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re: RIP Jimmy Carter
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 12/29/24 at 3:27 pm to OMLandshark
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I’m assuming Trump will be there, right?
Would be a pretty bad look for any sitting, former or elected President to not attend the State Funeral for another President.
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re: RIP Jimmy Carter
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 12/29/24 at 3:18 pm to SCLibertarian
Interesting timing for the Funeral. I assume they will do it before the inauguration.
re: Astronauts are travelling at 17,500 mph (5mi/sec) when they do space walks outside the ISS
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 9/28/24 at 5:51 pm to Mr Breeze
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To be fair, there's no practical reason for the average high school or college student to understand how Newton improved Kepler's laws of planetary motion (amazingly accurate at solar system scales and beyond), why the ISS is moving at 17,500 mph, the importance of Lagrange Points and why the James Webb scope is orbiting at L2, and reasons for GPS satellite cesium beam clock time corrections per Einstein's relativistic theories, mainly related to time dilation. Physics and some engineering students yes, for students outside those disciplines that knowledge is interesting but unnecessary. Practically, IMO trig by itself is sufficient and useful for life long use. Classical mechanics, calculus or quantum theory, not so much. The OP's statements are correct; yours are not. If you disagree, then your thoughts to reconcile Einsteinian space-time gravity with quantum theory would be very interesting, the Holy Grail "Theory of Everything" in physics. Or, a simpler problem is why it would be so difficult to establish a GPS system orbiting our moon, a NASA thought experiment for many years.
Respect.
re: Do you say lunch or dinner (referring to a meal near the noon hour)
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 9/7/24 at 3:12 pm to LSUDropout
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It’s lunch and I didn’t think this was something that was up to interpretation.
Rural folks and farmers have 4 meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Supper. Lunch is usually mid-morning and dinner is early afternoon.
re: Do people realize the fuel for EVs is Petroleum?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 9/2/24 at 7:11 pm to deeprig9
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I'm not a chemist or physicist so please explain to me how does a 6 pound gallon of gasoline create 19 pounds of CO2 gas when burned?
The O2. Gas only brings carbon to the party, your car takes in O2 from the air. Give or take a pure conversion will make 19 lbs of CO2 and some amount of water from the hydrogen in the gas combing with the O2.
re: Do people realize the fuel for EVs is Petroleum?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 9/2/24 at 6:59 pm to MintBerry Crunch
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And yet it’s still more efficient
It’s significantly more. The whole we burn fossil fuels to charge EVs, while true, is a silly red herring.
re: Anyone following the Pigeon Forge Eminent Domain Issue?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 8/27/24 at 8:46 pm to rmyers
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So, yes it's Constitutional just not liked.
It’s absolute necessity though.
re: Anyone following the Pigeon Forge Eminent Domain Issue?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 8/27/24 at 6:29 pm to Limitlesstigers
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InB4 all the "conservatives" comment how great ED is and isn't unconstitutional at all.
It’s literally in the Constitution as an enumerated power.
re: Train vs Vehicle Accident Logic, make it make sense
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 8/25/24 at 4:49 pm to OysterPoBoy
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That used to be true in the steam engine days. Around the 50s they developed a much better breaking system but allow and even magnify the rumors that it takes a long time as a way to keep insurance rates low.
The railroads self insure. This is also non-sense.
re: Door to door salesman - trespassing
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 8/21/24 at 11:24 am to BBONDS25
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no. not a door to door salesman. I have a “no solicitation” sign. Your interpretation of the law is flat out wrong.
I’m not sure how you could interpret that language any way other than it would be trespassing
re: Scientists date Shroud of Turin back to the first century in new study
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 8/20/24 at 7:40 pm to RollTide1987
Pretty sure this is like 2-3 years old.
re: LED vs Incandescent Lighting
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 8/10/24 at 8:16 pm to RCDfan1950
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Installed 8’ LED shop lights and the least surge blows them out. Maybe I bought crap but they don’t come close to the hours they are supposed to last.
