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Tuesday, December 23, 2014
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While idly searching on my blog pix by right clicking on the picture and selecting "Search Goggle for this image" I discovered yet another picture from Morguefile being used as a book cover.
This was a slide taken from the hill above Leyland Chapel on the Brendon Hills near Raleigh's Cross Inn. I had scanned it and then treated it with Paint Shop Pro 8 "Pepper and salt" file to simulate a water colour painting before posting it on Morguefile.
Nice to get a surprise like that.
This was a slide taken from the hill above Leyland Chapel on the Brendon Hills near Raleigh's Cross Inn. I had scanned it and then treated it with Paint Shop Pro 8 "Pepper and salt" file to simulate a water colour painting before posting it on Morguefile.
Nice to get a surprise like that.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Have
a
No this is
not a human heart it is a sheep’s heart but the working principle is the same.
For some years now I have been suffering from a heart flutter because (I
understand) one of the valves is getting tired.
Now the
pulse rate for the average human being is as below.
Children
over age 10 and adults 60-100 while for well-conditioned athletes it is 40-60 heart beats per minute.
My recent visit to the Brunel Centre at Southmead for a scan
started me thinking. I was more than surprised at the result, — I was absolutely flabbergasted.
Let us suppose that the average for a 50 year old is 60
beats per minute.
Now I will calculate their lifetime. 50 years of 365 days, and
you will notice I am counting on the short side in all my reckoning. Is
a total of 18,250 days.
24 hours per day makes it 438,000 hours of 60 minutes =
26,280,000 minutes.
Now we find that at 60 beats per minute we have an answer of1,576,800,000
a total that passes all understand. Just Imagine 1,576 MILLION. What a fantastic creation the human body is. And you will observe that I reckoned from the lowest heart rate for an ordinary person and not the average of 80
I understand, and I may well be wrong: that for every 10 lbs
over weight (Don’t ask what the metric equivalent is) we have a mile of extra
blood vessels in our body. Is it any wonder that the 30 stone and over folk
have a shorter life than average?
Monday, December 15, 2014
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