Removing "girls" from the tags, and adding *Femme to the channels.
Also corrected spelling of Gymnastics in tags.

here is another NASA page:

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/30may_solareclipse/

I guess all these people are wrong too:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/05/18/the-solar-eclipse-coincidence/

http://www.space.com/15584-solar-eclipses.html

http://space-facts.com/solar-eclipse/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse

http://www.astronomy.com/news-observing/ask%20astro/2000/10/why%20is%20the%20moon%20exactly%20the%20same%20apparent%20size%20from%20earth%20as%20the%2
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It is simple math and I am not sure why you are having trouble with it. The Sun is 149,600,000 kilometers away. Divide that by 400 and you get 374000 kilometers, which is about the distance of the Moon from the Earth. I notice you're doing quite a bit of gymnastics to avoid the point.

I think I can explain the democrat hate: pure romanticism

Lincoln was a Republican, arguably our best president in history. I think people still try to attach to that and ignore the fact that the parties basically flipped because of the Southern Strategy after the Civil Rights Act. That and Republicans weren't always hijacked by the crazies. I think too many people don't want to admit their party has changed. It's also indoctrination. I've met plenty of people that agree with me point by point, yet they still manage to do these crazy mental gymnastics to rationalize to themselves that they HAVE to vote Republican. It's how they were brought up. Hell it almost happened to me, as a kid, long before I had any political identity. I always assumed I was Republican simply because I believed what everyone told me "Republicans are good with money, Democrats waste it" It wasn't until much later that I realized how untrue that was. Hell, even my first presidential vote in 2000, I listened too much to a Republican friend of mine ( one of the people I mentioned before that agreed with me on most everything, but still voted Republican) and because of his influence, I did vote for Bush in 2000 (so so sorry...not that it mattered in my red non-swing state)

One of my best friends is like this. he doesn't vote purely along party lines, and we agree on most political points, yet he still identifies as a Republican when in my opinion, he's an Independent like me. I think it's mainly because he was brought up by a military family and he was brought up to believe that the dems were the devil...despite how much he tends to agree with them.

its totally dysfunctional.

Its also part of the human condition IMO. There is a human need to have an enemy. Back in WWII we were pretty much united because we had to defeat the Axis. In the Cold War we were mostly united because we had to defeat the Russkies. America kinda stands alone now. No other military on earth can really challenge us. Sure the Taliban and ISIS are a source of terrorism, but they're still not a real threat, they could never invade or occupy us.

So there just aren't any real big threats out there...and when that happens...that's when infighting begins. People need an enemy, and when you can't find one without, you find one within.

@artician Hmmm, lessee- Thug-(n) a tough and violent man, usually a criminal. A fraternity of thugs is called a gang, eh? The person who called the cop on the guy=moron. Cop was a moron concerning the law and ready to robotically serve and protect his organization's concern with insulting verbal gymnastics.

I'm not really a fan of "fail" videos. Some are funny, especially when it's someone doing something obviously stupid, but I really hate it they include people who mess up something difficult (typically a gymnastic or skateboarding trick).

#2 here is a prime example. Here's someone trying a pretty hard jump, something that takes skill and guts. They fail, and get hurt, and we view it for cheap laughs instead of admiring them for having the balls (no pun intended) for trying in the first place.

This could become an olympic gymnastic competition one day... similarly to how people watch figure skating, secretly hoping to see them fail.

also, this might be the first 'vertical video' that was actually appropriate.

Yeah, if you check the wikipedia article linked above, it describes Tricking as "a type of acrobatics derived from martial arts such as sport karate incorporating techniques found in gymnastics, break dancing, and similar disciplines."

So even the (semi) official description acknowledges that it's more acrobatics than martial arts.

I admire greatly the gymnastic skills involved, but this is not martial arts.

It's entirely possible that some of these guys actually are martial artists (most likely TKD), but what's on show here is not martial arts.

It's gymnastics, maybe movie stunt fighting at best, but calling it "martial arts" is a stretch too far.

Still pretty impressive though.

When I read "tricking" I automatically thought advanced feints - how wrong I was. It's really just gymnastics with an occasional kick.

In any sort of fighting martial arts, flips, which inherently turn you upside down with your back to your opponent, equals a fast lesson in how hard the floor is.

I'm not feeling it. He's good, but male and female gymnasts are very different, and he's doing the female bit. I don't mean that pole dancing is a women only thing, just that he's doing it like a girl. Look at the differences between men and women's floor work in gymnastics. Men need to be a lot more powerful in their routines, but this guy isn't doing anything a good female dancer couldn't.

He's good, but I've seen female pole routines that show at least as much strength and way more stamina.

I'd love to see what one of these guys could do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2407_uPHpIk

(Fast forward to 6:00 to see the routines start).

Finally, something to get past some folks' belief that pole-dancing means stripping. I've been trying to drive the idea into some heads for years now...pole-dancing is gymnastics, and has nothing to do with stripping.

Me too.
http://www.airtrackfactory.com/index.php/gymnastics/products/airtrick