by my grade 7, i had already learned all about dalkon shield and iuds, silicone breast implants and their risks, rely tampons and toxic shock syndrome, roe v wade, aids and homosexuality......

that was just the sex ed units from the regular nightly news.

That's correct, sort of. Individual photons travel always at c (they don't have mass, so they literally can't go slower), but when traveling through a transparent (for their frequency) medium they don't go through the atoms or around them—they would hit an atom (its electrons, really), get absorbed, and then re-emitted. The average speed of all the photons will be lower than c, and depends on the frequency, that's how we got rainbows. For most frequencies, including visible light, it goes slower the higher the frequency is, but gamma rays/x rays photons are so high energy that they don't interact with the electrons, but with the nuclei—that's why you want materials like lead or tungsten to block them—which are much smaller, resulting in fewer absorbing-emitting interactions and a higher average speed.

Its because "speed" can refer to two different things in this context. Group velocity is the speed that your light waves can send a message it. This cannot move faster than light. Phase velocity on the other hand is the speed of the peaks of the wave. This can move faster but its not possible to send a signal through this.

We got a lot of such lies, for instance on Marijuana, and everyone found out it was bullshit if they didn't already know, and it destroys the credibility of the authorities. Which in truth might be the most important message school could teach our kids heading into the 21st century, the government is dishonest. Everything is based on lies, and if it isn't they are trying to end that part of government.

But they told us about cancer, it making you impotent and sterile, stupid and brain damage, all sorts of bullshit. Much based on studies where they spray pesticides on the plant then blame the plant for the pesticide effects. Thank the University of Missouri I think it is for a lot of that bullshit.

Which is really funny since your blood is already oxeygenated

I called bullshit from the start on that. If it was true, that blood turned red when it touched oxygen, then pulling blood from the vein in a needle would be blue. Teachers told me to shut up.

It's such a stupid theory, knowing what we knew.

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That one guy in Carbon Creek is an outlier and should not be counted.