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Having said that, I've just been doing the diagrams to go with another submission, because I do have the (enforced) leisure time to do this sort of work.

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The maths is just simple algebra, no calculus needed - have fun!

Sorry, there's no such things as "maths".

before they start playing with DNA.
Modern medicine still can't get appendicitis right. Doctors look at unreliable scans to make life or death decisions...

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Great job, guys. You can't even figure out a 19th century disease and now you want to play with the mechanics of life itself?

However you say it in whatever fucked up dialect of English you speak, here in England where real English is spoken we say go on a course.

Ah England - the Xerox PARC of the English language. They invented the tech but never really understood it. Extraneous u's in color and honor. All those awkward -re endings leftover from French. Swallowing articles and prepositions left and right (you go to THE hospital and agree TO something). Poor limey bastards.

It took Americans to clean up the cruft and turn English into a global phenomenon. Thanks for your contributions, jolly old England. Now go back to your tea and crumpets, lads - the Big Boys have markets to dominate.

PS there's no such things as "maths".

Have these theories been conclusively disproven now,

No. Theories need to be backed by evidence to be accepted. Checking the evidence is hardly rocket science. You go online, you get a global bathymetry set, you learn how to plot it up, you look at the results. And then you get to the question of were there major landslips in the area before historical records? That is actually a fairly important question for the residents - for reasons obvious to anyone who is aware of the Anak Krakatau landslip and tsunami (and associated few dozen deaths) of a few weeks ago. (Or the Storegga Slide of about 8500 years ago which devastated the North Sea coastal populations, including the current Netherlands with a hard-to-estimate body count. Or the non-trivial hazard posed by sector collapse of some of the Canary Islands (tens of millions of people at risk) or parts of the Hawaii archipelago (similar tens of millions at risk). Unfortunately, that is the sort of question that is really hard to answer if the relevant data is buried under hundreds of metres of mud and sea. Welcome to geology - you don't get easy answers to hard questions.

I've posted my bathymetry plots at https://wellsite-geologist.blo... . Have fun with them. If you want different answers, do your own study.

or is the article trying too hard to be sensational by implying that our pre-historic relatives were capable of navigating the oceans,

What is sensational about a claim like that? We (geologists, archaeologists) have been functionally certain for decades that early hominins, including hominins assigned to species other than Homo sapiens, could cross significant water bodies. The "out of sight of land" criterion has been a dead concern (#Insert Monty-Python-parrot-sketch.h) since the 1970s. We don't know precisely how they did it, but we've known that they did do it.

while the homo sapiens who surplanted them only gained that skill much later in their history?

I'm struggling to follow you. You have some evidence that at some point in time all hominins alive on the planet, both those who lived alongside coasts and those living far inland, forgot how to work wood well enough to construct sea-going craft. That is some damned big claim - are you really sure that you want to make it?

Or ... is it more parsimonious to accept that at some point in the family tree of the several species of humans, the skills of working wood, cooperating, planning and navigation were learned, remained in use, and repeatedly our highly intelligent ancestors would meet bodies of water, learn (or remember) how to build watercraft to exploit the resources of those bodies, and then they cross. The crossing might be deliberate. Or it might be a storm event putting a boat load of "fishermen" onto the other side of a strait, at which point they re-stock and use whatever navigation techniques they have been using since their grandparents taught them ... and navigate home to say "There's land that way."

You will note that most of the equipment I postulate is wooden. Wood's survival rate near sea level in the tropics isn't good. And the intensity of search for stone artefacts is not high. Don't forget the leather and sinew which were also available for binding two things together. That doesn't survive well either. During the stone age, far more wood was used than stone - a spear point for example might have been dug out of a dozen aurochs, but needed a new (wooden) shaft every time. And sinews and/ or resin glue to mount it to the haft.

One thing is lost in this latter model. You (and I) can't point at the non-humans who did this and say "Ha ha, stupid ape men!" Because they weren't.

I propose a study to investigate the correlation between so-called scientists attributing to cats properties they may or may not have, with toxoplasmosis infection. If the parasite can make rats think cat piss smells good, it stands to reason that it might well result in "researchers" conducting "studies" concluding that cats are in various ways smarter or better than previously believed.

How do you explain people going gaga over dogs?

I'm starting to think that nerds love the "mind control parasite" thing just because it sounds like a Star trek plotline.

I'm sure dogs have a spare parasite or two, between heart, lung, and liver worms. All you need to do is ask one. As long as it's not food or a chew-toy you're asking him to share, I'm sure the average dog won't mind. They are our best friends, after all.

While yes, mind control parasites WERE featured in at least one Star Trek (Wrath of Khan, specifically*) but like antimatter and teleportation, science, (as Cosmos' Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed out,) had them first, NOT science fiction. I've heard a podcast, (can't recall whose, might have been RadioLab, ... or WAS this also Cosmos?) talking about something that could get even the most entomophobic person to feel sorry for a cockroach, called the emerald jewel wasp.

(Brace yourself if you're squeamish, and... https://planetearthandhumanity...)

* "Allow me to introduce you to Ceti Alpha Five's only remaining ... indigenous ... life form... "

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And the tubes are full of cats.

Tom Swift did it all around 1912. http://tomswiftaeroship.blogsp...

This silent drone is a dual-use technology. On one hand, it can be used to deliver packages to customers.

On the other hand, the silent drone can be retrofitted with a remotely controlled machine gun. The drone can quietly approach the headquarters of a violent gang, and the police can aim and fire the gun at the gang members.

Such a drone can be used to hunt and kill African, Hispanic, and Middle-Eastern gangs.

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Bloom County Link from when he was a child.

India is a typical failed nation.

New Delhi wastes money on military satellites and nuclear weapons when most Indians live in poverty. By contrast, when Poland was an impoverished nation, Warsaw deliberately refused to spend money on military satellites and nuclear weapons; the Polish government spent most of its resources on economic development.

Today, India remains economically poor, but Poland is relatively wealthy.

Among the Russian elites, supporters of Vladimir Putin use India to justify rejecting democracy. They point to the poverty and poor governance in India. They recommend autocratic China as a model for Russian development.

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Shit.... he is such a fuckign UGLY. but that is his real face? Unbelievable. If you looked to the site, yyou will see his rat niigger face,
Disgusting niiggers head and face of a rat jewish, No wonder hes playing with a game toy,

He look exactly like John Turturros

Exactly as if John Turturros did fuck some ugly niigger head with a jewish.

Uhh, plenty of people fall asleep in MRI machines all the time. It's loud, but you wear headphones (that optionally play music) and the loud noises are periodic. And, because you're laying down and stuck immovable for sometimes over an hour, it's natural to start falling asleep.

I've had at least 5 MRIs and lab techs from two different buildings have told me they have people fall asleep all the time.

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According to a report by NPR, the U.S. Constitution applies to Hispanic illegal aliens, who are not American citizens.

So, the U.S. Constitution applies to Russian citizens, who also are not American citizens. All interference by Russian citizens in the American election involved written or spoken expression, which is protected by the First Amendment.

Furthermore, Russian disinformation is less severe than disinformation produced by the mainstream media (MSM) to support Hispanic illegal aliens. Consider the deceptive claim (by the MSM) that they commit crimes at lower rates than American natives. Get more info about this issue.

According to a report by NPR, the U.S. Constitution applies to Hispanic illegal aliens, who are not American citizens.

So, the U.S. Constitution applies to Russian citizens, who also are not American citizens. All interference by Russian citizens in the American election involved written or spoken expression, which is protected by the First Amendment.

Furthermore, Russian disinformation is less severe than disinformation used by the mainstream media to support Hispanic illegal aliens. Get more info about this issue.

out of their profession

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if people knew how insensitive imaging technologies are and how it's mostly just an opinion of an interpretation of noise on a screen they would be terrified of doctors

they can't even get their shit together with the appendix

so hell yeah automate these fuckers into the 21st century and put healthcare into the hands of the patient not the quacks behind the curtain

Precisely. The profession that can't even figure out what we're supposed to eat three times a day also can't even agree on what to do with the appendix...
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It looks more and more that getting medical advice is a gamble.

This is another example of how zoning and business regulations in the US have run amok where the default is that something can't happen. This is the same sort of trend that is making it so difficult to build even residential homes in the Bay Area and elsewhere. And this isn't a problem in many other parts of the world; look for example at how zoning in Japan functions based on nuisance level http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html. Not only does this sort of thing cause economic harm, not only does it unnecessarily restrict basic liberties, but it causes environmental damage by encouraging urban sprawl and interfering with businesses and ideas that are even slightly outside the ordinary in how they are trying to be helpful or reduce waste.

Most Africans and Hispanics claim that luck, not merit achieved by hard work, determines success.

