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Predicted but not predetermined - she could miscarry, die, abort.... it is not guaranteed/predetermined... just expected.

So JL- in light of what SwansonT has said - what are you still misunderstanding or failing to get regarding the helicopter hover? We know there are no lateral forces (air movements etc aside) - we know inertia (from when it was moving at the same speed of the earth as it was grounded) keeps it going at a tangent to the spinning globe. We know gravity then keeps the copter from spinning off. The forces from gravity are real and measurable and inertia is easily demonstrable. What is your problem with this? You said you had a simpler model... but if that involves as stationary earth then that is far from being more simple when you take into account the unnatural acrobatics the stars and galaxies have to pull to keep us as the fixed centre - far from being simple and in no way a candidate for an Occam's razor type situation.... if anything the opposite. Also - we have been to space and actually SEEN the Earth spinning with human eyes. So - how do you counter this reality with your explanation?

Evidence of what, that the Earth is spinning? There is plenty. They gave you a list. What about the pendulum? That was one expt they gave you on the list. We explained why you were wrong about the helicopter - get your head around it or look to the arts for a career - there isn't one for you in the sciences for sure.

No - observable reality says otherwise. We have told how it is - you seem to not believe it for some reason.... do you go to a club? Seriously - I don't see what you are missing - I think you are doing it on purpose or something.

How about sticking to the helicopter - do you understand it now it has been explained? No lateral forces keeping it at speed with the Earth as it is already at same speed. What do you not understand about that?

Common place? I honestly didn't think we'd ever see anything like this in my lifetime and it is totally amazing! 2 BHs colliding? Gravity waves? Commonplace? I don't think you realise just how amazing the detection was. 1 to have even detected it I the first place, 2 - to actually work out what it was and fit it in with our understanding of the universe. I am starting to think that you probably don't believe that they were black holes or gravity waves seeing as you think that the Earth is the centre of the universe and is totally motionless. How does your world view get so distorted and confused? Do you go to a club or something where they teach you all these misconception?

No - that's exactly the point - there are no lateral forces on the helicopter.... so it continues to travel with the earth in the direction it was already going when in contact with the surface after it takes off. What do you expect to happen to a chopper on take off then?

That was explained to you - what do you not understand about it? The helicopter takes off vertically.... it needs no sideways force to get it to keep up with the earth as it is already travelling WITH the Earth at the same speed. It doesn't fly off the Earth at a Tangent because gravity provides the centripetal force required to keep it in the arc of the Earth. I do not believe that you don't get this. What are you missing? What am I missing? So you are ignoring what we all said about inertia, frames of reference and gravity then?

If we can evolve the ability to detect light... and other animals can evolve the ability to emit light.... then why couldn't another creature evolve such that the light it emits be amplified by stimulated emission? Imagine that! Imagine a shark with fricking lasers! You heard it here first!. I reckon that 1500 mutated land capable Russian laser sharks swimming up the Thames would take the whole of London in a few hours with very little resistance.

I would guess because it has been clearly and thoroughly debunked/rebuffed over and over but people still keep going 'round and round in circles' trying to credit the obviously ridiculous idea that has been proven to be false. Go and read the threads about it. Just a guess though - it IS possible I suppose that the mods know you are correct about geocentricism and are just trying to cover it up to avoid embarrassment. ;-)

Every experiment confirms it. Gravity - real. Inertia - real. Space flight - real. You can't say you are convinced about what? Everything you have pointed as being 'wrong' has been explained and corrected with high school physics. YOU have given ME nothing to convince me that all of our tried and experiments and observations are wrong. I can't understand your mental block at all... maybe physics just isn't for you if you can't get your mind around such basic concepts. Seriously - what have you got that defies the models that you haven't put forwards already and had explained? I think you must be trolling/having a laugh of some kind for sure.

No - but it explains why the ball doesn't go flying off into space because of inertia like you said it should. The ball is going in a straight line (tangential to the earth) and would keep going (off into space as you suggested) if a centripetal force wasn't applied to it. This force is applied to it via gravity.

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The article says "OTHERWISE as soon as the..." It clearly won't as it is travelling at the same speed as the earth whilst at rest on the surface. So when it takes off it already has the horizontal speed.

