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@NorthernChev I am aware of the "two neighborhood Gas Stations" example. However, let's construct a metaphor, by supposing that Gas were Steel. Then Gas Station #1 is selling Chinese Steel, and Gas Station #2 is selling American Steel (and the two stations are in the same neighborhood, right across the street from each other.) Many of the Steel Customers are Informed Customers who know that they can only use Chinese Steel. Such customers won't buy American Steel, at any price, because they know that their applications won't work with American Steel. Now let's extend the metaphor, by calling Chinese Steel "apples" and American Steel "oranges". If the price of Apples goes up, why would anyone follow through to identically raise the price of Oranges? There is no Law of Nature that says...
The price of Oranges must follow, and be kept the same as, the price of Apples!
Since, in the Steel Distributing industry, such marketers think that such a "natural Law" does exist, then such marketers are identically (and unnecessarily) manufacturing inflation. The only reason anyone would buy the drastically marked-up Oranges is because they need Oranges, and the Steel Distributors are the only source for Oranges. Furthermore, if just one of the Steel Distributors kept their selling price for Oranges low, then that Steel Distributor would sell a huge quantity of Oranges, whereas the other Steel Distributors wouldn't succeed to sell any Oranges.
If we disagree on these points, then, as gentlemen, let's agree to disagree.
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@Bthdk-tc6yi The trucking company that I am referring to was a gigantic frozen food warehouse, and everything in the warehouse supplied the fast food industry. The guys packing the pallets were ORDER PICKERS, and they would misrepresent the number of items placed onto a pallet. Each pallet was fully loaded with whatever a single fast food restaurant had ordered, one week before. (The entire trailer would be packed with enough stuff for anywhere between 5 to 7 fast food restaurants.)
You see, the front of a refrigerated trailer contains all the frozen items. A big, usually blue, padded mat separates the frozen stuff from the mid-section of the trailer. The mid-section of the trailer contains the food that only requires refrigeration. Another padded, blue mat is installed as a separator, behind the refrigerated mid-section. The last section, which is right next to the rear doors of the trailer, contains all the "dry" stuff, such as mops, mop buckets, etc.
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That's what happened at Lexington and Concorde, which we use to mark the start of the American Revolution. One guy got nervous/jumpy/antsy, fired a shot, and then everything went to crap. Personally, I think both sets of soldiers should realize that they are being used as political pawns, and, likewise, refuse to be used as pawns. How? By throwing their guns down on the ground, right from the get-go, and, instead, engaging in an Angry Dance Off with each other. Does such a strategy waste time? Sure it does. But so does participating in being used as a political pawn.
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@clintpatty Let me add another log to the fire you are suggesting. The companies and corporations in my local area, based upon my own diligent and widespread investigations, constantly get away with hiring THEIR OWN RELATIVES. An international corporation, with a small local branch, which only has a headcount not greater than 80, will easily be composed of 5 families, comprising every "head" beneath the roof of the small local branch. In other words, in my local area, companies and corporations are regularly COMMANDEERED (staff-wise) by at least one family, if not a group of 5 families. So-... suppose that the employee-owned trucking company (that I have been talking about) is exclusively staffed with a group of 5 families. Every time a NEW DRIVER signs-on to drive for this particular trucking company, then, from the point-of-view of the family members, the New Driver is an OUTSIDER. Screwing-over an outsider, especially one who doesn't know the "trap" that he has "stepped" into, is looked upon as a perverse form of FUN by the family members. In other words, they treat a New Driver like a young cat treats the capture of its First Mouse. The young cat plays with the mouse, until, after a great deal of torture, the mouse eventually dies, but not until the young cat has had a lot of FUN with the mouse.
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@NorthernChev Honestly, I had never before heard of the word, conflation. I had to look it up. Conflation means...
the merging of two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc. into one.
It would seem that, in this world, we have people who believe that conflating Chinese Steel with American Steel is not only possible, but entirely justified. I would even go so far as to refer to the domestic Steel Distributors, who believe in conflating Chinese Steel with American Steel, as conflationists. No insult is intended. My only intent here is to achieve clarification of the overall issue.
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@Broodplank86 I am saying that I am puzzled as to why Trump would select to implement tariffs upon imported Chinese Steel, when, as a man educated in the fundamental principle known as Supply and Demand, Trump would be aware of the imminent price increases that domestic Steel Distributors would implement, where the sale and distribution of American Steel is concerned. I am all for Trump wanting to be...
"Put America FIRST!"
...in his policies, but I'm not sold on the idea that import tariffs accomplish that, especially when a guy like Trump would certainly know that domestic Steel Distributors will raise their price for American Steel, as an immediate consequence. Surely, a guy like Larry Kudlow, who I do not regard as a "yes" man, would be keenly aware of such a predictable pricing response, and would communicate that point to Trump.
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@NorthernChev If the outcome of competition, and competitive pricing, is not defeated within a domestic American industry, by way of a new law, then such a law could succeed to update the rules that a Capitalist society must observe. Such a law could be created that forbids domestic "price matching" relative to the price of any imported commodity that has a government-added tariff added to the imported commodity's base price. In other words, I think that conflation represents an identifiable and unnecessary error in reasoning, and that the state of elevated inflation in America could greatly be offset if this error in reasoning were finally, and properly, addressed with new legislation, of the sort that does not defeat competition within a domestic American industry, nor defeats competitive pricing within a domestic American industry.
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I had a long back ‘n’ forth text-based discussion with a gentleman who works for a USA-based steel distributorship. He clearly informed me that when imported Chinese steel has a tariff applied to it, then his USA-based steel distributorship, and ALL of the other USA-based steel distributorships, AUTOMATICALLY RAISE the price of their USA-produced raw steel TO MATCH whatever the “tariff added” price of imported Chinese steel turns out to be. In other words, when it comes to the price of Raw Steel, USA-based consumers of Raw Steel (i.e. steel fabrication businesses) will get stuck paying THE SAME PRiCE as the final price of imported tariffed Chinese steel. The result is that a massive number of USA-based steel fabrication businesses WILL GO out of business. On top of that, government construction contracts, at all levels of government, often specify that American steel must be used. The implication here is that, if Trump applies a tariff to imported Chinese steel, then, due to the automatic pricing practices of USA-based steel distributors, nearly all government funded major construction projects WILL END-UP PAYING a very high price for I-beams and corrugated steel.
[The USA-based steel distributor that I corresponded with referred to his industry’s pricing practices as conflation (i.e. the practice of treating American raw steel and Chinese raw steel as if they were essentially the same thing.) I personally refer to those who price their domestic commodities in this manner as conflationists. ]
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Where I live, in NYS, for years, usually in the summertime, and usually on Sundays, they constantly (deliberately??) shut the electric off, for 2 hours and 1 minute. It has become such a reliable fact of life, that I have started keeping plastic-encased Blocks of Ice in my freezer. By keeping blocks of ice, in the freezer, when the electric predictably goes off, the ice keeps my "frozens" sufficiently cold, for 2 hours, so I don't have to throw my food out, every weekend.
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@Broodplank86 My syllogistic argument includes the fact that Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Business, and I feel certain that Trump had to take-and-pass at least one, if not several classes that taught micro-economics and macro-economics. Such classes would have analyzed the effect of conflationists, and their pricing practices, within the domestic American economy. It is the conflationists, who operate within major commodity industries, here in America, who "screw up" the intended POSITIVE effects of import tariffs. Other "bad actors" also mess-up the intended positive effects of import tariffs, but those "bad actors" are based outside of the borders of the USA. The foreign "bad actors" practice economic retaliation, targeted upon America. We Americans can't do much about foreign economic retaliation, but we might be able to do something about economic "bad actors" who operate inside the borders of America, as long as the corrective measures (probably legislative, in nature) do not defeat the outcome of competition within any domestic industry.
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@ericbailey6779 If you start from the very first Reply in this Reply Section (which was posted by ME), and read the entire back 'n' forth discussion that the OP Commenter (NorthernChev) and I had, you would learn that...
• the domestic American steel distribution industry historically practices a "pricing policy" that is based upon the adoption of a logical fallacy, known as conflation. I even posted the definition of the word, so that everyone could "follow along" with our discussion. In brief, conflation means that, where commodities are concerned, two items that are as different as Apples and Oranges become looked upon as if there is no difference between an Apple and an Orange; and
• in the course of the discussion, it was the surprising and fervent contention of NorthernChev that the informed customers (of the domestic Steel Distribution business that NorthernChev works for) preferred the imported Chinese Steel, because, for reasons not presented, the American Steel does not perform satisfactorily in subsequent machining operations and applications.
Something to consider...
Eric, here are 2 scenarios, for you to choose from...
• suppose that you charged a high wage for your labor, and that the wage was the highest wage that anyone, anywhere, could actually receive for your form of labor. But there's a catch! By receiving this sort of wage, you influence the entire American economy that you "live" in to have an extremely high rate of inflation, which necessarily surrounds you with high prices, everywhere you look. As a result, your "high wage" doesn't "spend" very far;
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• suppose that you agree to accept a lower wage for the form of labor that you do, but once again, there's a catch! By accepting the lower wage, you immediately influence the entire American economy to have a low rate of inflation, which immediately results in YOUR being "surrounded" with LOW PRICES, everywhere you look. The result is that, numerically, you make a lower wage (when compared with the first scenario), but that lower wage spends "farther" than the preceding "high wage" scenario.
So, Eric, of the two scenarios that I just presented, which would YOU prefer to choose, for yourself? From what I can tell, based upon my Reply discussion with NorthernChev (which, in entirety, is posted within this Reply section), NorthernChev's domestic Steel Distribution company always selects the FIRST scenario. Given how influential the domestic $price$ of steel is, within the American economy, the direct result is that the entire domestic American economy gets driven into a state of high prices and high inflation.
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@bsadewitz You’re right. I am aware of that demonstration. But let me pose a similar scenario. A rocket ship, capable of light speed, is about to blast off from Earth. Just before ignition can happen, however, the Earth suddenly starts dropping away from the base of the well-stocked rocket, traveling at the speed of light. 30 years later, the Earth returns, and gently nestles beneath the base of the motionless rocket. Now, normally, everybody says that the Rocketeers will be noticeably younger than the Earthlings. But since, from the Rocketeers point of view, it was the entire Earth that sped away at the speed of light (for 30 years), then why wouldn’t the Earthlings appear to be younger than the Rocketeers?
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@jasonmerrill8917 To me, most of the fancy reasoning, which attempts to explain Capitalism, centers around the propensity of human beings to think with their stomach, as opposed to think with their brain. Let's say, on some sunny 🌄afternoon, you suddenly have a hankering for SWEET 🍓🍓strawberries. So you head towards town, and you find a McDonalds, and there happens to be a roadside fruit stand, next door to the McDonalds. Let's say the McDonalds will sell you a large strawberry🥤shake, made with absolutely NO strawberries, but instead contains great-tasting strawberry 🍓syrup. Next door, the fruit stand will sell you a 1-quart tupperware container, filled with SWEET actual 🍓🍓strawberries. You need to get your "strawberry fix", and to achieve that, your stomach doesn't care that REAL🍓strawberries, versus artifically-flavored 🍓strawberry syrup, are not the same thing. In other words, your stomach practices "stomach logic". In the realm of "stomach logic", committing a Logical Fallacy (in this case, conflating Real Strawberries WITH FAKE strawberries) is of no concern. Meanwhile, your🧠brain ABSOLUTELY KNOWS that there exists an important and discernible difference between Real Strawberries and FAKE "strawberries". It is on points like this where I have "issues" understanding other people's lectures on Capitalism. The lecturers are usually people who think with their stomach, and then go to great lengths to support their "stomach reasoning" with subsequent 🧠"brain reasoning".
