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Capt'n Midnight

ittakestwo wrote: »

If one is killed ... it's partner will live the rest of their life looking for

unkel

There is a modern version of the Silk Road. It's a direct train connection between Rotterdam (Netherlands) and China (Chengdu), running 5 times a week taking 15 days to get there

Transport by train is 75% cheaper than air freight and more environmentally friendly than both air freight and ocean shipping

grenache

Patients who are brought to hospital with extreme alcohol intoxication are given IV fluids and feel brand new in 8-10 hours. Some people still use the term "pumped out", when in truth hospitals haven't used the pumping out method since the late 90s.

grenache

grenache wrote: »

Patients who are brought to hospital with extreme alcohol intoxication are given IV fluids and feel brand new in 8-10 hours. Some people still use the term "pumped out", when in truth hospitals haven't used the pumping out method since the late 90s.

Still happens occasionally no?

New Home

Probably more so for overdose of tablets or some forms of poisoning.

New Home

New Home wrote: »

Probably more so for overdose of tablets or some forms of poisoning.

I dunno, anyone I know who took an OD just got activated charcoal. I can think of a few who were in for alcohol overdoing, one apparently had their stomach pumped. Funny enough another guy went in and less than an hour later was sober and happy. Whether they pumped his stomach or he got it out himself I don't know but I'd be surprised if fluids would sort it that quickly.

grenache

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Still happens occasionally no?

No.
Pumping the stomach is virtually never used for alcohol intoxication nor any other type of poisoning anymore. Pumping the stomach (gastric lavage is the medical term) is considered more dangerous than beneficial in most cases. It leads to vomiting and can cause perforation of the esophagus or stomach. Because alcohol, being a depressant, reduces your gag reflex, you could end up choking on your own vomit.

unkel

grenache wrote: »

Patients who are brought to hospital with extreme alcohol intoxication are given IV fluids and feel brand new in 8-10 hours.

As seen on the TV series "Billions" where hard partying Wall Street execs use a special commercial IV fluid service almost instantly curing their hangovers before they go into the office in the morning

grenache

grenache wrote: »

No.
Pumping the stomach is virtually never used for alcohol intoxication nor any other type of poisoning anymore. Pumping the stomach (gastric lavage is the medical term) is considered more dangerous than beneficial in most cases. It leads to vomiting and can cause perforation of the esophagus or stomach. Because alcohol, being a depressant, reduces your gag reflex, you could end up choking on your own vomit.

Fair enough, he must've puked it up himself.

pleas advice

unkel wrote: »

As seen on the TV series "Billions" where hard partying Wall Street execs use a special commercial IV fluid service almost instantly curing their hangovers before they go into the office in the morning

what is this and where can I get it?

Buford T. Justice XIX

Some Australian beach goers appear to have found the oldest message in a bottle dropped from a German ship 132 years ago. It was one of a long series dropped into the ocean by German ships trying to gather information on ocean currents in the Pacific.

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/australasia/worlds-oldest-known-message-in-a-bottle-found-on-australian-beach-36678725.html

Capt'n Midnight

A lot of beach sand came from glaciation. So it's finite.


Hawaii imported a couple of hundred thousand tons of golden sand from Oz to replace the local black stuff.




One of the aims of Medieval Alchemy was to transmute base material into gold. Today we can turn sand into a substance more valuable than gold, microchips. But, as the legends would tell you it's only fleeting.

After a few years an insanely expensive chip would be worth less than sand because businesses would have to pay for it to be disposed of.

mzungu

It used to be assumed that the Great White Sharks of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean were similar, however recent research finds that they show more in common with those found in New Zealand and Australia.


Tissue from four Mediterranean sharks was collected and the mitochondrial DNA (which is passed on from mother to offspring) was analysed. These new sequences were compared with previously published ones and found that Mediterranean sharks are more closely related to faraway populations in the Pacific and Indian oceans than to those in the nearby Atlantic. What slight difference exists between the Mediterranean and Australian populations suggests that they parted ways some 450,000 years ago.

The theory put forward is that a group of pregnant females swam down the east coast of Africa when a strong current pushed them around the tip of the continent. They continued west along with the current and ended up in the Atlantic Ocean. The sharks tend to swim east to birthing grounds, the researchers said, and this time, instead of ending up back near Australia, they moved through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean. This miscalculation on the sharks part could be a result of the changing climates of the time as it took place between the ice ages.

Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-11765412

unkel

Most people don't even know there are great white sharks in the Mediterranean.

What always surprised me is that shark attacks on people (from great whites) is almost unheard of in the Med. Maybe the sharks calmed down and relaxed once they realised they were stuck in that tiny little sea?

mzungu

unkel wrote: »

Most people don't even know there are great white sharks in the Mediterranean.

What always surprised me is that shark attacks on people (from great whites) is almost unheard of in the Med. Maybe the sharks calmed down and relaxed once they realised they were stuck in that tiny little sea?

Aye, Croatia had a fatality back in 1974, Italy had one back in 1989. There have been a few other fatalities here and there, same for attacks, but by and large the chances of coming to harm are quite slim. They seem to love the area around the Adriatic for some reason, but they have been spotted all over.

