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Probably fair to say, consistent with all other marked differences here and elsewhere between the sexes, that women get much more mail/notice/likes/ favorites/etc. from men than the other way around. So one might think that we men would immediately follow along whenever a lady shows even a bit of such interest thusly. Some may, perhaps most do. I actually try to respond to all such contact, at least initially. But with CS hardly being a lovefest of sobriety, groundedness, and other signals of sound mental health, regrettably, one must, with all due diligence, do a little vetting and screening out. Many ways to do so, of course. But I prefer psychological subtlety. Sure, it cuts down the numbers of possibilities early on, but even with high specificity, I'll take higher sensitivity, keeping the numbers of false positives higher, at the regrettable cost of false negatives. Epidemiology and public health. But which fellow won't follow clever banter no matter how dangerous the trip? Now noone will ever look my way. Ouch?

NASA reports the longest lunar eclipse of the century will happen FRIDAY 7-27-2018 transforming the moon into a reddish-orange ball for more than 100 minutes.
Unfortunately, it won't be visible in North America.
The path of this eclipse will be visible in parts of the Middle East, Africa and some parts of Asia and India.

To get an idea of this eclipse, it's supposed to be similar than the one that appeared in January 31st 2018.

On July 20th, 1969 two American Astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Apollo 11 Mission, landed on the moon.

I remember watching TV at the home of Billy and Bobby Robbins (singer and bassist for the rock band Fantasy) while their drummer Greg stated "Wouldn't it be funny is the moon were really made of cheese?" Maybe Greg had been smoking something.

This was a time long before the digital age and much of the equipment used by NASA was analog. I remember someone saying many of the calculations used on this flight were done by slide rulers...

Are you kidding me?

Some say it was a hoax and that America was in a cold war with Russia so the entire mission was staged. Possible?

a little closer.

if you cant Q anything you are feeding on the bodys of the good people...by t m dillonger

Everywhere I look, all I see is fking ants. All around the house and property and not only me. Seems like there is an explosion in the ant population this year and everyone is having issues with them. Fortunately they are common black ants and not red one's but they still get into everything.

Gonna need lots of ant traps

In very primitive life forms, there are methods of exchange of genetic materials, between sexes, but it hardly resembles s*xual reproduction. But all higher forms, including even many plants, with exceptions, from a genetic viewpoint, resemble the egg and sperm deal seem in humans. So the advantages of this scheme go very far back and are everywhere. Except in many liberals, and other primitive human like organisms.

Many will know of how, among some men, fishing stories occasionally turn up tales of specimens several times larger than even remotely biologically possible. Does one see such for things among women?

Best evidence, from a number of lines of inquiry, confirm that the universe is expanding. Individual galaxies remain relatively tight, helped by internal gravity. But the distance between them is increasing, and the more distant these are from each other, the faster they go. Like raisins in rising bread dough. Dark energy ( ? matter) is doing the pushing, we're told, but noone knows at all what this is. Freaking out here over all this. Aa-V.

What would our DNA look like if we didn’t have a 24-hour day?