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You almost make it sound like the native americans were druggies dealing drugs daily ;0
Didn't they have an entire psuedo-religious social infrastructure built up around the consumption of mind-altering drugs? They didn't really take drugs every other day did they?
And European history isn't exactly empty of *heavy* drug using yet successful people (In Xanadu...)
Is there
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sansahansan
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Humanities
"It is nothing about law, and it is not harmless. Taking this daftness seriously can be legally dangerous. If people try to use such things to avoid their legal obligations they can end up with county court judgments or even criminal convictions. You may as well walk into court with a t-shirt saying 'I am an idiot'."
HAR! That applies to the sovreign citizen idiots in Ame
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sansahansan
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Paper Lens
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> I'm glad I live in California where all I have to
> worry about it whether it's going to be a sunny
> day, or a really sunny day.
Hmm - also brush fires? Earthquakes? Smog Alerts for LA area?
For that matter, LA is a fairly nasty gang scene too isn't it?
I'd love to visit San Fran
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sansahansan
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Paper Lens
Living on the gulf coast for three decades or more, I'm very very fond of the noaa site, and in particular, their satellite imagery access:
For hurricane paranoids like me, this is a *good* view to achieve a sense of knowing what is going on, regardless of how accurate that knowledge is.
Most times, I can study the satellite imagery and make my own decisions without having to blind
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sansahansan
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Paper Lens
Hmm... the highest literacy rate in a nation of the world is Japan.
How do they feel about their handwriting classes for children?
I've long thought cursive was silly. Printing block letters was simpler & more readable as a child. Calligraphy was at least artistic on top of it all. Cursive... just seemed like a lazy persons way to do short hand. Why not just learn short hand?
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sansahansan
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Humanities
interesting behavior of a firewall blocking one and not the other...
At the first link, there is a picture at the top of the article. It depicts several humans amongst other things. It also shows a star surrounded by 9 circles.
What's the origin of the picture?
Are there other such depictions of a star + 9 circles?
Is this an illusion like the supposed 'jet' on the egyp
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sansahansan
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Humanities
errr - awesome interpretation... it's actually an educational inscription detailing how important writing is in recording who done what when ??
In my mind the implications of that are rather startling... was there perhaps a series of such stones that were intended for 'educational' purposes? Or is it a standalone justification of the art of writing?
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sansahansan
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Ancient History
Too true in the US:
NE Coast = Nor'Easters, Blizzards, and the odd hurricane w/ no common sense (Sandy?)
E Coast = Hurricanes - move inland and you get killer blizzards
Gulf Coast/SE Coast = Hurricanes/Droughts and the oddball Tornado
Central/ "mid-west" = Blizzards in the north and the infamous 'Tornado Alley'
W Coast = Earthquakes and guess what... you're on t
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
Jammer Wrote:
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> HA
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> I loved the Anderoid peeing on the Apple logo
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> So, if a hack is hilarious is it still wrong?
Yes, it's just funnier the more wrong it is.
See here
they miss one story about old crunch...
During the time just after alaska... when he was making free long distance calls... he wo
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sansahansan
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Humanities
Apologies - was away on vacation and missed these entries (no internet in true farming country)
Yet this seems to support my theory above, Jammer...
As the strength of the belief faded, so too did the strength of political controls.
While it is typically linked to over population of the time, it's also coincidental in a timeline that less belief resulted in more political unrest
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sansahansan
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Humanities
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> well we're just at the beginning of the upward
> curve of AI. I remember once somebody said that
> AI would never be able to beat a human at Chess,
> now their beating humans at go.
Just like BG once said -- 128KB would more than enough memory in a computer for anyone
Clearly that ship
&g
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
WVK Wrote:
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> Belief in moral-watching, all-knowing, punitive
> gods might have helped human societies grow far
> beyond small, close-knit groups, a new study
> shows. Researchers who ran an experiment with a
> total of 591 people in eight different small-scale
> societies around the world found that people who
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sansahansan
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Humanities
1 - we have advanced to autonomous robots on the battlefield -- just ask the russians ;0 (if you believe them)
2 - A friend and I had a very deep conversation about AI the other day... I used to fear and no longer do. Human desires, motivations - the 'caring' Rick mentions in prior post - these are all derived from our chemically driven, hormonally charged nuerochemical factories w
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
Instead of prestige, I think of the new insights of 'fashion collection' and the constant fascination with our ancestors...
Perhaps this was merely the first primitive geneaologies? A carving of my mother's mother's mother's mother and each between? Ancestor worship perhaps? Or maybe just a fashion catalog, here's what the dress might look like kind of thing.
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sansahansan
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Ancient History
I tend to keep an open mind and a firm belief that the absence of evidences is not a negative proof... yet I fnd all such anomalous data to eb fascinating, if only for speculatory discussions.
