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No, there is no smoking ban in the UK. At least, there is no national one. TheBigDino needs to refine his question.

That's on the back.

On re-reading, I concur. I read it as John saying "[you're] way off track there" to Ophiolite. Apologies to John for the misinterpretation.

That's not good.

As long as by 2008 he isn't running with the flagship policy "throw all children into a chasm", or just because he's a Republican you quite like? What if a better one comes along before then? What happens if a Democrat comes along who'd clearly make a better president all around?

Maybe you should read all the intervening posts.

Where's your evidence? You might as well say that Godzilla knocked Columbia off course.

Stating that X and Y are different is one thing; explaining why in terms of the definitions of X and of Y is something entirely different, and you have not yet accomplished this. If you want this thread to go anywhere you are going to have to stop obfuscating the discussion and actually expand on your terms. Is that better?

Because it's nice.

Patronising people is not the way forward, nor are you going to be able to both explain your position and keep it mysterious. It's up to you to clarify your terms, not anyone else. If you can't make yourself understood, that is your shortcoming.

Let's work it out: Ave distance to moon: 384,403 kilometers Speed of light: 299,796 km/s Speed = distance / time Therefore: Time = distance / speed Let T = Average time taken for message to reach Earth from moon T = 384403 / 299796 T = 1.3 seconds I'm sure there probably was a delay of about 1 second, at least.

Right, I've had enough of this. You had three opportunities.

How about if you answer my question now.

Doron, you have still not answered my question.

Both eyes and sensors pick up light either direct from the source, or reflected off objects. So unless you look directly at a light source (e.g. the sun, or another star) or into reflected light (e.g. that which bounces off the moon, which you can clearly see from Earth even during the day) you won't see anything. If you're an astronaut up there with a camera, there is not a lot in high orbit that will both (a) be really close to you, or failing that be really big, and (b) reflect lots of light. The question is the equivalent of asking why you can't see any light in the space between the back of your monitor and the wall. Clearly the temperature on the moon does not get higher than the melting or sublimation point of the rock. Even if it did, this does not necessarily mean the moon would be totally destroyed, since molten rock is subject to gravitational forces just as solid rock is. Earth has both an inner and outer Van Allen belt. They are made up of charged particles trapped by the Earth's magnetic field. The Earth belts can damage unshielded electronic equipment but they are not a significant threat to astronauts. The most energetically charged particles in the belt can penetrate only 1mm of lead. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt Remote camera I should hope. Simply put, in terms of light the moon is not that far away. You can easily work out the delay in seconds using the speed of light and the average distance between Earth and the moon. Don't forget to double the answer, as the delay should include the time taken for Earth's message to reach the moon, plus the time taken for the response to get back.

Red herring. We don't even need to see it - we have been told it is blue and spherical. Once again subjectivity is being brought back in to the discussion when we know that seeing the ball is not important to the solution in any way. My examples were simply to illustrate that you had cherry-picked your evidence. In the case of the ball behind a window, the problem is easily solved by having the ball rotated in 3 axes. The colour will be shown to be constant but the shape may not be discernible.

Foxes may be a carrier for rabies, but it is almost unheard of these days for them to pass it to humans. It is possible, however, that most of the few reported canine infections come from encouters with foxes.

They do. It does not "augment" your position, it flatly contradicts it. You are waffling.

Linux is not as mysterious as people make out, provided you have at least one person you can ask mindless noob questions (no shortage of them), and some knowledge of shell.

You'll find it cheaper and less time consuming to use cultures on agar plates then. Unfortunately one can't just whack a sample of something under an electron microscope and take a peek straight away.

This unhelpful brand of deliberate self-distinction is best discouraged, not encouraged. "Lefty, righty, friend, enemy" is a primitive view. Imagine that. Imagine there being more trees there now than after a glacial period. How extraordinary. When you say "record", do you mean that the fires are getting bigger or more widespread year-on-year, or that ever-more means are made available to deal with them? Or is that just a word that got thrown in to make forest fires sound unusual in some way?

Your logic is good but your conclusion was premature. Imagine the ball is behind a small window - we can see the colour but not the shape. Or imagine you are told the ball is some distance in front of you, against a background that's the same colour as the ball. You can't distinguish the shape, but you know it's there and you know the colour. Does anyone know what spherical smells like?

I'm not really interested in it, personally. That doesn't have anything to do with the question I asked though.