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Women's soccer seems to be more popular in North America than men's soccer. At least, judging by the viewership of this year's women's World Cup matches. Might have to do with the fact that the American and Canadian national teams are both highly ranked. I watched, and really enjoyed, all the games I could. That being said, I'm shallow, and watch all the women's beach volleyball I can.

Regardless of 'who did what' in the past, the situation we have to deal with is the current one. ISIS has, and continues to, kill, rape and displace a large number of their own people. Are you suggesting we stand by and let the organizers and influencers of this madness continue, Mistermack ? To put it in perspective, in 1948 250-300,000 Palestinians were displaced by the creation of the state of Israel. The UN estimates that 2 % of the pre-war Syrian population ( about 400,000 ) died in the civil war, and several million were displaced into neighboring countries.

Would be interesting to know what evolutionary forces led to the platypus. Any thoughts ?

@geordief All motion is relative. Expansion/inflation is not motion. @MultiSingularity "each supermassive black hole has a singularity ..they are entangled with the first singularity ..the big bang" No, there is no evidence or physical interpretation for any singularity, neither in a BH or at the Big Bang event. It is an extrapolation of a theory past its useable limits. I don't think you quite grasp entanglement. And even if you could entangle two 'singularities' across distances ( note that ALL information about a BH is encoded on the event horizon' NOT the singularity ), how do you propose to 'entangle' across time, where one event is the product of another ? Definition of entanglement from Wiki... "An entangled system is defined to be one whose quantum state cannot be factored as a product of states of its local constituents; that is to say, they are not individual particles but are an inseparable whole."

Get ready for more of them...

This type of Nativity scene is very popular in Italy for Christmas decoration, Mordred. My brother actually has one that was brought by my parents to Canada in 1968. Just wondering how you plan to make the Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Magi, shepherds, Angels, cow, donkey and assorted sheep figurines. Seems you've just got as far as the 'easy part' so far.

A lot of misconceptions and misunderstanding. I suggest you either start asking questions on this forum to fill in the gaps in your knowledge, or get a good book on cosmology.

I really dislike the use of demerits to make an argument. Stop being dishonest and make a valid argument.

Education, and learning, isn't about what educators give you; it's about what you take from them. That is why everyone learns differently. ( incidentally I was always very artistic )

It will be interesting to see exactly how they go about applying/distributing these reparations.

You seem to forget the number of civilians ISIS murdered, raped and displaced from their homes before the world decided to do something about them. I would have paid for your flight to Syria so you could use these same arguments to convince them to stop. ( maybe you could have brought up the Good Friday Agreement )

Somebody should tell them that.

How wold you splice the optic nerve and keep it functional ? I think that's still beyond medical abilities.

Not very certain. I still consider myself a noob, but, having checked, I seem to have been around for quite a while. ( time does fly when you're having fun, doesn't it ? ) I got the impression from one of the other threads that it was the exact opposite in the early days ( dial-up internet access ? ), with massive reputation swings, based on whether the presiding 'Gods of Olympus' ( Swansont, INow, not sure who else ) approved of your post or not. Not that I would care ( the discussion/argument is more important than the popularity of my opinion, haven't you noticed ), but that would make arguing against Swansont or INow a risky proposition for some. You'd get a lighting bolt' up your a*s, and your rep would be in the negatives. ( just kidding, neither would do that )

Sounds like 'the devil you know is better than his replacement' kind of thinking, Stringy. Would you also apply that to D Trump ?

IIRC the approach that seemed to work with M Gaddafi was the air strikes by a squadron of F-111, flying out of England, that demonstrated just how quickly R Reagan could take him out, if he so chose. He quited down very quickly after that.

You just mentioned a couple of mis-applications, where studies are conducted with gender or 'racial' biases.

Relativistic mass is essentially kinetic energy, it is a frame dependent phenomenon, and not actual mass. The ionized particles are essentially in distant orbits about the pulsar which has an extremely strong gravitational well, and are whipped about by the equally strong magnetic field, although I would have thought the magnetic field to be tightly localized ( apparently not, as per your link ) This is not a surface phenomenon as we would normally understand 'wind', but more like the solar wind, and its interaction with Earth's magnetic field. Additionally, because of the strength of the magnetic field of the pulsar, any ionized particles that would be considered an 'atmosphere' about the pulsar ( close to the surface ), would have a preferred direction of travel; Easy along the magnetic field lines, but extremely difficult crossing them.

I disagree. Pure science ( definitely not political, social or even medical ) has no gender, ethnicity, sexual preference or religion. The mis-application of pure science can have.

I don't know if a pulsar would have 'winds' as we commonly understand the term. A pulsar is basically a neutron star ( composed of degenerate neutrons ) and, as such, would not really have an atmosphere where winds might arise. A pulsar is, however a specific type of neutron star. One with a strong magnetic field, and a well regulated rotation, such that the electromagnetic radiation emitted from its magnetic poles is observed at extremely regular intervals by an observer ( say on Earth ). By 'wind', do you maybe mean the speed of emissions of the polar jets ? They are EMR and therefore move at c .

As you previously mentioned, CharonY, this wouldn't be the first time some group has superimposed their agenda on Science teaching. It has happened in the US with Evolution and Creationism. But you are right. This is an overreaction due to incomplete information. ( I couldn't be bothered to read the link, Glad you did. )

Yeah, I'll probably get flack for this... There must be a lot of SJW in Seattle. Next they'll be teaching about racism in Nuclear Physics classes because nuclear weapons were only ever used by whites against Orientals. Maybe they should stick to actually teaching mathematics. Then maybe Orientals wouldn't be kicking our 'educational butts' in the STEM fields.

Don't know what you're so happy about. You realize that's only 31 posts, don't you ?

US special forces staged a raid near the Syria/Turkey border and flushed out Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who then blew himself up with explosives when trapped. Apparently DNA confirmation of his identity is now possible 'in the field' and much quicker than the usual couple of weeks it takes for criminal cases. Obviously there is a need to be sure, as he has been 'reportedly' killed several times before. D Trump is either trying to draw attention from his escalating problems, or still trying to take wind from B Obama's sails ( the Osama bin-Laden takedown ), as apparently he posted a ( staged ) picture in the Situation Room from the wrong time; he was playing golf during the actual raid. Congratulations to American Special Forces and Intelligence Services. Also, our Allies in the area who supplied the intelligence; you know, those same people D Trump deserted and left to be slaughtered by the Turkish offensive two weeks ago.

E Warren is certainly impressing a lot of people. And what of these accusations made by H Clinton about T Gabbard, that may now turn out to be a misunderstanding ? Don't know much about T Gabbard other than she is very attractive and a veteran.