Look, the Correspondence Principle has nothing to do with Newton. It was Einstein's key argument for the identification of gravity forces with frame acceleration forces. And forces exist, or you wouldn't be registering on your weight scales. I think it is safe to say you are not involved in any technology that depends on this understanding, so have a good evening. I will leave you be.
Everybody dreams up a dramatic reason. There is a legitimate reason for withholding some material, if that material implicitly reveals the classified technical capabilities of the sensors used, or infringes on classified or proprietary information. There is the question of what to do about information derived from analysis of artifacts. I really do not know, but I suspect it would depend on what that information is. When human wisdom cannot comprehend what is known, it also cannot comprehend the significance or effects of its revelation. Nondisclosure will often look to be the "Better Safe Than Sorry" approach.
The only thing to do, that I can see, is to appoint a sworn panel of auditors, cleared to examine this withheld material. And then provide their report to the President for disposition.
Otherwise (as some may suspect) this demand for disclosure may be a stalking horse for the outing of a lot of legitimately classified material that would have an adverse effect on national security (terrestrial, not interplanetary).
Good letter. I would have added, "At least we provided Donald Trump and the MAGA movement to clean up the mess. You're welcome."
Guys, you need to stop getting your survival training from science fantasy movies.
Don't you think any evil computer intelligence would have the wit to shield itself against EMP?
Today we get on board passenger airplanes...and the MCAS semi-autonomous software takes control of two 737 MAX airliners and overrides the pilot inputs to crash them into the ground, killing 346 people. Not out of malice, but out of programmer negligence. No public outcry.
We are also looking forward ever so much to "driverless" automobiles, not realizing that the adjective can so easily become reality in a microsecond. We buy very trendy Tesla automobiles, thinking we are doing a good thing, and the fully-computerized system default-locks the doors if the vehicle crashes...and you can't get out. Meanwhile, the lithium battery is a volcanic fire bomb waiting to happen. This is all a known fact, but we continue to stick our head into the pencil sharpener. I guess we have to do that, in order to get the point.
Ahh, I like the older terminology. The ending part of the word pertains to fake dressing, which is synonymous with being a "put-on." In other words, cosplay or impersonation. Not real. Clinical, not pejorative. Anything to get them to realize that THEY are the Naked Emperor, and everyone sees it.
Oh, well...we are all creatures of our times.
I always used to think the low-rent version was called a RETARDIS.
Bring back the time-honored "transvestite." It reeks of pretense.
They nearly did that in "The Day the Earth Stood Still." And spoke in excellent English.
It's all theatrical hocus-pocus. They need to establish a creepy scenario in order to ramp up the nervous tension. Without nervous tension, there is no emotion. We have gotten to the point where drama has degenerated into action/suspense melodrama. Nobody is bright enough to be moved by an idea, or a realization.
Particle vs. Wave: False issue. Go to the literature. When the wavelength is arguably shorter than the thing under discussion, it makes sense to call it a "particle." When the wave nature is significant for the phenomena under consideration, then it makes sense to call it a wave. This is well understood. If particles didn't have mass, there would be no gravity. Ergo, they are not origami made from "nothing."
Gravity still has non-zero spacial derivatives of its force. Forces cause accelerations. They can arise from different physics: springs, electromagnetism, gravity, dynamic pressure, etc.
The Elevator Car: I should have omitted the clock. It wasn't necessary. And you apparently do not know that gravity produces tidal forces that can be detected by accelerometers. An accelerating reference frame does not produce these forces. The Correspondence Principle fails. On which relativity rests.
You don't deny that time is NOT a continuum. It simply isn't. There is no "past" that we can return to, as though walking down a path. Or a future that we can get "ahead" to, by also walking down a path. Can you explain why the things you want to distract to are relevant to the continuum issue?
I was only pointing out that I was educated in this area. My responses were factual, not authorial. When you want to make education a cross to bear, that is indeed ad hominem. It seems to me that you are not formally educated in this area. You are not familiar with the Correspondence Principle, or its importance to the theory of relativity.
Funny that you should berate me for referring to authority (which I did not do), but have no problem referring to Einstein. Are you aware that he was proven wrong on the question of whether the universe is local or non-local?
Well, canceling a Tomahawk sale seems appropriate. Germany has demobilized itself to be not even a credible force on the battlefield. What purpose would long-range weapons serve? (I assume we are talking about conventional Tomahawk, not nuclear-armed Tomahawk.)
Similar logic for Finland, but not identical. The U.S. version is nuclear-weapon capable, but that is a matter of electronic control interfaces. Remove the interfaces and it is de-nuclearized. We seldom, if ever, provide recipients with the full-up U.S. version of any fighter we sell. They often like to plug in their own avionics, and use their own weapons.
