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The question is, 'Do Atheists Really Exist?

Naomi comments on Feb 15, 2021:

Hello. If someone says that they don't believe that gods exist, doesn't that mean that they presume that gods exist? You can't deny the existence of anything if it doesn't exist in the first place... Does that make any sense? But then, if one doesn't even recognise gods' existence, they carry on ...

Hanno replies on Feb 16, 2021:

@rway And no, the scientific method never claimed that the universe was formed on purpose to a system of order. The universe exist and operates to sets of laws we have discovered, mostly to our surprise. These laws does not need gods to exist. They do not need intelligence to be, however you need intelligence to discover and understand them. If you want to claim that these laws are your god, then your god does not mean much does it? You also don’t know if these laws existed before the Big Bang and were the causers or if they were formed at the beginning. Again your proof falls flat. That is what Einstein meant when he said “God” does not play dice. Of course he was wrong and later expressed his regret.

The question is, 'Do Atheists Really Exist?

Naomi comments on Feb 15, 2021:

Hello. If someone says that they don't believe that gods exist, doesn't that mean that they presume that gods exist? You can't deny the existence of anything if it doesn't exist in the first place... Does that make any sense? But then, if one doesn't even recognise gods' existence, they carry on ...

Hanno replies on Feb 16, 2021:

@rway You claimed that science says there is no cause for the Big Bang. You are wrong. That is what you don’t understand. You defined that “god” is whatever caused the Big Bang. Fine. Since we don’t know what caused the Big Bang, you have no idea who or what your god is. But then you argue that whatever caused the Big Bang (your god) STILL exists. That is of course rubbish. There is no reason why the causing event or causing entity still needs to exist. You have no proof god now exists as you cannot show that whatever caused the the Big Bang still exist. Poof... gone is your proof.

The question is, 'Do Atheists Really Exist?

dentrawler comments on Feb 15, 2021:

I would say that many atheists are likely more agnostic than they would realize. I don't necessarily believe in a supreme being, but I also cannot prove that one exists. If one did, I doubt that a human would have the capacity to understand what it was or what it represented. Refer yourself to ...

Hanno replies on Feb 16, 2021:

@rway Very simple: To make a fire you use wood . Once the fire is created, the wood stop existing. It is now gone. Their is no proof or reason to think that what ever caused the Big Bang still exist. Poof! There goes your axioms and definitions up in smoke.

Does a country's wealth come from its energy use?

JeffHoneyager comments on Feb 15, 2021:

Nuclear (SMRs) - Small Modular Reactors. I did the math. Our small city has about 50,000 people. With 2 SMRs, each the size of a school bus, could power all the residents at about $10 per month. ZERO carbon emissions, very small footprint - no big energy required. Spread the news: ...

Hanno replies on Feb 16, 2021:

@wolfhnd I am not an expert in either. Fast reactors are always difficult. Worked on lead cooled reactors for the purpose of destroying nuclear waste in Belgium ... not easy. Liquid metal and Molten salt reactors has lots of material science problems. If we could get them to work... great. But there are lots of problems we still have not solved on an economical level. Thorium’s problem is that uranium is still plentiful and cheap, so difficult to justify using thorium as a breeding material. In the long term though thorium will be more important than uranium, unless we solve fusion technology and fission reactors becomes obsolete, however that is unlikely to happen within the next 50 years. I worked for more than a decade on gas cooled high temperature reactors. However they are large with small energy output, though they are the safest technology we so far invented.

Does a country's wealth come from its energy use?

tracycoyle comments on Feb 14, 2021:

Wealth is created by energy: first by the hands, later by the machines.

Hanno replies on Feb 15, 2021:

Energy is mobile and can be obtained. Compare for example Angola, energy rich, wealth poor. With South Korea, energy poor but very wealthy. So although you need energy, it is not the most important or limiting factor. Intelligence x work x culture = prosperity.

Does a country's wealth come from its energy use?

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 15, 2021:

WAY too complex a question to address from that simple graph. For example, that graph doesn't differentiate between power used by private and public sectors, from industry, commerce, or personal use. It could be that all that power is being used by people watching TV and driving around, neither ...

Hanno replies on Feb 15, 2021:

True true. However warm countries are also poor. However that is for another reason entirely. It is more a case of correlation between energy use and wealth and not so much a case of causation. Since energy is mobile, it is not the main driver of wealth... it is a result partly of the actions that also creates wealth, and partly a result of being healthy. A good example is Angola who has energy coming out of its ears and are dirt poor, and South Korea that is extremely energy poor however very wealthy. It may be a better question to ask how much energy waste can be removed before we see a reduction in living standards.

Does a country's wealth come from its energy use?

