LoL. Well, have fun guys.

Funny how threads such as these polarise opinion every time. Then again even the most innocuous topics end up this way maalmahan. Don't know much of and therefore can't opine on Xaaji Muuse Igare's character or historical standing. Sayid M.C.X., on the other hand, was a bonafide swashbuckling hero IMHO. Ilaahay ha u wada naxariisto waalidkeen wixii geeryooday.

Well done to Amina. As far as I know UNEP is responsible for and pushes an environmental/sustainable development agenda. Not sure what Ms Mohamed can do about the political problems mentioned in this thread? Let's just hope that the deforestation and desertification problems back home get some attention from UNEP.

Idil has a point, I guess.

Well, we are not factories. Delivering a baby every year for several consecutive years is going to have a huge detrimental impact on the health of the mother and her future. Under Islam, a child is supposed to be breastfed for two years (although I can't imagine how a toothy toddler can be breastfed!), hence giving the mother that time to recover and rejuvenate before embarking on another pregnancy.

Life's good, thanks. How're you keeping? Oh I'm sure it will look just as great on you. Me, I prefer plain styles. Hagoog style.

Another restaurant in Shepherds Bush. What is it with that place and Somali eateries? It's like other areas don't exist!

Hello Aaliyah. That style looks cute on her.

Shiny buildings. Me like.

Wonderful. So, what's wrong with going out in the rain, gives you a break from the usual qiiq iyo boodh, maaha? Aw, well I'm sure she's acclimatising well.

The Bin Laden story has truly been a boon for conspiracy theorists. It's going to go and go and go. BOB, Bristol huh? Well, I guess, as SOL reps, we need to officially welcome you to the UK. So, welcome! :cool:

Hey JB, how's bustling Hargeisa? Have you seen Ibti around by any chance?

It sounds like it was a beneficial trip for Silaanyo and his administration regardless of the flag dispute. Guess only time will tell whether the Arabs come through with their promises.

Salaams Good luck, Juxa. I know how often stories change, even when detailed statements have already been written!!

^ Waxaan u maleynayaa inaad isku khaldaysid Al-Hashiim and Al-shabaab. Islaamuhu isma qarxiyaan. More likely bakoorad ama kab ayey la dhici lahayd. Bless them.

LoL @Nuune. That's nuts. BOB, now that you've drawn our attention to this deadly conspiracy, bilaa adna lagaa takhaluusaa?

Captain Obvious?

LoL @ reer Bin Israel & Bin Hashiim. The lady cracks me up but the prejudice kills me. In any case, waakaas oo Faroole islaamihiina dhiig kar ku riday.

