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    English village church bell silenced after 177 years over noise complaints

    Britain is no longer a Christian country. I do not see this as necessarily anything to do with Christianity. Most churches do not have clocks that chine on the hour let alone on the quarter hour. This is nothing to do with the Christian faith and all to do with a local tradition. Many towns...
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    What happened to 5G ?

    Adding some further detail to Gene2memE response. There is a lot of nonsense talked about 5G, so it is good to see a sensible reply. 5G is not some secrete means to kill the US population and has nothing to do with Covid or vaccinations. The technical standards are all publicly available on the...
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    Trump proposes 50% tariff on the European Union

    But the Conservative Party did get rid of him for fear he might loose them the next election. Finding someone even less electable (anyone remeber who she was?) rather ended their chances. I wonder if the Labour Party would have allowed someone like Biden to stand again? Probalby not. But the...
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    Trump proposes 50% tariff on the European Union

    I find it hard to believe Trump. I should clarify: he may well carry out his threats - who knows? It's not his threats I doubt but his rhetoric which is fanciful and often factually wrong. This used to be called lying.
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    Another look at the moon landing.

    I doubt that 9 out of 10 people could explain how a gaseous explosion could result in controlled forward (or sometimes reverse) motion. Some will not even understand what this is all about (clue: ICE = internal combustion engine). Not understanding how some detail of the technology works is not...
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    'Extraordinary' Blackout Shuts Down Spain, Portugal

    This put the London Heathrow power outage just over a month ago into perspective. It also shows how dependent developed countries are on infrastructure such as electricity, the internet and mobile phones. Longer ago a major power cut was an inconvenience. Now almost everything stops...
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    Why These Hawai'i Travelers from Germany Were Jailed, Strip-Searched And Deported

    The sudden dips in the graphs showing year on year change of visitors to the USA is probably due to Easter being later this year. I'm always suspicious of graphs like these. Some questions spring to mind: Why these specific countries? No France, for example. As most people normally book...
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    Will Elon Musk ever land on Mars ?

    They say "Money talks". Mine says "Good bye".
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    Will Elon Musk ever land on Mars ?

    I was thinking of some politicians. Perhaps Musk's mate with the hair. Or have they fallen out? Today's breaking news is that 6 very famous people will be going into space today on Bezo's Blue Origin rocket (I've heard of all but 5 of them). The rocket is fully automomous, so they will not get...
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    Will Elon Musk ever land on Mars ?

    I wonder if there would be any interest in setting up a "Go Fund Me" to assist poorer people (e.g. your typical multimillionaire) to help finance their trip? If insufficient money is raised then perhaps just a single ticket? (If the Tesla share price drops while Musk is on the outward trip, he...
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    Will Trump Negotiate Tariffs? White House Claims Over 50 Countries Want To Talk

    These only affect the price at the bottom end of the market or whether a product is viable at a given price. Premium products are sold for as much as people are willing to pay. Perhaps shops outside America think that people are willing to pay more for an American brand than for an own brand or...
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    Summary Of Tariffs, And Reasoning

    Adding to this (as Trump and some posters do not understand VAT - I guess that Trump has personally never paid for anything, so cannot be expected to understand such 'minor' details). VAT (in the UK and EU) is charged on most products and services, irrespective of whether it is domestically...
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    Will Trump Negotiate Tariffs? White House Claims Over 50 Countries Want To Talk

    America has just broken every trade agreement with every country. This is a very strange idea of 'keeping promises'. Of course every country "wants" to "talk". If this was a smaller country, then all the other countries would just turn around and say "get lost". But that is not an option when...
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    Free Traders Case For Tariffs

    I think this is probably down to only one remaining (Putin)? The USA has just unilaterally broken every trading agreement with every country. No one will now trust or respect America. As America is the largest nation economically (will soon be overtaken by China) all other countries have to...
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    Will Elon Musk ever land on Mars ?

    Yes, it was widely* reported at the time. When President Biden was asked about this, an aid had to inform him what it meant. Unlike Trump (not yet master of all) who was more awake and declared that foreign French words had no place in American language. It's unclear whether he still thinks it's...
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    Why People Believe The Earth is Flat

    I've just seen a partial solar eclipse. I made my own observation set-up by making a pin hole in some tin foil covering a larger hole in a cardboard box, and could see the sun projected onto white paper behind. There was a small 'bite mark' in an otherwise round sun. (No, it was not due to the...
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    Another look at the moon landing.

    That was getting on for 60 years ago and for a different space vehicle. Your argument is like asking why Ford would need to design and test the brakes on a new car. Did they not do this decades ago on previous models? And implying something suspicious about Ford. One big difference between...
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    Another look at the moon landing.

    Comparing technology that a consumer could afford with what could be done by the most wealthy and technically advanced nation is not a fair comparision.
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    Another look at the moon landing.

    I think this must be the wrong video. No where does it claim that NASA never went to the moon (it's actaully someone who is skeptical about the manned Mars mission going ahead in 2024). Would you buy a new model of car, if Ford said that they did not need to do any testing on the brakes...
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    Denmark wants to buy California

    Following Trump's approach to negotiation, Denmark should preemptively invade California. Trump respects strong behaviour and I’m sure he will respect Denmark for this perfectly reasonable action and will be willing to negotiate on favourable terms ceding California over to Denmark - at least...
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