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    There should be another prefix in the science forums

    "Consensus" equals GD.
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    Paul Hinds has passed

    "We will 'Wire Stockholm.'" Double damn.
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    Wait 24 hours before powering up A/C or fridge?

    After power failure? Purchase? Installation? What's the circumstance? The appliance hasn't magically appeared in place....
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    Astronomy Looking for a book on the effects of orbits on celestial observations

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Horace_Baker
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    What is alfalfa used for?

    Fifty/sixty years ago "they said"/the story was that "foundering" was the result of a "too rich" diet; admittedly I've never heard of cattle/sheep/horses breaking down fences around hay/alfalfa fields, but at the same time why fence off fodder/forage?
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    What is alfalfa used for?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminitis carefully, please.
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    What is alfalfa used for?

    , and poultry, and fish, and ....
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

    Just used the "search" function; no results...how has this not been posted earlier?
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    Graduate A single molecule diffusion in ideal gas

    "Distinguishable or indistinguishable;" i.e, mixture, or not? See "self diffusion" in Hirschfelder, et al.
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    Random Thoughts 7

    Looper; only watched couple times, and not all that clear to me yet, but Willis plus "plot critical watch," so, ....
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    Random Thoughts 7

    "Zed's dead."...?
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    Random Thoughts 7

    ..., and Die Hard, Bedelia's Rolex, mentioned at beginning, gets released at end of movie, allowing Rickman to fall to his death, not Besson; Fifth element, no watch that I picked up on, Besson.
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    Random Thoughts 7

    Death Wish, the 2018 remake of Bronson's original from 1974; haven't checked the rest of my Willis collection...will keep you posted.
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    Kitten raising advice

    By all means encourage the behaviour---save yourself a fortune in upholstery; it's probably an idiosyncratic preference built into his/her nervous system.
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    "Hall of Fame" for PF?

    "...contesxt...."