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Real World Tools require struggle…
In order for an autonomous humanoid robot to have any value in a factory, the robot needs to be able to use Real World Tools. However, such tools, even when they are top-of-the-line AND brand new, always require struggle. For example, consider the Jacob's chuck of a hand drill. After you tighten a drill bit in the chuck, you then start the drilling task, at which point the bit will probably demonstrate some rotational SLIP. You then have to STOP drilling, immediately followed by re-tightening the drill bit in the chuck. Once re-tightened, you immediately resume drilling. The intelligence of a robot won't be able to duplicate this. A robot's intelligence won't be able to assess that...
• the drill bit is rotationally slipping;
• excessive rotational slip is unacceptable;
• the cause of the rotational slip is due to a need for more Chuck Tightening;
• at the very least, the drilling operation needs to CEASE;
• the drill bit needs to be repositioned and retightened (within the Chuck);
• the Drill Key (which is used to tighten the Jacob's chuck), will always SLIP, even if the drill is top-of-the-line and brand new;
• once the drill bit is suitably retightened, the drilling operation needs to resume.
□ In other words, the task of using a Real World Tool always includes the need to struggle with the tool. The intelligence needed to efficiently perform such struggle goes way beyond what the intelligence of an autonomous humanoid robot is capable of.
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From his famous Maxwell Equations, James Maxwell deduced a value for the Speed of Light. It turns out that the equation Maxwell derived is a function of TWO values that both have to be measured, experimentally. In this way, it can be shown that the Speed of Light can "sort of" be measured, by indirect means, because the equation that represents the speed (of light) is exclusively dependent upon values that CAN be measured. (note: one of these values is known as the permittivity of free space, which is equal to 8.85 × 10⁻¹² [farad/m]; the other value is known as the permeability of free space, which is equal to 4π × 10⁻⁷ [henries/m]. Both of these values describe the nature of Magnetism within the region in which they are measured.) But that's not the best part! Do you recall hearing about a phenomenon called Gravitational Lensing? This phenomenon bends the path of light as light passes through a gravitational field that is impressed across a region of Free Space. As a result of observing the phenomenon of Gravitational Lensing, it would seem likely that Gravity directly determines the localized measured value for both permittivity and permeability, across a specified region of Free Space. In other words, just as the strength of Gravity varies in the manner of a smooth gradient across a region of Free Space, it should therefore likely be expected that the localized measured values for both permittivity and permeability also vary (in the manner of a smooth gradient) across the very same region of Free Space. Do you realize what this implies? This implies a direct connection between Gravity and Magnetism! This also implies that Gravity is "hiding" within the four famous Maxwell Equations. It hides within the term that represents permittivity, and it hides within the term that represents permeability. Who knows? Maybe an insight like this could lead to a proper Grand Unified Field theory. Maybe an insight like this could lead to an understanding of Quantum Gravity.
Allow me to express these notions in another way. I am suggesting that, in a region where Gravitational Lensing bends the path of light, the path of the photons is curved on account of Gravity smoothly varying (in the manner of a gradient) BOTH the localized value(s) of permittivity AND the localized value(s) of permeability, resulting in photons proceeding SLOWER when they pass by near to a grand source of Gravity and proceeding FASTER when they pass by far away from a grand source of Gravity. The result of the Inner Track being a SLOW path and the Outer Track being a FAST path is that each photon follows a resultant CURVED path.
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The thing about "drill, baby, drill !" is that, back when oil drilling (within the USA) first began, the kind of oil that came out of the ground was different (than the oil that comes out of the same ground, today.) Likewise, the in-country Oil Refineries were built to process the type of oil that originally came out of the ground. The reason why the USA imports oil is because the refineries that the USA has are appropriate for foreign oil, but are no longer appropriate for Domestic Oil. In order for "drill, baby, drill" to succeed, the US Government will have to direct investment money to the US oil companies, to encourage them to build new (appropriate) domestic oil refineries.
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@dachosens1 If you get a chance, around the 70th Reply, I posted some interesting points, regarding demand for Real 🍓Strawberries versus the demand for artificially-flavored strawberry🥤shakes. Since posting that Reply, I thought of an additional example. Suppose that sweet Real 🍓🍓Strawberries were imported to America, and when they got here, they immediately had a government-issued tariff applied to them, which substantially raised their price. Now suppose that, somewhere within America, a company produces and distributes artificially-flavored Strawberry Syrup (used as an ingredient for strawberry 🥤shakes), and that not a single strawberry is used to produce the flavored syrup. From what I can tell, a conflationist would raise the price of their artificially-flavored strawberry syrup, TO MATCH the per-unit-volume price of the tariffed imported strawberries, even though not a single strawberry is used to produce the syrup. Why would they do this? The syrup distributor would do this because MOST of the American strawberry consumers think with their stomach. From the point of view of someone's "stomach", a great tasting Strawberry🥤Shake satisfies their need to get their "strawberry fix" just as well as consuming actual (sweet) Real 🍓Strawberries. A person's 🧠brain knows that Fake Strawberries and Real Strawberries are two different things, but their stomach does not. When a person "thinks with their stomach", then they are perfectly happy to adopt a Logical Fallacy.
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When I look, from a long distance away, at the various peoples of the world, I always think to myself about how similar they look to me, yet, among themselves, THEY can distinctly see the differences between themselves and their immediate neighbors, and, regarding those differences, they usually fight like crazy with each other. Here's what I mean...
• to me, when looking at them, I can barely tell the difference between Japanese and Chinese people, yet, historically, they fight with each other;
• to me, when looking at them, I can barely tell the difference between Ukrainian and Russian people, yet, we see how that is going;
• to me, when looking at them, I can barely tell the difference between Scottish and English people, yet, if you "read up" on history, they were bitter enemies;
• to me, when looking at them, I can barely tell the difference between Israeli and Palestinian people, yet, historically, they are always fighting with each other.
Around the world, it seems like "next door neighbors" are almost always bitter enemies. I am likewise always amazed at how well the USA and Canada get along.
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"...Then, on August 16th, 1976, in the dead of night, a Saturn 5 rocket took to the sky, and embarked on the most important, and most secret Space Mission in history!"
me: Wouldn't Floridians, who live around Cape Canaveral, have reported that they saw a night-time rocket launch? I mean, how easy is it to hide a night-time rocket launch, of a rocket as big as a Saturn 5 ? 28:58
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What we are seeing is that Russian propaganda, maintained and distributed by Russian media, is performing the same function as a retention wall. Many Russians could probably run across the border, in the vicinity of Kursk, over into Ukraine, and thereby, leave Russia, forever. BUT... because the Russian media has misinformed the Russian people, the Russian people are retained within Russia, with the same effectiveness as a solid, retention barrier wall.
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I sometimes think that the only novel invention that came from the United States, across the entire 19th century, was the continual refinement and evolution of our American form of government. Across the entire 19th century, the USA was producing primarily lawyers, soldiers, and politicians. Meanwhile, over in Europe, serious mathematics was being developed, along with the elucidation of Thermodynamics and the simultaneous evolution of the Steam Engine. Indeed, across the entire 19th century, America had only one invention (a constitution-based, representative democracy), while Europe cranked out important mathematical methods and novel electrical circuits. About the only exception, across that time period in the USA, would be Colt's various firearms and the related ammunition/patents. Can anyone think of any noteworthy exceptions that occurred during the 19th century, here in the USA?
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"All these well-educated folk went to "commie camp", also known as college. "
Back when I went to college, and came away with TWO degrees, you had to drive to a brick 'n' mortar building, on a college campus, in order to be taught college-level knowledge. Sure, TODAY you can just go to your wireless phone, or your laptop computer, and you have the totality of all college-knowledge at your fingertips. But not so very long ago, that wasn't an option. You "college bashers" can be really thoughtless and unappreciative, sometimes. You have no respect for the efforts that made your present-day wireless pushbutton world possible, nor any respect for the people WHO DID attend college (who made your wireless pushbutton world possible.)
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I have worked in a lot of heavy-assembly factory environments, and I don’t see the outcome of robots replacing anybody, not for at least another 100 years. Why? For one thing, the businesses that I have worked for construct over 15 entirely different product lines, at any given time, and only a Human Being is cost effectively reprogrammable enough to keep up with the ever-changing assembly techniques, in a timely manner. Roboticization requires dedicated work cells that consume an enormous amount of precious square footage on a factory floor. Per robotic work cell, the same square footage could be occupied by 6 different Human-based work cells. Also, it takes months to construct a dedicated task Robotic work cell, whereas a Human-based work cell can “re-task” inside of a matter of minutes. Also, the hand-eye coordination, and the “built-in” sensor fusion, of a Human being still far outpace what an Industrial Robot can achieve. So, as I stated before, it will be at least 100 years before the vast majority of Human hand assembly workers will be cost effectively replaceable by Robots.
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The problem is that the Progressives have declared that Biological Sex is a separate item from Gender. I listened closely to what Neil deGrasse Tyson had to say on the topic, and Neil seemed to express that he believes that a person's Gender exists along a spectrum, which varies between the extremes of Male and Female. This means that, according to Neil, a person can feel 40% Male and only 60% Female on one day, and, on some later day, that same person can feel 57% Male and only 43% Female. I know that, in general, Neil deGrasse Tyson is a respected scientist, but on this issue, I think Neil got it wrong. I think it is absurd to declare that a person's Biological Sex is a separate item from a person's Gender.
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When the whole "neural network" thing started, universities would get a computer, and somebody would ask...
"How much memory do you need, to implement your proposed neural network?"
...and I guess the answer would come back as...
"How much computer memory can we GET?"
In other words, all they knew is that they needed A LOT of computer memory, with no idea as to how much memory was actually needed to accomplish anything worthwhile, in terms of an artificial neural network. Meanwhile, over in Electronics Engineering, the question has always been...
"What is the fewest number of gates/transistors needed, to accomplish a task?"
This is famously referred to as the Gate Cost. Personally, where Op Amps are concerned, I think I have previously counted that a basic 741 Op Amp is implemented using approximately 30 to 35 internal transistors. At the same time, I have always been able to reproduce the same function as any 741 Op Amp circuit, using no more than 3 transistors, combined with just a few capacitors and resistors.
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@Trucmuch The outcomes that you cite (a sample of ice completely melting while remaining at 0°C the entire time; a sample of water completely turning to ice while remaining at 0°C the entire time) definitely do happen, and I believe that the characteristic behavior of the temperature (i.e. remains constant) is always observed during such changes of phase. However, I'm certain that, if the rate at which Heat is added is kept equal to the rate at which Heat is removed, then it is possible for the rate at which...
• ice changes to water
...to be equal to the rate at which...
• water changes to ice.
The classic experiment involves recording the mass of an ice cube before dropping the ice cube into a glass of water. After some time passes, the ice cube is fished out of the water, followed immediately by re-weighing the ice cube. If the rate of "heat in" matched the rate of "heat out" (for the Ice Cube and Glass Of Water system), then the ice cube ends-up having the same mass at time 𝑡₁ as it had at time 𝑡₀. The noted difference is that the edges and corners of the initially "square" Ice Cube are now rounded and smoothed, having uniformly changed to water while an equal amount of the surrounding water changed to ice (which forms on the exterior of the pre-existing Ice Cube.) My understanding is that everything comes down to the rate at which Heat is added to a system versus the rate at which Heat is removed from a system. When the Heat rates (ᴵᴺ 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑠 ᴼᵁᵀ) are balanced, then all of the dependent "phase change" rates can be equal, thereby establishing equilibrium. Again, it is necessary to specify if the rate of Heat addition exceeds, pales, or balances relative to the rate of Heat removal.
