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luutzu said:
hence there's a Dark Side of the moon....
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There is no dark side of the moon, the moon spins on its axis just like the earth (just a lot slower), so all sides experience day and night about once a month, its just that the same side always faces earth, so the best term to describe the "other" side of the moon would be the far side.

When the moon looks like a wafer thin crescent or is completely black, the far side is lit up in broad day light, and if viewed from the other side, would be "full"
 
Value Collector said:
Were you looking at the moon through a Newtonian telescope eg a reflector telescope. Because they flip the image, so what you are seeing it the reverse and upside down of the actual image. The moon always shows the same side.
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I guess it was Newtonian. don't know anything about these stuff... only read up a bit once I couldn't find the Moon with it :D

It's one of those cheap ones, well... $220 or something isn't that cheap, but for a bit more there's those with proper balance and scoping. Where we live the Moon have to be high for us to see it and can't really lock on properly if it's too high...

Strange how the stars look the same through it - I guess slightly bigger dot. But yea, can't wait til the kids are older and we go camping. Took them out for an hour that night, they saw a bit of the moon but got half dozen mosquito bites... good one Dad :D
 
Value Collector said:
There is no dark side of the moon, the moon spins on its axis just like the earth (just a lot slower), so all sides experience day and night about once a month, its just that the same side always faces earth, so the best term to describe the "other" side of the moon would be the far side.

When the moon looks like a wafer thin crescent or is completely black, the far side is lit up in broad day light, and if viewed from the other side, would be "full"
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ah see. I guess you can't learn and guess stuff from movies then :D

YouTube here we come.
 
luutzu said:
You know those waxy honey combs? Are they edible?

Went through some country town a few years back in Aus and some honey jars sell honey with it.
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Chewing the honey comb is good for hay fever suffers but to the best of my knowledge you do not swallow it.
 
noco said:
Chewing the honey comb is good for hay fever suffers but to the best of my knowledge you do not swallow it.
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AFIK swallowing some wax isn't dangerous, there just isn't any nutritional value in it. You can chew on it like you do on chewing gum, but unlike chewing gum, the spat-out wad can still be put to use, e.g. roll it flat and wrap it around a wick for a nice-smelling beeswax candle.

When I asked whether eating beeswax was dangerous, Google showed me this answer:
You can eat beeswax. Before extracting, much of the nation's honey was sold in comb form, and people either ate both honey and comb together, or 'chewed out' the honey and spit out the wax. I've done both.

Your body does not extract any nutrients, fiber, etc. from it (for it has none), and the wax will just pass through your system, but you can eat as much of it as you like without any harm.

The only caveat here, is that you want to know where the wax is from. Chemicals such as pesticides and bee medications can be absorbed by the wax. Chemicals have been found in foundation. If you use foundationless frames, the bees will produce beautiful, very thin wax (no thick mid-rib like foundation) that is fresh and perfect for eating or chewing
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and another thread here: http://morenature.com/blogs/nature-news/36239748-honey-beeswax-health-benefits-for-good-skin-hair
 
Time to take antibiotic resistance seriously.

How much ab's are being pumped into chickens, beef and farmed fish ?

Do the politicians have the guts to take on vested farming interests here and overseas ?

Ten million people could die by 2050 unless sweeping changes are agreed upon to tackle mankind's increasing resistance to antibiotics, which can turn common ailments into killers, a new report warns.

Commissioned by the British Government, the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance outlined steps to fight the emergence of "superbugs" as infections become immune to existing drugs, allowing minor injuries and common infections to become deadly.

"It needs to be seen as the economic and security threat that it is, and be at the forefront of the minds of heads of state," said Jim O'Neill, the economist who led the review.

The overuse of antibiotics should be reduced by cutting the vast quantities of medicines given to farm animals, improving diagnoses to stop unnecessary prescriptions, and a global public awareness campaign, the paper urged.

At the same time, researchers should be encouraged to develop new antibiotics through a global fund for research, and rewards for those who manage to develop new drugs.

The cost of the measures was estimated to be $US40 billion ($55.37) over 10 years.
Economist Jim O'Neill

The review found the cost if ignoring the growing problem would be far greater, with authorities facing the cost "sooner or later".

"There is no excuse for inaction given what we know about the impact of rising drug resistance," the report added.

"They can either do so proactively by taking action now and pay less for better outcomes, or remain unprepared and end up spending much more taxpayer money on far worse outcomes further down the line."

