Caption: A new report links the death of a Scottish nurse to Mounjaro, a weight-loss drug from Eli Lilly that belongs to the GLP-1 receptor agonist class. This drug category, including Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy, works by making users feel full, thus reducing food intake. Originally developed for diabetes, these drugs are now widely used for weight loss and have gained popularity, partly due to social media endorsements.
Downwinders
(Watch the video here) From Full Measure
August 1945 was the first and last time nuclear weapons were used in war. The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were primarily destroyed by a single American atomic bomb.
But before America unleashed those devastating new weapons, they had to be tested, so the first place to feel the effects of a nuclear blast was Alamogordo, New Mexico, dramatized in the movie “Oppenheimer” about the Manhattan Project’s lead scientist.
In the decades to follow, the Cold War saw a heated race to build more and bigger nuclear weapons, and by the early 1950s, the US government decided to start testing them full-time on US soil rather than on islands in the Pacific.
Laura Greenwood: My husband was born and raised in Alamogordo, New Mexico, just 63 miles from where they detonated the first atomic bomb.
Laura Greenwood’s husband John died of cancer in 2012, she’s one of many Americans who say nuclear tests have had devastating consequences.
Greenwood: They packed that bomb with 13 pounds of plutonium, which has a half-life of 24,000 years.
We met Laura and her friend Mary Dickson earlier this year when they came to Washington asking lawmakers for help. Dickson is from Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dixon: We’re downwinders, that means we are survivors of nuclear tests that the government conducted in the desert of Nevada. They blew up 928 atomic bombs there. In the neighborhood I grew up in, I counted 54 people who had cancer, autoimmune diseases, and other radiation-related illnesses. I had thyroid cancer in my twenties. I’ve watched so many family members and friends become ill.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the government never told residents to move. They said the tests were necessary and safe, but a recent study by Princeton University showed radioactive fallout from 94 of the above-ground Nevada tests reached 46 states,
Scott: What kind of warnings, if at all, were your families given?
Dixon: We weren’t given warnings. You know what we got? We got a little booklet that told us, as some may say, that Geiger counters are going crazy these days; don’t let it bother you.
In the early 1980s, more than 1,100 plaintiffs sued the US government for negligence and won, but the government appealed, and that judgment was reversed.
A series of Congressional investigations in the 1970s and 1980s concluded the US government knew of the risks but failed to warn residents living downwind.
In 1990, the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was passed, providing small amounts of compensation to a very limited group of people.
Scott: What does compensation look like
Dixon: Right now, $50,000 does not even cover one chemo treatment, and they might say it costs too much, but you know who can’t afford it? We can’t afford it. We cannot afford it, and our government has spent trillions of dollars literally since the Manhattan Project on nuclear weapons. They plan to spend $1.5 trillion more, yet they say that that sliver of an amount we’re asking for is incorrect.
The law authorizing and funding the compensation expired over the summer, so no new claims can be paid for now.
Scott: Do you have any confidence, any faith that someone will ultimately do what you see as right?
Greenwood: I don’t know whether they will. They haven’t so far.
Scott: Do you feel a sense of urgency?
Greenwood: Definitely.
Dixon: Definitely. The clocks are ticking not only on getting something through but also on our lives.
Scott: Is it hard for you to talk about this without getting a little emotional?
Dixon: It’s amazing how many times we’ll tell this and how many times we cry. Sometimes, you steal yourself, but it’s hard. It’s hard when you’ve got people but still suffer when you’ve promised people. I’ll ensure I carry this story forward because our country tends to have a short attention span, and they’ll forget about it.
Some say that’s because it is easier and cheaper to bury the past instead of correcting it.
Scott: Do you think it’s easier for the government to relax a bit on this because it’s generational?
Dickson: They’re waiting for everybody to die.
Greenwood: I heard that over and over meetings I was in, these people would look and say, they’re just waiting for all of us to die, and while we wait, while there are delays, more people keep dying, and we’re going to get to a point where no one’s left, no one’s left.
Editorial note: USGOV has a nasty habit of waiting to adjudicate a claim until after the claimant has died.
