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What I'm getting at, and I'm hoping someone can clear up any misconceptions that I have, is that I find myself in agreement with Max Tegmark's literal mathematical view of reality. This can quickly get a bit metaphysical so I don't want to go there I just want to go to the edge of accepted...

I was perusing superglue accelerants like bi carb and graphic or a mix of the two, and other additives, and it appears that a mix of bi carb and graphite works the best. However I eventually came across a single vid that used iron oxide made from burning steel wool, as the additive and it...

You do not have to complicate matters by having the two spheres be iron and wood, one can be a solid ball of iron and the other can be a larger ball of iron foam.

It's kind of your own fault because the moon wouldn't be there if you weren't looking.

It was Eric Barber from t'other village, they shave each other, obviously they don't trust anyone else because cutthroat razors.

Or even better, "you can build a man a fire and he's warm for the night; but if you set a man on fire he is warm for life".

Okie dokie that is some decent ball park figures to work with, it is indeed a small quantity. thanks.

I'm starting with a litre of distilled water with a dissolved oxygen content of zero ppm, and I wish to raise the ppm of the dissolved O2 to 10ppm or 10mg/L using a 6% solution of H2O2. That is 10 extra molecules of oxygen in a litre! I've had no luck looking for through web based conversion...

OK what did the woman say when a steam roller ran over her cat.

This is not a joke, but it's pretty lame so it goes here... I was just mulling over that a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold, but an ounce of gold is heavier than an ounce of feathers.

@nescient, sometimes you just have to sit back and marvel at the awe and majesty of it all!

I was wondering... imagine a large enclosed space sealed off in intergalactic space, filled with air at normal sea level pressure. I was further wondering with regard to a quadcopter's symmetrical x and y-axis and the fact of the thrust vector always being normal to the plane of the props, that...

Some sobering thoughts about what artificial intelligence isn't, in this well written piece for The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/google-palm-ai-artificial-consciousness/661329/ The fantasy of sentience through artificial intelligence is not just wrong; it’s...

Even without context this bothers me. Remind me to add it to our upcoming definition thread, as if.

What happened was that I was first trying to establish the similar yet completely different* qualities of humans, and then somehow get to an endpoint that, as far as fearing goes, we have no more to fear from AI than we do from bonobos that can play memory games on a computer screen, which...