Four bikes today

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

 

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.

 

And all good reasons for avoiding them if at all possible..

Phil.

 

Whatever turns you on, baby.

 

It's the only bit of the short story I recall.

 

They all do that sir.

 

Trust me, they arrive too soon; whatever the quoted lead time.

 

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?
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

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

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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.

 

God - the deity formerly known as Prince 2.

 

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.

 

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

That's the next hour of music sorted.

 

Ebay beckons.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

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...

 

Wouldn't be cheap: could easily cost an arm and a leg, in fact.

 

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.

 

That was the one. I might have guessed that it was another Clarke.

 

<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?
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

One of his best short stories, too.