Four bikes today

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by Pip Luscher, Aug 4, 2007.

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    Hog Guest

    I believe he did just that though for MV's, dunno about BMW

    Frame looks quite Featherbed in its design.
    http://r73.de/Magni-BMW.htm
     
    Hog, Aug 6, 2007
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  2. Wasn't there a camel in it?
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    Dave
    GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

    Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
    river cleaned out in a day.
     
    Grimly Curmudgeon, Aug 6, 2007
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  3. And all good reasons for avoiding them if at all possible..

    Phil.
     
    Phil Launchbury, Aug 6, 2007
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    Pip Guest

    Whatever turns you on, baby.
     
    Pip, Aug 6, 2007
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    Pip Luscher Guest

    It's the only bit of the short story I recall.
     
    Pip Luscher, Aug 6, 2007
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    Lady Nina Guest

    They all do that sir.
     
    Lady Nina, Aug 6, 2007
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    deadmail Guest

    Trust me, they arrive too soon; whatever the quoted lead time.
     
    deadmail, Aug 6, 2007
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  8. No problem shortly - cloning licences will be granted. Struck me the
    other day - how will a child feel once he/she knows they were only
    conceived to provide spares for their sibling?
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    Dave
    GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

    Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
    river cleaned out in a day.
     
    Grimly Curmudgeon, Aug 6, 2007
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    Ace Guest

    But then you have to maintain an entire spare unit, and deal with any
    problems that may arise in it.

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    Ace, Aug 7, 2007
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    platypus Guest

    With an omniscient god, he'll know exactly when to turn out the stars so
    that they apparently disappear at the right moment. So, if Sirius is 8.6
    light years away, he'd shut it down 8.6 years early. Fomalhaut is 25 ly
    away, so it would need to be shut down at 25 years early. Not too
    difficult, and if anyone can get PM/critical path stuff right, it'll be god.

    Either that, or it's an instantaneous way of annihilation, propagated from
    the edges of the universe, about to snap shut on ground zero. The reason
    the starlight is fading out is it not just that the stars no longer exist,
    but the light travelling from them is also being annihilated at the
    wavefront.
    Of course not: you would be non-existent.
     
    platypus, Aug 7, 2007
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    Pip Guest

    God - the deity formerly known as Prince 2.
     
    Pip, Aug 7, 2007
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    platypus Guest

    That's the omniscient bit: god knows where and when the nine billionth name
    will be popping out. So, he knows how far in advance to turn off the stars.
    So, Fomalhaut would have been turned off 25 years in advance. 25 years
    later, the light stops arriving at Earth.

    When you look into the night sky, you look into the past. We see Fomalhaut
    as it was 25 years ago. We see the Andromeda galaxy as it was 2,500,000
    years ago. So, if the god in question chooses to be bound by Newtonian
    physics, the actual shutdown effect will be a project almost as big as
    constructing the universe in the first place. Which would look pretty good
    on the CV...
    It is, I agree, a bit hard to swallow.
     
    platypus, Aug 7, 2007
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    Lady Nina Guest

    "each star we see in the sky is a sun like our own, beginning to die"

    That's the next hour of music sorted.
     
    Lady Nina, Aug 7, 2007
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  14. Ebay beckons.
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    Dave
    GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

    Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
    river cleaned out in a day.
     
    Grimly Curmudgeon, Aug 7, 2007
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    Pip Luscher Guest

    There was a sci-fi short story along those lines, too. An
    archaeological expedition discover a civilisation that had been
    supernova'd so that a star could shine...
     
    Pip Luscher, Aug 7, 2007
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    Pip Luscher Guest

    Wouldn't be cheap: could easily cost an arm and a leg, in fact.
     
    Pip Luscher, Aug 7, 2007
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    platypus Guest

    Arthur C Clarke, "The Star", published about 1955. It was about an
    archaeologist/priest who was having big problems faithwise, because a whole
    civilisation had been wiped out in order to light up the sky over Bethlehem.
     
    platypus, Aug 7, 2007
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    Pip Luscher Guest

    That was the one. I might have guessed that it was another Clarke.
     
    Pip Luscher, Aug 7, 2007
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  19. <apropos of something else>

    Saw a Luescher on the box last night in the prog about Telford the
    engineer. Do you have rellies near Langholm?
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    Dave
    GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

    Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
    river cleaned out in a day.
     
    Grimly Curmudgeon, Aug 7, 2007
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  20. One of his best short stories, too.
     
    The Older Gentleman, Aug 8, 2007
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