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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: First - International Peer Reviewed UFO paper |
| cyberdad |
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| Actually that's a really poorly written abstract. If you read the full paper - they detected objects using sensors in a vehicle decked out like the Ghost busters vehicle - in addition to digital visuals records (reflective thermal sensors indicating the object is a tetrahedral) they also have UV sig... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Maybe science isn’t the answer |
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| Human interaction at any level involves a power differential. As an equilibrium is reached (what the Romans called Pax Romana and what diplomats in the modern era refer to as detente and in neo-liberal speak is a contract) then the primary beneficiary of that relationship is the more powerful partn... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Students for Fair Admissions threaten Lawsuit Again |
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| Students for Fair Admissions, the group whose lawsuits against Harvard and the University of North Carolina led the Supreme Court to strike down race-conscious admissions, wrote letters Tuesday to the general counsels of three other universities—Yale, Princeton and Duke Universities The letters stat... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Maybe science isn’t the answer |
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Posted: Yesterday, 11:03 pm
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| Sowell is saying that almost anything we can think to tweak or modify will have a zero-sum relationship with some other thing we care about and will likely have still other unintended consequences. That's what 'tradeoffs' as opposed to 'solutions' means. Human interaction at any level involves a po... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Maybe science isn’t the answer |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:58 pm
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| I'll try to summarize: - Maybe science has made it easier for us to hurt ourselves - Maybe science has helped us protect ourselves from existing problems Either way, maybe things are grim? Both are trade-offs but as we actively benefit from science the weight of consensus is on the side of science ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Satellite data shows up climate forecasts |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:56 pm
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| - Keeping some small refugee portion of humanity alive after climate change. Humanity will likely survive, but you are right. During COVID I drew attention to the old MIT research back in the 70s and to the mouse projects in the 60s that ultimately predict humanities population will reach a plateau... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Satellite data shows up climate forecasts |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:51 pm
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Double Retired wrote: - Some mitigation to long-term climate change results,
there's an argument that giving AI full control of tech innovation will accelerate development of carbon capture. the current progress isn't really too hopeful. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: An inflection point for the anti zionist movement? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:45 pm
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| Zionism as a movement has only been around since the 19th century. But the glue that has held judaism together since they were thrown out by the Romans has always been the belief that Jews will one day return to their holy land. You gotta hand it to the jews. I can't think of a single community that... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Maybe science isn’t the answer |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:36 pm
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| I don't think that's meant in the human-to-human or group-to-group collaborative sense - it means that we can have things maybe a little better or worse than we have right now depending on which trade offs we choose but we can't make our situation much better because almost every problem you could ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Maybe science isn’t the answer |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:26 pm
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| The only things I could really see making the world reliably better: - Relatively limitless energy - Relatively limitless food and water. In terms of quality of life I would also include - improvements in healthy aging and longevity - improvement in environmental health - improvements in social inc... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: First - International Peer Reviewed UFO paper |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:20 pm
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| In August 2024 barely > 1 month ago the first article on actual verifiable UFO sightings was published in an international peer reviewed science journal https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=135539 the paper titled Eye on the Sky: A UAP Research and Field Study off New York’s Long I... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does a right to defend yourself mean invading someone else? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:57 pm
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| It wouldn't surprise me if the Israeli government, too, at least covertly, sees Islamophobia as politically useful for propaganda purposes, public statements to the contrary notwithstanding. People give their group a bad name by their actions. I actually don't think the Israelis need to stoke fires... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does a right to defend yourself mean invading someone else? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:21 pm
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| Heads of state, even of poor countries, who don't have lavish lifestyles are exceedingly rare, if indeed they exist at all. So I don't see this article as especially damning. There are plenty of worse things one could justifiably say about Hamas. Put yourself in Mosab's shoes. the HAMAS leadership ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Mixed messages |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:09 pm
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| Maybe this thread should be locked, nothing positive seems likely to come from it. My apologies to the OP, I think he meant well when he started the thread, but on today's WP it was probably doomed from conception. the OPs question was...Was the girl giving him mixed messages? I think the answer wa... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Mixed messages |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:02 pm
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| Using the women you have access to in order to dismiss our lived experiences, because we are apparently a monolith? And the worst, the absolute worst is insinuating that I deserved to be harassed for being in the "wrong" place at the "wrong" time. None of these things are conduc... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Mixed messages |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:57 pm
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| Using the women you have access to in order to dismiss our lived experiences, because we are apparently a monolith? And the worst, the absolute worst is insinuating that I deserved to be harassed for being in the "wrong" place at the "wrong" time. None of these things are conduc... |
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