That claim is a lie. Millions of impoverished immigrants from Asia arrived in the United States before 1970. They told their children that if they work hard in school, then they will attain a middle-class life that is far better than the lives of their parents

Heeding this parental advice, millions of Asian-American children did succeed.

Heeding the same advice, millions of European-American children whose parents immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s also succeeded.

What is the problem with Africans and Hispanics? Due to culture and genetics, they perform poorly in school — and in life. Africans and Hispanics are solely responsible for their failure, and they do not deserve preferential treatment from affirmative action.

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Most Africans and Hispanics claim that luck, not merit achieved by hard work, determines success.

That claim is a lie. Millions of impoverished immigrants from Asia arrived in the United States before 1970. They told their children that if they work hard in school, then they will attain a middle-class life that is far better than the lives of their parents

Heeding this parental advice, millions of Asian-American children did succeed.

Heeding the same advice, millions of European-American children whose parents immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s also succeeded.

What is the problem with Africans and Hispanics? Due to culture and genetics, they perform poorly in school — and in life. Africans and Hispanics are solely responsible for their failure, and they do not deserve preferential treatment from affirmative action.

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out of their profession.

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If people knew just what a gamble modern medicine is they'd be terrified of hospitals and doctors.

Yet we accept fully automated aircraft.

still confuses modern medicine

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maybe you medical quacks can take a break from dreaming your sci-fi garbage about gene-editing the human race

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You're right about the US laws, however if this transmission was made from Canada to the US that might avoid the legal issue in the US if the US station never transmitted any encrypted signal or any signal with a pecuniary interest -- receiving is not really limited under part 97, only transmitting.

That said, I have no idea what the laws look like in Canada.

This suggests that Canada's laws are a little more lax, but not too much so, so ... maybe?

(Trivia: I'm amused (and not surprised) to see Bruce popping up in there -- he's posting in this thread on /. as well.)

The Japanese police exhibit some resemblance to the Chinese police.

Chinese morality rapes Western notions of human decency.

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The reporter at 60 Minutes deliberately aggregates the statistics for all ethnic and racial groups and then alleges that cultural or other barriers prevent women from becoming computer scientists or software engineers.

Such abuse of statistics hides an important fact: the percentage of East-Asian women in the computing fields exceeds these women's percentage in the overall population of the United States. This phenomenon is due to the culture and genetics of East Asians.

The success of East-Asian women in computer science and software engineering proves that gender barriers do not exist.

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The reporter at 60 Minutes deliberately aggregates the statistics for all ethnic and racial groups and then alleges that cultural or other barriers prevent women from becoming computer scientists or software engineers.

Such abuse of statistics hides an important fact: the percentage of East-Asian women in the computing fields exceeds these women's percentage in the overall population of the United States. This phenomenon is due to the culture and genetics of East Asians.

The success of East-Asian women in computer science and software engineering proves that gender barriers do not exist.

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Trying to get away with calling women "cunts" by calling men "cunts" too. I'm reminded of the phrase "Anyone can be a n***ger". Not saying your racists or sexist, just that your choice of rhetorical devices is questionable and you might not be aware just how questionable.

Anyway, here's an intelligent rebuttal to Alessandro Strumia's presentation. It's way better than anything I can come up with here, and it's worth a read for anyone who wants to have an honest discussion about gender in science.

And there I go using a questionable rhetorical device (implying you're not wholly honest). It's surprisingly tough not to do that. Almost like words have unintended consequences in nuanced discussions...

The answer is ablation.. You're going to flash-boil some rock, which is going to expand against the main body, and create thrust as it leaves in the other direction at a very good clip.

As for wasting energy from the blast into space, there are approaches to mitigating that, which go all the way back to Project Orion.

The CRPG Addict addressed this recently:

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I see no one is taking global warming seriously... Yet.

I will believe that global warming is a serious problem when people start talking about building nuclear power plants again.

I hear them scream from rooftops on how we must have an "all the above" energy policy. Then when nuclear power comes up then it's everything except that. Okay then. If nuclear power is somehow a greater hazard to the world than nuclear power then I'll just wait until someone takes this problem seriously. Either global warming is in fact a real threat and we get nuclear power later, potentially after it's too late to stop it's worst effects, or global warming turns out to be a nothingburger and we all go on happily burning oil and coal.

I can wait. Until then I'll leave some reading material.
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This spraying water in the air is a nice plan but the guy proposing it even explains that we will still need a plan to stop burning coal. I've not seen any working plans yet that do not include nuclear power. Some people claim future technology will save us but that's not a plan, that's wishful thinking. That's waiting at the port for a ship that might never come.

