Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
5th September 2023, 08:43 AM
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Replies: 1,707
Views: 70,256
Now Musk is ditching YouTube for showing the...
Now Musk is ditching YouTube for showing the SpaceX launch streams and broadcasting them on Twix (love that name!). Still not going there.
A shame really, I liked their presenters, especially Mr...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
14th April 2023, 08:04 AM
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Replies: 318
Views: 20,709
If I was a person that laid bets I would be...
If I was a person that laid bets I would be looking at the Sperical Tokamaks, they are 'cheap' enough that there a number of univerisities and private companies working on them and their performance...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
4th October 2022, 05:09 PM
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Replies: 3,528
Views: 183,533
Initially at least, they were still using dumb...
Initially at least, they were still using dumb old tactics - pull each gun into a straight line, survey each gun in position, do a fire mission or two and limber up and bugger off before the counter...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
30th September 2022, 09:54 AM
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Replies: 3,528
Views: 183,533
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
30th September 2022, 09:37 AM
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Replies: 3,528
Views: 183,533
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
18th September 2022, 06:29 PM
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Replies: 318
Views: 20,709
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
24th August 2022, 09:29 AM
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Replies: 2,179
Views: 135,417
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
24th August 2022, 09:16 AM
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Replies: 3,599
Views: 204,133
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
24th August 2022, 08:56 AM
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Replies: 3,599
Views: 204,133
Regarding exports, some of that will be for...
Regarding exports, some of that will be for humanitarian issues - medicines and precursors for medicine and vaccine production for instance. The company I work for initially stopped all orders and...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
14th July 2022, 09:23 AM
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Replies: 3,599
Views: 204,133
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
21st April 2022, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 848
Views: 62,674
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
21st April 2022, 04:41 PM
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Replies: 848
Views: 62,674
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
8th April 2022, 09:44 AM
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Replies: 116
Views: 5,706
NATO is only expanding because more countries...
NATO is only expanding because more countries have become wary of Russia's excesses and expansionism. The language coming from Russia has become increasingly belligerent over the years and this has...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
8th April 2022, 09:41 AM
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Replies: 3,608
Views: 158,272
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
8th April 2022, 09:36 AM
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Replies: 3,608
Views: 158,272
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
4th March 2022, 01:51 AM
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Replies: 3,211
Views: 113,385
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
4th March 2022, 01:49 AM
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Replies: 3,211
Views: 113,385
BBC are reporting that all but one of the...
BBC are reporting that all but one of the reactors have been shut down by the on-site engineers and suggests that it may a method to shutdown the power supplies in Ukraine.
Laws of Armed Conflict...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
12th November 2021, 10:22 AM
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Replies: 1,345
Views: 161,977
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd November 2021, 10:48 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 3,400
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd November 2021, 10:44 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 3,400
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
16th September 2021, 03:16 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 6,429
Is there a military training area nearby? They...
Is there a military training area nearby? They could be illuminating flares (we use handheld Shermullys), though I would have thought that you would hear the gunfire if you were close enough to see...
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Forum: USA Politics
22nd August 2021, 03:24 PM
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Replies: 3,502
Views: 259,600
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
21st July 2021, 02:46 AM
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Replies: 159
Views: 7,067
Musk and Bezos are selling services under...
Musk and Bezos are selling services under contract, it's in their best interests to deliver those services economically and on time. The Russians could conceivably pull the plug on any contract that...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
19th July 2021, 06:38 AM
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Replies: 129
Views: 12,339
At the sort of power output that we put out on...
At the sort of power output that we put out on any particular signal it is highly unlikely that there is any detectable information in any of the signals that we have transmitted. If you are sending...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
21st June 2021, 10:35 AM
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Replies: 3,119
Views: 313,553
There was an excellent Horizon special on the...
There was an excellent Horizon special on the history of the various vaccines:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000x2tf
Heartbreaking for the University of Queensland team when their funding...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
4th May 2021, 08:55 AM
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Replies: 2,179
Views: 135,417
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
26th April 2021, 08:59 AM
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Replies: 3,489
Views: 311,315
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
23rd April 2021, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 3,489
Views: 311,315
No, not the case. He wanted to stop malicious...
No, not the case. He wanted to stop malicious persecution (i.e. repeated attempts at prosecution without significant new evidence) of veterans. If there is significant new evidence, by all means...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
22nd April 2021, 09:05 AM
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Replies: 279
Views: 17,221
Yet.
But there is a lot of promising...
Yet.
But there is a lot of promising small-scale fusion research going on, EMC2 (though that has gone quiet of late), Lockheed Martin, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and First Light Fusion.
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
22nd April 2021, 08:57 AM
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Replies: 279
Views: 17,221
My tip on the next big thing is mRNA...
My tip on the next big thing is mRNA therapeutics, either generalized such as the Covid vaccines or tailored for individuals for such thing as cancer treatments. Still early days, but very promising:...
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Forum: USA Politics
14th April 2021, 10:55 AM
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Replies: 138
Views: 13,626
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
14th April 2021, 10:39 AM
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Replies: 93
Views: 3,183
I'm sure it will evolve as it has done over...
I'm sure it will evolve as it has done over history. We don't need to do daily food shops anymore, so stores evolved. People will always need specialist little stores, be it specialist butchers,...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
12th April 2021, 01:36 AM
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Replies: 633
Views: 32,417
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
12th April 2021, 01:27 AM
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Replies: 633
Views: 32,417
One of the varied jobs I had in the Army was a...
One of the varied jobs I had in the Army was a short stint at the Central Ammunition Depot at Kineton. I did a few weeks working in a section called the Detailed Issues Group. A small group would...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
12th April 2021, 01:18 AM
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Replies: 633
Views: 32,417
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
5th April 2021, 07:50 AM
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Replies: 1,164
Views: 54,451
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
5th April 2021, 07:43 AM
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Replies: 2,242
Views: 230,800
My guess (as an engineer supporting small scale...
My guess (as an engineer supporting small scale bioreactor systems in this field) is that there is a common goods-in for the site and there is misreading of additives in the various media mixtures. ...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
25th March 2021, 06:28 AM
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Replies: 2,242
Views: 230,800
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
9th March 2021, 10:28 AM
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Replies: 531
Views: 21,144
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
9th March 2021, 10:18 AM
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Replies: 531
Views: 21,144
Andrew flew as a Naval helicopter pilot in the...
Andrew flew as a Naval helicopter pilot in the Falklands, William has flown operational flights as Air-Sea Rescue, Harry has done a tour and a half in Afghanistan, Charles did a stint the 'Drew as...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
9th March 2021, 10:10 AM
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Replies: 531
Views: 21,144
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
2nd March 2021, 10:04 AM
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Replies: 78
Views: 4,008
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Forum: USA Politics
15th February 2021, 02:13 AM
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Replies: 643
Views: 47,506
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
4th February 2021, 08:27 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 2,202
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
4th February 2021, 07:24 AM
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Replies: 2,242
Views: 230,800
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
22nd January 2021, 05:34 AM
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Replies: 3,119
Views: 313,553
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
13th January 2021, 09:26 AM
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Replies: 1,394
Views: 135,257
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
8th January 2021, 09:48 AM
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Replies: 2,242
Views: 230,800
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
22nd December 2020, 03:48 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,897
Two issues there:
Fumes from mechanical...
Two issues there:
Fumes from mechanical issues with the bleed air from the engines - easily spotted by the crew and can be fixed.
Particulates (including viruses in these more aware times). ...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
3rd December 2020, 02:36 PM
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Replies: 3,422
Views: 153,147
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