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Things to do when traveling on an interstellar rock: 1. Take a walk around the rock in a space suit. 2. Gaze at the stars. 3. Contemplate meaning of life. 4. Go to #1.

An old joke A communist, a s socialist, and a capitalist arestranded on an island. One night a big crawls on the communist. Hr grabs it and says ‘Wake up everybody we have something to eat. I will cut it into three equal pieces and we share equally’. jhe next night a big crawls on the...

Pood I still do not understand what you mean by the word philosophy and what you are trying to prove. Like when you say philosophy guides science. Yes there have been many historical philosophers, what does that mean or prove? Id have to fact check myself, as I remember Pythagoreans were not...

There is the ancient question, how many philosophies can fit on the head of needle. What constitutes a specific philosophy? Is philosophizing doing philosophy?

I took a wait and see approach. Now it seems we are getting there. If congress does bot prevent Trump from attacking Venezuela without authorization I'd say congress will become irrelevant.

When it comes to Newtonian mechanics and mechanisms I doubt there is much that has has not been thought of, tried and used before. It is what mechanical engineers do. I posted a link somewhere to an ancient compendium of mechanisms that were used. Air hearings are interesting. They provide...

Air has kinetic energy .5*m*v^2 in watts. The sail has an area, energy into the boat in watts/m^2. The boat or land vehicle has kinetic energy. Ball park it comparing input energy to kinetic energy of the boat or vehicle. If energy in <= kinetic energy out you have a problem somewhere or you...

Why is Zelensky oozing with praise for Trump? Because it works with Trump. Large hospitals get research and other federal grants. Trump tried to cut off research grants to schools that opposed his polices. My guess is the hospital for whatever reason is kissing the king's ring. Hospitals...

If I have no philosophy is that in itself a philosophy????

It is all about money and ratings. Hannity, Carlson and others admitted they did not necessarily believed what they say. If his ratings were good Carson was part of the Domino voting machine lawsuit that cost FOX a lot of money. The question is who comes next? A ranting Trump propagandist?

Background theme sounds for a strange object....

I had not thought about it before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor_in_philosophy

To me concrete is hard evidence, derived from the physical concrete that hardens into a strong shape. Concrete is metaphor. To say an argument or an organization has a concrete foundation refers to a building made of concerte. Strong and stable. Someone makes a claim. Aother might say 'I...

https://www.apaonline.org/page/undergraduates When you say philosophy I think you have to specify what part of philosophy yo0u are referring to. Same with science. There is academic theoretical science like cosmology and there is industrial science kike plastics and organic chemistry...

'Practically nothing except math tautologies are self evident. Hence philosophy.' That is not a proof of any kind. How is the first sentence true? Is the truth of it self evident? To you it m makes sense, to me by experience it does not. Hence philosophy indeed. Debating that which is...

Is it self evident that all is philosophy or is there any kind observational based argument to be made? It bi sounding like a theist argument. All is god, it is self evident.

There was video of a crow fashioning a wire as a hook to get a piece of food out of a jar. Video of an octopus firing out how to unscrew the lid on a jar to get food. Squirrels figuring out how to defeat squire ll proof bird feeders.

The top level category of numbers is complex. Look up complex numbers. z = x +- i*y where i is sqrt(-1). A real number is when y = 0.

There are hundreds of thousands maybe millions of people from around the world engaged in all aspects of science every day. To say that because several philosophers, aka non scientific thinkers, influenced scientific theory means ‘philosophy’ guides science is a bad argument. What is the...

There are unconfirmed reports from rural Iowa and around the world of humans turning into zombie cannibals. Coincident with the sighting of the object.