MasFabulsoDelMundo

In Bradley Manning's statement of defense, released several months ago, he described some relationship difficulties with his boyfriend. Has either side entered any homosexuality argument?

Just the typical that might occur in a trial:

Prosecution: impugn his character, lousy soldier, never fit in, retribution

Defense: cite emotional distress, mental manipulation.

I'm just interested if this issue will come up or finally in 2013 can it be treated as a separate, irrelevant issue.

I have identical twin daughters, although lifestyle has now completely changed their appearance, interests, activities and values.

Some years ago they were a small cause célèbre as one had a plasia that lodged in her brain leading to epilepsy like symptoms and other, mostly drug induced, behaviours. Brain surgery was the cause for attention, for identical reasons as these ongoing space twin tests. However, research was suspended for two reasons: several medical researchers felt no useful data was being collected and we also felt it was not conducive to healthy recovery. The girls were pre-teens at the time. The information imparted was that most twin-based tests exhibit this phenomena: that which you are looking for is not meaningfully expressed in identical twin based managed studies.

Therefore, I agree with other commenter's, this test sounds fascinating, plausible, exciting even given extraordinary opportunity of identical twin astronauts, yet seems to be a specious academic exercise repeating previous data generation attempts.

However, for sure the opportunity to further space based physical biology knowledge is of inestimable value given the utter alien environment. From my girls' past experience, skepticism is strong, and can't but otherwise say to not be blind to no meaningful results.