Nukes
You might not have heard much about it, but America is in the middle of a once-in-a-generation effort to upgrade our nuclear weapons. One that will cost taxpayers 1.7 trillion dollars. Some now suggest it’s time to restart nuclear testing.
Crystal Ball?
I’ve discussed this before, but I was asked the question again, given the US is now aiding the Ukrainians in striking targets inside Russia (providing detailed targeting) with American-made weapons.
In the real world, Ukraine can never drive Russia out of the Don Bas. That is just a fact.
President Trump wants to negotiate a settlement of the war. Neither side is willing to do so under the prevailing status quo. It is a costly stalemate. Both sides fear the repercussions of backing down regarding their demands and objectives. Therefore, before the negotiations began, the game table needed to be reset. The stakes of failing to negotiate must become higher than the stakes of not negotiating. Whether these moves will be successful depends on circumstances, forces, and personalities beyond our control, which can be somewhat influenced.
I think President Trump will talk privately and separately with both sides with the proviso that what he says to one side will not be communicated to the other. He would tell the Russians several things would happen unless a settlement were reached immediately.
1. We will deliver all weapons systems requested in quantities the Ukrainians need, making the Russian position even more difficult, if not impossible.
2. We will allow Ukraine to select its chosen targets without interference or limitation.
3. We will bolster NATO and force them to make even greater contributions to the Ukrainian war effort than they have to date.
4. We will continue to increase our economic sanctions against Russia and against those nations [including China and India] that assist them to levels the world has never known [that will be Trump’s phrase for it].
5. We will move quickly to force Russia out of the European oil/gas market and rapidly create more than sufficient infrastructure to deliver the quantities needed to Ukraine. (Also, Vlad, those are nice pipelines you have there; it would be a pity if anything happened to them again.)
6. Any nuclear strike of any kind, anywhere in Europe, will be seen as a direct act of war against humanity, NATO, and the USA. [You know how those things get out of hand, right?] After that war, who occupies what in Ukraine or anywhere else would be a moot point.
7. Whatever other terrible consequence the imaginative mind of Pres. Trump can come up with. [Such as Ukraine somehow finding itself in possession of Pakistani nuclear weapons, without our help, of course.]
At the same time what would Trump offer Putin privately if he ended the war;
1. As of 11/2022, he can keep whatever territory he held in the Don-Bas provinces of Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea.[Any further territory seized would be returned immediately without condition].
2. Any territory taken in the provinces of Zaporizhia, Kherson, and elsewhere other than above will be returned to Ukraine without further destruction.
3. Ukraine will not be allowed to join NATO for the next ten years. However, this provision does not prohibit any individual nation from entering into a defense pact with Ukraine on its own.
4. Russia will guarantee no further aggression against Ukraine in perpetuity. Failure to do so will automatically cause all NATO nations to declare war on Russia.
5. All economic sanctions against Russia will be lifted unless Russia violates the agreement.
At the same time, Pres. Trump would tell Zelinski privately, that he will never be able to retake the captured territories on his own, even with the extensive military aid and the direct intervention of USA and NATO armed forces, which is unlikely ever to happen, therefore;
1. Unless Ukraine accepted the terms, all American military and economic aid would be cut off within four months, and he would encourage NATO to do the same.
2. That if Zelinski accepts the terms, America will help rebuild Ukraine into a better and more prosperous Ukraine than has ever existed [Trump’s good at saying these things.]
3. The USA would enter into a mutual defense agreement to guarantee Ukraine’s sovereignty, only this time we mean it, including direct military assets as needed.
This would be a hard pill for Ukraine to swallow; it would entail ceding about 20% of its original territory, but the latest polls indicate that, for the first time, over 50% of Ukrainians want the war ended.
How would either Putin or Zelinski respond? Both would initially reject the ideas in the agreement, but if both sides could be made to see the futility and potential destruction of continuing the war, perhaps there is a chance. President Trump is the only leader who could put both feet to the fire and be believed.
