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Black holes have hair around them
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Boac » Thu Jan 14, 2016 3:16 pm
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Exciting news for all of JB inclination. Stephen Hawking has declared that soft hair around the event horizon of a black hole explains the problems...
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Carry on up the Quantum
Starring Kenneth Williams as Erwin Schroedinger
with Hattie Jacques as his cat Tiddles
Sid James as market trader Werner...
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Last post by OFSO
Fri Jan 15, 2016 3:31 pm
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Last post by Chuks
Fri Jan 15, 2016 1:22 pm
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Si...Sand...and Sun
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by Slasher » Thu Jan 14, 2016 12:05 pm
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My broker sent me an email about it and wonder if anyone else thinks there might be something in it?
Any advances in solar power instantly raises my...
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duhh. thats why they want you to invest in them. to get more capital (money).
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Last post by dubbleyew eight
Fri Jan 15, 2016 12:23 pm
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Fascinating Aida
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by
CharlieOneSix » Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:13 am
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Well Alison wanted more aviation content so here's Fascinating Aida's experience of a certain Irish airline. If you want an evening of close to the...
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Hmm...sheltered life?? I had to go look up the term 'dogging'....
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Last post by Fliegenmong
Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:57 am
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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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Alisoncc » Thu Jan 14, 2016 4:45 am
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Follower of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has won the right to wear a colander on his head in driving licence photo, in Russia of all...
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I think that we can see that His Noodleyness has been at the sauce again!
Calumny, sheer calumny. His Noodleyness had not imbibed anything but the...
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Last post by MoreAviation
Fri Jan 15, 2016 9:05 am
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Oh you Kinky English feckers!!
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Fliegenmong » Wed Jan 13, 2016 1:10 pm
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Going through some old photos I found one of Fliegs at the Noke Thistle hotel in St Albans Hertfordshire............I was the night Doorman in...
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As for Ballard, he was quite a strange chap! He was a pilot (or had been) after all and then there was the whole Shepperton thing! :)
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Last post by MoreAviation
Fri Jan 15, 2016 3:08 am
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RIP Alan Rickman
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by Capetonian » Thu Jan 14, 2016 12:46 pm
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One of my favourite actors. Starred in many well known films, including the Harry Potter films, Love Actually, and many others.
Left us earlier...
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Another good one gone.
I did like him as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.
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Last post by 500N
Thu Jan 14, 2016 10:56 pm
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The Love and peace activists are at it again.....
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Fliegenmong » Thu Jan 14, 2016 12:53 pm
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In Jakarta today....
So....um...why do they go in for killing fellow Muslims as well??
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They say ISIS, I wonder if this was ISIS only or JI.
They say quite a few Indo Muslims have gone to join ISIS, I would imagine JI type sympathizers...
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Last post by 500N
Thu Jan 14, 2016 3:22 pm
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Reality
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by Sisemen » Wed Jan 13, 2016 1:51 pm
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Where are we going to be in 20 year's time
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Always said that when R2D2 projected the image of Princess Leia it really did happen like in the movie. :-bd
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Last post by Alisoncc
Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:50 am
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Return of incandescent light bulbs
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by
admin » Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:39 am
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Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs.
The clinical white beam of LEDs and frustrating time-delay of ‘green’...
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However, the total energy consumption remains constant. ...except that the water is losing heat from the time heating starts. The longer it takes to...
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Last post by A Lutra Continua
Thu Jan 14, 2016 5:18 am
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Lotions, potions and liniments
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by MoreAviation » Tue Jan 05, 2016 4:26 pm
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I was perusing some old photographs (actually very old) of MoreAviation when he was a mere 4 year old and noticed what looked like a strange rash on...
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The skin is not impervious, though: dermal application of a medication or chemical is well-known, e.g. nicotine patches.
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Last post by Karearea
Wed Jan 13, 2016 8:42 pm
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Last post by OFSO
Wed Jan 13, 2016 7:31 pm
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Domestic Technology
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by henry crun » Tue Aug 25, 2015 10:33 am
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Better cheaper leds on the way
Scientists at Rutgers are working on a better phosphor mix with a warmer spectrum:
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Brilliant and friendly illumination: IKEA candles. Of course, one has to endure the horrors of going there to buy them.
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Last post by OFSO
Wed Jan 13, 2016 5:39 pm
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Aircraft roll out...
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by
John Hill » Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:12 pm
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This is a replica about 80% size of the prototype Spitfire K5054.
