Glad to hear you are on the mend old man xxx

Not only did they decide to bring back Hitler after killing him off in season 19, they changed the actor who played him as well!

Winner.

Elf and it's a Wonderful life, love both equally just depends on my mood.

Blonde has become a forum full of people who would argue over the colour of the sky.
95 % of the posts are someone's unpopular opinions, did we really need this one as encouragement?

Seemed like a good idea to me, a kind of arsehole containment thread....

 
Let's just sneak away now Eck, and hope no one noticed us

Belated happy birthday mate!
One lovely year left before you get all horrible and teenagerish!   

Blonde has become a forum full of people who would argue over the colour of the sky.
95 % of the posts are someone's unpopular opinions, did we really need this one as encouragement?

Glad to hear he got through the op ok

Hope he is home soon.

Soon... home and already xbox 1ing own.  Staying at ours for the weekend
 Thanks all
 

What an amazing kid.
Hope you all have a nice uneventful weekend xx

I'm so sorry to hear Reece is poorly.
Get well soon young man xxx

Things don't slow down in space as there is no friction, as it is a vacuum.

On earth an object slows down due  to the air that gets in its way, in space there is nothing. They continue in a straight line for ever (unless gravity of an object bends their route)

This.  I get this.
I wasn't quite sure what I was asking, but your answer combined with the little I do know has satisfied my curiosity.
Thanks to other contributors of course, I know it isn't easy to make sense of anything I say.

It is prob just that we have no sense of the speed of orbiting objects.  For instance the sun is 150m km away so the earth travels (roughly) in a circle of 150m km radius or 3.14 x 300m km - 942m km - that means it is moving through space at ~107500km per hour.  So obviously if another orbiting object hits it, it could well be a high speed collision.






cliffs: we're doomed

I seem to be having trouble phrasing my question properly.
I get that everything is moving and I know that things are pulled into orbit by the gravity of bigger things and it's all moving outwards at the same time but, and this is a big but, what is moving a meteor or a comet?
Are they like shrapnel from explosions? That is why I asked about momentum and if it would run out.
Or are they like, endlessly falling?  Although there isnt really down or up in space is is there?
Is stuff ricocheting off each other like billiard balls, and if so does speed and mass and all that work the same way or do those rules not apply out there?
I'm making my brains hurt now, I can't believe I never thought about this before, and all of my trying to ask my question just leads to more questions :0

If most of the other stuff is just hanging about its own patch

nothing is doing that

Okaay,  now I've just realised that although I flippantly used a daft sentence I did think that things were kind of fixed into a sort of 'space map'. I know it's all expanding but I thought the locations were all the same.
I have also realised that I'm am going to look stupider by the minute.
Oh well, it's done now.  

Sunday evening movie with the kids tonight is Deep impact.
Not as good as Armageddon I know but that's beside the point.  What I want to know is, what propels a meteor through space? If most of the other stuff is just hanging about its own patch, doing its predictable spinny, orbity thing, why do these things come through like they're rocket powered? If it's some kind of momentum do they eventually just slow down and float about?
I probably should know this but I have only just thought about and realised I actually don't.
Clever people, I await your responses.

Ooh,  it's all going on here.
People are out in force protesting, there are more police than you could ever imagine one city could have, helicopters circling,  sirens galore and they just rolled out a water cannon! 

Do be careful.

Make sure you are back in the hotel before it gets dark, wear a vest, & have a spoonful of cod liver oil & malt before you go to bed.

x

Thank you for your concern uncle Tony, I have indeed worn a vest every day, although the weather is good,  I can't say we have been back back before dark and I may have substituted the cod liver oil for a goldfish bowl full of strawberry daiquiri but we are always sensible ;-)
The initial shock seems to have worn off here now and the streets are full of people going about their normal routine and generally the mood is a lot brighter.
I don't think this is a city that pauses for long for any reason,  places to go people to see and all that.
xxx

Ooh,  it's all going on here.
People are out in force protesting, there are more police than you could ever imagine one city could have, helicopters circling,  sirens galore and they just rolled out a water cannon! 

News coverage is hilarious this morning, anchors failing to disguise their disbelief saying things like 'I suppose he's the president elect', 'who is waking up depressed this morning' and 'people want to know if they can move to Canada'
Trump meanwhile is holed up in Trump towers with an impromptu row of dump trucks barricades the street off.