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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not convinced.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Hospitalizations peak after infections... The Worldometer is showing infections have peaked.. But who knows.. Don't trust the Zoe stuff either. Know a few who send info to site... Its based on symptoms isn't it??? From Worldometer. Reduction each day for past seven or so???
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    So, your assumption is numbers are what? Going up, down, staying same?? 100,000 daily?? I agree test results are in fact simply a guide. But a guide as to what's happening none the less. Has this wave peaked??
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    They vaccinated (booster) a record number last week.. And amongst them yours truly. Seem to be doing OK on this front. Fergusson was predicting 100,000 infections per day by November. Think numbers have dropped this week.. (infections)
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not sure I agree with that. It tends to be step changes with new technology. Piston engined planes were slowly getting faster, Typhoon Tempest about its pinnacle but then massive leaps with Jet engines. Space travel needs next revolution... Next step.. Burning tons of fuel to expel mass out the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Probably that's the time to start thinking of exploring space.. Think at best our current motive efforts are agricultural, archaic. Rockets are based on Newtonian physics..equal and opposite reaction. Is that really going to get us anywhere??
  7. Z

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    One of things I always find perplexing... If you push one end (physically) of an object there is a time delay of time needed for light to pass through object for other side to move??? Push a pencil at one end... Other end moves fractionally later...??? That's before we get into time and size...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Fill the kettle with liquid hydrogen and as you throw it light the spout. A small kettle wont go so high but build a big mutha, 600 ft long and well... The sky is the limit,12km or so. Only another 4.234 light years to nearest star... To be fair you were almost as near on your shed roof, you...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Moving electrons and moving humans are a bit different Danidl. Go sit in the Cyclotron and see how fast you get upto.. Our only escape from mother earth is to achieve a high percentage of C for any craft... The physics for doing so say that's impossible. Basically we are still chucking stuff...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Viewing those Bozos as space exolorers is akin to calling a slug circling a stone on an African beach an explorer.It probably thinks it is aswell.... But it ain't.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And assuming we can find a, propulsion system capable of getting to a significant speed... (ie 0.2c or so?) As yet we are absolutely nowhere near that. Putting our "progress" (for want of a better word) in perspective. u People who say we shouldn't stop space exploration are mistaken. We...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That's ignoring Einstens thoughts (relativistic) on it.. As body accelerates it requires ever more energy to accelerate more.. Its argued (with formula to prove?) to achieve C we would need more energy than available from our planet. We aren't going anywhere, we haven't even scratched surface...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Don't worry, they, ll be going in electric cars soon. But you are right. Folk just pretend to care. I, m a school governor at our local Primary.. Every morning parents rolling up in cars, driving their loved ones at most 2 miles. (some as little as a hundred yards) blocking entrance to school...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Sail Yachts burn very little fuel. Hulls extremely efficient and tiny axillary motors and should only be used in and out harbours etc.. but yes agreed.. We all need to change. As for hypersonic... For actual space travel it hardly affects it. Twice as fast as now is still insignificant. When...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Every thing is waste nowadays. McDonald's advertise as an environmentally aware retailer and folk buy into the BS... Go and have a burger there and you get more packaging than food, and normally a stupid plastic toy. When I was a lad we took pop bottles back and bought unwrapped sweets in a...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I wouldn't help feck the planet up. I, d try and help mankind's greatest challenge. Trying to maintain planet we live on to be fit for our existence. We won't mess planet up, just make it unfit for us. I see Bezos, Musk, Branson and plenty of others being part of problem. Not its cure.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Woosh, we all know current space technology is going nowhere. Our nearest star is 4 and half light years away. At moment burning stuff to produce thrust in an attempt to travel at anything like a decent proportion of speed if light is simply not going to happen. It's like attempting to build...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Going where... Like there isn't better, cleaner, more valuable things to be doing. Give up Woosh. It's all a waste of money. Tell the kids starving in Africa we can't feed you Bozo wants his space ride.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    This is exactly why we are in such a mess. Folk simply pretend to care about environment. Porsche, Tesla, F1, the lot of them, haven't developed ecars, energy recover systems, hybrids and fantastic battery systems to save the planet. They have done it on back of that but so they can supply all...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What on earth as that got to do with lighting a fecking great firework.