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Aliphatics have been known to exist in meteorites for years and this could also be the reason for their presence on Mars. Chains up to C31H64 have been detected but how such chemicals got there is still a matter of research. Aliphatics are known to be present in Interstellar dust and identified on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres.
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British Man Dies After First Muay Thai Fight on Koh Samui
parallelman replied to Georgealbert's topic in Koh Samui News
My condolences. As with all contact sports they are tough and rough. Shame that Mr Rinomhota wasn't able to gain more experience in his chosen sport. Sad. -
Bangkok Shop Owner Defends Right to Sell Controversial Shirts
parallelman replied to snoop1130's topic in Bangkok News
You are commenting about deceny and morals but discussing them is more about philosophy. Both are subjective. '...sell T-shirt of a deceased loved one with a profanity' while I would agree it would be disagreeable it would still be subjective. Approaching the seller and arguing with them would not achieve much since it was for sale in the first place. Now, if it was on some TV debate then some discussion might (or might not) have some influence. What a Thai seller might consider, is if the display of such T-shirts would be detrimental to their making a living. However, that would have to be proved. Complaining that such items displays insensitivity is hardly proof. -
Bangkok Shop Owner Defends Right to Sell Controversial Shirts
parallelman replied to snoop1130's topic in Bangkok News
Decency is subjective. I would agree that such T-shirts might offend veterans of war or those affected by atrocities of war but there will be others who don't preceive it that way. As I have commented previosly, as long as the seller is within THAI LAW... -
Bangkok Shop Owner Defends Right to Sell Controversial Shirts
parallelman replied to snoop1130's topic in Bangkok News
The OP is about Thailand and T-shirts and not the USA! -
Bangkok Shop Owner Defends Right to Sell Controversial Shirts
parallelman replied to snoop1130's topic in Bangkok News
Here we are again. A non-political OP about Thailand and you have to come up with a rant about Pres. Trump in the USA. -
Bangkok Shop Owner Defends Right to Sell Controversial Shirts
parallelman replied to snoop1130's topic in Bangkok News
As long as the shop is selling within Thai Law then there is no problem. Don't like the produce, don't buy it. -
Earthquake Rocks Bangkok: Building Collapses with 40 people inside
parallelman replied to CharlieH's topic in Thailand News
When 'mother nature' strikes...I hope those trapped inside managed to survive though with that vertical collapse it would seem unlikely. I suppose with the current political situation in Myanmar news from there will be slow. -
World Athletics Introduces Gender Testing for Female Track Athletes
parallelman replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Those with Trisomy and other unusual chromosome structure suffer disorders which are either easily diagnosed or visually appraent (Down & Edward syndrome etc.) and they aren't likely to enter mainstream sports. What you are listing is fine if we are disussing the populace in general but the OP is specifically about World Sport. -
Pension Tax Filing Report - Rejected
parallelman replied to patrickl's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
The UK also has a form if one is taxed twice https://www.gov.uk/tax-uk-income-live-abroad/taxed-twice...have other countries got similar? -
Pension Tax Filing Report - Rejected
parallelman replied to patrickl's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
I don't know if this is important or not but when I mentioned the DTA to the official he also wanted to know how much tax I had already paid on pension income. I showed the tax statement and he coverted that to ฿. Now whether he was just curious or not I don't know but I did not pay any tax (Thai) -
Putting total trust in just one book where the stories cannot be verified by direct observation, goes a lot further than licking boots.
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There is a bigger problem with the vraious flat Earth models, including that particular geocentric illustration. Depending on what model one looks at the Sun is claimed to be somewhere between 3000-5000 miles (4828-8047 km) above the surface and that means the Sun is a great deal smaller than the 109 Earth diameters as measured by astronomers. The first problem is that no matter where you are on the Earth (globe or flat) the Sun angular size is a little over 0.5o. But on a FE models it would only have that angular size if the sun was directly overhead and moving away the Sun would appear progressivly smaller. This doesn't happen on the globe Earth because the Sunn is so far away that moving from one country to another hardly makes any difference. But there is a bigger problem. The current value for the amount of the Sun's energy on the Earth is about 342 Watts per square meter and as you know, the Sun's energy is important for life on Earth. On a FE it will be just as important. However, the Sun is much smaller on a FE and with an angular size of 0.5o and 5000 miles above the diameter of the Sun would only be about 44 mile (just over 70 km). So how is it that something so small can continuosly over many years, supply us with that much energy?
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Well, FE's don't see it that way. Have you looked at the their model? The Sun, well that is, their Sun, doesn't illuminate the whole FE, just portions of it at any given time. That is, the Sun acts like a 'spotlight'. It is a FE ad-hoc solution with no observational or scientific backup.
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Mentioning 'the deivine' I just thought to comment ('light heartedly') that FE Eric Dubay has an explanation for elcipses on a flat Earth. Rahu (from Indian astrology) is the 'body' that eclipses the Sun and Moon by...well it seems to depend on which form of Indian astrology one reads. So it seems that FE's not only use the Christian writings for their belief.
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Please note that Flat Earthers deny gravity and they say the force is electro-magnetic. For them, this gets around the problem that mass, under gravity, will form spheroid shapes. (But then gravity is not a force in Einstein's General Relativity. However, since FE's deny there is a universe and believe in some kind of 'firmanent' GR is also denied.)