If we assume that murder rate should be roughly equal to death by cop as a metric, black males are getting killed by cops at rates 15-20% lower than they should be.

Except the amount of money that goes into public schooling above a surprisingly low minimum has virtually no effect on lower bound performance. There is quite a bit of effect on AP classes of course. DC public schools are among the best funded in the nation per capita and the worst performing.

Wow you're a complete fucking moron. Accurate is an adjective. It describes a noun. E&Hs PREDICTION was accurate in that it was precisely correct. Namely, the boson's mass was greater than 18MeV. That the actual MEASUREMENT was fundamentally inaccurate in it's range does not change the accuracy of the PREDICTION.

Yeah, Nuclear Winter is a figment of the nuclear scare's imagination. It assumes that the earth is a featureless ball of rock, all targets are groundbursts, that every target would cause a firestorm the size of Dresden, and that any and all soot would magically stay in the atmosphere far higher and far longer than any such effects have been observed. At worst, a full scale nuclear war MIGHT cause temperatures to mildly drop for 1-2 years.

Sphere shaped means the approximation of a sphere in shape. Which it is. Not a perfect sphere, thus why it is an oblate spheroid. But, in the rules of the English language, an oblate spheroid is still sphere-shaped.

Given that black murder rates are near 50% of the American total and yet they account for barely 25% of death by cop incidents, it would seem rather obvious that that there are more whites/latinos killed unjustifiably by cop than black people.

No independent testing? This is one of three devices built by three separate groups that exhibit similar behavior. I do believe that is the definition of independent testing. Now, as to whether it every becomes useful, who knows.

Except it may very well be a warp drive if that is how it generates its thrust. Just because it is neither a FTL warp drive or a bubble drive does not mean it isn't a warp drive.

Not during the Grand Jury hearing he doesn't. Which given the lack of any power that hearing has, is what the criminal equivalent would be.

You do realize that money was not first on my list. I would guess that the majority of engineers are not primarily interested in the money the career will bring them. Rather, it's the 'build shit' mentality that calls most engineers. But the type of guys to get an engineering degree, especially the ones who join one of the P.E. societies, do not do so because of the societal good they can accomplish.

Never said they wouldn't then USE their engineering skills for societal good. Just that they didn't go into the field for that purpose. There is a rather fundamental difference. Not to mention, and this is kind of important, EWB does not require any sort of engineering degree. As well, that percentage was the school club, not the percentage of ASCE members in EWB. Thus, using it as any sort of metric is rather... shortsighted.

You won't find a male engineer that became an engineer to feel better about himself and the 'societal good' he can do, that's for sure. Instead it'll be because it either interests him from a 'I get to build neat shit' aspect, or because of monetary consideration. Any 'societal good' he can do with the engineering will be a tertiary consideration at best.

Sooo, you want a universe where Washington got access to the Fountain of Youth and people keep voting him into the presidency against his will?

*headdesk* Really? I did NOT know that. Not at alllllll. I certainly wasn't both expressing my opinion on the actual event and at the same time taking a jab at the ubiquity of cat pictures on the internet. Which of course subsequently gets labeled troll by idiots to dense to figure out my position. Or by people who want the people who killed her to get away with it. Hard to say.

I was going to offer my condolences. I was going to say how this was a great loss. I was going to say that the barbarians responsible should be hunted down like the dogs they are. But then I saw the cat pictures.