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Can they impeach him a third time if the Repubs indicate ahead of the procedure that they are receptive to putting in the knife this time? I get the feeling that he may escape prosecution otherwise

Seems like a whole new meaning of "questionable" that doesn't include the speaker as one of those doing the questioning. Have you come across that usage before? Where the speaker says something is "questionable" and the audience has to deduce that the speaker is referring just to other people ,without specifying it? Have to say that referrring to Biden's election as "questionable" certainly makes me deduce that the speaker personally sees something to question about it. We are so used to Trump weaseling (or getting his cronies to do it for him) out of outlandish and disgraceful remarks that it feels like we are entering the post truth area. In the context of American politics to give credence to that stupidity is also disgraceful. Here's the actual quote. It's obvious surely what was being said. Some kind of denigration that makes little sense ,but so what?

Well I have heard that the gravitational effect of any body is independent of any interior structure. Are there examples where this is so -or does my Solar System example show this not to be so? Does the gravitational field exerted by the Solar System "vibrate" ever so slightly as the planets orbit the Sun? Is my understanding of the saying* that the spacetime curvature effect of mass is unaffected by any internal structure maybe a bit "half baked "? *I have read this more than a few times

If we consider the gravitational effect of the Solar system upon its nearest neighbours (or upon the gravitational field immediately outside it) does this change as the SS evolves with time? For example ,as Jupiter moves 180 degrees around the Sun is there a noticeable (or theoretical) effect on the gravitational field as experience by a body outside the SS? I ask this because I have heard that the effect of gravity is not dependent on the interior makeup of a massive body( the Solar System in this instance)

He was put on the ticket in large part because it was realized that he had the electoral beating of Trump and could appeal to the "Rust Belt" Also a very decent,if flawed man

Yes,that one. I mean to take a symbolic case (in addition to practical cases that might actually result in some compensation)

Can they take a class action against the State? Can they also say their civil rights have been violated and light a fire under the Supeme Court?

Is the apparent destruction of phone records by the Secret Services an indication of the likely veracity of Cassidy's testimony? (that would hold up in court as well as public opinion) Esp if they do not refute it on oath Will the US still vote in large enough numbers for a former president who is prosecuted for interfering with the electoral process? The way polls are at present I would say no ,but give the Repubs 2 years in charge of Congress and the Senate and I don't know.

I meant constitute in law It may be obvious to an observer what his game was but unless he can be brought down in the courts ( he should have been convicted in the impeachment trial) or by force of public opinion (and opinion within the Republican party) that is fairly academic . If he were to win a second term ,I cannot imagine the repercussions.

Does the mere fact of urging the crowd to march to the Capitol constitute interference in elections? I know his interference in the Georgia count was clothed in the pretense of there being electoral fraud but should this call to actually march on the Capitol be an even clearer case of interfering in the election?(never mind whether or not he-indirectly? - incited them to murder Pence) What I mean of course is could he be successfully prosecuted over it?

No he seems to have done nothing to protect Pence. But I have a reluctance to believe anyone would directly want someone murdered. If there is a (strong) suspicion that this may be the case then this has to be followed up Whilst I accept that Trump is a classless, odious individual directly inciting a crowd to murder someone is a bar I have yet to see him cross under I think individuals of his ilk might be more likely to get others to do their dirty work. (I would love it to believe that Trump was guilty of the aspect of his larger crimes against the American Democracy but am not holding my breath)

If they had killed him would he have been unable to stop the certification of the election? Would it have been Pelosi who took his place? Was there some plan in place to protect Pence from the mob perhaps? Yes I know what a group of clueless clowns they are but I am not sure if Trump wanted Pence actually killed.

Not just to coerce him? The mob wanted to kill him but the puppeteers must have known that that would be counter productive. (There is no real grass roots movement for revolution in the States is there?- not just manipulators in apathy ignorance and credulity?) Edit: is Trump hoisted on his own petard with his ex-wife's accidental death? Will some suspect foul play after what he has got away with and his general mo? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62187716

What is the situation over the past decades (and much,much longer,I suppose)? Has one party been gerrymandering more than the other? When this topic came up on CNN some months back I assumed both sides must have been at it since who is a saint? Whoever's has a "head start" then a reset might be to the others' advantage.

Not to worry. I am sure if I was expressing myself clearly (or if I had something in my mind or a question that was worth expressing) you would have understood it. Looking forward to the new pictures from the JWT telescope from tonight onwards 🙂

Presumably they will claim that a suicide risk is not a direct threat to life

Saw this just now on CNN "France and Germany weary over reduced Russian gas supply as Nord Stream 1 pipeline closes for maintenance" Obviously "wary" but is that a computer error or could it be a genuine error? A quick search seems to indicate that it may be a common(ish?) mistake to make https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/weary-vs-wary-difference-usage (When I was at school we had a cruel nickname for our old Maths teacher. He was called "Weary")

Is it possible to talk of a frame of reference beyond(ie within) the EH? I assume it must in,ar least some sense because we talk about the inability of objects,including massless objects "escaping " the interior of BH Demarcated causality? ( there is no domino effect?) And yet objects pass through the EH in real time without noticing any changes? They don't run into a cosmic brick wall.

I think the mass within black holes could not emit gravitational waves beyond the EH and so could not change the gravitational field outside the EH is what I imagine might account for that. Actually I wonder what would happen to those gravitational waves.Do they build up in some kind of cosmic traffic jam at the EH red traffic lights,? Do they self interfere? I suppose the BH might influence the gravitational field in a negative way As stars are sucked into the BH their mass is lost and so the outside gravitational field changes accordingly (unless the outside gravitational field never "sees" objects actually falling into the EH? Is that supposed to happen?)

I hear tell there is a whole new telescope coming on stream on the next couple of days What might be the most interesting results we could expect? There is no chance that we might get a better look at our Galaxy's black hole is there?

That sounds like the way some of us pronounce "gotten" where we drop the "tt" and say "go-en" with the "tt" replaced by what I would call a "global stop" and may be the same thing as that "voiceless glottal fricative" in your link. A "fricative" sounds like it should mean "caused by rubbing" and "glottal" means "connected to the tongue" (from Greek)

Don"t think so I don't see any pattern when looking at aspirated french words and non aspirated french words vs their counterparts in the English language . Nothing stands out to me ,anyway (could be buried in history) I am not sure of the history of the well pronounced "h" in either language -It did exist in Latin on paper but I have no idea how it was actually spoken. Probably (=certainly),as with us it varied across the regions.

Is this form of words any good? "Mass and energy-momentum have been converted into the spacetime curvature of the BH" If that wording is accurate enough does spacetime curvature also get (re)converted into mass and energy-momentum in due course?

Yes ,what do they say ... a picture is worth a thousand words.

I think that is the "received wisdom" that I was questioning. It was feeling to me as if part of that Ship was sunk without trace.or got lost in its Bermuda Triangle. But my line is now that it is a trick of the mind because we rely so much on memory for our sense of identity(well it makes practical sense too)