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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. 20 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    They reported prior to the rescue that a SEAL died.  Has there been any report on what killed him?  The rescue seems to be going well and the boys are surviving.  It's strange to me that a SEAL who presumably was alone on his mission didn't make it through while divers accompanying these boys who are presumably in very frail health are making it through okay.

    I think he ran out of oxygen and couldn't get to more. Possibly became disoriented (heh). Waters were probably higher then, so longer dives.

  2. 35 minutes ago, Aphelion said:

    There are so many things wrong with this article that it's hard to know where to begin.  I will narrow it down to just a few objections that might have a chance of resonating with you:

    • You evaluate the problem from an overly simplistic two dimensional perspective considering only two nucleons.  What would happen to the summation of forces within the nucleus (considering both the Coulomb forces and your proposed Casimir forces) in e.g. an uranium-238 nucleus?  Since you view nucleons as spheres,  imagine it as a 238 spheres packed together.  The em forces would not degrade significantly (in comparison) across the diameter of the nucleus from one end to the other but the Casimir forces would degrade significantly.  Do you have a method to account for and to calculate the summed forces in such a high nucleon arrangement?  If so, have you determined that it is sufficient to hold together U-238?  With your proposed theory it would not be remotely plausible to derive binding energy.
    • Your values and overall Coulomb force curve are wrong.  At 1 fm distance, the Coulomb force between 2 protons will be about 230 N.  You have it at 33 N for some reason.  Even if we modified the curve by a fixed constant, it would still not be correct because the curve derivatives are wrong.  From 0.2 fm to 3.0 fm is a distance change of 15x and by the inverse square law there should be a change in force magnitude of 225x, but you show a change of less than 10x in force from 0.2 to 3.0 fm.  
    • But let's use the incorrect Coulomb force values given.  According to your numbers and assuming your proposed version of the short range Casimir force and throwing in your "speculative" repulsive force to keep these nuclei from crushing into mini black holes, a two proton nucleus should be stable.  But they aren't.  Why not?  

    The above above objections are made while assuming the most favorable possible analysis of your ideas, e.g. allowing for the completely misappropriated use of the Casimir force via applying the calculated force on two plates of a given area and transferring this to subatomic particles.

    Yeah, but can you explain why a top doesn't just fall over?

  3. 48 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Oh well.  I suppose to most of the base abortion is all they really care about from SCOTUS, anyway.

    Dont forget about gun control. There are still a lot of conflicting decisions in the lower court about how to apply Heller. The court hasn't touched it recently because they weren't sure they'd have a pro gun majority and the liberal justices were afraid they would.

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  4. Was watching the episode of the office where Pam slaps Michael and then Dwight puts half a frozen chicken on Michael's face for the swelling.

    "He's going to get salmonella! That's my greatest fear!"

    She then proceeds to explain the highly complicated measures she goes through to keep everything clean while preparing chicken in the kitchen. I didn't pay that much attention to the details, but I'm pretty sure she marinates it in bleach.

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  5. 8 hours ago, Jimbaround said:

    This one is pretty good:

    http://www.kmov.com/story/38586364/apartment-manager-fired-after-calling-police-on-man-wearing-socks-in-pool

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    (Meredith/WATN/CNN) - The manager at an apartment complex in Memphis was fired after she called the police on a tenant wearing socks in the community pool.

    Camry Porter said she and her boyfriend were at the pool for less than 10 minutes when the manager approached them. The manager told Porter’s boyfriend to take off his socks and then asked the couple to leave when he didn’t comply.

    Moments later, Porter said the manager left the pool area and called 911.

    When a police officer eventually arrived at the apartment complex, Porter said the manager claimed the couple was "disturbing the peace."

    "I pay rent like everyone else. I have never had any issues with a sock until today. Mind you we are the only black people out here and as soon as we walked up, she had something to say," Porter said in a video she posted to Facebook.

    The Memphis native claimed the manager did not seem to have a clear explanation for what was proper pool attire.

    "She said no hats, no shirts, no socks. We have two men who are her friends sitting here in two hats,” Porter said in her video. "Nothing was done to them. But as soon as we walk into the area, being the only black family, we're the only people you addressed at the time. That made me feel like it was racially motivated.”

    "You can't treat people like that in this day and age. It's not right," she continued.

    Porter's Facebook post has been shared more than 8,000 times. By Thursday afternoon, the corporate office for Riverset Apartments reached out to Porter and said the manager no longer worked there.

    “After assessing statements from Ms. Porter and determining that this former employee’s actions violate our company’s policies and beliefs, she is no longer employed by Riverset Apartments,” the company said in a Facebook post.

     

    Maybe he was wearing only a sock and the dude was intimidated?

  6. 14 hours ago, Lucid said:

    When the label is a religion, yes. Most all religions reject relativism. You accept the teachings and traditions or you reject them. Accepting some parts and rejecting other parts is how you wind up with 10,000 protestant denominations

    No, I think the Pope flaunting concubines in court and selling tickets to get into heaven was what caused the reformation (maybe some exaggeration). That and an utter unwillingness for the Catholic Church to reform itself when presented with objections to its corruption is how we ended up with so many protestant denominations.

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