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COVID-19 / Re: Would an extended dosage interval work for the Oxford vaccine?

« on: 13/01/2021 00:41:03 »

I think the single astra zenica is similar the published 2 dose efficacy of 70%. Probably one of the reasons the government opted for one dose.

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is there any way of localising the source of substance P?

« on: 13/11/2020 21:34:16 »

As a Pain suffer with no medical background, I have often thought of pain being a nerve that slowly becomes less noticeable. Catastrophic sciatica a year ago lingered horrifically for 6 weeks, moving position on the nerve. Affected me mentally, really ground me down with such sharp severe pain so repeatedly over such a long period. I think that the pain died away but the problem did not, I feel a re-emergence from time to time as though the nerve is coming back to life. This cannot be true, my nerves in my leg still work, but something is different about the area where the pain originated, somehow less responsive and sensitive.

 Complete utter guess but substance p may be a long term cell response to pain signals, in reality there is no point to pain as long as the ceature stops injuring or neglecting itself, this includes bad posture, diet etc. Long term pain with no reason just reduces said creature to incapability and limits its survivability.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What falls faster: heavy or light objects?

« on: 09/10/2020 22:11:34 »

Galileo was wrong and the aristotlewas correct, his balls did hit the floor at different times,it's just not really percept able.

What falls faster a neutron star or the comet that killed the dinosaurs?

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Technology / Re: Altering orbits using earth's magnetic field or generated fields from earth?

« on: 27/05/2020 22:35:24 »

I assume the energy you are hoping to create is due to your movement through the field ? This is a law of physics that escapes me at the minute but it had something to do with an airplane oving through the earths magnetic field and how much charge it would create its also constrained by energy conservation, basically you have to put energy in to the movement to get the electrical energy out.

Is it possible to use the earth's magnetic field to move around in space, or even take off from earth?

The earth’s magnetic field is very weak compared to the force required to move a spaceship. It can move a magnetised needle on a low friction support, but anything heavier like a bar magnet on a desk doesn’t move. Also even a weak bar magnet will easily overpower the earth’s field and influence a compass needle
As we get further from earth the earth’s magnetic field gets weaker, but a magnet will still be able to align along the field see

Notice how the magnet is stronger than the earth’s magnetic field.

How about the radiation fields ?

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Just Chat! / Re: why would a scientist accept the bible

« on: 17/04/2020 15:18:17 »

 

I answered this thread honestly, I think you should honestly edit the title to some thing like, "why does duffy antagonise for god"

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Just Chat! / Re: why would a scientist accept the bible

« on: 17/04/2020 02:25:25 »

While they obssess over Christians, they pretend we are all perverts, evil, two-faced beasts. They know that millions, the vast majority of Christians are lovely, good, decent, honest people and the fact that they never mention that proves they must strain to argue their side.
Christ laid it all out on the pages of the N.T. Didn't pull punches. Didn't try to sweet talk HIS opponents. He told them what HE thought with candid authority. They murmured and plotted. They ganged up on HIM secretly using every devilish manipulation to have their will done. I wish I had been there. I would loved to have seen it unfold. Each part coming to pass in brief snippets of time, I'd be observing it all go down, just as we read in the N.T. The smell of the Passover meals cooking, the swirling aroma in the air, the sounds of children in the background, the enormous stones they carved to form the buildings, the clothing ancient women wore, their gnarled teeth, the swords the men carried. What is really weird is that it really did take place. It happened. Long, long time ago. Just as they said.

So
 

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Just Chat! / Re: why would a scientist accept the bible

« on: 06/04/2020 00:51:25 »

From a humanitarian point, are you ok Duffy, should we contact the relevant authorities ? I mean your answering yourself.

Dear god is this still going ?

People ressurected by jesus - 0
Years of living in plague filled misery since jesus 1600
Separation of religion from law 400 years ago
People saved from malaria by jesus 0
People saved by science from malaria over 1 billion
Dont marry your sister !

1. 0 resurrected by jesus
Can you support that with credible evidence? Thanks

No.

