Manatees also like the warm water of the nuclear plants during cold winters. In the upcoming movie, it will be the manatees who save us from the crocs.
There is a lot of pseudoscience about magnets. Take a look at all devices with embedded magnets which purport to cure a range of medical issues, like arthritis, but whose efficacy has never been demonstrated. There's also a lot of research which got public notice, but which could not replicated. It's very easy to fool oneself by accident. You knew the magnets were there, for example, so it wasn't even single-blinded. The magnets you can get from a hardware store have a field through your body which is far smaller than in an MRI, which can pull metal objects out of someone's grasp.
The strongest field I've had my hand in was 1 Tesla, and I felt nothing.
Some people manage to sleep while having an MRI scan, which is 3 T or higher.
From what I gather, there was a 2015 paper claiming the worm C. elegans is magnetosensitive, but it has not been replicated. ("We find that under these conditions the worms moved randomly on horizontal plates placed either on top of a strong neodymium magnet or within a homogenous Earth-strength horizontal magnetic field.")
Following along the lines of Captain Womble's "prescriptive and descriptive", I was hoping for something like: "I am no longer the simple prescriptivist you once knew. Now I am a descriptivist, and wield the deeper grammar."
Then for every false grammar rule, like the prohibition on splitting an infinitive, reply with something like "the rules am meaningful" or "wood red small house" to make even the Errorist cringe in pain.
I've not heard of that use of "heater" before. I think of it as a gun or weapon because of Star Trek ToS episode "A Piece of the Action", which would give an entirely different meaning to "sucks on a heater." OTOH, "Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary" from 1945 defines it as "a big cigar", so perhaps John is simply more hep than I am.
My wife's Dad took us to the gun range where I got to fire his Mosin–Nagant, which is similar to the rifle Häyhä used, and also with iron sights. It made me appreciate more the skill, patience, stamina, and, well, sisu that Häyhä must have had.
My wife uses an app to count steps. We live in Sweden, within walking distance of stores and schools, or we take mass transit. About 15 months ago she went back to the US for her mother's 60th birthday. Her step counts for that week were a small fraction of normal, as even when she wanted to walk, it just wasn't possible.
Hah! I've been in that spot, back in the 1980s. There's a scout camp nearby. My Mom's troop camped there and I got to go along. Her sister was also there on a visit, so one evening my aunt took me on a road trip to that bat tower. She parked right underneath it, and we looked up through the open moon roof.
I think it's rude to be so presumptive of the background of our hosts. This is, after all, the same Heinlein who writes a whole lot of sex, nudity, incest, and polygamy into his novels, and for whom Campbell famously commented "Bob can write a better story, with one hand tied behind him, than most people in the field can do with both hands. But Jesus, I wish that son of a gun would take that other hand out of his pocket." I can see many reasons for not having read Heinlein's oeuvre like I have. It's hard to read "Stranger In A Strange Land" (where the female lead declares 'Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it’s partly her fault') as a strong feminist/gender equality book, for example, and for many making him a hard no when there is so much other great SF out there. FWIW, I think a movie like "Forbidden Planet" is a better fit for the sketch. Sigourney Weaver's character in Galaxy Quest is an effective critique of the women-as-sex-object in older SF, even though Emma Peel's man-appeal was definitely also highly competent.
It's very easy to fool oneself by accident. You knew the magnets were there, for example, so it wasn't even single-blinded. The magnets you can get from a hardware store have a field through your body which is far smaller than in an MRI, which can pull metal objects out of someone's grasp.
Some people manage to sleep while having an MRI scan, which is 3 T or higher.
From what I gather, there was a 2015 paper claiming the worm C. elegans is magnetosensitive, but it has not been replicated. ("We find that under these conditions the worms moved randomly on horizontal plates placed either on top of a strong neodymium magnet or within a homogenous Earth-strength horizontal magnetic field.")
Then for every false grammar rule, like the prohibition on splitting an infinitive, reply with something like "the rules am meaningful" or "wood red small house" to make even the Errorist cringe in pain.
I can see many reasons for not having read Heinlein's oeuvre like I have. It's hard to read "Stranger In A Strange Land" (where the female lead declares 'Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it’s partly her fault') as a strong feminist/gender equality book, for example, and for many making him a hard no when there is so much other great SF out there.
FWIW, I think a movie like "Forbidden Planet" is a better fit for the sketch. Sigourney Weaver's character in Galaxy Quest is an effective critique of the women-as-sex-object in older SF, even though Emma Peel's man-appeal was definitely also highly competent.