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It's a shame that America's display of manufacturing might is now simply museum exhibits. Recall, also that England has very many abandoned factories now.

What part of my earlier post can you not understand? And I was only clarifying the difference between "tonnage" as applied to ships and the "displacement" which relates to the amount of water a ship displaces when it floats. However, on reflection upon your last posting, am I correct in thinking that you were saying that more weight of steel was sunk than was used to make sheets of Marston matting?

Now, it appears the last two weeks (of the Australian election campaign) will be obscured by the funeral and succession of the only other man on Earth more famous than the first. And — for good measure — the funeral will be attended by both. Wouldn't it be great if they could arrange a double funeral?

If you are talking about the voting for the Senate, then your comment might only apply to your State. We would have to see if the same pattern exists in other States and Territories to see if the LNP did the same with One Nation across the whole country. However, it seem logical that the Parties of conservative nature would want to keep votes on that side of the divide.

It's got nothing to do with the actual cargo being carried. Tonnage is a VOLUME. A ship whose volume (tonnage) is filled with feathers has a different displacement (weight) from one whose tonnage is filled with lead. And I do know which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead.

I don't think that you understand the difference between 'tonnage" and "displacement". Gross tonnage is a nonlinear measure of a ship's overall internal volume. Gross tonnage should not be confused with measures of mass or weight such as deadweight tonnage or displacement. Displacement tonnage, or simply displacement, is the weight of water a ship displaces when it is floating. Remember Archimedes in his bath? This weight is directly equal to the weight of the ship and anything it's carrying (cargo, fuel, etc.). Therefore the same ship has a different displacement if it is loaded or unloaded, but the tonnage always remains the same. The tonnage of a ship is known from its registration details if it is a commercial ship, or from released if it is a military ship, or by referencing Janes Fighting Ships. Janes Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of each country's navy and coast guard, along with their weapons and aircraft. Included are ship names, construction data, size, speed, range, complement, engineering, armament, and sensors.

Not only do we have people creating falsehoods on YouTube, and perpetuating inaccuracies, but now AI is making things worse. Here is one, real, YouTube creator exposing how AI has been used to create incorrect facts and even imaginary items in creating a story.

It's not wrong to mourn the loss of a member of our community, especially one who showed leadership in so many ways. I was trying to point out that death for him might be a joyous thing, but for us it is a loss.

And I was only clarifying the difference between "tonnage" as applied to ships and the "displacement" which relates to the amount of water a hip displaces when it floats. However, on reflection upon your last posting, am I correct in thinking that you were saying that more weight of steel was sunk than was used to make sheets of Marston matting?

I don't have a credit card. Got rid of it years ago and got a Visa debit card. It seems to allow me to do most everything a credit card can do, except get me into credit debt. Spacey, why not obtain a debit card?

Clearly (?) the reasonable way to report pollutants in the air is by weight/unit volume. That is the Gross value. It's made up of 'fine' particles < 2.5um and 'coarse' particles <10um. The Greek letter mu (μ) represents the SI prefix "micro", which denotes a factor of 10-6 (one millionth). So those measurement units are millionths of a metre.

Didn't you know that Biden gave the Pope pneumonia?

I think that atheists would find it ironic that a person who spent his life in an effort to gain admittance to the Kingdom of God, would be mourned for getting his entry ticket.

It's a joke, Joyce.

Just to clear up some differences in meaning. Tonnage is a measure of the capacity of a ship. Tonnage (volume) should not be confused with displacement, the actual mass of the vessel. In this little discussion of steel production, Nev's question relates to how much weight of steel was sent to the bottom.

Octave hinted at a reason that EVs are OK to use in NZ. He said that electricity there is produced by hydro generation. Is it reasonable to think that the cost of electricity in NZ is much less than here?

Once again I am staggered by the industrial production of the USA in such a short time. The mind boggles at the volume of steel that must have been produced in order for the production of everything from nuts and bolts to Liberty ships. And then I think of the current state of US manufacturing. How the mighty have fallen!

How do you make roads and runways in a battlefield? You just throw a few sheets of steel on the ground.

A-line is a form of a-dress.

Even in Latin after the fall of the Western Roman Empire had a lot of variants. One could almost call Medieval Latin a variety of pidgin Latin. Medieval Latin had an enlarged vocabulary, which freely borrowed from other sources. It was heavily influenced by the language of the Vulgate, which contained many peculiarities alien to Classical Latin. Vulgate, or Vulgar Latin, also known as Colloquial, Popular, Spoken or Vernacular Latin, is the Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward by everyday people. Those areas of the Western Roman Empire have languages strongly based on Latin and Greek. The languages of the rest of Europe that the Roman did not conquer have languages based on the expansion of the parent Indo-European languages and the effects of isolation on the development of dialects which eventually became common languages. Compare the Slavic languages with the Germanic or Celtic and you see how isolation produced the different languages. During the Medieval Period the increase in knowledge from native sources or through trade and interaction with the Arabic world introduced many new words which the intelligentsia Latinised to include in correspondence which was mostly carried out using Latin forms.

There is nothing worse than reaching for your wallet and it not being there. I often just put my wallet on the centre console of my car and forget to pick it up when I dive out to go to the supermarket. Even realising that I don't have it while I'm halfway to the supermarket gives me a jolt. I can imagine PMCC's horror having lost his in a foreign country. Both his and Onetrack's happy result restores one's faith in the goodness of most people.

And you can blame that damned Yankee, Noah Webster, for the abomination of American spelling.

I condom that comment.

Random thought: Paper wasps are hanging around my place at the moment. They are nasty bastards and I make an effort to destroy their nests when I see them. I spray the nest with surface insecticide and come back later after the wasps have left and knock the nest down and stamp on it. When I did this to the last nest I destroyed I was taken by the intricacy of its construction. These nests are the same year in, year out. It made me wonder where in the DNA of these wasps are the plans for their nests, and their reproductive behaviours located. Then I started to think about the behaviours of all the other insects, fish, birds and mammals. They have the knowledge of millennia stored in their DNA. How come humans have lost that innate knowledge?

Statistics can trick you, especially when you are dividing one number by another. If the pollution remains the same, but the population increases, the per capita number comes down. I thought that natural atmospheric conditions exacerbated the industrial pollution in Beijing. Isn't the area subject to inversions which prevent the pollution from blowing away?