I know no one resurrected by christ, no one i know has heard of this. Its never made the news. Promises promises and no honouring of them. I cannot prove somethingincorrect that refuses to exist.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Neutrinos travelling faster than light?

« on: 24/03/2020 00:22:59 »

Hi Halc.  That explains that then!  It's a typical knee jerk reaction from a newbie like myself when he thinks, hey something DOES travel faster than light! I guess that if the article was aimed at a non scientist like myself then it would have said the neutrinos get to Earth earlier than the light 'because ...'.

You too can travel faster than the speed of light, quite easily actually.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=99111&page=1

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What Do You Call A Moon Of A Moon ?

« on: 14/12/2019 14:03:35 »

A moon is only a moon if it is spherical i believe, if not it is just a satelite, of which jupiter has lots and lots. If a noon had a moon it would have to be very big, or considered a binary pair as what  constitutes a satelite is  orbiting an orbiter.

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That CAN'T be true! / Re: Is the mystery killer of the Bermuda Triangle killer waves?

« on: 09/12/2019 06:19:22 »

The Bermuda Triangle does not appear to experience losses of ships and planes at a greater rate than other areas of the world based on percentage: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bermuda-triangle-mystery-solved-latest-theories-dr-karl-kruszelnicki-debunked-unexplained-a7861731.html

If there was some kind of anomalous loss of vehicles, however, killer waves wouldn't explain the loss of aircraft.

I think that needs clarity, hurricaines, the gulf stream, reefs and rogue waves are all going to have an effect, especially on old wood galeons. Its not the only known trouble zone, anywhere with tropical currents and hurricaines is going to have a higher occourence of  rough conditions. The south seas are better known for freak waves as the uninterrupted curculation inflicted by pacific atlantic and indian incursions. I do concede that the bermuda triangle is a bit of a bottlekneck during empire times.

http://www.shipwreckexpo.com/bermudashipwreckswrecklist.htm

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What happens when both slits are observed by in the double slit experiment?

« on: 07/11/2019 03:09:55 »

The point of the double slit experiment is that one or two slits, the transmission medium behave the same.  Its the wave effect, if you put waves through two slits you get destructive and constructive interferance, leading to high and low points along a wave crest. Ie a wave crest now has peaks and troughs along it aswll as a trough between the following and preceeding waves. Lots like when 2 oceans meet. Point is that light is behaving with these wave characteristics.

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Just Chat! / Re: What is your favorite supercontinent?

« on: 04/08/2019 01:46:27 »

A four year old who has a dry night ?

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: How can galaxies collide if they're moving away all the time/

« on: 18/07/2019 00:24:02 »

Interesting point really, it may signify the big bang was not singular within itself,  that further tangent events appened after the big bang.

Of course variances can be generated by gravity ie bigger mass affecting smaller mass, but to have galaxys vectors significantly altered would take alot of mass.  Perhaps the blackhole and where it goes to is capable of pivoting galaxies ?

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Technology / Re: Why are Some Fridges Hard To Open Again Once Just Closed?

« on: 05/03/2019 08:41:59 »

Im gonna go for condensation of water

Warm air condensate in the fridge creating a vacuum, drill a hole through the door.

 It  is more likely though it is on the on the seal and frame as it would probably take longer for air to fill the void. It could just be a slow release suction on the seal or it could be a bit of condensation too. Water condenses from warm air onto cold surface when the door is opened. Upon closing of the door the seal is formed. The water continues to condensate out around the seal creating a vacuum  until it works air around it to compensate.

I believe manufacturers already have thought of the condensing water air trick for the box, i think there is a pressure release tube, yours may be blocked .

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General Science / Re: Our brains are anatomically the same, so why do our personalities differ?

