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Absolutely and to be fair it's probably not far off the mark. It just gets brought up when you do planetary science topic. They've done a lot of research in these deep trenches for extremophiles (an organism that is able to live in extreme environments) to better aid the search for life elsehwere in the solar system like the Jupier moon missions that were just launched.

I think myth busters showed you what happens to something with a 1 atmosphere difference and how hard it implodes,crumples. It's still 10 tons per square meter roughly at 1 atmosphere (what we experience), well not really ton as that's a unit of mass and not force but that seems to be how they explain it. 10 tons in earths gravity would produce roughly the same force.

Not to get all technical but that quote is 70 years old and wrong. It's from a "famous" paper written in the 50's. Of course none of that negates the conditions that make extreme underwater exploration very difficult. I'd say ocean exploring is good, but not a tourism industry quite yet.

I'm sure someone else will have said this but juxtapose the coverage of this from say that boat where hundreds of refugees died.

22.7% turnout?

tbf that's probably the best attitude.

As an aside the whole ethos of science is nothing can be 100% proven. It's sort of philosophy of science 101 as the yanks would say.

I'm not saying it to excuse i'm saying it in the context of refuting absolutism , there's always exceptions and the problem is how we deal with the exceptions. However we need accurate information Abnormal chromsomal occurence is much higher during a genomic scanning it was found 1/500 men had an extra one, if we go and just take any unspecified chromonsonal abnormality, it's about 1.2% of a total population with error bars ofc. However this is beside the point. It isn't a case of quantity it's how we deal with it qualitatively it's turned into this horrendous culture war thing. It's a cultural overton window things anyway, culture has always moved and been resisted by older generations this isn't anything different. I don't understand the phenomenom of distress being caused by not being the correct gender however enough educated folk have been looking into it and it seems to be something tangible so i just go with that.

I think both things can be true, those tweets are fucked up and Cherry is a self absorbed grievance monger, shock horror politics is full of them. Also Twitter is full of folk saying fucked up shit too. I think the most telling clue of anyone who doesn't understand science is to speak in absolute terms. Everywhere you look rules break down under certain conditions. Indeterminism is built into reality. Approximations no matter greater precision are still approximations. It's then a case as a society how people deal with folk that fall outside the venn diagrams.

One of the craziest things is the folk going mental about how many species do change their sex, as if across the whole spectrum of life it is immutable. I remember seeing it on Blue planet ages ago as well. You can create definitions that cover ~99% of people when employing a binary system. However that leaves out tens of millions of people. When taken as a statistical demograph faces a huge disproportionate amount of harm in various forms.

Can't say they don't reflect the electorate

Same

Not sure we know causal chain yet but temperature graphs looking a bit worrying, might have been volcanoes etc been a few eruptions in last 18 months

There isn't much you can do when folk invent arguments then argue against them. I'm certainly interested to see what has been done and not done.

Why are you obviously just making stuff up?

That just isn't correct I've heard he was planning on stepping down for over a year. In fact me and someone else were slagging the person who told us at hogmany party cause we thought it wasn't true. Turns out it was.

I climbed mount longonot in Kenya start of 2020. One bit had concrete stairs we went up and seemed alright, on the way back down we came down a different trail and could see the stairs and it was like something out od Indiana Jones, just a huge drop beneath them. Also first time experiencing altitude in any real way. It's pretty wild. Just over 9000 feet. Not helped by the steady stream of schoolkids just running past me.

I mostly drink tap water with a wee bit diluting juice sometimes, or coffee in the mornings. Occasional cup of tea. Not sure why i'm sharing this but there you go

Police trying to not prejudice the case is my guess. Also want witnesses to say what they seen not what they read about.

Yeah that's the point in it as well, there is more in the human experience to being a parent than the configuration of adenine , cytosine, guanine, and thymine , your genotype. Absolutism just doesn't exist in an indeterminate universe.

Good to see Ed hope he is doing well.

Is this an example of how to answer one of those yes/no questions?

Sports is an actual problem. Due to the advantages of androgens etc. It's also an existing problem in female competition due to biological diveristy in women and various sex "disorders" meaning folk of certain configurations are vastly more represented in elite competition than against the general population. It's up to the governing bodies to police their sport though.

I have no idea about anything in your first paragraph. I asked a question I know no one here will be able to answer. Then make a point about how biological absolutism only gets it's zealots in certain circumstances. For instance parenthood is much more clearly biologically delineated in a binary fashion than say sex which get's blurred around the edges. It works both ways the zealotry. No one is labelled a bigot for saying adoptive parents aren't "really" parents, and no one spends hours writing citing biology papers they don't understand saying they aren't "really" parents. Philosophy and science are inextricably linked by the way. My own fields used to be called natural philosophers before the specilaisation of the sciences created more and more subjects. If you go further back in time on the board you'll see I wrote paragraph after paragraph on the problems regarding female sports and transgender woman. On how androgens and other factors are causing huge advantages. I'm not talking about the details though. I'm talking about how it's being turned into this culture war debate. Polarising and radiacalising both sides of the debate and how I feel about that. Anyway too early for me. I just get annoyed i let myself get dragged into discussing it, but that's the insidious nature of culture wars.