JeffHoneyager comments on Feb 15, 2021:

Nuclear (SMRs) - Small Modular Reactors. I did the math. Our small city has about 50,000 people. With 2 SMRs, each the size of a school bus, could power all the residents at about $10 per month. ZERO carbon emissions, very small footprint - no big energy required. Spread the news: ...

Hanno replies on Feb 15, 2021:

Spent 15 years of my life working on SMR’s. Some good work being done by X-Energy in Baltimore in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory.

The question is, 'Do Atheists Really Exist?

Hanno comments on Feb 15, 2021:

The more interesting question is: Does Christians exist? Nowhere else would you find so many people who do not practice what they preach. Some choice examples: Finland is listed as having more than 50% Christians, however less than 10% attend church more than twice a year (that is due to a ...

Hanno replies on Feb 15, 2021:

@Bay0Wulf I completely understand your scepticism of the books of the bible and how they were selected. That is part of my journey of losing my faith. Anyway, it would be interesting to note how you define your faith then if not on the books of the bible. Do you have another reference or source? I just picked on Christianity because the original poster is clearly a Christian, I know a lot more about Christianity than any other religion, and it is so easy to pick on it. I actually stopped picking on Christians because it is such a unfair fight. Sometimes though a post like this one provokes me and my lesser great part comes out. 😜

Devolution

toronto_Georgia comments on Feb 15, 2021:

Millennials: Valves? What are valves?

Hanno replies on Feb 15, 2021:

@Serg97 But boy, can they curse!

The question is, 'Do Atheists Really Exist?

dentrawler comments on Feb 15, 2021:

I would say that many atheists are likely more agnostic than they would realize. I don't necessarily believe in a supreme being, but I also cannot prove that one exists. If one did, I doubt that a human would have the capacity to understand what it was or what it represented. Refer yourself to ...

Hanno replies on Feb 15, 2021:

@rway Logic does not prove the existence of gods either. Love to see your “logic”. It is illogical to assume just because you don’t know something, that there must a be a god to fill the gap.

The question is, 'Do Atheists Really Exist?

Naomi comments on Feb 15, 2021:

Hello. If someone says that they don't believe that gods exist, doesn't that mean that they presume that gods exist? You can't deny the existence of anything if it doesn't exist in the first place... Does that make any sense? But then, if one doesn't even recognise gods' existence, they carry on ...

Hanno replies on Feb 15, 2021:

@rway Just because you don’t understand the Big Bang theory, does not mean your gods exist. Big Bang theory never claimed the Big Bang just randomly happened. One suggested postulate is that Big Bangs are happening continuously in the “multiverse” with random outcomes. It is just a postulate because math suggests it is possible. It never states there is not a cause. To the contrary, this one of the big questions in science, what caused the Big Bang. We don’t know due to the fact that time is not observable before that event. All your discussion after that regarding logic etc does not mean anything as your first premise is wrong. Your suggestion that goddidit is the worst possible one. Their is absolutely nothing suggesting that an intelligence was required to start the event. Even less that some god did it. I can make up any rubbish that could be just as valid as the god postulate. It was caused by a big piece of green slime and burnt up in the few first seconds. A pink unicorn shagged a purple oyster and out popped the universe... my god did it... you see all rubbish. You are welcome to show me any “effects” in the real world caused by any god. I do agree that god exist in exactly the same way Santa Claus and unicorns exists: invented by human imagination.

The question is, 'Do Atheists Really Exist?

Hanno comments on Feb 15, 2021:

The more interesting question is: Does Christians exist? Nowhere else would you find so many people who do not practice what they preach. Some choice examples: Finland is listed as having more than 50% Christians, however less than 10% attend church more than twice a year (that is due to a ...

Hanno replies on Feb 15, 2021:

@Bay0Wulf You pretty much prove my point. If you read through Acts and the letters of Paul, the exhortations to attend regular meetings and to worship and pray together is very clear. Yet, people don’t even meet “two or more in my name”... Then you read the requirements to confess sins to each other and live in purity etc... no one does this. Reading the book of James, it is made very clear faith without deeds (actually doing what the bible says) is valueless. Christians (the vast majority of them), don’t practice their faith at all. They are practically atheists.

Why does the worldwide IQ distribution appear to match racial IQ differences seen in multi-racial ...

Satch comments on Feb 10, 2021:

As much as western IQ tests are inherently biased toward people from European backgrounds, there are other measures of culture. Indigenous Americans and indigenous Australians are amongst few civilizations which never invented the wheel.

