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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:29 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Rainmakers in Dubai
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Re: Rainmakers in Dubai
From the Royal Meteorological Society, article by Kirsty McCabe, FRMetS - Dubai floods and cloud seeding An interesting and level-headed article, which rather debunks the scaremongering headlines. Interesting to read that it had been forecast, too. Were it not for the fact that Dubai is full of Gen...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:30 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Best wishes Wodders
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
I can't believe that only seven people have died in all that flooding - particularly in a region that is not well-prepared to deal with it. I very much doubt if the population was given much warning. I imagine some of the promised aid can be moved fairly quickly, but the remainder will have to be ma...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Sunday 5th May is Orthodox Easter, and I wonder if something big could happen prior to that.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: A grave mistake
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So I read that as Israel either not having much to throw at Iran, or conserving what stocks they have, in case they need them. The munitions factories in NATO countries are going to be busy from next week! (I heard from someone who works in one of these places that they have been working flat out un...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:13 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Scotland.
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Sturgeon doorstepped and explains what it's like at home at the moment. Awkward over the breakfast table maybe, discussing when the knock at the front door might be for her. Schadenfreude anyone, but maybe she can wriggle out of this one too? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13327887/Nicola...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
We don't hear too much about ground battles at the moment - it all seems to be drones and aerial attacks, which is no bad thing of course. Do we think that both sides maybe a bit short of conventional field ammo?
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: Airline Rumours, Gossip and Chat
- Topic: Don't Get Any Ideas Woody
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Re: Don't Get Any Ideas Woody
Some very sloppy handling there. I've had dealings with gold and other precious metals as cargo in the past, and also currency. You certainly wouldn't have been able to take delivery of it with a dodgy airwaybill. What's the consignee doing with an airwaybill before the cargo's been unloaded anyway?...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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We have the problem that accurate BDA is probably available to the Ukrainians via their partisans, but they probably then can't confirm it to us because of OpSec. It may be possible to get some civilian satellite photos tomorrow, available to us Friday, but the Russians are in the habit of shifting...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:11 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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I would consider GDC to be a good source, even though they spell defence wrong :) I don't know where in Moscow this plant is. It used to build large lorries (the sort that carry ICBMS, seen in Red Square on May Day), and I'm not sure whether it still does, or whether it's been turned over to missile...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:56 pm
- Forum: ATC & Met
- Topic: Dubai Airport Underwater After Torrential Rains
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Re: Dubai Airport Underwater After Torrential Rains
I was watching FR 24 for a few minutes earlier, and the holding pattern off the coast looked totally chaotic. Not a bit like Bovingdon and Ockham
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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I gather that there was unusually heavy snowfall over the Urals during the winter, and this of course is now melting, and it has to go somewhere. Much of rural Russia still operates on the old planning system, so if it wasn't in the plan then there is no provision for it, with either money or resour...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
I love a mug of Oxo, especially with a bacon sandwich, (sorry G-C) but the Oxo has to be the low-salt one.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Tomsk is a major oil-producing region and also the site of a large nuclear power plant. in my days of visiting the Soviet Union, we were not allowed to go to Tomsk (amongst other places), because it was a 'closed city.' If the flooding has reached the city, there will be a lot of problems. It would ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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I would agree 100% with Prof. Feng's observations. I chat to Ukrainians almost daily by keyboard, and despite the deprivations, they are determined not to let Putin win. One lady I know has parents living in Donetsk. The only way she can contact them is by encrypted text messages. She cannot talk to...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Migrants
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Re: The ex-As had better watch out....
Ooh err, missus! From 'The Times' "Britain has entered talks to replicate the Rwanda migrant deportation scheme with Armenia, Ivory Coast, Costa Rica and Botswana , according to leaked documents that reveal the government’s extensive search for another third-country deal " There is said to be quite...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: A grave mistake
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+1 on the UNSC meeting. Personally, I think the UN has had its day, and a re-think is in order, but that will never happen. The likes of Putin and Netanyahu (and I suspect many others), just see it as a talking shop, which sadly, seems to be the case.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Ich habe immer gesagt, dass Russland diesen Krieg nicht gewinnen darf. Und schnell war klar, dass dies kein kurzer Krieg werden würde. Wir werden noch lange Waffen und Munition an die Ukraine liefern müssen. Translated by me: I have always said that Russia can not be allowed to win this war. And it...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Morning folks. Clear sky cool wind. The Daily Snail thinks that Gibraltar is an island. Wasn't when I was last there. I suppose it was for a while when the Generalissimo closed the gates for a few years. I was reading some stuff on a septic website a few days ago about Gib and it too thought that G...