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Here is something scary that I witnessed, across an interval of about [1.5] years. Some of you might find this story interesting. In the city that I used to work in, along the city's Main Street, there was a Walgreens, a McDonalds, and a CVS, in sequence, all on the same side of the street, as you proceeded from east to west down Main Street. Across a period of about 2 weeks, the local news said that these stores all got robbed, just before their closing time. During the same robbery-spree interval, down a street that was adjacent to these Main Street businesses, was a Domino's Pizza. On foot, a person could walk from Main Street to the Domino's location inside of about 7 minutes. I would often sit just inside the door of this Domino's, waiting for my order to be prepared, just before the Domino's closing time (which was around 1am.) This Domino's had a magnetic lock on the door, and starting around 9pm, the magnet would be activated. The Domino's drivers could still perform deliveries, but in order to get back inside the building, each returning driver had to press a doorbell signal, so that someone inside the Domino's building could let the driver back in. Anyways, during the 2-week robbery spree that I already mentioned, a short guy with red hair tried (really really REALLY tried) to open the door to the Domino's after the magnetic lock had been turned on. This red-haired guy pulled the door so hard, that he displaced the bottom of the door by about 2-feet from the door frame, however, the magnetic lock was at the TOP of the door, and would not budge in the slightest. Since I was sitting just inside the door to the Domino's, I got an extremely good look at the guy, while he tried to unsuccessfully open the door. He seemed to behave as if he desperately wanted to get inside, but DID NOT WANT to be recognized, in that, as soon as he realized that the door was magnetically locked, he immediately RAN OFF. So, many months passed, and when summer finally arrived, during one very sunny day, around the hour of noon, an unfortunate domestic violence event occurred, at a house that was about 250 feet away from the Domino's location. It seems someone had brutally stabbed someone, and, as a result, the entire street was blocked off by the local police. I, huddled along with about 50 other onlookers, watched the police commotion, while standing just outside the barrier that the police had established. As I watched, a red Jeep Cherokee suddenly pulled-up, just inside the police barrier. As I watched the Cherokee from a distance of about 20-feet away, two guys exited the car. The driver, who wore his police detective's badge on a lanyard, instantly caught my attention. He was precisely the same red-haired guy that I had seen trying to desperately open the door to the Domino's, a few months earlier! In my mind, I instantly realized who this detective was. He was the robber who, several months earlier, had been robbing the stores along Main Street. On the night that I saw him at the entrance door to the Domino's, he was secretly intent upon robbing the Domino's, but, unknown to him, the magnetic lock would not permit him to enter the building after 9pm. The reason he instantly RAN OFF was because he did not want anyone to recognize him, since he was actually a registered police detective for the city's police department.
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Far out in Outer Space, the universe has ENORMOUS AMOUNTS of Gold, which is created during a very special type of Super Nova "star collapse." On top of that, such Gold, created in this manner, might be readily "floating around" in relatively nearby Meteors and/or Asteroids. If someone like Elon Musk, someday, establishes ACCESS to Meteor/Asteroid GOLD, then the "earth-based" Market Price of Gold would probably DROP, precipitously. On the other hand, "big league" entrepreneurs aren't dummies, and if such entrepreneurs achieved access to Meteor/Asteroid GOLD, then such "non-dummy" entrepreneurs would likely, and artificially, MAKE CERTAIN that the "earth-based" Market Price of Gold DID NOT "go down", even IF Gold were no longer a "rare" commodity. Think of DeBeers, and the manipulation of both the perceived rarity and price of Diamonds.
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If a small country had a secret, tactical weapon, that country would do everything it could to perfectly HIDE that weapon, at all times. A highly intelligent person should think of themself as a small country, and their High Intelligence as their own personal secret weapon. Therefore, whenever society asks a Highly Intelligent person to take an IQ test, the Highly Intelligent person should deliberately FLUNK the test, and, thereby, keep their personal Secret Weapon hidden. Be smart, but relentlessly play dumb.
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@soopergoof232 Now that's a can of worms, that you've opened. Are you saying that, when we stand on the surface of the Earth, that space is "raining down" upon our heads, and, simultaneously, that same "raining space" is accelerating (at 9.8ᵐ/ₛ²) towards the center of the Earth? If so, is space capable of performing a convergence? Is there such a thing as compacted space? Also, your "fluidic-viscous-resistance-of-space" notion would seem to ignore the results of the Michelson-Morley experiment. The M-M experiment was designed to attempt to detect the presence of an 'aether' or 'aether wind' in space. As far as I know, the M-M experiment, and all similar experiments since M-M, have come-up negative, meaning that we are not "dragging" through an aether as we move through space.
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As a side project, Simon, why don't you create an amateur-talent Talent Show, in which, including yourself, you have a panel of 4 judges, who judge each contestant's performance? Also, when nervous singers audition, you could interrupt their performance attempt, while telling them that they have a lousy backing track. A standard, white V-neck t-shirt would also be a good look for you, while judging. In time, the name 'simon' would become synonymous with 'smug talent judge'.
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If it weren't for the difficulties with the battery (charging, fire risk, craps out in cold weather), I would love to have an electric car. An industrial grade electric motor is SO indestructible, needs very little maintenance, and can take endless amounts of physical abuse, when compared with a mechanical transmission and a mechanical Internal Combustion engine. The fastest and surest way to solve the battery issues would be to implement Aluminum/Air battery technology. To do this, we would need to create an infrastructure for distributing Aluminum metal plates, and for recycling such metal plates. Given that we already recycle Aluminum, all over the place, this shouldn't be too hard.
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They say that Lady Justice is blind, but there are 3 instances in which Lady Justice should lift her blindfold...
• she should look to see if anything is littered about, underneath the pans of the scale of justice, that should be included in the pans;
• she should look to see if anything has been erroneously included, in the pans of the scale of justice, that should not be in the pans; and, lastly,
• after attending to the first two '•' items, she should look to see which way the indicator needle points.
□ Often, people feel abused by our legal system, because Lady Justice fails to lift her blindfold with regards to at least one of these '•' items.
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The trouble with the CIA, and this is especially true during the final year of any Lame Duck president's final term, is that the CIA secretly and unilaterally carries out UNOFFICIAL and UN-vetted FOREIGN POLICY with other countries. Now, the US Constitution forbids any State within the USA to establish treaties with foreign countries. Wouldn't it make sense to either forbid, or at least STRONGLY oversee, any US department's effort to unilaterally and independently establish UN-vetted "foreign policy" measures, measures that are tantamount to a Formal Treaty, with countries outside the USA? Shouldn't a notion, such as I am suggesting, possibly become A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT? I mean, at the inception of the country, the Founding Fathers of the USA likely never envisioned the eventual establishment of A COVERT intelligence-gathering AGENCY as a formal and integral BRANCH of the overall US federal government. I would go so far as to say that the two men whose ideas strongly influenced the structure of our US federal government, namely Locke and Montesquieu, certainly never envisioned the perceived need to establish a covert "intelligence gathering" agency.
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Everybody is going to disagree with me, but the problem with movie watching is that the American public has outgrown the need for movies. THIS happened because, during the 2-term Obama administration, the entire American public became “self taught” to view EVERYTHING through the “lens” of Politics. Back in 1987, the average American knew nothing about politics, but could readily tell you some of the subplots on The Young & The Restless AND The Guiding Light. During the Obama administration, however, every single American became frantic about what would become of their Health Insurance, so much so that everyone “tuned in” to listen to the Rush Limbaugh radio program (during the hours that they would normally be watching CBS soap operas.) The result was that the popular “soap opera” TV programs collapsed, and, at the same time, Americans became “self taught” to view everything through the “lens” of Politics. In other words, daily politics became “the new” Soap Opera in their lives. The result was a more mature “movie watching” audience that rapidly outgrew the need for fictional movies (similar to how an adult outgrows the need for cartoons.)
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Raw hatred, absent of reasoning, is something that I do not understand.
As far as I know, Israel is happy to just go about its own business, and leave all of those surrounding countries alone. Meanwhile, to varying degrees, those surrounding countries all harbor radical elements that constantly want to eliminate and consume Israel. As an average joe, who grew up in the USA, I have usually been told that the differences in religion are the basis for the hatred of Israel. Back here in the USA, most people who live here have a very easy going "take it or leave it" attitude towards religion. To most of us, here in the USA, religion is like being a member of the Rotary Club. If you are a member... great! If you aren't a member... so what?
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Contact with the Human Race usually ends poorly for the species that gets discovered. Freedom is precious, and the only sure way to maintain Freedom is to stay "beneath-the-radar" of the Human Race. Knowing this myself, if and when I ever make contact with an alien, I do my best to make sure that alien, and all his kind, never gets discovered by the Human Race, at large. The Human Race always makes my attempts to function and survive a living hell. Knowing this, I would never bring the same fate down upon any alien that was brave enough to take me into its confidence. Let's just say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
[HEY! WHAT A GREAT first paragraph TO A GREAT science fiction STORY!! It's the kind of paragraph that the protagonist of a movie would say, as a narration, during the first 40 seconds of the movie.]
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@bsadewitz There is a difference between...
• traveling through water (which results in you constantly getting wet); and
• traveling just above the water surface, while occasionally re-inserting into the water, at points of your choosing.
Our daily experience has us traveling THROUGH Time (which potentially makes us suffer the effects of aging.)
My "flying time machine" idea is that the "time flyer" pops OUT OF our Time Stream, and then re-inserts BACK INTO our Time Stream, at 3D coordinates of the Time Machine operator's choosing. If the fancy Time Machine does this over and over and over again, at "time hop" intervals of only 100 milliseconds, and all of the re-insertion 3D coordinates form a relatively contiguous Straight Line, then, from OUR point of view, the fancy Time Machine looks like it is "flying." By constantly popping in and out of our Time Stream, the fancy "flying" Time Machine would never develop what we call Momentum. This means that such a "flying" Time Machine could perform outrageous aerial maneuvers.
I agree that the UFOs that we regularly see probably do not come from outer space, but rather, they come from some hidden place (perhaps an alternate dimension; or perhaps a "time spot" that is always 15 seconds behind our point in the Time Stream.)
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@bsadewitz The "OP" would like to point out that a Time Machine does not travel THROUGH spacetime to get to a point in the Future. A Time Machine "pops" out of existence at one point in Time and "pops" back into existence at some other point in Time. Where imitating "motion" is concerned, you would set-up your Time Machine to "pop" back into existence at some point in the Future. Do this over and over and over again, for points in Time that are only 100 milliseconds apart (and the points are always points in the Future), combined with "pop" -ing into existence at physical points in Space that are consistently 1 foot apart, and all the physical Space points are further and further along a straight line, and your Time Machine, when set-up to operate in this manner, will successfully imitate "motion". As your "special set-up" Time Machine imitates motion, note that it never develops...
• actual Velocity
• actual Momentum .
In a sense, every time your "special set-up" Time Machine "pops" into existence (sometime; somewhere), it is always an Object At Rest.
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These days, when the courts are aware that a large segment of the American population is likely to respond with imminent, violent riots, the courts seem to conduct a "first trial" (of a defendant) in which the courts "bend" (like a limp, wet noodle) to give the angry portion of the public whatever verdict will assuage them. LATER, however, when most of the public is no longer aware of the issue, a quiet, SECOND trial is conducted, in which the defendant is finally afforded a proper set of American rights. NOTE THAT public sentiment has historically gone either of two ways... in that... sometimes an angry portion of the public wants a defendant to be convicted... and sometimes an angry portion of the public wants a defendant to be exonerated. For example, I remember a famous case, here in NYS, in which the rich owner of a Ford car dealership was thought to have murdered, and secretly disposed of, his wife. Despite the fact that the body of the wife was never found (implying a complete lack of evidence), the enraged public wanted the defendant sentenced to life in prison. And they GOT it! The weak court "bent" to the will of angry public sentiment, and so, the defendant (despite the complete lack of evidence) was judged as guilty. LATER, however, when no one was paying any attention, on appeal, the defendant was tried again, and eventually released as an innocent man (...because, since the prosecution could not produce a dead body, no one could prove that the wife had been murdered.)
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Grant, here is a possible contradiction to consider...
• when light passes through a lens (or, in this case, a flat piece of glass), the light loses some Energy (or Power) by the time it exits the other side of a lens. In other words, Output Power is always less than Input Power. However, the Planck equation, which is expressed as...
