StringJunky

I agree with Strange, your brain made a dream out of the incident that was occurring at that point in time. I had a dream of trying to swim up to the surface from a depth as fast as I could and when I woke up I was busting for a pee.

Yeah, everything is just fields, Man.

'Logical' meaning "it makes sense to me".

Is someone 'intelligent' who says what you want to hear?

Yep, you only have to look at someone with something like dementia, who was once perfectly lucid, to see that mind and brain are one. Take various psychoactive drugs and one can clearly see that the mind emerges from biochemical processes when we interfere with those processes with those chemicals. No mental gymnastics are necessary, which is necessary when mind and brain are seen as distinct. I think it boils down to people not wanting to die and a separate metaphysical mind permits the comforting possibility of continuity after physical death.

Gary Numan - Down in The Park Live

This is one problem with the internet: problems are magnified beyond the probable reality.

There's a few of us silvery ones here so you won't be alone. I'm a bit too young for Gemini missions but remember Apollo. Welcome to the forum.

Racism exists between groups other than with white groups. it's not an exclusively white phenomenon.

History at NASA doesn't support him.

I think you are reading things into it from insufficient data. Until otherwise shown, I think the default position should be that it was a purely operational decision.

Not at all. I think we are barking up different trees.

I'm on about what's occurring in the brain. Do you need a humour transplant today?

But some blind people are adept at it, so we can be like bats

You can envisage your surroundings with sound.

But not in the brain... unless, of course, you think there's a little cinema with a projector in the the middle of it.

Yes, there's a lot of intermediate processing which only approximates what is before us; it's a constructed image.

The rumour's from her brother, isn't it? I doubt, it given a Hispanic woman is taking her place. Maybe they needed a different skill set for that mission. I would imagine when selecting a group they consider whether their choices embody all the necessary competencies.

OK.

And he is on a science site, so he can't expect any less.

In HOI's defence, he did not offer an answer to the OP but was actually just querying yours.

You got this bit right. The expansion is not like an explosion, with the edges moving outwards, but the distance is increasing between non-gravitationally bound objects. Wherever you stand everything is moving away from you. This doesn't apply on the scale of our solar system though but on a much larger scale; between galactic superclusters. Tidal-locking, as Dimreepr mentioned, is the cause of your described scenario.

Just a current example of the electorate gradually giving away their power to influence in exchange for an autocratic, undemocratic style of government.

Turkey (the country).

If the ulterior purpose is to keep humans going then I don't think a time limit matters.