Georgetown, Texas tried to go the renewables route. They ended up paying more and getting less.

Thanks to renewables, Australia ended up paying $500 a day per family for electricity.

America, the country that didn't sign the Paris accord, dropped CO2 emissions more than anyone else.

It's currently technologically impossible for renewables to provide baseload power at a competitive, or even reasonable, price, and will not do so anytime in the near future no matter how much religious environmentalists claim otherwise.

Firstly, here is some background on your source:

The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) is a conservative think tank based in Austin, Texas. ... In 2015, TPPF had total revenue of $10.8 million. Donors to the organisation include energy companies Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other fossil fuel interests.

That place is as likely to deliver an unbiased assessment of whatever went on in Georgetown Texas as mice re likely to give an unbiased assessment of cats. From what I can gather about Georgetown Texas from other sources, their problem seems to have been that they made some really badly advised long term fixed price contracts for renewable energy. That is too bad for Georgetown Texas but hardly a reason for the rest of us to write off wind and solar power and grid storage because a bunch of useful idiots at a conservative think tank funded by oil companies says so.

Georgetown, Texas tried to go the renewables route. They ended up paying more and getting less.

Thanks to renewables, Australia ended up paying $500 a day per family for electricity.

America, the country that didn't sign the Paris accord, dropped CO2 emissions more than anyone else.

It's currently technologically impossible for renewables to provide baseload power at a competitive, or even reasonable, price, and will not do so anytime in the near future no matter how much religious environmentalists claim otherwise.

This web page shows some numbers to back that up: http://cmo-ripu.blogspot.com/2... [blogspot.com],

Please note that the material equivalents are provable bullshit. For example, in the solar case, the cement requirements are ridiculous (there's virtually none necessary in almost all cases, what with roof installations always using metallic structures and ground installations *allowing* for concrete foundations but really using mostly screw installations these days, being much faster and cheaper to install, and especially to clean up afterwards) and the steel requirements are overblown by a factor of five at least.

You quickly run out of the entire world's supply of various types of raw materials (including land) for any scheme you ramp up. This is why nuclear is really the only good option we have or likely will have in our lifetimes.

Yep. Nuclear power will be a major source of energy in our lifetimes. This is precisely because of the material requirements for anything else.

This web page shows some numbers to back that up: http://cmo-ripu.blogspot.com/2...

Nuclear power is required not only because of it's low material requirements but also because of it's safety and low CO2 emissions. Personally I believe the CO2 global warming scare is being blown well out of proportion. I will buy into it so long as people look at real facts and figures and conclude as many people in the know have done, we will not achieve a "zero carbon" world without nuclear power.

I put "zero carbon" in quotes because I know some pedantic asshole will point out that large carbon footprint of building a nuclear power plant. It's true, there is a large carbon footprint. But what happens with something as energy dense as uranium there is far more energy output per carbon released than any other "zero carbon" energy source, like wind, solar, or hydro. If wind and solar can be defined as "zero carbon" then so can nuclear fission.

We will run out of wind and sunlight before we run out of uranium and thorium.

The technology isn't remotely close to being street-ready, and it will be a while before it is.

Right now it's less a technology than a nice, juicy, billion dollar class action suit waiting to happen...

"The cost of electricity on Thursday in two states of Australia reached a tally of $932 million dollars for a single day of electricity."

No foreign power imposed the authoritarian system (in China) on the Chinese. The Chinese themselves created it.

We should condemn the Chinese people.

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No foreign power imposed the authoritarian system (in China) on the Chinese. The Chinese themselves created it.

We should condemn the Chinese people.

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In 52% White/41% Black Opelika, Alabama, 29 of the past 30 Homicides have been Black on Black

Opelika is a charming city in Alabama, right off of Interstate 85. Out of a population of just over 30,000 people, 52 percent of the city is white and 41 percent is black.

As it turns out, 29 of the past 30 homicides in the city have been black on black.

Low Impulse Control?

Poor Future Time-Orientation?
Low IQ?

Perhaps the 'warrior gene' is prominent within the black population of Opelika (as they carry the 2R version of MAO-A)?

Whatever the case, Opelika, Alabama's violent crime problem exists courtesy of the black population. [Mayor Fuller announces Opelika Commission on Crime and Violence, OaNow.com, 10-2-18]:

With homicide rates recently on the rise in Opelika, city officials have worked together to form a commission to address crime within the city.