« on: 06/02/2019 11:02:24 »

We do not differ very much at all, but this is not governed by brain similarities. If you think about pain laughter fear sex emotional hurt happiness they all rule us. We are very very similar. If you look microscopically for the differences you will find them, but that is because you are looking for them.Its wrong  to think that your brain makes your personality, if someone is born in a war zone they develop an outlook and a personality as such, conversely if they are born into the monied side of the world the personality is one that fits that. But on the grand scheme of things the human psyche is most very very similar and governed by biological alterations, such as testosterone in agression, men have more risk taking confrontational personalities that is wholly governed by a hormone !

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Does gravity attract masses in space, or does it curve space between them?

« on: 16/01/2019 00:23:12 »

Gravity
Pushes

Just like hydrology, if the masses are within the angular pressure radius drop distance they attract in a converging way, not necessarily to inpact. The angular radius of gravity is infinite, giving rise to the feeling that there are 2 types of gravity.

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Technology / Could diesel be made clean?

« on: 10/01/2019 12:47:17 »

Not counting efficiency, could the diesil engine be made clean ? Deisel engines where initially used for there high torque output espexially at the low end of engine rpm compared to petrol engines, lorries buses tractors etc used them as they provide lots of slow constant power. It is only in recent years diesils heve become popular because the fuel takes less energy to create ie refine and is more efficient and given that turbo diesils have developed, they also now give higher acceleration, somewhere near that of petrol engines. We have all been told by different mechanisms to buy deisels and then not to, yet it doesnt seem that we will be getting rid of large diesil vehicles any time soon, as even though a bus could run off petrol, it is likely that the efficiency versus the present diesil engine would be far far below the efficiency of having a bus with a diesil engine and that means citys and motorway avenues full of dioxins from diesil.

Unfortunatley as anyone with a brian and a bit of experience could have told the governments of earth before they started pushing diesils,  what comes out of a diesil exaust is very very toxic. Is there any reasonable way to process the exaust gasses such as reburning the exaust ( efficiency not withstanding) whilst the vehicle remains largely as mobile and as maintainance free as prior to modification.

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Just Chat! / Re: Was it really necessary to drop an atomic bomb on Japan, twice?

« on: 11/11/2018 00:41:12 »

The argument was japan would never surrender, The allies would not accept this. The argument is that compared with okinawa or the tokyo firestorm  the two atom bombs saved millions of lives compared a conventional military campaign.

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

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

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New Theories / Re: Does man's use of energy in the last 200 years mean global warming is man-made?

« on: 02/03/2018 03:05:19 »

OK, back onto the Tsar Bomb. Earth is already not a perfect sphere, the kinetic energy released by the disruption of the tectonic plates would not take the planet out of it's original?
 I mean the earth orbit the sun where it is because it's center, if you disrupt the outside layers and flow of magma, wouldn't the center be re-centered somewhere else for some time?

Not really alter the orbit because as one load of mass is forced one way an equal and opposit3 mappent the other way, but if you re arrange the mass you alter the gravitational centre. It will alter the length of the day though i think by countering the rotation of the earth some how

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Just Chat! / Re: APOLOGIES FOR THE RECENT DISRUPTION

« on: 01/03/2018 02:04:55 »

Yep but having to go into the different forums and out again gets a bit tiresome,

That's a nice suggestion about drop-downs, but quite a hefty job to implement; I might put that on my list for a longer-term project...

But, just to flag - and you may know this already - you can see what's new in several ways:

1) Click on "RECENT TOPICS" at the top - or https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?action=recenttopics

2) Use the "POSTS" dropdown option at the top and select either "Unread Replies" for an amalgamated list of all the new replies in threads in which you have participated (indicating which board), or "Unread Posts", which is a list of ALL the new posts made in any board, forum-wide, that you've not reviewed yet.

Hopefully that's helpful.

That is massivley helpfu, maybe im computer useless thats all.

Another suggestion, or hopeful ask maybe

If in a thread lots of people post arguments and quote each other repeatedly  a thread can get a bit diluted and cumbesome see this one i started

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=71332.100

Half the posts and 3/4 of the content is just junk, is there any way to mark posts as inconsequential or irrelevant, perhaps a sub thread that collapses ?

Good work and much apreciation again chris