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Tomorrow, Thursday 29th Feb., I will be off to Everest Base Camp. Considering I have never been to the top of Australia's highest mountain this might be suprising. Indeed the base camp is approx. twice the height of Mount Kosciuszko. The training is over and now I go with a good friend David G...

Japan appears to be heading for a demographic crisis as deaths outnumber births by 2:1. Japan's falling population There are many here who would welcome a falling population and only see it as a blessing but I wonder if that is as rosy as conceived? With an increasing elderly population...

Shwhmubo and I are going in Nov. to South Africa for a neice's wedding. Neither of us have been there before and are rather looking forward to it. The usual what to see, what to do? We only have 11 days there. We will visit a game park and want to go to Victoria Falls. Which side is the best...

Which questions do you have that would not pass muster as an exam question? Give the Field and the question (with or without possible answers) I'll start Chemistry: Q: Which of these is not a hydrocarbon? A: Select from the following - Ethylene, Polypropylene, Come on Eileen Mathematics: Q...

Last weekend, Grant Alfred Beaumont, died at the age of 97. He was the father of the Beaumont children who went missing in 26th January, 1966. It is probably Australia's most famous missing persons case. I can't imagine the pain of not knowing what happened to your children for 57 years.

With the recent spate of tornadoes across Mississippi it had me wondering about tornado shelters. 1. Are they compulsory for home owners or public is such areas? 2. Would such a shelter work? Or like a bomb shelter only work provided it was not a direct hit? 3. Could a tornado shelter be built...

(Suprised that no-one has started a thread yet it seems) So yet another death from a police beating in the USA. Why do you people hate each other so much? I cannot understand why the police stopping a car should result in a death? From what we hear/see in Australia it would seem that police...

Being following with a tiny bit of interest the issue of classified documents appearing in private homes and offices. Is this rather cavalier attitude to classified documents widespread in the US?

Since North Korea has started launching att of those missiles what is the status once they leave NK airspace or territory? Are they 'fair game' to be intercepted by another party? At present their is much fear and concern and the NK is getting some sort of morbid pleasure in cowering their...

I was listening to the news last night (SBS World News for those who wonder) when an item came on that said that Putin is considering annexing the conquered parts of Ukraine. First question: Is is plausible? 2nd question: What will be done about it if it happens? So far the west has been...

I occasionally tutor school students at our church in algebra, trig, logarithms, exponents etc. Very rarely do I drift into calculus. However, a girl and I got to talking about the classis problem of boring a tunnel from one side of the earth to the other through the centre. We discussed it's...

One disadvantage of the Covid lockdowns in Australia is that I have been watching (far too much) Netflix, Amazon et. al. Whilst watching US shows it struck me that the house numbers shown were very large, in the thousands. As an example in 'Young Sheldon' his house is 5501 and his grandmother's...

Biden had a moment here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZd19Tz_Zr0 Not being totally up to date with US politics i winder if he is doing this, or things like this, a lot? I was surprised that Biden took on the job as i wonder about his ability to complete his term.

In the hobby forum there is a thread about infection passing to birds via feeders https://talkfreethought.org/showthread.php?23078-a-bird-feeder-hobby-and-the-problem-of-infected-finches/page2 In that thread I asked about what was called a house finch esp. for a picture. One was kindly...

Have been noticing a bit of flak about Trump's pardons and then reading up on previous presidential pardons. All presidents have received some flak, some more than others. The possibility of corruption, malfeasance along with just plain stupidity of decisions makes me wonder if it has...

Find it hard to believe that so many policeman in the USA are shooting people, seemingly at random and without seemingly any cause. Are all these police forces run autonomously? Are they based upon states or cities? How is the training and disciplining done? How is it that for years now police...

On the news on the weekend I heards reports that Trump would talk to Biden about the possibility of a presidential pardon should Biden win. Not being in the US this has me puzzled. It is normal that the possible outgoing president asks the possible incoming president for a pardon? Why would...

My knowledge of the US general election is vague but need to know more. Now that Kayne West is on some states' ballots I am wondering what effect they were have on the final results. I am assuming that West will not get anywhere Perot's result in '92 or '96. Will West take voters off either...

I keep hearing about about voters being registered as republicans, democrats etc. If you are not registered as either, or any other party, are you able to vote in the forthcoming presidential election? Or is that registration just for the party's interest and has no effect on your eligibility...

Not being of the USA questioning how does one get on the presidential ballot? Which form do you fill out to apply? How much does the application cost? Do you need to be on every state's ballot paper? Is there a nice little primer somewhere that goes through the mechanics of it all? Is there...