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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Is religion killing us?

« on: 03/06/2023 07:41:53 »

In many mythologies and religions there is a golden age/garden of Eden and then the illnesses come (Pandora opens her box).

Now all of these things have one thing in common, they are the beginnings of society, bringing social norms, outlining prescribed non bestial ways of behaving. Darwin on the other hand says survival of the fittest and let the beasts run riot.

Has the advent of society led us to destroy ourselves?

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General Science / Re: How to kill, both natural and medical, aerobic bacteria in the gut?

« on: 03/06/2023 07:34:43 »

Antibiotics. Proper strong stuff from hospitals. I have heard of doctors end up prescribing those dainty little bottles from the supermarket that are the gut bacteria stuff.

If you think that (UK) supermarkets sell antibiotics you are not well enough informed to be giving advice.

Antibiotics are noted for upsetting teh stomach- bloating is a fairly typical symptom.
PC is suggesting treating bloating with drugs likely to induce it.

It's as if he didn't understand this bit.

Please note: this is not seeking medical advice, just scientific evidence/opinion

Ahh thank goodness for the disclaimer.

The question asks for something to kill bacteria in the gut, the hospital grade antibiotics will do the job, hospital ergo not without very serious doctor prescribing. Killing the bacteria ergo no bacteria ergo needing something to replace the bacteria ergo little hospital pots of microbiotics or gut bacteria.

Ergo I wonder what happens if you drop antibiotics into bacteria culture is it like coke and mentos.?

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Just Chat! / Re: Why is Brexit a right-wing cause?

« on: 03/06/2023 00:28:31 »

....before the NHS was established.

Before the NHS, did most working-class and poor Brits rarely, if ever, visit a doctor?

Yes, before the NHS people had to pay for doctors so the working classes had very little access to non emergency medical attention. There where free hospitals if you where maimed awfully.

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General Science / Re: How to kill, both natural and medical, aerobic bacteria in the gut?

« on: 01/06/2023 18:14:58 »

Antibiotics. Proper strong stuff from hospitals. I have heard of doctors end up prescribing those dainty little bottles from the supermarket that are the gut bacteria stuff.

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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Is there enough lithium?

« on: 31/05/2023 23:22:37 »

Is there enough lithium recoverable to supply 8 billion people with energy storage? Or should we wait for the aluminium batteries?

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General Science / Re: How does ChatGPT work?

« on: 31/05/2023 23:07:17 »

skbldnk drvkug bwqpn zzicology

It is left to the reader to pick out the useful bits.

The best definition of industry I ever heard was "organising men, materials, machines and money to make stuff that people want." Note the last four words.

Do you notice that Edison tried and failed thousands of times before successfully produced technically and economically viable light bulbs? He might have thought even many more experiments which he did not continue to carry out because he expected they would fail.
We are prone to survival bias that we often forget that those who don't survive had once existed.

That was a croat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franjo_Hanaman

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Just Chat! / Re: Why is Brexit a right-wing cause?

« on: 31/05/2023 00:13:56 »

Funny, that. I thought lots of workers were striking for higher wages. So it's just an unwillingness to turn up and do a job. Clearly, then, Brexit has turned the country into a paradise where you don't need to work at all. 

Yes, it's an unwillingness to turn up and do a job, the conditions are contested by the unions and by people who look for retirement, have medical retirements, change jobs regularly. Many people who where near retirement age after corona didnt want to come back.

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Chemistry / Re: Is nitrogen based liquid fuel a viable energy storage solution?

« on: 31/05/2023 00:01:58 »

When you combine nitrogen and oxygen into various compounds (whether it be nitrogen dioxide, dinitrogen tetroxide or dinitrogen pentoxide), what you get is generally an oxidizing agent and not a reducing agent. If you want to make something you can burn, you could potentially combine the hydrogen from water with the nitrogen in air to produce something flammable like hydrazine. From what I understand, that's not a very fun chemical to be around, though.

Yes water would be an easily avaliable recyclable material. I suppose if you could make oxidiser too that would be another way of storing energy.

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Just Chat! / Re: Why is Brexit a right-wing cause?

« on: 30/05/2023 19:56:06 »

Whatever happened to the inherent efficiency of the free market?

It is still here proudly in Britain, with no lorry drivers, unwilling workforce and rail ticket prices.

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Just Chat! / Re: Why is Brexit a right-wing cause?

« on: 30/05/2023 17:04:50 »

The NHS is in need of investment, we expect far better service than other countries who pay a significantly greater ammount of tax.

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Just Chat! / Re: Why do governments have such a hard time balancing their budget?

« on: 30/05/2023 17:03:02 »

The mines where publicly run and suffered from under investment, one reason some where unprofitable in 1980.

The problem in the 1970s and 1980s was the availability of Polish coal, shipped to UK power stations at much lower cost than it could be mined here.

