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  1. lpetrich

    Prehistoric Queensland contacts?

    Here is Quechua, Maori, Hawaiian - Indonesian, Malagasy, Tagalog I/me - ñuqa - ahau, au - au - - aku - aho - ako two/pair - iskay - rua - lua - - dua - roa - dalawa you (sg. inf.) - qam - koe - 'oe - - kamu - ianao - ikaw who/what - pi/ima - wai/aha - wai/aha - - siapa/apa - iza/inona -...
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    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    What did all these socialists do? Mostly a lot of social democracy. It was the more dogmatic and ideological sort of socialists who used "sewer socialist" as an insult for being pragmatic and reformist. It didn't go far, but twenty years later, FDR got Congress to enact Social Security, which...
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    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explains What Democratic Socialism Means - Business Insider Welfare statism. Democratic Socialism Is About Democracy - 07.25.2018 - Jacobin Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Resurgence of Democratic Socialism in America - The American Prospect - July 3, 2018 - "The...
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    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    TALKING SOCIALISM | Catching up with AOC - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) - March 19, 2021 "What initially drew me to DSA was the fact that they showed up everywhere that I showed up." She talked about activism and organizing, and how she earlier didn't think that being elected would...
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    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    Define "socialism". AOC herself claims to support "democratic socialism", which she distinguishes from plain "socialism". Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (CAS’11) Talks Democratic Socialism with Stephen Colbert | Bostonia | Boston University - January 22, 2019 Interview with BU history professor...
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    Merged Gaza just launched an unprovoked attack on Israel

    Because it's Hezbollah? That's not a good argument.
  7. lpetrich

    Prehistoric Queensland contacts?

    Oops, Malagasy has maso instead of mata for eye. The Austronesian family and its Malayo-Polynesian subfamily have been recognized for well over a century. I'll do the Dolgopolsky list. First, to illustrate the concept: English, German, Latin, and Russian: I/me - ich/mich - egô/me - ja/menja...
  8. lpetrich

    Prehistoric Queensland contacts?

    ...and Tahitian all have mata, and Hawaiian has maka, a result of a regular sound change: t -> k. But Quechua has ñawi, Nahuatl ixtli, Proto-Semitic *\ayn-, Old-Kingdom Egyptian *jîrat, and Proto-Indo-European *okw- (> English eye, German Auge, Latin oculus, Polish oko, ...) This is only one...
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    Prehistoric Queensland contacts?

    ...from Latin and Greek. But there are several different inventions of high-count words like "hundred" and "thousand": Proto-Indo-European: 10 *dekm, 100 *kmtom, 1000 *gheslom Proto-Turkic 10 *ôn, 100 *yûr', 1000 *bïng, 10,000 *tümen Proto-Dravidian 10 *paHtu, 100 *nûtu Proto-Semitic: 10...
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    Are there really infinite transcendental numbers?

    ...even if natural numbers aren't. That is also true of every superset of the integers. Now we only know about integers. What x satisfies 2*x = 1? Start with 0 and 1, multiply by 2, and use ordering: 0 < 1 implies 2*0 < 2*1 giving 0 < 2 Where does 1 fit in? 0 < 1 < 2 Thus, x cannot be an...
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    Are there really infinite transcendental numbers?

    ...N <= F. Predicate function: if for function f, f(0) is true, and if for all a in N, f(a) implies f(S(a)), then for all a in N, f(a) is true. Addition: a + 0 = a a + S(b) = S(a + b) Multiplication: a*0 = a a*S(b) = (a*b) + a One can show that finite set cardinalities satisfy Peano's axioms.
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    Language as a Clue to Prehistory

    What wind, currents and geography tell us about how people first settled Oceania 5200 BP - Taiwan (pause) 4000 BP - The Philippines Southward and eastward spread 3400 BP - Samoa and Tonga (pause) 1200 BP - Eastern Polynesia: Society Islands, Hawaii, Rapanui, New Zealand, visit to South America...
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    Language as a Clue to Prehistory

    Linguistics locates the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion – with Indigenous seafaring people in eastern Taiwan Proto-Austronesian speakers traveled from South China to Taiwan around 5500 - 5000 BP (3500 - 3000 BCE), around the time of the Proto-Indo-European speakers. An offshoot...
  14. lpetrich

    Prehistoric Queensland contacts?

    Let's see The Numbers List - a big collection of words from 1 to 10 - also Numeral Systems of the World Quechuan: +Proto-Quechua - *suk - *ishkay - *kimsa - *çusku, *tawa - *pichqa - - *suqta - *qançis - *pusaq - *isqun - *çunka C Quechua (Ancash) - huk - ishkay - kima - chusku - pitsqa - -...
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    Prehistoric Queensland contacts?

    ...evidence that Polynesians came from the west, the islands off of Southeast Asia, not the east, the west coast of South America. As to the word *kumala ~ *kumara for sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), it traveled with the vegetable, making it a wander word. Entries for KUMALA.1 [PN] Sweet...
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    Black Holes: Some Recent Observations

    At 1000 AU, the gravitational-lens effect sizes: Neutron star: 1", Cygnus X-1: 4", Gaia BH3: 5", Sgr A*: 32', M87* 21d. At 1000 AU, the amount of perturbation of the Earth's orbit over a year: NS: ~ 10^(-9), Cyg X-1, GBH3: 3*10^(-8), Sgr A*: 4*10^(-3), M87*: (disruption) So it would be hard to...
  17. lpetrich

    Black Holes: Some Recent Observations

    A dead pulsar will be hard to observe with nongravitational effects, so I consider gravitational effects. These will have similar sizes for active pulsars and for white dwarfs, I must note, though those objects are easily observed nongravitationally. At 1000 AU distance, its gravitational-lens...
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    Black Holes: Some Recent Observations

    ...PULSARS It states that the radio luminosities of pulsars range from 10^27 to 10^31 ergs/s, or 10^20 to 10^24 watts. The Sun's luminosity is 3.827*10^(26) watts. (PDF) Distances and other parameters for 1328 radio pulsars and Pulsar - pulsars are often observed over sizable fractions of our...
  19. lpetrich

    Black Holes: Some Recent Observations

    A Sunlike star would make itself very obvious once it reaches the distance of the nearest stars to the Solar System - it would be one of the brightest stars in the sky. List of nearest stars - Alpha Centauri: 1.33 pc, 4.34 ly, mag -0.27, Sirius: 2.67 pc, 8.71 ly, mag -1.46. At 1 pc, the Sun...
  20. lpetrich

    Black Holes: Some Recent Observations

    ...much smaller than the largest rocky planets elsewhere: the Earth, our home planet. Its brightness from reflected sunlight would be magnitude -4 + 5*log10(dsp) + 5*log10(dep) for Sun-planet distance dsp and Earth-planet distance dep in AU's (size of Earth orbit). For dsp >> 1 AU, that reduces...
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