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[Hanslanda]

No, they're technically amendments. Much like prohibition, they could be repealed legislatively. I'm wondering if the Bill of Rights has any special protection from normal repeal.

[Trekkin]

No, they're technically amendments. Much like prohibition, they could be repealed legislatively. I'm wondering if the Bill of Rights has any special protection from normal repeal.

Prohibition was repealed by the 21st Amendment, though.

[Hanslanda]

Right, my bad. My civics is rusty. So, theoretically, we could pass amendments revoking the Bill of Rights amendments?

[Trekkin]

Right, my bad. My civics is rusty. So, theoretically, we could pass amendments revoking the Bill of Rights amendments?

Yes, theoretically we could.

As for question 2, per Texas v. White, states cannot legally secede from the Union.

[Parsely]

Are there accounts describing exactly what mistakes green soldiers make that get them killed? Any time period is fine.

Letting Drake lead them into combat?

Is that a Hammers Slammers reference or a hip hop reference

[scriver]

Right, my bad. My civics is rusty. So, theoretically, we could pass amendments revoking the Bill of Rights amendments?

Yes, theoretically we could.

As for question 2, per Texas v. White, states cannot legally secede from the Union.

Could a county, though?

[Hanslanda]

I wanna say no. County gov't is subordinate to state gov't.

[scriver]

What if it declares itself independent from the state first, then the US? Watch out for those rogue counties I tell ya!

[Frumple]

So I've decided to name a pair of sibling kittens Bowl Cat and Holla' at ya' Cat. BC is easy, but I'm unsure whether to go with Yacat (yakkit) or Catya (catchya) with the other. Leaning towards catya, though, as it rolls off the tongue a bit easier. What do y'all think, of the two?

[Parsely]

Yack It is way better

[Loud Whispers]

Could mammals adapt to living within an environment with high atmospheric pressure and nitrogen composition? As far as I can tell mammals adapted to deep sea diving avoid nitrogen narcosis by shutting down gas exchange in their lungs and running on oxygen stores, but that's hardly a permanent solution if you intended to say chuck humans on an Earth-like planet with substantially higher atmospheric pressure.

[WealthyRadish]

Could mammals adapt to living within an environment with high atmospheric pressure and nitrogen composition?

You may find this paper helpful:
http://www.saimm.co.za/Journal/v105n06p387.pdf

I think oxygen toxicity would occur before nitrogen toxicity under very high pressure (like 5 or 6 atmospheres) when breathing normal air, so the higher nitrogen content may actually push the survivable range up.

It would already probably be extremely unpleasant to breath air that dense though, another limiting factor would be strength of the lungs and diaphragm.

Edit:
Well, it may be survivable, but of course everyone would be permanently drunk/high just from breathing, which may or may not be a good thing

[Kagus]

Mammals in general can adapt to a staggering array of environments, humans specifically have done a pretty good job just as a single species, such as adjusting to very high altitudes (and thus lower pressure/oxygen), living in zero gravity (albeit for comparatively short periods), and even happily living with roughly 80 times the healthy limit of background radiation.

So, really, I think the question is more "where is the line drawn between tolerable and intolerable environments". Like, mammals are already known to live in close to -50 degree Celsius environments, but I don't think it's fundamentally possible for anything that could be dubbed a "mammal" to live in -200 degrees.

[Hanslanda]

Hypermammals!

Question. At what point would a living organism be considered dead if it possesses no CNS? Such as starfish. But without the weird decentralized CNS thing.

[scourge728]

The point where the cells stop doing cell things I guess