Are there any issues if I purchase a round trip air travel on my credit card for someone else? They have a valid U.S. passport but live in Ghana. I have been told that I may either have to be present when the board or that they have to purchase the ticket themselves. Is that true?
If someone else is booking international ticket for me using his credit or debit card, does he need to be present physically at the time of check-in?   Suppose I am coming back from Singapore to my home country and my ticket is booked by my friend for me, who lives in my home country. Do airlines in Singapore ask for the person to be present physically to check in?
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The premise was a human ends up travelling to an alien planet. The aliens have a perimeter to their 'base' that is under constant attack from the planet's animals. It is revealed towards the end that there is some sort of signal being transmitted that is making all the animals and plant life attack a certain point on the planet (where the aliens are).   Other major plot points I remember: The human traveller falls in love with an alien. The aliens have a sort of virtual training environment that simulates life outside the perimeter, where plants attack you etc. There is a secondary alien group that the human ends up with, and although they are rivals to other group, they have a trade set up.   Any help much appreciated! Thanks. How do I pass JavaScript variables to PHP? What version of Ubuntu should I pick? I'm just a simple user frustrated with Windows 10 and I want to leave Windows altogether.  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The diagonal of $X \times X$ is the subset $$D = \{(x,x)\in X\times X\mid x \in X\}.$$   Show that $X$ is Hausdorff if and only if $D$ is closed in $X \times X$.   First, I tried to show that $X \times X \setminus D$ is open using the fact that $X \times X$ is Hausdorff (because $X$ is Hausdorff), but I couldn't find an open set that contains a point outside $D$ and is disjoint to it... If I want to find the continued fraction of $\sqrt{n}$ how do I know which number to use for $a_0$? Is there a way to do it without using a calculator or anything like that? What's the general algorithm for computing it? I tried to read the wiki article but was overwhelmed and lost. I tried Googling but couldn't find a website that actually explained this question.  If anyone has a good site that answers these questions either, please let me know. Thanks! 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