mistermack

😄 Man who covers his mouth....... can still talk out of arse ..........

You are so full of it. You are embarrassing yourself, trying to prove that black is white. "strongly suggest" was the best you could do? You would be better off stopping digging.

In a world that only has black and white colours, you can have an infinity of grey SHADES. If you confuse shades with colours, this is what you get. People here are confusing characteristics with an actual sex. Like the greys, you can have as many characteristics as characters, all from two actual sexes. How does that not surprise me? You made a silly post, and now comes the bullshit cover-up, consisting of smoke and wind. If you hadn't noticed, I backed up my posts.

No, you provide me your link. Here is what wiki says : Genetic recombination and recombinational DNA repair also occurs in bacteria and archaea, which use asexual reproduction. And : Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that does not involve the fusion of gametes or change in the number of chromosomes. The offspring that arise by asexual reproduction from either unicellular or multicellular organisms inherit the full set of genes of their single parent.

This is utter rubbish. That is GENETIC recombination.

You do know what asexual means, don't you? It means NON-sexual. I hope you're not trying to argue that non-sexual is a sex? Even for this thread, that is a loopy loopy notion.

Deaths seems an obnoxious term to me. How about " end of life events" ? ☺️

Me too. Some of the posts on this thread are so ludicrous, they appear to be disingenuous bordering on trolling. Or a bit of both. Better left alone.

A couple of other points. you won't need to elevate it in space, and also, space isn't a perfect vacuum, so although tiny, there would be friction and it would eventually stop the flywheel.

I think it's a virtual certainty that in the future, people will develop an artificial womb, that can carry a fertilised egg all the way to birth. So people will no longer need to go through pregnancy. Probably a long way in the future, but I would guess that it will happen in less than 200 years. 200 years is an awfully long time in medicine. Maybe it could be done in 100 even. The Dutch think that they can go part of the way within ten years. Seriously : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-50056405 So what you tell your kids might be about to change, any time soon.

That's what it boils down to in the end in so many of these discussions. What word do YOU think is appropriate. The facts don't change, but the view of each person is different. It's like having two pigments. Black and white. But you can have various combinations. You can argue all you like about what to call this or that shade of grey. But grey will never be a pigment itself. Only a blend of the two pigments, black and white. But even Hermaphrodites wouldn't qualify as a sex in my book. They are an organism that carries both sexes. ie, a combination of the two sexes, not a third sex. Like a flower that has both pollen and eggs. Still two sexes, male and female parts, not threemale. No human has ever produced both sperm and eggs as far as I know, so we don't even venture down the hermaphrodite road.

A flywheel doesn't create any energy. It stores energy like a bucket stores water. Take energy from it, and the store decreases. Like a bucket, you could never get more out than what you put in. Keep taking energy, and it will slow and eventually stop.

There are definitely no more than two. Answers, that is.

I should re-iterate that I'm not arguing that there are only two sexual IDENTITIES. I said much earlier, genetic sex, and sexual identity are obviously two different things. It would be easier for everyone if that was not the case, but that's the reality. And I wish everyone well, who finds themselves with a different feeling of sexual identity from what they were assigned at birth. I've seen a good friend struggle with it over the years, and I wish him and all others all the satisfaction and happiness that they can achieve for themselves. What you call it doesn't change the facts though. Which is the root of the problem.

I didn't offer that. It's you who needs to recheck. I would say that your sex IS defined by your chromosomes. There are more than two combinations. But there are still only male and female, at genetic level in humans. Genetic disorders do not constitute extra sexes. If you want to argue that they do, you should produce evidence for that. Or give your OWN definition of what constitutes a separate sex.

You should be used to that by now. But it would be a first for me, I'm nevver rong.

You might be able to influence the way you were referred to. But if it was me, that would be a hollow victory. What trans people really want is to be seen as a woman or man, and insisting won't get you that. I've always wondered what the rules are (if there are any) about notifying someone that you are trans, before starting a sexual relationship with them. Morally, I think that you would certainly have a right to know. I certainly wouldn't like being decieved myself. ( and not saying is deception in my book, because my assumption would be that someone is genetically the same sex as the one that they present)

This is extremeley loopy logic. You are just assuming that a genetic malfunction amounts to a different sex. Well, look it up, and you will find that it doesn't. In scientific terms, sex is determined by the type of gametes that you produce. Males produce tiny sperm, females produce much larger eggs. And that classifies both xxy and xyy as males. There are two type of gametes in humans, and that means there are two sexes.

