Hospitals don't heal? And other questions about certain claims I can't find evidence for
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@blakeyrat Hmm. That's another very interesting question, but, yeah, not the one I'm talking about. I'll probably still watch it sometime.
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@Fox AFAIK they never discuss the "is the transported person the same person?" other than a brief bit in an episode of Enterprise where they talk to the inventor of the transporter, and even then it's just to cursorily dismiss the thought.
Ironically, Enterprise, the first series where they discuss the problem is also the first series where the transporter wasn't "necessary" because they had enough special effects budget (and moreover CGI got really cheap) to show the shuttlecraft whenever needed. People forget the transporter (as well as the Tardis fade-out, and Blakes 7's teleport bracelet) was a scheme to save sfx budget, not (necessarily) an actual science fiction idea.
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@kt_ said in Hospitals don't heal? And other questions about certain claims I can't find evidence for:
Ok, I've another one. I'm right now reading Hitchen's god is not great and since I know he made some false claims there I'm fact checking everything (and it all checks out, up to this point).
There's this one claim I have a trouble researching and I thought you American guys could shed some light to it.
Parents who imagine that a man named Joseph Smith was led to a set of buried golden tablets have married their underage “Mormon” daughters to favored uncles and brothers-in-law, who sometimes have older wives already.
I know this isn't a statement about a general practice of believers, however it seems to indicate there were concrete cases reported somewhere. Any hint?
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@Groaner said in Hospitals don't heal? And other questions about certain claims I can't find evidence for:
when the mainstream argument trumpeted everywhere is, "BUT THE SCIENTISTS SAID SO!"
In fairness, when the mainstream anti-argument is "I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA" there's not much you can do besides shout louder.
Climate science is super interesting. It's just boring to talk to people who aren't interested in actually thinking.
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@xaade said in Hospitals don't heal? And other questions about certain claims I can't find evidence for:
Is there a difference?
From any given moment, why do you feel like the same you from a moment ago?Ship of Theseus
I was thinking Ghost in the Machine.
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@boomzilla said in Hospitals don't heal? And other questions about certain claims I can't find evidence for:
@Jaloopa I dogboner:
I like that article. It was a funny tweet. Too bad about all the hate. People are stupid.
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Coffe also don't wake you up
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@groo said in Hospitals don't heal? And other questions about certain claims I can't find evidence for:
Coffe also don't wake you up
Yes, you'd better be awake if you're trying to ingest coffee...
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@blakeyrat said in Hospitals don't heal? And other questions about certain claims I can't find evidence for:
AFAIK they never discuss the "is the transported person the same person?" other than a brief bit in an episode of Enterprise where they talk to the inventor of the transporter, and even then it's just to cursorily dismiss the thought.
Back in the day it got a lot of play. James Blish's novel-length sequel to Errand of Mercy, explicitly mentioned it. In that one, they tried to beam Spock across interstellar distances to the Organian world in some way I don't remember. He hit some kind of shield and was bounced back, and two Spocks materialized back on the Enterprise. I have this vague memory that it then took them 6 months or a year to travel to the planet for some reason, and that they were going to use that time to figure out which Spock was the "real" one and which wasn't. (I just found the novel (Spock Must Die!, 1970) on Wikipedia, and my summary isn't quite right. But, from the wiki page, "McCoy posits that an original person is killed upon dematerialization and a duplicate is created at the destination. Scotty explains that the technology converts matter into energy, transmits it and reassembles it into the same original object, but McCoy is not convinced and he wonders what happens to the soul in a transporter beam.")
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@FrostCat Reading's for nerds.
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@blakeyrat said in Hospitals don't heal? And other questions about certain claims I can't find evidence for:
Reading's for nerds.
Do a huge amount of it, do you?
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@groo said in Hospitals don't heal? And other questions about certain claims I can't find evidence for:
Coffe also don't wake you up
A hot coffee challenge?
...YouTube does not disappoint...
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@anotherusername said in Hospitals don't heal? And other questions about certain claims I can't find evidence for:
A hot coffee challenge?
“Motherfucking Miley Cyrus”?