𝐸=ℎƒ ; (note that ℎ is the Planck's constant)
...tells us that if there has been an increase in the frequency of light, then there has likewise been an increase in the Energy associated with that light. In your kick-back-the-phase-of-the-wave example, the light wave (passing through a flat medium; possibly glass) ultimately exhibits a frequency which is greater than than that of the incident light wave. Since we know, via the Planck equation, that there is a direct equivalence between ƒ (frequency) and 𝐸 (Energy), the higher frequency light (passing through the flat medium) by implication somehow possesses greater Energy than the incident light wave. Grant, isn't this a contradiction?
update: I listened to that portion of your video, again, and I noticed that you state that the frequency remains the same, but only the wavelength has been "scrunched up." Grant, how can you alter the wavelength without identically altering the frequency?
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Physicists predicting what "physics advents" will come forth in the next 15 years is about as much of a 🏇"horse race" as political statisticians predicting the winner of the most recent Presidential election. Some political statisticians, during 2024, were politically biased, and some were not. Among the ones who were not politically biased, about 50% of them came up with the wrong prediction. All in all, going all the way back to the Bernoulli brothers, those who dabble in physics either...
• get an answer really-really-really RIGHT; or
• get an answer really-really-really WRONG (with a few getting an answer that was almost right!)
For those who got an answer really-really-really RIGHT, such physicists often presented a series of WRONG answers, publicly, in front of "small audience" lecture classes, before finally "getting to" the RIGHT answer. Once such a physicist finally came up with the RIGHT answer, all the prior WRONG answers were quickly "dropped from mention" in the pages of history. As an example of a "big name" coming-up-with a WRONG answer, recall that Einstein once proposed an "improved" version of an airplane wing.
Ultimately, at heart, physicists are Gamblers. They win some. They also lose some. During the whole win/lose process, they all hope that they won't end-up like...
ENRICO PALLAZZO
...from the Leslie Nielsen Police Squad! movies.
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I think we live in a 5-dimensional world…
At the macro scale, the 5th dimension is barely apparent. Only 3 dimensions of Space, and 1 dimension of Time, is apparent. Velocity has meaning, along with anything dependent upon Velocity, such as Momentum. However, down at the atomic level, the 5th dimension becomes more apparent. The dimension of Time still exists, but the concept of Velocity, and any quantity dependent upon Velocity (i.e. Momentum), no longer has any meaning. At the quantum level, a particle can literally be everywhere, within a “cloud” region, all at the same time.
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Sabine, on my browser, I keep nearly 520 tabs open, every day, with no trouble whatsoever. How do I do it? I have a 42inch diagonal display, and I orient the display so that the longest sides stand vertical. I then play with my “video card” settings so as to make my video display rotate by -90 degrees. It’s easy to do, Sabine, and it opens a whole new world to be able to keep 520 tabs open, simultaneously. Also, my Microsoft Edge browser allows me to group tabs, as well.
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Educating oneself is a very personal and private endeavor.
Educating oneself should be thought of like daily exercise; it's something that you should regularly seek to do, across your entire lifetime.
The resource with which to pursue education, especially where higher Math education is concerned, is readily found all over YouTube. Hundreds of educators and degreed people have created and uploaded useful and insightful videos, that cover nearly every perspective of every known Math topic.
Although FOX News often chastises and disdains Wikipedia, FOX News really should not "paint" with such a broad brush. Wikipedia is a wonderful resource for augmenting anyone's pursuit of learning Higher Math.
I guess what I am saying is that the government, at any level (federal or state), should really GET OUT OF THE WAY, by letting each individual person pursue THEIR OWN educational path.
As a society, we shouldn't be forcing horses to the water trough (of education.) Instead, we should find ways to make the horses FEEL THIRSTY for education, and then LEAVE THE THIRSTY HORSES alone, so that each "horse" may find and "carve out" their own educational path.
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I am always surprised at how the people of Tesla's time (including Tesla himself; all the way back to Tesla's days at the Polytechnic) had a useful/working AC Motor right in front of them, and didn't even realize it. Your standard design DC brush 'n' commutator Electric Motor works just fine IF, instead of DC, you supply the right amount of AC electricity. Such motors are used in industry all the time, and nearly always supplied with AC electricity. Such motors are referred to as Universal Motors. Standard (plug-into-the-wall-outlet) Hand Drills and Vacuum Cleaners usually contain Universal Motors. Originally, when it comes to "wall plug" Hand Drills, the idea was that, if you happened to be out in the boonies with your Tractor, and no wall plug outlet was available, you could "jury rig" the plug of your Hand Drill so as to connect it to the output of the Tractor's generator, and thereby run the Hand Drill off of DC.
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@AL-lh2ht Forgive me, but there are so many topics, and so much action, in this Reply section, that I am not exactly sure as to what your intended point is. I am guessing that you are using sarcasm as a gesture of humor. In general, I think the idea of using import tariffs to successfully improve the American economy is a challenging prospect. In a globalized economy, almost nothing happens adiabatically, in a vacuum. One change, made in one place, is bound to produce "ripple effect" changes in many other places. Expecting that none of the subsequent "ripples" will return to you, and produce some sort of unwanted negative effect, would indeed be naive. Still, somebody in leadership has got to at least try to do something. The American economy is not in great shape, and on its present "joe biden" trajectory, it's headed for worse shape.
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@Sarah-hm1kb Recently, for 4 years, I worked for a custom fabrication steel factory, right here in the USA. Starting with stock steel, we performed custom welding/machining/painting. The first task, where the stock steel came into the factory, was for the "saw" man to cut the stock steel into sections. A short while before that job, I worked in construction, and one of my job bosses had two LARGE bandsaws, where the saw sat at about a 35° angle, and, against the force of a spring, you had to push the blade down, closer and closer to a 0° angle, to make a "cut" with the bandsaw blade. Anyways, regarding your domestic (American) Family Business, you will probably understand the point that I have been trying to make, in the course of many back 'n' forth discussions, posted throughout this overall Reply section (which now has around 186 posted Replies.) When USA-based Steel Distributors automatically (and opportunistically) raise their price TO MATCH that of the incoming tariffed imported Chinese steel, then doing so potentially KILLS a large portion of the American steel-purchasing market that they sell to. I liken this to how, state-by-state, every state has a Fish and Wildlife department, that issues hunting licenses, and enforces hunting seasons. 👈 Why do states do this? Ans: they do this because they want to make sure that each of the various "hunted" animal species ARE NOT HUNTED TO EXTINCTION. Think about it. What good does it do to always, and automatically, apply the unwritten "rules" of Capitalism (which the conflationist USA steel distributors interpret as...
If imported Chinese steel is tariffed, then we USA steel distributors must automatically raise our price to match! )
...if doing so puts a MASSIVE count of their USA-based customers out of business? It is with my point in mind that I suggest that the upcoming Trump administration enact laws and/or regulations that address this "kill-the-entire-customer-base" possibility. At the same time, such laws or regulations need to be crafted with great care. For instance, do you remember the now defunct Blockbuster Video rental chain? Just before BV went out of business, it was backing an outmoded technology (when compared with renting movies off of Netflix.) In no way would I ever want the US government to uselessly "prop up" a business that backs an outmoded technology method, and thereby assure that such a business (like BV) never goes "extinct." I would want laws and regulations that PRESERVE competitive pricing among all the USA-based distributors, especially when they sell to USA-based customers. Do you agree?
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@kogorun What I'm suggesting works like this... suppose you had 5 players who wanted to play poker. 4 of the players live and work in America, where all 4 distribute the same commodity to Americans, but all 4 players work for separate businesses. The 5th player lives and works in China, and is an importer that imports the same commodity (to America) that the American players produce. I am suggesting that we Americans create laws that make it so, within the borders of America, only the 4 American players can "sit down" to play a standard game of poker at the table, while the 5th player is tariffed so strongly, they essentially do not get a "seat" at the gaming table. Here, within this comment section, I am asking "why wouldn't this work?" For the 4 American players, they get to participate in a competitive game. As long as the element of competition is preserved, I am thinking that the goal of "playing" Capitalism would still be achieved.
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@tomredaintdead9575 From what the "blue text" tally says, this is probably the 300th reply in this comment section. I am always surprised to see that this video, which was uploaded about 3 months ago, continues to garner a lot of public interest. Right now, I am wondering when the topics discussed in this reply section will finally be directly mentioned and addressed by Trump and his hand-picked team. I wish good things for Donald Trump and his team, but I also suspect that, when September rolls around, if prices at the grocery store (and the like) do not substantially show improvement, then the "honeymoon" phase might be over a lot quicker than Trump's team suspects. At the very least, I look forward to hearing debates about the topics discussed in this reply section, on the floor and within the committees of the Congress and Senate.
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Not to sound like a staunch member of the Tin Hat Society, however, when it comes to mankind’s stalled circumstance, when it comes to answering the now-stale “big questions” of Science, I find hope and inspiration from witness accounts of UFO exploits, as well as from incredible paranormal events that I have witnessed, personally. After all, wasn’t the repeated acts of watching FLYING BIRDS what inspired Man to relentlessly pursue unlocking the secrets of flight? In a similar manner, we should feel inspired by the reported exploits of UFOs. Also, when I was 21, and while driving very late at night, going about 72 mph, I was suddenly affronted, from my open driver’s side window, by a pair of very large and very powerful disembodied HANDS. The hands immediately grabbed the left side of my steering wheel, and, with great force, tried to steer my car to fly over the embankment on my right side. I ultimately defeated the attempt made by the disembodied hands, however, I came away inspired by THE PHYSICS demonstrated by the nature of the hands. Indeed, the answers to our Science puzzles certainly exist, and we should not give-up when it comes to continuing the search for those answers. Now, where did I put my Tin Hat…. ??
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If anyone is tracking the news about the two astronauts stranded on the ISS, namely Sunita and Butch, NASA announced that the astronauts will remain stranded until sometime in February 2025. I think the whole ISS calamity might be a deliberately invented calamity, that has a political motive. Why? Well, have you noticed how similar the duo of Sunita and Butch look when compared with the visual appearance of the Kamala and Walz duo? The two pairs look so much alike, it makes me suspect that this was arranged on purpose. Between now and Election Day, much support and empathy will be expressed for the cause of Sunita and Butch, which might, on the basis of similar visual appearances, be mistaken for support for Kamala and Walz.
(Usually when I post this comment, it gets mysteriously deleted inside of 2 minutes.)
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It would seem, from inspection, that the summation results initially produce two odd numbers, followed by two even numbers, and this basic pattern repeats...
Example:
Using 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36... note that...
1, 3, both odd, followed by
6, 10 both even, followed by
15, 21 both odd, followed by
28, 36 both even .
This suggests a second pattern, which can be "layed over" the thus-far presented pattern.
In other words...
(odd) + odd = even
(1+2) + 3 = 6
...and next...
(even) + even = even
(1+2+3) + 4 = 10
...and next...
(even) + odd = odd
(1+2+3+4) + 5 = 15
...and next...
(odd) + even = odd
(1+2+3+4+5) + 6 = 21
Extracting the paradigm of this 2nd Pattern, we get...
(odd) + odd = even
(even) + even = even
(even) + odd = odd
(odd) + even = odd .
👆Let's call this column the parentheses column, Pc.
□□□□□□👆Similarly, let's call this column the NO parentheses column, NPc.
From inspection, it would seem that the identified EVEN perfect numbers only happen for the case...
(odd) + odd = even . Additionally, such perfect numbers only seem to arise when
the number appearing in the NPc column is an integer factor of the associated sum that appears NEXT TO it, in the Pc column. For example...
□□□□ ᴾ ᶜ □□□□□ ᴺ ᴾ ᶜ
□□□(1+2) +□□□□□3 [👈note that ᴺ ᴾ ᶜ 3 is an integer factor of ᴾ ᶜ 3 ]
(1+2+3+4+5+6) + 7 [👈note that ᴺ ᴾ ᶜ 7 is an integer factor of ᴾ ᶜ 21 ]
(1+2 • • • 29+30)+31 [👈note that ᴺ ᴾ ᶜ 31 is an integer factor of ᴾ ᶜ 465].
[note that...
31 × 15 = 465
...and that...
