Apollo 11 50th anniversary
@mikey
"...but as awareness, anticipation, satisfaction, confidence, almost exultation. I like the feeling."
I like that. Also generally prefer solitude.
I guess it only makes sense his feelings wouldn't be the same for every orbit around the backside.
Apollo 11 50th anniversary
"This, however, could not be further from the truth, he explained during an interview with Bob Cabana, the director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday. “I was always asked ‘Wasn’t I the loneliest person?’” he said. “The answer was ‘No, I felt fine’.”"
https://www.foxnews.com/science/apollo-11-astronaut-michael-collins-coffee
Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost
@ZacharyHerold @freemo nor does it address the issue the Electoral College was designed for.
The Electoral College serves a valid purpose. Its shortcomings would be better remedied by eliminating political parties than eliminating the College itself.
How to Grow a Forest Really, Really Fast
Shubhendu Sharma is working to reforest the world, one tiny patch at a time
https://fellowsblog.ted.com/how-to-grow-a-forest-really-really-fast-d27df202ba09
Planting a trillion trees could be our best strategy to tackle climate change. Can we do it?
What Is the Human Microbiome, Exactly?
Oscillations of the baseline of solar magnetic field and solar irradiance on a millennial timescale
@mikey
A 50 amp breaker feeding a 10ga or 12 ga circuit is definitely not right at all; most people would go so far as to say dangerous.
Almost always, it's a 30 amp breaker for 10 ga, and a 20 amp breaker for 12 ga.
50 amp is generally seen feeding an electric stove/oven combo.
@mikey Since he replaced 12-2 with 10-2, he had to replace the 20 amp breaker with a 30 amp breaker. Seems like overkill to me, but I obviously don't have the whole picture...
@mikey
I assume a 230V pump?
That's what ours is; on a 20 amp breaker, so must be 12ga wire. Nominal 4600 watts at the box. Dunno how much voltage drop by the time it gets down the well, but we've never had a problem in the 4 yrs we've been here.
@hamslap@quey.org
Dunno if you saw this one first time around, but it's closely related. What people believe is what gets published. What doesn't get published doesn't really exist in the scientific community.
@hamslap@quey.org
Study A shows effect. Study B shows anti-effect. The scientific method would have both studies replicated to shed more light on the discrepancy. How often does that actually happen?
What usually happens is they get entrenched in their beliefs that *their* knowledge is correct, *their* method couldn't possibly be in error. What should be "science" turns into dogma.
At levels of quantum mechanics especially, certain observations can't be explained in standard terminology. Belief in this theory or that theory is all there is. Some scientists have even put forth that the entire universe is a hologram. Such a position, though developed using the scientific method, can only be a belief. Likewise, the anti-position can only be a belief. The farther you get into the philosophical underpinnings of how we know what we know, the more we find that what we think we know is really just a belief.
sda
boosted
Isn't it odd that those who most often claim to espouse critical thinking have never even taken a class in logic... and even act as if logic is irrelevant to critical thinking.
@hamslap@quey.org
Not so much the scientific "method" that's eschewed as propaganda, but "your" science vs. "my" science. At its philosophical base, science is still a religion... the best one we have, but still, a religion just the same.
The Perception Gap
https://perceptiongap.us/
@RomeoTBravo
Re: Republicrat / Demopublican lack of understanding each other,
Do you live in a bubble? A quiz
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/do-you-live-in-a-bubble-a-quiz-2
Joined May 2019