Time Travel Impossible, Mini "Big Bang" Hints Ker Than for National Geographic News Published April 27, 2011 You may want to put plans for building that flux capacitor on hold: A "toy" big bang created in the lab suggests time travel may not be possible after all. In a new study, Igor Smolyaninov and Yu-Ju Hung of the University of Maryland simulated the birth of the universe using advanced materials that can bend light in unusual ways. Their device supports the idea that the forward marching "arrow of time" cannot curve back on itself to undo events that have already happened. So far time travel hasn't been possible in real life, Smolyaninov said, and this new material suggests it won't ever be possible. New Material Stands in for Space and Time The new big bang simulator is tiny—just fractions of an inch (20 micrometers) wide. It's built from alternating strips of gold and plastic, pieced together in such a way as to create a metamaterial, an engineered substance that can manipulate light. In the last few years researchers have used metamaterials to create "science fiction" devices such as invisibility cloaks and "superlenses," which allow scientists to "see" structures smaller than the wavelengths of visible light. Metamaterials have also piqued the interest of astrophysicists, who have recently used the exotic substances to make artificial black holes and multiverse simulators. According to Smolyaninov and Hung, their metamaterial is a "reasonable" representation of our universe—specifically the early universe at the time of the big bang, some 13.7 billion years ago. Because of the unique way their metamaterial bends light, the equations that describe the passage of a particle through time are similar to the ones that describe the motion of photons and similar quantum particles called plasmons—created by waves of free electrons—through the material. "In this type of material, the motion of [plasmons] looks very much like the motion of particles in Minkowski space," Smolyaninov said, referring to a theoretical model of spacetime that physicists sometimes employ to study the universe. The metamaterial device thus serves as a model for our four-dimensional universe: Horizontal motion through the plane of the metamaterial is roughly analogous to movement through the three dimensions of space, while vertical motion represents movement through time. Universe Too Jumbled for Time to Reverse? For the experiment, the scientists used a green laser beam to trigger a big bang-like event in the metamaterial. The laser light caused the gold atoms to generate a burst of plasmons. These plasmons radiated outward from a single point, just as scientists think particles of matter radiated from a single point following the big bang. The paths of the radiating plasmons became sloppier the farther out they moved, the scientists found. This is consistent with the second law of thermodynamics, which states that—barring any kind of intervention—systems will tend to become more disorderly with the passage of time. Scientists call the measure of disorder in a system entropy, so another way to state the second law of thermodynamics is to say that entropy tends to increase with time in our universe. In the toy model, the equivalent of time travel would be for a plasmons to complete a loop that runs along the exact same path it had previously traveled. But once the plasmon has strayed from that path—due in part to entropy—making the loop is no longer possible. The result, described in a paper published this month on arXiv.org, suggests that particles in our universe may also be unable to move backward in time. But Smolyaninov concedes that the experiment is far from perfect: "I'm not sure how much of this applies to real life." Toy Big Bang "Too Simplistic"? Andreas Albrecht, a cosmologist at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the study, is doubtful that the metamaterial is an accurate enough representation of the early universe. "Minkowski space is space with no matter in it," Albrecht said. "But there is stuff in the universe, so we know it's not Minkowski space." [b ]Albrecht called the team's big bang simulator a "cool" achievement, but he doesn't think it will teach physicists anything about the universe that wasn't already known from observational data or from models based on equations and computer simulations.[/b] "We have much better models of the universe that we can [create with] normal computers," Albrecht said, "so I don't feel this [material] offers any insight into the universe that cannot be had more directly." Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, is also skeptical of the finding, saying that the new big bang model is too simplistic. "I don't think that [this model] illuminates the more vexing question of what is possible in the real universe, where arbitrary equations of state might be possible," Krauss said in an email, referring to the different equations physicists use to describe the state of matter during the universe's epochs—equations that aren't accounted for in the toy model. Read on at: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/110427-time-travel-not-possible-physics-big-bang-space-science/?source=link_fb20110427news-time Heh, imagine that. I must say though, the toy big bang simulator sounds pretty awesome.

MMA, 1992 ayaa iigu dambeysay, unfortunately. About time I visited, huh? Caqli-xumo + qabyaalad = the lady in your blog. Those sorts of views are not exactly rare amongst our countrymen/women.

Paragon;715236 wrote: Hey, look who's here? Val, weli ma nooshahay horta? Maalin dhexdaas ah waxaa daawaday universal tv oo cisbitaal german ah laga xayaysiinayo, too yaroo adiga aan laga garaynaynin ayaan ku arkay...waxaan is iri taloow dadkii cyberka sol miyaa universal ku idlaadaye.... horta ma aduu ahaa mise waa naag kale? Haahey weli waan noolahay, Ilaahey mahadii. I hope everything is good with you as well. Waxaan u maleynayaa in qoftaad xayeysiiska ku aragtay aheyd gabadh kale, as I keep away from hospitals as best as I can.

LoL...hey why not.

Glad they returned safely.

What, you think you wanna be a teacher now coz you handled a six year-old burcaawi? Imagine dealing with 30 of them, well maybe not exact Dahabos. I have to visit my aunt this weekend and I am thinking of ordering a taser off the internet in preparation for her kids. Yikes. PS: You're a big softie, curuurtu xitaa wey ku dishaa.

That word, 'naag', shouldn't be coming from a man. Waanu ku jidhidhicoonaa. It's like a white person saying 'nigger'. Somalina's first instinct was right on the mark - after I saw your first couple of posts, I too was ready to break the legs from my chair and come at you all ninja-like, Paragon. Laakiin after that sheekadu wey xad-gudubtey oo unpleasant bey noqotey. Respect begets respect my maryooley friends. Let's not forget ourselves and give in to silliness. PS: Paragon, welcome back.