TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS

[PanBiker]

Remember it well, also the number stations that just broadcast a constant stream of groups of numbers. Obviously meant something to someone. From memory they had multiple uses but in the main were used for clandestine communications. I found this so not far wrong.

Numbers Station

[Stanley]

Fascinating stuff and all outside my pay grade! Makes you wonder why NW news can't be broadcast on HD TV.......

[Big Kev]

Makes you wonder why NW news can't be broadcast on HD TV.......

From early 2023 it will be across all platforms.
https://rxtvinfo.com/2022/bbc-one-hd-re ... ess-update

[Stanley]

And about bloody time too! Thanks for that Kev.....

[Tripps]

It's December 21st tomorrow - the Winter solstice. If you haven't got the hang of it let the Daily Mail explain it all.

[Stanley]

I read the article David and it left the best thing until the very end and then only a mention, the days get longer!
I would remind everyone of the old saying.... When the days get longer, the cold gets stronger!

[plaques]

...the days get longer

I always though that days stayed the same length within a fraction of a second or so. The daylight hours get longer.

The pedant strikes again.

[Tripps]

I read the article David

Sadly between my posting and your reading the spoilsport Daily Mail corrected their mistake. They had written 'longest day'. I bet the sub editor who let that through had to get the team doughnuts last night.

[Tripps]

Impressive scholarly piece of research published in the British Medical Journal.
Seems not to have been 'peer reviewed' yet.

Direct Uptake of Nutrition and Caffeine Study. DUNCS.

[Tizer]

Seems not to have been 'peer reviewed' yet.

In that case they should invite the members of the House of Lords to give their verdict.

[Tripps]

Peer seems to be one of those words with two meanings which are quite opposite.

What is a meaning of peer?

a person of the same age, the same social position, or having the same abilities as other people in a group:

or

in the UK, a person who has a high social position and any of a range of titles, including baron, earl, and duke, or a life peer:

[Stanley]

Safest thing to do is treat everyone as your superior and tug the forelock....

[Tizer]

Another example of how protecting biodiversity can provide leads for developing medical benefits for humans.
`Scientists find secret to how glass frogs turn transparent' LINK

[Stanley]

What the frogs are capable of is amazing but the fact that researchers can extrapolate conclusions that could help blood management in humans is a miracle. Whatever they are paid they are worth it!

[Tizer]

Fantastic images from JWST...
`James Webb telescope: Amazing images show the Universe as never before' LINK

[Stanley]

Amazing images Peter.
We can accomplish something like that but look at the mess we have down here on Earth...... Perhaps we should give the job of running the world to the scientists.... (How silly of me to even suggest it.....)

[Tizer]

`Greater scientific expertise needed in Parliament to improve decision-making' Bath University

[Stanley]

I'd agree with that article Peter but with one addition, I note that they don't recommend any Humanities subjects. I think History would be a good discipline for an MP.
I am reminded of the report I mentioned a short while ago of the man who ran a chemical factory in the Midlands saying that when he had government visitors and he tried to explain the technical problems he faced he said 'Their eyes glaze over'. So it might need to be extended to senior civil servants as well.

[Tizer]

This looks like trickery as explained by the Edinburgh University geologist. Some mineral crystals exhibit piezoelectricity but I'm not sure they could power an LED light when they're in a lump of rock?
`Can these rocks really power light bulbs? No, say the experts' LINK

[plaques]

All diodes emit light when carrying a voltage, The specialized light emitting diodes LEDs are formulated to emit more light and the surface where it is emitted is more exposed to make the light available. I'm sure Ian can explain it better than I can.

[PanBiker]

There are load of free energy video's along with the supposedly perpetual motion machines which are invariably driven by a hidden battery! All on Youtube and the net in general. If half of them were genuine everyone would be on free electric and you wouldn't need to put any kind of fuel in a car. Can they explain the polarity of a rock? Until reliable fusion comes along I will continue to stick with accepted science.

[Stanley]

See THIS BBC report of the asteroid that narrowly missed Earth yesterday.
"About the size of a minibus, the space rock, known as 2023 BU, whipped over the southern tip of South America just before 00:30am GMT. With a closest approach of 3,600km (2,200 miles), it counts as a close shave. And it illustrates how there are still asteroids of significant size lurking near Earth that remain to be detected. This one was only picked up last weekend by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov, who operates from Nauchnyi in Crimea, the peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014. Follow-up observations have refined what we know about 2023 BU's size and, crucially, its orbit. That's how astronomers could be so confident it would miss the planet, even though it came inside the arc occupied by the world's telecommunications satellites, which sit 36,000km (22,000 miles) above us. The chances of hitting a satellite are very, very small."

[PanBiker]

It's the ones they cant track that are the biggest threat. A bit like "nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

[plaques]

A bit like "nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

Beware the Ides of March. Another lunar new year or the death of Ceasar. I would say beware of ideologies.

[Stanley]

I think we all have our personal list of the things that really worry us.
Suppose all the integrated circuits suddenly contracted the electronic equivalent of Covid 19? Let your mind wander round that one!