BS: New news *not* about the virus

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Jun 20 - 12:11 PM

And the Supreme Court, in another spasm of adulting, strikes down Louisiana's abortion restrictions.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Jun 20 - 09:35 AM

Totally cool, Sandra in Sydney.

And in *other* virus news, the Ebola outbreak is being declared controlled.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jun 20 - 11:33 AM

Intact six-metre long whale backbone washes ashore, Australia

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Jun 20 - 10:10 AM

Women seeking abortions are right about why they wanted one...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/20/abortion-denied-debt-bankruptcy-eviction

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 05:08 PM

Trump did have the right to challenge DACA, a mere presidential order, the Supreme court found his argument for doing so was insufficint when his legal team argued "because Obama did it".

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 12:16 PM

Go SCOTUS again! DACA stays!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 08:28 AM

Is the UK a nuclear power?
Is Finland part of Russia?
Why don't we use nuclear weapons more?

Things Trump has asked

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 20 - 08:31 AM

The Dropa civilization is one of the more prolific in our area.

They are curious of us too
Note you will not see 'debris' but the distinctive Dropa swarm of crafts.   nasa video of STS 75

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 20 - 07:13 AM

Only 36 civilizations? Do humans count?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Jun 20 - 08:11 PM

And this, from Forbes of all places:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/06/15/there-are-36-intelligent-alien-civilizations-in-our-galaxy-say-scientists/amp/

Blicky

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Jun 20 - 03:20 PM

Ooh you go SCOTUS! Sexual identity and orientation are, too, covered by the civil rights act, so there!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Jun 20 - 11:37 AM

If ya wanna add to the virus thread do, but don't contaminate this obe while complaining the other isn't here.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jun 20 - 11:24 AM

The mudcat pandemic thread has fallen off the front page.
This is the ideal time to get infected when your guard is down.
The virus is still content to infect at a 50% contagion rate.
We need to have a discontented virus.

Welcome to the second half of stage one. On a NIH conference call Dr. Fauci was asked why Trump acts as if he is immune. He said he told the president that in a time with no cure, anything is better than nothing except those things that are worse to your health. The prsident asked if their was vaccine he could have now and Fauci told him he could have a Faucine today. What's a Faucine? Thats where I spit on my hand and shake yours.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Jun 20 - 09:23 AM

It get worse: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sanctions-international-criminal-court-us-war-crimes-investigation-a9561901.html?amp

Sanctioning in the sense of punish, not permit, the ICC so Murrican military can't get done for their war crimes.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Jun 20 - 02:54 AM

This today from cnn: looking bad for Trump in electoral college!

It is hope, but what people say to pollsters, and how they vote does not always tally. Given Twitler's record, people would be ashamed to admit to liking him. But they also vote for a party, so you have to ask the right question. And even then, polls and votes are different.

The UK had an expression "Shy Tories". And it proved decisive.

Be afraid America, be very afraid.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Jun 20 - 08:11 AM

Aaaand more massacre in Nigeria

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/nigeria-borno-state-attack-coronavirus/2020/06/10/0147e06a-ab1b-11ea-a43b-be9f6494a87d_story.html

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jun 20 - 11:21 AM

And we are tunneling on Mars

https://www.universetoday.com/146361/finally-mars-insights-mole-is-now-underground/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 08:41 AM

This today from cnn: looking bad for Trump in electoral college!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/politics/electoral-map-2020-election-donald-trump-joe-biden/index.html

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 08:24 AM

When I was growing up, we had old cousins whose parents had been kids during the Civil War. It was like that Ray Bradbury story about the time machine, hearing them tell their parents' stories.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 11:49 PM

When I was a little kid some older folks could remember that the President when they were kids was Ulysses S. Grant. They said the S stands for secret.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 09:48 PM

thanks for posting the story, Mrrzy, some years back I read about much younger second wives of Civil War veterans & thought the story might be about a widow's death.

Back in the 70s I had an older friend who was a 2nd generation Australian. She was born before or during the first world war, a late child of a man whose father arrived in Australia in 1793, 5 years after British settlement.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 02:59 PM

The death of the last American to receive Civil War pension!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/04/she-was-last-american-collect-civil-war-pension-7313-month-she-just-died/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 07:34 AM

37 kids stabbed in China...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Jun 20 - 07:13 PM

Australia - Endangered animal breaks into shop & trips alarms

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 06:50 PM

Ebola is breaking out again, in the Congo. (Not *that* virus.)

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 May 20 - 10:32 PM

Wrong thread for that conversation. It has its own.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 20 - 05:16 PM

OK mods enough trying to exponge any mention of GEORGE FLOYD

REMOVING legal arguements regarding 1st degree murder is jeuvenile

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 20 - 07:15 AM

Its very hard to grow up when you are murdered legally by indemic institutional racism before you have a chance to grow up.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 May 20 - 06:41 PM

Seriously, can't we just grow the fuck *up* already.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 29 May 20 - 05:49 PM

DemonstrTIONS HAVE SPREAD TO aTLANTA sAN jOSE wASHINGTON dc...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 29 May 20 - 05:27 PM

About 500 businesses are burned or destroyed along with a police station by a race riot over more murders by police of black people.
I made a complete list but is too much data to post

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 May 20 - 02:51 PM

Also can watch space launch today space.com or nasa.gov

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 May 20 - 08:36 AM

Nice view of earth and moon, Donuel. Lovely.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 May 20 - 06:34 AM

OOPS! WRONG THREAD.

Could a MudElf please delete the above post, together with this one. I will repost it in the Joke thread.

