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Funny coincidence…just as this thread gets posted, do I get back online, after a fashion anyway Yes all is well with me, I was just without Internet connectivity for a while. I live in Norway now, and helping to build up a monastery here. My Internet connection is still basic, so I mightn’t be quite as active as before. But it’s good to be back And thanks for the book recommendation @studiot, I’ve had this in my library for a while, but haven’t gotten around to reading it. Hopefully soon!

Not necessarily. He could pardon himself for federal convictions, but not for state crimes. I believe the charges in Georgia are state crimes, and so are the ones in New York. So even if he's President, he's still got to hope he beats the rap.

@Genady @joigus @Markus Hanke Update. I have been evaluating this new book by Professor Needham of California, and I have to say I like it and am impressed. Needham favours a move back from 'algebraic geometry' to 'geometric geometry' , as a resullt this book has lots of new results not (readily) available elsewhere and a comprehensive section on GR which is his favourite topic. The does not mean that he shies away from calculation, quite the reverse. He simply wants the calculations to offer real world meaning as well as algebra. PS Markus I hope all is well with you.

It was really pleasing to find I had messaged the rapid response team. 🙂 Thanks to you all for you comments. Yes I agree, but he seems more than just a pretty face, he offers some interesting ideas. I think the notion of an absolute measeure or standard of length (ie one without units) that he quietly drops on p15 is worth a discussion all by itself. This is quite different from a Physicist's idea of what such a measure might be, yet so simple and elegant. Finally my apologies to those members I omitted, for example @Mordred though I am sure there must be many more, in my rush to get my first post to print. Of course I present the information to all who might be interested or benefit.

And not all hallucinations point to chemicals or health issues. Some are simply vivid interpretations the brain manufactured to explain abnormal phenomena. We sometimes see or hear something that the brain doesn't immediately recognize, so it gives us its best guess. I'd classify those as hallucinations.

Flight path in the Flight Radar app: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ra-02795#31b7cbfb ps. Note that "calibrated altitude" is incorrect. It should start with an altitude of 0 ft and a ground speed of 0 kts. Some data are cut, missing or altered.

This is factually incorrect. This is also factually incorrect.

Your examples are noble professions.

This is not correct. Almost no ships today are steam powered, of any size. The only exceptions are nuclear submarines and LNG carriers, many of which are steam turbine driven in order to run on boil-off gas from the cargo. Virtually all other ships are diesel and have been for decades. Diesels are a lot more efficient than turbines, hence their dominance. A modern large 2-stroke low speed engine, of the types used in container ships and tankers, can get to 50%thermal efficiency: http://marineengineering.co.za/lectures/technical-information/motor-docs/sulzer-rta-series.pdf In powergen applications the combined cycle (gas turbine with exhaust used to raise steam for a steam turbine, often running on the same shaft) can get close to 60%. But you can’t run a gas turbine on residual fuel oil, so these are not used in ships. There are indeed some gas turbines on military ships, usually combined with diesel engines, but navies burn gasoil, not RFO, to avoid the associated hassle of dealing with it. (I used to work in the oil industry on lubricants for the marine and power sector.)

It is remarkable how very often the person working 3 or 4 jobs is making several commas less than folks who take an occasional business call while swinging at a golf ball or sipping cognac. Take two equally talented people and the one who works harder will tend to do better, but hard work is not the rocket ship to prosperity it once was. In fact, it seems the harder you work these days the less you get paid. We're racing to the bottom, and we're winning.

You seem to have a two-tiered system for evaluation of polling results. Ohe tier is acceptance of polls that are pro-Russian hegemony, the other tier is dismissing polls that are pro-Ukrainian sovereignty and NATO membership, usually implying they were conducted at gunpoint (metaphorically, anyway). And the poll you mainly reference was only Crimeans IIRC, and done while it was already under Russian control. Your system seems not too objective. Russians report the pilot seemed very depressed and said things to copilot like, "Going to find me a couple of SAMs and dive into them if you don't stop popping your gum."

I’m shocked!!! … that it took this long to happen

An amateur video posted on YT shows the plane falling to the ground. The Russian commentary by a woman - who apparently thought it was a drone being taken out by local air defences - suggests that the Embraer jet was hit by two SAM missiles.

The TASS news agency has just reported that Yevgeny Prigozhin the leader of the Wagner Group was one of 10 people killed when a private jet crashed near the Tver Region in Russia while on a flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-66599774 Presumably it was logistically simpler than trying to position him next to an open window.

AFAIK, all the big cargo ships and super tankers are diesels. They’re much more fuel efficient, and cheaper to operate as a result. They also have nasty emissions, but that’s another story. https://dieselforum.org/port--marine#:~:text=Moving this trade through sea,%2C performance%2C durability and reliability.

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