Amazing fing I lernt today

[Shane]

And three seconds before midnight a few well-meaning bods set out some mythical stories to help us remember good manners.

Then on the stroke of midnight a few scramble brained loonies mis-interpret the stories and the lunar observers watch the final firework display from 235,00 miles away.

 

It was good while it lasted.

[the village idiot]

And three seconds before midnight a few well-meaning bods set out some mythical stories to help us remember good manners.

Then on the stroke of midnight a few scramble brained loonies mis-interpret the stories and the lunar observers watch the final firework display from 235,00 miles away.

 

It was good while it lasted.

 

Chin up Shane, there's hope for us yet! Or maybe the humble Water Bears will inherit the Earth and continue to peacefully swim along causing no harm to anyone:thumbup:

[Shane]

Sorry, I was reding Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy last night and I think Marvin got to me.

 

With luck we'll get to 1 o'clock in the morning.

[the village idiot]

Not a chance I'll get my head round that!!

 

Let's put it into a context we all feel comfortable with- Firewood and Football😊

 

If you had a set of old school scales with a thimble full of neutron star on one side, in order for it to balance you would need to carefully stack enough firewood on the other side to completely fill the new Wembley stadium 50 times over!

 

 

Nope, that doesn't really help does it!

[TGB]

Works for me. I can't stand football, so filling up Wembley Stadium seems like a good idea.

[the village idiot]

Let's put it into a context we all feel comfortable with- Firewood and Football😊

 

If you had a set of old school scales with a thimble full of neutron star on one side, in order for it to balance you would need to carefully stack enough firewood on the other side to completely fill the new Wembley stadium 50 times over!

 

 

Nope, that doesn't really help does it!

 

Plus one piece of kindling. (I forgot to account for the weight of the thimble)!

[Stubby]

Thought for the day from Bill Bryson.

 

"If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow.*

 

Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight. The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant. Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless. Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw. And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It's a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment. In fact, not many things do for long."

 

What happens at the weekend V.I. ?

[the village idiot]

What happens at the weekend V.I. ?

 

Bit of telly, pick the bits out of my beard, that sort of thing.

 

How about you?

[Stubby]

Bit of telly, pick the bits out of my beard, that sort of thing.

 

How about you?

 

Oh not much ...create a few universes , rid the world of all known diseases and make some toast ....

[the village idiot]

Oh not much ...create a few universes , rid the world of all known diseases and make some toast ....

 

You've piqued my interest now Stubby, what do you put on your toast?