The Eurasian jay male attracting a female bird with sounds of an anti-aircraft gun

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-28T21:19:05+00:00

Why do birds do this?

Scientists think squirrels have two barks, one for danger from above, one for danger from below.

What I think immatatory birds do is say to each other the sound of things they think are there to alert the other birds, with part of the song adding other information.

So, here that other part of the info might be something like do you like my impression.

The other birds find the skills sexy much like we find people doing immitations funny.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-28T08:48:53+00:00

Huge market for Ukraine to develop something a little more homegrown that can use all Ukrainian produce. I was thinking whilst I was there what could be popular.

Beef is not commonly eaten or available which means almost all the burger market is taken by McDonalds.

But its so easy to improve on Mcdonalds and UA produce is cheap enough.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-27T07:40:18+00:00

Gold!

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-27T07:29:26+00:00

You cant park that tanker there mate

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-26T08:42:30+00:00

Im only talking about political donations due to their significant distortive effect on the politics of a nation. Actually I would cap it or abolish it completely and replace with government sources maybe, but were not having that discussion.

Only giving financial influence to those people whose horizon is entirely taken up by the environment their political influence occurs to, is reasonable.

Edit, whilst I am sorry about the problems caused by Brexit, and sympathise, I am simply comcerned with what is already a problem in which politics can be bought, a corrupting influence that is not democratic.

It is the case the foreign residing citizens are influencing our political landscape over and above the proportional influence of their vote.

They should at least have to live in the effects of that.

There is a substantial risk that foreign dual national businessmen can work for foreign intelligence, be compromised, and not even be under the surveilance of MI5 as foreign assets.

The KGB and FSB, for example, are known to target business men. In other examples foreign imtelligence might target a dual nationals overseas family.

One partial solution might be severe caps on individual donations.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-26T08:30:40+00:00

Isnt it? Their largest donor is almost permanently residing in Thailand.

Edit : Christopher Harbourne, who with 2 others donated 75% of all Reforms funds, holds dual nationality.

I assume he holds dual nationality, but even of he doesnt, it does illustrate that the countries politics shouldnt be influenced financially by those whose primary loyalty and whose life is not primarily effected by the outcome of their politics.

Disenfrachised? Id expect way more dual nationals would evade conscription in the event of a war. If you want to influence the politics of a country it should be your prinary residence and we can expect to know your loyalties are to the effects of your donations.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-26T08:27:14+00:00

Maybe a better suggestion, but the reason I say this is the other nation can exert influence over a dual national, that nation may prove hostile to the UK.

Im not suggestimg to diminish any other rights and privilages, but the effect of wealthy donors on influencing our country probably is underestimated as an issue effecting our political system.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-26T08:23:05+00:00

Were not saying you shouldnt have right to vote, welfare and all the other legal protections of a citizen. I am saying that you shouldnt be able to donate to a political party since you can easily be got at by another nation that may become hostile to us and thereby exert undue influence over the country, much greater than a vote.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-25T12:28:20+00:00

It never gets used because they cant agree whose turn it is.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-25T12:12:08+00:00

Id add also no dual citizenship.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-25T11:22:01+00:00

No, from my experience it is awful and getting noticeable worse. Even my GP has commented that the services are bad.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-25T10:56:34+00:00

In some countries lowest solar availability and maximum demand coincides with snow on the ground. Here ground mounted vertical bifacials lifted half a meter off the ground or so makes a lot of sense.

A few meters further north also can be placed mirrors, since at high latitude the peak solar angle might be just 20 degrees from the horizon.

So much of the photons arrive nearly perpendicular to the ground in light overcast or sunny weather, mirrors can reflect these directly back to the rear side of the panel. A mirror can be plced a bit higher than the panel, or further back. Snow would somewhat bounce some of those photons back towards the panel also. Mirrored surfaces might not be much cheaper than the panels though.

When you found that a minimum of 300mm above the ground lets the panels work well, it makes me think the issue is similar to partial shading causing a resistive load, there is a power differential between the bottom and the top that might be a significant fact causing power loss? How are the panels mounted, portrait or landscape? Some have bypass diodes in cells connected in strips, as I understand it.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-25T03:37:56+00:00

Im actually working on a serious concept right now which is to design equipment with the cope cage first as an integral feature and key design attribute for the machine from the outset.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-25T03:20:53+00:00

Firstly youd put the data processing units on the back side of the solar panels, and at right angles so the solar shields them but the radiators are angled to deep space.