Hanno replies on Feb 12, 2021:

Funnily enough the Mayans and Aztecs did discover the wheel, however it was only a curiosity and children’s toy. However many examples exists. They never used it for transport and it is believed it had to do with their roads (mountainous terrain that requires many steps), and the lack of animals to pull carts. The alpacas and lamas they used were more suited for carrying than pulling. You can even go further and look at other civilisations who never invented the bow and arrow, never develop full languages or basic mathematics etc etc, and you form a very interesting picture when you compare how they perform in modern world.

Millennials have fewer assets than baby boomers did.

WilyRickWiles comments on Feb 12, 2021:

Most (80%) won't inherit even a dollar in their lifetime.

Hanno replies on Feb 12, 2021:

Well, these posts does explain a lot about your political views.

An interesting concept. How is your country doing?

Naomi comments on Feb 11, 2021:

Your country is doing well, @Hanno. :)

Hanno replies on Feb 11, 2021:

Haha! Yes as always.

How do we feel about this?

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 9, 2021:

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say a plausible reason is that one has a urinal and the other one doesn't. I'll leave it up to you to debate which is which.

Hanno replies on Feb 10, 2021:

@JacksonNought You did not read my post did you? They can still use the men’s if they want. It is open for everyone. And if they really don’t have dicks, they present no threat to woman and girls other than being a nuisance. And why would they possibly want to use the woman’s in any case? But you pretty much proved the point. We make endless arguments and exceptions and ridiculous rules for a tiny minority of people.

How do we feel about this?

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 9, 2021:

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say a plausible reason is that one has a urinal and the other one doesn't. I'll leave it up to you to debate which is which.

Hanno replies on Feb 9, 2021:

The issue is that no one cares about male nudity. In some European cities the male urinals are in the common area. Cubicles don’t always go all the way to the top and the doors often had open bottoms. Also, woman does things in front of the mirrors they don’t want men to see. This make it extremely uncomfortable for woman to use them. This gets worse for woman’s showers and dressing areas. Woman physiotherapists would often enter our men rugby locker rooms where we shower to attend to injuries and no one cared. The male coach however would never enter the girls teams locker rooms though. Having the men’s bathrooms for “everyone” makes complete sense as would leaving the woman’s bathroom exclusively for woman only... and by woman I mean humans who don’t have a penis. I don’t care how you dress, who you have sex with, or who you identify with... if you still have your dick, you stay out of the woman’s bathrooms.

What do Liberal activists believe Conservatives believe?

2peros comments on Feb 9, 2021:

If liberals understood conservatives, they wouldn’t be liberals, and besides, they only believe what their media overlords tell them to believe...

Hanno replies on Feb 9, 2021:

You took the words out of my mouth.

Are you watching this now?

Hanno comments on Feb 9, 2021:

For the rest of us who do not have time to watch the trial, could you briefly describe how the building was breached and why it was horrible? I am a bit ignorant as I did not see much of the original footage.

Hanno replies on Feb 9, 2021:

@Naomi An example just appeared in this thread. This event is now compared to 9/11, which killed thousands of people and led to long lasting wars and changes the way the world works. It is ludicrous. This is similar to people comparing Trump to Hitler. Hitler murdered 7 million people and started a war that killed 55 million. It is ludicrous, however it is still happening. Now, the same people called the BLM riots that killed large numbers of people, destroyed whole city area and lasted months, peaceful and there are no actions against politicians who led this happen. It is this hypocrisy that needs to be noted. I would never justify the Capital Hill protest because the BLM riots happened, I said they should be prosecuted the same way. The people that allowed it and encouraged it should be prosecuted the same way. This is not happening.

Are you watching this now?

Hanno comments on Feb 9, 2021:

For the rest of us who do not have time to watch the trial, could you briefly describe how the building was breached and why it was horrible? I am a bit ignorant as I did not see much of the original footage.

Hanno replies on Feb 9, 2021:

@Naomi You would have noticed that media and everyone else only show you want they want you to see. I have seen some footage and have read some eyewitness reports that sometimes contradicts and sometimes agrees. So I do not know what actually happened as everyone has their own agenda and wanted to know what they showed at the trial. I never condoned the Capital Hill protest. I have found very few people who did. However I did pointed out the hypocrisy between the reactions of people regarding the two sets of protests.

President Biden has every plan to plan to have a plan in the weeks, or months of planning ahead, ...

JacksonNought comments on Feb 9, 2021:

Where are those Trump tax returns he promised for over 4 years? Or that healthcare plan?

Hanno replies on Feb 9, 2021:

@JacksonNought Yep, he produced it to the IRS, and it was scrutinised and audited and filed right next to Obama and Bush and all the other presidents before him. And as with the previous presidents the IRS found nothing untoward his returns. Nothing of Trumps finances are hidden from the IRS. If there were anything amiss, they would have prosecuted him before 2016 and especially now after 2020. So why do you want to see it? Should you not be more worried about a Secretary of State who keeps an unauthorised and insecure server and then deletes its contents when found out? Who audited that?

