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swansont

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  1. Not physically possible. Not physically possible. Instead of posting WAGs, you might consider learning some science
  2. These are based on things that have never been observed to exist. What is “even remotely begin to start”? People begin building perpetual motion machines. But they never get them to work.
  3. Scale, as in scaling, is one reason why a cell can’t be bigger. What’s boring about using x-rays? It’s already referred to as the genetic code, but you need more than “let’s treat it like cryptography”
  4. Why should anyone believe your numbers? You’ve given nothing to indicate that these are based on credible calculations.
  5. The article is based on anecdotal evidence, which it points out, but even then it doesn’t ask the right questions of the people interviewed to try and tease out some rigor.
  6. You titled this approval ratings, but provided election results. Explain why you think these are the same thing. What’s the point of discussion here?
  7. So you admit you can’t, in fact, extract surplus energy (generate electricity) from this, as you claimed
  8. If you accelerate the ball, that’s added energy (work) but the original premise was that there is no added energy. You would be better served by studying physics for physics problems. Religious texts are not particularly useful in this regard, as they are not constrained by the laws of nature
  9. I’d like to know if there’s any physics involved with these numbers (e.g. why 88 kg or 880 m?) v=at which means a = v/t 88 m/s / 8.8s = 10 m/s^2 How do you achieve this acceleration when gravity in freefall can only supply 9.8 m/s^2? In addition to this unphysical claim, the losses you are only mentioning in passing are everything here No, not really
  10. I saw a comment to the effect that they went away from them because they are violent, in order to appease this squeamishness, and that lethal injection is seen as more civilized, so it’s easier to accept. I think there’s merit in that. My proposal: Firing squad by a randomly-chosen group of the legislators that voted for the death penalty. No blanks. Recusal only by resignation. Authority to impose the death penalty expires at the end of the legislative term. The only time I’ve felt OK with the death penalty was with the DC/Beltway sniper of 2002 (one fatality occurred at a place at which I shopped). Which underscores why people who are traumatized by a crime should not decide on the punishment.
  11. Cosmology investigates the way the universe behaves and has evolved. The nature of things is metaphysics,which is a branch of philosophy. They are distinct field of inquiry.
  12. The implication is that it’s only the US that does this, but I’m skeptical that this is the case. Not sure why; I’m not a subscriber but I’m in the US and aware of the story behind “In God We Trust” and “Under God” from the cold war, the Christian nation nonsense, Land of the Free issues (e.g. “What to the Slave is the 4th of July” by Frederick Douglass, and CRT, though not the perversion of it by MAGA), military budget, etc. US education is US-centric, but I imagine all countries emphasize their own history in education and have propaganda (we had a recent thread that touched on this happening in the UK). The whitewashing can be countered by going beyond what you learn in grade school (more education, and reading on your own)
  13. swansont replied to iNow's topic in Politics
    Another pronunciation would be superb olé, which describes a really good bullfighter
  14. All oscillations have common behaviors, which is why you can describe them with equations. It should be utterly unsurprising (the opposite of a revelation) that you see similar behavior. Which violates rule 2.13
  15. You’ve “discovered” that oscillations act like oscillations. I’m curious - who are you quoting in your posts? These should be attributed to their source.

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