So... narrower terms, really? Not to everybody, just to the people who it actually applies to, namely dogmatists. I don’t mind that, one just has to be very careful not to use it on somebody who is arguing in any kind of scientific capacity.

Your account of Galileo’s treatment still sounded totally inappropriate. Then your final sentence showed you genuinely thought Galileo was at fault for simply publishing observations and I lost any respect for your position. Even academics at the time were shocked by his treatment. It’s four centuries later and you’re…

Isn’t the statistical evidence for a largely anthropogenic cause 95% according to the IPCC? By scientific standards that leaves plenty of room for scepticism and openness to contrary evidence. I’d hesitate to call a scientist a “denier” if it was even a 99.9% certainty. The foundation of science is free thought. Your…

I’m having fun imagining the neural warfare that must occur in right wingers’ heads when they hear that God says global warming is real.

Great, now they have an excuse to put this click-to-win crap in modern first person shooters.

There’s no reason for it to lose any appreciable amount of kinetic energy. An object travelling with constant speed but changing velocity doesn’t have changing kinetic energy. And if, as suggested above, the means is via propellant, the energy used by the mechanism is chemical or elastic energy stored in the bullet.

Doesn’t work very well, does it. What did Einstein invent?

Read the article.

That’s what I’m saying; that she’s been a one note character. In the books this is changing, which is entertaining. In the show she looks set to continue as abused and helpless.

Either that or the writers are running out of fireworks and having Ramsay rape and mutilate Sansa is worth all of the illogical plotting and character assassination.

Economical? I guess, although cutting the pointless fake Arya thing would have been just as economical.

I’m not too worried about calculus education... I mean... these are high schoolers, right? There’s a finite amount you can teach in a finite time. Covering single dimensional calculus in high school, and then leaving multidimensional calculus to the first year of university, seems like a natural progression to me.…

Of course it was intentional. The guy threw his arms in the air after it happened. In sports, it’s understood players make that gesture as an admission of guilt. Right? I’ve watched a lot of sports and I’m pretty sure about this.

It’s brute force precisely because it works for all curves. However, this power means that the underlying machinery has to be hugely more complex than is necessary to answer the question. To justify the answer to a layman would take ages; you have to prove the fundamental theorem of calculus just for a start. Even…

Nice explanation. A similar explanation would be to refer to the excess of heads in the first pile over the second pile. It starts off as 16. Each time you separate a coin and flip it, whether the coin’s a heads or a tails, it decreases by 1. Do it 16 times and the excess is zero.

It is stated that the problem can be solved via calculus.

It’s simple algebra to confirm the solution, yeah, but there’s no algorithm for coming up with the solution in the first place — which is what makes it a good puzzle.

Zeno’s perspective really had nothing to do with spacetime...

The problem is that humans are physical objects, and there is more to physics than just spacetime and special relativity. There are also physical laws which tells us how things change through time. An important aspect of these laws are that they are “blind”, in the sense that we just have particles and waves which…

Not meaning to be rude but you essentially just restated your original position rather than address my argument against it. I understand what your position is. I disagree. Relativity is a generalisation from the special case of our “meso” experience, whereas our meso experience is simply one special case of the…