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The Environment / Re: Global Warming. long term effects.

« on: 04/02/2023 22:15:01 »

I agree the population is out of control.Electric vehicles are a bandaid solution that won't save the planet.The more people the more demand as we can see with higher prices.A loaf of bread was 20 cents in 1970.There is a housing crisis we can't build them fast enough.There is also a huge movement of people in the world that no one wants.It just seems we have the blinders on I don't know how someone could say its not a problem.People are looked at as consumers when thats how you look at things you want more people.Unfortunately thats how we see it.Its a very selfish way of looking at things.Everything is done for profit try and get in the way of that and you will be shut down.
I truly believe certain tech has been buried due to big oil.Edison said to Telsa who promised free energy not if we can't put a meter on it.
If someone came up with a free clean energy source they would disappear with their tech because of the sheer volume of money involved you would be killed.

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Geek Speak / Re: Victim of an Adult Site Blackmail Email Hoax?

« on: 03/02/2023 12:15:02 »

Thanks - the only thing I would add is if the CEO of facebook puts a piece of tape over the camera on his laptop maybe users should take it as a hint to put tape over theirs.

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General Science / Re: Is science a religion.........well if not why is it defended as though it were

« on: 16/12/2022 01:42:20 »

Religion is part of evolution and has been deeply embedded in humans from day 1.It plays its role like it or not evolving over time.You will just have to wait till it evolves out which is not going to happen for some time its still deeply embedded in human society.Unfortunately thats how it works.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: 45th anniversary of the Wow! signal

« on: 25/11/2022 18:45:47 »

I was just going off memerory from 2019 the outcome was unknown without further study.I looked today and they seemed to believe it was our tech although they can't pinpoint exactly what caused it but it was a great learning experience as they continue seaching for signals of tech

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Re: Survival of the Passionate?

« on: 24/11/2022 14:10:25 »

Humans dominated because we were the most dangerous and most violent killing off all other species and we breed like rabbits passion is not needed.We just hit 8 billion humans isn't that fast enough ?
Humans would of been a better species if they lived longer and breed less in my opinion.We have very little foresight being a short lived creature.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: 45th anniversary of the Wow! signal

« on: 23/11/2022 14:15:49 »

They found a second signal recently coming from Proxima Centauri.The signal has been designated as possible alien transmission and probably another dead end.They are still studying the signal it could of come from behind the planet 100s of light years away or from the planet itself which sits in the habital zone of the star.Still being investigated.
Wouldn't that be something finding life on a planet of the closes star to earth if it did originate from the planet.

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General Science / Re: Is science a religion.........well if not why is it defended as though it were

« on: 20/11/2022 12:26:00 »

Science is simply human understanding of the enviroment a work in progress that has brought great advances.We would all be huddled around a fire in a cave without science..Explain how it is a relgion.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: With unlimited budget, what would be your ideal space exploration project ?

« on: 13/11/2022 17:32:43 »

Proxima Centauri it has a planet in the goldilocks zone.Benard's star it also has planets.But current engineering makes it not possible.The logical trip would be to the closes stars with planets in the goldilocks zone the 2 stars mentioned have planets in the zone and are the closes stars.The mission will always be to find life or a habitable planet.

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The Environment / Re: Tipping Point?

« on: 07/11/2022 12:59:32 »

One of the tipping points is ignored by humans which is world population.Being such a short lived creature we only have the foresight of about ten years.Anything pass the we don't think much about.Humans would of been much better living longer and breeding less as a species.We have over run every habitat 6th largest mammal die off in earths history and continue to destroy the enviroment that we have a symbiotic relationship with.We are alive because they are alive without them we will die.Nothing can be fixed until the population is stable demand will increase and prices will shyrocket.The fact is we live in a over populated planet and seem incapable of understanding that like many species before us.A species lives at most 3  million years there will be plenty of time for another species to evolve before the earths demise.Plenty of time for more species to evolve earths story does not live and die with humans.

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Question of the Week / Re: QotW - 22.04.25 - Does a phone battery weigh more after charging it?

« on: 10/10/2022 14:54:47 »

A battery gains mass as it charges and loses mass when discharging.Mass is the stored energy.Mass is the same on the moon as on earth even though the object will weigh less on the moon it has nothing to do with weight or volume.When an object moves to close to the speed of light it gains mass which is the kenetic energy building.Every object hold energy which is its mass there are two states resting mass and mass in motion.A portion of the energy in the bigbang was converted to matter which is what we see as the universe.
One kilogram of matter holds E=(1kg)x(3x108m/sec)2=9x1016 kg m2/sec2 at rest in motion it gains more mass that would be calculated. Which was created in the bigbang and where the energy came from.Its basiclly all the potential energy in an object if it was all converted to energy at once.