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Reply to comment by BillBigsB in Before Newton, how did people explain falling apples? by maugustus
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Reply to Was there a decrease in other infectious diseases other than Covid due to wearing masks during the past 2 years? by [deleted]
Yes! An entire strain of flu (Influenza B/Yamagata) appears to have gone extinct due to COVID safety measures. It could come back if there are reservoirs of it somewhere, either in human populations that are not being tested or in non-human populations, but no one has reported a positive test for it since 2020.
StillKpaidy t1_j2c8nwi wrote
Reply to Was there a decrease in other infectious diseases other than Covid due to wearing masks during the past 2 years? by [deleted]
There was a huge drop in influenza infections, and I suspect RSV as well given the recent resurgence now that most people have largely gone back to normal and kids are back in the classroom. Now, separating the effects of social distancing versus masks can be difficult, but since both are spread by respiratory droplets I'd imagine masks were a large part of it.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html
Note in the link above that for 2020-2021 they can't even give you an estimate because numbers were so low.
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incarnuim t1_j2c64d5 wrote
Reply to comment by TychaBrahe in Before Newton, how did people explain falling apples? by maugustus
Also in this conception, water is above earth, so if you drop a stone in a lake, it will seek the earth. But wood is made of air and fire (and a little tiny bit of earth), so it floats. And burns....
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Reply to comment by cmparkerson in Before Newton, how did people explain falling apples? by maugustus
Well, in scientific language the maths *is* the theory. You mean "not just the hypothesis", right?
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theCumCatcher t1_j2c36bd wrote
Reply to comment by _AlreadyTaken_ in How much does the liquid magma of the Earth affect it's surface temperature? by tripperfunster
this is something i feel is missing from the explaination.
without our magnetic field, genetic life couldnt exist in the radiation produced by our star.... and even our atmosphere woule be eroded away by solar wind
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there is a HUGE difference between a 'dead' core and 'active' core world.
one has an atmosphere, magneticfield, and life.
the other, all things being equal, does not
theCumCatcher t1_j2c2xs3 wrote
Reply to comment by r2k-in-the-vortex in How much does the liquid magma of the Earth affect it's surface temperature? by tripperfunster
I wonder why you didnt mention a heat generating core vs a 'dead' core in terms of the magnetic field, the atmosphere, and the star we orbit around
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