I'm pretty sure that the poster you're responding to is an Electric Universe proponent. Don't bother. They firmly understand Maxwell's equations and that Maxwell's equations are the only important equations in physics.
The boom in the Tsar Bomba was 99% from fusion. In the standard nuke employed by the US, a large portion of the boom is from fission, as you say. Most of that is from secondary fission from parts of the casing after the fusion stage blows. The Tsar bomba was so clean because it was intentionally designed with non-fissionable materials in the casing to avoid secondary fission so that fallout from it wouldn't rain down all over the Soviet Union. Even if it hadn't, the boom still would have been almost entirely from fusion. The fact that a typical US warhead has such a significant portion from fission is due to design compromises.
Sure, but there are plenty of other types of surgical implants that either require even more extensive surgery to allow for an MRI or that preclude an MRI altogether.
Same for any person with many types of surgical implant. This is one of the reasons that they generally check for that sort of thing before letting someone in to an MRI chamber.
Only for infractions where the maximum penalty is a small fine. In every other matter, a police officer's testimony carries the same legal weight as anybody else's.
Maybe I could be modded down for bad editing. I understand about a rotating frame of reference, it's just not useful to the debate on geocentrism. Centering such a frame of reference on Earth is no more or less valid than centering it on the Sun, or Proxima Centauri, or on a teapot orbiting the Sun between Earth and Mars. It's absolutely meaningless to the idea of assigning a center to the universe because it allows for the "center" to be arbitrary (although what you choose for the center can make the laws of motion for everything else in the universe crazy weird.
The grandparent was making a sarcastic joke and I was replying about the general problems of a universe that actually rotates around the Earth. I just wasn't very clear and meandered from one thought to another.
It may be a valid frame of reference. But we'll have to throw out relativity just to get the nearest star orbiting the earth. Also, when I say "nearest star", I do mean the Sun. We would be talking about something like.04C. Enough to observe relatavistic effects that just aren't there. Proxima Centauri would be going at something close to 10,000C. The sun would need to have 1.5 * 10^33 Newtons of outward force counteracted to stay in orbit. You're not joking about "Large gravitional fields". It would take something like 134 solar masses.
Ethanol has a hydroxide, which makes it not a hydrocarbon. If you replace that with a carbon, you get Ethane, which is a hydrocarbon, but which you probably don't want to ingest. Ethene (or ethylene) you might want to ingest, if you don't care too much about long term consequences (it was most likely the substance used to produce the oracular trance at Delphi, for example).
Most of these processes will be using heat from steam rather than electricity. Even electrolysis is more efficient and requires less electricity when done at high temperatures. So, the thermal output of the reactor is probably more the number to pay attention to than the electrical output.
Actually, they couldn't tell which was a modern violin or a Stradivarius to any degree better than random chance. In other words, they not only preferred the modern violins, they also couldn't tell which was which (which implies, interestingly, that some of the artists must have chosen, as their preferred violin, a violin that they believed to _not_ be a Stradavarius).
The same basic principles involved in the phases of the moon are important in figuring out the albedo of other objects in the solar system. Or in other solar systems. Same with the seasons. These are basic concepts that apply throughout astronomy. I mean seriously, you do realize that, space telescopes aside, astronomy is done from Earth, looking out at the rest of the universe. Some basic understanding of how Earth moves is pretty critical to making any observations from the surface of our planet.
Ideally, this should involve giant robots, although having them piloted by angsty teenagers is optional
And, weirdly, you're back around to christian mythology again by referencing Evangelion. I don't think it will be a spoiler to anyone by now that the angsty teenagers from that series weren't actually piloting giant robots.
A parent might have the means to help their grown child out of debt, but might refuse to assist in any financial capacity in order that their child might develop a firmer sense of fiscal responsibility. themselves.
Most parents aren't also resonsible for causing the tumour that drained the bank account of the child, then forced them into debt.
Also, if a mugger is threatening you outside an ATM, what is to be gained by following their command? They could just as easily hurt you even if you did everything that they asked....
Job could have wondered the same thing. Of course, if he had, God would have made him suffer for all eternity.
The thing about fire is that I don't see how a fire that incapacitated the crew could put itself out that it doesn't cause structural damage to the plane . . . within minutes
Oxygen depletion actually seems like a perfect explanation for that.
last thing we need is someone to void their warranty and have the thing crash and burn because someone thought it would be fun to overclock the engine timing.
What would constitute the "engine timing" on an all electric car?
By the time we have the tech to build a starship we can just ship out as many embryos as we can fit in a freezer. Job done.
Or, using the technology we have now, we could ship frozen sperm. Or even just preserved DNA along with heavily error-corrected sequenced files to compare it against. Heck, with current technology it's pretty much possible to recreate it from the data files. That's the problem with this whole article, the basic premise - that you need a certain population of living people to ensure genetic diversity - isn't valid any more and hasn't been valid for a long time now.