Bullet Points:
** Confronting genetics: If there aren’t any branches on your family tree, you can sing about it.
** The Underworld.
** If your wife would like to know what you’d do if she died, this is one proven strategic response.
** According to U.S. Army Major General (retired) James Marks, Antimony (Sb), a critical metalloid, is a key element of the American war machine. It is essential for communication equipment, night vision goggles, explosives, ammunition, nuclear weapons, submarines, warships, optics, laser sighting, and more. China controls nearly half of the world’s antimony production. It cut off antimony exports to the U.S. beginning in September this year. China produces an astonishing ~70% of the world’s rare earth minerals and controls nearly 50% of the global antimony supply.
** J.J. Thompson won the Nobel Prize in 1906 when he showed the electron was a particle. His son, George Thompson, won the Nobel Prize in 1937 when he showed that an electron is a wave. Now, we think of them as strings vibrating at different frequencies.
Electrons can vibrate at a wide range of frequencies depending on the energy they carry, but generally, their vibrational frequencies fall within the electromagnetic spectrum. Higher-energy electrons vibrate at higher frequencies, meaning they can emit light in the ultraviolet or visible range, while lower-energy electrons emit infrared radiation; the specific frequency is determined by the atom or molecule they are bound to.
But nobody knows what the strings are “made of.” Yes, “strings” are considered the fundamental building blocks of matter, meaning they are not “made of” anything else, but they were thought to be particles or waves before they were strings. Maybe they’re not “strings” at all?
** Joe Scarbrough and Mika Brzezinski put a brave face on the announcement that media giant Comcast is spinning off several of its networks, including MSNBC, which employs the husband-and-wife duo. It would be interesting to see if their politics would change if they lived as hardcore unemployable, which they certainly are outside the Swamp.
** Artificial Intelligence News: “Nvidia reported third-quarter earnings that beat expectations for sales and earnings while delivering a better-than-expected forecast for the current quarter. Revenue continues to surge at Nvidia, rising 94% annually during the quarter ending on Oct. 27. Many of Nvidia’s end customers, such as Microsoft, Oracle, and OpenAI, have started receiving the company’s next-generation AI chip, Blackwell.
** Was Barney the Purple Dinosaur a castrati? (Mail) And now, Dr Emily Contois, a media studies professor at the University of Tulsa, has argued that the hatred for the giant purple character is arguably somewhat down to masculine archetypes of the decade.
** Oil Biz – Saudi Arabia is reportedly opposing efforts at the COP29 climate summit to renew commitments to transition away from fossil fuels, the landmark pledge made at last year’s UN talks. Diplomats from the world’s top oil exporter are reportedly using delaying tactics and blocking maneuvers to prevent the pledge from being included in the COP29 agreement, The New York Times and Bloomberg reported, citing diplomats and officials involved in the talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Last year, Saudi Arabia initially resisted the deal before being swayed by fellow OPEC member and COP28 host, the UAE. While the kingdom is working to diversify its economy, oil revenues remain essential to funding its development projects. With a likely budget deficit this year and the potential for declining oil prices under a Trump administration that aims to encourage increased US drilling, Saudi Arabia may need to boost output to maintain its market share rather than phase out fossil fuels.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, awake to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of day are dangerous men. That they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.” -T.E. Lawrence
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Identify the Feature Film
A
3 Images
B
C
It’s a daytime shot but has to do with night.
Identify the Aircraft
1
Not difficult. Just look at it.
2
More difficult. Not an F-104…
Parting Shot
End
A is Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. The only one I’ve seen with my wife a long time ago.
Yes it is!!
I really enjoyed that movie. To me, it just had the right mix of campiness and nostalgia. I wish it had done better at the box office and generated a sequel or two.
Same here.
I think I’ll put it back on tonight.
I think most of it was done on a home computer.
Identify the Feature Film:
A. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
B. something with Burt Lancaster
C. Night of the Comet
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Northrop P-61 Black Widow
2. Lockheed F-94 Starfire, with experimental nose perhaps
Yes on #2, experimental variant. Klaus got The Killers.
B. is The Killers and Ava Gardener was so hot!
Yet still elegant.
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These new weight loss pills…the FenFen of today. People always looking for a fix from their lifestyle and/or inherent body mass. It’s simple: Eat less, move more…stay away from highly processed garbage…becayse TPTB are lying to everyone about nutrition. (Always found it moronic where one finds that “nutrition” label, half of which should simply say “They’re Doritos, there is no nutrition contained herein, not supposed to be…but there is fun.”
