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..Oyster , I was being a bit tongue in cheek .. you might recall the NASA mission where the Parachutes deployed after the payload had nose dived into the surface. A little matter of replacing metres with feet ( ooh I see you did)

Interesting one that . They have some Scientists in NASA , and Science uses the metric, .. unfortunately they also have plenty of Engineers with their sub contractors .wedded to the old scale. Maybe that's why they picked a simple number to keep both camps happy.

Sorry flecc, you cannot disagree ..you can dislike, but these are facts . You can have your own opinions but not your own facts. They take that figure because the atmosphere is basically gone ..it is below 10-5 that of sea level.

The definition of space is 100km altitude. ..by the international agreements , however NASA ,uses 80 km as their operational definition. So todays flight hits the USA definition of Astronaut. The ISS is certainly Space.

My knowledge of soccer is on a par with that of my knowledge of British Regional Politics, which is to say, pathetic, but I did watch the game. Yes the first English Goal was an OG, .. but England would have scored because there was a player lined up to take it had it passed the Dane. The...

My chemistry is rusty, but my understanding is that the carbon dioxide chemically combines or sequestering with the limestone , actually renders it stronger.

..is that a USB socket on the side?.

Very good idea.. like using boron to reduce combustion in cellulose... . It is not unreasonable to suggest a glass vial of the kill chemical in each cell. Not unlike the thermal fuse link inside a transformer or motor winding.

I have answered that a few times. My trip to France, and the times I do it would stretch the endurance of current e cars. While if I got as far as my place ,all is fine ...there is a charger in the village , but the trips and times are over very rural areas and even today French service...

I don't see lithium ion batteries as being the end game for electrical vehicles. In fact a belief that there is only one magic bullet is silly. Lighter fuel cells ,and maybe hydrogen rich fuels are more plausible ,long term.

But OG , that is still only 1/2 the energy of a petrol tank. .. I routinely get 1100km from a fill in my Peugeot. ,..And an electric motor is at least twice as efficient.

Just a number of points .. The UK did not do as well with the vaccines as the propaganda suggests. While a significant fraction of the population got the single jab, the percentage with the full vaccine is now drifting below Europe. Moreover, the AZ appears not to have been the bees knees...

Article taken from today's Irish Times. .. the Author is John Bruton. As you read it, and he has had a career even as the EUs top Ambassador, you will see he is no diplomat The UK’s European Union negotiator and its secretary of state for Northern Ireland published a remarkable article in The...

Unfortunately I have to concur.. We could have eliminated it globally by About June 2020 , but the insane policies by Western Countries, who should have known better are responsible. And in this group I would single out the UK and the USA as worst of class. We in Ireland were trapped by the...

Flecc.. You have lost me on this one.. China's approach was elimination..

Yes!

Well there are 450 Million of us Europeans who do think it was a silly idea , and at most 66Million who think differently. . But I still think that that 66 million Europeans , is still divided 50:50

The Germans suggest that mix and match is a better strategy than 2 straight Pfizers or AZ

.. How could that be viewed as critical ..I said Brexit was fantastic ... As in the stuff of fantasy... I am slowly learning this English trait of irony.

Just as Brexit is fantastic...