BS: KISS keep it simple

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Sep 23 - 05:06 PM

You don't live in the real world, pal.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Sep 23 - 03:38 PM

Donuel's latest (of many) unattributed copy and paste is from futurism.com. Just in case you'd suddenly thought that he'd turned literate. Hope this helps.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Aug 23 - 06:18 PM

So what's with the trend of posting the same post to more than one thread?

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 01:21 PM

Yes it matters. You constantly make assertions that need fact-checks first that you haven't carried out. This is not lying but it's exceptionally careless and untrustworthy behaviour. As for evil, deluded would be a better descriptor. The upshot is, for example, that while I haven't a clue as to how much DNA we share with cats or how many vertebrae they've got, you are the very last person I'd trust to give me the facts about it, or about anything else come to think of it.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 10:33 AM

So, after a moment's thought, you realised that you were wrong about cats. Could I suggest that from now on you have a moment's thought BEFORE you post?

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 06:44 AM

There are plenty of insects that are predators that far outnumber cats. And there are probably hundreds of thousands of spiders in my garden alone.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 09:36 AM

"As another amateur science enthusiast, I show others the weakness of the past status quo and might inspire others how by simply thinking, anyone can make breakthroughs."

The unjustified outburst of ego there is simply staggering.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Aug 23 - 07:53 PM

You can't do anything accurately. Now the thing is that you are attempting (usually unsuccessfully) to address matters of science in this thread. It seems never to have occurred to you that, in any discussion of a scientific matter, it's vitally important to use scientifically accurate language which will communicate ideas clearly and without ambiguity. Time and time again you show that you are incapable of doing that. Sad, really.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Aug 23 - 09:25 AM

Interstellar is a vague term which simply means "among (or between if you must) the stars." If you mean "outside the heliopause" you need to say just that. I'm "inside" the heliopause (i.e., I'm under the influence of the sun-related things that stop influencing me when I go beyond it), but I'm not part of, or in or on, the sun, therefore I'm interstellar if I want to put it that way. It simply isn't a scientific term unless qualified. It's a nice word though, as are helicopter and mellifluous. Musk and Branson may be able to help you one day.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Aug 23 - 03:33 PM

Yeah. Discuss.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Aug 23 - 01:30 PM

We're all interstellar objects.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 08:12 AM

Dave - Cleaning it up is the Mods’ job. It’s you lot’s bickering that’s making the place stink. Why do you think so many former posters stay away nowadays? They haven’t all died, I suspect many are still around, but I also suspect that, like me, they’re sick to death of a small number of posters dominating threads with their ad nauseam bickering.

Steve - you’re one of the main bickerers. Know thyself. (Virtually no chance of that, I know).

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 07:30 AM

Still bickering then…??

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 15 Sep 23 - 04:49 PM

I’m not ‘whingeing about a couple of deleted posts’, I’m asking why there are double standards in moderation. Why two posts of mine, which did exactly the same as you claim your many, many posts over a nine month period are doing - challenging Donuel’s garbage - are regarded as ‘bickering’ and used to justify the closing of a thread, whereas a nine-month-long bickering feud between you and Donuel is allowed to continue unabated and uncommented upon.

That’s all. I passed no comment on who’s right or wrong, there is no ‘sitting back in judgment’ in my post, I really don’t give a FF on that score - you’re both as bad as each other AFAIC. He won’t stop trolling you, and you can’t stop responding to it.

And stop bringing dogs and their owners up every time I post something you don’t like. Your cynophobic views are well-known, and you’re not going to succeed in provoking me on that subject.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 15 Sep 23 - 07:36 AM

I do admit to being old, Raggy, but ‘lonely’, or ‘bitter’? Nah!

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 15 Sep 23 - 07:12 AM

A week or so ago, the ‘Trump’ thread was closed on the grounds that my pointing out to Donuel that an accusation of rape doesn’t automatically make the accused man a rapist amounted to ‘bickering’. Although that thread has now been opened again, several posts, including my two correcting Donuel’s error, have been deleted.

Yet you two, with occasional contributions from others, have been continually kicking lumps out of each other since post #3 on 5th January, without any action, or even comment, from ‘Da Management’.

Strange how my two posts on the Trump thread were viewed as ‘bickering’ and justified the closure of the thread, yet a nine-month-long running feud involving regular insults in this thread goes on unchecked.

Does anyone understand the reason(s) for the apparently-double moderational standards here?

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 01:19 PM

Lonely? Not me - I have a lovely wife many years my junior, who loves me, as the saying goes, ‘to the moon and back’, a son and his partner and my grandson, my lovely dog, a wide circle of friends of both sexes from my schooldays, my sea-going days, my working days, my sporting activities, and my musical activities. I don’t have time to be lonely.

Bitter? Not me - I’m having too much fun to be bitter.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Thompson
Date: 11 Sep 23 - 02:10 PM

And the secret of cooking quinoa just right? Equal amounts of water/stock and grain. That makes it fluffy with the right amount of bite.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Thompson
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 01:59 PM

My impression would chime with Donuel's, that the codger factor is higher below the line. But it's only an impression from occasional visits.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Thompson
Date: 09 Sep 23 - 04:13 PM

Too much spite. Here's an interesting video about the growth of SUV sales.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 08:28 AM

... she even won a Nobel prize for this unintuitive idea.

There's nothing in the Wikipedia page on her about a Nobel prize and she doesn't seem to appear in the list of Nobel laureates in Physics.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 08:11 AM

The hologram works like a filter that unscrambles and undiffuses light to its original beam. It sort of works like an opposite Plinko game.