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Hegseth’s Tattoo- Ignorance is bliss, blame it on the forced crappy government “school” system that prefers boys in girls bathrooms instead of actual education.
My MD put me on Muonjaro for type 2 diabetes. Damn near shat myself to death with the side effect of induced diarrhea. Not the sort of drug you want to be on while on a long-distance driving vacation.
Did it come with a bedpan for you to sit on while driving?
No, which means I got really good at winching a power wheelchair out of the back of my truck with clenched buttcheeks.
>Hegseth’s Tattoo- Ignorance is bliss
Why would you think it’s ignorance? Maybe some people [1] think that Nazism and Christianity, not to mention whiteness in general (supremacist or not) [2] are all basically equivalent. All are existential threats and must be put down like rabid dogs. Only not with sorrow as in the case of hydrophobic canines, but with triumphant joy while clad in the gleaming armor of self-righteousness.
[1] Sulzberger, Sontag, Wise, Ignatiev, and so on and so forth
[2] the irony of conflating whiteness and Christianity seeing as: a) Christianity is universalist; b) probably the greatest growth of the Church is in non-white lands these days.
“Originally developed for diabetes, these drugs are now widely used for weight loss”
I’ve been told, might be old news, that diabetes victims are finding it hard to come by now.
Based on my thin understanding, the dosages used by the dieters are about double or even more than double that used to control diabetes.
That reminds me. Sumdood named L-L recommended L-Leucine from nutricost on his blog a while back. Seems to help. Thanks muchly!
It helps me, WWW. Glad it helps you.
Ps. Watched Lioness S2 Ep.1…Sheridan looks jacked. Been hitting the HGH like RFKjr?
I suspect so.
Just a stark reminder… 22 November 1963 … JFK was shot and killed in Dallas.
The day the we lost what Eisenhower warned us about January 17th, 1961.
Ukraine will not join NATO for ten years? That already dead idea isn’t even worth an LOL comment.
Trump will agree to bail out BlacrRock and the City of London by funding rebuilding of Ukraine with American tax money? Why of course that’s why Trump won in a landslide.
The Great Game Brits just can’t stop, can they?
agreed. The Ukraine doesn’t have to join NATO (besides which, it’s nowhere near the North Atlantic) to be an annoying thorn in Vladimir Vladimirovich’ (back)side; Volodymyr Oleksandrovych (or, moreso, whoever is “running” him) still remains/presents a threat to both Vladimir Vladimirovich and Alyaksandr Hrygorevich.
BTW, has anyone consulted with the latter?
Doesn’t in perpetuity mean: until the next election?
Unfortunately, it does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnjiy85ExcA
The car didn’t know the difference.
My favorite line from Night Of The Comet is “Daddy would have gotten us Uzis”.
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Putting a comment in it’s rightful place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnjiy85ExcA
The car didn’t know the difference.
I have A Modest Proposal regarding the settlement of the Ukraine War:
Televised knife fight between Zelenskyy and Putin. (Being Trump, pay-per-view. [1])
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Terms: to the death (“a l’outrance” for Beans). Body armor: none. TBA on whether a buckler will be allowed.
If Putin wins, Russia keeps all territory captured to date, and the US/NATO stops material aid to the globalist skinsuit called “Ukraine”. If Zelenskyy wins, return of newly seized territory, Russia pays for repatriation of displaced Ukrainians. Crimea remains under Russian control no matter what. Also no matter what, NATO, out of its generosity (and absolutely NOT because the US had anything to do with Nordstream’s unfortunate and highly mysterious accident; NOTHING I say, NOTHING!) splits cost of repair of Nordstream with Russia, 50/50. (No, this is not kindness, nor “slobbering on Putin’s knob” as another blogger is wont to say; Russia will need some way to pay for repatriating all those refugees. Trying to “Morgenthau” Russia may feel good in the short term, but in the long term is stupid and counterproductive.)