At a guess, maybe the lack of attacks could be a matter of population, or lack thereof. There are precious few (relatively speaking) in the Med and their numbers are dwindling rapidly (loads of them get caught in fisherman's nets and to a lesser extent hunted) but I read that researchers believe there are pockets of the Med where females go time and time again raise their young as there is a smaller chance of falling foul of other white sharks (males eat pups). Hence a small but significant amount will continue to inhabit the area as sharks always return to the same nursery areas across generations (or so the theory goes). In that sense, the area they are in is great for that.

Noo

mzungu wrote: »

Aye, Croatia had a fatality back in 1974, Italy had one back in 1989. There have been a few other fatalities here and there, same for attacks, but by and large the chances of coming to harm are quite slim. They seem to love the area around the Adriatic for some reason, but they have been spotted all over.

At a guess, maybe the lack of attacks could be a matter of population, or lack thereof. There are precious few (relatively speaking) in the Med and their numbers are dwindling rapidly (loads of them get caught in fisherman's nets and to a lesser extent hunted) but I read that researchers believe there are pockets of the Med where females go time and time again raise their young as there is a smaller chance of falling foul of other white sharks (males eat pups). Hence a small but significant amount will continue to inhabit the area as sharks always return to the same nursery areas across generations (or so the theory goes). In that sense, the area they are in is great for that.

Hows the surfing in the Med?
Its usually surfers in other parts of the world that get attacked so that could be one theory.

Greybottle

The scene where they sing La Marseillaise in Casablanca to drown out the Germans singing is one of the most iconic in cinema.

The German actor who plays the major conducting his troops is Conrad Veidt, a famous anti-Nazi. He was a Lutheran and a famous silent movie actor who married a Jew and when the German film industry workers were asked in 1933 what religion they were he wrote Jew rather than Lutheran in solidarity with his wife.

He fled to England in 1933 after being threatened by Goebbels and then on to the USA in 1941 but donated his personal fortune to the UK before he left to help their war effort.

many people in the film industry who were anti-Nazi in the time leadin gup to 1933 switched their allegiances in an effort to preserve their jobs, he was one of the few who did not.

He never lost his German accent, and was happy to be cast as a German in war films so long as he could play the villain, often changing his lines in the script.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM

Are Am Eye

Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Captain Renault: I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.
[aloud]
Captain Renault: Everybody out at once.

CruelCoin

unkel wrote: »

Most people don't even know there are great white sharks in the Mediterranean.

What always surprised me is that shark attacks on people (from great whites) is almost unheard of in the Med. Maybe the sharks calmed down and relaxed once they realised they were stuck in that tiny little sea?

There are really very few great white attacks worldwide.

These are vastly outnumbered by those made by Oceanic White Tips.

CruelCoin

We need more Spaaaace up in this mofo.

If you want to catch a glimpse of the ISS, this site tells you where, when, etc the ISS will be visible in your area.
Several times a day as it turns out.

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/

Ipso

Noo wrote: »

Hows the surfing in the Med?
Its usually surfers in other parts of the world that get attacked so that could be one theory.

The med is sheltered, wouldn't get the same swells as coasts on the oceans.
Channel 4 had a show years ago about great white attacks in the region.

unkel

CruelCoin wrote: »

We need more Spaaaace up in this mofo.

If you want to catch a glimpse of the ISS, this site tells you where, when, etc the ISS will be visible in your area.
Several times a day as it turns out.

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/

We used that to show the kids when Santa was flying over with his sleigh. Worked a treat. They were in awe

Ipso

CruelCoin wrote: »

There are really very few great white attacks worldwide.

These are vastly outnumbered by those made by Oceanic White Tips.

I think Bull Sharks are the most dangerous type, they even get into fresh water.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0719_050719_bullsharks_2.html

Kat1170

CruelCoin wrote: »

We need more Spaaaace up in this mofo.

If you want to catch a glimpse of the ISS, this site tells you where, when, etc the ISS will be visible in your area.
Several times a day as it turns out.

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/

Also this one.

mzungu

In 755 A.D. the An Lushan rebellion against the Chinese Tang Dynasty resulted in an estimated 13 million deaths, or one-fourth of the population of the empire and one-sixteenth of the entire world population in the eight century.

Capt'n Midnight

In the 1850's the Taiping Rebellion in China resulted in the deaths of up a twelfth of the worlds population.

Esel

Chinese takeaway?

retalivity

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

In the 1850's the Taiping Rebellion in China resulted in the deaths of up a twelfth of the worlds population.

The story behind that is mad, a lad running around saying he was the brother of jesus managed to take over southern china and declare it a 'heavenly kingdom'

joeguevara

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

In the 1850's the Taiping Rebellion in China resulted in the deaths of up a twelfth of the worlds population.

Death toll of 20 million. Considering a world population of 5-6 billion at the time doesn’t put a dent. More soldiers died in the First World War.

fred funk }{

joeguevara wrote: »

Death toll of 20 million. Considering a world population of 5-6 billion at the time doesn’t put a dent. More soldiers died in the First World War.

World population was 1.2 b in 1850.