That was very interesting – thanks Hugo.
I receive surveys from YouGov, co-founded by the creepy Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi. The surveys are always asking what type of technology you have at home, how many hours you spend watching TV, what you think of various influencers, brands etc.
I don’t think you mentioned smart motorways. We are told that smart motorways will be much safer but some people (people with a brain) are very worried about them because of the removal of hard shoulders. I am sure they will be much safer, because I believe their purpose is to track and stop people travelling, not to facilitate movement around the country.
During lockdown, I travelled between London and the NW a number of times, during the day and at night. The lockdowns allowed lots of work to take place on the motorways to make them ‘smart’. For miles and miles, there would only be one lane open, and at night, parts of the motorways were closed and the little traffic there was had to make big detours. This would not have been possible with the usual traffic. In fact, it was almost as if it had been planned ….
I believe very strongly in Intelligent Design by a higher being. I remember years ago I used to go to a vegan restaurant run by 7th Day Adventists. One of them said something which first made me believe this. Basically, it was to do with how giraffes can possibly get water to go up their very long necks whilst they were bending down at the lake. She said they had sphincters to stop the back-flow of the water. She questioned how that could be explained by the theory of evolution. It must be Intelligent Design.
More information on giraffes, if you are interested, and more evidence, I believe, of Intelligent Design
High blood pressure in humans is often associated with heart failure, edema, strokes, and episodes of fainting. Giraffes never show these. Edema, the abnormal collection of fluid in the lower legs, is prevented in giraffes by a combination of thick basement membranes of capillary blood vessels, which probably reduce their permeability to proteins, a very high tissue pressure that resists flow of fluid out of capillaries, and efficient mechanisms for returning blood to the heart. Fainting occurs when blood flow (and thus oxygen and glucose supply) to the brain is reduced. When a giraffe lifts its head after drinking water there is a sudden reduction of blood flow to the head, and fainting should result. Fainting is avoided because the blood flow that remains is diverted completely to the brain by a unique arrangement of blood vessels and nerves, and by structures that maintain the perfusion pressure of the blood flowing through the brain. Strokes can be caused by rupture of small blood vessels in the brain when they are exposed to high blood pressure of the kind reached in the head of a giraffe when it drinks surface water. Rupture of brain blood vessels is prevented in giraffes by mechanisms that reduce pressure. The posture adopted while drinking, baroreceptor-mediated reduction in cardiac output, the effects of the carotid rete, diversion of blood away from the brain, an increase in cerebrospinal fluid pressure, and passive and active constriction of blood vessels, all contribute.
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