should be able to participate in the discussion without clicking any links or watching any videos.” That concept applies to audio as well. You have to discuss the subject here.

“For a decade or so, a major threat to your laptop wasn’t a virus, malware, or hacking — it was Janet Jackson’s hit song, “Rhythm Nation.” … somehow, playing back “Rhythm Nation” over a laptop’s speakers would crash the laptop. In fact, it could crash nearby laptops as well.” https://www.pcworld.com/article/2767927/a-janet-jackson-song-killed-laptops-for-nearly-a-decade.html

I think the current economic situation shows that Iran, at least, has a lot of leverage without having nukes. How about what Trump claimed? No need to blame a media filter. The White House still has that page up. “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term!” https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/06/irans-nuclear-facilities-have-been-obliterated-and-suggestions-otherwise-are-fake-news/ How could there be a threat?

One issue is that they aren’t reaching a conclusion, they are stating a position based on their world view. Conclusion implies they are evaluating data and then applying logic and reason. It’s not. It’s an emotional, lizard brain reaction. Everything must be forced to fit the narrative, by any means possible. Outlandish things will be believed as long as they reach the right place.

But it’s not supposed to run through the best and brightest in their areas of expertise, but those aren’t staffing the posts of the US government these days, as StringJunky said. Where do you get this impression from? D-K goes a step past that; it implies people confidently think they know what they don’t know (and also that those with expertise might underestimate it).

The ones war-gaming aren’t usually the ones deciding whether or not to go to war; war games let you have an understanding of what your abilities are under certain circumstances. I think the current situation is caused by the people in charge not having any appreciation of the ramifications, and having fired many with the expertise to understand the ramifications and those who would call out really bad decisions. What we’re left with is yes-men with vastly overinflated confidence in their own abilities. The trivialization comes from having people who treat it like a video game

Don’t think so. Allowing links means less rigor in the standards about what we allow. Doesn’t seem that complicated

Anton Rize has been suspended for repeatedly including links in violation of rule 2.7

Linking to your personal site in posts is against the rules. I don’t think this is difficult to comprehend.

Moderator NoteRule 2.7 states, in part, “We don't mind if you put a link to your noncommercial site (e.g. a blog) in your signature and/or profile, but don't go around making threads to advertise it.” IOW, don’t have discussion that requires people to go to your site in order to participate. You’ve been warned about this before.

Moderator NoteRule 2.7 says, in part, “members should be able to participate in the discussion without clicking any links or watching any videos. Videos and pictures should be accompanied by enough text to set the tone for the discussion, and should not be posted alone” …and that’s not even addressing the topic of aliens existing in higher dimensions and the evidence one would need to argue those points, but that gets this moved to the trash

I’m not sure it’s vague. Electricity and magnetism were unified (Maxwell and Einstein), and then we had electroweak unification at higher energies emerge in the 60s. So unifying with the strong force, and also with gravity, are seen as “next steps” exchemist noted the fact that QM and gravity are incompatible where you have very strong gravity, which is a separate reconciliation that simply has to have a resolution. QM still works in strongly curved spacetime, so we expect to have a mathematical description.

There have been floods, but science has shown the impossibility of a flood that covered the world as claimed in the Bible. As I said, exaggeration of a factual event. I was merely deducing based on the skeleton. To show them off in slinky dresses, of course!

Pictures can be real but the object not be authentic. In this case, a real picture of a sculpture. Religions talk about a lot of things. Doesn’t mean much without credible evidence. Legends and myths are often exaggerations of things or events that have some (small) basis in fact. It looks like the pelvis and knees of a male to my inexpert eye.

How about you answer my question.

How is politics a technological “invention”?

“Over the course of March, the nation got more electricity from renewables than it did from natural gas, which is typically the single-largest source of energy on the U.S. grid. It’s the first time renewables have bested the fossil fuel in the U.S. across an entire month” https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/renewables-beat-natural-gas-us-grid-march-2026 March means end of winter, so decreased electrical heating demand but no AC demand, and starting to get more sun for solar, and wind picks up overall. I’m assuming utilities sell 100% of their solar and wind and throttle natural gas to make up for what they can’t get from cheaper alternatives. (The graph is normalized to 100% demand, so that accentuates any change in overall supply/demand.) It’s also just grid electricity, so it’s not counting solar used at the source (rooftop), which is even better news even as the orange one tries to destroy renewables

Energy is a property, as has already been mentioned. It doesn’t make sense to associate it with mass. It’s like asking if the color red is heavy. The notion of particles being identical refers to their intrinsic properties - spin, mass, charge. All protons have the same values of each. The energy (or frequency) it has is not an intrinsic property.

So this is about politics leveraging motivated reasoning, which it probably always has. How does expanding population enable it?