Everything posted by Phi for All
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RNA "evolution" breakthrough offers new clues on the origins of life
It has nothing at all to do with "more detailed". It's hard to figure out if you're serious about discussing science, or more interested in pushing the views for your YT channel. Videos often require the viewer to keep going back to make sure they heard things right. The written word allows us to do this practically instantaneously. It's much easier to put mis/dis-information that goes unnoticed into a video than a written study. Video often adds an emotional element that's unnecessary. You yourself admit you used a "provocative title" to grab attention. Then there's the whole element of illusion. With modern tech, can we really trust what we see on posted videos? In science, you can't get "too detailed". There will always be someone who requires more clarity and precision simply because they can understand it and use it to promote even better explanations for various phenomena.
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The Official "Introduce Yourself" Thread
The evidence is more supportive of "most serial killers started off being animal abusers", I think. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12613433/
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The universe - Repeats again?! (Mind**** warning)
It's a common misconception that the BB was an explosion radiating outward into something, but it wasn't. It was a sudden expansion that happened everywhere at once, since it involved everything at once (the entirety of the universe). The model is very clear on this, and the theory explains the model.
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Arizona House Legislature Passes Unconstitutional Bill...
! Moderator Note We attack ideas here. We don't attack groups of people, verbally or literally! This is an unacceptable violation of the rules you agreed to when you joined.
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The universe - Repeats again?! (Mind**** warning)
You have evidence of a center of the universe? And that it has the mass to gravitationally attract all other matter?
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How Trump Could Steal The Election
Actually, with the Bannon strategy, it seems like it's never expected to officially stick so much as obscure and delay. The goal is to make it much more difficult to figure out what's NOT shit rather than persuading anyone any of it is true.
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Banned/Suspended Users
CarlDarwin has been banned as a sockpuppet of symptom378, Jalopy, Adelbert_Einstein, Karen Brown, and thequeenofhearts. Anti-intellectualism professional determined to waste their own time along with everyone else's, it seems.
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Why cant they invent a computer program that solves the energy crisis in mathematical terms?
! Moderator Note I'll leave the thread open if you want to continue to discuss this, but the OP is a sockpuppet of a banned account, and won't be defining terms for you.
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Should we lie to people for the greater good?
This is one of my smaller manors. I usually rent it out as a B&B, but I'll let everybody here use it for free if you can sit down inside and speak respectfully to each other while you discuss this issue.
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Make.salt from air
! Moderator Note Moved from Homework Help to Speculations. Please clarify your concerns and perhaps link to a trustworthy source of the phenomenon you're talking about. You've made some claims, so please support them with evidence.
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Please delete this post
! Moderator Note We don't delete anything, but we're a science discussion forum and we'd appreciate it if you'd abide by the rules. This isn't the opening post to a science discussion thread, so I'm closing it.
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Is Torture Ever Right ?
! Moderator Note I'm going to call for more civility here, or I must assume this long thread has run its course. There's been little discussion of late, so I'd like to remind you all that belittling someone else's stance doesn't count as support for your own. You're at a table, not on opposite sides of a fence.
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Why is there less talk about medicinal herbs, herbal medicines , herbs , mushrooms in west today
Some of the problems we had with "nature" is the tendency of fruits and vegetables to be covered in insects as they quickly rot in the outdoor markets. So we developed canning technology to make them safer and last longer, and it was a complete game-changer. Now though, we turn to "nature" to save us from technology, and I'm not sure it's wise in many instances.
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Why men and society so important to engineering profession?
Are you writing papers on these topics for your classes in school? Is the assignment really only about "men" in engineering, or about "people"? "Men and society" benefit from having engineers, and I suppose engineers would have a lot less to do if people didn't band together in societies, but it's such a broad question that I find it hard to believe you "didn't find any resources regarding this topic". Do you really have no idea why a society might benefit from having people who can design mechanical workings on a large scale, or why an engineer might benefit from having people interested in living in denser population centers?
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Prepare nutrient solution
! Moderator Note Moved to Homework Help.
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War Games: Russia Takes Ukraine, China Takes Taiwan. US Response?
Basis points, which reflect percentage change in value, and each represents 0.01%, so this increase in interest rates is a quarter of one percent.
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Speculation (split from Great danger to the Earth)
Not in any scientific sense. Theory is as strong as it gets in science. I suggest your suggestion renders the term meaningless. I'm assuming you define "hard" as "a bar I can set wherever I want". Theories have models and mountains of evidence to support them. When they lack observational support, such as with String Theory, we rely more heavily on the models, but they still have to have evidence if they're considered a theory. No evidence? Are you using your earlier definition of "hard evidence", because his work had plenty of observational evidence, and much of it was based on experiments carried out by others. His explanation solved the mystery with the orbital precession of Mercury. His explanations wouldn't have been credible at all if "he had no evidence". You make assertions rather than ask questions or pose problems, and many of those are either incomplete or just plain wrong. It makes you appear to be doing it consciously to waste time or provoke reactions. I wanted you to know so you can adjust your posting style, or at least know why you get so much pushback on many of your posts.
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Banned/Suspended Users
SuperSlim has been suspended for two weeks for uncivil personal comments. Attacking people isn't as strong a strategy as attacking their ideas, and name-calling should be beneath intelligent humans.
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Calculating speed from microbit
! Moderator Note Moved from Classical Physics to Homework Help.
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War Games: Russia Takes Ukraine, China Takes Taiwan. US Response?
Her name is Marina Ovsyannikova, and she's been an employee at Russia's Channel One state TV, and she chose to interrupt a heavily watched news show Monday night. She's definitely a hero!
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What humans will look like in 50 million years from now well kinda of scary looking
Since this is just one possible outcome out of an almost infinite array of outcomes, why do you think this article's author is correct? I'm only interested in why this is worth any amount of time thinking about, unless one is writing fiction about it, and then it's quite obviously up to the author. It seems to be a topic that probably has about 7 billion different opinions, each unique and equally meaningless. Edit to add: Over the time periods you're asking about, I don't think the even most educated biologists could do more than guess at how evolution will affect our overall appearance. But this is just an argument from incredulity, so I'm willing to be educated.
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
I figured the OP would eventually claim the answer is: the rooster.
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The 'Superscience' of the Bible
Uncomfortable is also a word a scientist wouldn't use in this instance. It has nothing to do with comfort. Natural world, use science. If it's outside that, you simply can't apply science. It's like measuring the width of your driveway with a poem. It's pointless, inaccurate, and sloppy. Isn't your faith in your religion enough? Why warp the methodology to suit your beliefs?
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The 'Superscience' of the Bible
To date, we see no evidence of this. Science is only interested in describing the natural world. The supernatural can't be measured, predicted, or observed, so science is the wrong tool. Your conclusions in this instance don't seem to follow a methodology "somebody with a scientific background" would ever use.
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Is social media distorting reality ?
I admit to being far behind the times as well. I quickly gave up on FB (after really high hopes of a good family platform) and haven't touched it in the last ten years or so. My experience with the algorithms is somewhat recent. Google news uses them, and it almost makes me want to go back to print newspapers. I signed up for TikTok and immediately experienced the way my choices brought more of the same. I've enjoyed much of the work I've seen there, but it can't be good to only see things you like or agree with.