Hi Tropical Girl. Is me BHD. Am posting from a laptop, so user id comes up different.

Would you be a StarWars fan? I read just about all the books before and after the movie series, and in one they find these scientists/boffins who dream up all the emperor's weapons and scenarios for war.

They are kept in the middle of a black hole cluster, and not allowed to see anyone outside of their division - ever.

So when the rebels break in and find them, and tell them what their ideas are doing in the real world, they are horrified and pledge not to work any longer.

Bit of a stretch, but I see this thread like that sometimes. We're all pretty comfortable chatting away with each other about this and that. In reality, the this and that can be people's lives, or events that will end up playing out to cause pain in those we love and care about.

I truly hope none of what we speculate on here ever comes true, with regards some of the aweful outcomes theorised.

But, folks like Gulfie actually moved after digesting a lot of this thread, so some good has come of it.

I hope your family is safe and ready to up root in a jif, should the need arise.