it would be akin to finding a written account of Jesus' life that carbon-dates to 30-40 BCE... now *that* would be faith-shaking.
Even an account from 30-40 *AD* would likely be faith-shaking. Everything we have was written by people who never met Jesus, most of it long after his death by anonymous authors. (No, the gospels were not written by the disciples with whose names they are traditionally associated.)
Is the phrase "World's Most Powerful Digital Camera" carefully chosen to exclude the much larger cameras just above this world? (All, except one, looking down at us)
We already have vitamin D which is very effective against seasonal viruses like the flu.
It is a hypothesis. Some studies have found that it helps, others have not. Last I heard there was insufficient evidence to recommend supplements. Any new evidence? Vaccines OTOH, have been proven to be effective. Maybe one day we will take both. Maybe.
Score:5 shows the mods don't bother to even skim TFA either. (There is a friggin' big PHOTO of the couple holding their schilling.) Maybe we need a captcha-style question on TFA before anyone can post or moderate.
And BTW, the bottle was smashed, so no longer a great museum exhibit.
I really don't get the lack of interest in Venus, almost as much as I don't get the obsession with Mars.
It is simple - the same thing that determines whether an item makes the evening news: pictures. Long ago, we could look at mars through a telescope, while Venus was just a dull blob of cloud. Now we have many amazing images of Mars form orbiters and rovers, while for Venus there are a few foggy lander photos and computer-generated landscapes.
BMR is not the key. Most people can raise their BMR by exercising to build muscle. But that also increases appetite, so does not solve the problem. I know several obese people who are strong and very fit, but still fail to lose fat.
I'm asserting copyright on my car's image (due to my tasteful decoration with bumper stickers and "My Family" stick-figures). Next time I pass a speed camera, the police department will be counter-sued.
I've never been to London but I hear it does rain a lot there,
Not really, only about 50mm/month . Much less than where I am in Australia in Winter. A bit of drizzle never stopped me riding, you just need to dress for it.
London winters are not that cold, snow is rare. And summers are mild. Its better for riding than, say, Germany, or most of the US. You keep warm enough riding. Better cold than too hot. Hopefully the paths are gritted if there is any chance of ice. London is mostly flat and not too windy, so its a good place to ride, aside from the drizzle.
If there was a bicycle highway that was uninterrupted for this distance, I could save stress by riding a bike rather than a car, with little cost in time.
Looking at google maps, I see there is a rail line running the length of the valley. That would be a the obvious place to build a cycleway - would that help? There are already decent bike lines alongside sections of the line. Could the rail reserve be used?
Or could you combine bike & train, either folding bike on train, or keep a bike locked up at each end of your commute (unless you can park a car at your local station). Is that a good option in California?
The nuclear bomb cost about $25billion (inflation adjusted) dollars.
You can treble that as a percentage of GDP. And it was a big risk at a time of war, which did not pay off. In hindsight, most of the money could have better been spent on conventional armaments. By the time it was ready, Germany had surrendered and Japan was defeated. Hiroshima could have been levelled by conventional weapons, like most other Japanese cities were. But by that time, Manhattan was a sunk cost. Even if it only shortened the war by a few weeks, that means many thousands of POW and civilian lives saved. How could they not use it?
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LMGTFY. (Why do all the mouth-breathing morons post as AC? I'm not complaining - it makes them easier to avoid.)
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( was responding to "A fourteen year old is a child by every definition of the word.")
A fourteen year old is a child by every definition of the word.
No, you are thinking of "minor", and confusing legal technicality with reality, or euphamisitic uses of the word "adult".
child
noun a young human being below the age of puberty
Most 14 year old boys are past puberty, and so biological adults. Mental maturity takes another 20 years or so.
it would be akin to finding a written account of Jesus' life that carbon-dates to 30-40 BCE... now *that* would be faith-shaking.
Even an account from 30-40 *AD* would likely be faith-shaking. Everything we have was written by people who never met Jesus, most of it long after his death by anonymous authors. (No, the gospels were not written by the disciples with whose names they are traditionally associated.)
Is the phrase "World's Most Powerful Digital Camera" carefully chosen to exclude the much larger cameras just above this world?
(All, except one, looking down at us)
Don't be silly. The UK always spends millions of pounds on round-the-clock surveillance of suspected non-violent offenders.