Yes ... but how? That is what I would have liked to hear more about. I've never heard of Plinko, so it's not much help.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 06:23 AM

The text of the link    “the inventor of the better MRI”    (posted is 14 Sep 23 - 02:52 PM) is misleading as the subject of the TED talk was an optical alternative to MRI and had nothing to do with magnetic resonance.

The talk itself was very interesting although I would have liked more on how the hologram refocuses the light scattered by the body tissues.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 09 Sep 23 - 01:28 PM

Where do the gooseberry bushes come into all this?

DC

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 07 Sep 23 - 09:29 PM

I think you could be quite an old man.

From what I can work out, Donuel seems to be around a year younger than me so - not old. Not old at all!

DC

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 10:22 AM

The 3D printed stainless steel bridge in Amsterdam opened in 2021. It's actually quite beautiful. It reminds me of a highly-designed wooden footbridge installed in a creek park with the twists in the design. (The local bridge looks like a Pacific NW cedar canoe that washed up in the Texas prairie, but whatever).

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 08:32 AM

See? Closure of this thread is the goal
of the indecent despite my including interesting links.
Good people could always include science links that are interesting to them.

Perhaps the most compelling link on Mudcat now is Sandra from Sydney's link to a half a million-year-old wooden structure.

---

Considering who started the thread and who keeps coming back to argue, there are no innocent parties in the demise of yet another thread. ---mudelf

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 07:28 AM

I'm not anything except curious, concerned, and contemporary.
You guys are ambassadors whether you know it or not. 70-year-old hooligans and trolls are not a good look for the UK. We also have our version of rednecks. Even worse we have Trump fanatics.

a brain mechanism for hate

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 06:21 AM

The psychology of hate: Moral concerns differentiate hate from dislike

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 06:03 AM

Steve Shaw - PM
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 07:06 PM

Hell will freeze over first.
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Perhaps your scatological remarks have more to do with old ethnic hatreds than science.https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 23 - 07:12 PM

What's feeble about Steve's post other than no mention of the miracle microbes?

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 23 - 08:05 AM

Good post from Steve's 1st hand observation of Vulcano.

I can not even locate Raggytash's sense of humor.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 06:11 PM

Underground microbes can trap CO2. underground CO2 eating microbes

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 06:02 PM

The new microbe, a cyanobacterium, was discovered in September in volcanic seeps near the Italian island of Vulcano, where the water contains high levels of CO2. The researchers said the bug turned CO2 into biomass faster than any other known cyanobacteria.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 03:14 PM

One of his favoUrite female aids called him a malignant narcissist.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 10:07 AM

Hell is inside malignant narcissists who think the world deserves their vengeance.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Sep 23 - 08:24 AM

I think Venus is hell. It's bright as hell and hot as Hades.
Besides it's cloudy ALL the time.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Sep 23 - 06:25 AM

A split second sprite caught on film

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Sep 23 - 05:52 AM

What is the new Physics? String theory is a subset of quantum mechanics. There are attempts to reinvent space-time in hopes of a breakthrough. Then there is Twistor physics that sort of inverts our model of the universe giving a new perspective and a more simple mathematical approach. Finally the pan psychic consciousness model of the universe is gaining more respect.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 10:23 PM

Our living Einstien
He does not believe in inflation either.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 09:34 PM

Light is weird. It does not interact with itself.
Illuminating light

what if dark matter has anti-photons that do not interact with baryonic matter?

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:55 PM

Trolls 101

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 07:17 PM

Strangely enough the hotter the Earth is, the colder Hell becomes.
There are many inverse relationships like Supply and demand and time versus distance traveled. Far from being purely theoretical, inverse relationships exist in most systems that affect our day to day lives. There is a well-described inverse relationship between trolls and their target.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 01:34 PM

Mostly I listen but gun powder rendered the left ear very weak.
Reading requires 2 pair of glasses at once but it can be done.

Billy Crystal enhanced Fernando Lamas paraphrase: "Its better to look good than to see good".

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 11:23 AM

good guys win

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 11:03 AM

Who says I can read?

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 10:18 AM

The brain generates reality from perception. Yes I did mishear the 3 seconds when Nobel prize was mentioned. When people play the game telephone, it doesn't mean they are deliberately lying.
This is proof I am not AI. Unless AI is cleverly lying.

Chance favors the connected mind. Stay connected all.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 08:50 AM

That info is in her TED talk.
PS I never use Wiki. But I have gone there a handful of times.

Since the brain generates its own version of reality, the line between visionary and bollocks depends upon the quality of that brain's generation and interpretation of perception. A curious brain will generate a better interpretation than a lazy brain.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 08:20 AM

Since the brain generates its own version of its perception, when a person goes blind, the brain's optical centers can become hyperexcitable and create hallucinations like a boring repetitive movie. Likewise, when a person goes deaf the brain's hearing centers do a similar thing and create hallucinatory music. These reactions occur in about 10% of people who go blind or deaf.
The man who first discovered this had a name that sounds like Bonay.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 07:59 AM

Yes Doug she even won a Nobel prize for this unintuitive idea.
The hologram works like a filter that unscrambles and undiffuses light to its original beam. It sort of works like an opposite Plinko game.
This almost seems like magic at first look.

Years ago I was in Harvard Square when a young woman explained her work on a real time MRI. That seemed like magic back then, at least it sounded like a Star Trek scanner.