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  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,288
    Why am I surrounded by intellectual dwarves
  • Leon labs why we all dogs
  • Is Batman immune to COVID
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,664
    RobD said:

    Leon said:

    The “map” from the Worobey paper




    Notice anything missing?

    Ah yes


    Come on you must be able to do better than that. That's just a screenshot that someone's typed Wuhan CDC on. Maybe it's really there, or maybe it's where Google Maps says it is, 4 km south of there.
    The Guardian thinks it's real. Of course with their track record of corrections and clarifications...

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/could-covid-19-be-manmade-what-we-know-about-origins-trump-chinese-lab-coronavirus
    O God, I shouldn't keep refreshing.

    The Guardian thinks the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control is real because it is. They say it's "located not far from the fish market". Arguably true, if you think 3.7km is not far.

    The Graun doesn't mention another lab 300m away as far as I can tell.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,288

    RobD said:

    Leon said:

    The “map” from the Worobey paper




    Notice anything missing?

    Ah yes


    Come on you must be able to do better than that. That's just a screenshot that someone's typed Wuhan CDC on. Maybe it's really there, or maybe it's where Google Maps says it is, 4 km south of there.
    The Guardian thinks it's real. Of course with their track record of corrections and clarifications...

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/could-covid-19-be-manmade-what-we-know-about-origins-trump-chinese-lab-coronavirus
    O God, I shouldn't keep refreshing.

    The Guardian thinks the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control is real because it is. They say it's "located not far from the fish market". Arguably true, if you think 3.7km is not far.

    The Graun doesn't mention another lab 300m away as far as I can tell.
    Stop being an idiot, this is mortifying
  • TimTTimT Posts: 6,468

    Cyclefree said:

    Off topic but may be of interests to geologists on here.

    I have acquired some 600 square metres of land which I am very very slowly turning into a garden and potager etc. it is currently wild and this week NW Electricity have started the process of removing an electricity pole on the land and laying the connection in an underground cable. It is hard work because the rock under the land (and we are on a hill) is dolerite, which is a sort of volcanic-like - and incredibly hard - rock, as you can see below.

    Raised beds in the potager anyway. Even digging up a small bed in the front garden brought up quantities of the stuff. Imagine doing 600 sq mtrs!!


    Get a megaton of topsoil and dump it on top.

    ETA it's what Osgood Mackenzie did at Inverewe.
    A friend of mine with a tree farm makes his own soil - soiled horse bedding/manure composted for a year, mixed in with river silt from the local water treatment plant's settle tanks.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,288
    Everyone accepts that the Wuhan CDC - in 2019 - was right by the market. THIS IS NOT DISPUTED
  • Yh Leon m8 you lad you're right
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,664
    edited July 2022
    Leon said:

    Why am I surrounded by intellectual dwarves

    It's because you insist on following their dodgy tweets pal!
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,930
    edited July 2022

    RobD said:

    Leon said:

    The “map” from the Worobey paper




    Notice anything missing?

    Ah yes


    Come on you must be able to do better than that. That's just a screenshot that someone's typed Wuhan CDC on. Maybe it's really there, or maybe it's where Google Maps says it is, 4 km south of there.
    The Guardian thinks it's real. Of course with their track record of corrections and clarifications...

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/could-covid-19-be-manmade-what-we-know-about-origins-trump-chinese-lab-coronavirus
    O God, I shouldn't keep refreshing.

    The Guardian thinks the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control is real because it is. They say it's "located not far from the fish market". Arguably true, if you think 3.7km is not far.

