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Now corrected, comes of not concentrating on what I was typing and doing it phonetically in my mind! For 8 years I lived close to the Isle of Wight and often motorcycled there in my teens, so I certainly know how to spell it. .

Not for me, I prefer silence. You can see the illogicality of added e-car noise when it's no use at or over 20 mph since it's not heard and reacted to by a pedestrian before being hit. Since it can only be useful under 20mph, why doesn't the law for bicycles insist they emit a continuous...

Same with public hovercraft, the one crossing to the Isle of Wight has captains who are qualified pilots as well as their marine qualification. .

A bit like road cycling and racing. The UCI banning recumbents back in the 1930s and disc brakes more recently, just because they are different. And the road cycling clubs mostly supporting that restrictive attitude. .

Political expediency once again. We can't be seen to be banning citizens protests at the same time as criticising Russia for doing the same. So we have to pretend to permit them while allowing the police to beat up any protestors. .

Indeed. But whether they can still legitimately be called yachts or even boats comes into question since they are often hydroplanes, a different class of vehicle. One for the purists to argue over. .

The subject was mass murder with suitable guns, i.e. Dunblane, so the ban has made classrooms safer. .

Of course, he'd need to be sailing something very much bigger and probably much older to have any opening portholes. .

Like over 99.9% of all battery breakthrough announcements, this one will never happen. To even catch up with this years models it would have to have at least four times the capacity, which isn't remotely on the cards. It has built in sound generator, but since it's not this years model and...

This section kills it: "The battery has an energy density of 24 Wh/kg, meaning approximately 20 percent capacity compared to comparable lithium-ion batteries currently available. But since the weight of the vehicles can be greatly reduced, less energy will be required to drive an electric car...

Indeed, as I posted, only a very small chance of the reverse. But the chance exists. .

I don't know what it is with your mind, but there is something wrong when your views are so child like and black and white. This is a world of lots of shades of greys with few simple black and white answers, so two differing views of things can be and often are compatible. For example, there are...

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Inevitable. They've already got two problems, Brexit and Covid, and that's at least one beyond their capabilities. Any more will always get hidden. .

Sir Charles Benedict Ainslie CBE (born 5 February 1977) is a British competitive sailor. Ainslie is the most successful sailor in Olympic history. He chucks his wastes out of portholes. .

As I do. Usually I agree with Whitty, but on the balance of risks of mutations against reducing the consequences of the illness I'm far from fully convinced, despite the odds being in his favour. On his strategy there is a large reduction of suffering, but only for the few who do contract a...

I usually do. I've only ever disagreed with Chris Whitty once, that was when he momentarily supported that herd immunity might help, something I've always said was was a silly idea. What I have often disagreed with is your strange interpretation of what Whitty says, as you've done with...

You really must learn to read, I've said nothing different. Your sentence contains two different things, the chance of mutation and the overall risk of not controlling the virus. I only posted about the risk of creating more mutations, and in that Chris Whitty and I are in total agreement...

Generally true, but never with the subject under discussion. No-one can ever predict when a mutation will occur, so the expression "very unlikely" as a measure of frequency or timing of the occurrence is nonsensical. .

He did NOT say there was a smaller risk of creating variants which is what I've been posting about. Once again, read what is posted, not what you imagine, Whitty actually said the opposite in mentioning that by product of his strategy which he admitted was a worry, albeit one with smaller...