Sorry,
DC

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 May 20 - 06:30 AM

A doctor arrived at his surgery one morning to find a large bag on the doorstep. He looked inside and found a new born baby with a note saying "Please look after my child". As a medical professional, he knew that it was a responsibility he could not shirk but there would be so many forms to fill in and he had patients waiting. He took it inside and examined it. As the baby seemed in good health, he decided to deal with his morning patients before handing it over for further care.

The first patient was the local vicar, a hypochondriac whom the doctor knew well. He had suffered every disease known to man and, this morning, was complaining of acute stomach pains. The doctor suspected trapped wind but thought that if, this time, he could convince him that it really was something serious, it might shock him out of his hypochondria. The situation gave him the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

He told the vicar to drop his trousers, lie on the examination table and open his legs. The doctor then pressed on the vicar's belly, causing him to let out a long fart. The doctor picked up the baby and said "Congratulations! You have given birth to a healthy boy".
"B..b..but I can't have done" stammered the vicar, "It's not possible!"
"God moves in mysterious ways" replied the doctor.

The vicar, being a good Christian, accepted his apparent responsibilities a brought the child up as his own. When the boy reached the age of 18, the vicar thought that it was time that he knew the truth. It was a difficult conversation but it had to be done. He said "You have always been my son and always will be. You have grown up calling me Dad but, in fact, I am not ACTUALLY you father.

Looking rather shocked at the news, the young man asked "Then who is my father?"

In an anguished tone, the vicar replied "The bishop!"


DC

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 20 - 06:10 AM

New view of Earth and Moon

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 26 May 20 - 08:07 PM

If you are seriously interested
https://youtu.be/Wokn7crjBbA

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 26 May 20 - 07:43 PM

Pole flips are old news

Sci fi chuckles to serious investigation
https://www.sciencealert.com/how-feasible-is-a-warp-drive-here-s-the-science

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 May 20 - 01:33 PM

articles says - Earth's magnetic field is constantly in a state of flux

Pun not intended I would guess. The unit of Tesla is a measure of what we electrical engineers call magnetic flux.

But the South Atlantic anomaly reminds me of Jupiter's red spot. I have seen experiments with rotating inner core with viscous fluids as thin layers and they often produce a single large eddy. And our molten outer cored is just such a system, a viscous layer trapped. And Earths magnetic field is produced by a rotating core we are told.

Well that's my take. Other than the warning that the magnetic pole reversals won't go in one huge flip, it will most likely appear "reversed" in spots, say those that study these things. Timescale long.

We may get a hint of what to expect any day in our life time. The last big coronal mass ejection to hit the Earth was the Carrington Event in 1859 and it wasn't pretty.
viz
A solar storm of this magnitude occurring today would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts and damage due to extended outages of the electrical grid. - bloody coronas and people think the virus is THE big deal! Keep that food/bogroll hoard topped up, there is no predicting...................

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 26 May 20 - 11:11 AM

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 May 20 - 10:40 AM

Snicker.

And news on our magnetic field is getting interesting...

https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-anomaly-weakening-earth-s-magnetic-field-seems-to-be-splitting-into-two/amp

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 26 May 20 - 06:47 AM

I read a really good book about anti-gravity. I just couldn't put it down!

DC

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 20 - 04:05 PM

Gravity-less conditions to create a null gravity zone (not anti gravity) is possibly not the problem. How does incredible inertia free accelleration work? If you master the inertia free maneuvering thing perhaps gravity wouldn't even matter. Yeah we always refer to warping space as an answer. Now how do you create a confined parastaltic motion in space time and remain in the center of it, like a turd in a space time intestine? Humans can manipulate mass and even turn it into E.
But have we manipulated space? -nope- I have long postulated that black holes generate space and neutrinos like a wild factory. At least it is a good place to start looking.

{Trekies would see this as the Romulan warp drive theory as opposed to the Federation method} :^/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 May 20 - 02:07 PM

Asimov wrote a great short story about someone inventing a gravity-less field and putting it, for demo purposes, on a billiards table, asking a rival scientist (poopoo-er) to play. The cue-struck ball took off at the speed of light, punching a hole through the poopoo-ed scientist, because it was actually a mass-less field and things with no mass travel at the speed of light...

Also one about a quantum black hole which punches a microscopic hole with huge tidal effects through another poopoo-ing rival scientist.

Don't poopoo Asimov's science!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 25 May 20 - 12:37 PM

If so, anti gravity could be manipulated.

Call me simplistic, but.

I predict that if, and it is a big if, we find anti-gravity, we will find negative time, or negative mass. Gravity comes out of how mass interacts with space-time, ne c'est pas?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 24 May 20 - 06:43 PM

The problem is that gravity may be an emergent force that comes from 2   or more force vectors, which means that gravitons may be only a figment of our imagination.
We tend to think of gravity as an enormous force but it is actually the tinyist.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 24 May 20 - 06:16 PM

Ha. I guess good themes for PHd dissertations are getting rare.

Massless particles must always move at the speed of light unless it passes through mass. Mass can never go as fast as light.
One of the tricks to slowing light to a halt is creating a cloud of nearly motionless atoms at near absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit). This is called a Bose-Einstein condensate.
But everything wants to move. Existence is moot and just an aspect of language.

CAN gravitons which move at the speed of light be slowed down or stopped at absolute zero? If so, anti gravity could be manipulated.
I want an anti gravity car.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 May 20 - 03:45 PM

If it is nonexistent, motion is moot. Or non-applicable.

Beards evolved to help men take punches:

https://academic.oup.com/iob/article/2/1/obaa005/5799080

Blicky

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 23 May 20 - 07:37 PM

Name one
I bet they all move though. I don't know how to prove non existence.
We assume the properties of space are the same elswhere as here.
We keep getting surprised.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 May 20 - 09:00 AM

Hmmm. I can think of lots of other nonexistent things! But hey.