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind in case I ever get a brain tumour that makes me politically correct.
when they have made Nip Alert a reality.
Here are some people who lived on a hill near the ocean. Hope you do better than they did.
Thats not a hill, it's a coastal sand dune. Building your home on a beach dune is idiotic at the best of times.
Ejaculating more than once per day also increases the risk of Prostrate Cancer .
Does it affect the risk of Standing-Up cancer?
We already have vitamin D which is very effective against seasonal viruses like the flu.
It is a hypothesis. Some studies have found that it helps, others have not. Last I heard there was insufficient evidence to recommend supplements. Any new evidence?
Vaccines OTOH, have been proven to be effective. Maybe one day we will take both. Maybe.
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should buy a 1904 shilling
Score:5 shows the mods don't bother to even skim TFA either. (There is a friggin' big PHOTO of the couple holding their schilling.)
Maybe we need a captcha-style question on TFA before anyone can post or moderate.
And BTW, the bottle was smashed, so no longer a great museum exhibit.
It is bigger than some of the laptops.
Some? All! Even a 15" is a table-top, rarely used on a lap.
This one should be called a slab.
I really don't get the lack of interest in Venus, almost as much as I don't get the obsession with Mars.
It is simple - the same thing that determines whether an item makes the evening news: pictures.
Long ago, we could look at mars through a telescope, while Venus was just a dull blob of cloud.
Now we have many amazing images of Mars form orbiters and rovers, while for Venus there are a few foggy lander photos and computer-generated landscapes.
BMR is not the key.
Most people can raise their BMR by exercising to build muscle. But that also increases appetite, so does not solve the problem.
I know several obese people who are strong and very fit, but still fail to lose fat.
I'm asserting copyright on my car's image (due to my tasteful decoration with bumper stickers and "My Family" stick-figures).
Next time I pass a speed camera, the police department will be counter-sued.
or Jeb (Daddy, what do I do?).
You make that sound like a bad thing. If GW had followed his father's wisdom, America and Iraq might not be in such a horrible mess now.
I've never been to London but I hear it does rain a lot there,
Not really, only about 50mm/month . Much less than where I am in Australia in Winter.
A bit of drizzle never stopped me riding, you just need to dress for it.
If you don't believe me, wait until next winter.
London winters are not that cold, snow is rare. And summers are mild. Its better for riding than, say, Germany, or most of the US. You keep warm enough riding.
Better cold than too hot. Hopefully the paths are gritted if there is any chance of ice.
London is mostly flat and not too windy, so its a good place to ride, aside from the drizzle.
If there was a bicycle highway that was uninterrupted for this distance, I could save stress by riding a bike rather than a car, with little cost in time.
Looking at google maps, I see there is a rail line running the length of the valley. That would be a the obvious place to build a cycleway - would that help?
There are already decent bike lines alongside sections of the line. Could the rail reserve be used?
Or could you combine bike & train, either folding bike on train, or keep a bike locked up at each end of your commute (unless you can park a car at your local station). Is that a good option in California?
literally ALL of the food we eat has been genetically modified at some point.
Not quite. We still have some wild food - ocean fish, game meat, brazil nuts, ...
... sorry, 18 jiggawatts of hydroelectric output. ( Thats 1.3 × 1010 foot-pounds per second, for our non-metric speaking American friends)
Hydro? Are you insane?
In 1975, an 18GB hydro-electric dam system in China failed, killing at least 170,000 people. And 11 million made homeless.
Far more in one incident than from Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
Do you really want to take that risk?
And don't get me started on coal ...
Yes, according to their lawyer, Gaul Goodman.
How long would it have taken to google the correct way to dissolve a body?
At least they didn't use HFl in a steel bath tub.
The nuclear bomb cost about $25billion (inflation adjusted) dollars.
You can treble that as a percentage of GDP. And it was a big risk at a time of war, which did not pay off.
In hindsight, most of the money could have better been spent on conventional armaments. By the time it was ready, Germany had surrendered and Japan was defeated. Hiroshima could have been levelled by conventional weapons, like most other Japanese cities were. But by that time, Manhattan was a sunk cost.
Even if it only shortened the war by a few weeks, that means many thousands of POW and civilian lives saved. How could they not use it?