(1+2 • • • 29+30) = 465
...and that...
(1+2 • • • 29+30) + 31 = 496 ]
Using...
(1+2 • • • 29+30) + 31
...as a model, we could rewrite this as...
( ᴾ ᶜ sum ) + ᴺ ᴾ ᶜ .
We can then factor out ᴺ ᴾ ᶜ to yield...
ᴺ ᴾ ᶜ ( odd + 1 )
...or...
ᴺ ᴾ ᶜ × ( even )
...or...
odd × even .
And here's another cute elucidation!...
Going back to...
□□□□ ᴾ ᶜ □□□□□ ᴺ ᴾ ᶜ
(1+2 • • • 29+30) + 31 = 496
...note that the LARGEST INTEGER in the ᴾ ᶜ sum is the number 30.
Taking HALF of 30, we get 15 .
Wouldn't ya know it!... 15 happens to be the crucial number in...
31 × 15 = 465 [👈which is the sum of (1+2 • • • 29+30) ].
Let's try this for the other ones!
Going back to...
□□□□ ᴾ ᶜ □□□□□ ᴺ ᴾ ᶜ
(1+2+3+4+5+6) + 7 = 28
...note that the LARGEST INTEGER in the ᴾ ᶜ sum is the number 6.
Taking HALF of 6, we get 3.
Wouldn't ya know it!... 3 happens to be the crucial number in...
7 × 3 = 21 [👈which is the sum of (1+2+3+4+5+6) ].
Look at that!! It worked AGAIN! Now, going back to...
□□□□ ᴾ ᶜ □□□□□ ᴺ ᴾ ᶜ
□□□(1+2) +□□□□□3 = 6
...note that the LARGEST INTEGER in the ᴾ ᶜ sum is the number 2.
Taking HALF of 2, we get 1.
Wouldn't ya know it!... 1 happens to be the crucial number in...
3 × 1 = 3 [👈which is the sum of (1+2) ].
But all of this is to be expected...
Going back to...
(1+2 • • • 29+30) + 31 = 496
...note that we can form pairs within the ᴾ ᶜ sum.
For example...
(1 +30) = 31
(2 +29) = 31
(3 +28) = 31
□□□ •
□□□ •
□□□ •
(13+18) = 31
(14+17) = 31
(15+16) = 31
So, of course, the ᴾ ᶜ sum always has the ᴺ ᴾ ᶜ integer as a factor.
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Please explain this...
Back during the first half of the 1980s, the price of diesel was always much lower than the price of gasoline (...by anywhere from 30 to 40 cents, per gallon.) At that time, diesel was looked upon as an alternative fuel, and the DIESEL POWERED Volkswagen Rabbit was a very popular car. Also, farm tractors were mostly diesels, because, per gallon (and owing to the high compression ratio of diesel engines), diesel produces much more power than gasoline. Since farming is historically a low profit-margin business (where smaller family farms are concerned), diesel powered tractors make a lot of sense.
So my question is...
Since the 1980s, why did diesel, per gallon, become much more expensive than gasoline? My guess is that the price of diesel was deliberately manipulated, for 25 years, across the entire energy industry. Somebody should do a "deep dive" investigation into this matter.
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Sabine, I'm not a physicist. My degrees are in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering. Just the same, a collection of related ideas occurred to me, and I was wondering if you would critique my ideas, while remembering that I am not a physicist. That out of the way, here goes!...
The physics for the interaction between Gravity and Electromagnetism would seem to come down to noting the well-documented phenomenon known as gravitational lensing AND TO examining Maxwell's derived equation for the speed of light.
Gravitational lensing demonstrates that Gravity can bend the otherwise straight path of light. Since light is an electromagnetic propagation, Gravity apparently interacts directly with Electromagnetism. Additionally, Maxwell's derived equation for the speed of light...
c = √(1/ε₀µ₀) ; in which c is the speed of light expressed in units of (ᵐᵉᵗᵉʳˢ/ₛ)
...shows that the speed of light is exclusively dependent upon TWO experimentally measured values, namely ε₀ and µ₀.
ε₀ is the permittivity of free space...
ε₀ = 8.85×10⁻¹² (ᶠᵃʳᵃᵈˢ/ₘ) .
µ₀ is the permeability of free space...
µ₀ = 4π×10⁻⁷ (ʰᵉⁿʳʸ/ₘ) .
[Note that henry is the unit for electrical inductance and that farads is the unit for electrical capacitance. ]
I will hypothesize that, in a region of free space, both ε₀ and µ₀ are exclusively determined by Gravity. I will also hypothesize that, just as gravitational lensing demonstrates that Gravity directly interacts with Electromagnetism, Electromagnetism can warp/manipulate (i.e. interact with) Gravity. I will further guess that, in order for Electromagnetism to manipulate Gravity within a localized region, it would have to...
• exert a very strong field (since Gravity itself is extremely weak)
AND
• the EM field would have to be shaped into a necessary and unique vortex.
So, Sabine, what do you think? Could Gravity be strongly connected with Electromagnetism? Via the physical units for Electricity (i.e. the Farad; and the Henry), could Gravity be secretly electrical in nature, and we simply haven't made the necessary discoveries that would reveal such a connection? Please don't be too savage with me. As I already stated, I'm not a physicist. However, I do like to dare to dream.
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Today, illiteracy is rampant, even among so-called Educated People. Just last week, at my workplace, I discovered two instances. In one instance, the young white individual was the proud graduate of some Polytechnic school in California. However, in the course of conversation, he was instructed to locate the edge of a piece of tape at the tangent of two mating surfaces. With a dead-serious expression, he replied…
”What’s a tangent ?”
In another instance, which happened during the same week, I was dealing with a young white individual who revealed that he had once won 2nd Place in a high school Science Fair competition. When I asked this coworker where his boss was, he replied that his boss was with his young son at the hospital. It seems his son suddenly fell ill, and they had to rush him to the emergency room. The boss texted the diagnosis to my young coworker, but my coworker COULDN’T READ THE WORD. So he showed me the text, and asked me if I could read the word. Do you know what the word was? The word was APPENDICITIS. Can you imagine there exists a high school graduate, who won 2nd Place in a science contest, but cannot read the word appendicitis ?
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Electric suspended-from-a-steel-cable elevators will not even attempt to plummet to the ground in the event that Electrical Power is discontinued. That's not how their electric control works. I know, I used to service such elevators. You see, up on the roof of the building, there is a little shack where the ELECTRIC elevator control resides. Just before the large, electric motor in this shack begins to turn (either Clockwise or Counterclockwise), the spring-actuated brake (which prevents the large motor from turning) has to be DISENGAGED by activating an ELECTRIC SOLENOID. In the event that electrical power is discontinued, the Electric Solenoid will no longer be activated. When this happens, the SPRING on the Brake will mechanically engage the Brake. As you might expect, when the Brake is engaged, the steel cable (from which the elevator is suspended) can neither raise nor lower the elevator. The result is that it would be impossible for the elevator to plummet to the ground. Yes, there exists AN ADDITIONAL brake that is mounted onto the Elevator Car, itself. This particular brake ONLY ENGAGES in the event of a freefall event. However, there will be NO NEED for it to engage, because, as I have already pointed out, the Elevator Car will not go into a state of freefall, anyways. There is yet a THIRD reason why suspended-from-a-steel-cable Electric elevators WOULD NOT plummet to the ground (in the event that Electrical Power is discontinued.) On one end of the Steel Cable is the Elevator Car. On the OTHER end of the same Steel Cable is a large COUNTERBALANCE weight. So, even if BOTH brakes (the one up in the roof-mounted Elevator Shack; and the one mounted ON the Elevator Car itself) DIDN'T work, the Elevator Car would still NOT plummet to the ground. Instead, under the influence of Gravity, the Elevator Car would smoothly oscillate Up 'n' Down, until, eventually, the Up 'n' Down oscillations would cease and the Elevator Car would uninterestingly come to a safe stop, somewhere near the mid-height of the elevator shaft.
If the elevator in question IS NOT a suspended-from-a-steel-cable elevator, then it must be the type of elevator that is supported, from beneath, by a vertical-action Hydraulic Ram. Since a Hydraulic Ram could care less if electrical power is discontinued, once again, no elevator cars will suddenly plummet to the ground.
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You also have to account for...
• as a photon of starlight travels towards the surface of the Earth, the photon is passing through successive "gravitational zones", in which TIME progresses ever more slowly. You would have to wonder if successive SLOWER TIME zones affect the path of the starlight photon
• at the moment when a photon of starlight, headed for the surface of the Earth, left the surface of a star, the star was moving in an x direction, an orthogonal y direction, and an orthogonal z direction. If the photon of starlight, headed for the surface of the Earth, was moving at the speed of light towards the Earth (call this direction, x ), then what orthogonal y component of motion was imparted to the photon (by the star that the photon was emitted from) and what orthogonal z component of motion was imparted to the photon (also by the star that the photon was emitted from)?
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Sabine, all over YouTube, there is a couple of guys from India who keep posting what are called Olympiad Math Problems. In nearly every presentation, the equations are non-linear, however, the presenters always find the associated answers. In every case that I have watched, the presenter performs approximately 3 to 4 'u -substitutions'. The first few 'u -substitutions' end-up being non-linear equations, as well. However, in every case, on THE LAST 'u -substitution, the resulting equation finally "goes linear", and the sought after value for y is finally discerned. From that point, "back substitution" is performed, and so, the elusive value for x is finally revealed. What is my point? My point is that, where non-linear equations are concerned, 'u -substitutions' can be made. Essentially, each time a 'u -substitution' is introduced, identically, an isomorphism is likewise revealed. These isomorphisms form a sequential "chain" of isomorphisms, until finally, the FINAL isomorphism mapping equation always ends-up BEING LINEAR. 👈 Could this imply an unproven conjecture? Could all non-linear equations, after enough "chained together" u -substitutions, always terminate with a solvable LINEAR u -substitution equation? That is the idea that always occurs to me, whenever I watch those guys-from-India solve their Olympiad Math Problems on their YouTube channel.
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Am I the only person who remembers the Mt. Saint Helens eruption that took place in 1986 ? I was working 3rd shift at the time, in the Summer of 1986, in Binghamton NY. I woke up at around 1pm, looked out at the sky, and immediately thought that I had overslept (...and was late for work.) As I drove to get to work, I kept noting how dark the sky was. When I got to work, I found out that my 3rd shift wouldn't start for another 8 hours. That's when people told me that Mt. Saint Helens had erupted, and spewed SO MUCH black ash into the sky, that even the midday sky over Binghamton NY was blackened, during the middle of a summer day. These days, nobody ever talks about the Mt. Saint Helens eruption of 1986. I always get the feeling that I am the only person on Earth who remembers it.
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I'm still worrying about the weird foreshadowing that is taking place.
Maybe it's nothing. Maybe it's something. What is it? Let me explain...
Recently, you may have heard about the 2 astronauts who are stranded on the International Space Station. NASA says the 2 astronauts will remain stranded until February 2025. Surprisingly, if you have seen photos of the 2 astronauts (photos taken when the 2 astronauts happen to be standing next to each other), the pair of astronauts have an undeniable resemblance to Kamala and Walz. When it comes to politics, I don't believe in accidental coincidences. I think the 2 "look-a-like" astronauts are stranded, up on the International Space Station, until February 2025, on purpose. I think this intentional "stranding" is intended as a foreshadowing message, telling all of us that, by some means, the duo of Kamala and Walz, come February 2025, are going to end-up in the White House.
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Let's not lose sight of how amazing, and out of the ordinary it is, to not only be able to travel TO outer space, but to be able to deterministically travel to a specific, desired coordinate in outer space, followed by accurately docking with a space station, which happens to be hurtling at an outrageous horizontal velocity. The mastery of the required mathematics and chemistry alone, necessary for achieving such outrageous feats, is staggering. Even the most mundane trip into outer space is likely fraught with over 200 points of potential Single Point Failure, regarding any engineered space-worthy vehicle. I'm not attempting to make excuses for NASA and Boeing. I simply think that casual outside observers should not become complacent with the advent of space travel. Like many endeavors, it's much harder than it looks.
