Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
29th September 2014, 09:49 AM
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Replies: 73
Views: 10,531
No it doesn't, that was exactly my point. If...
No it doesn't, that was exactly my point. If someone conclusively proves that a theory is wrong, it is completely irrelevant how much data previously fitted that theory - the theory is wrong...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
24th September 2014, 09:28 AM
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Replies: 73
Views: 10,531
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
23rd September 2014, 08:24 AM
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Replies: 273
Views: 18,190
I heard that Aesop bloke was a right lying...
I heard that Aesop bloke was a right lying bastard as well.
Has anyone even mentioned the matter to him? Why would anyone think he has the slightest clue that a bit of whining on a few obscure...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
23rd September 2014, 08:17 AM
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Replies: 2,475
Views: 235,251
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
23rd September 2014, 07:30 AM
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Replies: 2,256
Views: 116,500
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
22nd September 2014, 08:08 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,593
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
22nd September 2014, 07:00 AM
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Replies: 2,256
Views: 116,500
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd September 2014, 06:23 AM
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Replies: 2,475
Views: 235,251
This is indeed, for the moment at least,...
This is indeed, for the moment at least, randi.org. You do realise that James Randi is not only gay, he is in fact married to another man? Until recently, the president of the JREF was DJ Grothe, who...
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Forum: JREF
22nd September 2014, 06:05 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 13,165
If you go to dev tools -> style editor in...
If you go to dev tools -> style editor in Firefox, the first item defining the layout of the page refers back to editmysite.com, which is Weebly.
And yeah, I have to agree that it looks absolutely...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
19th September 2014, 04:02 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,829
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
18th September 2014, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 3,566
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
18th September 2014, 04:26 AM
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Replies: 2,256
Views: 116,500
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
17th September 2014, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 205
Views: 13,242
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
15th September 2014, 07:43 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 3,980
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
12th September 2014, 06:27 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 929
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
12th September 2014, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 1,071
Views: 94,380
Newtonian mechanics isn't as different from...
Newtonian mechanics isn't as different from relativity as you think - if you set velocity to zero, the equations governing special relativity are identical to Newtonian mechanics. Isn't supersymmetry...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
12th September 2014, 05:23 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 5,381
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
11th September 2014, 07:31 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 3,199
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
11th September 2014, 07:27 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 929
I'm struggling to see how the Wolfram version...
I'm struggling to see how the Wolfram version makes sense. It gives a completely meaningless set of axes with no labels, claims the line that would correspond to y = x if the axes were labelled as...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
11th September 2014, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 1,071
Views: 94,380
It depends a bit on what exactly you mean by...
It depends a bit on what exactly you mean by "extended or reworked". Things like supersymmetry are attempts to extend the standard model. It's just that once you've extended it that much, it's no...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
11th September 2014, 06:23 AM
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Replies: 115
Views: 16,562
I think you may be forgetting the saying -...
I think you may be forgetting the saying - "Genius is 5% inspiration, 95% perspiration". The idea that someone was not a genius because they had to work at getting the maths right is just silly;...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
10th September 2014, 09:28 AM
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Replies: 1,071
Views: 94,380
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
10th September 2014, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 115
Views: 16,562
Well, it's a little more complicated than that....
Well, it's a little more complicated than that. Photons don't just happen to be a massless particle, they're also effectively the only massless particle. While gluons also have zero mass, they only...
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
10th September 2014, 08:35 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 11,837
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
9th September 2014, 05:05 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 5,460
I don't really see why that would be much of a...
I don't really see why that would be much of a concern. If there's only one specimen left in the whole world the species is effectively already extinct, it just hasn't quite noticed yet. Collecting...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
9th September 2014, 04:55 AM
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Replies: 115
Views: 16,562
I think he actually got that part correct,...
I think he actually got that part correct, although it's a rather odd way of saying it. Note that he doesn't say velocity decreases, but added velocity decreases. What he's trying to say is that as...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
9th September 2014, 04:11 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 3,199
NASA agrees...
NASA agrees (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/08/passing_pitbull_asteroid_fingered_a_cause_of_nicaraguan_airport_bombing/):
Definitely nothing to do with RC20214, and almost certainly not a...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
8th September 2014, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 115
Views: 16,562
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
8th September 2014, 05:35 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 11,837
Even just for that, that tablet would probably...
Even just for that, that tablet would probably struggle. This is exactly the kind of thing that gave rise to the term "landfill android". 512MB RAM isn't enough at all - see quadraginta's complaint...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
5th September 2014, 06:11 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,607
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
5th September 2014, 05:52 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 3,932
Except that most of the time when they're...
Except that most of the time when they're declared the biggest, it's not entirely true. In this case, Dreadnoughtus is claimed to be the dinosaur with the largest calculable weight; ie. this skeleton...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
5th September 2014, 05:18 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 579
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
5th September 2014, 05:15 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,369
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
4th September 2014, 05:41 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,369
They are not fake, and that is an absolutely...
They are not fake, and that is an absolutely terrible article masquerading as journalism. Here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/03/us_celltowers_pose_man_in_the_middle_threat/) is one that...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
3rd September 2014, 05:19 AM
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Replies: 2,761
Views: 375,644
That's an interesting point actually. We see...
That's an interesting point actually. We see quite a few people who used to believe in conspiracies, or believed they were psychic, or whatever, but have since educated themselves and are now much...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
3rd September 2014, 04:51 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 971
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
3rd September 2014, 04:39 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 5,617
Even ignoring the lack of evidence, differing...
Even ignoring the lack of evidence, differing attitudes to capital punishment, and so on, I'm struggling to understand how anyone could ever think sentencing a mentally disabled 15 year old to death...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
2nd September 2014, 08:30 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 927
I think this is the relevant part:
It...
I think this is the relevant part:
It appears the point is to cause the calcium carbonate to form as crystals suspended in the water, not to make it build up inside the tank. If the crystals are...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
2nd September 2014, 08:06 AM
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Replies: 2,761
Views: 375,644
Of course, there is one factor that really...
Of course, there is one factor that really shouldn't be ignored when it comes to crackpots, but often is out of, most likely, politeness - an awful lot of people are really, really stupid. Obviously...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd September 2014, 07:10 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 5,388
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd September 2014, 06:48 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 7,314
I think you're also confusing degrading and...
I think you're also confusing degrading and biodegrading. In fact, the exact opposite is true - why do you think mould and fungus tend to grow in damp, dark places, and composting takes place inside...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
1st September 2014, 09:25 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,194
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
1st September 2014, 08:43 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 7,314
Slight correction - there's an important...
Slight correction - there's an important difference between degradable and biodegradable. The bags that disintegrate into little flakes are not biodegradable, the idea is simply that they degrade...
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
1st September 2014, 07:57 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 11,837
When it comes to complaints about things like...
When it comes to complaints about things like this, if you're not seeing thousands of complaints along with plenty of coverage in the media, there really isn't a problem. Companies like Samsung and...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
8th August 2014, 05:39 AM
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Replies: 550
Views: 74,679
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Forum: JREF
7th August 2014, 09:06 AM
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Replies: 2,023
Views: 219,371
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
7th August 2014, 05:39 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,398
Well, melanin is a specific group of polymers...
Well, melanin is a specific group of polymers made up of specific molecules and linked in a specific way. Colour is the result of molecules absorbing particular wavelengths of (visible) light, and...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
6th August 2014, 06:48 AM
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Replies: 127
Views: 16,407
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Forum: JREF
6th August 2014, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 2,023
Views: 219,371
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
6th August 2014, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 127
Views: 16,407
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