Yes open cast is largely far cheaper, but most of the polish German coal is low quality, most of the UK coal is high quality, much suitable for coaking. Some UK mines in the UK had reached the end  of their life, some where unprofitable of which many where suffering from a lack of investment. British motor vehicle, ship building, steel etc all suffered from alack of investment, once they where world leaders (triumph Austin etc) that where ran into the floor. Some got government help to merge into other things like British Leyland but the lack of investment remained.

Polish builders gave me a very good fixed price for every job

I hear polish pilots are also as cheap as chips and far better workers.

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Just Chat! / Re: Why do governments have such a hard time balancing their budget?

« on: 29/05/2023 22:27:10 »

Probably not, but when the UK joined it became a driving (or more correctly, retarding) force in government sponsorship of industry, as I recall from my misspent youth in the Department thereof. As I pointed out above, our socalled partners outsourced a few managerial and support jobs but generally retained a controlling share in public assets.

For example  Direction des Services de la navigation aerienne (DSNA, France) is a nonprofit government agency, whereas  NATS (UK) was reorganised into a limited company on 1 April 1996.

Lack of investment has been present in UK industry for decades before 1980, it is still present now, probably to an even greater extent, to much money to shareholders, not enough reinvested. The mines where publicly run and suffered from under investment, one reason some where unprofitable in 1980.

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Just Chat! / Re: Why do governments have such a hard time balancing their budget?

« on: 28/05/2023 23:21:22 »

A funny fact is that governments do not try and balance their budget, future debt is to a point eaten up by inflation, governments can borrow very cheaply, depending on their responsibility rating. If you borrow for 5 years , the money is deflated by the time you wish to pay it back, so fiscally speaking they can borrow more today by estimating tax revenues tomorrow. Governments are not like people, when you pay tax for pensions etc the money is not held or loaned, but immediately payed back out in pensions to people today. Your pension will be paid by the workers of tomorrow. Effectively governments run their budgets poorly on purpous.

https://www.theconversation.com/amp/explainer-what-are-credit-ratings-and-why-do-they-matter-79336

https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_economics-theory-through-applications/s33-03-the-benefits-of-deficits.html#:~:text=By%20running%20a%20deficit%2C%20a,government%20to%20run%20a%20deficit.

The USA thing is loads of partisan warfare.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What star will humans witness to go out first: Antares or Betelgeuse?

« on: 27/05/2023 13:55:41 »

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/26/its-new-territory-why-is-betelgeuse-is-glowing-so-brightly-and-behaving-so-strangely

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Chemistry / Is nitrogen based liquid fuel a viable energy storage solution?

« on: 27/05/2023 00:21:50 »

The liquid fueled Ice has fantastic advantages over solid or gaseous counterparts, two of which are the fuel is easily managed and waste products are gaseous. Unfortunately the fuel used is not renewable generally.

The atmosphere generally has 2 gasses in it, oxygen (~20~%)and nitrogen at around 80, along with varoius other small amounts of other substances. It strikes me it would be beneficial that these 2 gasses would make ideal waste products of any renewable energy storage cycle. Would it be possible to make a liquid fuel from them?

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General Science / Re: What is the smallest laser able to melt iron made by nanotechnology?

« on: 26/05/2023 19:48:39 »

lazers can be very very small, perhaps one photons width.

https://cutlasercut.com/drawing-resources/expert-tips/laser-kerf/#:~:text=The%20laser%20burns%20away%20a,experienced%20when%20cutting%20thicker%20foams.

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Just Chat! / Re: Why is Brexit a right-wing cause?

« on: 26/05/2023 15:24:20 »

I would argue that the reality of Brexit was a case of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

As the second largest net contributor to, and largest importer from, the EU, the UK was in a position to get a better deal than Switzerland, Norway or China and blew it away by incompetent negotiation. Margaret Thatcher's only redeeming feature was the ability to say no on behalf of the UK, unlike her successors who were driven only by self-interest.

The Corbyn problem, an many liberties are taken out of the EU as where taken in.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What is the exact cause of the time dilation of the twin?

« on: 23/05/2023 15:19:33 »

My guess is that it would be gravity, however that works. Acceleration being the addition of relitavistic mass, space seeming to have the ability to transmit gravity waves through its medium, I have to theorise that space is sticky to mass particles and therefore giving relitavistic mass decreaces clock speed.

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Just Chat! / Re: Why is Brexit a right-wing cause?

« on: 23/05/2023 15:12:27 »

Fascism is power ... through belief,

It's power through lying.

Differentiate that from communism, which is power through consensus.

Looks like your ' Signature Line ' just went Obsolete...
Congratulations!
& Well Done.
: )

No, it's just a disclaimer.

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Just Chat! / Re: Had Germany Won World War I, would the UK had been invaded?

« on: 22/05/2023 20:01:36 »

At what stage do the German axis powers militaries win ww1 and on what fronts, which side is Italy on, has America joined the effort, what effect does that have on the Indian subcontinent and the rest of the empire and whateffect does this have on China (if they are neutral at this stage or not). Do they rule the seas? Japan, where is japan throughout this.