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regarding earlier points about it being impossible to reach the nearest extra solar star systems due to lack of technology, that's not strictly true....We do have the technology to reach the stars, The much mooted Projects' Orion & Daedelus designed in the 70's and which could be technically built today, if built, would result in spacecraft capable of at least 10% of light speed (19000 miles per second)....The reasons they have not been built are twofold........1) It's prohibitively expensive, trillions of dollars, no government on the planet could afford it, and 2) These spacecraft for means of propulsion require the detonation of nuclear devices in space, which is banned under the 1968 Geneva convention
Some good points made in your post AJ...re: existing technologies however I referred more to there being a practical means at this moment in time to ' visit the stars '.The methods you suggest would be like visiting Perth from Blackpool using public transport...admittedly your suggested mode of travel would be less time consuming and cheaper...and you'd encounter fewer alien life forms!
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Early morning reading but the heat/humidity are already building today.
Current conditions as of 7:30 AM ICT:Mostly Cloudy,Feels Like:86 °F,Barometer:29.83 in and rising rapidly,Humidity:100 %,Visibility:4.35 mi,Dewpoint:79 °F,Wind:VAR,Sunrise:5:43 AM,Sunset:6:04 PM.
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It's slim-non nothing else exists across that vast plethora, but reaching it and discovering it is simply impossible.
And the Earth is flat and the sun orbits the Earth.....my point being it's impossible given our current technology and understanding of physics,that's not so say humans couldn't be capable of it within three generations...or indeed another species that's eons older than ours already can.
That said maybe it's simply Earth's location,on a outer spiral arm....if an Alien species had developed Galactic travel capability why come here?
I offer a scenario...you won a Lear jet...sitting on the take off strip you ask the family where in the world they'd like to go...Grand Canyon,Uluru ,Barbados?...and the final consensus was Whitley Bay!...who can blame those little green men?..a small, poisoned,polluted planet swarming with humans
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Which is about as likely as a cactus plant writing all of Shakespeare's plays. On Tuesday afternoon. Using baboon blood as ink. In Urdu.
I read that book...it was a riveting read
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It would be wrong to simply state there is nobody out there in the stars...statistically it's an almost certain fact life upon a few worlds must exist...that said if a species had conquered galactic travel then my question is this...with that amount of technical know how why would they allow themselves to be observed from Earth?If their mission was to make contact, then just land on the Whitehouse lawn and say hi!..if it were merely to observe but not interfere then surely they would be able to do that unseen...unless it's as described in the Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and they just let some poor sod see them knowing they'll be mocked that night down the local.
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It was a bit fresher today thank goodness,T-Storms predicted for all of next week
Current conditions as of 4:30 PM ICT :
Mostly Cloudy,Feels Like:77 °F,Barometer:29.74 in and steady,Humidity:100 %,Visibility:--,Dewpoint:73 °F,Wind:Westerly,Sunrise:5:43 AM,Sunset:6:05 PM.
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Question remains: why do the English have such problems living in their time zone but no-one else does?
The Germans are happy on CET. The Americans are happy with which ever time zone they are in (all 6 of them). It's just the English who cannot survive ..... No wonder we're called whinging poms!
And given it was Britain who set GMT maybe we should have thought about it more,that said the country is so far north there is no easy compromise....and without the dark nights there'd be no Winter lamp post watching...always a bright side huh?
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Current conditions as of 11:30 PM ICT:Partly Cloudy,Feels Like:82 °F,Barometer:29.83 in and falling,Humidity:94 %,Visibility:6.21 mi,Dewpoint:75 °F,Wind:VAR,Sunrise:5:43 AM,Sunset:6:07 PM.
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It's one of the (many) things surprised me here...but it's rather like ...day time then bang! you've had that now it's night time!,in the mornings the birds have to be damn quick with their dawn chorus.
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31 °C Scattered Clouds, Humidity: 66%, Dew Point: 24 °C, Wind: 18 km/h / 5.1 m/s from the SSE, Pressure: 1008 hPa (Steady), Heat Index: 36 °C, Visibility: 10.0 kilometers, UV: 11 out of 16,
Clouds 518 m, (Above Ground Level) Elevation: 19 m
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love the salt lake shot ....is the tree eucalypti or gum?
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Current conditions as of 1:30 PM ICT Thunder,Feels Like:83 °F,Barometer:29.74 in and falling rapidly, Humidity:100 %, Visibility:6.21 mi, Dewpoint:77 °F, Wind:WNW, Sunrise:5:43 AM Sunset:6:09 PM, High: 89°, Low: 75°
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My suspicion is......it was Pythagoras,in the library with a candle stick ....oh and he was sporting a Bermuda shirt.
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5-50 PM,27C Partial cloud,wind SW 4 KMPH,possibility of thunderstorms later, DP 16.6 C - real humididty 53%
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I was in Queensland last week,the last thing they need is this,I'm hoping to be back up there next week however will probably stay on the periphery if it as expected intensifies! local forecasts currently predict it makes land on Wed south of Cairns
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32C,clear with a NE steady breeze
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yup here too Paul,a beautiful steady snow,it has given another covering on top of the reasonable covering remaining
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A significant thaw today,it's that slushy muck, if it froze it'd be deadly.
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very light snow shower here 7pm apprx, but it really was insignificant,a few flakes blowing about in the breeze.
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After a few hours of thawing the wind picked up and it seems to have stopped.Not a great deal of damage to the snow covering here
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I have an appt on Monday MCT,if what you're saying about grit supplies is correct I fear I may struggle getting out of Weardale
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BBC forcast looks good for all of tommorrow evening and monday (Y) and dave it wont go above 0C mate on the forcast it showed 0c for northern england
Just watched that...erm did he mention the B word blizzards...for Pennine areas?
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Early on it's feeling hotter than yesterday however the clouds are building nicely...fingers crossed for beefy showers later.
Current conditions as of 7:30 AM ICT,:
Partly Cloudy,Feels Like:89 °F,Barometer:29.77 in and steady,Humidity:94 %,Visibility:6.21 mi,Dewpoint:79 °F,Wind:VAR,Sunrise:5:43 AM,Sunset:6:03 PM.