The paper argued that the response could be funded through countries' health budgets or through taxes on pharmaceutical companies that do not invest on antibiotic research.

Mr O'Neill, an economist known for coining the term "BRIC" to describe large emerging countries, noted 1 million people had died of antimicrobial resistance since the review started in mid-2014.

The World Health Organisation has already warned antimicrobial resistance may result in "a return to the pre-antibiotic era," when millions of people died in pandemics before drugs were discovered that could treat them.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-19/superbug-threatens-millions-report-warns/7428450
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SirRumpole said:
How much do you know about flu ?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-19/flu-quiz-vaccinations-contagion-and-misconceptions/7425882
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Rumpy, I have some good news for you.

This a true and honest story about myself.

On September 22 1998, I was unfortunate to be stricken with a growth the size of a can of coke attached to my heart and left lung.......It was removed, together with the 4 lymph glands, in an open heart surgery and it found to be malignant...My surgeon advised me I had less than 4 years to live......I did had radium treatment for 6 weeks but the radium scared the left lung down to a capacity of 10%.

Whist the radium may have saved my life, it did leave me with bronchioextesis and very susceptible to severe chest infections some 3 times per year and bed ridden for a week at a time......I was prescribed anti-biotics which were kept on the refrigerator at all times and as soon I felt the infection coming on, it was a reach for the anti-biotics.......But we found each infection started to become immune to the anti-biotics and I would be prescribed a new one.

Some 3 years ago a friend told me about ground CASSIA CINNAMON...So I googled it and found all the benefits of it being anti infection....I commenced taking one level teaspoon on my rolled oats each and every morning.....Since then I have not had a cold, influenza, sore throat or a chest infection in those 3 years.

My lady Doctor asked me some 6 months ago why I have not asked for a prescript for anti-biotics....Of course I told her what I was taking daily...She shrugged her shoulders and said, well don't stop.

As you know we all have those flu injections every year and more often than not many people still get the flu and that is what was happening to me until 3 years ago....This year I tried to refuse the injection to be my own guinea pig to prove a point that flu injections are bloody useless but she insisted I have one and I did so just to pacify her.

I also take 2000mg of Omega 3 each morning.

I do hope this will be of some help to you and other ASF members.
 
noco said:
Rumpy, I have some good news for you.

This a true and honest story about myself.

On September 22 1998, I was unfortunate to be stricken with a growth the size of a can of coke attached to my heart and left lung.......It was removed, together with the 4 lymph glands, in an open heart surgery and it found to be malignant...My surgeon advised me I had less than 4 years to live......I did had radium treatment for 6 weeks but the radium scared the left lung down to a capacity of 10%.

Whist the radium may have saved my life, it did leave me with bronchioextesis and very susceptible to severe chest infections some 3 times per year and bed ridden for a week at a time......I was prescribed anti-biotics which were kept on the refrigerator at all times and as soon I felt the infection coming on, it was a reach for the anti-biotics.......But we found each infection started to become immune to the anti-biotics and I would be prescribed a new one.

Some 3 years ago a friend told me about ground CASSIA CINNAMON...So I googled it and found all the benefits of it being anti infection....I commenced taking one level teaspoon on my rolled oats each and every morning.....Since then I have not had a cold, influenza, sore throat or a chest infection in those 3 years.

My lady Doctor asked me some 6 months ago why I have not asked for a prescript for anti-biotics....Of course I told her what I was taking daily...She shrugged her shoulders and said, well don't stop.

As you know we all have those flu injections every year and more often than not many people still get the flu and that is what was happening to me until 3 years ago....This year I tried to refuse the injection to be my own guinea pig to prove a point that flu injections are bloody useless but she insisted I have one and I did so just to pacify her.

I also take 2000mg of Omega 3 each morning.

I do hope this will be of some help to you and other ASF members.
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That's very interesting noco. Sorry about your health problems, but I'm glad you got over them .

I'll have a look for the cinnamon, the more we can reduce the use of antibiotics the better.

A friend of mine recently had to go to hospital for a relatively minor ailment, was out in 3 days but had picked up a gastro infection in hospital and had to go back. She's been in hospital for three weeks and can't walk at the moment.

That's how bad the superbugs are these days even in supposedly sterile areas.
 
SirRumpole said:
That's very interesting noco. Sorry about your health problems, but I'm glad you got over them .

