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DaveReading

Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
Location
Reading, obvs
Where the three without ejector seats NCOs?
No, Vulcan crews were all officers as a matter of policy.

The one that crashed at Heathrow killed 3 Squadron Leaders, plus a tech rep from Avro.
 

Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
Photo Winner
Location
Inside my skull
At @Sharky and @Ming the Merciless, no takers??

How disappointing especially after a discussion, albeit short, a while back about 'K' mountains.

Then again, Langtang Lirung is only the world's 99th highest peak, so, hardly worth getting out of bed for... 🤦‍♂️

It doesn't say what number Tsangbu Ri is though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langtang_Lirung

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsangbu_Ri

Not getting notifications about mentions. Hence no response.

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Direction from glacier to border post highlighted.

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Then zoomed in

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Mad Doug Biker

Time is dead, long live time!
Location
Craggy Island
Sci Fi/horror and Film people, in a Zombie apocalypse, what would happen with people who have been cremated?

Would there just be large clouds of people swirling about or what? 🤔


This thought was triggered by a meme I saw earlier on unhinged advice that said that

"When someone says that a person would be 'spinning in their grave', point out that they were cremated, so it'd be more like a snowglobe situation".
 
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Mad Doug Biker

Time is dead, long live time!
Location
Craggy Island
Why is it that every time you have a cough, at least one person always has to say to take hot water and honey. Is there a law making it mandatory and how do they choose the nominated person to tell you? Is it like Jury Duty or something?
 
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colly

Re member eR
Location
Leeds
Why is the speed of light so slow? (on a cosmic scale that is)
 

Seevio

Guru
Location
South Glos
Why is the speed of light so slow? (on a cosmic scale that is)

It's not slow. It's the fastest thing there is. If you think it's slow compared to the size of space it's just that space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
 

colly

Re member eR
Location
Leeds
It's not slow. It's the fastest thing there is. If you think it's slow compared to the size of space it's just that space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Well its not slow from our perspective.

On a cosmic scale it is barely moving at all.
Just over 8 minutes to get from the sun to here.
100000 years to cross our galaxy. And ours is nowhere near any other galaxies and is not even comparable is size to a really large galaxy. 46 billion years to cross the observable universe.
So yes, compared to the vastness of even what we can observe it is slow.
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Well its not slow from our perspective.

On a cosmic scale it is barely moving at all.
Just over 8 minutes to get from the sun to here.
100000 years to cross our galaxy. And ours is nowhere near any other galaxies and is not even comparable is size to a really large galaxy. 46 billion years to cross the observable universe.
So yes, compared to the vastness of even what we can observe it is slow.
Well, on the 18th November, Voyager 1 will hit the milestone of being one light-day away from Earth.
 
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