    The Graun doesn't mention another lab 300m away as far as I can tell.
    The Economist put it at 500m:

    The first flutterings of lab-leak concern were prompted by simple geography. That market is just 12km away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (wiv), a global centre for coronavirus research. The Wuhan Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc), which also worked on bat coronaviruses, is closer still: a mere 500 metres.

    https://www.economist.com/international/2021/05/29/assessing-the-theory-that-covid-19-leaked-from-a-chinese-lab
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,288

    Leon said:

    Why am I surrounded by intellectual dwarves

    It's because you insist on following their dodgy tweets pal!
    If you had read the Worobey paper, which you have not, you would have noticed that even THEY now admit - in this heavily revised version, after they faced much criticism - that the CDC lab is really close to the market - 277 metres, to be precise - but they hastily move on and say there is no evidence that it was fucking around with bat coronaviruses, even tho the Chinese admitted that they were, early on

    It's farcical
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,930

    Leon said:

    Why am I surrounded by intellectual dwarves

    It's because you insist on following their dodgy tweets pal!
    I think he needs to check out a new tourist hotspot. ;)
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,930
    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Why am I surrounded by intellectual dwarves

    It's because you insist on following their dodgy tweets pal!
    If you had read the Worobey paper, which you have not, you would have noticed that even THEY now admit - in this heavily revised version, after they faced much criticism - that the CDC lab is really close to the market - 277 metres, to be precise - but they hastily move on and say there is no evidence that it was fucking around with bat coronaviruses, even tho the Chinese admitted that they were, early on

    It's farcical
    I can only assume the lab has been razed to the ground by now. Probably in the weeks after it all kicked off.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 122,921
    Matt Hancock reaches day 3 of his charity Mont Blanc trek with Gina

    https://twitter.com/MattHancock/status/1552052351837605888?s=20&t=wSFXZ6f_PvSrx6kuHeZFTA
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,288
    RobD said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Why am I surrounded by intellectual dwarves

    It's because you insist on following their dodgy tweets pal!
    If you had read the Worobey paper, which you have not, you would have noticed that even THEY now admit - in this heavily revised version, after they faced much criticism - that the CDC lab is really close to the market - 277 metres, to be precise - but they hastily move on and say there is no evidence that it was fucking around with bat coronaviruses, even tho the Chinese admitted that they were, early on

    It's farcical
    I can only assume the lab has been razed to the ground by now. Probably in the weeks after it all kicked off.
    Yes

    I think - it is hard to be sure - that the Chinese moved it pronto after the outbreak

  • Is Batman immune to COVID

    Why do you think he wears a mask?
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,821

    Is Batman immune to COVID

    Why do you think he wears a mask?
    Because he cares about his own health and that of others.
  • BartholomewRobertsBartholomewRoberts Posts: 21,971
    edited July 2022

    Is Batman immune to COVID

    Why do you think he wears a mask?
    Because he cares about his own health and that of others.
    The mask is not for you, its to protect the people you care about.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,557
    I'm probably going to support Rishi but doubt he'll win the contest.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,557
    "There is every reason to fear the return of Boris Johnson as prime minister

    If the Tories crash to defeat at the next election, would anyone bet against them embracing Johnson as their saviour?
    By Martin Fletcher"

    https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022/07/return-boris-johnson-prime-minister
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 27,899
    edited July 2022
    Existence of Loch Ness Monster is ‘plausible’ after fossil discovery
    River system dig in modern-day Morocco offers ‘controversial’ new perspective on how marine reptiles and aquatic dinosaurs co-existed

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/26/existence-loch-ness-monster-plausible-fossil-discovery/ (£££)
  • edmundintokyoedmundintokyo Posts: 17,708
    New Hampshire Dem poll, incumbent president polling second and vice-president polling below KLOBUCHAR

    https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1551967818123542528
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 53,831

    Existence of Loch Ness Monster is ‘plausible’ after fossil discovery
    River system dig in modern-day Morocco offers ‘controversial’ new perspective on how marine reptiles and aquatic dinosaurs co-existed

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/26/existence-loch-ness-monster-plausible-fossil-discovery/ (£££)

    If the Loch Ness monster existed there would need to be at least 50 of them. Air breathing plesiosaurs or whatever. One surfacing every minute or so. Think we might have noticed.
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