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Whether we like it or not, we have to take the time to review published, new theories. I think it was around 1874 that Georg Cantor published a research paper on his concept of set theory. For a long time, the paper was rebuked and challenged, by leading mathematicians. Nearly 100 years later, elements of Set Theory were standardized within every leading 4th-generation Computer Language. In my public school, when I began the 2nd Grade (in the year 1972; here in New York State), the math textbooks we were issued taught Set Theory. However, before the end of the school year, it was announced that the teaching of Set Theory would be discontinued, in favor of teaching pints/cups/quarts/feet/inches, instead. I have always thought that my entire mathematical education was "set back", by about 10 years, as a result of that administrative decision. It wasn't until I got to college that I started to "make up for" the educational damage that had been done.
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From my own experiments, I tend to believe that brown outs (as opposed to black outs) have the potential to start house fires. Here’s how…
You know those curly “twist cone” light bulbs? From my own electrical experiments, they present a potential fire hazard WHEN you steadily supply them WITH ONLY 50Vac (instead of the standardized 115Vac.) When only 50Vac is supplied, the mercury vapor fails to significantly conduct electricity. INSTEAD, right at one (of the two) points where glass tubing exits the plastic base of the bulb, the PHOSPHOR DUST COATING will conduct electricity. When this happens, the phosphor dust coating ACTS LIKE A RESISTOR, while continuously…
• throwing A LOT of Heat; and
• producing a small zone of Orange Light.
If the application of 50Vac (i.e. a brown out) goes on long enough, the plastic base (of the curly “twist cone” light bulb) will melt, followed by dripping AND catching on fire. You don’t have to take my word for it. In a controlled environment, on a Test Bench, you can combine a suitable Variac with a typical curly “twist cone” light bulb, and thereby sustainedly supply only 50Vac to the light bulb (which duplicates the conditions of a typical brown out.)
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@Americanmamaistired Here is an additional scenario, that I run into, that you never hear about. I will go to a job where the desired skill set, for the whole workplace location, is along the lines of Trade School employment. The moment I mention that I have been to college, and have 2 degrees, the whole place automatically assumes that, as a "college boy", I know nothing about how to screw-in a lightbulb, and that I am incapable of ever learning how to screw-in a lightbulb. it's a weird form of discrimination, and I think this discriminatory mode of thinking gets promoted by FOX News and Mike Rowe (the millionaire; of Dirty Jobs fame.)
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@Americanmamaistired I'm not denying that what you are saying is often the case. What I am pointing out is that many people who already have a legitimate college degree (with a worthwhile major; obtained by legitimate means) are constantly being told, especially during FOX News broadcasts, that they are a useless idiot. People like myself are regularly being bashed, insulted, and shamed, for having gone to college, and for having come away with 2 degrees, and the "bashing" is often spewed during FOX News broadcasts. FOX "paints" with a broad brush. FOX News constantly hammers-out the message that...
• college is a poor value
• college is worthless
• college is useless
• the people who are a "product" of college are likewise worthless and useless
At least Elon Musk, when he derides those who hold a college degree, has the decency to only deride a college-degree Holder IF that person is incapable of demonstrating any useful mental acuity, or productive results.
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@Americanmamaistired I am going to address your first sentence. You are absolutely right, in that managers who do not have a college degree do not want employees under them who do have a college degree. As a holder of 2 significant college degrees, I can tell you that it is a quiet Hell to work under such managers. I have worked under 3 such managers. They don't want employees in their department who will potentially advance past them. Now, keep in mind, there exist two major categories of college degree holder...
• those that are not savvy when it comes to working with industrial machines and industrial hand tools
• those that are extremely savvy when it comes to working with industrial machines and industrial hand tools
I am in the 2nd category. I am proficient in my college majors (computer science; mathematics; electronics/electrical engineering), but I am also proficient and experienced in a wide range of tasks that most people would associate with a Trade School education. When a guy like me gets assigned to work in a department that is managed by someone who does not hold a college degree, then a guy like me usually ends-up being professionally "suffocated" (like a man forcibly held underwater.) In one case, I was "two managers" deep in this situation, in that my immediate manager, along with HIS manager, did not hold a college degree, AND, both expressed a dim view of the value of a college degree. It is a lousy form of exploitation and discrimination to be "held down", relative to any possibility of career advancement within a company, just because you happen to be a college degree holder who works under two-layers-deep of non-degree managers. But it happens, just the same. And nobody talks about it.
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@Americanmamaistired Permit me to add to your "calculus" (which describes the nature of Mean People), that, in our world, we have mean people who will willingly participate in a group, a group that routinely specializes in being the equivalent of a destructive tornado, a tornado that intentionally targets a specific individual (i.e. YOU.) But wait, there's more! Unlike a natural tornado, which "blows through", and doesn't return, the "group" tornado is different. The "group tornado", after "it" has destroyed you, and removed everything that you own, will target you repeatedly, by asking a tirade of insulting questions, which go something like...
"HEY! how 'cum we all got stuff, and you DON'T ?"
You see, the "group tornado", on the official level, pretends that they had nothing to do with taking away everything that you own, but unofficially, on the side, while smirking and grinning, know DARN WELL that they were the ones that deliberately targeted you, and removed all your stuff. As "mean people" go, it doesn't get much meaner than that. Stated in terms of your "disabled person with no legs", the "group tornado" will be the people who arranged for the legs to be removed, followed by insisting that the "no legs" lazy bum Get Up And Walk.
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The Moon is tidally-locked to the Earth, but the Moon, relative to the Sun, is constantly rotating, while constantly revolving around the Sun, as well. When it comes to revolving around the Sun, the Moon is never in a state of retrograde. The Moon is constantly "tracing out" a spirograph sinusoid, as the Moon revolves around the Sun. Of all the planetary bodies, Earth's Moon seriously has the coolest planetary path. What's fascinating is that no one ever questions WHY it is possible for the Moon, when seen from Earth, to always exhibit the same Moon-phase, per Earth-day, no matter what earthly Time Zone you might be standing in.
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For accomplishing cube doubling, you need the following multiplier...
1.2599210498948731647672106072782 .
Multiply the above number by the length of a side of your original cube, adopt the result as the length of the sides of a NEW cube, and the new cube will have double the volume of the original cube. So, the challenge would be to find a way, using only Ruler and Compass, to create lengths that are...
1.2599210498948731647672106072782
...times initial linear SIDE lengths.
note: It seems reasonable that a person could compute
1.2599210498948731647672106072782
times the length of a side of a cube. Next, a person could set the width of a compass span to equal this result, followed by drawing a circle. Note that the compass span width could be checked against the markings on the ruler. Next, a person could draw a straight line through the center of the circle, by using a ruler. Next, a person could draw another straight line through the center of the circle, but this time, orthogonal to the first straight line. Tangential to where these straight lines meet with the edge of the circle, draw two more straight lines, one horizontal, the other vertical. The four straight lines should now form a square. Use the resulting square as the sides of a cube, and the resulting cube will have double the volume of the initial cube.
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@Bthdk-tc6yi The "business model" for this particular trucking company was as follows...
• they would continuously run a relatively local ad, advertising for new drivers, on cable TV, usually during FOXNews types of broadcasts, and usually these ads would run predominantly late at night;
• the TV ad would promise new drivers Big Wages, along with a BIG sign-on bonus;
• every driver I worked with told me that they NEVER SAW the sign-on bonus in their pay;
• the trucking company would always, on every delivery trip, accuse the new driver of shortages (i.e. theft), and would deduct the amount of the shortage from the new driver's pay;
• the trucking company regarded New Drivers to be very easy to come by, and, like I already said, this trucking company CONSTANTLY ran a cable TV ad, advertising for New Drivers;
• the result was that this trucking company didn't care a wit about New Drivers, and would deliberately tick them off until they predictably quit.
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@gbennett58 Regarding increasing the Earth's albedo, I remember hearing a news story expressing a desire to paint black asphalt roads/highways white. If true, and if every road/highway in North America were somehow made white, then, in terms of numbers, I don't know what degree of measurable net effect this would produce. Also, during the final years of the Obama administration, I remember looking up at the overhead cloud cover (I live in what is referred to as the Southern Tier of NYS) and noticing that, on a regular basis, the cloud cover had an unusual interlaced and/or weaved "wax-y" appearance. At the time, I associated this with rampant conspiracy stories that claimed, out over the Pacific Ocean, along the Washington-California coastline, high-altitude airplanes were intentionally spraying reflective substances into the air, in a crosshatch fashion. According to the conspiracy stories of that time, the idea was to have the dispersed high-altitude substances reflect heat (from the Sun) back out into outer space. Again, I don't know if any of these stories were true, and if they were true, I don't know what measurable net effect such actions would produce.
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@jeffh.8127 Thank you for your reply. For the benefit of others, I want to mention that LLM stands for Large Language Model, and can be looked up at W_ _ _pedia. Recently, Elon Musk et. al. have made a lot of progress with their humanoid Optimus robot, and the following is my critique of such robots, which I have been regularly posting...
Real World Tools require struggle…
In order for an autonomous humanoid robot to have any value in a factory, the robot needs to be able to use Real World Tools. However, such tools, even when they are top-of-the-line AND brand new, always require struggle. For example, consider the Jacob's chuck of a hand drill. After you tighten a drill bit in the chuck, you then start the drilling task, at which point the bit will probably demonstrate some rotational SLIP. You then have to STOP drilling, immediately followed by re-tightening the drill bit in the chuck. Once re-tightened, you immediately resume drilling. The intelligence of a robot won't be able to duplicate this. A robot's intelligence won't be able to assess that...
• the drill bit is rotationally slipping;
• excessive rotational slip is unacceptable;
• the cause of the rotational slip is due to a need for more Chuck Tightening;
• at the very least, the drilling operation needs to CEASE;
• the drill bit needs to be repositioned and retightened (within the Chuck);
• the Drill Key (which is used to tighten the Jacob's chuck), will always SLIP, even if the drill is top-of-the-line and brand new;
• once the drill bit is suitably retightened, the drilling operation needs to resume.
□ In other words, the task of using a Real World Tool always includes the need to struggle with the tool. The intelligence needed to efficiently perform such struggle goes way beyond what the intelligence of an autonomous humanoid robot is capable of.
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@jeffh.8127 Thank you for your reply. For the benefit of others, I want to mention that LLM stands for Large Language Model, and can be looked up at W_ _ _pedia. Recently, Elon Musk et. al. have made a lot of progress with their humanoid Optimus robot, and the following is my critique of such robots, which I have been regularly posting...
Real World Tools require struggle…
In order for an autonomous humanoid robot to have any value in a factory, the robot needs to be able to use Real World Tools. However, such tools, even when they are top-of-the-line AND brand new, always require struggle. For example, consider the Jacob's chuck of a hand drill. After you tighten a drill bit in the chuck, you then start the drilling task, at which point the bit will probably demonstrate some rotational SLIP. You then have to STOP drilling, immediately followed by re-tightening the drill bit in the chuck. Once re-tightened, you immediately resume drilling. The intelligence of a robot won't be able to duplicate this. A robot's intelligence won't be able to assess that...
• the drill bit is rotationally slipping;
• excessive rotational slip is unacceptable;
• the cause of the rotational slip is due to a need for more Chuck Tightening;
• at the very least, the drilling operation needs to CEASE;
• the drill bit needs to be repositioned and retightened (within the Chuck);
• the Drill Key (which is used to tighten the Jacob's chuck), will always SLIP, even if the drill is top-of-the-line and brand new;
• once the drill bit is suitably retightened, the drilling operation needs to resume.
□ In other words, the task of using a Real World Tool always includes the need to struggle with the tool. The intelligence needed to efficiently perform such struggle goes way beyond what the intelligence of an autonomous humanoid robot is capable of.
