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

« on: 07/10/2024 09:48:37 »

In the absence of microbiologic contamination rancidity is a problem in long term storage. This happens when oxygen adds to double bonds in unsaturated fatty acids. Vacuum packing should address this problem.

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New Theories / Re: AlanM: What are black holes made of?

« on: 05/10/2024 16:47:40 »

More word salad, garnished with the occasional misused scientific term. I feel a ban is coming, I feel it in my bones.

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New Theories / Re: How do we acquire language?

« on: 03/10/2024 21:29:08 »

Waffle.

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New Theories / Re: How do we measure the energy of a photon?

« on: 03/10/2024 12:08:03 »

What a load of irrelevant rubbish, completely devoid of any coherent meaning. Where do we get them from?

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What is the exact cause of the time dilation of the twin?

« on: 02/10/2024 20:40:03 »

Thanks, Halc. I suggest you may delete my post, #48, as it serves no purpose now as the offending material has been removed.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What is the exact cause of the time dilation of the twin?

« on: 02/10/2024 16:00:48 »

Oh dear, here we go, again. Word salad.

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is There Any Safe Amount Of Smoking?

« on: 01/10/2024 15:53:44 »

I disagree, I think one cigarette per day would lead to quantifiable harm. I can't prove it, one would need the opinion of an epidemiologist.

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Re: Could we eat wood?

« on: 01/10/2024 14:16:37 »

Referring to the original question "could we eat wood?", of course we can. I recommend oak for starters, mahogany for the main course and teak for desert. It will not deliver any nutrition unfortunately and one's dentist bill could be problematic. Bottom line: not recommended. Fungi cannot produce a high nitrogen content substance such as protein is without a feedstock with high nitrogen content- wood on it's own would not be sufficient. I know about those fungus cultivating ants but I don't know the details of what they use.

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is There Any Safe Amount Of Smoking?

« on: 30/09/2024 11:04:33 »

No beer= rampant cholera.

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is There Any Safe Amount Of Smoking?

« on: 30/09/2024 07:57:16 »

Indeed, ethanol→ethanal  added to so many nh2 groups is a recipe for cancer. I'm surprised, from a biochemical viewpoint, that this is not more widespread. Despite this I still partake in the occasional beer or two having experimented with anaesthetic doses in my late teens/early twenties.

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Just Chat! / Re: Why do women have so many clothes?

« on: 29/09/2024 16:12:16 »

At the age of 72 an understanding of what makes the xx crowd tick still eludes me and I guess a life extension of several hundred years would not help.

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Just Chat! / Why do women have so many clothes?

« on: 28/09/2024 20:15:38 »

The sheer quantities of clothing items the boss has collected over the years we have been together is baffling. New items are constantly added to this already voluminous collection with some items hardly worn at all. I have pointed out the wastefulness of such a practice with the response being "you are male and don't understand". I wonder what the latter day philosophers(such as the eminent Alancalverd!) think of this predicament.

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is There Any Safe Amount Of Smoking?

« on: 28/09/2024 14:32:05 »

Apart from all that has been mentioned it is a loathsome habit- one that I picked up in my twenties for ~8years before deleting it.

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General Science / Re: Is There A Pattern In The Number Pi?

« on: 28/09/2024 13:54:38 »

Pi, like e, the base of Naperian logs, is a transcendental number with no pattern as far as we can tell.

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

« on: 28/09/2024 11:54:03 »

Type 2 diabetes can be influenced by one's lifestyle. Type 1 is not amenable to such changes as the β cells in the pancreas have been wiped out and there is no insulin.

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New Theories / Re: Gravity In Relative Motion - is there any solution?

« on: 28/09/2024 11:33:13 »

Thanks, Halc. One small addendum: On #12 (1) the OP suggests that according to Einstein there is an infinite amount of energy in matter and I responded to this falsehood. In subsequent discourse I began to think I had misread (1) as the OP was then referring to putting an unlimited amount of energy into mass. Very different scenarios.

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New Theories / Re: Gravity In Relative Motion - is there any solution?

« on: 27/09/2024 18:39:32 »

That just shows the nonsense produced by these chatbots and it also illustrates their suggestibility. The increase in mass associated with speed is utterly negligible at the speed of comets. If an incoming comet/asteroid were to be travelling at a speed where a significant relativistic mass increase did occur it would likely explode/disintegrate on first contact with the atmosphere. There is no need to invoke relativity or any other theory to solve this, simple mechanics answers the question.

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Question of the Week / Re: QotW - 24.10.04 - Do snails get dizzy?

« on: 27/09/2024 18:08:19 »

Roadwheel(I presume) or steering wheel?

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New Theories / Re: Gravity In Relative Motion - is there any solution?

« on: 26/09/2024 21:52:08 »

Where did you get the idea that Einstein suggested there was unlimited energy in matter? Also you keep referring to massive objects with the speed of light: this is not possible as the factor 1/√1-vsq/csq leads to an increase without bound of the mass involved as the speed asymptotically approaches c.

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

« on: 25/09/2024 10:42:14 »

Yep, it has been very quiet lately, disappointing. Since I already know everything, I have no questions left!(joke, of course).