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General Science / Re: Can Medicine solve Global Warming?

« on: 10/11/2021 09:55:09 »

The source is common sense (plus a paper I wrote about 16 years ago). If humans are responsible for a phenomenon, then fewer humans => less phenomenon.

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is it possible for a psychoactive drug to take effect within seconds?

« on: 02/06/2021 17:33:45 »

There was a case in Canada where an unstable woman named Cindy James, who obsessively alleged that she was being watched and harassed, wound up dead with her legs and arms bound together and a high dose of heroin in her system. The Canadian police declared it an obvious murder case, as someone with that amount of dope in their system could not tie themselves in such a way. Eventually, it was a journalist (not a physician) that pointed out that even if the drug was administered intravenously, it should have taken 10-15 minutes to reach her CNS. He then hired a woman matching the dead woman's age and physical characteristics to see if she could tie herself up the same way within 10 minutes. She was able to.

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General Science / Re: If we need to colonize Mars in a hurry, how do we choose the best people?

« on: 24/10/2019 08:56:44 »

...... they will find that they are quite unattractive to men.

I’m not sure that would be a problem.
You could always give them a photo of Alan 

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General Science / Re: If we need to colonize Mars in a hurry, how do we choose the best people?

« on: 19/10/2019 03:34:30 »

25 men and 25 women, and they must NOT be related.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Does the Fermi paradox suggest that superluminal speeds are unachievable?

« on: 15/08/2019 12:03:41 »

While pondering the existence and consequence of faster than light particles, I wondered if tachyons are real and useful then we can travel the galaxy in years rather than in millennia.

How would the reality of tachyons help you (or another civilization) get anywhere fast if you're not made of them?

However, as Enrico Fermi pointed out in his famous lunch time paradox, we have seen zero proof of alien contact. So, either advanced extraterrestrials don't exist or exceeding light speed in space travel is impossible. Any thoughts on this?

You suggest the only solution for the Fermi paradox is the light speed limitation.  Here we are such an advanced civilization and the fastest speed we've been able to achieve is under 0.0001c.  OK, I think we got a ship to go faster than that, but only by dropping off a cliff, not actually having the ship do it under its own power.  The speed of light hasn't exactly been a barrier to us yet.
Contact with aliens doesn't necessarily entail travel.  If they were out there on every 1000th planet, we'd notice.

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is there a way to burn more fat during a marathon run?

« on: 09/08/2019 18:25:10 »

"Is there a way to burn more fat during a marathon run?"
Carry a rucksack full of rocks.