Better yet, piggyback them on the penultimate stage of any orbital rocket so they burn up in the atmosphere as it comes back down. I reckon that pollution would be less harmful than corpses at the bottom of the ocean, plus it will make more work for engineers, thus encouraging more students to study engineering instead of law.
I doubt there'd be much urgency in tapping undersea cables because of 9/11. What you would want is more imagery or more satellites collecting that COMINT from cell phones and radios.
The only undersea cables needing fancy tapping were in the USSR era. All commercial cables are probably already tapped at the shore stations.
We need laws banning meteorites over 10 mm diameter or capable of breaking into more than 10 chunks. Well, 10 chunks is ok if they are only capable of breaking off if tools are used, and another meteorite does count as a tool. Actually, more than 10 chunks is ok if those chunks are capable of breaking off without a tool, as long as those chunks were assembled together into the meteorite before 2000.
No flash hiders either, we want to be able to see them coming so we have some warning.
No collapsible meteors in general, that is bad ju ju.
The front will be hot from cruising into the atmosphere at thousands of miles an hour. Whether or not the interior, which was at the temperature of space until it hit the atmosphere, stayed cool if the transit time was short is immaterial. Further, the energy released from the collision will certainly heat up something.
Would any plutonium induced illness manifest itself as vomiting within hours if radiation burns didn't show up immediately? That I don't know anything about.
But Jack Thompson is already a parody of himself, and a second parody would violate that quantum mechanics law on two bosons in the same place -- or something like that, I am sure I have the name wrong, IANAQMP. His lawsuit will be thrown out for being in the wrong court. It should be in Mother Nature's court, since he is suing for a violation of one of the fundamental laws of nature.
Obviously all they do at the moment is shout "Mine! Mine! Mine!" trying to drown out anything contrary, no intention of listening. If they still have ears and haven't had them surgically removed, their fingers are glued into them pretty deep.
You realize that there's no difference between your reasoning and that of most pseudoscience followers, right?
No, as a matter of fact, there is a difference. I pointed out an internal inconsistency, whereby if homeopathy is correct, then it is wrong. It requires pure water to exist in order to work, yet by definition, pure water is impossible in the homeopathic system.
We need a new word for this, because really it isn't the people controlling government controlling corporations, no, government and corporation are now more or less the same thing.
Homeopathy is the thought that the more diluted a substance is in water, the more effective it is. That's why a homeopathic "doctor" will give you a bottle of pure distilled water. At some point in the past, the water in that bottle was part of a *much* larger batch of distilled water, and a single molecule of medicine was added. (Actually, most homeopathic medicine claims an impossible level of dilution... a level that would take every molecule in the universe and more to dilute a single molecule of medicine).
You're missing the heart of it. The claim is not that a single molecule is left, but that NO molecules are left, only the MEMORY. It is this memory which does the work, and that is precisely why they want the super dilution.
This is also what makes it a fraud by definition, since there can no longer be such a thing as memory-less water, and thus all dilution brings in all the previous memories and confounds things. Homeopathy has no procedure for removing memories, as best as I can remember (!).
Here's VERY simple proof it's a fraud
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The claim is that if you dilute a substance X to the ratio of one part X to 10***120 parts pure water, you will then have no X left in the pure water, only the memory of X, and this will now cure whatever illness X caused in the first place.
Now ask yourself, where did you get the pure water for the dilution, since all water has the memory of all substances that it has ever been in contact with?
How do you remove the memory of X from water so the water can become pure again and suitable for another round of dilution with substance Y?
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Did they invent it by talking into the mouse?
In Soviet Disney, mouse talks into you!
What kind of thimbles will I need for protecting my fingers?
Ablative and replaceable.
1. Pick something to design.
2. Each side chooses an engineer and comes up with a design.
3. Jury of engineers picks the best solution.
4. Profit!
Better yet, piggyback them on the penultimate stage of any orbital rocket so they burn up in the atmosphere as it comes back down. I reckon that pollution would be less harmful than corpses at the bottom of the ocean, plus it will make more work for engineers, thus encouraging more students to study engineering instead of law.
Tow birds with one stone!
Your sig says I have mod points. The reign of terror begins now.
The mod points seem kind of unnecessary:
As a practicing dentist...
Look how far his wisdom has got him.
I would guess that who pays is part of the settlement negotiations.