I would have thought that they would be harder to detect than normal due their close proximity to the SMBH... I would guess the SMBH would obscure the smaller ones in orbit around it. Looking for a total shadow in a total shadow against a pitch black background. Thanks - I'll have a read later. They are not thought of as singularities anymore I do not think... Mathematically maybe - but not in actual space. We discussed this here over a decade ago and it was thought then that they were actual physical singularities.... I didn't believe it then and still do not. We now know it has a size etc... I think the singularity is a dated concept. I am sure I will be corrected if I am wrong. As I said - I'm not an expert, but obviously an interested observer. @Strange - can you correct me if I am wrong please - The singularity is the mathematical depiction which has, rather recently, been shown to be pure maths and not practice. Black holes HAVE been detected now. indirectly and are, of course, not actually singularities but actually pretty big. Thanks. Thanks - so they were! lol. Strange - could you correct me if I am wrong in my reply to Jacobs Ladder above please. Thanks.

I can't/haven't read that yet.. I will do when I get time later hopefully. From the title alone though I have a question (which might be explained in the article - sorry if so) - How does this leave the theory that there is a single supermassive black hole at the centre of each galaxy? Is that SMBH just an agglomeration of many BHs now then?.... do they not coalesce into one SMBH? Sorry if these are daft questions - it isn't my field but these thoughts came to mind when reading the thread title.

You think that he spilled the beer and it left 'clean' runs through the dirt, or the beer has caused the previously discussed inflation? Either could have caused the patterning on his stomach.

Stretchmarks through the dirt due to recent lack of scrubbing coupled with faster than normal enlargement from over indulging in cream cakes? or possibly just a lack of pigmentation in certain areas, which isn't uncommon iirc. It did look better on my ex though. ;-)

My last girlfriend had something similar on her stomach, sides and tops of legs... it was like a piebald pattering. She was quite tanned, but with no melamine in the light patches - I found it rather sexy. ;-) Yea - that's not the same thing as I was describing.

Not sure you need to get tied up with heat capacities and calculations. Just get the temp right for your distillation at the pressure you are using and heat to just below that - then take it up slowly until it stabilizes at your chosen temp. Again - with the chiller - just chill and let it happen. Just run cold tap water through the condenser and chill your collection vessel maybe with the solvent/dry ice mix. Literally just have the collection vessel dipped into the dry ice/alcohol bath and clamp it there - the temperature gradient will also help pull the product down into the vessel.

That would be because it is just as credible.... less so even being honest.

My comment was in reply to someone that said that there was slavery alive today in the UK - I pointed out that this was illegal (so not relevant to the OP).... which seems to echo your point. Maybe you meant to direct this comment towards the posts I was replying to rather than mine? i.e. post #3. it was this comment - as you said in your moderation comment, the slavery here is totally illegal and not tolerated at all, so not really relevant to the OP as you pointed out - echoing my point - thanks. being honest I am not sure what point the OP is trying to make.

I am aware that that shit happens all over the world and have heard that there was an increase here too... Nothing I can personally do about it except boycott the brothels that use slaves... I heard about one getting closed recently - good. Although as a single man the idea of paying someone doesn't disgust me at all.... the idea that they are forced really really does. I have never used any service like that and probably never will. I am sure (or at least I hope) that this will be further clamped down on - it is obviously not tolerated when it is discovered. Many people (right wingers especially) would use this as a chance to get a dig in about immigrants and how our standards have dropped by allowing such an increase in the influx of them... this is just bound to happen though and will be stamped out in the end goodness willing.

This sexual slavery happens all over the world - You are making it sound like it is unique to the UK... I would wager that is worse in many other places. I'd look into it but it sickens me I can't be arsed. How do we compare to the USA with regard to sexual slavery? 4000 people doesn't sound like we are 'full' of them as you put it.... and of course it is good that the government is taking it seriously and taking steps to eradicate it - it is despicable. Saying this - I do agree with most of what you said in your 1st post - the OP seems rather irrelevant and it makes you wonder about what his point is. Does the US even have a min wage policy? - I bet it's peanuts even if you have it. Tipping is great - (as a TIP/top up and a bonus for good service offered) but not if that is you only source of income - legal slavery imo - pay the poor people enough to live on in the first place.

A man's bank balance is not a measure of his IQ. Does being born rich make one intelligent in your mind? Although I agree... he is slightly smarter than about just over half your population imo. And he dresses smartly in his suits, maybe you meant he looks/dresses smart - again this is money related though, not intelligence related.