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Common sense versus science
| January 25th, 2017 at 4:03:05 PM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 |
One reason to avoid cryogenics is that you might then have to pay off the public debt your generation ran up. Certain celluar processes definitely continue. Rapid change? Just look at the returning Vietnam Vets... one guy walked into a bank and lined up behing someone at a teller window not having any idea there was ONE line at banks. The security guard came up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder... not a good thing to do to a guy who had been in combat three days earlier. |
| August 29th, 2017 at 1:49:06 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22932 | Happened to think of this one today after watching so much news about rain. Pre-science observers, or rather the survivors likely discovered the best first indication of a Tsunami is water massively disappearing or rather receding from the shoreline not seeing a big wave on the horizon. Likely anyone who walked out to collect stranded sea life or items wasn't seen alive again. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| November 3rd, 2017 at 1:35:27 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22932 | Not really science, but more the idea - contrarianism. Supposedly working against your own best interests.
"Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| September 15th, 2019 at 4:30:41 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22932 | It might seem more logical to practice something you want to perfect like repeating a free throw from a foul line while concentrating on correcting the minor variation, but in actual experimentation people can improve practice of anything faster by adding in more variation to their practice than trying to keep such a narrow scope. Not sure if this is due to the mind actually losing concentration by doing something the same, or maybe the brain needs more variation to get the proper feel for making the necessary mechanics of the shot. Or maybe it's both. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| July 10th, 2022 at 7:44:34 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22932 | Scared Straight - a group of inmates known as the "lifers" berate, scream at, and terrify the young offenders in an attempt to "scare them straight", so that those teenagers will avoid prison life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scared_Straight! "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| July 11th, 2022 at 2:41:31 AM permalink | |
| Tanko Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 0 Posts: 2470 | I ran into Ed at the supermarket, Ninety-two and still able to shop alone. He used to own the gym where I trained many years before, but he still remembered me. He lived half the year in the city, and spent the warmer months on his 300 acre dairy farm upstate. While we were chatting, I asked about the dairy farm. "Sometimes I fall asleep in my chair while I'm reading. I woke up, and there's a woman staring at me. Then she vanished" "How did she get in? Did you call the Police?" "No. She vanished." "I understand that. Did you call the police? "Nooo. She vanished" "You mean she..." Ed shrugged his shoulders. "The house is 300 years old. Lots of people have lived there" Alzheimers took Ed, two years later. |
| October 31st, 2022 at 8:41:04 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22932 | When you add a lane to an existing road to improve traffic congestion, it often encourages more people to use that road bringing you back to square one. Quite possibly, I'm guessing by the time funding and construction is done, you've already fallen behind the 8 ball again. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| June 3rd, 2023 at 12:32:45 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22932 | Who would have guessed that lack of oxygen might actually be a stimulus for multicellular life. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| August 29th, 2024 at 6:47:03 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22932 | Thought of this, this morning. People on social media will post something like this Lavender/cherry spray mix repels mosquitos. And they even test it. But this is where details matter. Does it actually repel or block the detection of CO2 which may be attracting them. Proper science tries to find the variables and eliminate them. It may or may not matter, but it matters to proper data evaluation. If you're designing a weapon defense system that you think it works one way, but not the way you thought you're going to be in for a world of hurt in real world situations. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| August 8th, 2025 at 11:48:49 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22932 | You have to go way back to find the first glass. But the flat perfectly see-thru glass wasn’t easily mass produced until 1952. Before that they had to sand it down by hand. Anyway, showing some more ancient humans that a pane of glass was made from sand rather than perhaps some less opaque material might be the oddity here. It’s all supernatural until it’s science. Glass is more then sand btw. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |