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Sorry, I meant not interested in the sense of attempting to explore beyond what is known.

It seems to be English-English albeit old.

Tree surgeons? They treat trees for diseases as well as cut them.

Using this Which? article as reference. You have up to 3 or 4 weeks to outright reject an item if faulty for a refund. After that period, up to 6 months, it is the responsibility of the seller to repair/replace the item or prove the buyer caused the fault. After 6 months the situation is reversed and the buyer has to prove the fault existed at the time of purchase, which may entail an expert's report supporting their claim; this can be claimable for up to 6 years. In my experience it seems most shops give a 1 year no-quibble guarantee against faults.

I think the difference between Unity's view and the others is that the latter aren't interested and accept the expert consensus thus far, but he's interested and exploring it.

No, he's messing about, humorously, that he will gladly take your money.

The first leaf-like structures a seedling produces are called cotyledons and these hold the initial energy store until proper leaves are formed and can photosynthesise new energy reserves.

It's only the UK retailer's responsibility for a year isn't it? Then the manufacturer's guarantee, which is at their discretion if they offer one or not beyond 12 months, subject to the complainant satisfying the conditions of their warranty. The statutory guarantee is for 12 months as I understand it, whether it be the retailer or manufacturer that honours it.

Thanks for that Latest from Wikipedia is: That one gives a bit higher figure of 1 400 000 +/- 47 000mph.

I call people resistant to new technology or ideas Luddites. Cross posted with iNow.

You can only feel speed when there's an undergoing change in it ie acceleration (in physics this means both up or down in speed). It's other visual and physical cues that is telling you that you are moving. Take them away and you wouldn't have a clue you were moving.

You are moving through the universe at 1 200 000mph WRT CMB; are you having a problem at this speed? If it feels like this at that speed, what will it feel like near the speed of light? At any constant speed, in a straight line, you will feel stationary.

That's alright. I learnt something new from it, . I didn't realise until today that most of the different galaxy forms are in fact various evolutionary stages of the same phenomena and the further away you look the greater the prevalence of one type of galaxy i.e. an earlier form.

Ironic really because there is the counterpoint that: no one got rich by being honest.

He was being sarcastic.

Snowboard is about 200 km/h and skis 250 km/h. There's less surface area over the length of skis in contact with the snow. One would think there was more pressure per area negating that advantage but that extra pressure creates more frictional heat in motion, melting the snow more and thus lubricating the skis better; you want to be 'floating' on a decent film of water for fastest speed. You want minimal cross-section at the front so you aren't pushing too much snow out the way to slow you down; think of the front of a boat with a sharp bow versus a blunter bow. Also, skiers can keep a straight line better because their centre of mass is between the skis and thus more stable; the more you weave to stay upright, the further you travel and the longer it takes to travel between two points hence slowing you down as well.

It's a file associated with Internet Explorer, so I think you'll only break that if anything but I don't think it will happen because it is only a cache. At worst IE will run slightly slower fetching websites that you normally use because their addresses are not available to prefetch anymore.

Certain experiences like fears can be transferred to future generations

I sincerely hope that people don't gang up to show negative solidarity between them just because they disagree intellectually with a person. I personally see the negative part of the rep system as a means of admonishing them for some unreasonable aspect of their posting style or argument.

When someone is obviously being an ass, rather than potentially derailing a thread, I think a red one is enough. If multiple people give a person one then there is something clearly amiss with that post, commented on or not. Some things don't need to be said aloud.

Yep, if it's out there Google's got it.

I think the membership generally negates unjustly applied negative rep and notifies administration if a vendetta seems to be happening, so I don't think it's a really a problem. As long as the people that care about fairness watch each others backs it's all ok.

One of the beauties of English is it is so etymologically rich, being derivative of so many other languages.Whenever I look up a word I always stick the word "etymology" with it in Google to get it's origins.