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The leatherback turtle moves very slowly, about 1km per hour. Scientists monitor their migration routes by analysing the barnacles that ride on their shells, as sea conditions vary.
 
NPBlue said:
No, it's got nothing to do with the EU, though I do get the meaning of your post.

Yes, we have done that to ourselves, sold everything off to the highest bidder.

No tin hat is required Bill.

I don't know of any other country that has so little ownership of essential infrastructure in it's own hands, and brands associated with the UK being foreign owned are ten a plenty.

We don't even own our post office any more, and we invented the postage stamp.
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Rolls Royce Aero engines. Listed on the London Stock exchange which makes it vulnerable because values on the NYSE are much higher.
Any company listed on the SE is technically owned by the shareholders who might come from anywhere. Ownership is not important per se but the rules for transfer pricing, intellectual property, and profit distribution are. So is the presence of a gov held golden share.
However, if your balance of trade is in deficit, you have to sell assets to cover the gap with foreign investment. Usually gilts do this, but no gov is going to object to a foreigner buying a British company while our balance of trade is chronically in deficit. Raising British productivity to the level of our rivals is vital in eliminating that gap. We need 100% capital allowances to do this.
Lobby your MP.
 
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Ever fancied climbing Mount Everest...?

In the tables below, there is a breakdown of costs, starting with the mandatory costs and moving to the optional. The final table is the one that would have the greatest variability. Depending on the services offered, the quality and quantity of support staff, and the number of western guides, this would make the difference between a $40,000 and $200,000 price tag.

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calumdown said:
didn't snorky get done for touching someone.
should've used this argument in his trial.
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Snorky has been caught loads of times for touching, usually the Welsh women but he's never been done for it.

Are you thinking of @Bluemoonrisen ?

Sadly, what happens in the Grey Horse stays in the Grey Horse so I couldn't possibly comment about this.
 
Lavinda Past said:
We never actually touch anything. At the atomic level, electrons repel each other.

What you actually feel is electromagnetic resistance.
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So if I'm in a car crash, my face is merely "hovering" over the steering wheel that just broke my nose, my jaw some of my teeth and an eye socket. My nervous system is creating the sensation of head trauma?

Haha pull the other one Lavvy mate !
 
Lavinda Past said:
We never actually touch anything. At the atomic level, electrons repel each other.

What you actually feel is electromagnetic resistance.
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So, when I T-boned the Ford Fiesta that pulled out in front of me on my motorbike years ago, it had nothing to do with the airhead driving the car pulling out of the junction staring straight ahead without looking for me, but was just a result of electrons having a squabble amongst themselves?
 
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Bill Walker said:
So if I'm in a car crash, my face is merely "hovering" over the steering wheel that just broke my nose, my jaw some of my teeth and an eye socket. My nervous system is creating the sensation of head trauma?

Haha pull the other one Lavvy mate !
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I believe the science to be correct. All perceived 'contact' between objects is the result of electromagnetic resistance. Everything is made up of separate minute electrons that never touch. Nothing is actually 'solid', just bits floating around in tge air, held together by magnetism.
Science is mind-blowing.

Just drive a bit slower.
 
The universe is believed to be 13.8 billion years old and the observable universe stretches as far away from us as light can travel in the time since the universe was born. As such, you might assume that the observable universe stretches only 13.8 billion light-years in every direction. But because the universe is constantly expanding, this isn't the case.

When we observe a distant galaxy or star, we are seeing where it was when it first emitted the light. But by the time the light reaches us, the galaxy or star is much farther away than it was when we saw it.

Using cosmic microwave background radiation, scientists can work out how fast the universe is expanding and, on the basis of the rate being constant, the observable universe has been calculated to stretch 46.6 billion light-years in all directions.

Crewed spaceships, like Apollo, reach speeds of around 39,400 km/h (24,500 mph). At that constant speed, it would take around 27 thousand years to travel one lightyear.

There are estimated to be between 10^78 and 10^82 atoms in the observable universe. This is a vast number, often described as between ten quadrillion vigintillion and one hundred thousand quadrillion vigintillion.


An average 70 kg (150 lb) human body contains approximately 7 × 10^27 atoms. This is equivalent to 7 billion billion billion atoms. These atoms are primarily composed of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen.

Atons are made up of subatomic particles including protons, neutrons, and electrons, as well as smaller particles like quarks and leptons. Quarks and leptons are currently considered elementary particles, meaning they are not known to be composed of smaller particles.

So here we are, back at those electrons that stop all matter from touching.
 
Lavinda Past said:
The universe is believed to be 13.8 billion years old and the observable universe stretches as far away from us as light can travel in the time since the universe was born. As such, you might assume that the observable universe stretches only 13.8 billion light-years in every direction. But because the universe is constantly expanding, this isn't the case.

When we observe a distant galaxy or star, we are seeing where it was when it first emitted the light. But by the time the light reaches us, the galaxy or star is much farther away than it was when we saw it.

Using cosmic microwave background radiation, scientists can work out how fast the universe is expanding and, on the basis of the rate being constant, the observable universe has been calculated to stretch 46.6 billion light-years in all directions.

Crewed spaceships, like Apollo, reach speeds of around 39,400 km/h (24,500 mph). At that constant speed, it would take around 27 thousand years to travel one lightyear.

There are estimated to be between 10^78 and 10^82 atoms in the observable universe. This is a vast number, often described as between ten quadrillion vigintillion and one hundred thousand quadrillion vigintillion.


An average 70 kg (150 lb) human body contains approximately 7 × 10^27 atoms. This is equivalent to 7 billion billion billion atoms. These atoms are primarily composed of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen.

Atons are made up of subatomic particles including protons, neutrons, and electrons, as well as smaller particles like quarks and leptons. Quarks and leptons are currently considered elementary particles, meaning they are not known to be composed of smaller particles.

So here we are, back at those electrons that stop all matter from touching.
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unproven conjecture in the main.
 
Lavinda Past said:
The universe is believed to be 13.8 billion years old and the observable universe stretches as far away from us as light can travel in the time since the universe was born. As such, you might assume that the observable universe stretches only 13.8 billion light-years in every direction. But because the universe is constantly expanding, this isn't the case.

When we observe a distant galaxy or star, we are seeing where it was when it first emitted the light. But by the time the light reaches us, the galaxy or star is much farther away than it was when we saw it.

Using cosmic microwave background radiation, scientists can work out how fast the universe is expanding and, on the basis of the rate being constant, the observable universe has been calculated to stretch 46.6 billion light-years in all directions.

Crewed spaceships, like Apollo, reach speeds of around 39,400 km/h (24,500 mph). At that constant speed, it would take around 27 thousand years to travel one lightyear.

There are estimated to be between 10^78 and 10^82 atoms in the observable universe. This is a vast number, often described as between ten quadrillion vigintillion and one hundred thousand quadrillion vigintillion.


An average 70 kg (150 lb) human body contains approximately 7 × 10^27 atoms. This is equivalent to 7 billion billion billion atoms. These atoms are primarily composed of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen.

Atons are made up of subatomic particles including protons, neutrons, and electrons, as well as smaller particles like quarks and leptons. Quarks and leptons are currently considered elementary particles, meaning they are not known to be composed of smaller particles.

So here we are, back at those electrons that stop all matter from touching.
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Many years ago I attended a science lecture where one speaker argued that galaxies were getting further apart but, they were not moving.
He explained it this way-
"Imagine the universe as a balloon, with black dots painted on it. As the balloon is blown up and expands, so the dots become further apart but actually remain inert".
Struck me as plausible but still didn't explain what the universe was expanding into?
 
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