I remember the day I realized that carbon fiber automobile hoods, etc. which were not made of prepreg (i.e., which I could afford) were just fiberglass with a layer of carbon fibre on the outside, and were no lighter or stronger than they would be without the carbon fiber.
It's just that our current understanding of time is not that it's an invariant metric, but something that is dependent on local parameters. Something which is measured by some mechanism (not necessarily something purposed like a clock; intervals between successive waves will do). In the absence of anything, clearly nothing which is measured by material objects or wavefronts or such is meaningful.
It all depends on the nature of spatial dimensions. We like to think they are infinite in extent, as with time, but in fact they are just as likely to be phenomena localized to the vicinity of matter/energy. As you may guess, it's been a while since my Introduction to Advanced Physics classes.
Yes, a box in the lab is like the atmosphere in its entirety. This is called generalization, it is a fundamental process of science. When you contest a generalization, you propose a variable that has not been controlled for and launch a new controlled experiment, to establish that factor. You don't go "Ha, you can't know everything"
Or do you think quarks only exist in particle accelerators?
"Might not" is not an acceptable scientific argument. Of you are advancing the hypothesis that CO2 doesn't absorb IR in the atmosphere, you need to postulate a mechanism.The null hypothesis is that CO2 behaves in the atmosphere just as it behaves in the lab, particularly when there is overwhelming evidence of it doing so that cannot be explained another way.
Never been a problem with the Climate "Scientists"
Play the AGW drinking game! Every time somebody posts to a completely unrelated scientific topic about how AGW is bogus, you take a drink. If he says it's a hoax or otherwise asserts evil doing, you chug.
True. I'm more concerned about the content dying forever as the formats change. All the VCRs I had stockpiled are long dead
You can still buy brand new VCR players. Or get a used one on eBay. I have hundreds of VCR tapes, all recorded over twenty years ago, and not a single one of them has failed to play.
I always thought those movies were dumb that punished criminals by freezing them for x years then thawing them out. That's not a punishment. People would pay for that.
Can't remember what comedian suggested it: every driver is equipped with a paintball gun and a dozen yellow paintballs. When somebody does something stupid, you shoot them. When the cops see somebody whose whole car is covered in yellow paint, they take away his license.
Case in point: the hardest part of the driving test for most people is parallel parking, not any part of the actual driving. Ironic twist; plenty of people in suburbia can go through their whole lives driving from driveway to mall and never parallel park.
Like the idea that you can be exempt from the safety and pollution and mileage mandates if you sell big trucky things to the consumer as passenger vehicles. If a vehicle is so truckish that it's exempt from passenger car mandates because it's a work vehicle and you wouldn't want to penalize businesses, then it's presumably so truckish that you should have a truck license to drive it.
When I was back there in college before the computer era, one of the undergrad engineering projects was to develop this kind of thing, and every year some fine solutions were developed, even without the use of digital electronics. Same for interlock systems that would test your reflexes/coordination for a couple of seconds and not allow the car to run if you were drunk, or having a stroke or something. But there was no commercial potential, because secretly, nobody wants to buy a car that will actually prevent him or her from driving when he is drunk or falling asleep or whatever, if he wants to drive.
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I will use my clubs that I BOUGHT on the course that I PAID for membership. Where in the constitutian does it say I can't?
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In the part that says "No jerks allowed in our cool new country!".
The best courses are irrigated with Perrier.Some say Evian, but they're just worried about the CO2.
I remember the day I realized that carbon fiber automobile hoods, etc. which were not made of prepreg (i.e., which I could afford) were just fiberglass with a layer of carbon fibre on the outside, and were no lighter or stronger than they would be without the carbon fiber.
Indeed. The answer to the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is that the two are essentially equivalent.
It's just that our current understanding of time is not that it's an invariant metric, but something that is dependent on local parameters. Something which is measured by some mechanism (not necessarily something purposed like a clock; intervals between successive waves will do). In the absence of anything, clearly nothing which is measured by material objects or wavefronts or such is meaningful.
