Phi for All

Absolutely not! You just read some Dostoyevsky and started Russian to conclusions.

Now two people have taken the point.

Some example threads in Politics or Other Sciences would be better than a list to demonstrate interest in the subject.

Push back doesn't equal hate, and neither do countersuits. Being firm with children seems to be an effective formula.

I've always maintained that our biggest problems economically are caused by mixing the goals of public and private ownership. Public works need to be as free from profiteering as possible, but we go out of our way to include private interests, and it almost always ruins the efforts. Every American can send a letter to any other American for the same low cost because the system wasn't designed for profit, but that's being derided as socialism instead of using the right tool for the right job. IOW, both major parties serve a different set of billionaires. The People need to reassert their ownership or we're going to end up with a king who owns everything again.

Fuck THAT. Easy to say when you have publicly-funded healthcare during a pandemic. Compromise hasn't worked in the US since neo-conservatism took root.

At least you can observe your fanged snake god among the tubes in the device. There's evidence your sacrifices are being acknowledged, right? My Humanism is being tested currently. When people reject their intelligence in favor of more primitive animal behavior, then what makes us different?

It's an excellent question! I'm not sure about chlorine, but I have heard arguments for an ammonia-based lifeform. It's not assumed in science that water is required for life, just that we know how well water supports it. It's also our best chance to find life similar to ours. You should study water. It's an interesting molecule, with some unique properties. I think it's the only substance where its solid state floats in its liquid state.

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Kartazion has been suspended for a month for messing around with the quote function. It's unethical to claim someone said something you've edited.

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Another name for an escape clause is a 'loophole". That's probably how Ghideon fell out.

Mike12 has been banned for breaking rules on bad-faith arguments, soapboxing, incoherency, slurs against groups, and discussing the commission of felonies. Better role models will hopefully be available to him soon.

Welcome! Good to have you here. You officially have some social media now. I'm an inadvertent long-distance backpacker. I go backpacking, get lost, and have to call long-distance for someone to come pick me up. But when I lose my mind, I usually find it on a hiking trail. Make the time, my friend. See you around.

molbol2000 has been suspended until (at least) after the major elections, so as not to distract from the pursuit of being an informed, science-minded human.

There's a section in Forum Announcements called Banned/Suspended Users. All the banned ones are history. 😁

Everything is in motion. Imagine 100 people are in a big gymnasium with you (this is actually a two-dimensional representation, since you can't fly). You're walking around in a circle holding a throwing dart, and everybody else is also walking around in differing sized circles. It's complete chaos, but one of those people is also holding a dart board as they move (the asteroid). Can you imagine how you'd have to figure out when/how hard/what angle to throw the dart so it doesn't hit anyone or anything else but the dart board? What?! No, it works anywhere in the universe. It works somewhat differently when we're on the surface of the planet, but the concept of degrees of freedom holds true.

Dimensions measure degrees of freedom within our universe. As a coordinate system, dimensions don't care about scaling, they're just used to measure what we observe. I can measure a building to get coordinates for the three spatial dimensions, then I can add extra floors to make it taller, or add extra rooms to make it longer and wider. Since Earth is moving along with the asteroid I want to land on, I have to plot where the asteroid will be in the future when my rocket arrives there (the x, y, z, and t coordinates for my arrival). The ideal is to aim it just right (NASA calls this the "window", the path where the rocket won't run into anything else on the way), figure out exactly how much fuel I need to get there, and at the right moment I fire the thrusters. I can't drive there like an automobile does on the surface of a planet, using a steering wheel. My rocket launches in a completely straight line, affected by spacetime curvatures caused by energy and mass (gravity), and the asteroid moves into my path because that's how I calculated it, and we land safely.

Charles3781's explanatory skills are an illusion. He was talking about the 2-dimensionality of images on your computer screen which simulates 3-dimensional objects. It was a confusing reply to someone like you asking a legitimate question. We CAN perceive the third dimension, it's not an illusion. We can measure length, width, and height to determine the parameters of an object or phenomenon. How tall a building is, how thick a cut of meat is, how deep the water is, all these are visualizations of the third dimension.

I think you enjoy being in the dark more than spiders.

Length, width, and height are the three spatial dimensions we use in our coordinate system, or x, y, and z mathematically. You can visualize each by moving 90 degrees away from every point along the previous dimension (moving from a line to a plane, then from a plane to a cube). The third dimension is equally pictured as height, depth, and thickness, and lends a quality to objects we think of as solid. Time (t) is a temporal dimension in a continuum with the spatial dimensions (spacetime). I can give you specific x, y, z, and t coordinates so we can meet for lunch on the 45th floor of the Empire State Building, or plot where you need to aim your rocket to reach a specific asteroid, and when to launch it so you can hit it without other maneuvering.

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MSC has requested a temporary suspension to focus on other pursuits.

That's the way I always think of the USNO, a bunch of lucky physicists intuiting premises without awareness. Four leaf clovers, rabbits feet, and atomic clocks. We're lucky GPS works. ! Moderator Note Happy to help.

Yes, but the rest of us understand how being harsh while trying to persuade is a failed tactic.