Greenhouse gas theory is completely different, having to do with trapping of radiation. Which has been thoroughly discredited. [principia-scientific.org] (Just one example of said discrediting.)
I think you're going to have to do a lot better than a paper about actual greenhouses that doesn't address the atmospheric greenhouse effect at all. Not to mention that cardboard box experiments, while great when you don't have anything else, don't really hold up against satellites with sensitive instruments that measure the radiation leaving and entering the atmosphere and similarly sensitive ground stations. Here is a much better experiment for the atmospheric greenhouse effect.
I've never understood why people seem to accept the premise that slavery actually ended in the US. Full on hereditary chattel slavery ended, but has anyone every actually read the amendment?
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.[1]
In other words people can still be enslaved for life as punishment for a crime. There's nothing in the text that seems to prevent old style slavery of anyone you can convict of something, although their offspring are safe (until their first conviction, which is pretty likely since they would probably become wards of the state) The only real additional constitutional protection is in the 8th amendment in the bit about "cruel and unusual punishment". Given that "compliance blows" in prisons don't seem to run afoul of the 8th, the circle seems to be pretty much complete. There's nothing in the constitution preventing the sale of human beings as defacto property, to be forced to work and beaten if they don't. The health and safety standards would just be a bit higher. This, after all, does actually pretty much go on in some US prisons.
While I agree with your point, it's worth mentioning that the volcanos that Auckland is built around are all extinct.
Dormant. The word is dormant. There are many, many volcanic cones in Auckland and it's extremely unlikely that there won't be more. Rangitoto last erupted only 550 years ago.
Not any better than a bomb simply driven to the destination. If you could somehow magically get a projectile from LEO to the ground (and in remotely the right place) with all of its velocity intact, it would have more energy per unit mass than TNT, but less than gasoline. It would probably also direct nearly all of its energy into the ground directly under it.
Project Thor was a bust. It really only takes about half an hour, a pen, and the back of a napkin to see that kinetic bombardment from space is pretty much only useful in some narrow military applications.
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I'm pretty sure that the poster you're responding to is an Electric Universe proponent. Don't bother. They firmly understand Maxwell's equations and that Maxwell's equations are the only important equations in physics.
The boom in the Tsar Bomba was 99% from fusion. In the standard nuke employed by the US, a large portion of the boom is from fission, as you say. Most of that is from secondary fission from parts of the casing after the fusion stage blows. The Tsar bomba was so clean because it was intentionally designed with non-fissionable materials in the casing to avoid secondary fission so that fallout from it wouldn't rain down all over the Soviet Union. Even if it hadn't, the boom still would have been almost entirely from fusion. The fact that a typical US warhead has such a significant portion from fission is due to design compromises.
Sure, but there are plenty of other types of surgical implants that either require even more extensive surgery to allow for an MRI or that preclude an MRI altogether.
Same for any person with many types of surgical implant. This is one of the reasons that they generally check for that sort of thing before letting someone in to an MRI chamber.
Only for infractions where the maximum penalty is a small fine. In every other matter, a police officer's testimony carries the same legal weight as anybody else's.
Hearsay exemption.
Maybe I could be modded down for bad editing. I understand about a rotating frame of reference, it's just not useful to the debate on geocentrism. Centering such a frame of reference on Earth is no more or less valid than centering it on the Sun, or Proxima Centauri, or on a teapot orbiting the Sun between Earth and Mars. It's absolutely meaningless to the idea of assigning a center to the universe because it allows for the "center" to be arbitrary (although what you choose for the center can make the laws of motion for everything else in the universe crazy weird.
The grandparent was making a sarcastic joke and I was replying about the general problems of a universe that actually rotates around the Earth. I just wasn't very clear and meandered from one thought to another.
It may be a valid frame of reference. But we'll have to throw out relativity just to get the nearest star orbiting the earth. Also, when I say "nearest star", I do mean the Sun. We would be talking about something like .04C. Enough to observe relatavistic effects that just aren't there. Proxima Centauri would be going at something close to 10,000C. The sun would need to have 1.5 * 10^33 Newtons of outward force counteracted to stay in orbit. You're not joking about "Large gravitional fields". It would take something like 134 solar masses.
Hydrogen?
Ethanol has a hydroxide, which makes it not a hydrocarbon. If you replace that with a carbon, you get Ethane, which is a hydrocarbon, but which you probably don't want to ingest. Ethene (or ethylene) you might want to ingest, if you don't care too much about long term consequences (it was most likely the substance used to produce the oracular trance at Delphi, for example).
