tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9693625742301418782024-03-23T03:14:38.389-07:00Evidence Based ScienceInformation on science, new discoveries and theories.SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-4439826313376091052024-01-30T20:53:00.000-08:002024-01-30T20:53:37.057-08:00How can you know what is real? <p> The essential question of science, and evidence. A place holder post for now.</p>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-29064836507421741572022-11-12T08:01:00.000-08:002022-11-12T08:01:39.771-08:00The polar vortex and the weather<p> If you know how to use <a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=-104.63,54.44,324">https://earth.nullschool.net/</a></p><p>You can know more about the global climate/weather than most people on the planet!</p><p><a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=-104.63,54.44,324" target="_blank">You can watch the polar vortex</a></p><p>You can literally see how the world weather works, even in advance</p><p><a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/#2022/02/18/0900Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-120.60,59.03,522/loc=-110.287,46.508" target="_blank">Nov 18 surface temperatures</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=-104.63,54.44,324" target="_blank">And the polar vortex "causing" it</a></p>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-53315121627276732632022-11-01T13:55:00.008-07:002022-11-01T14:27:58.062-07:00I take on Neil deGrasse Tyson about the ocean tides<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Because he is wrong about the tides</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBbsHhNDdVcdboyizGqE92rII6gq14USkTniEM7hoqIeT8qF6SGPt3E3thP4xBKfWVa7x393XgIlXvgQmYxyhUKxsygGcpang-su9N0BMl5qa-srcxi5-Zl3UKugcn2-kw5aKdrG0vjjh-CysyQi2cPpeNvlBkIxep9mDIcS4R7nafJN2X7TN3S_FS/s1268/in%20and%20out.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1268" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBbsHhNDdVcdboyizGqE92rII6gq14USkTniEM7hoqIeT8qF6SGPt3E3thP4xBKfWVa7x393XgIlXvgQmYxyhUKxsygGcpang-su9N0BMl5qa-srcxi5-Zl3UKugcn2-kw5aKdrG0vjjh-CysyQi2cPpeNvlBkIxep9mDIcS4R7nafJN2X7TN3S_FS/w400-h254/in%20and%20out.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGxQ1B9io5voGVzUKNkSg5PXgJP1aGMrlX3YGhZZInLOwxUzP9JRIYHKl_Pfp2cI5wXiw5urD5bSs7JQELBB0WYYL6D6J280wMqT2jt6Hf0ssQ8y-k0BWw6aWZsnWDXbV3PaF_xR6LWAFr3slU1CdIzhwVMLp8H2RqrrUpYVmHRCxFoO6cAu8SZVWu/s1814/Image%2011-1-22%20at%204.46%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1814" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGxQ1B9io5voGVzUKNkSg5PXgJP1aGMrlX3YGhZZInLOwxUzP9JRIYHKl_Pfp2cI5wXiw5urD5bSs7JQELBB0WYYL6D6J280wMqT2jt6Hf0ssQ8y-k0BWw6aWZsnWDXbV3PaF_xR6LWAFr3slU1CdIzhwVMLp8H2RqrrUpYVmHRCxFoO6cAu8SZVWu/w400-h228/Image%2011-1-22%20at%204.46%20PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBwNadry-TU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBwNadry-TU</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://theactualtides.blogspot.com" target="_blank">How the tides actually work</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-91759332425296572382022-11-01T02:49:00.001-07:002023-06-21T13:44:33.490-07:00Meteors and returning space craft don't heat up because of friction with the air<p> The heating occurs due to the object compressing the atmosphere (air) in front of it. A fast moving object (over Mach 3) compresses air because the air can't move out of the way, which causes the compressed air to heat up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anytime you compress a gas in an enclosed space it heats up. (the opposite is also true)</p><p>It is the very hot air that glows, (it actually becomes a plasma), and the heat from that heats up the object. </p><p><br /></p><p>This plasma is electromagnetic, and blocks radio waves, so there used to be a "dead air time" while returning spacecraft were creating the plasma. (see the movie Apollo 13). Modern spacecraft bounce the signals off a satellite, above the craft, avoiding this radio silence.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone explaining it by saying it is "friction with the air" is wrong</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-26836684823942269532022-06-24T23:57:00.003-07:002022-06-24T23:59:33.896-07:00Water vapour is a clear and colourless gas, it can't be seen by the naked eye.<p>seriously</p><p><br /></p><p>This is wrong</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.americanexperiment.org/youre-seeing-water-vapor-not-smoke/">https://www.americanexperiment.org/youre-seeing-water-vapor-not-smoke/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Certainly they are trying to fix some wrong and confusing info</p><p><br /></p><p>But it is still wrong</p><p><br /></p><p>This is correct</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/303804/how-are-water-vapors-not-visibl">https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/303804/how-are-water-vapors-not-visibl</a>e</p>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-35996701361315627202022-04-03T15:30:00.005-07:002022-04-03T15:30:59.458-07:00Humans have DMT naturally occurring in the brain, blood and urine<p> </p><h1 class="content-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: initial; font-family: Cambria, "Cambria Math", stixgeneral, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17.979pt; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 22.5pt; margin: 