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At the moment what I can smell in the air is smoke- someone nearby must be having a bonfire. There are a lot of chemicals in smoke- most of the research focussed on tobacco, but apart from nicotine, most of the chemicals will be similar whatever you burn. And so I can tell you that much of what I can smell are compounds like phenol and guaiacol together with acrolein, naphthalene and others. It's also possible to connect a gas chromatograph to a glass funnel and put your nose in that funnel. That way you can smell the compounds as they are separated out. (so you knew which ones are responsible for what odours). Here's an analysis of the volatiles from heating paper. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00021369.1981.10864521 So, if you wanted to know what "smokey" air had in it, you could start with those. People have done work to identify the major components of smells. Things like "burning stuff" https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-burnt-smell-standard-compounds-measured-with-GC-MS_tbl1_223971634 or things like "woody" which would include things like pinene and eucalyptol Or "herbal" where you find compounds like thymol or citral (You might notice, the chemists are not generally very original with names. The dominant odour of lemons is due to two main components, citral and limonene). So quite a lot of the work has already been done. It would be expensive to repeat it.

Perhaps part of the reason this sometimes feels more like an attack on transgendered humans instead of a defense of fairness in sports is the fact that you’re not equally concerned with the lack of fairness females transitioning to males will also face when entering male sports. Food for thought.

When they're looking for family relationships, or crime scene ID, the labs are not checking the entire DNA sequence of the sample; they're testing for specific known human markers, that occur in a particular location on the strand, in a particular order. The genes they're watching for may not even be active or expressed or read by the cell; they just need to be peculiar to an individual. So, that 12% is not of all the person's DNA, but of the specific markers being scrutinized. (Don't ask me for the mechanism; I'm not current on this science.)

! Moderator Note I'm tempted to pin this as an example of bad-faith arguments for posterity. You've obviously reached the bottom of this particular barrel, so rather than watch you continue to scrape, I'm closing this.

Henny Youngman ( the king of the one-liners ) would be proud of you ... He sends a +1.

! Moderator Note We established that UFO ≠ aliens in the other thread, and so to backslide into equating them is problem. I'e split this off so folks can discuss actual evidence for aliens visiting earth ,and not cross-contaminate the other discussion. So feel free to list some of the evidence from that video, because "ooh, go watch this video" won't suffice, per rule 2.7 That's an incredibly vague description, so as to be basically useless. What is the actual isotopic breakdown? (some science to discuss, rather than a soundbite) "Whoever made this material created it at the atomic level, working with individual isotopes, and not just elements." doesn't really get much leverage from someone with a background in biology and medicine.

Because this is a recent thing, so there aren't any I can think of. Once again, this is the question I'm interested in. The future of sport, how will it change to accommodate everyone fairly. If it doesn't need to be, then fine. I'm interested in being educated on the subject not making a statement.

No. That's just poor phrasing by me. Apologies for confusion, my fault. Just a genuine interest in the future of sport regarding transgender people. How do we make it fair for everyone. I'm using Mike Tyson because everybody knows who he is, and I'll admit it's an extreme example. 'is someone in danger' not now, but the point is they could be. hence the question "is it possible to have another way to decide who plays in what sport" Just to reiterate, I'm interested in the future of sport and how it will or will not change regarding transgender people. Not whether they should be allowed to play.

A monster under the bed! So you don't think someone like him could become transgender and we should ignore it because it will probably never happen? Men are physically stronger than women, at some point it will be a problem. This is my question, what I'm interested in discussing. Not the right and wrongs of transgender's in sport.

Of course I don't. It's an extreme example. But if someone like Mike Tyson in his prime were to change sex and enter women's boxing he would probably kill them. Not just boxing, rugbys another one. Would you be comfortable with an in prime Iron mike in women's boxing?

Canadians are the most deceitful lousy phony nation. Not only they don't talk about aboriginal genocide ,they have stopped talking about covid virus. Whole Montreal nord is infected now. Mother is infected-stupid workaholic fool. She simply sits home and does nothing. Canada has shittiest healthcare. And no bloggers to talk about it on youtube-except immigrant freaks talk about "travel".

I missed where Mike Tyson announced they are transgender. Do you have a link?

But it’s not an example. It’s a boogie-man. It’s a monster under the bed. A made-up scenario to frighten people. A slippery-slope fallacy. You can’t have an honest discussion if you aren’t properly representing the situation.

The phrase “become transgender” is problematic. I’m not sure it’s something you “become” Is that how trans people describe it? Are you presenting a scenario where someone who is not trans pretends to be? i.e. they are trying to cheat? No, that’s not a true statement. Men, on average, are stronger. But that statement is assuming there are just the two gender categories. Anyway https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbt-rights/four-myths-about-trans-athletes-debunked/

Why are you "concerned"? Is someone in danger? Do you have examples of injuries? This is just another issue concerning sports, along with equitable pay, the rule regarding turnovers due to fumbles that go out of the end zone, and the use of HGH. Trying to scare people with scenarios like Mike Tyson killing young ladies in the ring simply feeds into peoples' fears and makes this a more difficult issue than it needs to be. People also used to be afraid that women would die if they were allowed to compete in the marathon.

Why not use an actual example instead of making something up?

You could go with believing people when they tell you the gender with which they identify. Why does it have to be more complicated than that?

Supernatural is just a word to pin on unexplained events, nothing more. We will never be able to explain everything in the Universe, so there must be supernatural events.