I wish slashdot would cover it, it is bigger than the equivalent now in the US.
Laugh anyway. It's Monday.
Not in MY universe.
In honour of Jack Thompson, could we please name one of those new elementary particles "morons" ?
There's a new quark color "maroon", is that good enough?
Or maybe the next level of subparticles will be named after foods, and he can have "macaroon".
I doubt there'd be much urgency in tapping undersea cables because of 9/11. What you would want is more imagery or more satellites collecting that COMINT from cell phones and radios.
The only undersea cables needing fancy tapping were in the USSR era. All commercial cables are probably already tapped at the shore stations.
We need laws banning meteorites over 10 mm diameter or capable of breaking into more than 10 chunks. Well, 10 chunks is ok if they are only capable of breaking off if tools are used, and another meteorite does count as a tool. Actually, more than 10 chunks is ok if those chunks are capable of breaking off without a tool, as long as those chunks were assembled together into the meteorite before 2000.
No flash hiders either, we want to be able to see them coming so we have some warning.
No collapsible meteors in general, that is bad ju ju.
No bayonet lugs, that would be truly evil!!!
And not within 1000 feet of a school, K?
The front will be hot from cruising into the atmosphere at thousands of miles an hour. Whether or not the interior, which was at the temperature of space until it hit the atmosphere, stayed cool if the transit time was short is immaterial. Further, the energy released from the collision will certainly heat up something.
Would any plutonium induced illness manifest itself as vomiting within hours if radiation burns didn't show up immediately? That I don't know anything about.
But Jack Thompson is already a parody of himself, and a second parody would violate that quantum mechanics law on two bosons in the same place -- or something like that, I am sure I have the name wrong, IANAQMP. His lawsuit will be thrown out for being in the wrong court. It should be in Mother Nature's court, since he is suing for a violation of one of the fundamental laws of nature.
Obviously all they do at the moment is shout "Mine! Mine! Mine!" trying to drown out anything contrary, no intention of listening. If they still have ears and haven't had them surgically removed, their fingers are glued into them pretty deep.
You realize that there's no difference between your reasoning and that of most pseudoscience followers, right?
No, as a matter of fact, there is a difference. I pointed out an internal inconsistency, whereby if homeopathy is correct, then it is wrong. It requires pure water to exist in order to work, yet by definition, pure water is impossible in the homeopathic system.
We need a new word for this, because really it isn't the people controlling government controlling corporations, no, government and corporation are now more or less the same thing.
Fascism comes to mind.
Yeah, which is a more distasteful way of dying, sword or bullet?
The water has come in contact with the container. Does not that contribute to the water's memory?
You don't need double blind tests to know that 2 + 2 is not 5.
You don't need double blind tests to know that air breathing animals won't survive in a vacuum.
You don't need double blind tests to know that jumping off a tall bridge is going to hurt.
You don't need double blind tests to know that homeopathy has an internal inconsistency: pure water is required but by definition can't exist.
Some things are just provably wrong and don't need experimentation.
It was settled in favor of a round earth. I know that is what you meant, but your answer implied it was still in dispute.
Homeopathy is the thought that the more diluted a substance is in water, the more effective it is. That's why a homeopathic "doctor" will give you a bottle of pure distilled water. At some point in the past, the water in that bottle was part of a *much* larger batch of distilled water, and a single molecule of medicine was added. (Actually, most homeopathic medicine claims an impossible level of dilution... a level that would take every molecule in the universe and more to dilute a single molecule of medicine).
You're missing the heart of it. The claim is not that a single molecule is left, but that NO molecules are left, only the MEMORY. It is this memory which does the work, and that is precisely why they want the super dilution.
This is also what makes it a fraud by definition, since there can no longer be such a thing as memory-less water, and thus all dilution brings in all the previous memories and confounds things. Homeopathy has no procedure for removing memories, as best as I can remember (!).
The claim is that if you dilute a substance X to the ratio of one part X to 10***120 parts pure water, you will then have no X left in the pure water, only the memory of X, and this will now cure whatever illness X caused in the first place.
Now ask yourself, where did you get the pure water for the dilution, since all water has the memory of all substances that it has ever been in contact with?
How do you remove the memory of X from water so the water can become pure again and suitable for another round of dilution with substance Y?
I bow to your superiority, you sensitive lump of dirt!