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I suppose if you choose to believe in prophecy then you can believe many other unlikely things. There is no sound evidence for prophecy and so I am not convinced by your reasoning.

I'm not sure what it tells you. It tells me you may well be dealing with a homework problem.

In three minutes time the polls close. Here is a prediction: Voter Turn Out: 84.7% Yes Vote: 48.2% No Vote: 52.8% If this turns out to be correct I shall curse myself for not having visited a bookie.

Good luck with your plan to change a genotype that was 3.5 billions years in the making.

A political grouping that has its own laws (and has had them for several centuries, continuously), its distinctive legal and educational systems, prints its own banknotes and has its own languages, has its own team in the World Cup and the Commonwealth Games is - by my reckoning - a country.

The vote today has nothing to do with economics. The vote today has nothing to do with conventional politics. The vote today is a statement about cultural identity. The vote today is about placing decision making closer to those whom the decisions will effect. A yes vote is not a matter of Scotland turning its back on the rest of the world, but about Scotland engaging closely with the rest of the world as a sovereign nation. Scotland was instrumental in helping to create the modern world, playing a role quite out of proportion to its size. A yes vote says we are ready to play a part again. I vote yes.

My interpretation would be that we lack enough data, by an order of magnitude, to answer (or even properly ask) the second and third questions, but that we are approaching the time when we will be able to do so.

I) "I would imagine that most reasonable people would prefer the words Please and Thank You. May I ask, are you reasonable people?" 2) "(n-1), unless there is a withdrawal due to injury or other cause." Please, do I get a place? Thank you.

Yes to the first - I understand this is the current view. Unlikely to the second. I don't understand the third.

Based on the information in the link I should say that the crater appears not to have been caused by a small meteorite. And linking it to the 2014RC is, in my view, ridiculous. The authorities in the region, sound like authorities on getting reelected (i.e.politicians) rather than authorities on meteorites. However, thank you for an interesting link.

Science (and bisexual men) have no interest in your beliefs. This is a science forum. Personal beliefs and biases have no place here.

It is not clear at all. It is clear that this is a plausible and certainly partial explanation. It is not clear that it is the only explanation.

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Conventionally, slab drag from descending plates and push from mid-ocean ridge vulcanism. Billiards, are you conflating plumes with any form of thermally convective circulation in the mantle?

If you still believe this after all this discussion then you should abandon science and take up basket weaving. That is not a trite comment, but genuine advice.

The decision making processes of wives. Actuality, forget that. You did specify regularities.

TJ, you are interested in science, you have an imagination, you are obviously young, you could have a great future. Why don't you knuckle down to some hard work and learn the basics, instead of spouting nonsense?

Consciousness was absent from the Earth for two or three billion years during which life thrived. How do you account for that?

I've felt silly for years, so I'm not sure that will have much additional effect. Also, I thought the I in AI stood for intelligence.

I am interested in discussing science, not personal opinions. Good luck with your thread.

Your definition of gay is faulty. Gay refers to a strong preference for homosexual relationships, not an exclusive interest in them. Homosexual refers, as the name suggests, to any sexual relations between members of the same sex, regardless of whether or not this is a unique event for the participants. Since your opening statement is faulty the rest of your post becomes meaningless. Researchers into primate sexual behaviour rarely, if ever speak of gay gorillas, or chimpanzees. They speak of homosexual behaviour. Are you wanting to talk about this subject in a loose, colloquial way, or in a precise scientific way? In that context you may wish to consider, as a starting point, the following: Yamagiwa, J."Intra- and inter-group interactions of an all-male group of virunga mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei)" Primates January 1987, Volume 28, Issue 1, pp 1-30 Abstract Six unrelated male gorillas formed an all-male group within the Virunga mountain gorilla population. Frequent homosexual interactions characterized the high cohesiveness of this group. Such homosexual behavior reduced the inter-individual distances and increased the social tension between the two silverbacks in the group. The silverbacks retained “ownership” of the homosexual partners, but competed and fought with each other violently when the partners avoided or ignored their courtship. Neither submissive nor reassurance behavior was noted between the silverbacks. Thus, their relationships may not be explained in terms of dominance and subordinancy. However, the loser-support and mediating behavior observed in the group prevented them from engaging in severe fights. Aggression was always directed from the elder and dominant males to the younger and subordinate males, while supporting interactions occurred in the opposite direction. The blackbacks frequently supported the subadult aggressees by attacking the silverbacks, and the younger males displayed mediating behavior in violent fights between the silverbacks. The group's ranging was influenced by encounters with neighboring social units. The members avoided contact with other units and shifted their range after several encounters. On the other hand, when and after a subadult male had immigrated into their group, they frequently encountered other units and did not move away from the encounter site. An all-male group may not be a favorable unit for females to transfer to, but may be profitable for maturing males to associate with. Its formation is probably related to recent social change in the Virunga gorilla population. There are plenty of examples out there. You only had to look. You didn't. That was unscientific. And there are dozens, scores, probably hundreds of species in which homosexual behaviour is either common, or known. I agree. Although most penguins are illiterate, some may object to being misspelled.

I am pretty certain this is true, but I wouldn't go around talking about it. On the positive side: 1. You have imagination. 2. You have enthusiasm. 3. You have an interest in science. Recommendation: Learn just what the box looks like, feels like, sound like, etc, before you try thinking outside of it.

Well, your program certainly seems able to replicate dialogue as rich in meaning and as elegant in its language as your own, so I suppose that is an achievement of sorts.

I like concise statements. The three words in your last sentence can be replaced with one word: Fox.

Probably not. Here is the latest refereed paper I can find on Titan tectonics: Solomonidou, A. et al Morphotectonic Features on Titan and Their Possible Origin Planetary and Space Science Volume 77 March 2013, Pages 104–117 Abstract Spectro-imaging and radar measurements by the Cassini–Huygens mission suggest that some of the Saturnian satellites may be geologically active and could support tectonic processes. In particular Titan, Saturn's largest moon, possesses a complex and dynamic geology as witnessed by its varied surface morphology resulting from aeolian, fluvial, and possibly tectonic and endogenous cryovolcanic processes. The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument on board Cassini spacecraft, indicates the possibility for morphotectonic features on Titan's surface such as mountains, ridges, faults and canyons. The mechanisms that formed these morphotectonic structures are still unclear since ensuing processes, such as erosion may have modified or partially obscured them. Due to the limitations of Cassini–Huygens in the acquisition of in situ measurements or samples relevant to geotectonics processes and the lack of high spatial resolution imaging, we do not have precise enough data of the morphology and topography of Titan. However we suggest that contractional tectonism followed by atmospheric modifications has resulted in the observed morphotectonic features. To test the possibility of morphotectonics on Titan, we provide in this work a comparative study between Cassini observations of the satellite versus terrestrial tectonic systems and infer suggestions for possible formation mechanisms.