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When I was employed I ate three squares a day because that is what my schedule allowed. Now that I'm retired I eat when I'm hungry. I suspect that people who have work schedules also have eating schedules by default.

Some do, some don't.

Shortest poem ever written: Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes AKA "Fleas" by Strickland Gillilan Adam had'em.

How does someone choose to believe in god? Could you choose, for example, to believe that the earth is flat? You may claim you believed it if you thought disbelieving would result in punishment, but would you really believe the world is flat? It's the same with belief in god. I don't believe in him and I cannot force myself to do so.

I believe England also has an independent nuclear deterrent.

That in large part depends on who presumes to send troops into said area. I suspect Putin would do so much sooner than a Western power would.

Are precursors of nucleotide bases the quacking of a duck, or just some random sound? Seems like finding carbon in a meteorite could be considered a quack as much as finding a precursor of a nucleotide base is considered a quack.

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Well, they probably didn't believe THAT UAP was of alien origin. I don't think you can draw any conclusions about other UAPs.

Well, this kind of scrambles the definition of a 'species'. Smithsonian MagazineThese Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That...Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males

Why doesn't it Imply a universal force of attraction between objects with mass? (Still trying to understand the arguments.)

Back when we looked at gravity as a force, was it considered merely an abstract theoretical notion, and not a measurable physical quantity? Or like spacetime curvature now, did we think gravity as a force "is not merely an abstract theoretical notion. It is a measurable physical quantity."?

The effect we call gravity seems real (to me at least) as it appears to act consistently, but our description of it changes based on something we make up. We used to call gravity a force, then we called it spacetime, and if we can come up with a better model that describes it as a sort of blowing aether and it additionally addresses quantum gravity, then we'll call it blowing aether. All of the descriptions are invented by us as a way to describe the effect we see. Isn't the effect we call gravity more 'real' than a description we invented just because it is the best predictive model at the time?

But spacetime isn't a tangible thing that can be shaped, is it? I thought spacetime was simply a model used to better understand things like Relativity.

It's been my experience that talking on the phone vs talking to a passenger seems much different. In trying to decide why it felt that way to me I concluded it is because the person on the phone is not sharing the driving experience with me and can distract me by continuing to talk when I need to concentrate on driving. A person in the car with me recognizes when I am dealing with a situation that requires my full attention, and thus quits talking for a moment.