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@jeffh.8127 Thank you for your reply. For the benefit of others, I want to mention that LLM stands for _Large Language Model. Recently, Elon Musk et. al. have made a lot of progress with their humanoid Optimus robot, and the following is my critique of such robots, which I have been regularly posting...
Real World Tools require struggle…
In order for an autonomous humanoid robot to have any value in a factory, the robot needs to be able to use Real World Tools. However, such tools, even when they are top-of-the-line AND brand new, always require struggle. For example, consider the Jacob's chuck of a hand drill. After you tighten a drill bit in the chuck, you then start the drilling task, at which point the bit will probably demonstrate some rotational SLIP. You then have to STOP drilling, immediately followed by re-tightening the drill bit in the chuck. Once re-tightened, you immediately resume drilling. The intelligence of a robot won't be able to duplicate this. A robot's intelligence won't be able to assess that...
• the drill bit is rotationally slipping;
• excessive rotational slip is unacceptable;
• the cause of the rotational slip is due to a need for more Chuck Tightening;
• at the very least, the drilling operation needs to CEASE;
• the drill bit needs to be repositioned and retightened (within the Chuck);
• the Drill Key (which is used to tighten the Jacob's chuck), will always SLIP, even if the drill is top-of-the-line and brand new;
• once the drill bit is suitably retightened, the drilling operation needs to resume.
□ In other words, the task of using a Real World Tool always includes the need to struggle with the tool. The intelligence needed to efficiently perform such struggle goes way beyond what the intelligence of an autonomous humanoid robot is capable of.
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@jmodified Specifically, focusing upon the initial battery/lightbulb example in the desert, the majority of the energy seems to flow in the SHORTEST path lengths. Now, it is said that the purpose of the wire is to severely increase the efficiency with which the energy is transferred. However, if you look at the battery/lightbulb example in the desert, there exists almost no wire at all along the SHORTEST Poynting vector path. Is my analysis/assessment correct? It would seem that, by flowing through this extremely short distance (where almost no wire exists) is the only way the (1/c) time interval can be achieved.
The video information starting at 11:01 would seem to concur with my assessment. So, apparently, the first Veritasium video (in this two-part series) did not answer my Poynting vector question, but, upon review, this follow-up second video DID.
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@paulschaller3644 That Constitutional Republic is implemented in the form of a machine, which in turn is made up of bureaus, departments, and agencies. Within that machine, the Democrats know every cog and gear, and how to inappropriately manipulate those cogs and gears, often in the form of a secretly orchestrated conspiracy. Think of a kid who has learned how to superglue a long piece of thread onto the side of a quarter. The kid then feeds the quarter, on the end of the thread, into the slot of a vending machine. At a precise length of thread, when jostled, the quarter will repeatedly engage a switch, making the vending machine think that several quarters have been deposited. Manipulations like this are what the Democrats, and the Deep State, know how to do, throughout the entire machine that represents the embodiment of our Constitutional Republic.
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@ravenatorful First of all, I want to mention that I once owned a 1903 unabridged Webster's dictionary. One day, I decided to look-up the word, empathy. Guess what? It wasn't there! Apparently, during the publishing and printing effort, immediately prior to the year 1903, the word empathy hadn't been invented yet. Seems like a point that we ought to at least touch base with. Next, I was thinking deeply about my "argument", at around 3am, this past morning. Here's what I came up with. A humanoid robot, possessing a synthetic AI as its intelligence, can continually improve upon producing responses, expressed in Real Time, that persuade an actual human to believe that the robot is a feeling-and-caring being, yet, all the while, absolutely NO CAPACITY TO "feel" feelings is taking place, regarding any place inside of the robot. Inside of the robot, the robot is as completely inert as a 🪨stone. The capacity to "feel" a feeling (as opposed to merely numerically processing an incoming byte stream of numbers; numbers which represent an input signal, received from a peripheral sensor) is a physical dimension of Human Life (and, I would imagine, Animal Life, as well) that even the best thinking, put forth by our best philosophers and scientists, can only reach towards, but never quite grasp. I sometimes like to think that some truly greater intelligence, much greater than our entire human intelligence, DOES know the answer to the "riddle", and this intelligence regularly amuses itself, by snickering at us, every once in a while.
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@chrism1503 I am saying that, as a human being myself, I know that I experience feelings when I process "input" that comes from the sensory nerves in my fingertips. I am not simply a "stone cold" inert machine, processing a byte-stream of numbers, interpreted as a signal, which comes from sensors/transducers within my fingertips. A robot, on the other hand (bad pun), IS merely a "stone cold" inert machine, imbued with a sophistication that permits it to detect and respond to a byte-stream of numbers, interpreted as a signal, which comes from sensors/transducers. As far as animals are concerned, I fully expect that they experience feelings, in the same manner, and to the same degree, that humans do.
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In general, politicians running for public office are Stinky Pigs.
You try to vote for the Stinky Pig who walks in all the right directions, MORE OFTEN than the other Stinky Pig running for the same public office.
Where Trump is concerned, he's really not a politician. A politician plays politician games, and, not being a politician, Donald Trump doesn't play any of those politician games. As a Stinky Pig goes, in a relative sense, he's the closest thing to Stink Free that we've had, in a long time. If anything, he wants to take a Costco-size bottle of Febreze to every corner of Washington, as well as to all of the Sanctuary Cities.
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President Trump recently announced the establishment of a NEW initiative to have the USA establish spaced-based satellites that are tasked with remotely SHOOTING DOWN the launch of ICBMs, launched by other countries,... ESPECIALLY if those ICBMs appear to be headed for the USA. If LASERS were employed, within the satellites, for this purpose, then it stands to reason that foreign countries might "plate" the exterior of their ICBMs with GOLD, on account that Gold has a HIGH reflectivity rating. On the other hand, going back to the days of Ronald Reagan's proposed Star Wars initiative, Ronald specifically proposed that lasers be used, and the scientific community immediately responded by saying that it would be more practical, in place of lasers, to use MICROWAVES. Gold, being an excellent Microwave Susceptor, as well as an excellent Electrical Conductor, would probably be A TERRIBLE CHOICE for "metal plating" an ICBM exterior with, in the event that DIRECTED MICROWAVES were used.
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He's a helluva nice guy for making this video, and he has come up with an excellent set of graphics tools that communicate very well, however, I find it really annoying that the name he chose for the STATE VECTOR (with a ➡ appearing above it) was the lower case 'v'. I mean, most people are going to look at that and immediately say to themselves "AH! that means VELOCITY!" and, in this video, they would be wrong. The subsequent derivative (of v with a ➡appearing above it) IS the velocity (of v with a ➡appearing above it.) Apparently, he chose 'v' as a general way to represent the word 'vector', however, v is so often used to denote velocity, that it really makes for a lot of confusion.
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I took more math (to get my 2-year AS Computer Science and Math degree) than my prior 8th grade Math Teacher (who had a Masters Degree and a Teaching Certificate.) Here's my story...
Right after I graduated from my 2-year Associates Degree (majoring in both Computer Science and Mathematics), I couldn't find a Computer Science job in the private sector, so I went back to my college and signed-up to be a tutor. This turned out to be a great choice. I then decided to go back to both my high school and my junior high school (with the intent to sign-up to be a tutor in Math.) Things got interesting when I went over to my previous junior high school.
When I went into the main office of my junior high school, I told the ladies there what I was up to, and they told me that I would have to speak with the "head" of the junior high school's Math department. I asked "who's that?", and they told me the name of my prior 8th grade math teacher. I replied "he still works here?!?", with a bit of surprise in my voice. Anyways, I walked down the appropriate hallways, located my prior math teacher, and we began to have an interesting chat. He asked me "What math have you taken?", and I told him Calculus, Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis, and Differential Equations. He immediately told me "Back when I got my Masters, they didn't require us to take Linear Algebra (nor Numerical Analysis nor Differential Equations.)" I was astounded! From what I could discern, his Masters degree was more about psychology classes than it was about learning math. By the way, this all happened in New York State. Also, this all happened many years before anybody had conceived of STEM or STEAM programs.
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One of the big questions, that everybody seemed to sleep 😴 through…
…was how the heck the price of Diesel, all across the 1970s and 1980s, was always significantly cheaper than gasoline, but after the year 2000, suddenly became far more expensive than gasoline. In fact, back during 1983 thru 1985, the Volkswagen RABBIT diesel was constantly advertised as an alternative fuel, high mileage, cheap-to-operate vehicle. How did this change in fuel prices, along with attitudes, happen? Was the whole world asleep 😴 💤??
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Democrat political conspiracy involved?...
I can't help noticing how similar the duo of Sunita and Butch look when compared with the duo of Kamala and Walz.
For the purpose of optics, is it possible that this visual similarity was planned for, all along?
Is it possible that soft-minded, low-information Voters, between now and early November, will constantly be deluged with both news and videos that feature photos of Sunita and Butch, standing together, and that a visual connection (with Kamala and Walz) is intended as a subliminal suggestion, a suggestion to get the "dumber" Voters across America to vote for a "picture", a picture which was deliberately "engineered" to instill strong feelings of support and empathy, and, by mistaken association, elevate both Kamala and Walz to the status of MARVEL-like superheroes?
You can't argue with the fact that many Americans watch way too many "comic book" superhero movies, and that their minds are likewise soft and suggestible.
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[This comment will be deleted, but here goes, anyways…]
If you haven't noticed, by now, the duo of Sunita and Butch, in photographs, look extremely similar to the duo of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Often, in photos, the duo of Sunita and Butch are seen waving and smiling, while wearing spacesuits that happen to be Democrat blue. During election years, I am highly suspicious of coincidences, to the extent that I suspect that this "look-a-like" outcome is no accident. Furthermore, it has been announced that Sunita and Butch will remain stranded until February 2025, which might foreshadow that, by some means, the "look-a-like" duo of Kamala and Walz will still be relevant, come February 2025. In other words, this whole story, about astronauts stranded on the ISS, MIGHT be a deliberate foreshadowing message, foreshadowing the eventual election of Kamala and Walz. I guess we will have to wait and see. In the meantime, no one can deny how similar the duo of Sunita and Butch look when compared with the duo of Kamala and Walz.
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@muxion
Do you mean to say that, back in the day, the slaves that knew how to use a cotton gin, and had access to a cotton gin, were suddenly priced higher, by a factor of 10? Then again, if every plantation had cotton gins, wouldn't the slave-value "mark up" be canceled out, because every slave's value was increased, across all plantations, equally?
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@Mp57navy I agree. I hate to say it, but we seem to be ending up with a world composed of only film majors and lawyers. Which reminds me of a story that I once heard about the introduction of portable transistor-based radios. Back in the day, the advertising for portable transistor radios would prominently indicate the count of transistors inside the radio. Apparently, the average RUBE thought that, the more transistors inside, the better the radio. AS A RESULT, manufacturers used to put a whole bunch of additional NON-ESSENTIAL transistors inside of such radios, just to increase (??) the perceived "value" of the radio. It was all just a marketing ploy! Anyways, here in the present, it's beginning to sound like they are once again pulling the exact same scam, only this time, they are doing it with qubits instead of transistors. Talk about history repeating itself! What did W. C. Fields once say? Was it...
"There's a sucker born every minute!!"
???
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@jeffh.8127 Thank you for your reply. For the benefit of others, I want to mention that LLM stands for Large Language Model. Recently, Elon Musk et. al. have made a lot of progress with their humanoid Optimus robot, and the following is my critique of such robots, which I have been regularly posting...
Real World Tools require struggle…
In order for an autonomous humanoid robot to have any value in a factory, the robot needs to be able to use Real World Tools. However, such tools, even when they are top-of-the-line AND brand new, always require struggle. For example, consider the Jacob's chuck of a hand drill. After you tighten a drill bit in the chuck, you then start the drilling task, at which point the bit will probably demonstrate some rotational SLIP. You then have to STOP drilling, immediately followed by re-tightening the drill bit in the chuck. Once re-tightened, you immediately resume drilling. The intelligence of a robot won't be able to duplicate this. A robot's intelligence won't be able to assess that...
