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The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)
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#212couldn't they hook up some kind of low voltage or resistance check to confirm continuity. instead of a visual inspection.
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This is pretty crazy loop hole.
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#213Why not make a tiny 10cm wire at the north pole to do the entire planet? And bless the oceans for unlimited holy water. Anyone who goes to the beach is baptised.
The latter wouldn’t be valid, as baptism also involves an intentional act. Merely touching holy water doesn’t baptize you. In fact, you don’t even need holy water for baptism, strictly speaking. Any Christian can validly baptize any non-Christian by merely pouring any water over someone’s head and stating that they baptize this person in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Whether it is a licit bap…
So I could adversarially baptise people with a water cannon like they use for riots? What about cloud-seeding?
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#215Do these wires apply castle doctrine? That is if you create a big one and then someone believing in their power enters you are free to defend what is inside?
Seeing as how an eruv doesn’t meet the secular (and therefore the legal) definition of a “home” my guess would be no.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just asked my wife about this, who grew up Jewish and also loves debating these things as she's a programmer. Apparently the rules describe certain activities that one is not allowed to do, which in practice block most people from doing their profession. Reading books is not on that list, but nowhere does it say that the book needs to be the Torah. So it would definitely be allowed to read research papers, as long as…
Starting a particle accelerator would be forbidden, as the electricity alone would be akin to starting a fire.
Yes. But not if you set up a timer to do it automatically. (As long as you set up the timer before shabat obviously)
There is also apparently a slightly more technologically minded sub-sect of Judaism which considers only electricity generators that actually burn things (coal, oil, gas, biomass, etc) to be "fire". Battery powered devices are therefore OK, as would be things purely powered by solar power (as the sun is technically not "on fire") nucear power or even hydroelectric power. For the vast majority of electricity grids though, at least a percentage of generation will be from fueled generators and so forbidden on shabat.
This is not a mainstream view though.
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#217If and when there are space colonies, this will naturally generalize to the pressure boundary, even if the thing is a rotating cylinder 100 km long.
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#218couldn't they hook up some kind of low voltage or resistance check to confirm continuity. instead of a visual inspection. and This is pretty crazy loop hole.
Would that make it invite a lot from scrutiny from the city and power company? An inert wire, they can look the other way. A live wire is a potential fire hazard and source of EM interference for utilities.
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#219Two arbitrary rules that cancel each other out You could just not but hey I guess no harm no foul
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