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Tanypteryx
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Message 23 of 444 (845473)
12-16-2018 12:46 PM
Reply to: Message 22 by Faith
12-16-2018 12:23 PM


Re: PC is simply a lie
AdminPhat writes:
May as well be PC in a topic about being offended. Lets not throw gasoline on this fire
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Edited by AdminPhat, : nipping it in the bud
Edited by AdminPhat, : jess doin my job

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq

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Message 216 of 444 (846536)
01-08-2019 12:55 PM
Reply to: Message 213 by Faith
01-08-2019 11:03 AM


Re: No one?
I was hoping you'd been raptured.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq

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Tanypteryx
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Message 359 of 444 (846993)
01-14-2019 6:10 PM
Reply to: Message 358 by Percy
01-14-2019 1:43 PM


Did you take lessons in throwing temper tantrums from Trump, or vice-versa?
I don't know if anyone has noticed or commented on it before, but Faith is almost a perfect clone of Trump and has been since before I even knew who Trump was. Ignorance, stupidity, fear and hate. The same behaviors, arrogance and total lack self awareness and dignity.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq

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Message 418 of 444 (905925)
02-05-2023 12:52 PM
Reply to: Message 416 by AZPaul3
02-05-2023 11:06 AM


Re: Faith = Religious Stupidity
Having a strong curiosity, most scientists are motivated by acknowledgement; seen as right by their peers. Ego and reputation are major concerns. And since in science you receive the highest accolades for being right the scientist's biggest and best motivation is to be right.
Yep, curiosity is the prime ingredient for a scientist, but there is this emotional response that I think of as the "joy of discovery" and communicating those discoveries and getting credit for them (human ego). All the good scientists I know don't mind being incorrect and would be horrified at being shown to be a fraud, the ultimate in self betrayal.
I am fortunate to have 4 best friends who also are interesting in studying the same sciences I do. We test our hypotheses about everything with each other first to see if the others can shoot them down. Good scientists try to find every flaw in their arguments to avoid public and personal humiliations.
Whenever I hear the term "Cold Fusion" I think of Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, who made an error in science communication that forever stained their reputations as scientists.
Wikipedia:
Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. It would contrast starkly with the "hot" fusion that is known to take place naturally within stars and artificially in hydrogen bombs and prototype fusion reactors under immense pressure and at temperatures of millions of degrees, and be distinguished from muon-catalyzed fusion. There is currently no accepted theoretical model that would allow cold fusion to occur.
In 1989, two electrochemists, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, reported that their apparatus had produced anomalous heat ("excess heat") of a magnitude they asserted would defy explanation except in terms of nuclear processes.[1] They further reported measuring small amounts of nuclear reaction byproducts, including neutrons and tritium.[2] The small tabletop experiment involved electrolysis of heavy water on the surface of a palladium (Pd) electrode.[3] The reported results received wide media attention[3] and raised hopes of a cheap and abundant source of energy.[4]
Many scientists tried to replicate the experiment with the few details available. Hopes faded with the large number of negative replications, the withdrawal of many reported positive replications, the discovery of flaws and sources of experimental error in the original experiment, and finally the discovery that Fleischmann and Pons had not actually detected nuclear reaction byproducts.[5] By late 1989, most scientists considered cold fusion claims dead,[6][7] and cold fusion subsequently gained a reputation as pathological science.[8][9] In 1989 the United States Department of Energy (DOE) concluded that the reported results of excess heat did not present convincing evidence of a useful source of energy and decided against allocating funding specifically for cold fusion. A second DOE review in 2004, which looked at new research, reached similar conclusions and did not result in DOE funding of cold fusion.[10] Presently, since articles about cold fusion are rarely published in peer-reviewed mainstream scientific journals, they do not attract the level of scrutiny expected for mainstream scientific publications.[11]
Nevertheless, some interest in cold fusion has continued through the decades—for example, a Google-funded failed replication attempt was published in a 2019 issue of Nature.[12][13] A small community of researchers continues to investigate it,[6][14][15] often under the alternative designations low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) or condensed matter nuclear science (CMNS).
Cold fusion

Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned!

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python

One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie

If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy

The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq


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