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#18961 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 16 May 2023 - 07:28 AM

The bad thing about that Maark is someone having to go into Wakefield :( but good news otherwise!
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#18962 User is offline   Azath Vitr (D'ivers 

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Posted 16 May 2023 - 01:21 PM

Putin fired six more of his 'unstoppable' hypersonic missiles at Kyiv... and the PATRIOT system stopped them all.

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Ukraine said it shot down 18 Russian missiles targeting Kyiv [...] including six hypersonic Kinzhal missiles. [...] missile attack was "exceptional in its density."

Ukraine Says It Shot Down 6 Hypersonic Missiles in Attack on Kyiv (businessinsider.com)


It's stopped seven out of seven now.

Putin's ability to blackmail other countries with the threat of hypersonic missiles may have just diminished considerably.

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#18963 User is offline   Maark Abbott 

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Posted 17 May 2023 - 06:15 AM

View PostTiste Simeon, on 16 May 2023 - 07:28 AM, said:

The bad thing about that Maark is someone having to go into Wakefield :( but good news otherwise!


I mean it could be worse, I live in Barno. All we have here is post-industrial decline and sadness.

That said, Wakefield city centre was amazingly depressing. Like a really shit Scunthorpe but with no seaside.
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Posted 17 May 2023 - 08:09 AM

View PostMaark Abbott, on 17 May 2023 - 06:15 AM, said:

View PostTiste Simeon, on 16 May 2023 - 07:28 AM, said:

The bad thing about that Maark is someone having to go into Wakefield :( but good news otherwise!


I mean it could be worse, I live in Barno. All we have here is post-industrial decline and sadness.

That said, Wakefield city centre was amazingly depressing. Like a really shit Scunthorpe but with no seaside.


Agreed. And like so many other northern industrial towns, it could be improved if it had money spent on it.

Having said that, I lived on the outskirts of Wakefield before moving in with Mr Not a Blacksmith and enjoyed my time there, and the house we're buying is in a village between Wakefield and Rothwell. The reality is though we'll use Leeds when we need a city centre - which whilst annoyingly busy, is much nicer.
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#18965 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 17 May 2023 - 08:12 AM

I get it, I lived in Oldham for a number of years. Most of the money went to Manchester, though the teams did help with things and they had started to make things a bit better in the centre at least when I left.

I worked in Blackburn which was worse.
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Posted 17 May 2023 - 09:25 AM

Yah, me nan lives in Ol' Billywickham and eats her chips with "soot and vinegar", she says. "Leastways it means some folks are still a-workin." Well that's nan for ya. Big hearted.
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Posted 17 May 2023 - 01:42 PM

I forget, which of these places did Charlie Stross wipe out with an army of Necro-Elves?
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Posted 17 May 2023 - 01:58 PM

View Postworry, on 17 May 2023 - 09:25 AM, said:

Yah, me nan lives in Ol' Billywickham and eats her chips with "soot and vinegar", she says. "Leastways it means some folks are still a-workin." Well that's nan for ya. Big hearted.


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#18969 User is offline   Maark Abbott 

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Posted 19 May 2023 - 06:57 AM

Band is doing a mini tour in November with Ephemera - Rotherham, Shipley and Halifax, and then I think we have a headline gig the week afterward. Should be good!
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#18970 User is offline   worry 

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Posted 19 May 2023 - 08:53 AM

View PostQuickTidal, on 17 May 2023 - 01:58 PM, said:

View Postworry, on 17 May 2023 - 09:25 AM, said:

Yah, me nan lives in Ol' Billywickham and eats her chips with "soot and vinegar", she says. "Leastways it means some folks are still a-workin." Well that's nan for ya. Big hearted.


Every now and again Worry NAILS the execution on a joke. This was NOTE perfect and I LOLed at work and people looked at me strangely.


Lol Tiste sent me a voice recording of his impression of this. If only y'all could hear it.
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#18971 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 19 May 2023 - 09:30 AM

View Postworry, on 19 May 2023 - 08:53 AM, said:

View PostQuickTidal, on 17 May 2023 - 01:58 PM, said:

View Postworry, on 17 May 2023 - 09:25 AM, said:

Yah, me nan lives in Ol' Billywickham and eats her chips with "soot and vinegar", she says. "Leastways it means some folks are still a-workin." Well that's nan for ya. Big hearted.


Every now and again Worry NAILS the execution on a joke. This was NOTE perfect and I LOLed at work and people looked at me strangely.


Lol Tiste sent me a voice recording of his impression of this. If only y'all could hear it.

I got some of the wording wrong, my apologies.
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#18972 User is offline   worry 

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Posted 19 May 2023 - 11:08 AM

That's fine, I can't understand all that UK gibberish anyway.
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Posted 19 May 2023 - 10:49 PM

View PostAbyss, on 17 May 2023 - 01:42 PM, said:

I forget, which of these places did Charlie Stross wipe out with an army of Necro-Elves?


Leeds, iirc

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View PostJump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 22 May 2023 - 08:25 AM

View PostTiste Simeon, on 19 May 2023 - 09:30 AM, said:

View Postworry, on 19 May 2023 - 08:53 AM, said:

View PostQuickTidal, on 17 May 2023 - 01:58 PM, said:

View Postworry, on 17 May 2023 - 09:25 AM, said:

Yah, me nan lives in Ol' Billywickham and eats her chips with "soot and vinegar", she says. "Leastways it means some folks are still a-workin." Well that's nan for ya. Big hearted.


Every now and again Worry NAILS the execution on a joke. This was NOTE perfect and I LOLed at work and people looked at me strangely.