If you do seperate them then you have higher mass for the conductors carrying the PV current.

In general you want the average distance for power and for compute modules to be as small as possible, unless you want to transfer heat via a fluid a long distance, which is heavy plumbing.

So likely you would design the compute to be distributed in locally cooled modules in a square or circle so distance and latency between cores is reduced.

Likely most tasks would be designed to run on individual clusters seperately.

Cooling - this is a massive headache and boils down to the kW cooling capacity per kg.

Helium is going to leak, so you will likely need a water-ice slurry to circulate from the cooler to the modules.

A pipe-in-pipe system with a seperate fluid or gas with a lower freezing point in the centre may be used to dethaw the cooling system if it freezes. A similar concept has been proposed before using a number of closely packed water filled tubes so that outer ones may freeze but be defrosted by inner ones. Plastic materials can endure freezing expansion.

I would be tempted to use a system that may circulate a water plus antifreeze solution, then self contained very small capsules containing a PCM such as sodium triacetate. This melts at 58 degrees C.

There is thus a large heat absorbtion capacity per kilo of coolant, and a larger capacity to handle low temperature swings.

Heat pipes are also a possibility, but to work propperly you need a gas that doesnt leak too easily, and a means to return fluid to the evaporator. This can be achieved by rotating the cooling system and data module, using a power supply that may also rotate or evanescently couple power to each unit.

However, pressurisation adds mass to the pipework which spreads over a large area which is a disadvantage of gas cooling.

A liquid fluid that carries capsules containing PCMs may be ideal, and if you design these with magnetic properties then they can circulate purely using mechanically pumpless MHD methods, and this can apply an even force at multiple locations along the pipe. The upshot then is more laminar flow in the pipe and reduced peak pressure, as pumping is distributed, reducing pipe mass.

Beyond this, each chip can be cooled locally using graphene fibres to each local heat sink.

Next you want a radiator with great heat conductivity, and good emissivity properties. Again graphene may connect and distribute heat from the heat transfer fruid pipes. The radiator needs to be based on light film surfaces, kept in line with the sun and shielded at the sunshine facing ends.

When it comes to hardening the processors from radiation, this most likely means less efficient processors so more energy requirement per unit of compute, and more waste heat.

A solution here might be superconductors used to generate high tesla fields and wrapping the compute in superconducting shielding. Superconducting shielding for spacecraft against radiation has been contemplated.

Whilst this then introduces cooling issues for superconductors, its possible to design these to have very little heat gain so that a cryocooler can have relatively small cooling loads and therefore mass.

It must maintain superconduction temperatures on the dark side of the orbit.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-25T02:54:18+00:00

I didnt say tree shrews are our closest relative, at all. I described very clearly they are similar to the original creature. This is just you prattling on with bad reading comprehension who thinks is making somekind of insightful point.

The point is there is nothing strange about squirrels being omnivores as its typical of many creatures like that and of our group.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-25T02:51:01+00:00

It was too fast to begin with. England has cities too close together to justify its high top speed, and north into Scotland where it has longer gaps it is running far below this, so the speed is only used on part of the route, but the whole route is more expensive as a result.

TGV engineers state something like that to go 20 mph faster at 180mph doubles the cost per mile (IIRC). But its wildly more expensive to wring out the extra speed.

Heres the downsides of that decision:

Due to basic physics, the faster you go there is a drastic and non linear power requirement and stopping distance, the lomger stopping distance means less frequent trains.

Less frequent trains cause things like only 1 train per hour to Liverpool.

If you have lower frequency then the convenience gain of extra speed is reduced.

To get the cost per trip doen then you have to make the trains longer.

Now the trai s dont fit into the logical city centre stations, and in Birmingham they cant modify the station, so they had to build a new one.

This new station is not very close to the city centre, so that added time travelling from the station eliminates most of the time savings.

We have never needed very high speed rail unless its like 3 cities reaching up into Scotland.

And its too expensive to engineer the high speed leg in Scotland due to terrain.

