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Because the Russian information services are so trustworthy.... (Not that something along those lines is incredible ,just that nobody with a brain cell would trust Russian sources at this point)

I remember quite well the time when black holes seemed an outlandish concept. What was Einstein's reason for not believing that they existed? I mean be must have known that light would not escape the EH and he knew that spacetime could be curved. What else was needed to satisfy oneself that black holes did in fact exist? Just experimental evidence?

I doubt he would do it directly.He would only need to let them know that someone might have a copy(,they maybe know that already if reports of activity on the surveillance cameras are true-think I heard that half mentioned on CNN the other night) He could plead incompetence(we already now he is incompetent at some level to be holding those documents at all)

Michael Cohen was just speculating -quite forcefully on CNN that he could have had (or could have claimed he had) copies made and shared with associates and so could blackmail the police into dropping serious charges against him by threatening to release them. He called it his "get out of jail card"

Rushdie off the ventilator. (on the BBC TV although not showing on their website where their last update ,6 hours ago has him as "critical) Seems like he has had a lucky escape. Not sure how serious a punctured liver is .....or how debilitating a damaged windpipe might be (if it is damaged)

I wonder what security Rushdie had all these years. He had an armed guard for years and voluntarily dispensed with it. Did he get any special support afterwards(in England at any rate)? Any unfortunate name btw as I read it that he had died when I first glanced at the report on the website...

According to the BBC Trump does not oppose the bid to unseal the search warrant. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62512360 I expect the judge will very likely release them now in the coming hours. Should be interesting.

Poor taste is probably appropriate.(Melania's poor taste is there for the world to see and marvel at) It should be in the Tate Gallery

Yes ,that had occured to me too. (In any case he has the "best memory")

Maybe he thought he could leak them at an opportune time and put the blame on the Dems. Maybe he went down at night and pretended playing president with his sharpie A bit like Norman and his mother in Psycho. Doesn't really matter of course in this instance.They were none of his business.

It was really only curiosity I am just using whatever materials I have to hand and was wondering incidentally whether a buried white material might still keep the heat out. I am just a bodger on a leaky roof🙂

Suppose I coat a surface with 2 layers of paint -one is black and the other white. If the white layer is underneath the black layer and the top (black) layer is exposed to sunlight, does the white layer work as a thermal insulant? I can see the black layer gets hot but does this heat transmit to the surface across the white layer beneath as well as it would if the white layer was not there? (So does a layer of white paint insulate against the transmission of heat when we are not talking about radiation but transmission via direct contact?)

There is apparently a papier machė section that seems interesting .

Well he did say it had never happened before.(and we know he has record recollection)

Not going down the whataboutery road.

If others pay neither matter.

For a totalitarian regime the price is immaterial. No one is talking about imperial overreach. Does it come into play?(in theory Taiwan would presumably like to take over the mainland since there was no official end to the Chinese civil war. How long is the Communist Party of Chima going to maintain the allegiance of the population? Is that (those) populations naturally authoritarian or ate they just holding their tongues for now?

We have to up our humour content Reported.

Yes,I heard that last night too. Other opinions(not that your reference is an "opinion ") are that if this warrant was not conducted properly, or is obviously trivial in nature then it hands the presidency to TLG on a plate. I tend to disagree (rose tintedly?) and think he would still be beaten in a fair vote -even then. This is some mf of a clif hanger ,though I have to say. Richard Nixon eat your heart out.(can't wait for the box set the way things are going)

This report,as referenced on BBC and Reuters https://www.rusi.org/news-and-comment/in-the-news/exclusive-russian-weapons-ukraine-powered-hundreds-western-parts-report-says is saying there is a window to cut off the export of high tech parts to the Russian war machine It says the loopholes need to be fixed now.

Is that just a mathematical convention?Could it just as well be the other way round ? (positive energy could be considered negative and vice versa) Or does it have to be that way?

Is the the energy that is bound up in matter (= its mass?) bound up in the form of the various bonds between its constituent parts? If so ,is that a bit like Cheshire cat territory where all that was left of the cat was its grin? I think Lewis Caroll was also a foremost mathematician of his day before falling out of favour for some reason I don't recall.

Yes I think it is accepted that ,as the universe expands galaxies ,one by one will recede from our point of observation at greater and greater speeds If we look closely enough and long enough I assume that we will ,at least in theory catch one of these galaxies in the process of actually disappearing from view (when its speed of recession exceeds the speed of light) At that point we will conclude that that particular galaxy we no longer see is still there , but no longer as a part of the observable universe Now it would be a part of the "unobservable universe "-and so "beyond the observable universe" We cannot see anything beyond the observable universe but can deduce its existence in an empirical way Does that clarify what I was saying? (Hope I didn't sound like Mystic Meg in that previous post😀

What might be the overall energy of the observable universe? Is it possible that ,to an approximation it might add up to zero? Since there is a universe beyond what we can observe that may mean we can never know the answer but are there any models that could be used to answer the question? (Are there as many possible answers to the question as there are frames of reference?)

Nowhere ,but it is on the back foot and under attack. First priority is to keep the democratic gains it has acquired over the years.