I am reminded here, of two things. First, the first invention of the bow in Africa that died off, only to be reinvented elsewhere and then catch on... thousands of years later.
I'm also reminded
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sansahansan
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Ancient History
Shouldn't this be in that other forum? Apoca.... SKY IS FALLING eek! ?
Interesting timing having just had a conversation with a colleague to whom I cited the yellowstone supervolcano... which he responded to with the fact that the next CME is over due and likely to occur within the decade...
Which i just found out, already happened and no one said a word because it missed us lol.
Wo
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
I was going to counter and say surely they cleaned it up a bit before posting that pic?
But then I googled for other gladii found underwater...
it just doesn't look right to me, after looking at all the other gladii artifacts.
roman gladius artifact underwater (in google image search) -- there's a few hits there.
Oddly, Pinterest seems better for that search ;0
It's ju
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sansahansan
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Ancient History
I hadn't meant any offense, merely pointing out that an absence of data should not drive one to the simplest/most convenient explanation.
In the absence of data, I would prefer to keep an absence of conclusions -- which was my point in my long winded post ;0
In the presence of some data, and a noticeable lack of other data... it's best to avoid premeditated conclusions isn't
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sansahansan
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Ancient History
Jammer Wrote:
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> The thing is several French & British late
> 18th & early 19th century military swords
> looked very much like a gladius... example
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> > "The French M1831 Foot Artillery Sword was
> patterned after the Roman Gladius"
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sansahansan
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Ancient History
There's still a flat earther society out there too -- not only do they deny the moon landing, they are convinced the earth is flat.
Too bad there isn't a biological connection to facts. People being free to believe any old thing results in more chaos over time. And no, humans shouldn't force humans to stop believing in some things... I'm just dreaming of a tie between r
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
Never questioned your sons credentials - I just can't find any reference to the billboards and I was curious as to where/when they had been seen. I would think they would have generated some ripples on the internet, but I came up rather completely dry.
OTOH I've decided it's not a modern phenomenon at all (this theme of gullibility and rejection of plain factual discussion)
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
Tides are turning... slowly, almost glacially slowly...
Disclaimer - I'm in Texas, for good or bad
It is very interesting to see the two maps side by side ;0
As for the solar panels draining the sun -- that's not a new phenomenon (the social media gullibility in beliving satire as fact, and moving it to viral status) -- such things have happened before and will again:
As
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
I've seen squirrels attack people previously - it's not uncommon actually.
Ray Stevens, the comedian singer, even immortalized the phenomenon (The fight for survival that broke out in the bible, in that sleepy little town of Pascagalula (sp?) )
OTOH... no squirrel is ever the same as another...
Many universities report similar, unique, phenomena.
This all seems quite odd u
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Coffee Shop
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> I'm not sure to which experiments you are
> referring to, but in the case of the Dresden
> experiments, it seems that the thrust was also
> observed in directions where there shouldn't be
> any, and a control experiment designed to give no
> thrust gave a bigger thrust than the EM-drive.
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> So, they definitely don't give a positive result
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
Jammer Wrote:
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> Stuff like this doesn't help them.... I have a
> dozen engineering friends who know next to nothing
> on space but can quote this story from rote
> memory...
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> Also one more thing NASA could do imho is get
> three bids instead of one concept one cost...
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> But smac
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> 63. Keep that number in mind.
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> It takes approximately 63 pounds of fuel to put
> one pound in orbit.
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> Until they find/make a better fuel, that ain't
> gonna change.
Hence the EM Drive (if it isn't hot air like the cold fusion generators)
See, I've heard this befor
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> I posted this elsewhere, but right now we've
> achieved the holy grail; recycling rockets.
The first holy grail at least. Wasn't Russia already working this out?
> After that it's a matter of recovering all of the booster rockets and then
> we will truly enter the era of spaceflight.
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> I've heard of it and my son the physicist says
> it's total BS. It will go the way of 'cold
> fusion'.
Hrm. Does that mean belittled, ridiculed, tossed aside then researched to death for decades but never quite completely dropped (like say, free energy machines et al. ) ?
Frankly
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
This has been discussed before, but I found this article to be particularly enlightening.
Surprisingly, wikipedia is up to date and fairly informating as well.
The lack of peer reviewed publications is interesting from the outsiders perspective, with a bias towards thinking of the journals as staid, conservative, and anti-progressivism (not me - others) However, it's also inte
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Dumb rockets to start with after that you start
> mining the moon for water as a fuel and begin
> lunar mining. There's a boatload of iron nickel
> asteroids that have smashed into the moon over the
> eons. If we hadn't killed the moon program we
> would have been on our way to mars de
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Laboratory
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