Free e-book.

bastion comments on Feb 9, 2021:

This just makes the peterson fans look like they are cult members i'm afraid. When even the Times (a right wing paper that supported Peterson in the past and agrees with him largely) think he and his daughter are bonkers it's sign the public really aren't interested in him. A shame for all the...

Hanno replies on Feb 9, 2021:

@APoizner No one here respond to HiQ/bastion. He is just a troll who accused you trying to make money by giving a book away for free. There is nothing worth discussing or considering posted by him, as that is not the intent of his posts.

President Biden has every plan to plan to have a plan in the weeks, or months of planning ahead, ...

JacksonNought comments on Feb 9, 2021:

Where are those Trump tax returns he promised for over 4 years? Or that healthcare plan?

Hanno replies on Feb 9, 2021:

Safely filed with the IRS like everyone else’s.

Why do children raised in same-sex households appear to have worse life outcomes?

wolfhnd comments on Feb 9, 2021:

"Considerable debate has arisen in the professional literature regarding the possibility of increased psychological risk in adopted children compared with nonadopted children. A selective review of the literature indicates that, although most adoptees are well within the normal range of functioning,...

Hanno replies on Feb 9, 2021:

Thanks for all the information, although I confess I only read the first third. It is hard for phone users to read so much and few of us have the time. Interesting none the less. I have a close friend who found out at age 13 she was adopted and could not deal with it. Her adopted parents thought it was no big deal and made little effort to help her understand and accept it. They were fantastic parents otherwise. She went into very self destructive behaviour after that through her teens and early adulthood. Even now in her fifties she never really gotten over it and had to get some help. I don’t understand it, however the psychological impact of knowing your parents is really your parents is very large. It carries a very strong sense of belonging. And somehow it is crucial to humans to belong somewhere.

Is it fair that actresses are younger and have shorter careers than actors?

cepstralspike comments on Feb 1, 2021:

# **I think it is unfair that all people are not exactly the same. That needs to be fixed !;-)**

Hanno replies on Feb 8, 2021:

Yes! We should immediately start a research group how we can make everyone look the same. Maybe just pick blue eyes and blond hair and see if we can make all humans look like that. Maybe use twins and experiment on them. Humans that look the same but act and think differently we can just help with some education, maybe put them in nice camps where they can stay while we re-educate them. They can even do some work while they are there. Win-win people! Great ideas!

Lisa knows.

JacksonNought comments on Feb 7, 2021:

She isn't correct

Hanno replies on Feb 8, 2021:

@JacksonNought Our views are much closer on this than originally apparent. I especially agree with your second paragraph. I would always strongly disagree with the statement their is no unborn child. My example of unborn children after 24 weeks being viable and sentient should be enough. You may justify killing them for medical reasons (I am happy with that) or because they are unwanted (I am not entirely happy with that), however, you are still killing a human being. I feel the reasoning of being “unwanted” is morally wrong, however I also stated that morals are not absolute. My argument is just that if you kill the unborn because they are not wanted, why stop there. Why not kill the criminally insane, the extremely retarded, the severely disabled. You know, all the “unwanted”. Why give them special dispensation just because they were lucky enough to make it past birth. The only argument I feel you have is the one where a woman should have the right what happens in her own body. I am not sure how I feel about that yet, as I support that right strongly, however I also support the right of a human being to be born and not killed just because it’s parents don’t want to take responsibility for their actions. So it is a difficult problem. I greatly support the last part of your second paragraph, and get very annoyed with the religious that complicates the matter unnecessarily.

Lisa knows.

JacksonNought comments on Feb 7, 2021:

She isn't correct

Hanno replies on Feb 8, 2021:

@JacksonNought Hence my very first comment. My twins were much less viable than the boy... however due to mother complications they were forced to be born at 32 weeks. They are suddenly “viable” because they were forced to be born early? My son was much more viable at 36 weeks, however you want to allow us to kill him if the mother decided it does not suit her. Babies now survive from 26 weeks when forced to be born. Babies start to dream at 24 weeks and possibly earlier. Hence they are “viable” from 26 weeks and “sentient” even earlier. So at what stage should we allow convenience abortions? 14 weeks. 26 weeks, 39 weeks, anytime as long as it is in uterus? I am pointing out the moral dilemma you are creating by talking about “viable” and “sentient” as per your original post. I am not talking about medical or other issues that may or may not warrant an a abortion. If a mother mentally or medically unable to take care of the child and society is in such a state that is cannot take of the child, abortion may be the best solution, however then you also need to support the death penalty for certain crimes as well pro-choice suicide. By the way, the examples in your original reply contain no sentient or viable species examples.

