(FB 1548275914 Timestamp) —“Lake Toba is the site of a massive supervolcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 that occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ago,[2][3][4] representing a climate-changing event. It is the largest-known explosive eruption on Earth in the last 25 million years. According to the Toba catastrophe theory, it had global consequences for human populations; it killed most humans living at that time and is believed to have created a population bottleneck in central east Africa and India, which affects the genetic make-up of the human worldwide population to the present.[6] It has been accepted that the eruption of Toba led to a volcanic winter with a worldwide decrease in temperature between 3 to 5 °C (5.4 to 9.0 °F), and up to 15 °C (27 °F) in higher latitudes. Additional studies in Lake Malawi in East Africa show significant amounts of ash being deposited from the Toba eruptions, even at that great distance, but little indication of a significant climatic effect in East Africa.[7]” Lake Toba (Indonesian: Danau Toba) is a large natural lake in Indonesia occupying the caldera of a supervolcano. The lake is about 100 kilometres (62 miles) long, 30 kilometres (19 mi) wide, and up to 505 metres (1,657 ft) deep. Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, with a surface elevation of about 900 metres (2,953 ft), the lake stretches from 2.88°N 98.52°E to 2.35°N 99.1°E. It is the largest lake in Indonesia and the largest volcanic lake in the world.[1] Recent advances in dating methods suggest a more accurate identification of 74,000 years ago as the date.[5] “—
Category: Science, Physics, and Philosophy of Science
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548544166 Timestamp) WHAT DEMARCATES SCIENCE FROM NON-SCIENCE? Now what demarcates science (due diligence) from non-science (failure of due diligence)? Testifiability Try to falsify that statement. ( Let me help you: you won’t. Science has simply been a branch of the law all along. )
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548544166 Timestamp) WHAT DEMARCATES SCIENCE FROM NON-SCIENCE? Now what demarcates science (due diligence) from non-science (failure of due diligence)? Testifiability Try to falsify that statement. ( Let me help you: you won’t. Science has simply been a branch of the law all along. )
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(FB 1548825871 Timestamp) —“Consider the implications even from 1980, the Apple II era. A single iPhone at 1980 energy-efficiency would require as much power as a Manhattan office building. Similarly, a single data center at circa 1980 efficiency would require as much power as the entire U.S. grid. But because of efficiency gains, the world today has billions of smartphones and thousands of datacenters.”—
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(FB 1549242694 Timestamp) DEFINE SCIENCE AND SCIENTISM SCIENCE: As far as I know ; (a) that discipline we name science consist of performance of exhaustive due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, and deceit in one’s testimony of observation(specific fact) [sense], action(sequence of operations) [transformation], and proposition(general rule of declared precision) [speech]. (b) That science evolved from the ancestral european common law of tort (sovereignty, reciprocity, duty of truthful testimony before the thang/jury/senate/people, resulting in markets rather than monopolies in all aspects of life.) (c) And that this is the reason that reason, empiricism, physical science, and the evolution of western science into the world standard of truthful speech were unique to western civilization. It is not an accident that Aristotle, Bacon/ locke/ smith/ hume/ adams/ Jefferson studied law and debated or wrote constitutions. The law applied to material(property) disputes under sovereignty; science applied to information(knowledge) disputes under sovereignty. Science consists in the positive application of the law to promissory (testimonial) speech. Science and law are the same discipline, the first in defense of the private interest, and the second to defense of the public interest (commons).
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1549242694 Timestamp) DEFINE SCIENCE AND SCIENTISM SCIENCE: As far as I know ; (a) that discipline we name science consist of performance of exhaustive due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, and deceit in one’s testimony of observation(specific fact) [sense], action(sequence of operations) [transformation], and proposition(general rule of declared precision) [speech]. (b) That science evolved from the ancestral european common law of tort (sovereignty, reciprocity, duty of truthful testimony before the thang/jury/senate/people, resulting in markets rather than monopolies in all aspects of life.) (c) And that this is the reason that reason, empiricism, physical science, and the evolution of western science into the world standard of truthful speech were unique to western civilization. It is not an accident that Aristotle, Bacon/ locke/ smith/ hume/ adams/ Jefferson studied law and debated or wrote constitutions. The law applied to material(property) disputes under sovereignty; science applied to information(knowledge) disputes under sovereignty. Science consists in the positive application of the law to promissory (testimonial) speech. Science and law are the same discipline, the first in defense of the private interest, and the second to defense of the public interest (commons).
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1549138609 Timestamp) —“To take a Clausewitzian approach, let us consider eugenics the continuation of human domestication by scientific means.” — Rosenborg Predmetsky (via brandon hayes)
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(FB 1549335218 Timestamp) by Bill Joslin Scientism simply holds the notion that: 1) the scientific method can eventually explain anything and 2) any scientific explanation obtains certainty. No person seriously immersed in science has held these two positions since the logical positivists. 1) certainty remains a unicorn. The pedestrian understanding of knowledge distinguishes knowledge as dichotomous to belief because knowledge has the quality of certainty. It doesnt – knowledge remains a type of belief, a subset of belief in that knowledge exists as a belief which has enough warrant to suspend uncertainty to act without doubt…. (Certainty being the absence of uncertainty – it exists in the negative and remains impossible in the positive) (For some fun with this and to see how disingenuous Thaddeus Russel is, see his interview with Moly, where he says that he doesn’t “know that planes can fly (and nobody can claim they do)” but he chooses to “act as if” he does…. Or when Peterson is asked if he believes in god, he says “I act as though I do” Both use the definition of knowledge (which you better bet that they are aware of the definition), in place of the word SO THEY CAN AVOID BEING ACCOUNTABLE FOR HOLDING THE BELIEF! – lying f#ckers!?) 2) science today no longer exists as a singular method, but rather as a criteria which can be achieved via many methods. This criteria, or considering the criteria separately from the methodologies reveals that it remains an epistemic innovation. Epistemology being the study of how we know what we know… Thus knowing anything requires meeting the criteria of what knowledge is, meeting this criteria. In other words, “the scientific method” can not explain all facets of that we can “know” but to be “knowledge” the notion must meet the criteria. Meeting the criteria doesn’t provide explanation (in the positive) but rather vets for that which IS NOT knowledge. It tests for knowledge candidates and thus can be applied to any claim of knowledge. So… Next time someone comes at you with the 60 year old, long dead accusation of “scientism” just say “you don’t know what knowledge is.”
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(FB 1549323465 Timestamp) USA POWER STATIONS
(FB 1549323465 Timestamp) USA POWER STATIONS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_stations_in_the_United_States
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(FB 1549323465 Timestamp) USA POWER STATIONS
(FB 1549323465 Timestamp) USA POWER STATIONS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_stations_in_the_United_States