Phi for All

I'm not so sure. "Creepy" feels to me like a judgement based on specific differences, and ambulation may be one of them. Spiders and snakes seem "creepy" because they don't move right from our perspective, never have and never will. Too many legs on the spider, and none at all on the snake! The way they move is creepy mostly because it seems more unpredictable than the two or four limb movement we encounter most. If it's harder to predict what they might do, that adds to how creepy something is. Don't get me started on jumping spiders. Eight legs means when you jump, you're so fast it looks like you just disappeared. Despite those who keep them as pets, I don't think comparing any reptile or arachnid with a domesticated mammal is meaningful. Insect bites are a problem almost everywhere, and long term consequences complicate surviving them: https://sma.org/southern-medical-journal/article/national-estimates-of-noncanine-bite-and-sting-injuries-treated-in-us-hospital-emergency-departments-2011-2015/

I will share some science, instead of my ideas. Based on the best current information, the universe isn't expanding INTO anything. The universe is all there is, so "from a single point" and "everywhere at the same time" are not different theories. The universe expanded from a very dense and very hot state, and the expansion evolved into what we observe now. The LCDM model details all the maths that support this. Do you think there's a problem with the model? The universe may be infinite; we don't know. It may be finite, we don't know. The observable universe is finite. Spacetime is geometry, not a physical thing that can be layered over a structure. You can't bring me a bucket of spacetime. It's a system of reference that denotes the degrees of freedom we have to move about; three spatial dimensions and a temporal dimension so we can measure when and where any phenomena take place. NOT an explosion! Explosions explode outwards INTO something. The Big Bang was a rapid expansion of the whole universe. The maths we have can take us back until just a moment before the beginning of the expansion, but then they show us INFINTE densities and INFINITE heat, and we know that can't be right, so the model starts where our knowledge starts, at 10−43 seconds after expansion began. We CAN'T know exactly what was going on before, since the last thing we know is that the entire universe was filled homogenously and isotropically (everything was made the same and behaved the same) with this density and heat. "Ideas" about what happened before can only be worthless guesswork, since there's no way to check or predict.

Mean? We won't attack you personally. We'll be civil because it's our #1 rule. But we will attack your ideas. And hopefully show you where you need more study. You use a lot of unfamiliar terms, and some of your information is broken. Light can't escape from a black hole, for instance. The negative reactions are for the misinformed bits. If you stick around and read more than you post (a wise formula), there's a whole lot of good science for you to discover.

! Moderator Note You had me at baseless. Thread closed, because everybody has better things to do.

This seems like a false dilemma, and I'm unsure why you feel the need to box him in like this. Do you dislike Feynman, or do you dislike popularity, or do you dislike intelligent people who become popular? Is it a requirement for you that physics be anonymous, or that studying science be free from a popular approach?

! Moderator Note You can discuss it here, but don't try to sell it here. That will get you banned.

1 part mud, 2 parts plant oils, 6 parts earthworm.

! Moderator Note I'm tempted to pin this as an example of bad-faith arguments for posterity. You've obviously reached the bottom of this particular barrel, so rather than watch you continue to scrape, I'm closing this.

Some version of Skitt's Law will get you if you misplay the ridicule card. If the box on the ground is full of stones, and the tree is next to a glass house....

We still don't delete it. We Flag As Spammer, and the software hides it and adds the IP address to an Invision Community database of suspected spammers. The protocol for Speculations is adequate support of the claims made, and the OP has had a couple of weeks to respond, so we can close this per the rules. This is what we do most often, rather than trashing or hiding. Sometimes a bizarre perspective can help others form a better argument, but this OP clearly doesn't define evidence the way most here do. ! Moderator Note Thread closed.

! Moderator Note We delete NOTHING, ever. We hide inappropriate posts, we throw posts in the trash, but we don't delete it if someone took the time to write it. We like to give people the time to develop a discussion, and they can't if the mods have a hair-trigger when it comes to what they think is a waste of time. While posts are required to be reasonable, many members struggle with language and precision, so we give them a break. Long answer to a quick question, as long as a member doesn't break the rules, they should be able to post without staff guessing about their motives and temperament.

"Like" and "Upvote" give +1 to reputation (pick one or the other), "Downvote" gives -1. If you trigger the auto-destruct sequence, the whole site goes on red alert and you will be given a warning point which will never expire.

I'd love to believe that, but unfortunately extremism is at an all time high, and there are far too many who would claim it's part of the government's attempts to forcefully vaccinate us and take over our minds with their technology. The Jewish Space Lasers are aimed at the planet, not at aliens in space! Aliens aren't abducting children, it's Democrats!

Like has been available since the last software update, iirc. I don't use it. I think Like is part of a positive-only system of reputation, for those who want to focus on that. I think the Admins have it set where both are active.

Anand_Haqq has been banned for avoiding science, soapboxing, and hijacking threads, all behavior that is anathema to a science discussion forum.

! Moderator Note NO!

Alex Mercer has been suspended for a month for an unforgivable violation of our civility rules. If he comes back, he'll be in the mod queue.

There's a scientific term for this, what is it? Oh yeah, chicken-shit weasel. Remember when they were screaming about ad homs? Good times.

We can be mindful of the distinctions between "beliefs". Are they based on faith, where belief is extremely strong but purposely avoids reason and critical thinking? Or are they based on hope, where belief is less strong, but the reasoning is little more than wishful thinking? Or are they based on trust, and trustworthy information, carefully tested and determined to be worth that trust?

With only two major political parties, corporations probably have a better chance of representing Americans on specific stances. I would applaud any major company that announced they would no longer support candidates using fascist tactics like the 50 Republicans above. Pepsi should denounce Mitch McConnel and FOX News for their hypocrisy in wondering why more Americans won't get vaccinated. And wouldn't it be great if Wal-Mart or Amazon stopped donating to Q-Anon candidates, and instead called for some reasonableness?

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Finally, someone who isn't from one of those obnoxious essay writing companies that spam us all the time!

You need to watch each of those movies again, start to finish (with all the bonus features), then come back and tell us if movement has caused them to malfunction. Gather evidence, please.

Kinetics may be the answer. When I search for "rail guns", Amazon cleverly changes it to "gun rails". Be afraid, internet!

Being able to use reason to discuss various scientific phenomena requires an arena where that reason is respected. True personal attacks show me that the attacker has reached the limits of their reasoning power, and have resorted to lashing out emotionally. I've been exposed to some fantastic discussions in the time I've been here, and the common vein running through all of them was critical thinking and knowledge winning out over fallacies and ignorance, and members who are eager to practice civility and learn as opposed to just being right.