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War of the Worlds broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938, over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is infamous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place.

Has anyone stopped to consider that the lights might be meteors? This time of year there are several well known, and well predicted meteor showers. Meteors contain a variety of chemicals which emit a variety of colours as they burn. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide/ If you view the web page you will see that this link describes Northern Hemisphere details for when to view the showers.

The service is rat chit.

An example of Murphy's Law.

The normal respiratory rate for an adult at rest is 12 to 18 breaths per minute. A respiration rate under 12 or over 25 breaths per minute while resting may be a sign of an underlying health condition. However, the activity level when the rate is determined must affect the rate. I imagine that settling into sleep could allow the rate to fall to a much lower rate. Perhaps when the conscious mind attempts to lower ones rate in order to go to sleep, and one does go to sleep, the subconscious mind would raise the rate to get the CO2 concentration in the blood get to the correct level.

I'm wondering where this 15 year build time figure comes from. My father-in-law worked on the construction of Bradwell nuclear power station in Essex. Construction began in 1957 and and electricity generation started in 1962, ceasing operation in 2002. So why are we saying ours will take three times as long to build?

I think that their belief is based on the paranoia of the USA during the Cold War. The USA was the only country which went overboard with practising responses to nuclear attack. It drilled the paranoia into Baby Boomers and now it is cultural. I didn't help that Hollywood promoted the paranoia through Sci-Fi and End Of World movies.

I think that the best answer is to take advantage of solar generation by installing community batteries. However, they are not without their environmental dangers as well. I guess an energy Utopia is simply an unattainable goal. The bullseye can't be hit, so I suppose we need to accept landing in the outer rings.

I wonder how much it would cost to refurbish the coal-fired power stations long enough for them to maintain supply until nuclear generation plants could be built. If Howard hadn't put the kibosh on nuclear in the Nineties, we'd have nuclear generation plants by now. Or if he hadn't sold our natural gas for a pittance we could afford gas=powered generation.

I know what they are!!!! Since they are being seen over the States which are close to the Canadian border, they must be carrying illegal immigrants delivering great amounts of Fentanyl across the border.

Got it! They are clickbait.

You can't make me believe that a military superpower that the USA is cannot identify what these things are, or track them to landing places. From the above reference: The Pentagon has also said they are not US military drones. All I can do is to quote Juliet, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. Another designation of these things is unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Feel free to create a name for them yourself. Then the Pentagon could use your name and would be correct in saying that they are not "US military drones".

Yeah, but the Japanese and the Chinese made plans are were willing to take their time. They were aiming to benefit their whole nation, not a wealthy elite. Admittedly, a wealthy elite did develop, but I think than in both cases, the common people had their situations greatly improved. After all, health care and social services support are free in those countries.

I don't look for the bright spot. I sometimes use a rotating spiral - sort of hypnotise myself. I don't have trouble nodding off when I first hit the sack about 11:00 pm, but if I have a job to do the next morning, I have difficulty getting back to sleep after getting up for a pee around 4:30. Then, with daylight saving, the bloody sunlight floods my bedroom between 5:45 and 6:00, so I've got to pull the sheet over my head to nod off until close to 7:00. To avoid feeling the heat after lunch, I take a nap, but sometimes that only lasts ten to twenty minutes and I wake up rearing to go mentally, but unwilling physically.

Depicting that data would make for an interesting Venn diagram.

It depends on the context. In the context of philosophy you could be thinking of the concept of nothingness. In day-to-day life, "thinking of nothing" is a state of mental activity in which the conscious mind is not talking to itself. One says that one's mind is blank. There are no mental images to "see". It's hard to put an answer to that question into words.

Have you noticed that Trump is blathering on mainly about Canada, Mexico, the members of the EU, China and North Korea,with a little about things in the Middle East, but he hasn't said much about Great Britain or Japan and not a word about Australia. We know that if he goes ahead with his economic vision, he'll severely damage the economies of those places, but he seems to either forget, or have no recognition of any countries south of the Equator.

