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I heard a horrific article on the radio last week about forced marriages of young teens in the USA - Apparently it is legal in some states for the parents of a child as young as 12 or 13 to force them to marry someone. The article gave an example of a 12 year old that was raped by a man.... who then after consulting with the victims parents agreed to marry her. The girl had no say and had to marry her rapist. Please tell me I wrong!!!

Being fair to all - I don't actually agree with this popular US bashing... I love America and Americans, I feel we have more in common with them and more comradery with them than we do with the Europeans. ... There are sliding scales.. not all Americans think the same nor do all EU citizens. How though do you wake people up when they are going headstrong in the wrong direction? The whole of the rest of the world (extreme Brexiteers aside) could see Trump for what he is - there are no surprises at all with what he says what sides he takes or what he comments about - no surprises about the nukes he drops.... but half of America still thinks he is great and has their best interests at heart. Probably because they didn't like being told what to do by a black man over the last 8 years. They would rather be conned by a rich and confident old white guy with a smile than be told what to do by a black man who tells them off for polluting and killing each other... because, er? BENGJAZIII!!! IRS!! KENYA!! MUSLIM!!! it is totally embarrassing. Not all Trump supporters or Brexiteers are racist... but ALL racists are Trump supporters and Brexiteers.

Pulling out of the Paris climate agreement? The whole world agreed to that. Now, it has to be re-negotiated - presumably costing millions to arrange for all to come up with something that will probably be exactly the same but worded differed, just so the USA don't feel like they are being pushed around. Great.

An airline would be shut down... but in a time of war.... where the country has no spare parts or supplies... they might just take the risk. If the engineers in Iran say "no sir, you can't fly that plane today without the ugimeflip being replaced" I can't imagine their superior saying "oh, OK then, we'll ground the plane until sanctions have been lifted and we can get the spare parts". They are more likely to say "get it ready the best you can - the plane takes off in 2 hours". More so in a country like Iran than in the UK or US I would suspect. Does Trump own any airlines? He can make his own policy now so it wouldn't matter to him anyway. Quids in for the old boys - great stuff eh?

There are clues in anatomy that show that we are all related to fish (look up the Laryngeal nerve in Fish and Giraffes - there is a good youtube vid of a giraffe dissection). These days though the DNA shows that we are related... it is pretty obvious which one came from who. ;-) IDK how DNA analysis shows this hereditary, but I think it can be used to deduce who are related and which came from what. You need to wait for an expert or look it up on the net if you want deeper details.

There are evolutionary charts which depict the relationships and ancestry of all the animals.... we all descend from fish. I think these have been backed up with more scientific data from DNA analysis of animals and fossil remains since the 1990's. So - a DNA test will show your relationship between wolves and dogs. I hope this helps - there are those that are far more knowledgeable than I here in this field that can help you further should you require it.

What information? You haven't given us any. I might not fully follow it if you did present it, being fair, as it isn't directly my field. But you have shown nothing other than just making claims without support. I think I'll just watch and read from now on as I haven't got anything to add - you are going round in circles making claims without backing them up with anything at all, let alone anything with substance. CP seems pretty easy to accept seeing as we are on the edge of one of billions of galaxies. What is the alternative?

They will thank for you for it - if you give them credible evidence supporting this claim rather than just stating it... otherwise they will think you are a troll or a loon.

Then there is no conversation is there... you can't just state "Marsians did it" or "I can fly with the power of my mind" without presenting some kind of evidence - especially here on a science site. Present your evidence or get off of the stage! Boooo!

Go on then - what evidence?

Could be Sid Meier. We could be one of a billion saved games played out by who knows who. He's got a point.... it's a science site yea? So why try to discuss a non scientific subject and make non scientific claims with no evidences to back them up in any way here at this science site? Surely you expect to be challenged, no? Twilight zone! Freaky quotes jumping through time! PROOF of the supernatural right there!!

...what? The POTUS lying!? Outside of covering up a minor personal embarrassment surely the POTUS would never lie to the public or the rest of the world - I mean if he got caught doing so it would just be TOO embarrassing for himself and the country surely. I don't believe for a second he'd be stupid enough to try it.