Feels like you wired them wrong if a power surge impacted anything but the transformer. If a power surge blew the transformer, then you for sure bought a crap transformer.
re: I have a friend that’s an honest to god 9/11 conspiracy theorist
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 8/5/24 at 8:11 am to TX Tiger
Is ETA some kind of TD inside joke?
re: If inflation remained average and constant since 1976, the avg home price = 137,400 today
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 7/13/24 at 7:57 pm to Dairy Sanders
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And yet inflation was mostly low and flat up until 1970. It took off starting in 71. What changed? Oh yeah Gold Standard. Before the creation of the Federal Reserve, inflation was virtually nonexistent.
Neither of these statements are factually accurate. I suspect you don’t know why the FED was created if you think the second point is true.
re: If inflation remained average and constant since 1976, the avg home price = 137,400 today
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 7/13/24 at 3:48 pm to Dairy Sanders
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Federal Reserve and then coming off the Gold Standard are what caused this.
The gold standard is to macroeconomic discussions like flat earth is to a physics discussion.
re: If inflation remained average and constant since 1976, the avg home price = 137,400 today
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 7/13/24 at 3:31 pm to Obtuse1
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You can buy an 85" UHD TV now for fewer actual dollars than you could buy a decent 25" console TV in 1976. Building material science had changed a lot in the last 50 years you may not have noticed if you haven't dug around in a 1970s house and/or haven't paid attention to modern homes. It is really hard to make and apples to apples comparison between 1976 homes and 2024 homes. A lot of things are better now and a lot of things are worse.
This is known as the Baumol Effect.
re: If inflation remained average and constant since 1976, the avg home price = 137,400 today
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 7/13/24 at 3:27 pm to theunknownknight
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Pull directly from a google search from the last 20+ years Another search said 2.5% over the last 30 years Investopedia also provides numbers since 1929 here you can reference that show it is around 2.5 or less as a baseline.
My question wasn’t how to look up inflation stats, just use FRED for that. I wanted to know what time frame you were using to make that statement.
The reason I asked is if you didn’t include all the years from 1976, and you clearly hadn’t, what years did you use and why did you pick a different time period?
Really your statement read in a vacuum is if inflation remained constant since 1976…which would have actually resulted in the average home prices being around 500k. This is because the average rates of inflation in 1970s and 80s were significantly higher than 2.5%.
So, I was thinking maybe he meant if inflation rates had remained consistent with rates before 1976 vs since 1976.
re: If inflation remained average and constant since 1976, the avg home price = 137,400 today
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 7/13/24 at 12:44 pm to theunknownknight
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*2.43% inflation year over year starting and an average home cost of 43,400 dollars in 1976.
How are you coming up with that rate? Which time frame?
re: Amtrak - Worst Website Ever?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/26/24 at 8:41 pm to POTUS2024
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Amtrak is almost fully subsidized by the govt. You need to reset your expectations.
Nope, sadly it’s worse. They are heavily subsidized by the freight railroads too, in that they run for next to nothing.
Imagine being so bad a business model that even with nearly all your fixed operating costs paid for…you still set money on fire like that’s actually your model.
re: Map of Chinese-owned farmland in U.S. Why is so much of it next to military bases?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/22/24 at 11:03 am to Statestreet
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in the event of hostilities they are in close proximity to our military bases with strategic vantage points.
They call those satellites, you don’t need thousands of acres of land to do this. I mean come on guys try and use your brain. You guys have seen too many movies where they say hide in plain sight and thought…yeah that’s how it really works in the world.
re: Map of Chinese-owned farmland in U.S. Why is so much of it next to military bases?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/22/24 at 10:58 am to Bulldogblitz
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Can't do that. Nike and apple would lose their factories in china
Finally someone who can see beyond soundbites.
Whether this board likes it or not, the US participates in the global economy, US nationals own tons of real assets all of the world. You can’t just proclaim, “this should be illegal,” while blissfully ignoring the consequences of that decision with, “you can’t be this fricking stupid.”
