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Defense midfielder is the key true. Like you I'm sure that there are others available than bakayoko. In regards to havertz, ya Müller recovered but he is no longer as youthful and who knows how long his resurgence will last. Your take is quite right. If havertz is available next year, he should be in a Bayern kit. On another note the signing of the new GK who is primed for great things will work as a second string to Neuer. Will that hurt his development?

Solar Orbiter sees ‘campfires’ on the Sun The first images from ESA’s Solar Orbiter, captured around the spacecraft’s first close pass of the Sun, some 77 million kilometres from its surface, are already exceeding expectations revealing interesting new phenomena on our parent star. This animation shows a series of close-up views captured by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) at wavelengths of 17 nanometers, showing the upper atmosphere of the Sun, or corona, with a temperature of around 1 million degrees. These images reveal a multitude of small flaring loops, erupting bright spots and dark, moving fibrils. A ubiquitous feature of the solar surface, uncovered for the first time by these images, have been called ‘campfires’. They are omnipresent miniature eruptions that could be contributing to the high temperatures of the solar corona and the origin of the solar wind. Captured on 30 May 2020, when Solar Orbiter was roughly halfway between the Earth and the Sun, these are the closest views of the Sun ever taken, allowing EUI to see features in the solar corona of only 400 km across. As the mission continues, Solar Orbiter will go closer to the Sun and this will increase the instrument’s resolving power by a factor of two at closest approach. The colour on this image has been artificially added because the original wavelength detected by the instrument is invisible to the human eye. Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA.

The difference from South America to Europe is crazily big. And when he was in Europe, in his prime, he was a good player, nothing exceptional. Might be my bias, but I can't agree at all on saying someone who was never great at the top is now world class at 36 playing in tired countries. The same way Jorge Jesus, although a great coach in Portugal, was never one of the best in the world nor he is now just because he won it all with Fla. I think Jonas, when playing with Benfica, was a lot more "world class" than Paolo ever was, but then again it was in Portugal and he didnt quite do half of that in a lot better leagues. There are levels to it.

They're nice for a day. Haarlem has some nice spots but it might get boring if you spend a whole weekend there. Utrecht is basically a smaller and slightly quieter version of Amsterdam. Rotterdam can be interesting if you're way into modern art and architecture but I personally hate it. The Hague is decent. Personally I prefer the eastern part of the country, particularly the Gelderland and Drenthe provinces, but it's more rural there so not exactly city trip material.

Honestly I find it hard to believe that people here caught it in December or January. No offence intended but if true then the corollary is that a virus that spreads like wildfire and causes 10% of those who catch it to be hospitalised and 1% to die went totally undetected without anyone noticing it was there in major economies for multiple months.

when you said windmills I just thought of the Kinderdijk, its lovely there also but away from Amsterdam. If you want something nearby Amsterdam, I would recommend as I said above, Volendam, its an old fishing village but it can get very busy as its very beautiful with the houses and the water. You should try the smoked eel, Herring and kippling there. Also you get to see the Volendam FC stadium which is near the bus stop.

Spears aint shit. He's been treated as a joke. you can't have a horseman who wears tully blanchard undies ffs

A Nuclear blast sends star hurtling across the galaxy A star has been sent hurtling across the galaxy after undergoing a partial supernova, astronomers say. A supernova is a powerful explosion that occurs when some stars reach the ends of their lives; in this case, the blast was not sufficient to destroy it. Instead, it sent the star hurtling through space at 900,000 km/hr. Astronomers think the object, known as a white dwarf, was originally circling another star, which would have been sent flying in the opposite direction. When two stars orbit each other like this, they are described as a "binary". Only one of the stars has been detected by astronomers, however. The object, known as SDSS J1240+6710, was previously found to have an unusual atmospheric composition. Discovered in 2015, it seemed to contain neither hydrogen nor helium (which are usually found), appearing to be composed instead of an unusual mix of oxygen, neon, magnesium and silicon. Mystery over monster star's vanishing act Nearby 'supernova' star's dimming explained Now, using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team has also identified carbon, sodium, and aluminium in the star's atmosphere, all of which are produced in the first thermonuclear reactions of a supernova. But there is also a clear absence of what is known as the "iron group" of elements, iron, nickel, chromium and manganese. These heavier elements are normally cooked up from the lighter ones, and make up the defining features of thermonuclear supernovas. The lack of iron group elements in SDSSJ1240+6710 suggests that the star only underwent a partial supernova before the nuclear burning died out. Lead author Professor Boris Gänsicke, from the department of physics at the University of Warwick, UK, said: "This star is unique because it has all the key features of a white dwarf but it has this very high velocity and unusual abundances that make no sense when combined with its low mass. "It has a chemical composition which is the fingerprint of nuclear burning, a low mass and a very high velocity; all of these facts imply that it must have come from some kind of close binary system and it must have undergone thermonuclear ignition. It would have been a type of supernova, but of a kind that we haven't seen before." The high velocity could be accounted for if both stars in the binary were carried off in opposite directions at their orbital velocities in a kind of slingshot manoeuvre after the explosion. The scientists were also able to measure the star's mass, which is particularly low for a white dwarf - only 40% the mass of our Sun - which would be consistent with a partial supernova that did not quite destroy the star. The nature of the nuclear burning that occurs in a supernova is different from the reactions that release energy in nuclear power plants or most nuclear weapons. Most uses of nuclear energy on Earth rely on fission - which breaks down heavier elements into lighter ones - rather than the fusion that occurs in a star. "The process developing during a thermonuclear supernova is very similar to what we try to achieve on Earth in our future power plants: nuclear fusion of lighter elements into heavier ones, which releases vast amounts of energy," Prof Gänsicke told BBC News. "In a fusion reactor, we use the lightest element, hydrogen (more specifically, different flavours, or isotopes of it). In a thermonuclear supernova, the density and temperature in the star becomes so high that fusion of heavier elements ignites, starting with carbon and oxygen as 'fuel', and fusing heavier and heavier elements." The best-studied thermonuclear supernovas are classified as Type Ia. These helped lead to the discovery of dark energy, and are now routinely used to map the structure of the Universe. But there is growing evidence that thermonuclear supernovas can happen under very different conditions. SDSSJ1240+6710 may be the survivor of a type of supernova that hasn't yet been observed as it's happening. Without the radioactive nickel that powers the long-lasting afterglow of the Type Ia supernovas, the explosion that sent the white dwarf careering across our Galaxy would have been a brief flash of light that would have been difficult to discover. The research has been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53415294

"[Lionel] Messi can do some amazing things, but anything he can do Joe Cole can do as well, if not better" Steven Gerrard - 2010