STR F1 fitness expert Raniero Gianotti has died aged 46 while out on a bike ride. The physio is one the more well known in F1 circles having worked with F1 stars Rubens Barrichello, Sebastian Vettel, Truli and Algaesuari during his time at teams Stewart GP, Ferrari, Toyota and Toro Rosso. RIP
I'm guessing he had some kind of underlying health condition, otherwise a heart attack at 46 for an F1 Physio is a wake up call for all of us. RIP.
Didn't the guy who advocated jogging to everyone in the 80's die the same way? No one can say God doesn't have a sense of irony, after all, look at pi.
Everything in moderation, I say, particularily exercise, alchohol, and food, he said being a type 2 diabetic with high blood pressure, but both under control, moral being, make good use of your GP !!!! If the human body was meant for running fast for long distances we would be built like race horses, fortunately we have evolved with large brains, so we don't need to run fast, let's face it if animals had more brains they would be eating us.
I agree about the moderation. Sorry to hear of your health Ernie but your mental attitude surely compensates! As for your last sentence; it's just funny! But there are occasions when I think the planet would be better off if humans had less dominance over other animals. Maybe that's why I find it strangely exciting when coming into land at an airport where I can see wild animals roaming loose!
I once played a gig in Glasgow and it was like a ghost town as I drove into the city at 5pm. All the shops were shut with rigid, no nonsense shutters down and there wasn't anyone on the streets. Once inside the venue, we were told (in no uncertain terms) not to venture into any of the pubs for fear of being set upon due to our English heritage. Needless to say, we played and immediately left. Don't know how you have found Glasgow Cosi, but I'm certainly not keen to return.
I'm not sure how long ago your gig was Westy but despite some lingering, anti-English tribalism, Glasgow has improved enormously. The city centre is interesting and has some good places to eat. Then again, I had a Police escort for some of the time… !
I play the Welsh card and anyone Scottish instantly loves me Gianotti played a major role in several drivers careers and like any early loss its a sad affair.
My health whilst sounding a problem, is stable and monitored closely, so hopefully there are many years to go yet, and I'm still working full time, regarding my last sentence, the problem is, Mother Nature only ever recognises winners, that and those that simply will not, or cannot adapt will perish. If we were not so dominant we also would not be Alpha Male, where would we be, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe there is room for more tolerance, but thats not the way it all works, unless there is a step change in human behaviour, and I can't see that happening anytime soon. Sadly, I think we will eventually destroy the planet, probably by mistake, possibly through a gigantic experiment being mis-calculated, Hadron Collider springs to mind ! A punch up in a Glasgow pub is almost as bad, it can feel like the end of the world.
lol, me too, works with the french, Spanish, in fact pretty much everyone. The Spanish and south Americans particularly love the Welsh as the welsh miners introduced them all to football.
Actually, if you saw the 'search for the higgs bosson' you'd know that that is exactly what they want to try to do with it. The hubristic fools can't see the math is wrong.
Off-topic: a response to conCERN about little black holes and the 'God-particle' It could be possible to create what is known as a 'primordial black-hole', i.e. one of infinitesimal mass, despite being infinitely compact (infinitely dense), which, due to well-established tried and tested principles of quantum mechanics, would be quite safe. The theory goes that such an unimaginably tiny black hole has such short-range influence that it would pass straight through matter (and anti-matter) without any interaction at all (due to exclusion principles) - rather like the theoretical Higgs boson they are pouring so much effort into (ahem) 'finding'*. Little wonder then, that the Higgs boson is so elusive: in order to be detected it must reveal itself through some form of interaction with what is familiar to us, i.e. matter. If the Higgs boson is, as suspected, 'massive' in the sense of possessing mass (unlike a photon), the theory is that it should be detectable. For reference, the Higgs boson is expected to be in the order of 133 times heavier (more massive) than a proton. Protons themselves are 1,836 times heavier than electrons. Thus, the Higgs boson - if it exists - is considerably (a quick calc = 244,188 times) more massive than the electron, despite having a far, far shorter range of influence! *I prefer the description 'creating'!
