John Cuthber

When I see a list with lead, arsenic and mercury on it, I don't immediately think they would be good for me. There are lots of things that wreck proteins- thos metals and bleach are good examples. I don't plan to drink bleach as an antiviral. I'm made of proteins too.

Has anyone ruled out the usual confounding variable that people overlook in doing correlations? Many nobel prizes were awarded quite a long time ago. Acknowledged atheism was rarer in the past. . If you looked at people who won awards for playing the serpent, a disproportionate (by today's standards) number of them would be theists simply because it's a medieval instrument and most players were around before atheism was common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_(instrument)

It depends what you mean by "funny" "Funny peculiar, or funny ha- ha?" because it's not actually much of a joke. On the other hand, it's possibly unusual enough to warrant a mention- but not in a jokes thread. And the sad truth is the hypocrisy among politicians isn't very unusual

The mortality rate for flu is about 0.1%. The mortality rate for 19 NCov is about 2% It's about 20 times more likely to kill you. In the UK about 600 people a year die from flu- in spite of the fact that many people are vaccinated and that we have antivirals that help treat it. So, it's not unreasonable to imagine that, if there's a serious outbreak in the UK, it's more likely that you will catch it and, if you catch it, it's more likely to kill you. That's grounds for making a bit of fuss.

Or if there was DNA, but degraded and/ or contaminated.

The word Clinical has a similarly odd origin. It means bedside. It's related to words like recline and incline. It also ties in with geological "beds" as in syncline.

Are we talking about the one whose banner says "Lifting Global Consciousness Raising Our Vibration and Expanding Our Capacity to Love"? Because I don't see any science behind the use of the word "vibration" (or, indeed, anything else they do).

Close, bu no cigar. This post was the one I made when I got back from the pub. As for pointing out your glitch- better late than never. Incidentally, "sober" isn't usually a verb. "Sober up" is. So you should say " It's good to sober up prior to replying, don't you think?" But I think you are right about your 2nd PS. (and I think some might benefit from an "I'm stoned" warning too.)

I can make the comparison quite easily. I go to the bank and explain that I want to put solar panels on my house to heat it (instead of using oil fired heating). I don't have the cash to pay for it, so I want a loan. And, as you say, the panels last about 25 years so I will take out a loan over that period. (In principle,I can then take out another loan for new panels when I need them. And the bank will be happy to tell me what the loan would cost- in terms of monthly repayments. I can then simply compare one set of monthly bills (oil + delivery etc) with the other (loan repayment etc.) (There are maintenance costs too but I can simply include them in my calculation) Now, it's not unreasonable for me to assume that the price of oil will rise- and it's possible that the interest rate will change. But, for now, I can compare the two options. Incidentally... "You can't predict price of oil" "It can, and will, go high," You just predicted it.

And there's the explanation. Not meeting a car coming the other way is not memorable. So what you remember is a few meetings, but what you forget is a much larger number of non-meetings.

On a tangentially related note. (and I accept, it's a serious "tangent"), if I was minded to repeat Cavendish's experiment on weighing the Earth, What would be the best material from which to make the suspension wire?

Could a combination of materials do for a piano frame what this does for the pendulum of a clock? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridiron_pendulum Even better, could it change the length of the frame in such a way as to compensate for changes in both the length and the tension of the strings? That way, temperature wouldn't affect the tuning. The old joke about "it was in tune when I bought it" might become a thing of the past.

So is ονοματοποιημένος Any particular reason?

Is it onomatopoeic?

If the focal point wasn't in the plane of the book, the image would be blurred. Magic eye pictures rely on shifts of convergence, rather than shifts of focus.

That may well be the most widely quoted wrong "fact" on science fora. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nernst_equation

Do you have any idea how wrong that is? Everything (as a whole) is slowly, but definitely getting more chaotic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

(better late than never) That would be lithium tritide. Lithium triteride is a made up stuff

Well, no matter how bad we may be, at least we haven't completely renounced evidence as you have. Would you like to provide some, or are you just going to prove that the "bigots" are right.

And you think might be a better answer?

The question "Science proves or increases the chance for a God to exist?" makes no sense. God exists , or he doesn't. Science can't influence that so it can't increase the chance that He exists.

You should see at least one doctor, maybe 2.

Hurricanes + forest fires have similar problems. They are rare, and you don't know where they will happen. Also they produce so much energy that it's difficult for us to consider controlling it.

In all 3 languages I tried? Do you have any evidence for that? (And I'd like to know what happens in any other languages people can check)