• the drill bit is rotationally slipping;
• excessive rotational slip is unacceptable;
• the cause of the rotational slip is due to a need for more Chuck Tightening;
• at the very least, the drilling operation needs to CEASE;
• the drill bit needs to be repositioned and retightened (within the Chuck);
• the Drill Key (which is used to tighten the Jacob's chuck), will always SLIP, even if the drill is top-of-the-line and brand new;
• once the drill bit is suitably retightened, the drilling operation needs to resume.
□ In other words, the task of using a Real World Tool always includes the need to struggle with the tool. The intelligence needed to efficiently perform such struggle goes way beyond what the intelligence of an autonomous humanoid robot is capable of.
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It's all a Big Plan put together by unaffected Globalists and Super Elites.
We, on the other hand, are all cattle, being steadily herded into a very small set of unsavory "choices", ones which we would never choose, IF we had any real choice in the various day-to-day matters. And let's not kid ourselves... life, when it gets really ugly, tends to reveal a Dark Side of ourselves, a side which we all like to pretend could never exist. (Actually, the Globalists and Super Elites are effected. Since it's their Big Plan, they plan for getting rich off of the known-in-advance "choices" that we are all forced to "choose.")
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I see what you are trying to say, but I’m also thinking that your claim is not true. I don’t know what delivery Supply Voltage EV charging stations provide, so, for the sake of argument, let’s say it is 115 Vac. If the supply voltage is reasonably regulated, then it should stay pretty close to 115 Vac across a wide range of Current Draws. Since EV cars each carry their own individual Battery Charger, then, per Ohm’s Law, the Current Draw for a single EV car will be the impedance of the Battery Charger PLUS the impedance of the Battery. This impedance, considered with the 115 Vac supply voltage, will exclusively determine the Charging Wattage for a single EV car. If the transformer that delivers power to an EV charging station is selected properly, then the transformer should be able to deliver, per individual EV car, the same charging wattage to each car of a 4-car charging station, regardless of whether one car is charging or even 4 cars are simultaneously charging. You have to remember that, on the Electrical Grid, if the voltage “dips”, there are folks who monitor for this possibility, 24 hours a day, and accordingly adjust the amount of Electrical Power supplied to The Grid. With all this in mind, the whole problem comes down to merely selecting a sufficiently hefty Power Transformer at the EV charging station location.
NOTE: From reading the other comments in this forum, I am guessing that Australia has a lot of trouble when it comes to maintaining sufficient power on the electrical grid. I say again, if the GRID can supply enough power, then the whole matter comes down to the selection of a sufficiently hefty power transformer AT the EV charging station location.
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You mention Washing Machines.
We might as well include the other major appliance, Stove/Oven combos.
Both of these expensive appliances, in a short period of time, break down.
When they break down, it is usually due to the electronic Control Board.
What someone within America needs to do, starting with a readily available programmable Single Board Computer (think Arduino, or Raspberry Pi), is to create an open source program that can readily be downloaded into either of the Single Board Computers just mentioned, and design the program to readily control any manufacturer's Washing Machine or Stove/Oven. There is no sense in throwing away a $2000 major appliance WHEN a readily available Single Board Computer could be programmed to provide all the functionality that the major appliance possessed when it was brand new. Of course, such a Single Board Computer will need peripheral interfaces (i.e. touchpad keypad; lighted display; etc.) To this end, a bluetooth connection, between an iPhone or an Android phone, combined with an appropriate phone app, could be used as an all-purpose interface to nearly any major appliance. Do all this, that I am suggesting, and nobody will need to buy a new Washing Machine, or Stove/Oven, for at least another 20 years.
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I'm still worrying about the weird foreshadowing that is taking place.
Maybe it's nothing. Maybe it's something. What is it? Let me explain...
Recently, you may have heard about the 2 astronauts who are stranded on the International Space Station. NASA says the 2 astronauts will remain stranded until February 2025. Surprisingly, if you have seen photos of the 2 astronauts (photos taken when the 2 astronauts happen to be standing next to each other), the pair of astronauts have an undeniable resemblance to Kamala and Walz. When it comes to politics, I don't believe in accidental coincidences. I think the 2 "look-a-like" astronauts are stranded, up on the International Space Station, until February 2025, on purpose. I think this intentional "stranding" is intended as a foreshadowing message, telling all of us that, by some means, the duo of Kamala and Walz, come February 2025, are going to end-up in the White House.
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The mind-blowing concept that was implied, but not expounded upon, has to do with the connection between...
• Meaning
• Direction within a finite dimension vector space, such as 3D
• the way that an infinite "count" of possible vector directions, within a vector space of dimension 𝑛 , increases to an EVEN LARGER infinite "count" of possible vector directions, within a vector space of dimension ( 𝑛 + 1 )
□ What am I getting at? Recall that there is an equivalence between Direction and Meaning. Keep that in the back of your mind, for a second. Now picture a flat 2D plane, with a bunch of vectors that all have their "tails" at the (0,0) origin, and these vectors point in all possible directions, going around the entire 360°. Within the 2D flat plane, this describes an infinite "count" of Directions, and, because of the equivalence, a likewise infinite "count" of Meanings. Now picture in your mind a transparent 3D sphere, with a bunch of vectors that all have their "tails" at the (0,0,0) origin, and, like before, these vectors point in all possible directions, going around the entire 360° by 360° by 360°. For a moment, try to appreciate the MASSIVE INCREASE in possible vector Directions, within the 3D sphere, WHEN COMPARED with the already infinite "count" of possible vector Directions within the previous flat 2D plane. This massive increase in possible vector Directions (when going from 2D to 3D) is equivalent to a corresponding increase in possible Meanings. SO, why do I think this is an important point to make note of? It reveals that AI will be capable of appreciating a dimensional "depth" of Meanings THAT NO HUMAN could ever achieve. What we humans see ONLY AFTER arduously going through 10 pages of a math proof, a future AI, working with vectors that have a dimension of 𝑛 = 2048 , will be able to "see" and appreciate at a single glance.
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Personally, I think that every child in America, despite what their public school or their teachers might tell them, should commit themselves to believing that they are capable of learning anything, up to any degree of proficiency. That said, I think that such children, as soon as possible, should discover the Khan Academy videos (which are all over YouTube.) On top of that, I think a group of wise people should identify approximately 15 high-quality textbooks, and that anyone who wants a world class education should commit themselves to reading (cover to cover) every book in this yet-to-be-identified list of textbooks. If I could recommend at least one textbook for this proposed list, it would be a Calculus textbook (which was written by Howard Anton; I believe he taught at Drexler University) titled simply Calculus with Analytic Geometry. This textbook went through many published editions, across many years. I would recommend finding a used copy that was published around the years 1982 through 1985.
You know, in many ways, attending a college lecture is a lot like your days back when you were in either the 1st grade or kindergarten, when you would walk to the Library (the one within the walls of your elementary school building), and once there, sit on a carpet as a group, and listen to the librarian read to you from a book. Similarly, at a college lecture, the lecturer is presenting to you information that you could have read, all on your own, from a book. Ask yourself this... do you really need someone TO READ TO YOU, just as if you were still in either the 1st grade or kindergarten? Of course not. In the end, to get through college, you still have to take the time TO ACTUALLY READ textbooks. There is no getting around this. These days, because of well-crafted YouTube videos, life is actually easier, because the identical Textbook Information is now all in video format, all over YouTube.
If I was empowered to, I would ordain that every school-age child could avoid public school, altogether, and, instead, spend their years (up until the age of 19) reading from the list of 15 high-quality textbooks, that I have proposed. In my opinion, it would be a much better use of time.
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Show me even one cat that will just stand there, or sit there, and let an oncoming trolley hit it, anyways. After easily dealing with the trolley, the cat will probably go over to the lobsters, and act curious around them. Also, lobsters are so short, that the underside of a trolley probably can't hit a lobster, anyways. It seems to me that, no matter what an AI chooses, by way of the lever, neither cat nor lobsters will be harmed.
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I think what you are going to see is that the Democrat Party is going to exploit the fact that the two stranded astronauts, Sunita and Butch, stranded on the International Space Station until February 2025, as a duo, look almost identical to Kamala and Walz. SO, to keep Kamala and Walz hidden, while still promoting Kamala and Walz, you are going to see LOTS of photos of Sunita and Butch, DRESSED IN BLUE UNIFORMS, and thereby be mistaken for Kamala and Walz.
( note: remember that 'blue' is also the traditional color of the Democrats.)
I think the Democrats are betting that a lot of voters are stupid, to the point that their vote can be manipulated by optics.
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Engineers tend to "run over" Mathematics, with about the same disregard that a charging Monster Truck displays towards a parked VW Super Beetle. When that TV show The Big Bang Theory was in production, they always depicted the ongoing rivalry between a Theoretical Physicist and an Engineer, but I think they should have included the classic rivalry that goes on between Engineers and Mathematicians. Afterall, Mathematicians define that...
only a square matrix can possess an inverse
...but meanwhile, Engineers regularly produce non-square matrices, and state that such a matrix suddenly becomes 'singular' (i.e. suddenly possesses no inverse) in the event that one of the rows of the matrix has all of its terms sufficiently approach ZERO (i.e. the matrix "loses rank.") Engineers also unilaterally take it upon themselves to redefine the Euler Angles [that is to say α (alpha), β (beta), and γ (gamma)], so that these angles indicate rotation about the x-axis, rotation about the y-axis, and rotation about the z-axis, respectively. Engineers do this because they are interested in partial differentials and Jacobian matrices, for the purpose of controlling 6DOF (i.e. 6 joint) robots. Meanwhile, back over in "math class", the Euler Angles (α β γ) are always stated with respect to some 3D vector, whose "tail" is at the Origin, and with respect to the angles that such a vector makes relative to the x-axis (this would be α ), relative to the y-axis (this would be β), and relative to the z-axis (this would be γ.) The Mathematicians' definitions for α β γ came FIRST, but the Engineers don't care. Engineers just go ahead AND RE-USE the already defined angle variables α β γ, while simultaneously instantiating COMPLETELY NEW definitions for these variables. In this way, Engineers "run over" Mathematicians.
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@robertslugg8361
I don't know what chronological generation you grew-up during, but do you remember, long before the internet came along, when National Geographic was the only content available? The remake will probably show NatGeo magazines, from the 1970s, and then tell the rest of the story as a flashback. On a more serious note, think about the most ancient drawings, painted on the inside walls of caves. The drawings show lots of males, hunting large animals, but I don't think there is a single Cave Drawing of ancient man's idea of a Pin-up Girl. In contrast, here in 2024, now consider the content of most computer hard drives, owned by your average 21st century male. It would seem that ancient man was not preoccupied with looking at females, whereas today it is quite the opposite.
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For many states, I don't expect that their "state version" of a Department of Education will be all that different from the present federal version. Education is a personal task. Every person should independently seek education, throughout their entire life, and, with vigor, they should endeavor to become a master of useful topics. This can be done without ever going to a brick 'n' mortar school building. YouTube, and especially YT's Khan Academy channel, is filled with world class educators presenting a world class education. We live in a time when ANYBODY can become usefully and extremely educated, just by watching (and re-watching) an intelligent selection of uploaded educational YouTube videos. Despite the usual negative opinions expressed on FOX News, Wikipedia is a marvelous educational resource, when it comes to Higher Math and the Sciences.
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Historically, when it comes to slavery, the issue (as to enslave or not to enslave) was treated as a States' Rights issue, and left to each state to decide, individually. Eventually, at the federal level, the 13th Amendment was passed, which abolished the practice of slavery, throughout America. Today, the issue is abortion, and the US Supreme Court recently declared that it is up to each state to individually decide whether or not to legally permit abortion. Still, although it doesn't seem likely that Donald Trump's administration would ever push for it, a person has to wonder if, someday, some administration might want to go so far as to push for a constitutional amendment that flatly declares abortion to be illegal, nationwide.
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