Do these "subsidies" have names? A budget line item? Are contracts for services and products (e.g., national defense) being rebranded as "subsidies"?
Amazing amount of analysis...and we yet do not know what the movie's answer is.
From all the vibes and foreshadowing, I would not be surprised if the answer is that humans need to have an intermediary agency between the ever-so-powerful aliens and mere humanity, if only for message translation and interpretation. (If I were one of the aliens, I would NOT be content with this at all.)
i will just leave it at that. My favorite movie on this theme was "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951, leaving aside the pitiful remake of 2008).
So, where are the receipts for this $ 45 trillion. What is the saying? Exceptional claims require exceptional evidence? (I may have misquoted it, but you all get the drift.)
Every act of plunder is based on some rationale of grievance.
Well, if the water becomes ice crystals, which is their likely fate after being injected into the stratosphere, they will form clouds which will mostly reflect sunlight and increase the albedo (reflectance) of the Earth. This is kind of like the Worst Case of "chemtrail" fears, but it has already come and gone without notice. I don't think any geoengineering projects are going to put 146 million metric tons of water into the sky.
Alas, that would conflict with the First Amendment. But it might be more to the point, and more effective, to make suits against fraud (false representation) with serious financial punishment. Enough of this and the publisher will get tired (and peeved) at writing checks against the company account.
I also think that the refuge of "unnamed sources" should be burned to the ground. If they are citing "unnamed sources" as leakers of classified or official-use-only information, then they should cough up the identity of the law-breaking leakers or be charged as accomplices to sabotage under the Espionage Act, or seditious propaganda under the sedition statute. Somebody needs to be hung out to dry and it will be either them or their source, they get to pick. If they have no source (flat out lie), too bad for them. The chain of implication should extend up to the publisher, or at least the editor (approve final content of publication).
I've worked in the classified world for 40 years and it totally gets my goat that the administrations have never taken this seriously enough. I hope Trump will do better. But too many opening acts, not enough curtain closures.
Too many people must have watched the original "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1961) movie, which opens with an event that causes ice floes to sink...
My pocket definition of a "Conservative": the 3 C's
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Christianity
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Constitutionalism
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Capitalism
I was a conservative from the time I was able to read literature by the John Birch Society (the original anon truth-digging operation).
I go along with the following cycle:
HARD times create STRONG men. (e.g., 1930s -1940s)
STRONG men create GOOD times. (e.g., 1950s - 1960s)
GOOD times create WEAK men. (e.g., 1970s - 1980s)
WEAK men create HARD times. (e.g., 1990s - 2000s)
I may have the intervals slightly wrong, but it looks to be a 4-generation cycle.
I don't know where the cycle was first declared.
Add one enraged father with a baseball bat into the chat.
Where there is laughter, there is hope. Give up your last breath if you must, but never give up your sense of humor.
Even then, I have a plan. Flash forward to my deathbed, with only a matter of breaths to go. I summon whoever is at my bedside to lean down to my lips;---
"I know the secret of life," I whisper.
"What! What is it?"
"If I told you (gasp)...it wouldn't be a secret" expire
The blue states are already on the hump. My state of Washington has superimposed "green" penalty taxes, bringing the price at the pump up to $6.50/gal. I sneer at people wailing over $4.50/gal. I can't imagine how it is in California; they have essentially outlawed standard gasoline and can sell only boutique gasoline refined in Barbados (I think). It is almost like filling your tank with Chanel No. 5.
Our times are becoming more than historic. They are becoming fabulous (and I don't mean that in any sarcastic way). Dare we then think of a rail connection from there to Greenland? Or to the Panama Canal?
When I was very young, I read a book titled "Engineer's Dreams" by Willy Ley (1954), which discussed various eyebrow-raising proposals for megaprojects. (My favorite was damming the Congo River to create a huge lake in the Congo basin of Africa.) This is beginning to look like a chapter out of that book.
Someone you can't pick out of 350 million people. Go ahead. Pick any characteristic that narrows it down. This is so funny. The relevance of my 40 years in high security environments is learning how not to stand out and how to keep my nose clean.
I would be especially interested in what I am supposed to be interested in. And what my daily routine would be. But until you can put the proof to your claims, I will bid you farewell.
In which direction? Anybody attempting to get into the U.S. by a tunnel with mandatory exit procedures, would also have to traverse all of Russian asia. Likewise, anyone from the U.S. direction would have to hike across Canada and Alaska, only to greet Russian security on the other end. I can't imagine any takers.
Murkowsky, Smirkowsky...am I missing anything?