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Gender seems to be in debate depending on your reference. God is defined as either asexual, or as "the father" (1,2). Best to simply file all...

Fraudsters may find it very difficult to fool a quantum computer. What if it’s the govt trying to pull one over on their citizens? Then again a QC...

The Geiger and Marsden experiment (a.k.a. Rutherford gold foil experiment) might be a candidate.

It appears that a number of these balloons have been flying around "undetected" or "unreported", until recently (1). They have almost zero heat...

Later news: Recent balloon over South America and Caribbean. During Trump presidency, several (?) were noticed, classified as UFO, but otherwise...

And the biggest issue is figuring out what is fact, and what is myth and fable. Maybe AI can help us sort this one out. There are too many...

My surname has an English and Irish spelling. I was told it’s the Irish version by my dad at one time but not too sure now. I was pretty much floored...

With a 'by' ending my surname appears to be Danish or Anglo-Saxon. I imagine my ancestors crossing the sea and setting up homes in eastern England....

It gets worse: "plants possess a highly developed, conscious root brain that works much as ours does to analyze incoming data and generate...

Then there’s always plants and are they conscious even if only a little. The person who wrote the following article thinks so….. ...

I think I understand that now.

Not as such it's a shorthand way of describing how fast something is going relative to the speed of sound.

There is no such UOM known as Machs , correct?

https://www.space.com/is-the-universe-conscious#:~:text=What%20is%20real%20in%20the,is%20indeed%20full%20of%20consciousness. I like the idea that...

This calls into question if the universe is a figment of our imagination. Most would agree that only a conscious being might understand the nature...

At last, I think they shot down a floating space jellyfish. ...

While I catch up on that reference, I will not rule out Roger Penrose, because nobody can ever rule him out....

Most treatments on consciousness involve the most advanced form - that of human thought processes. But consciousness is very complex to define, and...

It is used speed. If an object is travelling at Mach 1 it is travelling at the speed of sound, Mach 2 is twice as fast etc...

Yes but how did that arise? So many scientists have tried and failed to explain consciousness. Among them: Dawkins and Dennett - memes. Crick -...

I'm not ducking out of this one, but Dywy might be better to answer it.

Is Mach a unit of measurement? Saw a site expressing some speeds as X Machs but I think that’s wrong unless it is accepted as a UOM in some parts of...

The U.S. has decided to send longer-range defensive weapons in the latest shipment planned for Ukraine (1,2,3). The "Ground Launched Small...

In the classic sense, science is a form of religion, the latter being defined as "a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance"...

If there is no evidence then you are free to speculate, and you might become the new Einstein or Darwin. Purpose of life could be to hydrogenate...

Is there a question?

Watched Waterloo on YouTube last night. Steiger may be guilty of overexpressing a madman mentality as Napoleon but Plummer looked cool as a cucumber...