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Why this will work: Everyone is sick of at least one of those bastards and would be happy to see at least one of them carved up. Putin’s ego will not let him back down from this. Zelenskyy will probably feel obligated to go for it too, given all the ridiculous macho posturing with the OD green sweatshirts and the Arafat-style three day stubble (too busy fighting Russian oppression to shave) he’s been sporting. Plus Zelenskyy is an attention whore of the first order. He must be jonesing badly what with the withdrawal from international media attention. Both men are about the same size. IMDB (yes, Z has an entry, recall that he is an entertainer who dances in heels and plays the piano with his penis) says Z is 5′ 5 3/4 inches tall, every other source says he is 5’7″. Most sources make fun of Putin for being short, but say he is also 5’7″. (The Kyiv Post [2] on 24JAN2024 published a supposed quote wherein Ihor Kolomoisky calls Putin “a schizophrenic of short stature”.) Sure Putin is 72 and Zelenskyy is only 46, but Putin seems to keep himself fit. Zelenskyy on the other hand is good at the ground game, or so we are told. He’s seen much action on his knees, is good at holding his breath, and apparently can control his gag reflex.
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MC’s wish list: If Putin wins (and remember that the “winner” of a knife fight goes to hospital for weeks; loser to morgue), then he gets to knife fight ‘Toria Nuland and Ihor Kolomoisky. Nuland and Kolomoisky get to pick the order in which they face Putin. Both Nuland and Kolomoisky are also younger than Putin. Pretty sure Putin would go for this too. This has nothing (absolutely nothing!) to do with Putin’s remark about “vampires who fill their bellies with human flesh” so far as I am concerned. Putin is free to say that if he wants, but I disagree — for legal reasons.
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[1] Pay-per-view: also being Trump, proceeds to charity. Then why pay-per-view? To be able to brag about how much money was brought in.
[2] I can’t be arsed to look up whether it was the Kiev Post antebellum. But spelling it Kyiv (and especially saying “Keev”) are virtue signalling markers.
I’ll toss my credit card down to watch. Hopefully there is more drama than there was with the Tyson vs Paul bout on Netflix. PS – Make sure that the bandwidth is sufficient for a distraction free broadcast and pleasant viewing experience.
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Now that Mike_C settled that, what about some down ticket gladiator action prior to the main event? You can’t do a Putin v Nuland down ticket on the same event. It would have to be a different pay-per-view event. I’d like to see Mayor Pete vs SECDEF Pete in the octagon to the death. Give Mayor Pete, the trannysec some steel claws to scratch his opponent’s eyes out or something. SECDEF Pete can use a trident or whatever he’s comfortable with. I’d take a cutlass, but that’s me. Navy themes.
MTG v. Ocassio-Cortex. I’d max out the card for that double billing.
Over before it started.
Werent the nuclear weapons testing in Utah also attributed to the death of several people involved with John Wayne’s “The Conqueror?”
Someone figured that 90+ people of the film crew contracted cancer like John Wayne, Pedro Armendarez Sr., and Susan Hayward.
Flashback: Brother #3 to brother #4: “I love you, you love me. Let’s chase Barney up a tree.”
Brother #4: “STOP it. I’m tellin’ Mom!”
Good times.
Nuclear weapons have saved a lot more lives than they’ve taken, and we certainly
killed a lot more US civilians by drafting them over the years than we did through
shortening of lives with the side effects of nuclear testing.
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While unfortunate, it’s the price of progress IMO.
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Hegseth also had a Deus Vult tattoo (God wills it) this got some panties in a twist. I also read it was two left wing spec ops guys that originally reported him. Are left wingers in spec ops a thing ? Seems odd since realty is a big part of staying alive in tense situations.
The new and woke SpecOps community exists by ratting on each other. Zampolits have been assigned during the Biden Regime to encourage this behavior.
“Maybe they’re not ‘strings’ at all?”
mathematical constructs to describe a ring of negativism perhaps? (Democrats in 2024?)
“…The relativistic Dirac equation for the electron is an equation for 4-component spinors transforming under infinitesimal Lorentz transformations, for which a substantially similar theory of spinors exists.”
“Maybe they’re not “strings” at all?”
Who is pulling the strings?