Lisa knows.

JacksonNought comments on Feb 7, 2021:

She isn't correct

Hanno replies on Feb 8, 2021:

@JacksonNought Stay on subject please. I commented on your post where you stated what is and what is not a person. The issue of what is your body and what is not is a different matter. I am pointing out the moral dilemma you created with your post equating non fertilised eggs or plants with human life. Or are pre-born babies not alive?

The incumbents are known.

Pand0ro comments on Feb 7, 2021:

Anarchy is very attractive until you have to live it. Your freedom will be to either pledge loyalty to a war-lord, be driven away and hope some other war-lord will accept you or being killed. That along with a substance economy where you are living in poverty and have to forage for your needs. If ...

Hanno replies on Feb 8, 2021:

Your first paragraph, makes no sense considering the context of the original post. The second paragraph, yes, that is the question we all have been asking.

Lisa knows.

JacksonNought comments on Feb 7, 2021:

She isn't correct

Hanno replies on Feb 8, 2021:

Anyway, good try to equate human life with an unfertilised chicken egg, a plant, and then a bug. At least the picture of an unfertilised egg and a sperm is accurate . That is not a viable and living embryo nor a baby ready to be born.

Lisa knows.

JacksonNought comments on Feb 7, 2021:

She isn't correct

Hanno replies on Feb 7, 2021:

Ah ok. My twins born at 32 weeks was persons at 32 weeks.... cannot kill them at 33 weeks My son born at 40 weeks could be a aborted at 36 weeks... four weeks further developed than his sisters... because he is not a person yet? How do you magically justify that? I am all for medical abortions by the way... in other words if there is a sound medical reason.

Two Justice Systems

wolfhnd comments on Feb 7, 2021:

Two of the people responsible for Thomas's death were black. There were 7 other in custody death in the two years the same woman was in charge. Doesn't sound like a white patriarchy problem.

Hanno replies on Feb 7, 2021:

Don’t confuse a good BS conspiracy theory with facts...

HOW DONALD TRUMP WON THE VOTE BUT LOST THE ELECTION This Is Patrick Byrnes’ insider’s ...

JacksonNought comments on Feb 6, 2021:

Trump lost. Biden won. Get over it.

Hanno replies on Feb 6, 2021:

Well your reasoning and thoroughly thought through arguments finally convinced me...

Why does the worldwide IQ distribution appear to match racial IQ differences seen in multi-racial ...

tracycoyle comments on Feb 4, 2021:

If you look at this way: those in moderate (ie tropical) climates have a less stressful environment to live in that does less to provoke needed changes, therefore no need to learn new behaviors. The higher the stress to just survive, the higher the IQ, ability to learn and adapt....

Hanno replies on Feb 5, 2021:

It has to do with the need to plan ahead. If you live in tropical region in the past, you only needed to plan for today. With lot of effort you could feed yourself again tomorrow. In cold regions with long hard winters, if you did not plan 6 months ahead, you died. Unfortunately for the tropical peoples, modern civilisation and advancement favoured those that evolved to think ahead. Some facets of IQ include the ability to see patterns and plan accordingly... that favoured people from harsh areas. It completely ignore other skills that were very important in the past such as memory. Tropical peoples had to remember many more things than there cold country cousins. Again, Unfortunately that is not all important in modern society and successful civilisations. The ability to make links between observations and plan accordingly is what causes the big differences between tropical and temperate peoples. And those were all evolution driven.

@Admin, the more days that pass without the ability to comment or thumbs up, the less interesting ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 5, 2021:

The problem seems sporadic for I'm able to do both today, but was unable yesterday. Also, I'm on a computer now and was on my phone yesterday. So it may be a App problem, not a site problem.

Hanno replies on Feb 5, 2021:

@tracycoyle After four minutes of reading up on programming on google I concur. 😄

RedState: Biden's Leftists start a witch hunt for 'extremists' in uniform.

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 5, 2021:

> They want a leftist ideological military. Are you saying White Supremacy is a rightest ideology? Because I think it's a wrongest ideology regardless of politics.

Hanno replies on Feb 5, 2021:

No, he did not say that at all. He specifically put extremist in brackets to show it is not real. He is claiming: The “left” is using “white supremacy” accusations (or rather “extremists”) to falsely accuse anyone not a vocal socialist, out of the armed forces.

