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Is a dendochronology lab a tree-ring circus?

I agree with Onetrack's suggestion that it is the change in velocity over time (acceleration) that acts on the vestibular systyem of the inner ear. Octave mentions being ill on winding roads. That indicates sideways movement affected the vestibular system. If you are a passenger in car, the bad driving rechnique of the driver can create acceleration effects. (I'm using "accleration" as a term for inceasing and decreasing velocity so I don have to write "deceleration")

I hear that his latest is to stop supplying the Ukraine with missiles on the grounds that the USA doesn't have enough for its own defence.

You have obviously never suffered from motion sickness.

That's a special case. The Police/SES had deemed it safe for 4WDs & trucks to go through the water. What I wanted to highlight was that doing such a thing in the circumstances that often lead to vewhicles being washed off the road is something to be prevented by all possible means. Most frequently you hear of these incidents happening on rural roads where the safety of the crossing is not known.

I think that it should be an offence to drive a vehicle into flood waters to maybe make people think again before doing it. At the moment there does not seem to be a trafic law that covers thyt sort of stupidity. Negligent or Dangerous Driving requires that there is danger to other persons or property. That makes them pretty high level offences.

A couple of years ago I got more than enough rain. I've seen what this place is like in drought. That's why I get concerned when there is no rain for a long time.

If the weather is with you and you have the logistics down pat, I can't see why you can't go from groung breaking to moving in within three months. I would say if a builder had a clear run the only delays would be from getting building inspectors to arrive on schedule.

If there is one EV manufacturer who is likely to fail, it's TESLA. Too over-the-top for the general population. You don't see a Ferrari or Rolls in every garage in the suburbs. People simply want an inexpensive, reliable passenger vehicle. That's the market that the Chinese seem to be aiming for.

Over the next couiple of days the WEweather Bureau says that the coast of NSW will cop a hammering from a dumbell of two Low pressure centres just off the coast. I looked at the expected rainfall areas oiver thoise two days and, as a ereult, I am considering doing a lot of laundry because it will be planty dry around my way.

Oy! Watchit, mate.

I find it mind-boggling just how many bytes have been created and stored since Mankind started storing information this way.

Imagine the data storage requirements for all that data. Gunna use a lot of electricity.

Spacey, you are sounding like Grumpy Old Nasho when you talk about being hard done by during your school years. I can believe that some demobilised blokes would be carrying the mental scars of the war years, and that would have influenced theeir behaviour, but I was educated under a very strict disciplinary regime, and I hold no grudges against my teachers.

Educating kids about money?????? Kids these days have difficulty recognising coinage and notes. It's a plastic world to them.

At first sight, providing money to Wesfarmers for solar panels for its sites smells of something shoinky. However, the article says that the money is actually a loan to be repaid at commercial loan rates. Ther problem that I see in trying to get solar panels on commercial buildings is that there has to be some way that the tennant of the building gets a benefit from the electricity generated. However, that thought can readily be changed if you say that the roof of a commercial building is space that is the building's owner, the same as floor space under the roof is the owner's to do with as wanted. So it's no business of any tennant what money the owner makes from the roof area.

Ts & Cs apply. How many times have you seen that in relation to some product? Just recently I was working through the operating instructions for a TV. I just wanted to find out what the symbols on the controller were. However, I reckon that half of the pages of the booklet dealt with the terms and conditions of use of the TV. Pages of what was once called "fine print" but now referred to as "small font size". Of course I didn't read them. These Ts & Cs must surely only benefit the manufacturer. It appalls me when I see a young child in a pram fully engaged with what is showing on the screen of a mobile phone. Of course, giving a babe a mobile phone allows the mother to be fully engaged with hers, ignoring communication with the child. The Victorian Era idea of education for the masses, which had the implied goal if producing factory fodder, is now condemned by educators whose idea of a education system fails to educate in so many areas.

Just goes to show that the technology is advancing at an exponential rate. The point is, when will this technology be commonplace in Australia? I reckon that those who are Boomers or older shouldn't be too involved in the debate. The adoption of renewables will be finalised after those people have passed on. However, being stick-in-the-muds doesn't provide a legacy to their descendants. Damned if youdo. Damned if you don't.

I think we are talking about two different things when we are talking about providing power to a charging station. What I am thinking about is that, if it was possible to supply 1 MW to each of, say 10 chargr points, then imagine the thickness of the cable that would be needed to deliver the electricity.

I think Trump has been enlightened.

Here is the split between urban and rural. I agree that a city-dweller can recharge overnight at home, and probably would hardly ever need to use a public charging station. However, once one is travelling a long way from home, then one has to use public chargers. Siso has indiocated that for a 10 place 100KW station you need to be able to supply a MW of demand which means a large cable to feed it and possibly a transformer. Grid access in rural areas could not accomodate that load and still keep the local town supplied. Therefore a charging station in a rural location might not be able to support more than four outlets.

Therein lies the problem. Just look at the average petrol station. There are usually at least four pumps for a small station, and many more for teh larger ones. Therefore more vehicles can be refueled per hour with liquid fuel than can be recharged with electricity. Does the future of EVs rely on the development of exteremely rapid means of charging?

I doubt that Stoker was "using", as it took him about seven years to write the novel, during which time he had a fulltime job as a theatrical manager. He did a lot of research into dialects for saome of the ancilliary characters in the story (mostly workmen who had at times been involved in movin Dracula's stuff around. This novel contains probably the first mention of the use of a typewriter and a Dicta-Phone tpe of device in modern literature. The Dicta-Phone device mentioned was an Edison wax cylinder voice recorder.

No. There is too much rivalry amongst them to ever unite. What "infidel" means: "adherent of a religion opposed to Christianity," from Old French infidèle, from Latin infidelis "unfaithful, not to be trusted,". Originally "a non-Christian" (especially a Saracen); later "one who does not believe in religion, disbeliever in religion generally". As an adjective from mid-15c., "of a religion opposed to Christianity;" So it is wrong to call the USA an infidel foe. It is the USA which should be calling Muslims (and Jews) infidels.