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Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 472

I just finished a final for graduate mathematics for engineers today. Maybe I am just dumb compared to you, but my goodness, solving a non-homogenous non-constant coefficients first-order PDE on a 100 min test is hard (along with four other problems). Do not use generalizations that "math is easy." It can be easy because there are rules that are to be followed. But sometimes, it is just not possible for us to do by ourselves.

Proof: Go solve the integral of exp[-x^2] and find a closed form solution that does not have integrals in it. That's right, it can't be done. Likewise, not all math is easy and doable.

Comment Should be pretty obvious by now (Score 5, Informative) 150

E=hf.

Visible light does not cause cancer. UV, XRay, and Gamma (all higher frequency than visible) do cause cancer.

Even if we knew nothing about the fact that we are exposed to so much radio and microwave radiation on a daily basis, does it not make sense that electromagnetic radiation below visible light should also not cause cancer (that is, for it to not be an ionizing radiation)?

I mean, who cares if your brain dissipates some radio energy to heat in the brain? Has a small temperature in a localized part of the body caused cancer in the past? Unless the heat dissipated raises the temperature of the brain over 104, I do not see much concern.

Comment At least he's got... (Score 1) 2247

Spunk.

While I don't agree with much of what he wants to do, guess what? He needs Congressional approval on many of these issues! And you know what's great about him? He is something genuinely different than the SSDD we have had in office for years.

Bush set in policies that were and are terrible precedents. Obama = change? Ha! Wasn't he supposed to close down Guantanamo? What about the wars? These presidents are just speakers for the people who get them elected; Paul, while a bit crazy, would shake up the pathetic state of government we find ourselves with.

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