Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
Well it most certainly was not you.
We're screwed, aren't we?
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Well it most certainly was not you.
Racing roadkill
Guru
Wanna bet? That entry was something I did many years ago, in order to help out a friend, who was studying for a degree in nuclear physics. I was ( and still am ) bound by regs about what exactly I can disclose. But this was deemed acceptable. I could go chapter and verse about Tannu / strannu design, but that really wouldn’t be a good idea.
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classic33
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An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics.
By C. K. Batchelor, G. K. Batchelor
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
AFAIK the taxpayer funded most of it back in the day - so not free at all. Only free at the point of access.
Racing roadkill
Guru
That’s one source.
classic33
Leg End Member
Their research, and that of others collected into one paper.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Fre at the point of access was what I meant. You have to be pretty pedantic to construe any other meaning.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Great, tomorrow I'll look at the complete edit history for the entry and see what else you've done on wiki.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
So I've already had a look to see who created the article and the name does not match yours as revealed on the Ride London thread , and it wasn't done in this country. How do you explain that?
midlife
Guru
Can the NHS claim that treatment is free even if we all know its paid for by the taxpayer?
oldfatfool
Guru
Unless you believe in reincarnation, wgaf?
HMS_Dave
Grand Old Lady
Interesting thread. I suppose it ought to be!? Humans as over-using, over-consuming(me), wasteful, polluting etc as we are, we have one important trait worth considering and that is our ability to change and adapt. A tiger for example has no hope in changing, it hunts, it rests, it reproduces... We CAN indeed change. But before we do we need to remove systemic hypocrisy from our lives. Massive corporations tell us to change and donate often to good humanitarian causes, but then want us to buy their latest and greatest new product every year in most instances, which has probably been made with materials mined and made from all over the world, shipped around, assembled then shipped again... Apple's revenue is around that of the country of Finland. To what end? Is it rampant consumerism? Or rampant capitalism? Can we not resist it? Another is population reduction. There is of course merit in the logic but the one child policy of China wasn't without it's huge sociological issues which in part was hindered by traditions of the nation. But more immediately we need to consume less. For example, if the population of China was to consume like the population of the USA do, they'd require all the oil produced daily in world for China alone. By simply consuming and wasting less we could have a profound effect on pollutants in the Sea, Ground and Atmosphere. It's never too late, im giving it a go...
i hate hills
Its my day to be brilliant
I'm off for 4 days . I plan to cycle with my bad knee . But i WILL think about this and give you folk my findings later .....
iandg
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I blame Thatcher 
My first degree was biological sciences (focused on conservation and ecology). I couldn't get a 'green' job in the 80s so took a trainee role in a hospital lab and retrained.
My first degree was biological sciences (focused on conservation and ecology). I couldn't get a 'green' job in the 80s so took a trainee role in a hospital lab and retrained.
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DCBassman
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Exactly this.
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