This video shows that he doesn't understand the criteria used to select the "Personality of the Year". Given the explanation from Wiki - "The distinction is supposed to go to the person who, "for good or ill", has most affected the course of the year; it is, therefore, not necessarily an honor or a reward. In the past, such figures as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin have been Man of the Year", I wonder if people such as Bin Laden, Castro, Putin, or Ali Khamenei have been given the same distinction.

If he bungs tariffs on us, then maybe we should up the rent on his military bases here, and also tell him we don't want his submarines, and go back to France to get them, or any other number of democratic countries that build them. Let's drag this placard out from the back of the wardrobe: Probably correct, but that's a bit like being repeatedly hit over the head with a wet fish and ignoring the smell.

That's a logical suggestion, but the tsunami of stupidity he is generating is swamping the rest of the world. We are getting the flood reports on an hourly basis. He's alienating his next-door neighbours. He's alienating his NATO partners. He's claiming that the USA is carrying NATO. The members pledged to spend at least 2% of the value of their economies - measured by GDP - on defence per year by 2024. Look at the members are meeting this pledge. Remember that the spending is based on the country's GDP, so of course the USA spends more. It had GDP equal to all the rest of the members of NATO in 2024, He's destroying essential trade with them nasty Chinese Commies. Once he learns that countries like Brazil and Argentina are starting to trade heavily in agricultural produce (mainly wheat) with China, resulting in the loss of sales for those farmers in the States that voted him in, he'll be facing revolts. He continues to inflame the various situations in the Middle East. We don't hear him speaking too much about South America or Africa. At least the Australian government took a step away by supporting the vote in the UN for Palestinian sovereignty. I would hope that our government could have the guts to send Trump this T-shirt as a Christmas gift, but the wording might be too subtle for him to comprehend. Then we hear about what he wants to do within the borders of the USA. What he wants to do is an attack on the very people he conned into voting for him and his mates.

Def'n: Gamble: take risky action in the hope of a desired result. We all know that at the end of the meeting it's the bookies who come away with the profit. But sometimes a punter comes along with a grass-stained ear an puts a motza on a bolter, which wins and the bookie loses.

I find it ironic that we say that So-and-So owns large numbers of shares traded on the stock market, making the person "wealthy". But would that wealth buy a Big Mac if the stock market collapsed? Those shares are only of real value if they are sold. On the stock market, it is the buyer who sets the price. If there are no buyers, then the shares have no monetary value. The money that So-and-So bought them for is gone. So-and-So is financially ruined. Shares are the equivalent of ownership in a corporation. Because they represent ownership, not debt, there is no legal obligation for the company to reimburse the shareholders if something happens to the business. If the company goes bust, a shareholder might be able to recoup some money from the sale of the company's physical assets, which would never equal the money spent in buying the shares. To my mind, the stock market is just an SP bookie in a suit and tie. It is gambling, and,despite what people might say about the excitement of a bet, the motivator for gambling is greed.

Trump isn't any sort of economist, or even a decent two-bob businessman. I fully expect that he has a team of backroom boys handling his business dealings. Then when he gets their advice he makes impulsive decisions aimed at stroking his ego. He doesn't care if his decisions upset the apple cart. A word of warning: We should also be looking at the economies of China and Russia. Russia's seems to be in a bit of a mess at the moment, but the Chinese economy, overall, is at least stable, if not growing. As Sachs says in the video, the claims that the Chinese economy is collapsing is propaganda emanating from the US government. Trump imposed tariffs on China in his first term, and Biden maintained them. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1985874/russia-economy-vladimir-putin

So many threads dealing with the consequences of Trump's agenda that it's hard to pick which one to post in. However, this video seems to fit the message of this thread. It provides a reason for what Trump and his pals are aiming for - increasing their wealth at the expense of those who don't have wealth. The presenter is an economist at an English university, so it should be unbiased.