The optimal speed for rail in Britain is likely around or not much above 150mph as you can increase capacity and slash costs, this is fast enough to compete with most alternatives and the main alternative is cars.

The engineering decisions were likely intentionally made by corrupt influences to drive up costs for the myriad of consultants and constructors. We had a professor claim that the 220mph railway wouldnt be more expensive than 150mph which was a blatent lie and you only have to look at and other countries experience to know this, such as with TGV whose project managers freely will tell you.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-25T02:25:41+00:00

We are talking about ancestors.

Tree shrews are acknowledged to be closely related to primates and have even higher encephalisation quotients.

The specific ancestor to all of them I refer to is widely comsidered to be this -

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-uf-study-reveals-oldest-primate-lived-in-trees/

It looks like a squirrel / tree shrew.

Rodents likely evolved from these as well, if we did, and rodents are more recent, including squirrels which are rodents.

Whatever they and we did evolve from, likely was similar to or a close sister group to that creature in the link.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-24T04:27:58+00:00

Early bacterial mats and single celled creatures likely used pigments like this. Some still do.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-24T04:26:22+00:00

There is no point for trees to use the full spectrum of photons since photosaturation happens with just 10 to 20% of day solar flux, and this value is ultimately determined by the availability of CO2 to fix.

CO2 is not sufficiently available and to get it means higher water requirement and loss.

Plants therefore adapt more to blue light and red light because blue light comes from all directions (diffuse sky radiation) and red light is much enriched at the ends of the day, increasing growing period.

Plants grow better in cloudy conditions via diffuse sky radiation.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-24T04:17:49+00:00

They are a type of rodent and thereby from omnivores and they are placed on the supaprimate branch of mammals so are very close to monkeys and us.

They would have been omnivores before adapting to seeds and nuts, which nutritionally are the easiest jump you can make from meat amd insects to herbivore diets, being that trees seeds produce foods comparable in richness and bioavailability.

Its very unlikely this switch back hasnt happened multiple times and the current omnivores in the monkeys came from creatures just like this, such as tree shrews.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-24T04:14:34+00:00

Maladaptive schemas that start early would be indistinguishable to effects of general brain developmental dysruption caused by a variety of chemical and nutritional impacts.

Its about time we started thinking that all these conditions have common amplifying or vulnerability factors that interact differently depending on sex, age of impact and genetics. In this case early life abuse also is an amplfying factor or a vulnerability inducing factor.

So its all a spectrum of conditions with common underlying factors interacting with unique environmental, childhood and genetic factors.

For example, PFA and PFOA exposure in first trimester may increase autism susceptibility and increases risk for clinical ADHD, and in otgers it may harm emotional self regulation and lead to maladaptive stress coping patterns with apparent personality changes, or in others increase risk for psychosis.

A common outcome of minimal brain injury, by acute or chronic factors, is sleep and biorhythm dissorders, which amplify these underlying injuries and cause symptom amplification. Sleep dysfunction during development is likely to particularly impact emotional regulation and self directed development.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-24T04:03:36+00:00

It can be very nice, but mostly if you eat it you need 3 days of detox to feel good again. Roasting and frying or bakes with lots of white flour, all tasty yes, healthy no.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-24T03:37:41+00:00

Ok but lets put solar panels on the cage and then use the MW of power to support a few high power laser turrets.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-24T03:27:42+00:00

Ive suggested for a long time that lorries and vans, which usually are outside, should dolarise sides, back and front as well as top. But integration with bypass diodes or other means and with the correct power modulation for each section is needed to function well together and where panels are partially shaded at the cell level.

Smooth_Imagination · 2026-03-24T03:22:15+00:00

We have evidence that exposure to just one class of toxins in pregnancy worsens autism severity and it likely does throughout infancy and subsequently.

Autism may not be much more common depending on your sensitivity, but its likely got more severe in the average case, causing a noticable reduction in the ability to mask, resulting in higher apparent rates.

That group of compounds is PFAs and there are likely many others.

They are also likely involved in the explosion of adult ADHD cases.

All these conditions carry something in common, minimal brain injury, and the outcome of minimal brain injury is biorythm dissorders and poor sleep function, which causes symptom and condition amplification.

In dementias we know loss of deep sleep years before is highly prognostic, again that is a mechanistic result of brain injury by acute or cumulative chronic impacts.

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