StringJunky

Could you look for an online vet that you could consult? Will likely cost, but probably not as much. There are text-only consultations, which are the cheapest.

I always thought there was always some parasitic discharge when left in a device. Clearly, some are better than others.

Possibly silver-zinc batteries by Eagle Picher. That was the portable source on missions, it seems. Found it. The above was for bigger stuff. It was an ACR Model FA-5 Penlight. "Indeed, Lovell notes in a later letter[3] that when he found his Apollo 13 penlight in a drawer in 1981 it still lit up even though the batteries were the original set installed and used 11 years previously." Second one down in link. http://spaceflownartifacts.com/flown_flashlights.html#:~:text=The magnesium flashlight was powered,powering down their stricken spacecraft. N.B. It only had 100 charge-discharge cycles.

I use Brave Search and its AI/LLM (Mixtral 8x7B and Mistral 7B)will knock out an answer and provide the website pages it drew its information from on the bottom. I see it as a more sophisticated Google page. I find it an OK starting point for queries.

We may not notice the groin smells because it is exposed to air, whereas the armpit is more enclosed and can contain the smell products to a more concentrated level, such that we notice it.

Greek yoghurt has low levels of lactose. Most of it is converted to lactic acid. Sensitivity will vary between individuals, I would imagine. Even then, there are women who apply it prophylactically. I knew one. Eating a wide diversity of uncooked plant matter, each one having their own commensal species groups, are good probiotic sources as well AFAIK and probably the best way for its diversity. Kefir, which I use, along with veg and Greek yoghurt, has a few dozen species in it. It's probably the best fermented type of food for diversity in one product.

I think one of the major bacterias in the female genital area and tract is lactobacillus, accounting for 80-90%. Yes, each area of the body has its own niche bacteria. Why? Because the environmental conditions allow them to thrive and evolve in a particular locality of the body and become dominant. For example, pH will have a great influence on bacterial habitat suitability for each species. Armpits are 5.5-6.5 and relatively anoxic, suiting Staph.hominis and Vaginas 3.5-4.5, which is ideal for lactobacillus spp. which produce hydrogen peroxide, lactic acid and other byproducts to inhibit other potentially competitive pathogenic species of other micro-organisms.

The hair under the arms and genital area facilitates diffusion of volatile products in those areas. I think we have culturally trained ourselves to think these smells are undesirable. It may have begun with deodorant adverts from companies that needed to shift their products in the early-mid 20th century. They used to be quite blatant in their depictions of presenting body odours and scents as totally socially undesirable. Ambergris is a product sperm whales produce to coat the beaks of squid that they eat to reduce abrasion and improve its transit through the gut without harm. There is such a thing as phantom smells that the mind synthesizes, which could happen if someone is sufficiently emotionally triggered by a smell. You also might actually smell an offending odour type coming from somewhere else but associate it with coming from yourself.

I set up my own stream years ago that excludes Religion. I've noticed it sneaking into Philosophy, or some other forum a bit, but it's quiet on that front for me.

Now you know where he gets his inspiration from.

The genesis of nature is part deterministic as well as stochastic. Fundamental particles that make up nature behave in predictable ways when they collide with each other... the potential outcomes are known. The random part is when it happens and what collides with what in a reaction.

It's because of cultural and religious dogma.

All mushrooms are edible. Some only once.

I like the idea too, and, to me, it is self-evident that it is sentient because we are here. Because evolution is a continuum, we have to encompass all of it in the Evolution and operation of sentience.

Ah gotcha! I remember reading about that. Thanks.

I don't get that.

Thanks Janus. It would be a highly kinetic environment; catastrophic weather patterns? What would we experience gravitationally in the short term and long term from the present status of things?

Have you tried 'fit to page' or 'stretch to page' (or similar) in Print Options in landscape mode?

What effects on Earth would we see if its orbital velocity was balanced with Jupiter's gravity at Moon distance to maintain a stable orbit? Assume everything is as it is now and we suddenly found Earth in that situation.

Lovely, Zap.

It would be highly gratifying to see the RW majority of the Court ultimately hamstrung and judicially checkmated by their own edicts. Fingers crossed.

Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas?

Going to need a wheelbarrow full of popcorn this time. Do you American members think this will more messy and contested than 2020? The GOP seem to be focussed on altering the rules of the game, rather than just playing it.

Not a good idea to talk about all the world's problems in one thread.