hmmm27
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Can I change my moniker to "Spherical Couch Potato" ?
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hmmm27 said:
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It was mostly rhetorical, while I tried to figure out what an earlier poster meant by "molecules" "black holes" etc.(figured out).
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Now I have a different understanding of the pot at the end of the rainbow!
The cars need Dead stickers.
The cars need Dead stickers.
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It is based on trophy points, the increasing levels are in increasing mass and size (until it goes into the speculative region). There is no black hole.
You can see the level in user profiles.
You can see the level in user profiles.
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More structure means more mass though? AlsoStavros Kiri said:
Singularity is the highest I have found so far with a quick search and these tie in with pts (Fresh42)below this multiverse (orodruin, Greg) then universe ( you, Peter Donis) galaxy (mark 44) Star (Dale Russ) then it could be moon (Neumaier, Nugatory,jim) but I suppose planet/gas giant may be in there.mfb said:
Up from the other end quark, atom, molecule some stuff then mountain ocean.
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There is supercluster above galaxy and planet between moon and star. Found with a bit of searching, Greg didn’t release a full list. That also means we don’t know if there is something beyond singularity, no one has 1300+ yet.
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And 'Armchair Scientist' ! ...
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It's a beautiful quote!Mark Twain said:
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That is also true Love! ...OCR said:
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mfb said:
I think size, structure and mass come in all together, but with no hard and fast rule ...pinball1970 said:
[e.g. there can be a planet smaller than a moon, in general ...]
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No that is Oxytocin apparentlyStavros Kiri said:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-the-love-hormone-oxytocin-works.973243/
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I will go with that.Stavros Kiri said:
A helium balloon has size and not too much mass or structure whereas a plasmid has lots of structure but not so much size or mass and a rock has more mass than both with little structure but much bigger size than the plasmid but much smaller than a He Balloon (it's a big balloon)
Density would be better I suppose but that would be volume and mass rather than 'size' which is a little ambiguous.
So I am probably denser than a galaxy in that case? Definitely supercluster or universe.
Stick with mass otherwise it gets messy.
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I mostly agree.pinball1970 said:
I would rather though stick with the old way ... (for PF members), ... [aside of course, perhaps, possible security and privacy issues ...]
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TIL that Switzerland has a real good law: What once is forest, has to stay forest!
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In Oregon, its more like:
what was once forest, if now it is made not forest,
replant it to make it forest again (for a while).
Not so good for the larger/older trees.
what was once forest, if now it is made not forest,
replant it to make it forest again (for a while).
Not so good for the larger/older trees.
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The swiss don't do it for nature alone. The fact is, they master elementary arithmetic!BillTre said:
They save more than 4 billion CHF per year: less avalanches, mud slides, floods, etc.
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Trees prevent Congestive Heart Failure ?fresh_42 said:
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The problem with that is in some places trees grow really fast, and places that weren't forest, become forest and can't be cut back.. I know this from the Ticin, where there are a lot of little cottages on acreages that got abandonedfresh_42 said:
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In an effort to "Go Green" South Korea cut down 4400 hectare of forest (2 million trees) to make way for solar farms
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Today I learned that South Korea probably looks pretty green.
South Korea land use[ref: wiki, of course]
South Korea land use[ref: wiki, of course]
Arable land: 15.3%
Permanent crops: 2.2%
Permanent pasture: 0.6%
Forest: 63.9%
Other: 18.0%
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TIL to experience several levels and flavors of sadness; some quite sweet.
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Klystron said:
Correction: Bitter sweet.Drakkith said:I don't like sadness.
Dark chocolate bitter. Yet sweet, like birdsong. 
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Dark chocolate is healthier than the milky types, e.g. it is has a mild anti depression effect. Even when it comes to sweets like chocolate, what tastes better is worse. I would be first at the vegetable shelves if they only tasted like steaksKlystron said:Correction: Bitter sweet.
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Switzerland has a high population density, especially if we subtract the places so high that they don't support either population or forest. It's not like there would be large areas no one cares about.Rx7man said:
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Good for you. What did you LEARN today?Appaget said:
Or do you mean you taught them to yourself?
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The best way to learn something is to teach it. But I learned that a long time ago. While teaching.phinds said:
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Yep. It is a mean trick. One has to convince oneself first!jbriggs444 said:
I wished some politicians would try this.