StringJunky

You want to defend yourself against your fellow Americans... God bless America! It shows a lack of faith and trust in your fellow citizens. This is why your system is safe, in the long run, because people can democratically become part of the system and keep it in check.

I find it absurd to even consider the US government acting that way. I can't see how the machinery you have in place would allow it...it's too mature with plenty of negative feedback mechanisms.

If you reach 120, that'll do. I think people in Okinawa, Nippon live on a relatively calorie-restricted diet, they have a high proportion of centenarians apparently.

Thinking about it's not simple and straightforward it, there's things to take into consideration. Although I haven't read it all through and comprehensively, Feynman's Strange Theory of Light and Matter deals with it ....it's quite an involved subject. IIRC.

When you measure the light intensity on a dark shiny surface and then measure the black surface with ambient light on it, the difference in luminosity between the two is greater than the same two measurements on a shiny white surface. What this means is that a greater range of tones (contrast,) from dark to light, can be reflected by a shiny black surface. Think about it, in white you've got a range of ambient-lit white to very bright specular white highlights vs jet black to very bright specular highlights which are white.

Double it, treble it, quadruple the numbers, the UK statistics still pale next to the US's.

Obama is in the same place we've just been discussing:

It just struck me, with CharonY's post: they know exactly how many policeman are killed/died and how. If that's not iniquitous I don't know what is. Also, not having the numbers of killed citizens makes it look like they don't care.

This page might enlighten you a bit more.

Yes, I wanted to keep the differences and number of parameters very simple and relative. Your answers are expressed in the way I wanted to see it. Thanks.

Calorie restriction with a view to prolonging longevity makes sense if you surmise that the body has a certain developmental path and at the end of it you die. If you can take longer to reach that point of development by calorie restriction/lower metabolism your chronological age should be higher than if you promote development by increasing the energy supply. I think fish live longer if they are fed less, but the difference in that they are poikilothermic, vs our endothermic metabolism, blurs that a lot probably.

Why do we keep talking about this and keep being shocked and wring our hands in despair?! I'll have get in touch with Pope Francis and see if he can rattle some more US cages.

The difference between the two foods is how they affect the Glycaemic Index (GI). A high GI food will cause sharper insulin spikes,; you'll have more sharply defined periods of satiety and hunger. I think this promotes bingeing because, metabollically, you are burning-and-crashing instead of a smoother ebb-and-flow with a low GI diet.

Yes, it's too easy to forget we are talking about real people.

Assuming the same surface characteristics - glossy - the reflections are the same but the contrast range of the reflections is greater in black. Black starts dark and lightens through shades of grey to white. The reverse doesn't happen so much with white.

A grand total of about 70 people have been killed by UK police since 1920, one every 16 months, averaged. There's even a wiki page with nearly all the names, dates and places. It really puts us at a severe disadvantage not having guns to protect ourselves with, doesn't it?

He's the wisest Pope I've seen in my lifetime. I've read about him a few times and seems to be a 'Do as I do' and not 'Do as I say' sort of chap. If he carries on like this, we''ll have to petition him for honorary membership to the IPCC

Hunting to eat is one thing, hunting so one can have a picture taken happily smiling with a dead animal is another. Motive matters. Tradition is not a substitute for ethics.

A Che Guaevara in a smock. Good luck to him. This is very pointed:

It'll have a graduated colour chart with it which you match the result to and gauge the pH. Less than 7 is acidic and more than 7 is alkaline. Plain water ia about 7. HCL is strongly acidic.

Like I replied to him earlier somewhere: "Weather is not climate". S'pose I'll have to clarify what I meant.

Those are ideals. Two lines from a couple of Floyd songs is more the reality "Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie" "Together we stand, divided we fall"

Theories build on what is already known.... the wheel has been invented.

Unless I'm mistaken, I took the underlying message, implicit in your question, was that the Antarctic ice is evidentially not receding.

Weather is not climate. Harold, you're not thick... start again with an open and scientific mind.