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Observation -------------------- 1 Table tennis : Table tennis players return smashes with smashes many times. Reason : 2 Lawn tennis : Lawn tennis players cannot return smashes with smashes. Reason : 3 Badminton : Badminton players cannot return smashes with smashes. Reason : Thanks & Regards, Prashant S Akerkar

Do you feel there could be Olympics games in future in Football and Hockey games where mixed players say 6 male and 5 female in a team of 11 are played similar to Lawn & Table tennis games? Thanks & Regards, Prashant S Akerkar

Our cephalopod overlords have begun their assault on land, only a matter of time now! The extreme tides in the area seem to be a forcing factor for this species.

Our cephalopod overlords have begun their assault on land, only a matter of time now! The extreme tides in the area seem to be a forcing factor for this species.

Which nation/s could be the best to provide coaching to Indian Archers to prepare for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics games? Thanks & Regards, Prashant S Akerkar

Are there Archers who have won Olympics gold medals but are left handed? Thanks & Regards, Prashant S Akerkar

France, Brazil and Spain are looking the best to me. What about you?

Do you feel Escalator racing game can be introduced in future Olympics games? There will be two categories 1 Bottom to Top escalator race. 2 Top to Bottom escalator race. There will be 8-10 escalators depending upon the number of participants representing their country. 150 steps of same constant moving staircase speed in the 8-10 escalators. Skills required will be speed, balance, concentration & focus for the participants. Thanks & Regards, Prashant S Akerkar

Hello,I have a bachalor in geology, (3 years in university - USTHB ALGERIA - GEOLOGY -mineral resources)I want to get a job or an online job in physics/astrophysics/astronomy, how is that possible?will getting online certifications help?what are the things that i can do that will help me be a researcher or a teacher in physics?thanks.

Who was the best James Bond? Below are my impressions of all 6 who have played bond. Sean Connery - Everyone's default #1 choice. While Connery had the most impressive body of work through his long career his Bond films themselves often appeared cheaply made (Thunderball being an exception) and were rather silly. Austin Powers satire of them was so hilarious in part because of how accurate it was. Sean Connery in my opinion is far and away the best actor to play Bond but wasn't the best Bond. George Lazenby - I have never seen his Bond film in its entirety so I can't judge. Roger Moore - First Bond I saw. I think who was Bond in the first Bond mov…

Season 7 starts 16/07/2017. Are there more fans on this forum? I can imagine there are.

Mars One is a small private Dutch organization that proposed in 2012 to land the first humans on Mars and leave them there to establish a permanent human colony in the coming decades. Are there people on this forum going to Mars? https://www.mars-one.com/

So, guys, what are your thoughts on Noam Chomsky? Regarding his linguistic work, I am not a linguist, but I happen to know something about linguistics, so perhaps I an have some opinion about that. I don't really see why is he so famous. Linguistics, like any science, should be based on falsifiable theories, and I don't really see what would falsify his theories. Also, his claim that languages are not learned primarily by experience and inductive reasoning, but by some innate linguistics capacity, really bothers me. The simple fact is, a layman who tries to reason about language usually gets things wrong. For example, the names of some Croatian rivers are Krka, Korana, …

Headline PayPal told customer her death breached its rules Article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44783779 Summary exactly as headline, though PP seems to be acting more reasonably since.

Sometimes I feel like this, great song!

Which is the better franchise? And why. I know it's not quite comparing like for like, one's sci fi and mainly a series the other is space opera and mainly films, but still, just for fun. I've not watched the newest Star Trek offerings, or seen the Star Wars series but here's some of my thoughts. For Star Trek Star Trek actually explores alien cultures, Star Wars just shows them. Its aspiration for humanity clear and well communicated. Solves many (perhaps too many) problems by using 'science'.- you know, realigning the warp core manifolds to increase the power output of the deflector dish. Really celebrates science. Spock.…

Scrolling down the Activity list to the first break I find all the subjects are scientific. This is the first time since I arrived been here in april2012 that I have seen this and better still not one is from a crank. Is this a record?

I'm watching this video with Quine and at around 1:29:00 he's talking about mathematical logic and he says how it was once "this trivial, stamp collecting offshoot of serious mathematics for pedants and playboys" until it became relevant for computer science. Now, I think I understand his general point, what I'm curious about is: 1) why does he call it a "stamp collecting" offshoot lol How was mathematical logic an activity akin to stamp collecting? 2) I get "pedants", but how was it the activity of "playboys" lol

Retailers often claim Amazon is going to put them out of business. They also said that about Costco and Home Depot, but even those big box retailers complain that Amazon eats too much into their brick and mortar business market. Part of me loves Amazon, since it let's me (seemingly) disconnect from the mainstream consumer train, only buying exactly what I need without having to mess with travel to a bunch of brick stores, being inundated by the general marketing once I'm there, and having to deal with all the people who dislike their jobs because of poor pay (because their employer has to compete with Amazon?). It pleases me to think Amazon knows who has just what I…

Hi. Perhaps fits the knowledge of someone; am not sure if it is German, latin, or... What does the title say ? I do not have a larger image.

Found this news print. I was curious what some of the articles were about. Any insight would be appreciated.

Pieces printed or shaped as their corresponding titles, with no japanese writing; have you seen one or does it exist in the market ?

Hi all! My name is Alex and I am new to the forum. I am interested in astrology, so I hope that I can learn something new and useful here. So happy to make friends with you guys!

So a friend of mine who owns and runs a couple of local pharmacies got divorced recently. We have sit downs from time to time to exchange knowledge - I give him some physics, he gives me chemistry/biology. He's back on the dating market, he recently (hes 44) met a girl (35) at some party, they ended up on his porch watching the stars on a stary night. She inquired that the stars look so beautiful but they're probably very far away - like 200km far away. She also asked him what is Oligocen water (theres a lot of wells here, everybody knows/uses them), weather it is called "Oligocen" because its holy water or maybe something else. The end.

I would like to propose a numerically measure for quality of post, our likiness to be a crackpot (trends of this ratio are likely to be a key predictor). The misconception ratio = number is misconceptions / number of words (units are cracks) As this tends to 1 as I tend to hit my head on the desk. I'd speculate that 0.01 cracks is a general upper limit for a post, although would value some input and analysis of real posts... I'd also like to know a warning level, no one is going to have a value of 0 cracks for all of their writings but is 1 millicracks acceptable?