While I can't say much for the metallurgist (other than maybe he worked only in electrical applications so wouldn't have dealt with steel) or the english teacher, the nurse is not entirely incorrect--there is little to no evidence that vitamins above recommended allowances are beneficial, and there is lots of evidence that several of them can be toxic in large doses (Vitamin A and Iron poisioning being the reason children's vitamins are formulated differently. And for the doctor, it depends on the degree of smoking. Smoking two packs a day causes serious damage. Smoking rarely and occasionally (i.e. not a daily habit) is significantly less likely to overwhelm your body's own repair functions.
Depends on the particular disaster. Actually, I would think that a satellite phone would be a good piece for an emergency kit. No cell tower problems then. Of course, if the person you are calling has no phone it might just be an expensive paper weight, but one can only control so many variables.
Should I have put sarcasm tags on it to make my meaning clearer? I was sarcastically saying they were guilty of what the nazis accused them of. Meaning, I meant they weren't guilty, even thought I was literally saying they were. Clear now?
No because the really problematic stuff shows up in the followers of later additions. What did the Jews every do to anybody besides run Germany into the ground and charge interest?
You have a pretty strange definition of luxury. A tv is not a luxury?
Cell phone is debatable for its utility, coffee pot is god damned life or death. But tv? You don't actually think news broadcasts are valuable do you? Or is it skinemax?
No, pretty easy to tell. In the immediate short term, the global cooling effect of stratospheric ash is FAR stronger. Tambora caused the northern hemisphere to skip a summer in 1816 in case you forgot. Not that the Dalton minimum helped either. It took five years for global temperatures to return to normal after Krakatoa in 1883.
It is a well known phenomenon that people who think something will help them experience improvement in their condition. They don't have to be told something is more helpful to think it is on their own. Pretty things look better, so people think they are better, so placebo effect kicks in.
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While I can't say much for the metallurgist (other than maybe he worked only in electrical applications so wouldn't have dealt with steel) or the english teacher, the nurse is not entirely incorrect--there is little to no evidence that vitamins above recommended allowances are beneficial, and there is lots of evidence that several of them can be toxic in large doses (Vitamin A and Iron poisioning being the reason children's vitamins are formulated differently. And for the doctor, it depends on the degree of smoking. Smoking two packs a day causes serious damage. Smoking rarely and occasionally (i.e. not a daily habit) is significantly less likely to overwhelm your body's own repair functions.
Never heard of such an alien philosophy. You must be new to the human race.
Depends on the particular disaster. Actually, I would think that a satellite phone would be a good piece for an emergency kit. No cell tower problems then. Of course, if the person you are calling has no phone it might just be an expensive paper weight, but one can only control so many variables.
But given slow modem speeds of the time, the first troll to post was not necessarily the first troll to be heard.
Besides, the earliest identifiably mayan scripts date to only 200-300 BCE, so no the Torah (and thus the old testament) had first post.
Should I have put sarcasm tags on it to make my meaning clearer? I was sarcastically saying they were guilty of what the nazis accused them of. Meaning, I meant they weren't guilty, even thought I was literally saying they were. Clear now?
No because the really problematic stuff shows up in the followers of later additions. What did the Jews every do to anybody besides run Germany into the ground and charge interest?
You have a pretty strange definition of luxury. A tv is not a luxury?
Cell phone is debatable for its utility, coffee pot is god damned life or death. But tv? You don't actually think news broadcasts are valuable do you? Or is it skinemax?
If you're lucky you'll have front row seats to the end of the world.
Zero.
That's not a big deal, just make sure you're always standing on a rock.
Does this mean one random family of assholes gets to survive and tell the rest of the world?
And find your towel quickly.
No, that one's going to go to the Bible or the Quran.
I for one will volunteer to taste test our dead comrades' corpses.
Think you meant you'd have to kill 10,000 people. The downside is you won't go down in history as a great conqueror for it.
No, pretty easy to tell. In the immediate short term, the global cooling effect of stratospheric ash is FAR stronger. Tambora caused the northern hemisphere to skip a summer in 1816 in case you forgot. Not that the Dalton minimum helped either. It took five years for global temperatures to return to normal after Krakatoa in 1883.
I wish I had mod points to mod you overrated to help you get a cherished -1 Insightful. Then again, you posted AC, so Oh well.
She'd only misunderstand if he pronounced it correctly, since it is pronounced Lay-Tech.
We just kill each other and let the bodies rot...
Really, you only need ONE arm.
You have failed to establish that the only remaining explanation is sabotage.
Nevermind the obvious absurdity of the statement. See also 'appeal to ignorance'. It's a fallacy.
A league is 3 NAUTICAL miles, not 4 km, closer to 5.5 km.
20,000 leagues, is roughly 3 times the circumference of the earth. It's impossible to go that deep.
Repeat after me: The plural of anecdote is NOT data.
Placebo effect.
It is a well known phenomenon that people who think something will help them experience improvement in their condition. They don't have to be told something is more helpful to think it is on their own. Pretty things look better, so people think they are better, so placebo effect kicks in.
How do you write a letter to a parent explaining that their child was looking at goatse?