The Large Hadron collider created a Higgs Boson (God Particle). I don’t think of it in that way but some do. We have an idea of what makes “stuff” but we’re not sure what it is and whether it’s always in this dimension of space time or whether different types of matter transition between dimensions. There’s a lot of theory (backed up with some mathematics) that can explain the existence of different dimensions (incredibly small) but understanding them in a meaningful way is beyond our reach. I toy with this sort of mathematics for fun because I want to understand more. (like Oliver Twist – never before has a boy wanted more) The brightest among us, of which I am at best a student — they’d call me a hobbiest, which is accurate — struggle to explain the nature of nature. There is a video clip coming up (on VM in a couple of days) from a doctor who explains how the body (and by extension, plants) use water. Fascinating. I understand the chemistry abstractly, but in the larger sense in the macro sense, it can bake your noodle.
Nuclear Testing: Project Shoal may explain the excellent crops and interesting characters on display in and around NAS Fallon. Except that prevailing winds are blowing the wrong way and the test was underground. Maybe something in the water? Middlegate, NV (of Monster Burger and TOPGUN fame) is directly east and only a few miles away. Hmmm
Electrons and strings: I thought that light was transmitted as photons, not electrons. Especially heat transfer via transmission (infrared). An LED is done via stimulated electrons (energy input) being boosted into higher orbits and the light is created when the electrons fall back into their lower orbits. However, what is the interaction between electrons and photons? Are they tied together somehow, as both exists as both waves and particles (wavicles)? Do electrons stimulate or create photons? It’s an “electromagnetic frequency” chart, not a “photonic frequency” chart. I’m so “confuzzled” (confused and puzzled). This would have been an excellent question for a former MITRE supervisor I had, who was asked to become a JASON.
When photons pass through a Higgs field they gain mass where there was none. Presumably they decelerate to less than light speed at the same time.
not to be a “quantum physics nazi” but…
(and I originally studied/had to take supplementary courses in this area ~65 yrs ago)
doesn’t the Higgs field only increase mass: if a particle (or whatever) doesn’t have mass i.e.: a photon, the Higgs field can’t increase the mass (multiply zero by etc …)
or am I way off and have to start reviewing that area again or should I just stick to endodontics (much more fun BTW)?
sorry! doesn’t the Higgs field only increase mass: if a particle (or whatever) originally has mass?
No. There is a transfer of massless energy to mass (with energy). Here’s a trick. Apply the force necessary to separate a pair of quarks. They’re usually paired. In the case of a proton, there are three, two up quarks, one down quark, and the gluons that mediate the forces “binding” them together. But let’s talk pairs with gluons. The energy to break the bonds between two quarks (up and down for example) will “produce” two more. Energy to mass. Don’t ask me to explain the why, Boron, don’t shoot the messenger. Just saying. And are Quarks just strings vibrating at specific frequencies? String theory would say that they are. What about the gluons?
>separate a pair of quarks
Separate the quarks? That’s cruel and inhuman (inhumane too). What are you gonna do? Are you going to put the littler quark in a cage? Do you want to make AOC cry again? Are you some kind of fascist or something?
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PS: Just like “tariffs don’t work” neither does deportation. Quantum entanglement tells us that the deported will still be in the US for ever (albeit in a fashion that I don’t have the math to understand). Anyway, the point is, Science proves deportation is a folly and needless cruelty. Unlike you deplorable rape-culture unvaccinated Trump lovers, I believe in Science.
Tough question – quantum physics vs. endodontics. Swapping mental pain for physical pain? A la Steve Martin in “Little Shop of Horrors”?
I could imagine a swap of energy for mass, or vice versa, per Albert Einstein – does that equation still hold water? If so, is the Higgs field the “translator” or what makes the Special Theory of Relativity happen? Or am I off on another tangent?
A lot of this will send your Neurons wandering and I’m not the expert. My mathematics thesis dealt with the now ancient use of fractals in the creation of block cyphers. Not quantum physics – which changes a lot. Photons are massless and don’t experience “time” because they travel at the speed of light. Can photons, wave form energy without mass, become strings (quarks and bosons) which are essentially wave form or string energy which when combined, create mass (leptons like electrons or neutrinos, which are also wave form strings – but now have mass) or can combine to create protons and neutrons? In String Theory, the transition from wave form photons to wave form objects that have mass (and back again) is not only possible, but common. Particularly in stellar reaction environments.
