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We have never had a place dedicated to these topics. We have shared space with other threads which has caused two problems, some folks complaining these subjects were outside the scope of the named thread, and the other these science and engineering posts being mixed with non-sense (climate denial posts) purporting to have some basis in science or engineering.

The first post -- final Cassini Data, first results.

jhu72 wrote:We have never had a place dedicated to these topics. We have shared space with other threads which has caused two problems, some folks complaining these subjects were outside the scope of the named thread, and the other these science and engineering posts being mixed with non-sense (climate denial posts) purporting to have some basis in science or engineering.

The first post -- final Cassini Data, first results.

Thanks for posting that. This was a good idea.

Agreed. If you have Instagram, this is a neat place to follow. PhysicsFun

Ted Talk

My wife calls me a want to be scientists...been around her and her friends for too long!

Thanks for that. This edarnwd TED talks suck me in all the darned time.

The Chemistry Nobel Award 2018.

jhu72 wrote:Black Hole at the center of Milky Way surrounded by thousands of smaller Black Holes.

Thanks for posting that.

This is streaming on Netflix. I enjoyed it.

Typical Lax Dad wrote:"Travel back in time can't be ruled out according to our present understanding," he says. He also predicts that "within the next hundred years we will be able to travel to anywhere in the Solar System."

I will be surprised if at the end of the 100 year period we aren't wandering farther a field than just the solar system. I am more skeptical of the claim of backwards time travel. At the moment it looks like that is only a possibility inside a black hole, but hey, that's Hawking's bailiwick, not mine. First we have to get past the current era of parts of the world's population trying to roll the clock back to 1950.

jhu72 wrote:

Typical Lax Dad wrote:"Travel back in time can't be ruled out according to our present understanding," he says. He also predicts that "within the next hundred years we will be able to travel to anywhere in the Solar System."

I will be surprised if at the end of the 100 year period we aren't wandering farther a field than just the solar system. I am more skeptical of the claim of backwards time travel. At the moment it looks like that is only a possibility inside a black hole, but hey, that's Hawking's bailiwick, not mine. First we have to get past the current era of parts of the world's population trying to roll the clock back to 1950.

Did you see Interstellar? I liked Sunshine better but I liked both movies.

At last, proof for quantum computing

or...just a hint??

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Quantum computing, much like fusion, is perpetually 5-10 years away, especially when taking these kinds of reports into account.

Measles outbreak raging in Europe could be brought to U.S., doctors warn

I wasn't sure to reply to fatty in the Climate Change thread, or start a vaxx thread or what, but this is the kind of BS we get when people feel their anecdotes have equal weight to decades or even centuries of empirical evidence.

If you want to challenge current theories, do the research and provide replicable info.

holmes435 wrote:If you want to challenge current theories, do the research and provide replicable info.

Boy Howdy

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holmes435 wrote:Measles outbreak raging in Europe could be brought to U.S., doctors warn

I wasn't sure to reply to fatty in the Climate Change thread, or start a vaxx thread or what, but this is the kind of BS we get when people feel their anecdotes have equal weight to decades or even centuries of empirical evidence.

If you want to challenge current theories, do the research and provide replicable info.

Not clear at all what you are stating . What theory needs challenging?

But, I'll try a kayak take away check and discuss the article and premise that the spike in Autism, based on tinfoil hat (according to you, I am guessing ) theories that vaccines cause that spike. Hence the drop in today's young being vaccinated.

What research and replicable info is there on the increase in autism? What IS the true cause?

Didn't realize the HPV or MMR vaccine was around when Gen. Cornwallis was losing to a bunch of idiot farmers. Centuries of empirical evidence? So a CDC researcher, now whistle blower, is considered what. We believe the science when a CDC employee. Or Merck. Or Eli Lilly. But then we don't ? huh.

ALso, the article didn't mention word one about the influx of immigrants, illegal or not. Does Mexico & Syria or Somalia have mandatory vaccines?

40 deaths. Who cares. Al Gore wants 40 million deaths to curb climate warming. He does. He said so in his films

runrussellrun wrote:

holmes435 wrote:Measles outbreak raging in Europe could be brought to U.S., doctors warn

I wasn't sure to reply to fatty in the Climate Change thread, or start a vaxx thread or what, but this is the kind of BS we get when people feel their anecdotes have equal weight to decades or even centuries of empirical evidence.

If you want to challenge current theories, do the research and provide replicable info.

Not clear at all what you are stating . What theory needs challenging?

But, I'll try a kayak take away check and discuss the article and premise that the spike in Autism, based on tinfoil hat (according to you, I am guessing ) theories that vaccines cause that spike. Hence the drop in today's young being vaccinated.

What research and replicable info is there on the increase in autism? What IS the true cause?

Didn't realize the HPV or MMR vaccine was around when Gen. Cornwallis was losing to a bunch of idiot farmers. Centuries of empirical evidence? So a CDC researcher, now whistle blower, is considered what. We believe the science when a CDC employee. Or Merck. Or Eli Lilly. But then we don't ? huh.

ALso, the article didn't mention word one about the influx of immigrants, illegal or not. Does Mexico & Syria or Somalia have mandatory vaccines?

40 deaths. Who cares. Al Gore wants 40 million deaths to curb climate warming. He does. He said so in his films

So the whistle blower that retracted the bad paper or the other whistle blower?

runrussellrun wrote:Not clear at all what you are stating . What theory needs challenging?

But, I'll try a kayak take away check and discuss the article and premise that the spike in Autism, based on tinfoil hat (according to you, I am guessing ) theories that vaccines cause that spike. Hence the drop in today's young being vaccinated.

What research and replicable info is there on the increase in autism? What IS the true cause?

Didn't realize the HPV or MMR vaccine was around when Gen. Cornwallis was losing to a bunch of idiot farmers. Centuries of empirical evidence? So a CDC researcher, now whistle blower, is considered what. We believe the science when a CDC employee. Or Merck. Or Eli Lilly. But then we don't ? huh.

If some ex model wants to posit that vaccines cause autism and challenge the fact that vaccines are pretty darn safe (certainly much safer than contracting measles, which has fatality rates as high as 30%) and that they don't cause autism, she needs to provide reliable, replicable evidence. Such evidence does not exist.

My main point is that there is a severe problem of anti-intellectualism and anti-science being paraded around, mostly by one hue of the political spectrum. The BS people are spewing isn't just surrounding vaccinations (which have been around for centuries), but surrounding a lot of scientific theories.

If new data and information comes out to support a different hypothesis and people can verify it, we believe that is the best fit until we find something better. It doesn't matter if it's a high school student finding that info or the head of the CDC.