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I like Tardigrades even more now.

That's where the huge glowing Tardigrade came from in Star Trek Discovery - mutated from the surface of Luna and engaged with the spore network. Now that I have solved that problem, I can tell you science has proven the #42 is the meaning - https://gizmodo.com/the-answer-to-life-the-universe-and-everything-final-1837941162?IR=T
 
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Encouraging news about eradicating introduced pests, even though it's on such a small island:

 

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When we've had prior outbreaks of the plague it has been mostly in small regional centres. China withheld this news from the public for 9 days.

 
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He's a bit late to the party.

A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick was written in 1729 by Jonathan Swift (of Gulliver's Travels fame). The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies.
 
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He's a bit late to the party.

A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick was written in 1729 by Jonathan Swift (of Gulliver's Travels fame). The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies.

Yeah, but Soderlund made those claims in 2019. Surely, as a scientist he would be aware of prions?
 
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The power of pi

To start, let me answer your question directly. For JPL's highest accuracy calculations, which are for interplanetary navigation, we use 3.141592653589793.
Surely I'm not the only person who read the article and counted the number of decimal places NASA use? Interesting.
 

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Way over my head and pay grade-

https://phys.org/news/2019-11-quant...47NY6Wa_3iGbvnqwwhT0WuHLxNGRb1eYzAudTP0cSENB8

But in a paper recently published in Science Advances, we show that in the micro-world of atoms and particles that is governed by the strange rules of quantum mechanics, two different observers are entitled to their own facts. In other words, according to our best theory of the building blocks of nature itself, facts can actually be subjective.

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We have now for the first time performed this test experimentally at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh on a small-scale quantum computer made up of three pairs of entangled photons. The first photon pair represents the coins, and the other two are used to perform the coin toss—measuring the polarization of the photons—inside their respective box. Outside the two boxes, two photons remain on each side that can also be measured.
 
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Way over my head and pay grade-

https://phys.org/news/2019-11-quant...47NY6Wa_3iGbvnqwwhT0WuHLxNGRb1eYzAudTP0cSENB8

But in a paper recently published in Science Advances, we show that in the micro-world of atoms and particles that is governed by the strange rules of quantum mechanics, two different observers are entitled to their own facts. In other words, according to our best theory of the building blocks of nature itself, facts can actually be subjective.

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We have now for the first time performed this test experimentally at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh on a small-scale quantum computer made up of three pairs of entangled photons. The first photon pair represents the coins, and the other two are used to perform the coin toss—measuring the polarization of the photons—inside their respective box. Outside the two boxes, two photons remain on each side that can also be measured.

Looking forward to the sociologists pouncing on this and running with it as far as they can.
 

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A really good discussion on Roundup and the danger of science being politicised.


Drinking alcohol is far more carcinogenic than glyphosate and being exposed to it is on par with eating red meat.
 
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This is an interesting one https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-consciousness-pervade-the-universe/

Can't say I buy it, I'll need a wee bit more evidence, nonetheless an interesting concept.

I know Galileo is cited in that article as the principal scientific proponent & protagonist behind the split, but Descartes & Locke are really the 2 moderns most responsible for the mind/body split in Western thought & consciousness....The Cartesian cogito & Locke's splitting up of all phenomenon into qualitative vs quantitative bear far more influence....Being the philosopher of the age of Reason, Locke was far too suspicious of emotions, the imagination, or anything to do with human beings that wasn't empirically verifiable....Remembering he was looking for an antidote to quell sectarian violence.

Science also came under the bridge-head of Natural Philosophy during the time of the Enlightenment, before Bacon's dream of specialisations took hold, with the holistic approach to man & life lost along with it, to Western Science.
 
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The current standard model for the "Big Bang" theory, as set in the 1960's, with its highly questionable "inflation" just after it's spontaneous birth, is continuing to fall apart, with even the iconic Roger Penrose coming out of the closet against it. Without the mathematical devise of "inflation", the whole concept of the "multiverse" also is obliterated -
... “I have to confess, I never liked inflation from the beginning,” says Neil Turok, the former director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada.

“The inflationary paradigm has failed,” adds Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein professor in science at Princeton University, and proponent of a “Big Bounce” model.

“I always regarded inflation as a very artificial theory,” says Roger Penrose, emeritus Rouse Ball professor of mathematics at Oxford University. “The main reason that it didn't die at birth is that it was the only thing people could think of to explain what they call the ‘scale invariance of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature fluctuations’.” ...
 

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The wonderful Ediacaran fauna has given us yet another weird one. Newly discovered fossilised threads, some as long as four metres, connecting organisms known as rangeomorphs, from our oceans half a billion years ago.
 

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