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if anyone is interested what Einstein actually thought about the Aether, his lecture from 1920 :

Here, here! I would just say "Look at America". I can remember Maggie holding up the US as an example of the way to go as a model of economic efficiency. The inflexibility and political aspirations of the unions at the time precipitated the change from a socialist outlook to a more capitalist one. The unions were terrible.

I think this was symptomatic of an ill-acquired management trained in business techniques - as was common then - that had no clue as to the requirements of each hospital and instead treating each one as identical clones of a franchise. Health administration on a universal healthcare platform, like the NHS, is whole different ball game.

I think if you are eating a good variety of foods that's as fast as it's going to grow. There's plenty of snake oil advice and sellers on the internet which you should avoid. It's up there with bigger willies and bigger breasts for scammers and general BSers

OK.

So, should England play to lose against Belgium, so they don't meet Germany or Brazil just yet?

As I said earlier: The situation is unknown but needs to be known.

What about overall health. No one said it's a mortal illness.

Do we know their health status due to lack of it? All we can say is that they are alive OK.

The sun's not on a light-switch. There are such things as cloudy days and very short days in northern lattitudes. From about October to April in the UK, there is insufficient sunlight for adequate vitamin D production, even if every day was cloudless. The further north, the worse it gets.

One is not writing just for contemporary readers but those in the future as well: forums are repositories.

I forgot about ricketts. that causes deformities of the long bones in particular. This is a childhood condition. that would have an effect on fecundity.

It most likely would have kicked-in in middle age with a generally weaker skeleton, which probably affected their strength/usefulness/longevity in pre-modern times. Modern medicine and relative affluence mitigates it now in first world societies with mobility devices and social care.

At the least, they can be part of the NSA mass surveillance apparatus, by design or in ignorance.

If the distribution is isotropic and homogenous, and the galaxies are moving in random directions as an ensemble, how might there be a centre of mass?

"Hi Alexa". I know at this point in my life I'm becoming a Luddite. Over my dead body am I having listening and watching devices in my home just because I can't be bothered to do some things I've been doing all my life.. There's enough of them out in the UK streets atop traffic lights and elsewhere.

That's enlightening. I never thought of it that way. So, the US has got a significant problem whereby the governance and media reflects the whims of those that can afford it.

Have a rep for trying.

Maths describes the answer, It is not the source of the answer itself. Apparently, Einstein made that mistake later in life; thinking that the answer was in the maths. One can go too far the other way from neglecting intuition, imagination etc.

It's also called Atom Land, apparently. https://www.amazon.com/Atom-Land-Through-Impossibly-Particle/dp/1615193731

In the long term, one might fair better over the other statistically but I don't know if it would be really significant at this point in human history. I think you'll get a better answer if CharonY sees this thread

UK health authorities are only just becoming aware of the implications of vitamin D deficiency in northern lattitudes in general but I imagine in time, if they are not now, will target people of colour in particular eventually. White people may need supplementation for half the year and probably black people may need all the time here. I think there will probably be more official publicity on this in time.

Actually, dark skin has problems with D deficiency in northern lattitudes from less sun and a tendency towards lactose intolerance which compounds the problem.

This squad don't have the weight of great expectations on them, so maybe they can just focus on playing.

Yeah, I watched one just now and it was pathetic, I like this headline: "Dive, score, cry: Neymar earns rave reviews for acting masterclass in Brazil's win over Costa Rica" It's sad when really good footballers stoop this low.