Comment Re:BMI Is not a Good Measure (Score 1) 383
But it doesn't matter for the purpose of the study. The wrongs in the top of the scale and the wrongs in the bottom even out. That is statistics.
I think.
But it doesn't matter for the purpose of the study. The wrongs in the top of the scale and the wrongs in the bottom even out. That is statistics.
I think.
Read a lot of Nietzsche, do you?
So the next thing would be an area of knowledge which deals with precisely this. Not philosophically, but more in terms of optimizing knowledge acquisition and management - or something like that. Or, speaking of reinventing the wheel, perhaps there already is?
I read "SPACE" by Stephen Baxter (from 2000) a couple of days ago, and was also built on the idea of periodical mass extinctions allover the galaxy (with a happy ending though). He proposed it as an explanation of Fermi's Paradox. Shortly put: "If they existed, they would be here."
Us living in a galaxy with periodic mass extinctions might explain why we have not been encountered by the alien species yet, even though they should, theoretically, be allover the place. No mention of Atlantis though.
Not in old printers, it wasn't.
Global warming means there is too much energy in the atmosphere. Removing some is not bad.
We already have global warming. Global warming resides, so to speak, mainly in the atmoshpere. Taking energy OUT OF the atmosphere wont do any harm at all, on the contrary.
The air moving wildly about is a result of too much energy being trapped in the system, which is the case right now. If you remove some of that from the air, it will NOT lead to increased warming.
Just because you perceive a moving wind as cooling does not mean it has a cooling effect on the entire system. It just redistributes the energy that is within the atmosphere, to a great part trapped solar energy. Us using this trapped energy wont increase the net sum of trapped energy.
Surplus heat can be used for heating in a great part of the so-called developed world, and then we wont need to use fresh and fine newly produced power to generate heat.
The atmosphere of the entire planet is in all likelihood too complex for any simulation to be trustworthy. There are too many things we do not know and do not control.
The Earth has too much of winds, not too little, so that would not be a problem. As someone hinted at earlier, deforestation has an impact on winds. Imagine the impact of Sahara on the global wind system, with dust storms increasing incredibly over the last few decades.
Forests "soften" winds, but do not remove them. Empty open areas make the winds more violent in a way the environment does not benefit from. Rather, the problem, if any, with a lot of propellers etc out there, the wind patterns might be disturbed if these things are not placed wisely. You do not want to create instabilities that evolve into hurricanes.
Ash and other dark matters do not reflect sunlight. They block it from entering the earth, but the warmth is kept in the atmosphere (in the heated matter first, and by diffusion in the atmosphere), making this kind of pollution a part of the warming.
"Math is not reality."
Not even if it's correct?
Dot band? Please explain.
And then every key could have its own Sesame Street kind of voice, squeaking when pressed, giving the user feedback. And some mean voice would say NO when the user is detected writing a non-standard word. Typing would become an experience for all senses!
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer