It really was 40 years ago...

It was actually a li^H^H wee cottage down the country, but yes.

 

Heh. Where's your sense of adventure?

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Having visited the alleged site at Hiroshima I'd have to agree. No
hole at all, and there's only a couple of building shells as
'evidence'. All the other buildings around, mostly skyscrapers, were
untouched. How did they make that happen, eh?

 

They reversed the polarity on the demolition charges. Simples.

 

Make sure you have a Council planning officer with you on the trip.

Phil

 

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They could sit next to the Health & Safety rep.

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# You are the Babylon (5)

Phil

 

It's also dependent upon the textbook in question. Its kind of like the
difference between "The Lonely Planet" and "The Rough Guide" Each has
it's proponents and it's detractors but if you follow the book you will
find your way.

But yes you are bang on. We're so screwed!

Religion
The book says no! Your un-sanitised input doesn't fit in the box.

Computer Based Information Systems
The computer says no! Your un-sanitised input doesn't fit in the box.

Could this be a new religion? Insurance companies and many other large
organisations seem to follow it to the letter with no room for non-
compliant information. Seems to be a very religious attitude to me. Are
database designers the new high priests of technology, over sanitising
our input to conform with their narrow vision of the world?

 

I was also coming to the conclusion that we are using the terms in a
different way..

Phil

 

Feel free to not read it.

Phil

 

also the "Christian Retreat" place in Castlerock.

 

close enough for linguistic drift.

 

Not on the space station though.

Someone broke the dunny. They are trying to find out who did it but they
have nothing to go on.

 

And two weeks later there will be a fine wee Tube that a man might
take the train up the Kilburn Crater for a pint; three weeks later the
Swellons will have called a strike on it.

 

really, no. Though plenty of others, and also in his role of swimming
lesson supervisor, I personally witnessed him "checking that boys
trunks were fitting properly". My theory is that he avoided me because
my grandad was a big-ish[1] player on the local Christian scene, and
wouldn't have wanted to risk any sort of complaint by me.

[1] as in, fairly regularly socialised with the Reverend Doctor,
though they weren't quite on the same team.

 

Free the Babylon Five!

 

In the deluxe cabins next to the nice warm, safe reactor?

Phil

 

In the interests of science I just measured mine. Cold water comes out at
20.3 degrees C and can be heated to a rather scary 75.2 in about 3 hours
using a solar panel. This represents a 54.9 degree rise in the
temperature of the water. No account has been taken of atmospheric
factors but........

The tank holds 150 litres.

150 litres of water = roughly 150 kilos dependent on temp.

150 Kilos = 330 pounds of water.

1 BTU heats 1lb of water by 1 degree so...

330 x heat increase of 54.9 = 18117 BTU

The quantity of panels required to hydrolise enough water to supply a
colony is left as a mathematical exercise for the student.

It may not provide enough power but if we can find the power for
intergalactic travel somewhere we can at least be assured of arriving
clean and smelling good.


Which is nice.

I'm sure someone will be along to correct my erroneous maths soon.

 

I've just got back from a long week end in my old village in Kent.
Parked van behind the pub and enjoyed the village windmill fete and lots
of beer and a day trip to France.

The pub has scaffolding over the roof. Put up there by contractors to
find out where the roof leaks when it rains.

Health and Safety keep turning up every time it rains to make sure no
one goes on the scaffolding because it's too dangerous to go on
scaffolding when it's wet.

This has been going on since November 2008

 

Because 40 years ago someone had an idea.

A really dim idea.

"Lets send some guys to the moon." They thought. How dim is that?

With perseverance and effort and a computer that would be shamed by your
average modern day ignition system, they sat on top of a big pile of
barely restrained explosives lit the blue touch paper and did it.

What have we done since? Generation X. We live in a world where all of
the things worth doing have been done. Concorde, a major engineering
achievement, now out of service, will probably never be bettered.
Oh but we did that already!

Have we collectively given up on the big things to leave them to
eccentric individuals?

Land speed records. Water speed records. Why do people do it?
Because it's there to be done.

Why do people climb Everest?
Because it's there.

Why should we go to visit other planets and systems?
.................

Have we lost the imagination and drive required for achieving anything
but a new satellite for "Telly box" transmissions and warlike purposes?

Lets go to Mars! We can do it! All wee need is the technology to build a
big enough rubber band.