20pt 0px 10pt;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6088236/">N, N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), an Endogenous Hallucinogen: Past, Present, and Future Research to Determine Its Role and Function</a></h1><h1 class="content-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: initial; font-family: Cambria, "Cambria Math", stixgeneral, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17.979pt; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 22.5pt; margin: 20pt 0px 10pt;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2947205/">The Hallucinogen <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">N,N</em>-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) Is an Endogenous Sigma-1 Receptor Regulator</a></h1><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Graphik; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;"><blockquote>Among the presenters was Dr Ede Frecska, who spoke about how DMT has been found to bind to the sigma-1 receptor, which is found throughout the body. This receptor plays a key role in protecting cells from dying when oxygen is low, making room for the argument that DMT may indeed be released in large quantities during death in a last-gasp attempt to keep our cells alive. Extrapolating from this finding, one might be tempted to hypothesize that this sudden flood of DMT may provoke the mystical encounters on the border between life and death that are often reported by those who die and are revived.</blockquote><p><a href="https://www.beckleyfoundation.org/2017/07/05/do-our-brains-produce-dmt-and-if-so-why/">https://www.beckleyfoundation.org/2017/07/05/do-our-brains-produce-dmt-and-if-so-why/ </a></p></span></div><p><a href="https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=2198">Forum discussing </a></p>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-89327372398715234182022-03-18T21:25:00.005-07:002022-03-18T21:26:15.980-07:00This blog has been viewed 371333 times<p>The flag counter gives a better idea of unique viewers</p>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-3263624731598622082021-05-06T09:24:00.006-07:002022-01-25T05:51:17.553-08:00Update on "The plural of anecdote is data"<div><br /></div><div>Still no hits for the claim "seeing something or experiencing it is not proof enough to believe in it"<br /><br />Here's the phrase in context<blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">Everyone has heard the age-old dismissal of “I’ll believe it when I see it.” If you are or ever were a budding skeptic, this may have been your motto at one time. Unfortunately, </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">seeing something or experiencing it is not proof enough to believe in it</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">. Personal experience is known in scientific terms as “anecdotal evidence.” Personal experience can be very convincing. Unfortunately, human perception is subject to many errors and weaknesses</span></span></span></span></p></blockquote>What he does is start with "seeing it", but then debunks "seeing it" with "human perception is subject to many errors and weaknesses", which is true, but does not mean seeing it can be dismissed. If somebody claims there is a spaceship in their backyard, and you go look, and there is something that might be a spaceship there, you damn well know something is there. What it is, what actually is there is another matter. But you don't discount what you are seeing by claiming seeing it is not proof that something is there.<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"></span></span></span></span></p><div><br /></div><div>"Seeing it" is the very basis of knowing many things, If a hundred people report seeing something, you don't discount that they saw something. The plural of anecdote is data.</div></div>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-6953155185912748202021-05-06T09:17:00.004-07:002021-05-06T09:17:52.106-07:00How the actual ocean tides behave, why they exist, what they are like<p><a href="https://theactualtides.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> An entire blog on this</a></p>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-17186932041063794212021-05-06T09:16:00.004-07:002021-05-06T09:16:46.292-07:00It snows more when it is cold<p> <a href="https://itsnowsmorewhenitiscold.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">An entire blog on this</a></p>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-48949519540558521192021-05-06T09:13:00.002-07:002021-05-06T09:13:46.607-07:00Covid 19<p>The horror of even trying to do a blog post on this is beyond my comprehension. </p>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-54683517479980221992021-05-06T09:12:00.003-07:002021-05-06T09:12:57.172-07:00The term "Evidence based science" has caught on<p> When I started this blog there were no more than a dozen instances on Google search of the term.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now there are thousands.</p><p><br /></p><p>The evidence for this s hard to present, because "evidence-based science" was being used, which shows up differently than the verbatim search.</p>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-79028125646069456302019-09-26T10:52:00.002-07:002019-09-26T10:53:08.845-07:00Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't doing bad things to you<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading" lang="en" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; overflow: visible; padding: 0px;">
