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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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Our local MP was a neurosurgeon who was dead against it and used to campaign aginst it. You can go on about its death rate being low which it spectacularly is, especially compared with the motorsports loads of people on this thread like; in fact three people died tonight on a motoring event in the borders.
Boxing has a bad association with neural damage. Our brains are the most complex things in the universe and we're paying to watch someone hitting them. It's not on. I feel like it harks back tio the pre-television days where everyone would go to the village square to watch them hanging miscreants for whistling on a Tuesday or whatever.:o
Over coffee with 2 neurosurgeons many moons ago we were chatting about our offspring. I said DD was the aged nine and had just got her first pony. One of them suggested that I get her to take up boxing instead as it was sooo much less dangerous. The other agreed...a significant number customers were equestrian accidents.0 -
Time for me to bore you lot with some more garden pics
And here was the garden this morning after yeterday's combined efforts:
(I've got pic of that corner from my first 'gardening' session, will try and add it later - photobucket is playing up on my phone this evening)
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(the weeds between the paving slabs by the shed were taller than the pots)
Keep the garden pics coming.
That looks positively neat.:T Very proper shed and pretty pots Nikks.
Time to get chair, table and wine glasses/bottles out there now I think:)
OH has spent the last two days sorting out our garden and it looks much better.
We have small paddock - about 1/2 acre. It has been too wet to get the ride on grass cutter on it. The grass is now waist high. So the poor s*d has started cutting it with a petrol strimmer. A small strip done and his back has given up:(0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »That patio/lean to part makes it look like part of a mansion
Nice shed... proper shed, with proper green grass around.
The lean to needs quite a bit of attention. In the short term, it'll be some more clear glass repair tape.
The shed was second hand from next door goodness knows how long ago. That'll probably go next year. It spooks me out a bit so I don't like going in there. I can keep garden stuff in the garage (which I do now).
The green lawn is about 50% weeds. But hey, at least they're green 0 -
That's the weird bit, It's outsideless.
It's manufacturing the space it's expanding into. You couldn't stand far away and think I better get out of the way before that expanding universe hits me.
When it was new and young it was tiny, but a better description would be to say it was less roomy, as you couldn't stand outside and say "that's a small universe".
No one knows what's outside the universe. By definition, the universe contains everything that is known to exist.
There's a point where something is religion and not science...
As an aside I never understood why a collapsed star would cause a black hole because gravity is so strong that nothing could escape it while all the mass in the universe would be able to just escape the gravitational effect.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
Thanks zag for answering the physics questions. I'll just add that we think the universe is about 13 point something billion years old, but stuff (ie stars etc) has only been shining for about 12ish billion years. Therefore we can only see stuff out to a distance of about 12 billion light years (give or take a bit because of the expansion), because the light from things that are further away hasn't had time to get here yet.
And yes, it doesn't have an edge - you can't go to the edge of the universe any more than you can sail to the edge of the world - and there's no point in the universe that can be described as the middle - just as there isn't a point on the Earth's surface that's the middle of the Earth.
I show my classes this video to try to give them some idea of the sizes of the stars, which helps to explain why they're bright enough to be visible from such vast distances.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
As an aside I never understood why a collapsed star would cause a black hole because gravity is so strong while all the mass in the universe would be able to just escape the gravitational effect.
Because the strength of the gravitational field decreases according to an inverse square law. So if you're twice as far away, the force is only a quarter of what it is for the nearer position, and if you're a thousand times further away then you only get a millionth of the force.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »That patio/lean to part makes it look like part of a mansion
Here is the before (22nd Feb so add on 3 months weed growth in the patio, less the patches where I'd started to battle them):
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Because the strength of the gravitational field decreases according to an inverse square law. So if you're twice as far away, the force is only a quarter of what it is for the nearer position, and if you're a thousand times further away then you only get a millionth of the force.
Er... but everything was in the same place.Then it started to expand. At some point, the entire mass of the universe must have existed within the same space as a star.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
Thinking about the edge of the universe makes my head spin. A bit like thinking about what makes us 'alive' rather than just a mixture of chemicals. Ask a bit to much for my little brain to comprehend 0
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