Indeed. Or, send an expedition to the West Pole.
That's where the spaghetti is extruded.
Fatigue properties have nothing to do with thickness.
Ha! You lie! Everybody knows thin people fatigue less!
You obviously are unfamiliar with the sport of Natural Golf, which uses rocks instead of artificial spheroids. (I can't bring myself to type "balls").
It all depends on the nature of spatial dimensions. We like to think they are infinite in extent, as with time, but in fact they are just as likely to be phenomena localized to the vicinity of matter/energy. As you may guess, it's been a while since my Introduction to Advanced Physics classes.
I think phase changes on a universal scale is an amazing thing to ponder.
I think "phase changes on a universal scale" is the best album title to come out of the sixties, if only it were.
Hmmph. You silly warmist alarmists, you don't even know that it's not "IR", the correct phrase is "I am".
Yes, a box in the lab is like the atmosphere in its entirety. This is called generalization, it is a fundamental process of science. When you contest a generalization, you propose a variable that has not been controlled for and launch a new controlled experiment, to establish that factor. You don't go "Ha, you can't know everything"
Or do you think quarks only exist in particle accelerators?
"Might not" is not an acceptable scientific argument. Of you are advancing the hypothesis that CO2 doesn't absorb IR in the atmosphere, you need to postulate a mechanism.The null hypothesis is that CO2 behaves in the atmosphere just as it behaves in the lab, particularly when there is overwhelming evidence of it doing so that cannot be explained another way.
Never been a problem with the Climate "Scientists"
Play the AGW drinking game! Every time somebody posts to a completely unrelated scientific topic about how AGW is bogus, you take a drink. If he says it's a hoax or otherwise asserts evil doing, you chug.
Will we ever get to see the lost Rebo and Zooty Movie?
So like George Lucas did with Star Wars?
We might be on safer ground, I don't recall that B5 had any Ewoks or Gungans.
Oh sure, deny midgets jobs in show biz. Racist! Or something.
True. I'm more concerned about the content dying forever as the formats change. All the VCRs I had stockpiled are long dead
You can still buy brand new VCR players. Or get a used one on eBay. I have hundreds of VCR tapes, all recorded over twenty years ago, and not a single one of them has failed to play.
I have Beta...
It's an equality thing. For people who can't go to college, prison is like grad school for crime.
I always thought those movies were dumb that punished criminals by freezing them for x years then thawing them out. That's not a punishment. People would pay for that.
In the old days, the cowboy could be out of it and the horse would find its way home.
So, clearly, we need to teach horses to drive cars.
Can't remember what comedian suggested it: every driver is equipped with a paintball gun and a dozen yellow paintballs. When somebody does something stupid, you shoot them. When the cops see somebody whose whole car is covered in yellow paint, they take away his license.
Case in point: the hardest part of the driving test for most people is parallel parking, not any part of the actual driving. Ironic twist; plenty of people in suburbia can go through their whole lives driving from driveway to mall and never parallel park.
Like the idea that you can be exempt from the safety and pollution and mileage mandates if you sell big trucky things to the consumer as passenger vehicles. If a vehicle is so truckish that it's exempt from passenger car mandates because it's a work vehicle and you wouldn't want to penalize businesses, then it's presumably so truckish that you should have a truck license to drive it.
Wait'll the cars with this feature become badly maintained ten year old jalopies and hit the broke high-schooler market.
When I was back there in college before the computer era, one of the undergrad engineering projects was to develop this kind of thing, and every year some fine solutions were developed, even without the use of digital electronics. Same for interlock systems that would test your reflexes/coordination for a couple of seconds and not allow the car to run if you were drunk, or having a stroke or something. But there was no commercial potential, because secretly, nobody wants to buy a car that will actually prevent him or her from driving when he is drunk or falling asleep or whatever, if he wants to drive.