Just a reminder that our use of math is confined by the axioms we use in defining it. Our math may be wrong, incomplete or who knows. It’s important to remember it is a constructed tool.
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It is not a good idea to prove the correctness of a system from inside it. Hence, all the problems with our observations changing the outcomes.
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On a more understandable level… how long is a pencil? Our measurement due to atoms expanding and contracting is at best an estimate. Yet we readily grab a ruler and proclaim an arithmetic answer. Yet.. it is an estimate.
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Does any of this change the pleasure of studying physics and the universe? Of course not. But maintain perspective on our perceived understanding.
Interesting possibilities for ending the war, I’ll be watching with popcorn. Some lefty kicked over the gigglebox this morning when he said, “Schools must be cautioned that AI ‘may’ be racist.” Sigh…
Surveillance photo recognition software is racist because it identifies some negros as monkeys.
answer to a “tough question” sorta like the victims waiting to enter the tumbrel for their journey; it’s the mental anguish and hearing the thunk/whine of the dental drill which will, at some point, come to an end, whereas quantum physics remains continual, never-ending mental anguish
Electrons, Neutrons, Protons, Borons, Gluons.
After a while they are indistinguishable.
Back to the original question. What is a string made of?
Faith is the sub stance (underpinning) of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
So a vibrating string (the building block of matter) is only a manifestation of faith? Nothing more?
huh!!!
I can barely get my branes around a Calabi–Yau manifold
You forgot morons…
@old nfo ,,some of the earlier thinking learning programs , I mean 10 years ago. Rapidly became wildly racist ,the longer they were running the more racist they became. Seems it had something to do with watching/reading the news.
Shocking I know.
Any thoughts on the MIRV capable hypersonic missle Russia used on Ukraine? Maybe a notice to NATO the Bear still has teeth and the will to use what they have?
I have no access (beyond open source) into current Russian weapons. The difference between an ICBM and an IRBM or a cruise missile is often the angle of attack, and possibly the throw weight of the payload. The ICBMs used against Ukraine came in at a very steep angle and the Ukes didn’t have an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system to stop them. MRVs or single warhead, it’s the same shoot-down problem (only more incoming with MRVs of course).
Thanks. Lots of speculation/hype on the YouTube channels.
Ah, the Jerusalem Cross. So beautiful. Still want one, jewelry, not a tat.
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What it started out as was the cross on the Papal banner that popes issued to one side to prove that that side was right with God and the pope and the other side wasn’t.
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Seen on the yellow and white banner that William, Duke of Normandy, had during his conquest of England.
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Carried to Jerusalem by the Crusaders, and became part of the new Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Do Popes issue papal bulls anymore? When did it stop? In 1493, Pope Alexander VI issued a papal bull, “Inter Caetera,” authorizing Spain and Portugal to colonize the Americas and subjugate the native people. In 1571, a papal bull was issued against the British Monarch for separation from the Mother Church.
I really like ‘Tulsa Kings.’ Very interesting show, has some real twists and turns, keeps my attention.
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As to those stupid tricky dilemmas and questions that females give to guys, if you don’t want an answer don’t ask a question.
I just started watching Tulsa King S2, and I’m enjoying it so far as the mob war heats up.
I was a kid in the 1950’s, and I always wondered how much fallout the people downwind of the Test Site were getting. May have been where I learned Trust No One….
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Underground nuclear testing could be allowed if, and only if, properly conducted.
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Antimony is used in Lead Free Solder, hence it’s ubiquity. More green nonsense, it and caused a whole lotta grief among electronics manufacturer’s. Go back to lead, or if in a potable water system, silver, and be done with it.
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“Strings” are a useful physical analogy to use. The concept of a “something” vibrating at some frequency (Oscillating) gives a viewer an idea of something tangible that they already understand. I see it as an oscillating Electromagnetic Field of a given energy, but can be too esoteric even for some scientists who aren’t strong in Physics.
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