Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[Woodsey]

Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

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[Laxie]

Yay!  I can do funky trees.  Please don't ever take up golf Tom.  Cheers.

PS  Sun splitting the stones today.   

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Fantastic photos Dawn. Thanks.

I loved the ones that Rod posted too, especially that one with the Volkswagen. How did it manage to stay parked in one spot for so long?

[tikay]

Fantastic photos Dawn. Thanks.

I loved the ones that Rod posted too, especially that one with the Volkswagen. How did it manage to stay parked in one spot for so long?

I enjoyed them, too, though I am suspicious of the authencity of the one with the bicycle in, it does not add up to me, the bike would have rusted away, & the tyres rotted in the time it took that tree to grow, surely?

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Fantastic photos Dawn. Thanks.

I loved the ones that Rod posted too, especially that one with the Volkswagen. How did it manage to stay parked in one spot for so long?

I enjoyed them, too, though I am suspicious of the authencity of the one with the bicycle in, it does not add up to me, the bike would have rusted away, & the tyres rotted in the time it took that tree to grow, surely?

I think it's genuine. After all, bikes are designed not to rot away. The paint would protect it for the first 30/40 years.

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Fantastic photos Dawn. Thanks.

I loved the ones that Rod posted too, especially that one with the Volkswagen. How did it manage to stay parked in one spot for so long?

I enjoyed them, too, though I am suspicious of the authencity of the one with the bicycle in, it does not add up to me, the bike would have rusted away, & the tyres rotted in the time it took that tree to grow, surely?

I think it's genuine. After all, bikes are designed not to rot away. The paint would protect it for the first 30/40 years.

Good luck getting that past Gatters.

[kinboshi]

Tom, did you watch Stargazing?

Some really interesting stuff on that, and some numbers that are really difficult to get your head round, such as:

The Milky Way galaxy (that we're in) has about 400,000,000,000 stars, and there are estimated to be about 500,000,000,000 galaxies in the known universe.
It's estimated that there are in the order of 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the known universe (300 sextillion), which apparently is a number tens of times larger than the number of grains of sand there are on all the beaches and deserts on Earth!

This is the Earth taken from Voyager at a distance of 3.7 billion miles away.  We're just a speck of dust, a grain of sand.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

[Rod Paradise]

Fantastic photos Dawn. Thanks.

I loved the ones that Rod posted too, especially that one with the Volkswagen. How did it manage to stay parked in one spot for so long?

I enjoyed them, too, though I am suspicious of the authencity of the one with the bicycle in, it does not add up to me, the bike would have rusted away, & the tyres rotted in the time it took that tree to grow, surely?

I think it's genuine. After all, bikes are designed not to rot away. The paint would protect it for the first 30/40 years.

Good luck getting that past Gatters.

There's even one in Scotland.... I'd have agreed about it rusting away up here, but they must have made bikes tougher in the old days:

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/INFD-6U8J98

[tikay]

Fantastic photos Dawn. Thanks.

I loved the ones that Rod posted too, especially that one with the Volkswagen. How did it manage to stay parked in one spot for so long?

I enjoyed them, too, though I am suspicious of the authencity of the one with the bicycle in, it does not add up to me, the bike would have rusted away, & the tyres rotted in the time it took that tree to grow, surely?

I think it's genuine. After all, bikes are designed not to rot away. The paint would protect it for the first 30/40 years.

Good luck getting that past Gatters.

There's even one in Scotland.... I'd have agreed about it rusting away up here, but they must have made bikes tougher in the old days:

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/INFD-6U8J98

Oh wow. That picture looks more authentic, but that tree must be a good deal older, too. Amazing.

I'll concede on both, I think.

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Tom, did you watch Stargazing?

Some really interesting stuff on that, and some numbers that are really difficult to get your head round, such as:

The Milky Way galaxy (that we're in) has about 400,000,000,000 stars, and there are estimated to be about 500,000,000,000 galaxies in the known universe.
It's estimated that there are in the order of 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the known universe (300 sextillion), which apparently is a number tens of times larger than the number of grains of sand there are on all the beaches and deserts on Earth!

This is the Earth taken from Voyager at a distance of 3.7 billion miles away.  We're just a speck of dust, a grain of sand.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

It was such an amazing programme Dan. My favourite bit was when Prof Brian Cox explained about how (relatively) tiny the patch of random 'empty' sky containing all those unseen galaxies was.

PS- The above is my entry for 'Most poorly constructed sentence of the week'. (Will someone please show me how to do it properly?)

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I so want this one to be real.

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[AndrewT]

There was a bit about Gypsies on the local news programme in London earlier this week, bout the lack of places for them to pitch, which you won't have seen, living out in the sticks and that.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b019p4fv/Inside_Out_London_16_01_2012/

[mulhuzz]

stargazing was absolutely amazing -- currently reading Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw's new book on quantum theory -- absolutely amazing.

how they can know all of these things that they know or think about the universe is just simply mindblowing.