Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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Used to live in Leam, the Nandos is new!!

stato itt.

I have arrived.

[Karabiner]

http://www.unmuseum.org/buildabomb.htm

It's not easy for us to 'control' nuclear reactions like this. It's also why nuclear power is so fraught with problems. But it also shows how little matter is required to produce the energy, compared to fossil fuels that use chemical reactions, rather than nuclear.

If only we could work out a way to utilise fusion in a controlled environment, 'cold fusion' would be the answer to our energy problems.

Fascinating stuff, cheers Kin.

Perfect balance.... gravity stronger than magnetism.... That Kendall really does talk bollocks sometimes.

I wouldn't mind but he doesn't even think about it, he just posts the first thing that comes into his head and then defends it as if it was Gospel.

Stubborn see.

I don't bother arguing with you now, you never admit you are wrong.

Here's something a bit more interesting, to brighten up your Diary.


 

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I'm not sure how they got away with calling that stuff "tissue" without getting done under the trades descriptions act. It was good for turning your comb into a kazoo though.

[Tal]

If you are still in Leamington tomorrow, there's an unbeatable sandwich shop in town called Country Bumpkins

http://www.gourmetbritain.com/food-shops/12919/country-bumpkins-delicatessen-leamington-spa/

Does a load of cheeses, hams and all that organic whatnot too.

http://midlandsgourmetgirl.wordpress.com/tag/country-bumpkins/



Was always worth the walk from work at lunch.

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If you are still in Leamington tomorrow, there's an unbeatable sandwich shop in town called Country Bumpkins

http://www.gourmetbritain.com/food-shops/12919/country-bumpkins-delicatessen-leamington-spa/

Does a load of cheeses, hams and all that organic whatnot too.

http://midlandsgourmetgirl.wordpress.com/tag/country-bumpkins/



Was always worth the walk from work at lunch.

I was in there today Tal. Had a Roquefort & smoked ham panini followed by a chocolate bomb.

Service was excellent too.

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[kinboshi]

If you are still in Leamington tomorrow, there's an unbeatable sandwich shop in town called Country Bumpkins

http://www.gourmetbritain.com/food-shops/12919/country-bumpkins-delicatessen-leamington-spa/

Does a load of cheeses, hams and all that organic whatnot too.

http://midlandsgourmetgirl.wordpress.com/tag/country-bumpkins/



Was always worth the walk from work at lunch.

I worked just round the corner from there at the top of the Parade.

Where did you work Tal?

[kinboshi]

Here are some more figures for you:

Through the process of nuclear fusion, the Sun consumes about 600 million tons of hydrogen per second. (That's 6 x 10⁸ tons.) For comparison, the mass of the Earth is about 1.35 x 10²¹ tons. This would mean the Sun consumes the mass of the Earth in about 70,000 years.  Which is about half tikay's age.

(http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sun.html#consume)

[kinboshi]

Here's more:

How long has the Sun been burning? Compared to other stars, is our Sun young or old?

The Sun has been burning for about 5 billion (5,000,000,000) years. Our Galaxy is more than 10 billion years old, and new stars are forming all the time, so our Sun is neither young nor old, and is almost right in the middle of stellar ages.

Dr. Eric Christian

I meet a lot of very highly educated people who believe that the solar consumption rate cannot match an age that old (5 billion years). They say that the Sun would have been larger than the Earth's orbit far more recently than 5 billion years.

This is a pretty simple (freshman physics) calculation. The output of the Sun (~4x10³³ ergs/second) comes from turning about 7x10¹⁴ gms of hydrogen into about 6.5x10¹⁴ gms of helium (each helium-4 nucleus produced releases ~4x10^-5 ergs, you need 10³⁸ such reactions, each of which uses 4 protons at 1.7x10^-24 gms). So in 5 billion years, the Sun has fused ~10³² gms of hydrogen. This is only 1/20th the mass of the Sun (although about 1/2 the core, which is why the Sun will burn for approximately another 5 billion years). No problem, to first order this produces a Sun that is less than 4% smaller in volume, nowhere near the Earth's orbit.

Dr. Eric Christian

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[Tal]

If you are still in Leamington tomorrow, there's an unbeatable sandwich shop in town called Country Bumpkins

http://www.gourmetbritain.com/food-shops/12919/country-bumpkins-delicatessen-leamington-spa/

Does a load of cheeses, hams and all that organic whatnot too.

http://midlandsgourmetgirl.wordpress.com/tag/country-bumpkins/



Was always worth the walk from work at lunch.

I worked just round the corner from there at the top of the Parade.

Where did you work Tal?

Not far from you, by the sounds of it! Near the pump rooms

[kinboshi]

I was at the other end of the Parade, but still not far.  I was there 2004-2006.

[kinboshi]

In other news, how cool is this duck?

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[kinboshi]

...and here's a new nose on someone's forehead:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/24280766

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...and here's a new nose on someone's forehead:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/24280766

How long before they can do hearts, livers, etc?

[kinboshi]

...and here's a new nose on someone's forehead:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/24280766

How long before they can do hearts, livers, etc?

Why, you peckish?

[bobby1]

I thought you might like this Tom





Sorry not sure how to just post the picture.