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I guess that no one really wants surgery, but that does really highlight my point about correct diagnosis and treatment, rather than witchcraft and extracts. I do find it strange that no one on here has suggested that using flour and water instead of cement is good for housebuilding, based on the 'fact' they have seen a gingerbread house.

That is where correct diagnosis of the problem comes in. Have they not tried other methods to check your BP. I had to wear a monitor for a week once. Not ideal, but gives a better overall picture. My ex had low blood pressure. When she had a stroke (a TIA, so not a huge one), the duty Doctor said, 'Blood Pressure is fine'. My ex pointed out that it was a lot higher than normal. After a few more tests over the coming weeks, transpires that she had a hole in the heart. That should have been diagnoses soon after birth. Now I am not saying that all BP problems are caused by this, just highlighting that the medical profession can consistently miss things (she was, seemingly, a bit of a hypochondriac with a very fat file at the GPs).

And the chickens in the oven

No, I research and synthesise, very different. I get a bit fed up with misinformation, especially when people are being parted with their cash by charlatans. I also have personal reasons to distrust GPs diagnosis and treatments, but that is not really relavent here as none of them were even case studies (though one became one and has saved thousands of lives since). What really concerns me though is the attitude that 'at least they do no harm' when it comes to supplements. They do as they often stop a correct diagnosis, and that can be fatal. Just far a laugh, create a scale of pain and plot it against time and activity. I think you will be amazed at what shows up.

Except there is, loads and the outcomes all generally all the same. JFGI (I got bored once I had counted to 60 reports on the Cochrane site) I think, as Jeremy pointed out, often the studies are looking for harm rather than effectiveness. Also not right to compare non-medicines with medicines i.e. unlicensed supplements against licences medicines. And then there is the issue of bad diagnoses and treatments, not to mention ones own outcome expectations. A decent statistical review usually sorts out the wheat from the chaff, but those reports are hard to come by for free.

Some of this goes back to Milgram's experiments (now debunked) about deferring to a higher authority (or not wanting to piss your friends/relatives/boss off). it is why the double blind randomised trail system is used. This is not perfect as it does not isolate the patient from the medical professionals, but it is the best we currently have (though computerised diagnostics and treatment recommendations are proving to be more successful)

I will have a stab at it, based on my intuition and pet prejudices. Nothing in this world is linear, you may like to think it is, but when start to look under the hood, you see strange things going on. So first off I shall define some variables. t = time post up (hours) i = initiator of post popularity (0-10) s = subject, real or imaginary (0-10) d = deviance from subject expected (0-10) o = origin of topic, work or personal (0-1) g = rate of fall out, can be thought of as acceleration downwards, like gravity (0-10) h = adjustment factor, a unit less number that takes the form 1 exp(pn) where p is the number p of posts, n is the adjustment factor and is usually negative) so, once rearranges as such: t.i.h.s.g.o = d With a bit of imagination and plotting to the exponent of -0.1, you get the below chart, once the plots hit the zero on the y-axis, it is time to abandon all hope of recovery.

Except he was the only one that was committed, the others were inventory inmates. (important film as it highlighted the serious misuse of power in USA mental institutions, similar to Scum and our young offender prisons)

Do you mean Vitamin D supplements? Good in a curry, it is the bit that stains the worktops. Some say it is a cure for cancer. Well they won't according to the large and long term study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. This report has recently been highlighted again in the national media. If I remember correctly, the only one that showed better than placebo, was Folic Acid during pregnancy. If you find that taking supplements for minor, almost non specific aliments, then you are either: Getting older Easily persuaded There has been a lot of work done on the placebo affect, usually by social scientists (who are not scientists in the least, just people with problems they are working though). There is now a lot of research being done into the equally successful Nocebo, this is where you are given a pill and told it has nothing active in it. Works as well as chanting, but costs more and takes more time. Having said that, some people do have serious problems that are misdiagnosed (took the National Spinal injuries Centre 13 years to find out what was up with my back). But that is caused by useless Doctors, not lack of expensive supplements from Holland and Barrett. Being overweight, even by a couple of kilos, can put extra strain on joints, tendons and muscles. Loosing weight it probably the most important thing to tackle first. Newhome had it right

DAC has been kicking around for a while now. I think Carbon Engineering are looking for more investment. Interesting idea to make liquid fuels, does not help atmospheric CO2 levels though. There is a company that is changing ACO2 into rocks, which is a better method. Maybe the two need to be combined. The real answer is to change to renewable energy globally and then worry about CCS of atmospheric CO2. This weeks comic has a large article about RE tech. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23831810-100-how-to-keep-the-lights-on-without-burning-the-planet/

Is that because it has two free electrons in the outer shell that are happy to pair up with another two free electrons on another oxygen atom. Something like this (I never really got the hang of chemistry as it always seemed to be a memory test) Edit: Actually not quite right as it should show either two new pairs of electrons (as there are 4 free ones) or one new pair and two free ones (one on each atom shell).

Can you add a sacrificial anode, and would it be any real help?

You get a view of the countries largest windturbine, that I would like. Less than a mile from you is Windmill Hill

That is noble gasses isn't it. Everything else is a molecule. With Oxygen being a right tart and sticking to almost everything. Carbon is the same.

not what I would aim at it.

I had to teach statistics to second year SS students. Was pretty easy really as only dealing with the tails, which sums up the mentality of SS students. They only know their life experience and assume they know it all. One of my worse students ended up serving time for fraud and theft, no surprise as she was a junky that knew everything.

Will that be an 'up to' and in reality only as good as you can get. I also assume you mean Mb/s

Like social science, and economics, it just isn't. But Rutherford's statement was political as his wife ran off with a dirty chemist.

You will have to check with a chemist. “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” Lord Rutherford

Water molecules are 275 picometres Oxygen molecule is 346 picometres. Nitrogen molecule is 364 picometres But I think at that scale it is not an issue.

Paint it with a bitumen paint and make sure that the inside can stay dry. You could always cast a concrete floor in it to stop any floating.

Just dig a hole with the JCB and bury the shipping container. Then a few light tubes and a periscope. Will be quiet, may float when it rains, but that gentle rocking s soothing.

It is the same thing really. Decrement delay is time.K-1, or temperature drop/raise Thermal Inertia is energy.m-2.K-1.s0.5 So you can think of it as as the difference between R-Values and U-Values. You know they are related with R-Value being measured in m2.K.W-1 and U-Value being measured in W.m-2.K Just arithmetic juggling really. The interesting thing is that for any given mass, to get a timeshift, there is a narrow temperature difference band it can work in. Below is a chart that modelled a 1m2 section of wall made from brick. To get a 12 timshift, you need a temperature difference between inside and outside (called the energy forcings) of 1.8°C. To get a more useful 8 hours temperature release the temperature difference will be 1.2°C, which is basically parity with external temperatures once internal energy forcings have been taken into account. For OSB you can have a temperature difference of 19°C and have any absorbed energy released over a period of 8 hours. I have to put in a caveat that this is just working with my house and my temperatures over the last 4 weeks. I am sure those figures above will change when I have more data, and it is just a basic model, does not take into account air changes (they are kind of built in as it is real temperature data) and window area (again kind of built in).

Like calling the Post Office, Consignia. I can remember when an Opel was a sweet, a stone and a car, now it is only two of those. Shall I rebrand?

Could well be because of the nuclear side: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/04/uk-takes-5bn-stake-in-welsh-nuclear-power-station-in-policy-u-turn I still call those crappy little Japanese cars Datsuns, even though the are Renaults now, and built in Sunderland.