Lol Tiste sent me a voice recording of his impression of this. If only y'all could hear it.

I got some of the wording wrong, my apologies.


Also in receipt of Tiste's voice recordings over the weekend. Definitely made me smile! :D
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#18975 User is offline   Mezla PigDog 

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Posted 23 May 2023 - 07:49 PM

Last night I woke up following a terrifying nightmare. I was too scared to get out of bed when I woke up.

I was on the planet from the movie Aliens. It was before Ripley and the marines arrive and I was myself but happened to be there with the colonists as the aliens started to attack. I knew what was happening given I have seen all the movies so was just shitting myself in a mixture of terror and trying to persuade their leader what we needed to do.

Their leader was Steve Martin.

Needless to say Steve Martin is not equipped to lead a terraforming settlement being attacked by xenomorphs. I woke with my heart absolutely hammering. I've had an adrenalin come down all day.
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Posted 23 May 2023 - 11:52 PM

View PostMezla PigDog, on 23 May 2023 - 07:49 PM, said:

Last night I woke up following a terrifying nightmare. I was too scared to get out of bed when I woke up.

I was on the planet from the movie Aliens. It was before Ripley and the marines arrive and I was myself but happened to be there with the colonists as the aliens started to attack. I knew what was happening given I have seen all the movies so was just shitting myself in a mixture of terror and trying to persuade their leader what we needed to do.

Their leader was Steve Martin.

Needless to say Steve Martin is not equipped to lead a terraforming settlement being attacked by xenomorphs. I woke with my heart absolutely hammering. I've had an adrenalin come down all day.


This is the most epic dream ever!
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Posted 24 May 2023 - 08:19 AM

View PostMezla PigDog, on 23 May 2023 - 07:49 PM, said:

Last night I woke up following a terrifying nightmare. I was too scared to get out of bed when I woke up.

I was on the planet from the movie Aliens. It was before Ripley and the marines arrive and I was myself but happened to be there with the colonists as the aliens started to attack. I knew what was happening given I have seen all the movies so was just shitting myself in a mixture of terror and trying to persuade their leader what we needed to do.

Their leader was Steve Martin.

Needless to say Steve Martin is not equipped to lead a terraforming settlement being attacked by xenomorphs. I woke with my heart absolutely hammering. I've had an adrenalin come down all day.


Maybe lay off the 5 balloon glasses of brandy and the "Three Amigos" rewatches before bedtime?
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Posted 24 May 2023 - 01:43 PM

View PostMezla PigDog, on 23 May 2023 - 07:49 PM, said:

Last night I woke up following a terrifying nightmare. I was too scared to get out of bed when I woke up.

I was on the planet from the movie Aliens. It was before Ripley and the marines arrive and I was myself but happened to be there with the colonists as the aliens started to attack. I knew what was happening given I have seen all the movies so was just shitting myself in a mixture of terror and trying to persuade their leader what we needed to do.

Their leader was Steve Martin.

Needless to say Steve Martin is not equipped to lead a terraforming settlement being attacked by xenomorphs. I woke with my heart absolutely hammering. I've had an adrenalin come down all day.


I would have complete faith in Steve Martin in these circumstances.
He is the hero those colonists need, want, and deserve.
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Posted 24 May 2023 - 01:58 PM

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Scientists have invented a device that can continuously generate electricity from thin air, offering a glimpse of a possible sustainable energy source that can be made of almost any material and runs on the ambient humidity that surrounds all of us[...]

If you've ever seen a bolt of lightning streak across the sky, you've already had a sneak peek of the untapped power that is hidden in ambient air.
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[...] homes, factories, and perhaps whole cities might be powered by the electricity that is concealed in the air.

[...] practically any material could become an Air-gen device provided it was perforated with tiny holes measuring 100 nanometers or fewer[...]

[...] "Importantly, since air humidity is ubiquitous and continuous 24/7, Air-gen can be deployed almost anywhere for continuous energy harvesting [...]

air is diffusive and filled in the entire vertical space, which means that we can stack many layers of air-gen devices [...] more space efficient" than other power sources [...] "[...] can be engineered into varied form factors and neatly blend into the environment (even without one's notice)" versus the example of "a solar panel that exclusively takes up space."


Scientists Working to Generate Electricity From Thin Air Make Breakthrough (vice.com)

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Posted 24 May 2023 - 07:53 PM

View PostAzath Vitr (D, on 24 May 2023 - 01:58 PM, said:

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Scientists have invented a device that can continuously generate electricity from thin air, offering a glimpse of a possible sustainable energy source that can be made of almost any material and runs on the ambient humidity that surrounds all of us[...]

If you've ever seen a bolt of lightning streak across the sky, you've already had a sneak peek of the untapped power that is hidden in ambient air.
[...]

[...] homes, factories, and perhaps whole cities might be powered by the electricity that is concealed in the air.

[...] practically any material could become an Air-gen device provided it was perforated with tiny holes measuring 100 nanometers or fewer[...]

[...] "Importantly, since air humidity is ubiquitous and continuous 24/7, Air-gen can be deployed almost anywhere for continuous energy harvesting [...]

air is diffusive and filled in the entire vertical space, which means that we can stack many layers of air-gen devices [...] more space efficient" than other power sources [...] "[...] can be engineered into varied form factors and neatly blend into the environment (even without one's notice)" versus the example of "a solar panel that exclusively takes up space."


Scientists Working to Generate Electricity From Thin Air Make Breakthrough (vice.com)



Without knowing more I would guess this has the hallmarks of vaporware. Science that sounds great and may indeed work on the small scale but cant in reality be scaled up to realistic numbers.

Hope I am wrong but doubt it.
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