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I thought it might be a good idea if I bit the bullet and just started a Thread dedicated to (what I hope is) general ‘Interesting Stuff’ that doesn’t fit under other existing Threads, rather than keep hijacking the existing ones (as I am want to do at an appalling rate. Sorry).
Fulfilling an earlier promise, here is a quick bit of poetry first:
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.(‘Whales Weep Not’ by D. H. Lawrence)
https://neal.fun/deep-sea/?fbclid=IwAR1RK4skwk7tIXw9XocFTkOWblwAYftXvy2YbXVfngsgF8H-qPqiGzRXOwM
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Welcome to . . . The Twilight Zone . . . . The post I made back on the ? of ??? that included High Flight in its entirety has just re-posted itself with today’s date. Absolutely nothing to do with me, guv’ner!
Maybe it got stuck in the back office here @wmcforums we always aim to deliver your posts no matter how long it takes. LOL
Joss
Current car BMW X2 2.0i Sport sDrive Auto 2019 with Sport pack
Last car Ford Focus Titanium 1.5 TDCI"Men fight for liberty & win it with hard knocks. Their children brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves" - D.H. Lawrence
When it comes to neutrinos and all the other chaotic, ridiculous things that might, or might not be, I’m with Douglas Adams: I’ve always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with this universe. Or, as a sign on the wall of the New Scientist office used to ask: Do Quantum Ducks go Quark?
Flying roundabouts? Well, here one somewhere in Wiltshire in honour of Frank Whittle:
And another from our friends across the channel, displaying a Fouga trainer formerly with their version of the Red Arrows
When I was a teenager I went to an Open Day at Rutherford Lab and got a T-shirt with the legend Quarks to Quasars – which pretty much covered what their research covered. Even without understanding what it meant at the time it was still my favourite T-shirt. How could I not end up working there?
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/ca/pdfs/quarks_to_quasars.pdf
For a while the dish on page 12 was the view from my office window. 🙂
I love watching Destin’s series ‘Smarter Every Day’ and have just finished watching this and thought others might also find it interesting.
How to Surface a Submarine:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6107grRI4m0o2-emgoDnAA
He’s certainly got some interesting/intriguing subjects on there. Will try to watch a few. The “physics of helicopter flight” will probably get me first. I mean, I roughly understand that the wing goes round and changes angle of attack all the time using levers, cams and millions of other bits. Do not understand how something with so many moving parts doesn’t shake itself to bits just starting up.
I have been a YT subscriber of Destin’s channel for a good while now Georgie. Excellent stuff.
Joss
Current car BMW X2 2.0i Sport sDrive Auto 2019 with Sport pack
Last car Ford Focus Titanium 1.5 TDCI"Men fight for liberty & win it with hard knocks. Their children brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves" - D.H. Lawrence
I know there are now lots of videos like the on YouTube, but I thought this one was a cut above. A diverting 20 minutes –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P128HPs7KAA
Great links there Georgie, half way through the photo one whilst waiting for my dinner, will be checking those links out when sleepless nights decide to bother me.. Great thread this …
Not doing much today other than surfing – I had a rough night so I’m back on the zonko pills. 🙂
Ice Age lion cubs found in Siberia:
Here’s a Brucie Bonus topical bit of Shakespeare . . .
Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood,
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger’s jaws,
And burn the long-lived phoenix, in her blood,
Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet’st,
And do whate’er thou wilt swift-footed Time
To the wide world and all her fading sweets.
But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:
O carve not with thy hours my love’s fair brow,
Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen,(missed a bit!)
Him in thy course untainted do allow,
For beauty’s pattern to succeeding men.
Yet do thy worst old Time: despite thy wrong,
My love shall in my verse ever live young.Just finished watching the 92 photos 🙂
Back to your bit about the Rutherford lab, Georgie. Being interested in nuclear power, and having written on the subject, there are many things I’d love to ask. But you’d probably have to kill me if you answered. However, think this one’s safe: Do you think controlled fusion as an energy source will ever make it?
I am sooo out of the loop that I imagine you can answer that question better than I can now. I think the AEA are just relieved the UK will still be a part of ITER and Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe – something that was in serious danger of not happening thanks to ‘the gift that keeps on giving – to other countries’.
Fairly well out of loop meself. Used to follow it avidly but every project was built up to be “just about to work”, then flopped. Got too disillusioned to keep looking. Seems that, whatever you do with fusion, you are still working with a remarkably small amount of stuff which can make a remarkably big bang with no warning. Efforts to avoid big bang seem to involve more energy than you’ll get out of it. Live in hope, though.
‘Fusion energy’ was “twenty years away” twenty years ago and it’s still “twenty years away” now.
Fun though. Have you seen the Stellarator? It’s a cracker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlGzt9ur1bY
Fascinating. The Stellarator seems so chaotic in nature, and thus in keeping with the universe in general, that it might just work. The hydrogen-boron idea? Hmmm. Too simple to come to anything? Dunno. You could say that about the Wright Bros and the aerodynamics of a wing and we know where that got us!
Here’s an interesting and unusual, very relaxing and very long video to quite simply ‘de-stress’ to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxqdcnMhnQ4
Haiku #20 – ‘Cake? Thanks!’
Icing gone, cake left.
“Almost forgot my diet!”
Some kids don’t grow up….David L. Hatton, 12/8/2019
I think South Korea must have a terrible problem with diabetes because their cakes and confectioneries are very, very tempting. And you haven’t even seen the Tornado Cube Bread and (Death By) Croissants yet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6k10pINvqc
OOOoooooh!!!! 🥐🥐🥐🥐🥐NumNumNumNummmmmmm 😋
(If you find one on chocolate cakes, pleeeeese, don’t show me.)
Do you like to watch Science fiction? Short films? Well let me introduce you to the world of DUST.
https://www.youtube.com/c/watchdust/videos
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Joss
Current car BMW X2 2.0i Sport sDrive Auto 2019 with Sport pack
Last car Ford Focus Titanium 1.5 TDCI"Men fight for liberty & win it with hard knocks. Their children brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves" - D.H. Lawrence
Cube bread mmmmmmm
That certainly looks the cut of my jib, Joss! I’m a bit crook at the moment and need some new stuff to watch. Thanks!
