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I think the incident you're referring to happened in the US, not Australia. Jennifer Strange's Family Awarded $16.5 Million in "Wee for Wii" Contest Death

Not if you drink the water too quickly, no. There have been a number of links posted in this thread already, that explain how this works, and/or give examples of people dying from drinking too much water too quickly. If the excess water was just released in the natural way, there wouldn't be all these instances of people dying.

It's not clear why the pilot ejected, however a number of aviation analysts commenting in the articles I've read, have speculated that he probably didn't realise the plane was going to be able to continue flying for quite some time, because otherwise, he wouldn't have ejected when he did.

Where is your evidence for such a statement? Please provide a verifiable source. I've met a number of Thai officials in various different situations, all of them seemed perfectly delighted by the fact that I could speak Thai.

No, it's ridiculous to suggest that no one does it. People can (and do) overdose in all kinds of different places. Car parks are not excluded. I just Googled, "person dies of overdose in car park." I found 19 news articles where this has happened, before I stopped counting. Here's just one - as I mention, there are more than a dozen others. Man dies after overdose in Brighton seafront car park

While on the subject of taking stomach acid reducing medication, in case anyone had been taking ranitidine (Zantac) long term and was worried about the perceived cancer risk that led to it being removed from the market (I know I was) recently-published research may serve to lessen those concerns. Large Study Eases Fears Over Zantac-Cancer Link The study involved, "more than 1.18 million individuals across seven countries."

It's definitely not impossible to kill yourself with a drugs overdose, whether that be of prescription medicine* or illegal drugs - it's one of the most common methods of suicide. See below. Self poisoning And the question I was addressing wasn't whether this person committed suicide and/or how he did it, it was whether committing suicide in a car park is possible. Which it most certainly is. *In fact, one of the most common prescription medicines used to commit suicide is paracetamol. Use of paracetamol (acetaminophen) for suicide and nonfatal poisoning

There have been at least three other examples already given in this thread. And it certainly does prove something - it proves that drinking too much water can be dangerous and potentially even fatal.

Lots of methods of suicide could take place in a car park. Overdose, poison, gunshot, self-inflicted wounds etc, etc. The British Parking Association obviously thinks it's a possibility - they have a web page about it. Preventing suicides in car parks

Because if this person did commit suicide and did so in a car park, (and if the body had not been moved) then that's where the body would be found.

Not sure why you would make such a ridiculous post. Nobody, absolutely nobody is proposing "to dip high voltage batteries in water from time to time." However what was pointed out was that, according to the US National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA), if they do end up in the water: "Hybrid, electric, and fuel cell vehicles are designed to be safe in water, even when fully submerged. The High Voltage (HV) system is isolated from the chassis and is designed to NOT pose a shock and NOT energize the surrounding water. "

Laboratory testing of any consumer product is conducted by simulating the real world environment. So any conditions that would normally occur during the use of the product and might affect product life, whether that be an EV battery, a vacuum cleaner, a zip fastener or whatever, will be included in the laboratory tests.

No, we don't "have to wait a few years to see actual results," to know how long a battery will last, or how much range it will lose over time. Batteries can be (and are) tested by running them through an accelerated series of discharge/recharge cycles in a test laboratory. This is the same way that many, many consumer goods are tested, by simulating actual use, but at an accelerated rate, in a laboratory setting.

10 of them have crashed - it's a typo.

Your question seems to be backwards. The question is not what use is a transponder when it is switched off, it is what use is it when it is switched on, and the answer is that it's used for air traffic control safety and efficiency. It's the same reason why all commercial aircraft have transponders. So for all normal situations, when flying around a peaceful country the transponder on a military plane will be on. When you don't want the plane to show up on air traffic control systems, or to return a reply to an IFF query (such as when the plane is flying a combat mission in enemy territory) the transponder and IFF systems would be switched off (probably before take-off).

Because when a military aircraft is flying around in normal (non-combat) conditions in a country with air traffic control systems, transponders are used to help facilitate the safe and efficient movement of air traffic throughout the country. And even though military aircraft (including stealth aircraft) have transponders, they don't have to be switched on all the time. If the plane needs to be in stealth mode for operational, tactical or training reasons, the transponder can be switched off. As mentioned by a US avionics technician in a Quora answer, "Stealth aircraft have the ability to turn off Mode 1,2 3 and C transponders for obvious reasons. They also have the ability to disable IFF interrogation replies." Do military planes turn off their transponder?

I don't know that anyone is assuming anything, we know the pilot is male - he was identified as such in statements by the Marine Corps.

There are a number of alternatives to lithium currently under development. Probably the closest to widespread commercial availability is sodium. In fact BYD already announced it will be offering CATL sodium batteries in some models starting this year. Will Sodium Batteries Replace Lithium Batteries? Others being worked on include Magnesium, Sodium-Sulfur, Sodium-antimony, Seawater, Graphene, Manganese Hydrogen, Zinc and Iron-air, among others.

According to a Marine Corps spokesman, the F-35 did have a transponder on board which should have been working, allowing them to track it but it apparently malfunctioned, for unknown reasons. Missing F-35

It's a typo - the actual figure of F-35’s that have crashed is 10.

I have now switched to a marriage extension but I always had to provide a map when I did my retirement extensions in Hua Hin in the past.

In the various threads about home visits from immigration, there have been numerous mentions of immigration visiting people on retirement extensions. It seems like it's still a minority of cases, but would appear to be getting more common

So where are the reports of him saying "the other day" that he would abolish university fees? Unless you can provide a source for that, your claim is baseless - and therefore worthless.

I can't find any reports of such a statement from Starmer. However I did find this from just a few months ago, which seems to totally contradict what you're saying. Labour to ditch its promise to abolish tuition fees in England

Being a member of the EFTA is not something that is offered to you, it's something you apply for. And as mentioned on the EFTA website, it was the UK that decided not to apply. Frequently asked questions on EFTA, the EEA, EFTA membership and Brexit