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yes, I think the opposite to Joe but I agree on the point that the numbers can't be trusted. I think the ONS survey is better but still cannot be trusted. I also agree with flecc that the number of covid deaths cannot be trusted but think that the number is roughly correct, just a case of lucky...

no, he was talking about the NHS, FOI requests and our parliament. The CDC story is a side story. His point is the number of false positives. My point is the numbers can't be trusted if you move the CT to suit the government. The number of Covid deaths can't also be trusted for similar reasons...

what's the story about London's 137 bus route? about that, one key step is to generate a very substantial plasma stream in space which can't be done until we can make small fusion reactors.

Magnetic field propulsion is an accepted idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_propulsion For lightspeed travel, I've lifted the idea from a couple of Netflix productions. Higgs field manipulation from 'Dark', tunnelling through cosmic string from 'Another life'.

that's just the way this government works.

our crafts slingshot around planets and moons, a bit like sail boats use wind before they have electric motors. Higgs VEV (vacuum expectation value) can conceivably be mediated (see Yukawa couplings).

electric propulsion uses electromagnetic force, no material in the normal sense is ejected. You create a field that interacts with a similar field outside the spaceship, like your solenoid creates a magnetic field that interacts with the magnetic field of a permanent magnet. For example you...

rockets currently work on Newton's third law of motion and we know the limitation of that. Spaceships won't work like that in the future. Firstly, it can't land on earth and take off again. It will have electric propulsion, based on our deeper understanding of particle physics. Just think of the...

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. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare

I don't trust the daily number of new cases. Government manipulates the PCR test cycle threshold number, labs have low standard etc. quote: 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...

progress is incremental.

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...

I suppose in the future, it will be magnetic reconnection instead of burning hydrogen. Imagine a magnetic link between a space station and an earth station. Your capsule is propelled along the magnetic field lines. quote: magnetic fields in highly charged plasma environments automatically...

my guilty pleasure is skiing.

that's rather short sighted. If you compare the early space Soviet flights with the last Blue Origin flight, you can see the enormous progress that has been made. We won't of course go to another home planet with Bezos rocket anytime soon but it's the kind of technology that will eventually lead...

these things are separate issues. If you have billions in your wallet, what would you do with them in your limited time left on this planet? If governments re-distribute wealth through taxation, there will be a lot fewer extremely wealthy individuals and their excesses.

he spends his money developing rocket engines, re-useable booster rockets, vertical take off and landing. They are part of global research effort.

we can only save this planet with technology. Better solar panels, more wind turbines, more electric transports etc. Ask yourself why a train ticket from London to Glasgow cost 4 times a plane ticket. It's not because of the cost of fuel.

I do know that 95% hydrogen are currently made from fossil fuel, nevertheless, his project of Blue Origin has good prospects and using liquid hydrogen as propellant for his rocket is the way to go for now. More and more CCS systems are added to hydrogen production ('blue hydrogen') to limit CO2...

accuracy is important though. Take the carbon footprint of the LHC. Its original aim was to confirm the existence of the Higgs boson. Is it woth it? You could also say the same about a lot of other endeavours like sending telescopes into orbit. Sometimes you need real experiments. They will seem...