Banks only want your National Insurance number if you apply for a special tax exempt account (ISA). Doctors will want your NHS reference number not your NI number. I've never been asked for my NI number where it wasn't directly relevant and I don't know of any organisation that uses it as a general reference number.
I've never been asked for my National Insurance number other than in connection with income tax or social security. It doesn't function as an all purpose id number in the same way as an American social security number.
Electricity from nuclear energy (in the UK at least) is more expensive than other kinds. Since privatisation no new nuclear stations have been built and British Energy who own all the second generation nuclear plants lost £500m last year and would have gone bankrupt if the government hadn't bailed them out. Nuclear reprocessing is still going on in the UK, a large new plant at Windscale^H^H^H^H^H^H Sellafield opened a couple of years back.
Under the data protection act you can force the operators of CCTV cameras to give you a copy of any footage that has you in it. They have to obscure the faces of anyone else in to and can charge up to £10.
They don't recycle water on the shuttle, they get so much out of the hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells which provide the electrical power that they dump waste water. They have occasionally had problems with water freezing in the outlet and causing a blockage.
I think that you are confusing the Glasgow Subway (small trains running in a circle) with the underground bits of the rail network. There is several unused bits of the latter, such as the extra tunnel under Glasgow Central & the tunnel going up to the Botanic Gardens (these might be connected somewhere). About 8 years ago the river Kelvin broke into this tunnel and flooded all the way down to Argyle Street, closing the line for most of a year.
Someone explain to me why every member of the British group wasn't round up and shot for gross negligence?
Because the story is complete nonsense invented by a couple of journalists almost 50 years later. The story claims the attempt at rainmaking took place over Bedfordshire. The floods were several days later in Lynmouth, over 150 miles upwind.
There are at least two in Glasgow still on their original site but they haven't been used for years. There are several former police boxes (of a different design to the TARDIS) in Edinburgh in use by various companies.
Soho has been in a halo orbit around the earth sun L1 point since 1995 (including about a month in 1998 out of contact after a software error) without any maintenence visits.
The government minister involved was Cecil Parkinson. He got his secretary pregnant while preaching "Family Values" and conducting a witch hunt against single mothers. The injunction banned anything which might identify his illegitimate daughter and lasted until her 18th birthday which was about a year ago. It applied to everyone in England and wales not just his mistress, his daughter's school even had to remove her name from the cast list of a school play. It was even forbidden to identify who the order was about, it was reported in the news in England as "Child X". According to his mistress he and his lawyers conned her into agreeing to the order without explaining what it was about. The injunction did not apply in Scoltand and the media took great delight in identifying him at every opportunity.
The rubber wasn't around the outside of the wheel for traction, it was a 3 part wheel with a rubber ring around a steel core with a steel tyre in contact with the rail. It was designed for vibration isolation. Similar wheels were installed on the London-Edinburgh trains but were removed after this accident.
Industrially produced methanol is made by reacting methane with steam. It may be possible to make it from wood in a 4th grade science class but it's not likely to be economic on a large scale.
Conclusion: Estimating roughly half of this cost to be launch, if India did the launches, the missions would cost $400 apiece.
The shuttle is not the only US launch system and as the moon mission is unmanned it is likely that they would use a cheaper alternative in their costing.
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Banks only want your National Insurance number if you apply for a special tax exempt account (ISA). Doctors will want your NHS reference number not your NI number. I've never been asked for my NI number where it wasn't directly relevant and I don't know of any organisation that uses it as a general reference number.
I've never been asked for my National Insurance number other than in connection with income tax or social security. It doesn't function as an all purpose id number in the same way as an American social security number.
Electricity from nuclear energy (in the UK at least) is more expensive than other kinds. Since privatisation no new nuclear stations have been built and British Energy who own all the second generation nuclear plants lost £500m last year and would have gone bankrupt if the government hadn't bailed them out. Nuclear reprocessing is still going on in the UK, a large new plant at Windscale^H^H^H^H^H^H Sellafield opened a couple of years back.
Under the data protection act you can force the operators of CCTV cameras to give you a copy of any footage that has you in it. They have to obscure the faces of anyone else in to and can charge up to £10.
They don't recycle water on the shuttle, they get so much out of the hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells which provide the electrical power that they dump waste water. They have occasionally had problems with water freezing in the outlet and causing a blockage.
There are some pictures of the Botanic gardens station at http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/botanics.
I think that you are confusing the Glasgow Subway (small trains running in a circle) with the underground bits of the rail network. There is several unused bits of the latter, such as the extra tunnel under Glasgow Central & the tunnel going up to the Botanic Gardens (these might be connected somewhere). About 8 years ago the river Kelvin broke into this tunnel and flooded all the way down to Argyle Street, closing the line for most of a year.
Someone explain to me why every member of the British group wasn't round up and shot for gross negligence?
Because the story is complete nonsense invented by a couple of journalists almost 50 years later. The story claims the attempt at rainmaking took place over Bedfordshire. The floods were several days later in Lynmouth, over 150 miles upwind.
You mean Barbarella?
There are at least two in Glasgow still on their original site but they haven't been used for years. There are several former police boxes (of a different design to the TARDIS) in Edinburgh in use by various companies.
Soho has been in a halo orbit around the earth sun L1 point since 1995 (including about a month in 1998 out of contact after a software error) without any maintenence visits.
The government minister involved was Cecil Parkinson. He got his secretary pregnant while preaching "Family Values" and conducting a witch hunt against single mothers. The injunction banned anything which might identify his illegitimate daughter and lasted until her 18th birthday which was about a year ago. It applied to everyone in England and wales not just his mistress, his daughter's school even had to remove her name from the cast list of a school play. It was even forbidden to identify who the order was about, it was reported in the news in England as "Child X". According to his mistress he and his lawyers conned her into agreeing to the order without explaining what it was about. The injunction did not apply in Scoltand and the media took great delight in identifying him at every opportunity.
The rubber wasn't around the outside of the wheel for traction, it was a 3 part wheel with a rubber ring around a steel core with a steel tyre in contact with the rail. It was designed for vibration isolation. Similar wheels were installed on the London-Edinburgh trains but were removed after this accident.
Industrially produced methanol is made by reacting methane with steam. It may be possible to make it from wood in a 4th grade science class but it's not likely to be economic on a large scale.
The original Physics world Article is at
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/15/9/2
Conclusion: Estimating roughly half of this cost to be launch, if India did the launches, the missions would cost $400 apiece.
The shuttle is not the only US launch system and as the moon mission is unmanned it is likely that they would use a cheaper alternative in their costing.
All mobile phones in the UK where this las has been passed are SIM-based.
It is a legal requirement in the UK for to restaurants to specify whether or not the food is genetically-modified.