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Wonderful conversation with @WilliamShatner on the Dropping Names podcast.
It's all great, but at timestamp 14:30 Bill Shatner tells about that time when he got shoved by Neil Degrass Tyson @neiltyson.
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What does it mean that our world was created through a phase transition?
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A tiny relative error in Mercury's orbit led to a radical revision of gravitational physics in 1915. The errors in the predictions of galaxy rotation are absolutely massive in comparison. Time for quantised inertia.
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Everybody in physics and science funding could benefit from Olaf Dryer's thoughts about problems in how science is funded, and his philosophical thoughts about how ideas can be killed too early but also need to meet reality empirically.
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The physics mainstream, due to its skewed reward system, is not engaging with fundamental problems. e.g. only 4% of the cosmos is predicted, time is just nuts & the 2 halves of the subject do not mesh. Adopting quantised inertia solves all these problems.
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South America is going America's way again.
Flavio Bolsonaro will end up ahead of Lula in the first-round of voting, but will fall short of the 50% needed to win outright tonight. 🇧🇷
The run-off is October 25. Given who the voters are who voted for other candidates behind the two of them (more right-wing than left-wing), and the Right's huge night tonight, Bolsonaro be a big favorite to win.
The big question is whether the pro-Lula judges on the Supreme Court, who have been *extremely* active/abusive in using their censorship and other election powers to meddle thus far, will just sit by and let Brazilian voters decide who their President will be.
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Three fusion startups have collectively raised over $5 billion.
TAE: $1.2B.
Helion: $2.2B.
Commonwealth: $1.8B.
If fusion is 30 years away, what does that money know that the public doesn't?
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Basics of Science, here:
The peaks in the #CMB are not evidence for #darkmatter. A model that can be tuned to fit, cannot then be proven by the data it was tuned to fit! #logic101
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Some of my best friends are CIA Officers. Wait, what? He is just saying that not all the CIA is evil child traffickers, just some of them. Why is America yawning right now?!?
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I have seen little outrage or notice of the allegation made by David Grusch that officers of the U.S. Government are trafficking children. !Why isn 't the media asking about it at every single press conference?!?
I genuinely think that David Grusch is a very decent human being.
He believes in what he's saying and in his mission.
For those calling him an idiot, and worse, this is beneath you. If I saw Grusch doing something like this, I would be shocked. So if you're better than him, act like it.
Here is Grusch saying why he came forward as a whistleblower.
Meditate on this. If he ends up right, then he was sacrificing himself to free all of us from the lies that have been told.
Even his haters.
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