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Just Chat! / Re: A query on Trump's tactics

« on: 06/11/2024 22:24:03 »

It is the mind control Paul, in a similar way to Soviet Russia (or current Russia for that matter), create the ruse and enemy and then gain the acceptance for the chosen members, you must have read Animal Farm?

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Just Chat! / Re: Copout 29 on the way, what do you think?

« on: 30/10/2024 14:01:10 »

Wrong!, Petro, I don't have an I-phone(or any other smart phone) and never have had one. Forgot to mention I am also a luddite.

2 out of 3 isnt bad.

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Just Chat! / Re: Copout 29 on the way, what do you think?

« on: 29/10/2024 17:19:51 »

card carrying member

Your card was probably made in china using coal, along with your iphone and almost everything in your house.

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Question of the Week / Re: QotW - 24.11.01 - If dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct, would humanity have emerged?

« on: 27/10/2024 15:58:54 »

I think the real question is if earths temperature had not reduced would mammals be the dominant creature type?

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General Science / Re: What's 0^0 ?

« on: 24/10/2024 21:23:23 »

If you think logically 2x0 is a non function, this sort of sum can cause all sorts of problems.  Even though the sum above does infact give the answer of zero it is not arrived at in the conventional sense of 2x0, that is 2x0=0, it is a non function that gives an answer of zero through its non function status. Zero being zero is neither positive nor negative. Therefore a non functon zero from 0^0 must be true.

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General Science / Re: Is it possible to survive if you have no inner ear function at all?

« on: 23/10/2024 17:15:46 »

I would have thought balance would have been the bigger problem.

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General Science / Re: Does All Of Mathematics Come Down To Simple Arithmetic?

« on: 18/10/2024 12:02:53 »

Even powers of negative numbers wouldnt work so well, 2 lots of minus 2 is  minus 4, you do need to multiply the positive or negative,

 

Subtraction is not commutative.   5 -1   ≠   1 - 5

Not sure what context this is in but would it not need a value, ie (+5 -1) x +3 if in computer programming, or you would get bugs?

Iteration is not simple addition or subtraction either, but it is imprecise applied mathmatics, rather than  absolute classical.

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Just Chat! / Re: What's gone wrong with the world?

« on: 12/10/2024 21:10:01 »

I can counter that with another question: if hydrogen rises, then why does xenon not sink to the floor?  Hydrogen en masse will rise, like in a balloon, but if you were to slowly release hydrogen into a sealed room my guess is that it would slowly diffuse to reach an even concentration throughout the room. Gas atoms and molecules are constantly colliding at fairly high speeds and this in my opinion will lead to even mixing. Not really my field and I could well be wrong.

Argon does infact sink through air, not so sure about xenon. Helium is known for disappearing into space. Hydrogen may have some property of being in a molecule of h2.

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Just Chat! / Re: What's gone wrong with the world?

« on: 12/10/2024 11:48:38 »

In that case Paul why does h20 not rise through n2? Hydrogen does.

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Cells, Microbes & Viruses / Re: How could a microbial substance remain on the skin for years?

« on: 08/10/2024 23:19:04 »

I have had ring worm before that creates a slippery sheen on the skin. I used Tincture of iodine.

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Can Coffee Or Tea Ever Really Go Bad?

« on: 06/10/2024 18:19:50 »

Go bad is a bit ambiguous, i thinnk the tea bags in the compost would be considered as bad. Tea looses its pernache, as does coffee which is why people who are cofficianadoes are well known for grinding their own beans.

Depending on the conditions im sure coffee and tea could be infested with fungus, parasites etc if not stored correctly. Similarly flour can be infected with mites or go stale.

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Re: What is the Origin of Naked Clams (Shipworms)?

« on: 29/09/2024 11:56:18 »

Indeed evan, floating logs are a danger, night time running can be hazardous especially in areas like the west coast of north america and not advisable. The logs are big there, you may even get a giant redwood
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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Re: What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?

« on: 27/09/2024 23:06:22 »

Penguins would more than likely fill the ecological niche of the now extinct Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis)

There's a conspiracy theory that the Great Auk are still around.

Yes, obviously as they where very elusive and difficult to catch. Just like the Dodo, Elephant bird, Aurochs.

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Re: What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?

« on: 27/09/2024 23:01:29 »

Also polar bears would have difficuly during the winter months as there is no nearby land masses to move to so there will probably be a lack of food and probably be annoyed they had missed all the penguins.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Why does Earth have tectonic plates?

« on: 25/09/2024 09:48:47 »

I dod leave it up a while before replying, but i guess there are not many expert geologists where as physicists seem ten a penny. It is a bit quiet even though of late, even to the point of a lack of relativity questions.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Why does Earth have tectonic plates?

« on: 24/09/2024 18:32:42 »

I was looking for a bit more depth Paul, for example why does Venus not have tectonic plates.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Why does Earth have tectonic plates?

« on: 20/09/2024 17:01:38 »

On the " quuestion of the week" thread about the effects of the early earth impacts and absorption of other bodies tectonic plates where mentioned as an effect of planitary collision. It is stated that earth having tectonic plates is to do with granite, which floats and seperatley Earth having liquid water.

Any more to add?

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Just Chat! / Re: If a person believes that they do not have diabetes,will their diabetes go away?

« on: 18/09/2024 18:20:47 »

Diabetes melletus can be caused by other factors than genes, such as auto immune disorders, obesity etc, it's possible that any "cure" is similarly abstract. Linking coincidental events is a path to madness.

The "miracle cure of cancer" is when the body returns to normal and recognises mutant cells and begins to resume disposing of them. It is quite normal, the body not disposing of anomalous cells is the problem.

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Re: What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?

« on: 18/09/2024 18:05:51 »

Penguins would more than likely fill the ecological niche of the now extinct Great Auk  (Pinguinus impennis)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: what organic substance/biofilm could stay on the skin for 9 years

« on: 18/09/2024 18:01:55 »

Exzema or similar.  I have used tincture of iodine on skin complaints before, I believe a parasite of some sort that lived in hair follicle.