Most of these processes will be using heat from steam rather than electricity. Even electrolysis is more efficient and requires less electricity when done at high temperatures. So, the thermal output of the reactor is probably more the number to pay attention to than the electrical output.
Actually, they couldn't tell which was a modern violin or a Stradivarius to any degree better than random chance. In other words, they not only preferred the modern violins, they also couldn't tell which was which (which implies, interestingly, that some of the artists must have chosen, as their preferred violin, a violin that they believed to _not_ be a Stradavarius).
That sounds about right. It's criminal fraud when an individual does it. It's common practice and perfectly all right when a telecom does it.
The same basic principles involved in the phases of the moon are important in figuring out the albedo of other objects in the solar system. Or in other solar systems. Same with the seasons. These are basic concepts that apply throughout astronomy. I mean seriously, you do realize that, space telescopes aside, astronomy is done from Earth, looking out at the rest of the universe. Some basic understanding of how Earth moves is pretty critical to making any observations from the surface of our planet.
Ideally, this should involve giant robots, although having them piloted by angsty teenagers is optional
And, weirdly, you're back around to christian mythology again by referencing Evangelion. I don't think it will be a spoiler to anyone by now that the angsty teenagers from that series weren't actually piloting giant robots.
A parent might have the means to help their grown child out of debt, but might refuse to assist in any financial capacity in order that their child might develop a firmer sense of fiscal responsibility. themselves.
Most parents aren't also resonsible for causing the tumour that drained the bank account of the child, then forced them into debt.
Also, if a mugger is threatening you outside an ATM, what is to be gained by following their command? They could just as easily hurt you even if you did everything that they asked....
Job could have wondered the same thing. Of course, if he had, God would have made him suffer for all eternity.
Those weren't physics questions. Those were astronomy questions.
The thing about fire is that I don't see how a fire that incapacitated the crew could put itself out that it doesn't cause structural damage to the plane . . . within minutes
Oxygen depletion actually seems like a perfect explanation for that.
last thing we need is someone to void their warranty and have the thing crash and burn because someone thought it would be fun to overclock the engine timing.
What would constitute the "engine timing" on an all electric car?
By the time we have the tech to build a starship we can just ship out as many embryos as we can fit in a freezer. Job done.
Or, using the technology we have now, we could ship frozen sperm. Or even just preserved DNA along with heavily error-corrected sequenced files to compare it against. Heck, with current technology it's pretty much possible to recreate it from the data files. That's the problem with this whole article, the basic premise - that you need a certain population of living people to ensure genetic diversity - isn't valid any more and hasn't been valid for a long time now.
Greenhouse gas theory is completely different, having to do with trapping of radiation. Which has been thoroughly discredited. [principia-scientific.org] (Just one example of said discrediting.)
I think you're going to have to do a lot better than a paper about actual greenhouses that doesn't address the atmospheric greenhouse effect at all. Not to mention that cardboard box experiments, while great when you don't have anything else, don't really hold up against satellites with sensitive instruments that measure the radiation leaving and entering the atmosphere and similarly sensitive ground stations. Here is a much better experiment for the atmospheric greenhouse effect.
supported the end of slavery.
Bullshit. They are calling for its return.
I've never understood why people seem to accept the premise that slavery actually ended in the US. Full on hereditary chattel slavery ended, but has anyone every actually read the amendment?
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.[1]
In other words people can still be enslaved for life as punishment for a crime. There's nothing in the text that seems to prevent old style slavery of anyone you can convict of something, although their offspring are safe (until their first conviction, which is pretty likely since they would probably become wards of the state) The only real additional constitutional protection is in the 8th amendment in the bit about "cruel and unusual punishment". Given that "compliance blows" in prisons don't seem to run afoul of the 8th, the circle seems to be pretty much complete. There's nothing in the constitution preventing the sale of human beings as defacto property, to be forced to work and beaten if they don't. The health and safety standards would just be a bit higher. This, after all, does actually pretty much go on in some US prisons.
Ah, time for an _Independance Day_ quote.
Why the hell wasn't I told about this place?
Two words Mister President: Plausible deniability.
While I agree with your point, it's worth mentioning that the volcanos that Auckland is built around are all extinct.
Dormant. The word is dormant. There are many, many volcanic cones in Auckland and it's extremely unlikely that there won't be more. Rangitoto last erupted only 550 years ago.
Even a crude space weapon can ravage a downtown.
Not any better than a bomb simply driven to the destination. If you could somehow magically get a projectile from LEO to the ground (and in remotely the right place) with all of its velocity intact, it would have more energy per unit mass than TNT, but less than gasoline. It would probably also direct nearly all of its energy into the ground directly under it.
Project Thor was a bust. It really only takes about half an hour, a pen, and the back of a napkin to see that kinetic bombardment from space is pretty much only useful in some narrow military applications.