Brainsploosh @ Brainsploosh @lemmy.world

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I came to say precisely this.

The standard hp for a regular human, which for the setting is probably in better shape than the office honed bodies of today, to be incapacitated for combat and eventually die is about 4 (depending on edition).

There is maybe one way a trained human could perform a combat biting attack that would render someone unable to fight back, which is a bite to crush the wind pipe, and with all anatomical protection in place, it seems unfeasible even if they would have the jaw strength for it.

So the scientific claim is “adult participants have gotten moderately better at the d2 attention task” but the article says “people are paying more attention”. To me that seems like clickbait from what is otherwise a reasonable meta analysis.

Agreed, and unfortunately almost all science "reporting" has this problem.

Which is why we don't listen to people who haven't at least read the source material, and ideally have read and understood enough about the field and methods to be able to evaluate if they are reasonable for the task.

A quick read of the first paragraphs of the article also shows that it's not the IQ tests that are the measure for concentration.

How lucky we have trained professionals employed to check if it actually is!

That way they can check on it, and you can just read their report when they're done.

They take on all the hard work, and you can simply read if and how they figured out it's a serious measure. What a time to be alive!

“The plot suggests that if there were nothing – a complete vacuum – beyond the observable universe, our Universe would be a large, low density black hole. This is a little scary, but we have good reason to believe that’s not the case,” Patel added."

Your source refutes your claim.

Do a study and publish!

Polyphasic sleep is sorely understudied, and iirc we barely understand if it's not harmful.

You could easily modify that question to qualify "best" in a more useful way.

"most beneficial for my well being"

"most beneficial for humanity's long term well being"

"maximally beneficial to human progress"

"maximally conducive to bring about the total destruction of reality by the Old Ones"

"best way to a smoothie"

Etc.

The human ability to think and formulate this thought is why the god concept seems so unfeasible.

If we can imagine this question, surely a more better being should be able to imagine it. And a benevolent, powerful and/or knowing god would surely both want to and be able to answer it, no?

Theoretically you can put any amount of energy into a laser, as long as you can redirect and synchronise waves. And as several stars and black holes have gravities and stuff that can affect the starships, it seems evident you should be able to charge a laser enough to damage any USS starship.

And as the phase cannons seem to output 80-500 GJ, you should be able to match that fairly easily with 10 grams of matter annihilation or a second of about 10e-15 of the energy output of a sun type star.

Interestingly enough, phase modulation of a laser weapon makes more sense than of a particle beam (which the phaser weapons are), and also you don't suffer from recoil like from phasers.

ITT: potential life is more important than real life.

Fruit yoghurt is nice, soda is nice.

Mixing them is abomination.

Both of those politicians are duly elected representatives, of the same party.

A) If the people wouldn't want to be represented by a soulless, friendless husk or a notorious sex pervert, they wouldn't have voted for them. Obviously a lot of people see that as an appropriate representation of their values and world view.

B) Them sabotaging eachother is actually democracy at work, representing their constituents will in the governing of the collective resources and issues that face the nation. Otherwise, they would be impeached or at least not re-elected.

This is the government the Republican voters want and continue to vote for.

It just happens to be hilarious as it plays out like a farce, we're only a few poop jokes away from getting cultural grants.

Several teams actually