I had one that popped itself in my toe (odd feeling that). Had it for a good while... It got very painful, there was a lump and I thought I had broken my toe. X-Ray showed no break and they said it was a cyst on the tendon with the bad news of arthritis onset in the joints of the toe. I've never been the same in that toe - still gets very painful - although that is probably the arthritis as the cyst is long, long gone. Difficult to say how long it took as, with the arthritis, the pain never really went away fully..... but it took a couple of months at least - maybe that is because I was playing golf on it rather than resting it, but hey. Sorry I can't be of more help. That's all I know about them.... Although a friend once said that you can get rid of then your self by hitting them very hard with a heavy book... I don't recommend this though - I guess the impact might pop it or something, but I wouldn't try that until you have researched it further, lol.

Well other countries do it regularly.... like Russia, North Korea and China for example... so what's all the fuss about?

Yes - and many fell for it thinking it was real.... as did iNow from the looks of his post, so I clarified it.

Saw someone post something today suggesting that the tweet was fake. I can believe how people would fall for it though. lol. Ovv corse, he does hafe previous though! ;-)

You'll have to ask him what he was getting at precisely. Maybe it wasn't the best example... but he was using an extreme. Where do you draw the line with a minimum wage? 1 cent? 50? $3.00? In Norway it is WAY over $30.00 last time I checked... although the cost of living is higher (and standard) than in both of our countries. The point is you need to reward people for their work so that they can at least live a life comparative to other workers... it has been proven, in other countries, that a minimum wage improve the lives of those that are on it.... I won't go into it... I'm not even a layman when it comes to politics really. I'm off to pick up my car. Have a good weekend. Back next week.

He said it was extreme - he was looking at the extreme case... 'the lowest possible' - which is the extreme case. PS - just to add... 'Me too'. I was a conservative (in the UK) and quite right wing in my thinking... quite racist at times (learnt/taught behaviour). I have been slipping further and further left wing in my politics as I have got older. It makes sense and is the more civilised caring way forward rather than the 'I'm all right Jack, screw every one else' attitude of the right. The continued propaganda that demonises foreigners etc is deplorable. We all live on this planet together and should work together rather than building walls and isolating ourselves further from the rest of the world. - my 2 Escudos.

I test a glue product we manufacture and we do a simple joint strength test. We see it all the time with what you had with your cherry where it breaks at the glue line but rips off a veneer of wood from the other piece too.

Because it has never happened to anyone outside of what is predicted by probability. Because we have no limb, antenna or whatever is necessary to send and receive messages (wouldn't we have detected this already? We use waves across a broad spectrum for all sorts of communications... wouldn't this interfere with the 'brain' waves or whatever is supposed to be causing this telepathy, but isn't. Why haven't we picked these waves up before on other types of equipment?) ... so, Why yes? I would debate the meaning of the word 'information' here.

You claimed that it works better for lovers and close family etc... implying that it DOES actually work. Which it doesn't.... or at least it has never happened in any way in which anyone at all has ever demonstrated it beyond lucky guess... suggesting it isn't real. Exactly. If you could show that it even IS then we can work on the how... but it isn't.

People believe all kinds of things that are clearly untrue. Some even believe they can move objects with their mind... even though they have never done it or seen anyone else do it before. They then see someone fake it and believe it is true even when the fakery is pointed out to them clearly with written and signed confessions of fakery by the fakers.

... I have some Dimetrodon bones in my fossil collection. Mainly frill pieces, but some limb bits as well. I also have some bits of a similar Permian age human ancestor... I'll have to look it up later... I think it is called Erythrops or something like that. Similar looking creature, a bit chunkier and without the frill. Looks a little like the Sphenacodon in your picture above.

Where does this info come from? As far as I knew pretty much every test has confirmed NO telepathy in humans... so why would anyone think it is better between these groups? What tests have shown positive? Of course - there is also the quite explainable co-incidence, which happens all of the time, where two people are thinking the same thing at the same time (not uncommon in humans) and they confuse their incident with telepathy and do not believe the co-incidence. Maybe this is reported more for family members because they spend more time together and will see this pop up more often. Worked how? You could communicate with another person using your thoughts alone? Please explain.