I'll have a look for the cinnamon, the more we can reduce the use of antibiotics the better.

A friend of mine recently had to go to hospital for a relatively minor ailment, was out in 3 days but had picked up a gastro infection in hospital and had to go back. She's been in hospital for three weeks and can't walk at the moment.

That's how bad the superbugs are these days even in supposedly sterile areas.
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Yeah..I guess I can thank my lucky stars that I am still alive and as you probably have worked out over time that I am now in my late eighties....But I am a realist as we don't live forever....I am in my twilight years and now take one day at a time....Am still a keen lawn bowler, a game I took up some 30 years ago and play at least 6 games of chess every day with guys from all around the world...Most of them cannot speak English but we all talk the same chess lingo......It pays to keep the body and the mind active 7 days a week.
 
noco said:
Rumpy, I have some good news for you.

This a true and honest story about myself.

On September 22 1998, I was unfortunate to be stricken with a growth the size of a can of coke attached to my heart and left lung.......It was removed, together with the 4 lymph glands, in an open heart surgery and it found to be malignant...My surgeon advised me I had less than 4 years to live......I did had radium treatment for 6 weeks but the radium scared the left lung down to a capacity of 10%.

Whist the radium may have saved my life, it did leave me with bronchioextesis and very susceptible to severe chest infections some 3 times per year and bed ridden for a week at a time......I was prescribed anti-biotics which were kept on the refrigerator at all times and as soon I felt the infection coming on, it was a reach for the anti-biotics.......But we found each infection started to become immune to the anti-biotics and I would be prescribed a new one.

Some 3 years ago a friend told me about ground CASSIA CINNAMON...So I googled it and found all the benefits of it being anti infection....I commenced taking one level teaspoon on my rolled oats each and every morning.....Since then I have not had a cold, influenza, sore throat or a chest infection in those 3 years.

My lady Doctor asked me some 6 months ago why I have not asked for a prescript for anti-biotics....Of course I told her what I was taking daily...She shrugged her shoulders and said, well don't stop.

As you know we all have those flu injections every year and more often than not many people still get the flu and that is what was happening to me until 3 years ago....This year I tried to refuse the injection to be my own guinea pig to prove a point that flu injections are bloody useless but she insisted I have one and I did so just to pacify her.

I also take 2000mg of Omega 3 each morning.

I do hope this will be of some help to you and other ASF members.
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Dam noco. You're messing up my impression of you... you got a heart? :D jk.

Don't know what to say...

Look up Yarrow. I translated a few pages for my dad and it sounds like it does a lot of stuff. Then if you want to start a few patch of it I can post it up your way.
 
luutzu said:
Dam noco. You're messing up my impression of you... you got a heart? :D jk.

Don't know what to say...

Look up Yarrow. I translated a few pages for my dad and it sounds like it does a lot of stuff. Then if you want to start a few patch of it I can post it up your way.
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luutzu, they say I have a heart of gold, gentle,caring and polite.......Have spent several years in Rotary giving up weekends to execute projects for the community.....spent some years in multi cultural work in my city and have been known to give the shirt off my back to someone in need.

The way some portray me on this site is nothing like I am in person......I was a pugilist in my younger day and still know how to fight a fair fight.
 
noco said:
luutzu, they say I have a heart of gold, gentle,caring and polite.......Have spent several years in Rotary giving up weekends to execute projects for the community.....spent some years in multi cultural work in my city and have been known to give the shirt off my back to someone in need.

The way some portray me on this site is nothing like I am in person......I was a pugilist in my younger day and still know how to fight a fair fight.
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I have to look up "pugilist". :D

Don't mind me or members on AFS noco. I think most like you anyway... don't agree with you on things, but they're not mean. Quite civil actually. what's wrong with internet forums nowadays?

Yea, I know a few people who were very kind and generous... they still are, just they became more jaded and develop a harder shell to crack. Mostly it's because they have seen their kindness being abuse and them being taken advantage off way too many times.

That's why it's best to have no friends, and no expectations.
 
I think most people that say they had a flu injection but still got the flu, didn't really get the flu.

The "flu" is one of those terms that gets used for pretty much any sickness people get that has a runny nose of cough as a symptom.

Both my Mum and dad and my father in law have both told me they are angry because they got sick even though they had a flu injection, but I don't even think they had the influenza virus.
 

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