I should have known asking the politard board to think about what they really don’t like about it was a bridge too far.
re: Map of Chinese-owned farmland in U.S. Why is so much of it next to military bases?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/22/24 at 10:53 am to dnm3305
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How many bedrooms do you have in your house? Do you have a spare room? And if so, why arent you renting it to an illegal alien?
I have 5 and 0.
Your logic is poor at best. One is illegal already, one isn’t.
re: Map of Chinese-owned farmland in U.S. Why is so much of it next to military bases?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/21/24 at 9:54 pm to deltaland
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Chinese own the entire island of Hawaii?
Lol no, most people in this thread aren’t aware that map is just highlighting the entire county where they own land, even if it’s just 1 acre. I can guarantee they don’t own all of Mojave or Riverside Counties in California…or all of Miami Dade County.
re: Map of Chinese-owned farmland in U.S. Why is so much of it next to military bases?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/21/24 at 9:32 pm to Tider13
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You cant be this fricking dumb...you really cant.
Relax sport.
re: Map of Chinese-owned farmland in U.S. Why is so much of it next to military bases?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/21/24 at 9:28 pm to Sofaking2
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China is not a good actor. They do not have our best interests at heart. Their number one goal for them is to be the world power and to do so at America’s expense. Now ask yourself why they want so much American farmland? Could it have something to do with means of food production? Why so much land near American military bases? Could it have something to do with spying? China plays the long game. They would love to own the US. They are absolutely ruthless. Look how they treated their citizens during Covid. Seriously, they welded their citizens into apartment buildings. I wish I could drop every liberal into China so they could spread all their ideologies. You would see how long you would last. The US is a liberal wonderland.
Of course they want it for food, that’s why they have it. Why do people care that they purchased private land, from private land owners at a price they deemed acceptable.
It’s not like they can take it back to China and deprive the US of it. If war broke their title at the country clerks office wouldn’t mean squat.
People who think they are buying millions of acres of land to spy, don’t really understand how spying works, particularly in the digital age.
re: Map of Chinese-owned farmland in U.S. Why is so much of it next to military bases?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/21/24 at 8:52 pm to Night Vision
Why do people care if China buys land in the US? Honest question, because I’ve never understood why people care.
re: Can the refusal of cash money be considered discriminatory?
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/21/24 at 8:38 pm to Timeoday
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If that is not payment discrimination, what is?
It’s absolutely payment discrimination, it’s also totally legal as most forms of discrimination are.
re: AC unit went out and needs R-22
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/18/24 at 6:09 pm to EST
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Frick the EPA, the Federal Government, radical environmentalists, politicians who allow this, and dumbasses who buy into the whole "climate change emergency" crap.
It’s more because they destroy ozone. It’s not radical at all, it would be insanely stupid to keep using them.
It was Reagan who is responsible too, Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987.
re: OT Engineers — Sodium Cooled Nuclear Reactors
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/16/24 at 2:07 pm to HeadSlash
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Blast it out into space
That would be so prohibitively expensive.
re: Southern Baptist Convention: IVF is a sin
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/14/24 at 1:35 am to bayoubengals88
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Because the alternatives are nonsensical.
Interesting, I would say claiming they come from God is nonsensical because it implies absolutism. Any cursory understanding of human history would quickly dispel you of the notion that human morality is either consistent or absolute.
Instinctual morality is almost certainly a trait that was, and still is, naturally selected as a favorable survival trait. Specifically, most immoral acts are acts of selfishness which would result in being expelled from early hunter gather packs and certainly be a death sentence. We observe this behavior today in nearly all other mammalian species.
re: Neanderthals and humans interbred 47000 years ago for nearly 7,000 years research suggests
Posted by PhysicsGuy on 6/13/24 at 8:55 pm to RockoRou
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If you don't know when something started, its "impossible" to determine the age, period. You can assume the Earth is 4.5 billions old, you can guess the Earth is 4.5 billions years old, or you can pull the number, 4.5 billion, out of your azz, and use it. You sound like a "Big Banger", that's a long phucking time ago.
It’s not at all impossible. If you have no idea how it’s done I could see why you would think that, but it’s not even very complicated and you could easily learn how we do it with a simple google search.
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