StringJunky

It is not without precedent. The UK queen is above prosecution since everything in that area is done in her name. The not small point though is that she does not govern. Trump could be hammered with a nice orange one-piece and and Hi Max accommodation if the Senate was composed differently.

Thanks. Changing lifestyle in a family/group setting must be hard because the others are going to carry on what one is trying to avoid. I have a solitary home life so I can make radical decisions about my lifestyle and routines without pressure to conform to what is normal in any given family setting. For instance, my diet plan just consisted of removing the biggest meal of the day as a routine and just having it maybe once a week or so. In a family setting, you would have to resist dinner smells for the others if you said "No more dinners for me". Good luck on that one.

Why don't you see a doctor who will either prescribe the right stuff or put you in touch with a knowledgeable professional? Do you know for sure it's caused by a microorganism?

My gastro gave me a proton pump inhibitor to deal with the symptom at the time, which worked, but I knew from him what the likely cause was and dealt with it when I was in the right mind. It's been a blessing really because I can't become too overweight without paying for it. I do know several people who just pop antacids without trying to find an underlying cause and just treat it as just an annoying ongoing fact of their life.

If you've got a bit of a pot belly, that can cause it; physical pressure from the fat there on the stomach. My optimum weight is between 10 and 12 stone and if I go over 13 stone I have a regular gastric reflux problem... at 12.5 stone it disappears. A gastroenterologist I was seeing noted that rapid weight change can cause it... I went from 11.5 stone to 13.5 stone during treatment I was having. I suppose the top stomach sphincter can only take so much external pressure before it not keeps closed as and when it should.

I average 3 posts a day over 10 years. Hardly prolific.

Are they the critical swing states?

As JC already said, the rancidity is a function of it not being stable; light, warmth and air are the main culprits it seems. It wants to be cold, dark and air-free to slow that process down.

And the reviewer(s).

Sorry about that. I mentioned it because it makes this topic seem somewhat hopeless. I don't see anyone on the Democratic side that has the larger-than-life persona and intent of a Boris or Donald, which is what catches peoples eye, I've noticed.

I searched for who was going to win next year and the analysts I read think Trump will win again if he keeps the economy up. Depressing.

Yes, that did cross my mind then vacuum sealing.

OK. Just read vacuum sealing will extend a refrigerated product that normally lasts 1-3 days to about two weeks

Would storing it in a pumpable vacuum container be feasible.

You clearly know nothing about scientific review. The purpose of a review is to critique a paper, not sing its praises.

Cheers.

Yes. Right. Cheers.

I should have said "... more kinetically active". A bit more than Brownian motion.

The only difference between Darwin's hypothesis and hydrothermal vents is that the latter are kinetically active.

You can have a hallucination and know it's not real, which I wouldn't class as a psychotic event but maybe that's not the expert view.

OK. I was seeing "psychotic" as specific grade of lucidity i.e. none. You might be schizophrenic but not psychotic all of the time. Is a person with schizophrenia, who is functioning socially normally but still hears voices in a psychotic state as per psychiatric conventions?

I suppose one difference is that schizophrenia describes a persistent illness and psychosis describes a symptom, which may be transient or not.

No, not having evidence that passes scientific scrutiny.

Ultamately, the bar to get over is scientific review and if it can't get passed that it's a non-starter. Conspiracy theories of institutional cover up is a fairly typical defence of those who believe something that is not generally accepted..

The question you want to ask is "How fast can a species evolve?" and are we, Homo sapien sapiens, the most evolved? To date it appears we are, then space travel is limited to what we can do now and ET's won't be very likely in our neighbourhood. You have to find a plausible mechanism before any phenomena can reasonably be expected to be investigated scientifically. It seems to me you have taken an arbitrarally chosen position that they have been in our vicinity.