Brexit, for once some facts.
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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 perhaps managed to shave off 0.00003 of a second off your journey. (If by some miracle the kettle then shot off at speed of light)
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As predicted (in tone, at least), somehow changed from a near-certain failure to a possible triumph:
Cop26: Boris Johnson ‘cautiously optimistic’ about reaching 1.5C deal
UK PM claims there has been a turnaround since G20 summit as he urges China to make improved pledge
What a ... hero he is.
Cop26: Boris Johnson ‘cautiously optimistic’ about reaching 1.5C deal
UK PM claims there has been a turnaround since G20 summit as he urges China to make improved pledge
What a ... hero he is.
In my physics lessons it was pointed out, rightly or wrongly, this implied nothing massive could accelerate through the C. Not that trans-C speeds were impossible.
I see Johnson is backing Owen Paterson. Stinky-poo. As I see, the guy dun it. He should be (at least) censured and a recall petition made possible.
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 dilation.. Crazy subject. I remember thinking if you believe all theories of relativity... You can believe anything.Subject is mind boggling. (not difficult in my case)
that is correct if we stay in the same spacetime inertial reference as on earth, at the time and place of departure. Did you watch Brian Cox's newest series on the BBC's 'universe'? In episode 4, Cox talked about the big black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Astromoners call it "Sagittarius A-Star" or Sagittarius A*. Cox created fancy graphics to illustrate what we think how it works. The main thing is, inside the black hole, spacetime doesn't exist. In episode 5, he talked about what was the universe before the big bang, an ocean of energy and cosmic strings.
There are more and more science fact programs about neutrinos (4 types not 3) and photons, dark matter and dark energy. I reckon it won't be long before humans figure out how to move objects out of earth spacetime and back in again.
BTW, for 0.2c, relativistic effect is only 2%, = (1 − v2/c2)−1/2 = 1 - square root of (v squared/c squared)
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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??
Sorry about source...
'Boris took his eye off the ball': Tensions in Whitehall as sources say PM's focus on Cop26 climate summit is to blame for faltering Covid booster roll-out as ministers rip up system so millions can get jab a month early
Only around 4.5 million out of the 9.3 million eligible people in England have so far received the third dose
www.dailymail.co.uk
What a confused mess. If that is what Johnson manages when his eye is on COP26... And if they are only worrying about lack of booster uptake when they are millions behind...
Also, if the time from original vaccination to booster is six months, it is obvious many of us are not yet eligible.
"On the third dose, our protection will be 80% precisely."
'Boris took his eye off the ball': Tensions in Whitehall as sources say PM's focus on Cop26 climate summit is to blame for faltering Covid booster roll-out as ministers rip up system so millions can get jab a month early
Only around 4.5 million out of the 9.3 million eligible people in England have so far received the third dose
Sources say PM's focus on Cop26 to blame for faltering roll-out
Boris Johnson has 'taken his eye off the ball' and his energies have been consumed by preparations for the forthcoming COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.
What a confused mess. If that is what Johnson manages when his eye is on COP26... And if they are only worrying about lack of booster uptake when they are millions behind...
Also, if the time from original vaccination to booster is six months, it is obvious many of us are not yet eligible.
"On the third dose, our protection will be 80% precisely."
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 back is no different to technology in Chinese rockets hundreds of years ago..
And, as you say, progress at moment is incremental and almost insignificant. We need something else.
The hypersonic propulsion systems are simply developments of same theories.
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They vaccinated (booster) a record number last week.. And amongst them yours truly.Sorry about source...
'Boris took his eye off the ball': Tensions in Whitehall as sources say PM's focus on Cop26 climate summit is to blame for faltering Covid booster roll-out as ministers rip up system so millions can get jab a month early
Only around 4.5 million out of the 9.3 million eligible people in England have so far received the third dose
Sources say PM's focus on Cop26 to blame for faltering roll-out
Boris Johnson has 'taken his eye off the ball' and his energies have been consumed by preparations for the forthcoming COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.
What a confused mess. If that is what Johnson manages when his eye is on COP26... And if they are only worrying about lack of booster uptake when they are millions behind...
Also, if the time from original vaccination to booster is six months, it is obvious many of us are not yet eligible.
"On the third dose, our protection will be 80% precisely."
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)
I don't trust the daily number of new cases. Government manipulates the PCR test cycle threshold number, labs have low standard etc.
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You asked:
I would like to know the Ct (Cycle Threshold) being used for PCR testing of Sars Covid at the moment and in the past.
Trust response:
Please note: the test only gives CT value if positive
During times of low prevalence (like at the moment*) a CT of <25 is positive
During times of high prevalence then <28 is positive. And we would test any sample with a CT of greater than 25 with a second test.
* June 2021.
From snouts in trough to snouts ...
Cows and pigs sent to EU for butchering as labour crisis deepens
The National Pig Association said 10,000 healthy pigs had been culled in the backlog
By Telegraph Reporters 2 November 2021 • 10:22pm
Britain’s cattle farmers are being forced to ship carcasses to the European Union for processing amid a shortage of butchers.
Nick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association, said producers were sending supplies to Ireland where they can be carved into cuts, before reimporting them into the UK.
Pork producers are also expecting to start shipping pigs to the Netherlands for butchering in the latest sign of chronic labour shortages in the UK. Many workers have left the country due to the pandemic and Brexit.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Cows and pigs sent to EU for butchering as labour crisis deepens
The National Pig Association said 10,000 healthy pigs had been culled in the backlog
By Telegraph Reporters 2 November 2021 • 10:22pm
Britain’s cattle farmers are being forced to ship carcasses to the European Union for processing amid a shortage of butchers.
Nick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association, said producers were sending supplies to Ireland where they can be carved into cuts, before reimporting them into the UK.
Pork producers are also expecting to start shipping pigs to the Netherlands for butchering in the latest sign of chronic labour shortages in the UK. Many workers have left the country due to the pandemic and Brexit.
Cows and pigs sent to EU for butchering as labour crisis deepens
The National Pig Association said 10,000 healthy pigs had been culled in the backlog
We already know that Immensa/Dante tests were absolutely and categorically wrong.
(Will they claim they only include figures from recognised labs as Dante wasn't allowed to operate...?)
This is grotesque. We should all be deeply concerned. The evidence has been examined, tested and a judgment made. He was found guilty. Now they want to turn the clock back, disband the “court” and get his mates to decide if he’s guilty. And then they wonder why certain sections of the public get angry and knife them. I’m not condoning that or encouraging anyone to do it, but I can see how anger and resentment builds in the minds of certain people.
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??
the indication I trust is the number of patients currently in hospital for covid treatment.
(Currently 9,538) that number is highest since March, so not peaked, the opposite.
Total hospitalisations so far: > 576,000 patients treated.
Agreed.
Sorry. A typo. I meant "A greed of tories".