The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

Nasa launch towers demolished in Florida http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44830020

Vandalism?

No. I'm a bit of a space nerd and have spent a fair few days out at Cape Canaveral. The launch pad where Grissom, White and Chaffee died has been stripped of its metalwork. Plus more significantly, launchpads 39a and 39b, which is where the Apollo moon missions left from was significantly modified to make way for the Space Shuttle missions. It will be changed again for the next chapter of space discovery.

Since the original launches back in the 1950s, the number of launches, and launchpads, has moved on dramatically, but space is limited. Other sites had to be redesigned so that Space X rockets could be accommodated.

Bear in mind that Cape Canaveral is also a national park and home to species such as Manatees and American Eagles. They flourish there because the high security at the base means that their habitats are pretty safe.

Contrast that with a launch pad. It's easy to think that they are just on a concrete pad, but there are specialist services to that pad (e.g. firing rooms) as well as huge flame trenches. I've been privileged to walk in the flame trench on 39a and it was massive. However rocket launches leave a lot of contamination, such as heavy metals. Much better to contain this on as few sites as possible, meaning that a few historic towers get knocked down, than having to develop on a pristine piece of land.

Kennedy Space Center, the museum, does a really good job of maintaining the heritage, including the Rocket Garden, which contains unused rockets from across the ages.

vivatifosi

Pastures, you can pick up a bucket hat from Primark for £4.


https://m.primark.com/en/products/category/women,hats-gloves--scarves


Need to scroll down a bit past the garish stuff.

silvercar

The temperature indoors is the same as outdoors, both too hot!

Years ago it would start to cool around 7pm, now it seems to stay hot til late.

michaels

I closed the bifolds an hour ago as it felt a little chilly but now it seems very close and sticky - no lie in for me tomorrow as I have a netball match so I had better go and try and sleep.


I am with pn on the sun heat, even with a hat I wouldn't want to be out in the direct sun between about 10 and 5 and am amazed to see people walking, cycling and jogging in it...nutters

zagubov

Pyxis wrote: »

Very true, but to err is human........ he may just have inadvertently pressed the wrong button. We've all done that, (not specifically this, but ykwim), and it's been done to me on a couple of occasions, to my horror.

Telling him what he's done, so that he doesn't do it again, gives him the benefit of the doubt and would prevent him doing it again. After all, the action can't be undone, and he might have realised as soon as he'd done it, but what can you do then?

If he did it a second time, that would be different, and reporting him then would be justified.


Regarding sending the email in the first place, well, he might just be a proud dad, naively thinking that as he knew a load of people to ask, that might get his daughter lots of votes. Again, telling him that's not on might make him think twice another time.

I've given the wrong impression then; let me make it clear I'd not go out of my way to report him. He absolutely could have simply pressed the wrong button.

If I stopped driving to report motorists speeding, breaking driving laws, I'd never get from A to B.

However, unless I bumped into him, I'd not go out of my way to seek him out to advise him this isn't right. Life's a short trip.

Pyxis

ivyleaf wrote: »

Pastures I find wearing a hat makes a huge difference to coping when out in hot sunny weather, as the sun's not beating down directly onto your head.

What she said^^^^^^^^

vivatifosi wrote: »

Pastures, you can pick up a bucket hat from Primark for £4.


https://m.primark.com/en/products/category/women,hats-gloves--scarves


Need to scroll down a bit past the garish stuff.

Bucket hats don't screen all of your face from the sun, though, or even your eyes all that much.

I swear by a roll-up brim-only hat, that fits all size heads due to its Velcro fastener, and rolls up small enough to go in a smallish shoulder-bag.
It's brilliant.




Edit...... as for looking like a knob head (please delete space), how many times have you seen people out and about wearing hats and you've thought, they look a right knob head?

In the sun, on a hot day, nobody bats an eyelid at people wearing hats.

vivatifosi

You can get a cheap sun at on eBay for £4-5 Plus postage, cheaper than Primark if there isn't one near. Some are P&P free:


https://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/ladies-sun-hats

Jackmydad

Somehow I've got this image of a person walking around with a plastic bucket on their head. . .

PasturesNew

The short story is: I didn't get a hat.

Long story: Set out to go to Primark, via a car boot sale; arrived at car boot sale and they wanted £10 to get in! So I drove to another and shuffled round that one "for free", picked up half a watermelon for 50p too, so that wasn't a complete loss - that one's under cover, so again, a bonus. Back to original car boot where you pay £1 as it's later ... went round, but came over all peculiar, managed to get back to the car by heading for "stalls with a bit of shade and pretending to be interested in what they had" - and got back to the car, where I sat with a drink for half an hour "recovering".

Off to Primark next.... got there eventually after I "got lost" as I was following signs and suddenly there were no signs to where I was going (they do that a lot round here) ... so I ended up doing an extra 8 miles going the long way round. Got there, found it - but they don't have that style in the shop, none at all. All the other hats looked nasty/cheap and I'd only gone for that one hat .... so no hat.

I've been out of the house for 5 hours, I've driven about 40 miles .... and no hat.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

The short story is: I didn't get a hat.

Long story: Set out to go to Primark, via a car boot sale; arrived at car boot sale and they wanted £10 to get in! So I drove to another and shuffled round that one "for free", picked up half a watermelon for 50p too, so that wasn't a complete loss - that one's under cover, so again, a bonus. Back to original car boot where you pay £1 as it's later ... went round, but came over all peculiar, managed to get back to the car by heading for "stalls with a bit of shade and pretending to be interested in what they had" - and got back to the car, where I sat with a drink for half an hour "recovering".

Off to Primark next.... got there eventually after I "got lost" as I was following signs and suddenly there were no signs to where I was going (they do that a lot round here) ... so I ended up doing an extra 8 miles going the long way round. Got there, found it - but they don't have that style in the shop, none at all. All the other hats looked nasty/cheap and I'd only gone for that one hat .... so no hat.

I've been out of the house for 5 hours, I've driven about 40 miles .... and no hat.

Pastures, I have just sent you a PM. :cool:




Edit....also, Peacock's do this one for £8.....

https://www.peacocks.co.uk/lurex-cloche-hat-0cca58.html