John Cuthber

It's a long thread to look through... Can anyone tell me if the fact that the slap might have saved him has been considered? It's possible that such a slap would have pushed him out of the way of a meteorite.

Not in your world; they get allowed to carry on, and other people have to change how they dress in order to accommodate them.

So, other people get to decide how she dresses. Well.... it's a point of view. I prefer the version where the areseholes get called out for being areseholes. Is your view based on evidence?

Cartoons typically show water as blue, even though it is essentially colourless.

And according to wiki "Pegasus is able to exploit iOS versions up to 14.6," so my iPhone, running iOS 15. something is immune. Most people set their phones to update automatically, so most phones won't be vulnerable.

well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute Are soldiers allowed to take their phones into battle with them? It seems a but foolish to me Damned hard to maintain radio silence when your phone is permanently polling for a signal.

He never won 50% of the vote. He got in with a promise of building a wall, getting Mexico to pay and jailing Hillary. He failed to do any of those things. He really should be a complete wash-out. Even those who voted for him should realise that he was a con-man. Interestingly, the Republican party still thinks he's their best hope. They are probably right. That says a lot. It's interesting to compare him with Boris who won a "landslide " 42% on the promise of getting brexit done. Still hasn't finished it. Is considered by the Conservatives to be their best hope... They are probably right. That says a lot.

That's a rather narrow definition of "we". Plenty of cultures disagree. And... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Sematary_(1989_film)

We are discussing a very important part of science. The importance of mutually agreed, clear definitions.

Eggs are crunchy- they have a shell. The thing with chicken DAN predates that shell. There's a 50:50 chance that the first chicken didn't lay eggs. We won't get a chance to ask him.

Because it implicitly refers to chicken eggs rather than, for example, insect eggs. Otherwise, it's a silly question. We might consider that there's some combination of DNA that marks the difference between "chicken" and "pre chicken". That presumably arose as a combination of genes from the parents of the "first chicken" (possibly assisted by some mutation). And that DNA was in place, in the fertilised cells inside its mother before a yolk and shell formed round it and it became an egg. So the chicken came first.

Because, in fact, they give mixed results. Plants are very variable. The lack of a good profit margin is also a factor. Did you know the prototype statin was derived from a fungus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_yeast_rice

Show me skeletons, not quotes from old books.

What do you think is behind the development of electric vehicles?

We answered. It can't-, or, at best, it can't usefully- replace lead. Consider yourself better informed. The s orbitals have a non zero electron density at the nucleus. With some isotopes, they sometimes "fall in". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_capture Have you got to grips with the fact that metals are chemicals yet?

Yes they are. It shows.

In the context of using it in a battery, that has to be the dumbest statement I have heard in a while. What did you think you meant? Uranium chemistry is complicated; I'm not saying it would be impossible to make a battery with it. A flow cell battery might be the best bet; something like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery But the high atomic weight of uranium is a drawback, not an advantage. That's why lithium is so popular; less mass to carry around for a given number of electrons. However, none of that could possibly outweigh the problems that uranium is toxic and radioactive. (with even bigger problems for uranium mining waste)

I also try to avoid self referencing when I write spreadsheets- and for the same reason.

A large part of the job of the colon is to remove water from the gut contents before they are expelled. If it doesn't do its job, you get the runs. Stomach acids will not attack, ceramics, glass or most plastics or even some metals, such as copper. They don't even destroy tomato pips.

No.

Alchemy didn't really work. Nobody ever turned base metals into gold. They couldn't.

So, we must act, right here right now and torture you into giving us your plan for world domination.

OK, so if the greater common good requires us to torture people, who gets to decide which ones? Should we be waterboarding you to get you to admit to your plans to take over the world? I realise it's unlikely but.. as you said. "Wrong. It's more like saying that while any chance exists in saving innocent lives from kidnappers, terrorists, and criminals, then we are morally obliged to use them."

That's not what I asked.

It's a chance and we are morally obliged to try it. Is the source of your moral stance there the "greatest common good"?