When you change the criteria by which being positive is defined to be two positive tests and ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 5, 2021:

Also, the graph is inaccurate. The downward trend started on Jan 8, close to two weeks prior to inauguration. And the red line claiming to be the inauguration is on Jan 10, 10 days prior to the actual inauguration

Hanno replies on Feb 5, 2021:

Thanks for doing the hard work for the rest of us. Was about to ask for a reference myself. Let us see if Raphael can produce the evidence. It shows that the rise and fall of the infections had little to do with Biden and almost nothing to do with Trump. Pretty much like everywhere else in the world.

Time: "a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 5, 2021:

Let's say it was an...*"Interesting"*... choice on your part to cut off the paragraph where you did. > "A well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and ...

Hanno replies on Feb 5, 2021:

So did Goebbels. He made propaganda and steered the public mind through media to fortify the German Reich, for the German people. He and his Nazi buddies believed that the public needed to understand the system’s fragility in order that national socialism in Germany endures. Just because your intentions are good, does not mean your actions are good.

Over 75 million Americans knew that this was going to happen and it's only the beginning.

TheMiddleWay comments on Feb 4, 2021:

What has come to fruition that Biden said he wouldn't do? All you show is a meme likely from pre-election. Not sure what your topic is from your headline and meme...

Hanno replies on Feb 4, 2021:

He must have made a spelling error with would and wouldn’t. Else his meme makes no sense. Which mean Biden did everything so far he said he would so one would expect that the tax increases are still coming?

Scientists now claim Dark Matter may not be real.

Hanno comments on Feb 3, 2021:

So are atoms and electrons and protons and molecules. None of those things can be physically seen or felt, however we created them based on other observations and deductions. We don’t even know what light is. Our observations are contradictory. We just created the concept of a foton because ...

Hanno replies on Feb 4, 2021:

@Lightman You made me study a bit today. I also found that now we can see (or rather build images of) actual molecules with atomic force microscopy that I was unaware of. So I have learned some stuff today and my original post stands corrected. We used AFM to study irradiation damage to materials, however never to the detail to actually see molecules. These things were all done after I retired from physics so thank you for making me look at it again.

Scientists now claim Dark Matter may not be real.

Hanno comments on Feb 3, 2021:

So are atoms and electrons and protons and molecules. None of those things can be physically seen or felt, however we created them based on other observations and deductions. We don’t even know what light is. Our observations are contradictory. We just created the concept of a foton because ...

Hanno replies on Feb 4, 2021:

@Lightman You are referring to the Nadlinger photograph? It does not show you what an actual atom looks like. It simply activates the electrons with laser energy and allow them to radiate their absorbed energy again. It is this emitted light we see. That is what you see when you look into a flame or a any lightbulb, however it involves vast numbers of atoms. What is so cool about the Nadlinger photo is that it the combined light from just one atom taken without magnification. Now we can also “see” individual radioactive atoms on x-ray plates, however again, it the radiation from the atoms we see, not the actual atom. You can also see this radiation from a single atom, through a technique called liquid scintillation, however you need a little magnification to see with the naked eye. So yes, you can “see” light emitted by a single atom, but is a bit like looking at a candle from a long distance. You see it’s emitted light , not the candle itself. I think I am boring everyone so I will concede that you can indeed “see” an individual atom.

Scientists now claim Dark Matter may not be real.

wolfhnd comments on Feb 3, 2021:

In the case of science the religion analogy doesn't really work. The problem is that science is just a technique. What you mean when you say science is becoming a religion is that the science industry has taken on characteristics of religion. The same could be said of any organized effort such...

Hanno replies on Feb 4, 2021:

I think I need to better understand what you mean by faith. Faith in gods, not so much. Faith in what our senses tell us and somehow making sense if it all? Ok maybe. I am not sure faith makes life bearable, unless you mean that it helps us to accept it. For me, faith (in gods) made my life unbearable due to the cognitive dissonance it created. I only came to peace once I was able to let go of that faith. I am not so sure that faith is fundamentally to life, neither is intelligence...unless you mean it in some way I do not understand. Plants and bacteria etc does not need faith or intelligence and abiogenesis definitely did not need it. Else you would have your proof for the existence of gods right there.

Scientists now claim Dark Matter may not be real.

Hanno comments on Feb 3, 2021:

So are atoms and electrons and protons and molecules. None of those things can be physically seen or felt, however we created them based on other observations and deductions. We don’t even know what light is. Our observations are contradictory. We just created the concept of a foton because ...

Hanno replies on Feb 3, 2021:

@Lightman We can “see” even electrons and quarks... however it is not really seeing. We just build up a picture based on what detectors tells us. We don’t know if electrons and quarks are solid materials, force fields that somehow retain mass, or some form of dense gas or plasma or something completely else. We think they exist because experimental evidence is so strong that they have to. However they could also be waves that act like particles the same way photons do (or don’t). Very unlikely to be the case of course, but the point is we don’t know for sure and science always allow us to be wrong and correct when we know better. That is the beauty of science.