It was gifted to our museum in an unfinished condition by the family of someone...
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And, that 'aint Duck Egg Blue. Horrible.
But according to our historians and those at Tangmere it is the same colour as the prototype. If you want...
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Last post by Stoneboat
Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:02 am
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Only in Australia
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by Sisemen » Sat Jan 09, 2016 9:05 am
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We have floods in our town as a massive thundery system passes through while, at the same time, towns are being burnt to the ground and others...
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Local knowledge would help as I know SOME arms of Eildon and Hume are reasonably tree free and deep
but I'd hate to find out in an aircraft.
I'd...
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Last post by 500N
Tue Jan 12, 2016 9:34 pm
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Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Engaged
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Flame Lily FX » Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:29 am
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Clever lass. :) $$$$$$$$$
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with a mouth like a washbucket
:))
I don't agree with everything you say in a lot of posts Chuks...but man you have a way with words! ;)
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Last post by Slasher
Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:24 pm
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Futtret Doon The Troosers
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CharlieOneSix » Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:13 am
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Ah, the things we get up to in these parts...... =))
P&J Futtret Fair.jpg
I found this on my hard drive just now - must be from around 10...
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But why, I ask?
Agree.
Surely if they can come up with things like "Pochaers pockets" in coats (The Army DPM jackets had them) they...
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Last post by 500N
Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:56 pm
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Government booze guidelines
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by
om15 » Fri Jan 08, 2016 9:40 am
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The latest definition of binge drinking is now set at 3 pints of beer, and the maximum total of units permitted for a healthy audit male is...
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From "The Register", today...
The government’s chief advisor on health ignored more than 80 studies to produce her new Puritanical...
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Last post by OFSO
Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:49 pm
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How to deal with an annoying puppy dog that follows you around!
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John Hill » Sun Jan 10, 2016 9:03 am
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Very useful advice if you are being constantly pestered by a little puppy dog desperate for your attention!
How to deal with attention-seeking dog...
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It's a lie. I replaced the de-icing fluid with single malt whisky. Classy, me...
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Last post by A Lutra Continua
Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:13 am
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A gun control thread, Hilair!
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Fliegenmong » Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:10 am
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Shamelessly lifted from TOP, Very good, very funny, refreshingly un PC, so don't watch if you're the easily offended type!
Such a very Aussie way...
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It's all well and good, but his description of being the victim of a home invasion is chilling. If somebody tries that in my house, naked or not,...
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Last post by 500N
Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:29 pm
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Calling all Lycanthropes or lupine types...
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by MoreAviation » Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:39 am
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Where is a tame Alaskan when you need one? In a moment of foolish sloth I watched a Liam Neeson film called The Grey last night in which a pack of...
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I once tried getting a photo of a wolf that appeared at the edge of the trees when I was expeditioning in Canada. We both saw each other at the same...
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Last post by ricardian
Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:42 pm
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Cowrie shells
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Fliegenmong » Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:52 am
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Picked up a few beautiful examples off the Seaway floor just recently...lovley little specimens if you get them early
B-)
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Amazing thing about diving / snorkelling the seaway is.......I see new fish species / marine life everytime I go!! :)) regrettably the visibility...
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Last post by Fliegenmong
Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:11 pm
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Oculus Rift - Some Scary Sh*t
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by
rgbrock1 » Thu Jan 07, 2016 6:08 pm
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I've seen the term 'Oculus Rift' being bandied about in the media for awhile but paid no attention. Until now. And since doing so I've come to the...
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Have to use ANFO to get you out of the house...
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Last post by A Lutra Continua
Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:46 am
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"Hey- Fatso!"
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by
Boac » Sat Jan 09, 2016 2:20 pm
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My local paper caries this article, where a mum is 'outraged' by a server in MacDonalds who is alleged to have been 'fatist' to the request from a...
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Question:
How many burgers does five quid buy nowadays in the UK...
Because five bucks is only a very small part of six burgers in the USA today...
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Last post by Airborne Aircrew
Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:42 am
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The absolutely fantastic thing in 2016 thread...
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by MoreAviation » Fri Jan 01, 2016 12:12 pm
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In the spirit of how one might hope 2016 may proceed and as an antidote to ranting, negativity, bigotry, piles, prickly heat and general curmudgeonly...
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Kudos to the public and private companies and organisations that have taken a pragmatic view of various information protection blocks and other...
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Last post by Tall Bird
Sat Jan 09, 2016 3:29 pm
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