We are often told that an ant can lift 50 times its own weight and stand pressures on its body of 5,000 their own weight. The top human lift is around 3 times their weight if in good condition and trained and can stand pressures maybe 50 times. The average ant weighs around 0.005 grams […]

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A rough Guide to Covid Conditions at the moment. The better figures post vaccine may be due to people being more concerned for their health and taking better care and also doing less dangerous things. UK Mortality Figures for Year Chances of Dying in a Year Deaths by age group Population Pre-Covid Post Covid Post […]

With viruses it tends to chemically just be down to ion exchanges to deliver its package. They tend to be coated with something that conceals what it is and mimics what the body is looking for. Most seem to be coated with glycans, sugary carbohydrates that the body loves and indicates something that it should […]

I’ve for some time wondering how often space debris impacts on the earth. We have a problem that the earth is constantly wearing down the evidence through weathering, so that even massive impacts are concealed by nature. We only have a very limited history of recorded impacts and observation, most being in the last 200 […]

In our solar system we have two big gaps in debris, between the Sun and Mars and Jupiter out to Neptune. In-between and outside there is a convoluted layer of bits. We are told that both were cleared by the planets there, and the gaps are where there are no planets. We are told about […]

I’ve been following the virus for 115 weeks now. Originally, I thought that it would be very limited, but that changed about 113 weeks ago, when the numbers began to rise and we found out more about it. There is a lot of debate over why the Omicron variant appeared. And the odds are high […]