Ever heard of string theory?

I would say every physicist believes they are an engineer...

Or wood. Or basically most things. Just depends on the level you’re comfortable with.

So called fat tailed distributions are a random walk. It’s just that their sample distribution is a power law (no mean hence fat tail). Example of which is a Lévy flight: a random walk with a heavy tail.

Here’s a link for your perusal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_flight

Randomness in pixel values

You can build earthquake proof buildings. See many nations in the pacific: notably Japan.

Thankfully they seldom get tested for how good their were built, I mean really tested not small values in Richter scale.

Insuflation: the act of blowing on or breathing on

In this case likely means inhalation through the nose

Yeah, the sense of smell is a basal one. The nasal cavity has bazillions of nerve endings that are almost directly wired to the brain.

That's why so many drugs are snorted. It works faster than just about anything else other than direct intravenous injection.

That’s not at all why drugs work quickly through the nose - it has absolutely nothing to do with nerve endings, it has everything to do with a large surface area of mucus membranes allowing quick uptake into the venous system.

It's just a fancy form of the word "snuffle".

I’m sure any skilled hunter would argue differently. Just watch Meat Eater on YouTube for use of animal sound mimicary ant it’s use in hunting.

Certainly, but isn't this more like a replay, is it actually suitable for interaction?

apparently, turkeys have a pretty understandable language. There's a documentary, My Life as a Turkey [1]; he was able to decipher what each call meant (e.g. which squawk meant "snake" and which one meant "eagle"). So, if you were walking with a turkey, and you saw a snake and wanted to warn it about it, you could, in theory, communicate with it.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-life-as-a-turkey-introduc...

And these probably would vary by region, just like how whales, dolphins and orcas have different languages too

That's really cool, I didn't knew turkeys did that

I mean, this is the same thing that the whales are doing though. What's the difference? In both cases it's just mimicry.

There are degrees, a whole spectrum between tape-loop mimicry to a high fidelity sharing of mental states when it comes to language.

Mimicry with context is a good way (the only way?) to develop an understanding of language.

By the mere fact that the car wasn’t pitting as often. Car was likely inspected afterwards.

Most of them weren't pitting as often as they should.

Yep any size particle should. But gravity is described by classical physics through general relativity. When you have situations of very small quantum scales and large gravitational fields both general relativity and quantum field theory don’t work well together. This is a big problem in physics. See here for more details

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity

This company did a slight pivot to building autonomous collectors anchored in rivers which have the most plastic dumped into them leading to the ocean.