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I hate the insidious "not on my watch". Fair enough that it is a term used in the navy, and so it would be acceptable for it to be used by John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Lyndon B. Johnson, who all served in the navy. However, its use by politicians who did not serve irks me, especially when I hear Albo use it.

The problem with our democracy is that the majority of electors have the common sense, but their elected representatives (notice I didn't say 'leaders') do not.

Def'n: CONSERVATIVE: averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values. LUDDITE: a person opposed to new technology or ways of working. SYNONYM: a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase. So are "conservative" and "luddite" in the consumable -v- renewable debate, synonyms?

Peeing.

It seems that the sensible answer for Australia is to concentrate on solar, which still works when the wind doesn't blow, and store the excess on battery farms. If we have a national grid, electricity produced in low demand places - mainly anywhere away from the major conurbations, can be transmitted through the grid to the high demand areas. It would cost money, but I wonder if creating battery farms would not be lots cheaper than trying to build thermal generating plants. Of course, my idea depends on advances in battery performance, which I do not doubt will happen.

War of the Worlds broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938, over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is infamous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place.

Has anyone stopped to consider that the lights might be meteors? This time of year there are several well known, and well predicted meteor showers. Meteors contain a variety of chemicals which emit a variety of colours as they burn. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide/ If you view the web page you will see that this link describes Northern Hemisphere details for when to view the showers.

The service is rat chit.

An example of Murphy's Law.

The normal respiratory rate for an adult at rest is 12 to 18 breaths per minute. A respiration rate under 12 or over 25 breaths per minute while resting may be a sign of an underlying health condition. However, the activity level when the rate is determined must affect the rate. I imagine that settling into sleep could allow the rate to fall to a much lower rate. Perhaps when the conscious mind attempts to lower ones rate in order to go to sleep, and one does go to sleep, the subconscious mind would raise the rate to get the CO2 concentration in the blood get to the correct level.

I'm wondering where this 15 year build time figure comes from. My father-in-law worked on the construction of Bradwell nuclear power station in Essex. Construction began in 1957 and and electricity generation started in 1962, ceasing operation in 2002. So why are we saying ours will take three times as long to build?

I think that their belief is based on the paranoia of the USA during the Cold War. The USA was the only country which went overboard with practising responses to nuclear attack. It drilled the paranoia into Baby Boomers and now it is cultural. I didn't help that Hollywood promoted the paranoia through Sci-Fi and End Of World movies.

I think that the best answer is to take advantage of solar generation by installing community batteries. However, they are not without their environmental dangers as well. I guess an energy Utopia is simply an unattainable goal. The bullseye can't be hit, so I suppose we need to accept landing in the outer rings.

I wonder how much it would cost to refurbish the coal-fired power stations long enough for them to maintain supply until nuclear generation plants could be built. If Howard hadn't put the kibosh on nuclear in the Nineties, we'd have nuclear generation plants by now. Or if he hadn't sold our natural gas for a pittance we could afford gas=powered generation.

I know what they are!!!! Since they are being seen over the States which are close to the Canadian border, they must be carrying illegal immigrants delivering great amounts of Fentanyl across the border.

Got it! They are clickbait.

You can't make me believe that a military superpower that the USA is cannot identify what these things are, or track them to landing places. From the above reference: The Pentagon has also said they are not US military drones. All I can do is to quote Juliet, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. Another designation of these things is unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Feel free to create a name for them yourself. Then the Pentagon could use your name and would be correct in saying that they are not "US military drones".

Yeah, but the Japanese and the Chinese made plans are were willing to take their time. They were aiming to benefit their whole nation, not a wealthy elite. Admittedly, a wealthy elite did develop, but I think than in both cases, the common people had their situations greatly improved. After all, health care and social services support are free in those countries.

I don't look for the bright spot. I sometimes use a rotating spiral - sort of hypnotise myself. I don't have trouble nodding off when I first hit the sack about 11:00 pm, but if I have a job to do the next morning, I have difficulty getting back to sleep after getting up for a pee around 4:30. Then, with daylight saving, the bloody sunlight floods my bedroom between 5:45 and 6:00, so I've got to pull the sheet over my head to nod off until close to 7:00. To avoid feeling the heat after lunch, I take a nap, but sometimes that only lasts ten to twenty minutes and I wake up rearing to go mentally, but unwilling physically.

Depicting that data would make for an interesting Venn diagram.

It depends on the context. In the context of philosophy you could be thinking of the concept of nothingness. In day-to-day life, "thinking of nothing" is a state of mental activity in which the conscious mind is not talking to itself. One says that one's mind is blank. There are no mental images to "see". It's hard to put an answer to that question into words.

Have you noticed that Trump is blathering on mainly about Canada, Mexico, the members of the EU, China and North Korea,with a little about things in the Middle East, but he hasn't said much about Great Britain or Japan and not a word about Australia. We know that if he goes ahead with his economic vision, he'll severely damage the economies of those places, but he seems to either forget, or have no recognition of any countries south of the Equator.

This video shows that he doesn't understand the criteria used to select the "Personality of the Year". Given the explanation from Wiki - "The distinction is supposed to go to the person who, "for good or ill", has most affected the course of the year; it is, therefore, not necessarily an honor or a reward. In the past, such figures as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin have been Man of the Year", I wonder if people such as Bin Laden, Castro, Putin, or Ali Khamenei have been given the same distinction.

If he bungs tariffs on us, then maybe we should up the rent on his military bases here, and also tell him we don't want his submarines, and go back to France to get them, or any other number of democratic countries that build them. Let's drag this placard out from the back of the wardrobe: Probably correct, but that's a bit like being repeatedly hit over the head with a wet fish and ignoring the smell.