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SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-40125762925738520272015-11-10T05:23:00.003-08:002015-11-26T11:33:39.982-08:00Almost speed of light thought experiment from xkcd<a href="http://[quote%3Dheinz%20hershold%3B2579843]in%20the%20wind%20whether%20it%20be%20a%20wind%20tunnel%20or%20natural%20wind%20outside%2C%20the%20only%20way%20to%20extract%20energy%20from%20the%20wind%20is%20by%20slowing%20it%20down.%20%20%20a%20cart%20that%20is%20moving%20below%20wind%20speed%20will%20slow%20down%20the%20wind%20quite%20naturally%20when%20the%20wind%20interacts%20with%20it%20and%20some%20kinetic%20energy%20is%20transferred%20from%20the%20wind%20to%20the%20cart.[/QUOTE]" target="_blank">What happens to a baseball if pitched really fast?</a>SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-23983807855226470482015-11-09T04:41:00.002-08:002015-11-09T04:43:35.570-08:00Faraday, the electric motor, and SIWOTI (someone is wrong on the internet)Sometimes while researching things, I come across web pages that are just wrong, and usually I ignore them.<br />
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Not today.<br />
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Farday is well known as the inventor of the electric motor, the man who discovered the link between electricity and magnetism. These facts are never in dispute.<br />
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<a href="http://www.eti.kit.edu/english/1376.php" target="_blank">This web page</a> just leaves him out of the first paragraph of the story, which is about the invention of the electric motor!<br />
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<a href="http://www.eti.kit.edu/english/1376.php" target="_blank">The invention of the electric motor 1800-1854</a><br />
A short history of electric motors - Part 1<br />
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Doppelbauer</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">With the invention of the battery (Allessandro Volta, 1800), the generation of a magnetic field from electric current (Hans Christian Oersted, 1820) and the electromagnet (William Sturgeon, 1825) the foundation for building electric motors was laid.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"> </span> </blockquote>
This can not be tolerated. Faraday demonstrated his invention in 1820.<br />
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<a href="http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfaraday.htm" target="_blank">Faraday is the inventor</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/electric_motor_generator.html" target="_blank">Faraday is the important person in the story</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.rigb.org/our-history/iconic-objects/iconic-objects-list/faradays-motor" target="_blank">FARADAY IS THE MAN!</a><br />
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Now that I blogged about this, I'm sure the problem has been solved. <a href="https://xkcd.com/386/" target="_blank">Duty calls!</a><br />
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<br />SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-969362574230141878.post-25577590864938350152015-10-28T05:07:00.000-07:002015-10-28T05:16:48.848-07:00Fukushima radiation field of 3.75 Sv/h above Unit 3, March 17 2011<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;">
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During the morning Self-Defense Force helicopters drop water four times on the spent-fuel pools of units 3 and 4.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster#cite_note-43" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap;">[43]</a></sup> They measure radiation field of 3.75 Sv/h above Unit 3.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster#cite_note-44" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap;" title="">[44]</a></sup> In the afternoon it is reported that the unit 4 spent-fuel pool was filled with water and none of the fuel rods were exposed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster#cite_note-45" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap;" title="">[45]</a></sup> </div>
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<a href="http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1205/ML12052A109.pdf" target="_blank">Official Transcript</a><br />
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And there is a notable point -- 300 feet
2 above Unit 3 in the air there is a dose reading of 375 R per hour.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.easysurf.cc/cnver24.htm#rmtosv2" target="_blank">375 Rem is 3.75 Sievert</a><br />
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An hour in that sort of radiation <a href="https://xkcd.com/radiation/" target="_blank">is almost certain death</a>.<br />
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Since radiation levels are subject to the inverse square law, at 150 feet above Building 3 the dose would be 15 <a href="http://www.easysurf.cc/cnver24.htm#rmtosv2" target="_blank">Sievert</a>s an hour, deadly, and enough to make anyone sick very quickly. Which is why the helicopters stayed so high up when dropping water.SFXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09243333698937728871noreply@blogger.com0