Yup. Uptight preppy hole near Chicago.
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Schooling in America has little to do with education, and much to do with indoctrination.
Pretty much the only thing I learned was the pledge of allegiance - over which I repeatedly got suspended, as I refused to recite it along with the rest of the class, every morning.
Everything else they "taught" was years behind what I'd been learning elsewhere, and none of it was teaching - it was all just OBEY. I used to kick like a mule whenever they tried to teach us something factually incorrect by rote - and got in trouble for it.
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!
The plutonium is for RTGs on benthic listening buoys, which are moored deep in the water column, or anchored directly to the sea floor. They have very sensitive hydrophones, and powerful burst ELF transmitters. This allows triangulation of targets.
They're made of steel and are never intended to be recovered - so we can look forward to plutonium salts in the oceans.
I'm not so sure that that's correct. You're talking about the world's largest sponsor of terrorism and war.
The American people may be good, if uninformed and controlled by propaganda, but the American government has been an overall global negative for at least the last 65 years.
If you want to propagate a meme through a population... you get the picture.
Nasty things.
Time for a cigarette break.
Edit: in fact, as they've included two images with the same info, pixellated differently, you could almost certainly heuristically solve without brute-forcing. Eigenvectors, baby.
We do exactly this on our eCommerce platform, before wanging stuff into s3 or glacier and just keeping a reference kicking around.
On the other hand, you have just discovered an information disclosure (host IPs) vulnerability in dropbox.
See the defence budget. They're on the shitlist for cyberattack, along with Iran, China, and friends. In fact, see the article, which cites this too.
We as a species have a remarkable proclivity to be very unkind.
It's not about gender. It's about ostracism. You don't have to be female to be ostracised. You just have to have something, anything, that sets you apart from the crowd.
This is the societal control mechanism we have culturally evolved to ensure conformity and "strength" in groups. It is really, really, really fucking dangerous, and leads to fun shit like Nazism. It's also really powerful, and is the basis of nation states.
Ergo, the problem needs treating at its cause, which is a cultural illness, and is far from simple to treat. You cannot simply resolve one emergent aspect of it and then expect to treat each aspect the same way. You do not cut down a tree by plucking at its leaves.
You're right that by abstracting things away you can just create a philosophical point with no path to resolution, but you can also actively inflict harm by tackling an issue in isolation without evaluating and understanding the root cause.
This is the same philosophy (general problem, specific problem within that general problem that we think we can act on, so act, without looking at the general problem) that lead to rampant mercury poisoning and insanity across the globe in the late 19th c., as a poultice of mercury nicely clears up the sores from syphilis - but does not cure syphilis.
I am saying that it IS an issue, but that the issue is not one of gender discrimination, just one of kids, and humans, being dicks - and you can't combat it purely on gender lines as all you're doing is treating a symptom rather than the disease.
That said - re: the measurement of a volume within a gravity well - how would you measure said volume? If you were to use light, surely it would take more time from an external reference frame to traverse (external chronometer) than it would within (internal chronometer), ergo meaning that the space is equivalently larger to the decrease in the time vector (as you can only convert space into time and vice versa).
Re: voids - I know that their hypothesis is that there's more space in the voids - but why could it not equally be the fact that there is less? More time (due to very low mas density/near-absence of gravity), ergo less space - and therefore redshift due to photons decelerating relative to our frame of reference (but constant v of c in theirs) as they move back into "normal" space.
Re: spacetime "keeping time" - true - but that also depends on your premises :) I like loop quantum gravity, and view time as an entropic thermodynamic process which can't exist without interactions... although the lack of quantisation jitter seen from pulsar light suggests that this might be wrong.
I'm so bored of this sort of thing. Yes, there are man-children who post stupid and hurtful crap on the internet. Yes, there are cretins who make dick jokes on stage at conferences. There are also women who are complete and utter asses to all men because "all men are rapists", which IMHO is a far more misandric view than the kind of offhanded misogyny of "sudo make me a sandwich" shit nerd guys come up with.
People are dicks. People do stupid crap. People hurt each other.
People who use gender as an emblem and weapon are also dicks, because they create a line of demarcation and balkanisation where there IS NONE. We are PEOPLE. Not "Men" and "Women" who are some kind of antagonistic polar-opposite species.
Edit: Rape jokes. Interesting one that. I recall being 12, on a school bus on a trip to some camp in Michigan (am mostly schooled in the UK, spent a year in 7th grade in the US, loathed it), and being astounded at the fact that the gaggle of girls sat behind me were all cracking rape jokes. I actually couldn't parse at first what they were talking about "rip? ripe? rope?", until I clocked the macabre subject of their humour.
It took the (male) bus driver to ask them to all kindly shut the fuck up.
Space ("bigger") and time are interrelated concepts (same damn thing/Minkowski vector) - if you have less time in an area (i.e. due to a gravity well, like Earth's) you can equally view it as more space.
Ergo, the "volume" of "space" measured from within Earth's gravity well out to a fixed distance (say EML-1, for the sake of argument), differs to the same volume as measured from outside of the gravity well.
There's also another way of looking at their hypothesis. If cosmic voids have less space in them (i.e. more time) (if you don't have any matter-energy in a volume, then what "keeps" time?), this would explain redshift pretty neatly in terms of the refractive index of space-time. Beats the hell out of dark matter and dark energy, both of which are fudge-factors for a fundamental facet of the nature of the universe which we Do Not Understand yet.
It's all relative.