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I believe fat thumb syndrome can be cured with a bigger pair of scissors Ron.

 

Ah. My wife always buys the scissors. Maybe I should buy the next pair

 

The fares for August are unlikely to have been released yet. Its usually 12 weeks prior to departure. The train fare you have been shown for August is probably just an "plucked out of the air" figure

 

It's nice to see that the IAAF is introducing a handicapping system for female athletes . No matter what the arguments are about fairness etc. the treatment of Caster Semenya has been completely inexcusable. It's to her credit that she has conducted herself with dignity throughout the whole sorry episode.

 

Another depressing read and **** all been done about, head in the sand world powers need to act now but I doubt we will see much action being taken to tackle this issue
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48169783

 

I spend a few months of the year in Kenya, i am out here at the moment. The amount of plastic on the streets, the beach, in bushes is astronomical. The crap being spewed out the back of every vehicle on the road is total black smoke. They could be totally carbon free with solar and wind but they are building a coal power station instead.

 

The sad thing Ste is that very little of real importance is going to be done about it. A lot of the right people have known just how bad things are, and they're been shouting warnings about it for a long time. And to date we've done the equivalent of taking a garden hose to a raging inferno.

We'll continue to fiddle while Rome burns.

 

I assume it is the make up of the Earth that provides it with enough gravity to keep it the same distance from the sun. Has it moved any nearer, or further away and what will happen if it does. If my assumption is correct then I also assume that as the Earth's resources are used up, that gravitation will change, which could not only affect our distance from the Sun but also the distance the moon is from us.

Now, given that for billions of years not a great lot of resource was taken from the Earth, that could explain why the distances may not have changed significantly. But, at the rate resources are now being used, could that change? I suppose it's possible the Sun could cool down and fizzle out first and there's not much we could do about that. One way or another, in time, I suspect we will either find ourselves hurtling towards the Sun (say goodnight quickly) or drifting away from it and freeze. What happy thoughts

 

Of course that's if we haven't blown ourselves up before then

 

Jeez Ron; I hope none of the above is on the cards within the next twenty (or so) years!

 

I think I'll advise my grandchildren not to have any kids, just in case

 

I am sorry my response was so self-centered. I suspect this Armageddon is unlikely for a few hundred years so your descendants should be just Jim Dandy!

 

The Law of Conservation of Mass states that matter cannot be created or destroyed. The Law of Conservation of Energy and the (first) Law of Thermodynamics state that the total amount of energy is a closed system (in this case a planet) cannot be created or destroyed, although it can change form.

It would, therefore, seem that whatever the human race gets up to will have an insignificant impact on the Earth as to date all we have done is throw a few hundred tons of the Earth’s resources out into space.

With regard to the long term future of the planet, it will be a few years before our sun becomes a red giant and engulfs the Earth, which will have been a barren lifeless rock for a billion years. So no need to cancel the newspapers yet...

 

Everything with mass has a gravitational power, but the bigger the object, the more gravitational pull. As the mass of the Sun is about 333,000 times of that of Earth, we are being held in it's grip. The only thing that keeps us from falling into the Sun is the sideways movement of planet which is travelling at about 2 miles per second. If Earth traveled faster, it would escape the Sun's grip and fly off into space. If it traveled slower, it would be drawn into the Sun.

 

People who wear work related lanyards round their neck when they ain’t at work. What’s all that about…

 

I suspect it's a fear of losing it and then getting turned away at reception by security who live for such an occasion in my experience. Many years ago in my public sector days myself and a young lady decamped to Chez Chan's for a 2 hour lunch (flexi time was great). Having made our way back to the office (I cunningly dropped her off about 100 yards away so we didn't arrive back at the same time) I set about my afternoon's toil. About an hour later said young lady approached my desk rather flushed and asked to meet me by the kitchen. Worried that our cover would be blown I gave her short shrift initially but when I eventually relented it turned out that in our haste to return we'd but the wrong bally passes on which had been spotted by the office gob who she worked with. Cover well and truly blown.

 

I left a set of the Tax Office security keys in my briefcase in the locker of a an Edinburgh Sauna Club after a particularly exhausting Sunday afternoon's overtime. Thankfully, being a valued customer they were returned on the Monday!

That f****n' briefcase led quite a life; left in a taxi, left in the early morning opening snooker club and slept many nights al fresco before going into early retirement in 2010.

 

Hi Ron, have you been watching planets? Your question will be answered in episode one. You’ll need a lie down after as you’ll have brain ache.

 

Many years ago my mate with a very good hand in a three card Bragg game with a lot of money at stake gets a phone call in the pub. This is before mobiles, must have good work tracking him down in the pub. Anyway he gone home and left the safe open in the bank he worked in the city. Anyway he had to go back to lock it. The upshot being he would be sacked or promoted. Being the lucky bastard he is, he got promoted and went on to earn **** loads as a broker. He’s a postman now.