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Could you have: 100 meconds (martian seconds) per minute (martian minute) 100 minutes per mour (martian hour) 10 mours per sol I would think that would keep your clock in synch with the rotation of Mars.

Is this true from everyone's (A, B, and you) perspective?

If you know the length of a day and a year on Mars and want to base your time keeping on that, why don't you just use the actual values rather than intentionally use incorrect values and constantly have to correct your built in error?

Well within the parameters set forth in the OP.

And those of us in the cheap seats enjoyed it too!!

I would certainly think so, although I don't believe that will stop them from doing it. It's too easy to make a good argument to support your position. In the case of the nurses trying to take over some work of the doctor: Doctor -- "If you let the nurses do this the patient will have a less qualified person caring for them, thefore I should keep the job." Nurse -- "If you let the nurse do this the doctors can concentrate on the truly difficult work, therefore I should do the job." I guess we need those pesky administrators to decide which is better, given all the factors involved.

Your lights and computer add heat to your room and I think you therefore have a hot spot in the house. If that heat has not been evenly distributed around the house as Mr Skeptic pointed out, and affected the thermostat, the furnace could run to keep the location of the thermostat at the right temperature, and make your room even hotter. I assume in an evenly insulated house it would not make a difference, but how is the heat loss in your room compared to the rest of the house? Do you have the same window space (relatively low R factor) per square footage of floor space as the rest of the house? If you have more windows I suppose you could be wasting heat.

I don't think we need less qualified doctors, but instead a better distribution of the workload. If someone less qualified than a physician can take over less difficult tasks currently performed by doctors, then doctors can spend more time on difficult tasks. My wife works at a hospital and several years ago the nurses were pushing hard to take on more challenging work for themselves, work then only done by doctors, which they felt they could readily handle. The Doctors felt the risk to the patient would be too great. Interestingly, several years later healthcare workers a step below nurses were pusing hard to take on more challenging work for themselves which they felt they could readily handle. The Nurses felt the risk to the patient would be too great. As in any field, people tend to defend their turf.

It is trying, but due to the relative closeness of the stars in a galaxy, they are being held together by the even greater force of gravity.

Can of hair spray and a Bic lighter.

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Which is it? I cannot think of a single thing a poet has ever done to improve my life, but the procedures developed by 'glorified refrigerator repairmen' have drastically improved the lives of millions, including those in my family. I cannot figure you out.

Please clarify for me the following. Is it your position that there is no proof that adults having sex with prepubescent boys is harmful? You don't take any of the following as proof? "The effects of child sexual abuse include depression,[5] post-traumatic stress disorder,[6] anxiety,[7] propensity to further victimization in adulthood,[8] and physical injury to the child, among other problems.[9] Sexual abuse by a family member is a form of incest, and can result in more serious and long-term psychological trauma, especially in the case of parental incest. Child sexual abuse can result in both short-term and long-term harm, including psychopathology in later life.[9][21] Psychological, emotional, physical, and social effects include depression,[5][22][23] post-traumatic stress disorder,[6][24] anxiety,[7] eating disorders, poor self-esteem, dissociative and anxiety disorders; general psychological distress and disorders such as somatization, neurosis, chronic pain,[23] sexualized behavior,[25] school/learning problems; and behavior problems including substance abuse,[26][27] self-destructive behaviour, animal cruelty,[28][29][30] crime in adulthood and suicide Depending on the age and size of the child, and the degree of force used, child sexual abuse may cause internal lacerations and bleeding. In severe cases, damage to internal organs may occur, which, in some cases, may cause death.[62] Herman-Giddens et al. found six certain and six probable cases of death due to child sexual abuse in North Carolina between 1985 and 1994. The victims ranged in age from 2 months to 10 years. Causes of death included trauma to the genitalia or rectum and sexual mutilation Child sexual abuse may cause infections and sexually transmitted diseases.[64] Depending on the age of the child, due to a lack of sufficient vaginal fluid, chances of infections are higher. Vaginitis has also been reported Research has shown that traumatic stress, including stress caused by sexual abuse, causes notable changes in brain functioning and development.[65][66] Various studies have suggested that severe child sexual abuse may have a deleterious effect on brain development." http://en.wikipedia....ld_sexual_abuse

But a proton could be divided into thirds, correct? (two up quarks and one down quark?) Or are you saying that once a proton is broken down into quarks that the individual quarks don't contain any properties of a proton, and therefore it isn't meaningful to discuss them in terms of being a third of a proton? (Please pardon my ignorance of the subject.)

If you do not know what (if any) substructure to quarks exists, what indicates that a quark cannot be divided in half?

Given the time, expense, and effort required to become a physician, along with the amount of time required once practicing, I don't know if I would categorized $200,000 per year as 'inflated'. And if we cut the annual salary in half, I wonder what would happen to the quality of physicians over time, as very talented individuals choose other, more lucrative, fields.

Do you know if the 'abused' young men were the ones who grew up to be so wonderful, or are you simply making an assumption? So sexual abuse necessarily results in psycopathy in all cases? And I'm not a scientist, but it seems a bit of a stretch to claim that since the human race is intact, sexual interaction between adults and children was not harmful.

While the adults may have considered it normal, and the culture thrived, I wonder how the young boys felt about it. If I were a 12 year old and being penetrated I don't believe my response to that violation would be greatly influenced by what society felt about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse

How about this one?

Possibly the dark background of asphalt streets and parking lots makes it more visible to you.

No, the uvula hangs down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis

What is the observational evidence that you do have?

You also do not need the uvula. It is sometimes removed as a treatment for snoring.

To be the same person you wouldn't have to have the exact same environment with the same history, culture, parents and childhood experiences. Those are only significant because they made you who you are now. And who you are now is, as the OP suggested, a certain configuration of atoms, and a brain created by that configuration of atoms. So if you were going to create a new person with that exact same configuration, that new person should already have a personality, memories, etc. based on that environment. Although this also makes me wonder why by random atom configurations in the brain, people don't have memories of things they never experienced. Maybe the odds are just too great against getting just the right configuration together for a coherent memory of something that did not really occur.

Actually what I said was: "For the moment I'm leaving out limiting factors such as natural resources...". If you are going to quote me, I wish you would quote what I actually said. I also made the following statements: "...I have no idea what impact the limiting factors would have." and, "I did not address resource availability because I had no idea how to do so." I admit it. I don't know how to project future populations due to limiting factors. What do you want me to do? Make stuff up? Yes, I know that. Yes, I know that. How do you figure I failed to realize that? Did you read either of the following things I said? "I generally agree with what you say. There is some limit to the populatioin the earth can hold." and when Mr Skeptic said: I said, "Yes, I know that." In addition you've made the following statements, attributing things to me that I never said: "You're going to sit there and tell me that the removal of 1,000 people out of a global population of 6,000,000,000 people - not even 1 person in a million - fits any reasonable definition of population control? In my book that's the very definition of a distorted, and exaggerated position." "You state that the death of insignificant numbers of people represent a "future population"..." Throughout this thread you have ignored things I've said, misquoted me, and assigned statements to me that I have not made. It's getting old.