I disagree. Sex is one of the few things that is actually binary. Genetically, you are one or the other. What you wish to identify as is a different subject. Call it sex-identity. That can as you say exist somewhere in a spectrum. If colour was similar, then you would have a world where people were born black or white. Nothing in the middle. But mentally, you could feel black, white, or any shade in between. You could be attracted to one, or the other colour, or both or neither, or bounce from one to the other. But if you were checked visually, you would always be black or white. We can't see genes, so it's not so simple. But imagine you could. Then what you would see would be just males and females. With some identifying differently, any way they liked. We would be used to it, it would just be part of normal life. So to me, the essence is that you can't BE whatever sex you like. But you can certainly IDENTIFY as whatever you like. Of course, how others see you is beyond your control. That's when it gets really complicated. I have one transgender friend, and they still struggle with their identity, years after the operation. It's not even easy or binary for those living it.

It's possible, but I think it's highly unlikely. The chances of our incredibly complicated growth and development processes being able to adapt to such a change in an acceptable manner I would guess at one in a thousand or lower. That's not an informed guess, nobody really knows, but the way that things go wrong so easily, and right so rarely, makes me guess in that sort of range. Mind you, I wouldn't be surprised if China sent a pregnant chimp up to their station, to see what happens. They would probably keep it secret though. I'm surprised that we haven't done it with rats already. Maybe we have.

I don't think that Mars could ever be a second Earth. The gravity is just too low, and who is going to risk having their children in circumstances where they would probably not develop normally? But Mars could most definitely be a colony of temporary residents, or a desireable retirement destination. And a source of raw materials for use in space, or even manufactured equipment.

That's where I would say you are entirely wrong. They fight people because they perceive them to be different. When Manchester United fans fight Liverpool fans, there's no resources or territory involved. They fight because of aggressive insticts that they inherited. Our ape ancestors DID get a benefit from beating off invaders, or invading their neighbours. But that's the reason that the instinct evolved. That kind of aggression had a survival benefit, so the genes that spark it survived, and the gentler early humans were wiped out on a regular basis by the more aggressive ones. That's why humans are very like chimps. They have very aggressive instincts. Chimpanzees don't say to themselves "I will fight my neighbours over resources and territory". They fight them out of fear or hate, or they just enjoy the feeling of dominance when they get the chance. Sorry, but this is rubbish. As my example of football fans illustrates, all it takes is for them to perceive themselves as belonging to a different clan. When I was a school kid, we used to have punch-ups between gangs from different schools. Sometimes, between kid from different HOUSES within the same school. It's no coincidence that Jews got picked on historically. Apart from the religion thing, they usually kept a different style of clothing, kept their own language, didn't intermarry much, and kept a jewish accent. All perfectly within their right, but also, risky behaviour, because it made them easy to regard as outsiders who didn't want to mix. The old clan instinct is then awoken, people see them as outsiders taking over, rather than welcome additions to their clan. I'm talking about basic inherited instincts, not modern enlightened thought-out attitudes to incomers. We have both, and very often, they are pulling in opposite directions.

I've long regarded racial prejudice as a natural inherited characteristic embedded in the human genome. (not that natural equates to good). You have to understand that our ancestors evolved from terratorial apes. They probably lived in bands or troops who claimed and held a territory, which they relied on for their survival. They would have been aware of their immediate neighbours, and would have had to defend their territory and members of the clan against aggression from those next door. This is roughly how chimps live now, where they are numerous enough to actually have neighbours and rival clans. I remember reading somewhere that one of the Islands of the East Indies, I think Borneo, had as many as nine hundred separate languages, each extended clan having their own language. And clans were always at war with each other. The basic instinct is distrust and dislike of our neighbours, especially if they look and sound different. It seems to be a numbers thing. Small numbers of incomers don't cause alarm, but when they increase in numbers, the aliens tend to get the blame for everything that goes wrong. These days we seem to be favouring intellect over instinct, but history shows that when things go wrong, the baser instinct takes over.

Best you put the kettle on then.

To answer the question posed by the title, it's most likely that somebody has carried too much weight in the case, and been rough when bumping up and over kerbs or rough pavement. Most likely a combination of the two. The bearings will outlast the cases usually, but go over the loading limit, and they won't take it.