Mayor Gary Fuller spoke about the commission during the Lee County Voters’ October meeting Monday evening at Bethesda Baptist Church in Opelika.

Fuller said the commission is made of up 32 Opelika residents that include citizens involved in churches, schools and business. The list of members includes Opelika City Council member Tiffany Gibson-Pitts, Opelika City Schools Superintendent Mark Neighbors, Opelika Police Chief John McEachern, Wright's Market owner Jimmy Wright and more.

The members will be divided into four sub-committees: Families, Youth, Education and Resources.

“What we want to do is determine where we are and look at what we can do,” Fuller said. “I’m not willing to give up on anybody.”

Fuller referred to the month of July in which three homicides were committed in Opelika within a period of two weeks. He commented that 29 of the last 30 homicides committed in Opelika have been “black on black” crimes.

“All of this violence is being done by a small percentage of our population,” Fuller said.

Fuller commented that the youth of today doesn’t always solve their disputes with a fist fight in the school yard as they did when he was growing up.

“I hear people talking about black lives matter all lives matter,” Fuller said. “It doesn’t matter what color you are, pink, purple, black, Hispanic, white all lives matter and all lives matter here in Opelika. We have a problem, and we’re doing our best to address it, but we’re not going to fix it overnight.”

McEachern spoke on the importance of the commission and other ways the Opelika Police Department is working to stop crime, such as its Proactive Patrol, which offers extra police presence in Opelika.

“We’re putting more officers on the street each and every day,” McEachern said.McEachern also spoke about how he works to get officers to get to know the public better.

“Every officer is given business cards and they are encouraged to introduce themselves,” he said. “I encourage them to stop at businesses, schools, and other places and get to know the people.”

McEachern also poke about the recent homicide cases and added that the police department has been lucky to solve the crimes.

“But one murder is too many,” he said. “We’re doing everything we can possib

We need a border wall to protect us from violent Hispanic aliens.

At 17% of the overall population, Hispanics (including immigrants from El Salvador) commit 22% of all murders in the United States.

Suppose that we calculate the percentages after omitting non-Hispanic Africans from the overall population. Then, Hispanics constitute 20% of the overall population but commit 37% of all murders. Hispanics commit murder at 3 times and 6 times the rate at which European-Americans and Asian-Americans, respectively, commit murder.

The countries in Latin America have high rates of violent crime and are the source of Hispanic emigration to the United States.

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We need a border wall to protect us from violent Hispanic aliens.

At 17% of the overall population, Hispanics (including immigrants from El Salvador) commit 22% of all murders in the United States.

Suppose that we calculate the percentages after omitting non-Hispanic Africans from the overall population. Then, Hispanics constitute 20% of the overall population but commit 37% of all murders. Hispanics commit murder at 3 times and 6 times the rate at which European-Americans and Asian-Americans, respectively, commit murder.

The countries in Latin America have high rates of violent crime and are the source of Hispanic emigration to the United States.

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I believe (as I said back in 2014) that Tesla's plan was to modulate the conductivity of the ionosphere, effectively turning it into a MASER, and thus capturing a great deal of the energy imparted by the solar wind and making it available for use.

At the time, it would have seemed unlimited, but long ago I did the math, and if I recall correctly, it would be about 1 Terawatt of power, which is about 8% of our current worldwide power demand.

So, yes... I think it would have worked, but we would have outgrown it quickly enough.

If the goal is to reduce CO2 then we need nuclear power, as it has a lower carbon footprint than wind, solar, or geothermal.

Cite: http://cmo-ripu.blogspot.com/2...

You've rolled this out again. First the "blog" misrepresents the paper it is based on which is originally about human health and not a comparison of carbon sources from energy systems.

Also the paper *itself* neglects to take into account the human health implications from mine tailings and radon released from mining that finds its way into the water table.

The only way the carbon claim for nuclear can be made is when uranium mining is done with in-situ acid leach mining, which happens to be illegal in teh US and Russia.

If the goal is to reduce CO2 then we need nuclear power, as it has a lower carbon footprint than wind, solar, or geothermal.

Cite: http://cmo-ripu.blogspot.com/2...

What you will also find there is that nuclear costs less in materials consumed, and lives lost, than anything else available to us.

Nuclear is the best choice we have for the future. Maybe some new technology will come along to change that but until then this "green new deal" is a bunch of nonsense from an ignorant bartender that happened to get elected to office. People tell me that "the science is settled". I agree, science tells us that without nuclear power we can look forward to poverty.