Why not equality right now?

Hanno comments on Feb 2, 2021:

You have to define equality first. You mean to say a white doctor should earn the same as a black janitor? Considering the drive to train more black doctors through preferential recruitment and lower entry requirements the past two decades, is it white doctors fault that they racially dominate ...

Hanno replies on Feb 3, 2021:

@wolfhnd I can’t argue with you. The evolving class system is interesting... and I am not entirely against it as long as people are allowed to be class mobile. My grand father for example was white poor... my father was the first to go to university and ended up upper class and that set the tone for all his children. Even though he ended up as a professor, his low class upbringing would come out especially when he got angry. However he was allowed to be class mobile. Many of his siblings remained stuck in the poor white class and some managed to middle class. Maybe it is the fairest system. I doubt if we will ever escape some form of class system due to personal freedom to make the wrong decisions. So as long as you are able to rise and fall in the classes due to your own efforts, maybe it is fair. I will need to think about it some more.

Why not equality right now?

TyKC comments on Feb 2, 2021:

Of course, the question was stated in terms of wokism, which is not the way to initially view the problem. The issue of income inequality in America is a serious problem, but it is primarily a problem of value, not of race, gender or inequality. Somehow our value system in this country has gone ...

Hanno replies on Feb 3, 2021:

@dd54 I stand corrected. It is indeed 80-20.

I think we would all have laughed our collective ars3s off if this was even being thought about in ...

Hanno comments on Feb 2, 2021:

Behold... the quad mask!

Hanno replies on Feb 2, 2021:

@Haraldson Obviously the manufacturer/ distributor of these masks have seen an opportunity to double his profits and paid some journalists to write an article on using two masks at once.

Why not equality right now?

TyKC comments on Feb 2, 2021:

Of course, the question was stated in terms of wokism, which is not the way to initially view the problem. The issue of income inequality in America is a serious problem, but it is primarily a problem of value, not of race, gender or inequality. Somehow our value system in this country has gone ...

Hanno replies on Feb 2, 2021:

Thanks for that. The very first study done in this was in Northern Italy in the 19th century by a mathematician call Pareto... who created the Pareto principle. He found that 10% of the population owned 90% of the wealth and visa versa. Today 1% owns 99% of the wealth and it is only going to get worse. The last time things were this skewed... the guillotine was invented. Either we fix this peacefully or expect the guillotines to return.

Why not equality right now?

WilyRickWiles comments on Feb 2, 2021:

Or you know, we could use public finance for public goods rather than solely asset inflation.

Hanno replies on Feb 2, 2021:

Your talking about modern money theory again? Else I don’t understand what you mean?

Why not equality right now?

Andyman comments on Feb 2, 2021:

The founding principles of this country, although they weren’t always in practice in the past, are equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. With the passing of countless laws over the decades offering preferences to preferred “victim” groups the scales have tipped in the other direction giving ...

Hanno replies on Feb 2, 2021:

@TheMiddleWay I honestly don’t know either and appreciate your honesty on that.The issue is that private institutions can do what they want. So it is very hard to know when they are racist or not. Or if their application of rules are fair or not. I have recently sat in an interview room with a darker and lighter candidate and had the strong compel to hire the darker one for political reasons, even though the lighter application was a better long term fit. So it is very to say if I was racist or not, irrespective who I hired. I am not too concerned about what private companies do as long as they are willing to face the consequences when the public and their shareholders find out. I am more concerned when government enacts laws to force racial or sexual (and these days gender preferences and religion) “equality”. Would it not be easier to ignore race and help everybody as they need and ask everyone to contribute as they can? (Very Marxist of me LOL!). As long as it is voluntary. Where I do think where governments have a role is making sure that we have equality in education and to a lesser extent in health. But that is another discussion and I am off topic.

Why not equality right now?

2peros comments on Feb 2, 2021:

How would you implement said equality, at the barrel of a gun??

Hanno replies on Feb 2, 2021:

@2peros Actually, it comes through the voting booth. We vote into power governments that do to us what we allowed them to do. If you don’t like the current one, vote them out next election. Most of you countrymen are idiots and voted an oppressive regime?... welcome to democracy. Irrespective who is in power or what they want to do... until we voluntarily hand over money to government, it will always be taken at the end of a barrel.

Why not equality right now?

Andyman comments on Feb 2, 2021:

The founding principles of this country, although they weren’t always in practice in the past, are equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. With the passing of countless laws over the decades offering preferences to preferred “victim” groups the scales have tipped in the other direction giving ...

