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PeterC

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  1. Where is a smear of novichok when the world needs it, or a ricin-tipped umbrella.
  2. Maybe the sanctions are aimed at Putin's kleptocrats who see their ill-gotten gains from supporting Putin being frittered away. They are close to Putin and may be so incensed as to depose him - they can afford to put a price on his head. Switzerland has joined the sanctions, blocking Russian funds.
  3. It looks to me that we have Pearl Harbor 2. Putin has galvanised the EU28 into action -even Hungary has turned against Putin. And 100,000 germans demand action to help Ukraine - so much for a strategy of sidling up to Putin. I am sad for one time colleagues in Russia who can expect isolation and hyperinflation. But longer term there might be brighter future for a demonstrably democratic Russia, look at Japan today. My immediate concern is Putin's mental state. It has been apparent from his gait since at least 2008 that Putin suffers from Parkinson’s disease. We are not privy to his drug regime but he may have reached the stage when l-DOPA has lost efficacy and he now needs dopamine agonists. These drugs have side-effects: hallucinations, delusions, confusion, depression, and mania are some of the most common adverse effects related to the long-term use of these drugs.
  4. Surely the risk analysis should have been made before Grangemouth was allowed to grow to such a large size with "all eggs in one basket". Likewise the risk in joining the common market was not fully analysed by Heath : loss of sovereignty to Brussels was not foreseen. With brexit the unknowable risks in handing power to Brussels have been reduced. The analogy between Brussels and Grangemouth is apt: disasters will happen, but not as predicted.
  5. How ungrateful. Without brexit there'd be no AUKUS and Oz would be even more vulnerable to China's ambitions than at present.
  6. Solid benfefit: the return of UK to a functioning democracy, free from Rule by Brussels' Commissionaires. MEPs are mere rubber-stamping puppets dancing to the tunes set by unelected officials. That to me is a fundamental right. Heath signed it away, brexit corrected it.
  7. Europe's reluctance to spend on its own defence - as identifed by Trump when he threatened to pull out of subsidising NATO - will have to change. For decades the economic power house of EU, Germany, has spent a fraction of UK on a %GPD basis on defence. Putin, war or not, has revealed vulnerability that must be of great concern to the Baltic states, Poland, Hungary and Romania. NATO has relied on nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, which doesn't work when faced with 120,000 troops, funded by ca 50% of Russia's GDP. Countermanding that is going to cost european taxpayers deeply.
  8. Putrid is about to invade the EU's flanks and where's the EU Army ? It doesn't exist. The EU is a cobbled together talking shop that has left its defence strategy, and investment, on the back-burner for decades. If/when Ukraine falls the days of Brussels laissez faire will be replaced perforce by crippling expenditure on defense and energy infrastructure. Best the UK forge its own path.
  9. Its no Hubble - I think it only works in the infra-red.
  10. 150 nmol/L is 60 ng/ml. A recent Israel study shows that having such a level prior to infection reduces the risk of severe C-19 fourteen-fold. Summarised here: http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/2022/02/covid-19-how-much-vitamin-d-do-we-need.html Peter
  11. Oz is better still re UVB because of the 15 deg tilt of earth's axis wrt sun. 37deg latitude in northern hemisphere gets same angle of sun as 37+7.5 = 44 south. However our ancestors in sub-Saharan Africa got much better sun, year-round. So its pills for me, year round,I haven't evolved to live in Wales. Not sure if the OZone hole messes with careful sunbathing....
  12. And TimD on the TRR site has fitted the M62 kit with a Holley carb. The kit is NLA. The Patton supercharged, inter-cooled and injected TR6 is impressiive: but my links are dead. Beware, if an injector goes lean the piston will hole in a very few seconds under boost. Peter
  13. My bumper sticker will say: MY TR FLIES: I DO NOT
  14. https://www.saveonenergy.com/uk/environmental-impact-of-video-games/ per individual its not a lot. Its popularity is the problem.
  15. My counter argument is that I stopped air travel over 20 years ago, so the tiny footprint from the TR is by comparison tiny. Since air travel appears to be regarded as an inalienable right by the younger generations, they are not in any position to critcise my tailpipe CO2 etc. I also wonder what the carbon cost of online game-playing is.....say, 2 hours daily... Peter
  16. That scheme is going to attract opprobrium from campaigners for CCGW. Offsetting by planting saplings would have worked decades ago, but now it it is too little, too late. Trees grow far too slow to capture CO2 released today. A better scheme would be to offset with fast-growing Miscanthus, cropped annually and turned into charcoal. Best prepare your counter-arguments for green campaigners who spot the badge ! Peter
  17. Yes, but simple answers are hard to come by when it comes to time, space and UAP (aka UFOs). Peter
  18. There is a problem with our understanding of gravity. Gravity doesn't appear to be needed for quantum mechanics. There are theories such as "loop quantum gravity" that aim to bridge the cap between the purely geometric maths of relativity wuth QM. LQG proposes that space is not smooth but has a structure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_quantum_gravity However these "atoms of space" are waaaaaay below any feasible measurement: we cannot detect the "pixels of space". However there are rare high-strangeness events that can be interpreted as manipulation of space pixels, by enlarging them. Here is one such event, #153: http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos_ovnis/Humanoid sighting reports in 1975,Albert Rosales.htm Time fro the witnesses in relation to the ambient world ( the waitress , steam cloud) had slowed enormously. Yet the witnesses did not feel weightless, nor had space geometry changed. Einstien's relativity appeared to be transgressed. However if during the event geometry is preserved by a change in pixellation of space, and we imagine photons of light tunnelling from pixel to pixel, the speed of light can be constant geometrically despite the huge ca 10,000 fold slowing of time. Tunneling is well known in QM: https://www.livescience.com/quantum-tunneling-observed-and-measured.html Peter
  19. Correcting for SR and GR is essential for GPS navigation: https://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/pogge.1/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html
  20. Time-flow on ISS is dominated by Special relativity. Its velocity wrt to earth surface slows the passage of time (and truncates space in its direction of travel). The effect of General relativity - the ISS being further from earth's mass - works the other way - time flows faster -but compared with the effect of SR is small. Peter
  21. Time dilation at cnetre of Earth is miniscule http://thescienceexplorer.com/universe/earth-s-core-younger-its-surface-due-curving-space-time
  22. I gave a talk 5years ago that outlined General relativty; slide 30 on https://supertrarged.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/einstein-101-pdf-v4-no-notes-with-refs.pdf
  23. At the centre of the earth you'd be weightless but gravitation will be greater than at the surface. Weightless is because the gravitational attraction is all around -"isotropic". Gravity is the compaction of space by proximity to mass, along with a slowing of time. There is plenty of mass creating gravity at the centre of the earth. But the deformation of space-time is equal in all directions so you'd feel weightless. Peter
  24. Roger, Its $Bn possibly $Tn. Funding for D3 was banned by Wellcome Trust very early in the pandemic. Big pharma are threatened by D3 on so many diseases, not only C-19. However science cannot be dismissed forever and the pandemic may turn out to be the global stimulus to D3 research that reveals big pharma's D-disinformation. Medical academics also bear a burden by failing to critique single-dose RCTs for D3. Israel, Italy, Spain and Iran are front-runners in D3 for C-19 science. When those scientists get the ear of thier government, action is cheap, easy and safe. It can only be a matter of time. Peter
  25. Dr David Grimes' blog posted just now covers the Israel results and summarises D3 dose: http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/2022/02/covid-19-how-much-vitamin-d-do-we-need.html Peter
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