John Cuthber

Where is the well regulated militia when you need it?

There will always be "doubt" about that. Fox has cheerfully broadcast lies before- their own, and other people's. It's unlikely that they suddenly developed morals. SoI wonder why they aren't broadcasting Trump (and co)'s lives. I'm cynical enough to think that it's to save Trump supporters from exposure the evidence that Trump is a fraud. If they don't see him acting like a fool, they might not realise he's a fool. It's not going to influence his die-hard supporters or his equally die-hard opponents. But there's a group- even now - who are undecided. If you show that group pictures of Trump saying "the elections were rigged " but without giving any evidence,, at least some of them will realise he's lying. And I think Fox is happy to avoid that, while also maintaining some sort of "moral high ground" by not broadcasting the lies.

Good news; two thirds don't.

I don't agree with this at all. I know a few Trump supporters. Most people are not Trump supporters. Even in the USA, he was in the minority when elected. If his supporters didn't see the writing on the wall, that's their problem. But most people live outside the US and most of us saw him as the fraud he is.

I rather hope that one of Biden's priorities is to get some sort of "if you tell lots of lies on line you get closed down" legislation up and running. With luck Trump will be in jail or in exile.

Most people knew it wouldn't work out. Must republicans chose Trump. Does that tell you anything?

With appropriate social distancing.

There's a meme on line featuring a map of countries with no extradition treaty with the USA. It would be so funny if Pence didn't.

"How Trump Could Steal The Election" Well, he failed the easy way... Let's see him get creative.

The same should be true of requiring people to join a religion. Sadly some religions don't realise that. And, by way of pretending to have read thee topic, I'm an atheist.

Pretty close to half the US population has not realised that he was elected on one policy: "Build a wall", but he didn't do it. They think he's a success. That's remarkably unobservant. "start"?

This might help. https://xkcd.com/2380/

Three of those images imply too much power in the wrong place. The other is a horse.

I'm not responsible for whatever nonsense you believe. However, in the real world, people keep spiders as pets. https://www.thesprucepets.com/pet-tarantulas-1237346 And yes I have known people who had a pet spider.

No it isn't. I'm OK with them. Some people keep them as pets. No.

What's The Point Of Calculus?? It's so we can help our kids with their calculus homework.

It is easy to make something go wrong, but difficult to repair it. Especially when the thing is so complex that you do not know how it works.

Things do. My favourite Emo Philips joke" "When I was a kid I prayed that God would give me a bicycle. Then I realised that God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bicycle, and prayed for forgiveness."

Can you be a scientist and still believe in religion? Yes http://www.vaticanobservatory.va/content/specolavaticana/en.html The Vatican has a perfectly competent astronomy research department. What's telling is that they don't seem particularly lucky when it comes to making discoveries.

I'm pretty sure that a telescope is an instrument. The point is that, at the time people were drawing pictures of "canals on Mars", they were struggling against the resolution of their telescopes. Now they are struggling against the resolution of their spectroscopes. Steam engines were invented at steam engine time. Up until relatively recently, millimeter wave spectroscopy was so impractical that nobody did it. The technology has changed but it's still not a mature technology. A bit like the old telescopes. It's a valid comparison.

Why have you cited a reaction that won't work? And also , where do you imagine it's getting the P4 from, Aldrich, eBay?

Speaking of high temperatures; the sellers suggest storage of the thiol in the fridge. Nobody seems to have measured the boiling point. These facts suggest that it's not very stable at high temperatures. How can you be sure that the material would survive the process? It's slightly absurd to say that there will be more Pt and Mo than Zn and Fe. The thiol doesn't choose the most valuable metal. It will largely react with the most common metals present. Come to think of it, I can't see why pyrithione should dissolve gold.; it's not an oxidising agent. You need to add an oxidant- in the paper they use peroxide. But peroxides (and oxidants in general) destroy the thiol. And the mix of metals and metal oxides (and sulphides etc) will also destroy peroxide (and any other oxidant). Fundamentally, gold is pretty unreactive. Almost anything else will react with any reagent more readily than gold does. So, until you have washed all the metalliferous minerals out of the rocks and are left with clean silica, the gold won't dissolve.

But zinc is already cheaper then the thiol, and you are bound to lose some of that expensive reagent. Overall, this will probably lose money.

That's a matter of perspective. You intend to dissolve gold. In fact it will dissolve a lot of metal oxides (zinc, iron etc) So you will use huge amounts of a moderately toxic chemical, mainly to dissolve stuff you don't want. Might still be an improvement on the use of mercury...

At least "actually" isn't actually wrong.