Hanno replies on Feb 2, 2021:

@TheMiddleWay The real question is why are blacks not given equal access to mortgages? Is it because they are black, or because on average they present a higher risk to lenders compared to whites and asians? Should a black earning $100k per annum have lower requirements for a mortgage than a white earning $60k? Yes. Everything being equal the $100k is a lower risk than the $60k. The other way around? Also yes. From the bankers perspective race has nothing to do with it. If higher risks borrowers are given lower requirements purely based on race, then someone else needs to pick up the cost of that risk. Now if a bank is willing to cut its profits to help poorer borrowers, and they choose to be racist about it and only give that to blacks, that is their choice and may do so. Their shareholders will support or abandon them as they wish. However, if a government makes laws forcing it, then the lower risk borrowers will need to pick up the tab and you have the situation where one race group, irrespective of their actual income or wealth, has to support and pay for another race group, irrespective of their income or wealth. Now if you remove the racist counting, the problem becomes significantly easier and it gets down to the actual issue. Do we force high earners to subsidise low earners? We already do that with progressive taxes. Should this be expanded to other areas as well?

Why not equality right now?

2peros comments on Feb 2, 2021:

How would you implement said equality, at the barrel of a gun??

Hanno replies on Feb 2, 2021:

You just use taxation. It is done in Europe where some countries have top tax rates of 55% and average taxes 45%. Then you give the money to preferential groups the through work subsidies, housing grants etc etc.

Has social media become the scapegoat for a lack of positive living and society''s ills, such as ...

Hanno comments on Feb 1, 2021:

We live in a world where personal responsibility for your decisions and actions is being erased. No one is guilty anymore and it is the “system’s” fault. And the only way to solve it is through more government and large super corporations owned by a few elite billionaires.

Hanno replies on Feb 2, 2021:

@Naomi Yes, that is my point. Social media is only a symptom of a larger problem. Social media is not the cause. It is the lack of personal responsibility. If people are personal responsible, they do not need government or some big corporation or some philanthropist to help them. They would do it themselves. All you need is some laws to protect the individual etc. This is bad for socialists, billionaires and the power hungry (politicians). People that don’t need you cannot be controlled and will not listen to you and hand over their production. So for many decades now, socialists, billionaires and power hungry politicians have been driving the narrative through media, both mainstream and social, that people are not responsible for their actions, decisions and the outcomes that come from that. People have been told that the “system” is to blame for their woes. (I hoped putting system in quote marks would make my point clear). This is great news for those at the bottom of the demographic that ended up there through poor decision making, either their own or their parents. It absolves them from making any changes and they can continue to do nothing. And it does nothing to help those that are struggling for real reasons out of their control. Rather than trying to work in solving the issue themselves, they sit and wait for a saviour that does not have their best interests at heart.

Has social media become the scapegoat for a lack of positive living and society''s ills, such as ...

Hanno comments on Feb 1, 2021:

We live in a world where personal responsibility for your decisions and actions is being erased. No one is guilty anymore and it is the “system’s” fault. And the only way to solve it is through more government and large super corporations owned by a few elite billionaires.

Hanno replies on Feb 2, 2021:

@Naomi I think you completely missed the meaning of my post.

Calling all January 6th capitol assault apologists: why should the capitol assaulters receive any ...

Hanno comments on Jan 31, 2021:

I would like them ALL to be prosecuted. Those that protested Capitol Hill and those that spurred them on. Those that participated in BLM protests and every one who spurred them on. I would like to see every politician prosecuted who called for protests that turned violent over the past four ...

Hanno replies on Feb 1, 2021:

@TheMiddleWay Pelosi also asked why are there not daily protests against Trump. Maxine Waters, looked at her comments? And you ignore all the others, the mayors and governors that supported or refused to act on protests. CHAZ existed for weeks which was actually sedition. Police were actively told to stand down. Remember let’s defund the police? Trump also called for peace and asked the CH protesters to go home. Trump condemned violence literally hundreds of times. Only president not to cause new wars in decades. Only president in many more who actually forged peace accords in the Middle East. Yet you call for his impeachment and prosecution? Naming a few instances calling non-violence and ignoring the actual actions they took, does not help to understand cause and effect. Actions count, words not so much.

Is it fair that actresses are younger and have shorter careers than actors?

wolfhnd comments on Jan 31, 2021:

Young people have a misconception of sexism. Did females get a raw deal from biology? The answer is the blind clockmaker doesn't care about your feelings. The only thing that matters is fitness. Is an old female fit? Not for fitness. Of course in social species it gets a bit more ...