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Yeah, you see videos of people doing surveys all the time. Every time some guy in camo fatigues, with an assault rifle and 30 round clip, is asked about things like medicare for all, living minimum wage, carbon tax, legalizing pot or forgiving student debt, they are all for it.

I tend to agree Doc. It would be statistically impossible for all Republicans to be idiots. And I'm starting to think that no matter how much some of the members of this forum ( along with some progressive Americans, and the rest of the free world ) may want it, America, as a whole, is not yet ready to embrace a progressive agenda.

Has it ever occurred to you that the inherent paradoxes involved in time travel, such as any causality breaking or 'grandfather' paradox, suggest time travel is unreal ???

Not to me. But he might have a different opinion .

The only way to save his ass, is to quit the Presidency before January, have the Vice-President, M Pence, take over until January, and grant him a pardon. Incidentally, and I don't know whether it's true or not, but I heard that when he first became President, his wife did not move into the White House with him until they re-negotiated their pre-nup agreement. I give her till February to file for divorce.

I don't think so, Dim. D Trump will be very busy during the next 4 years. Fighting indictments, lawsuits, bankruptcies and trying to cover loans from foreign sources. Maybe he'll go back to doing reality TV. ( in Russia, China, or any country without extradition to the US )

D Trump's options for stealing the election are dwindling as quickly as they count votes in Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Even Republicans are abandoning him; most all of them saved their Congress and Senate positions. That's what happens when ass-kissers support you,. They abandon you as soon as they no longer need you. His only option now is to start a war ( preferably nuclear ). They can't force him to leave if the country is at war. ( I joke, but I wouldn't put it past him )

You can't prove multiple universes using time travel. First, you have to prove time travel. Good luck with that ...

All J Biden needs now, is for the count to almost finish in Nevada, and he'll be able to claim victory. Even without waiting for Pennsylvania.

Don't count those chickens yet guys; there are still three eggs to hatch. J Biden is currently sitting at 238 electoral votes. he'll get 16 more from Nevada and Wisconsin, as expected. And Michigan has just switched to a Biden lead with 94% of votes tallied. If he takes Michigan's 16 votes, that would put him at 270 with a win. And he wouldn't have to wait a week, for the Pennsylvania votes to be counted. I am rather disappointed with the results so far. Most Americans don't even realize their democracy is at stake. Even if D Trump loses, and we are spared four more years of marching towards a dictatorship, this close result will only embolden more whack-jobs , and Republicans with more money than brains or heart, to run for the office, and possibly win.

OK Moon. Election songs.

Speaking of rallies ... D Trump, J Biden and K Harris have been criss-crossing and stumping in all the swing states, in last minute attempts to lean them in their own favor. M Pence, meanwhile, has been conspicuously invisible in news coverage. There had been a Covid outbreak among his office staff. Has he maybe contracted the virus, and the Trump team is keeping it under wraps so as not to make public perception worse with regard to their handling of the pandemic ?

What would be the point of discussing national Coronavirus successes and failures, without identifying causes and responsibilities, Dim ? x-posted with Area54

It has nothing to do with 'spinning' the death toll, JC. His policies, such as pressuring State Governors to re-open, and lack of policies, such as not making medical supplies available to certain States, have led to the situation in the US. Canadians and Americans are generally very similar, and our own response has been far from perfect. Yet Canada, with 1/10 of the American population, has 42x less infections. And 23x less deaths

Pandering to every group, and further sub-dividing society.

I'm not sure about the floating part, but there are other substances that expand when frozen solid. Silicon and Gallium ( used in semiconductors ) come to mind, but I'm sure there are others. Has to do with the way molecules aggregate into the solid crystal structure taking up more space than freely moving molecules. It is fortunate that ice floats for Earth based life, meaning seas and oceans don't freeze from the bottom up, and aquatic life is possible. But this wouldn't be necessary on a planet where the temperature doesn't drop below 00 , or where the prevailing liquid has a wide temperature range liquid state. We are limiting our criteria of life, to life 'as we know it'. But there are certainly arguments for life based on other chemistries. Carbon based life is suited to temperatures where water is liquid, but at much higher temperatures sulfur based or even silicon based life might be possible ( sulfur and silicon don't form as many compounds as carbon, but they are prolific in their bonding ).

Welcome Rinakra. Looking forward to learning a few things from you.

I ran my own 'model' also. Against : 1 - Don't like his domestic policy. 2 - Don't like his foreign policy. 3 - Don't like where the Country is headed. 4 - Don't like his lack of coronavirus response. 5 - Don't like him personally. For : 1 - The ability of some Americans to wallow in their ignorance continues to surprise me. That's 5 against re-election, and one slim hope for D Trump's re-election. So I give him 5 to 1 odds. My coding is not as pretty ( last time I coded anything elaborate, was using FORTRAN, though I dabbled in assembly, Forth, Pascal and various flavors of Basic ), but gives similar results. What do you think INow ?

This is quite ridiculous ... If you have a ruler ( a one dimensional line with numbers on it ) all you need is one number to specify any position on it. If you have a sheet of graph paper ( 2 dimensional numbered grid lines ) you need two numbers to specify any position on it. It is a simple mental jump to imagine a height above that sheet of graph paper with the same grid lines. That is the third dimension, and you now need three numbers to specify a location in that space above the sheet of graph paper. And should you want to assign variables to a specified location, you can call them x, y, and z. Dimensions are simply the directions you can move in a given space. Back and forth, side to side, and up down for 3 dimensional space.

I don't care; I still want a History forum. I ( and CharonY ) are constantly having to sneak in historical tidbits into other forums. Please, please, please.please, ...

Me too. No vision in my left eye. Have to keep my eye moving to get any sense of depth perception while driving, or else the bird dropping on the windshield looks like a boulder in the middle of the road,

All of Newton's equations of motion were derived using calculus. As a matter of fact, he invented the calculus for just that purpose. ( also, independently, by G Leibniz ) Newtonian mechanics, while not as 'sophisticated as Lagrangian or Hamiltonian mechanics, can still calculate the 'fall 'of an artillery shell at several miles distance, or even enable putting a rocket in lunar orbit. So, I would say, quite useful. Your criticism of calculus, on the other hand, totally useless.

Ah, but I did... Part implies fractional cause, not the whole cause. And a quick look at the OP shows that we are both wrong about the intent of the OP The OP seems to imply barriers within academia. And also comments that some forum members make about other ( new ? ) members who may not have had the opportunity for an equivalent education. I chose to address the second option, in my first post, and gave examples of forum members who have done well through a good attitude and hard work ( including the O Poster in the Physics forums ), and gave advice regarding the attitude to have , on this forum, to get some learning opportunities out of it. It went in different directions after that. Perhaps you are correct, it wouldn't be the first time I failed to make myself understood by someone.

Have you caught Dimreepr disease ? Don't leave me hanging; can you give a more elaborate answer/opinion ? Sure, there are anecdotal stories where some motivated but disadvantaged kid can't get an education. But there are also many where motivated but disadvantaged kids do get an education ( my story for one, in a previous post ). So, if we agree on the disadvantaged part, maybe we should start questioning the 'motivation' ( or lack thereof ) part.

And all I'm saying is that removing 'barriers' only gets you part way there. I think the bigger challenge is making people want an education. To paraphrase Venus Flytrap... Education is not being forced on anyone. It's yours for the taking, but you have to want it. complementary lesson about atoms with each viewing.