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Qubo wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:49 pm
strapline wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:10 pm According to the WWF 69% of all animal populations have been wiped out in the last fifty years by man. I find this particularly tragic and it saddens me greatly. On many levels I feel that mankind has reached a tipping point from which there is no coming back. I hope I'm wrong.

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The way we're going, mankind will be next and all other species will likely have the upper hand. My $0.02.
What gets me is the driver to all this destruction is just $$$'s. Money b4 morality, tragic.
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Qubo wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:49 pmThe way we're going, mankind will be next and all other species will likely have the upper hand. My $0.02.
Once we're gone all the other species will be in charge of nuclear powerstations and have to deal with their waste (storage of existing waste is an ongoing problem) - obviously they can't do anything about this so while cockroaches might survive everything else is probably going to die with us (speaking on an evolutionary timescale)
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I regularly have a look at the live webcam at Porthmadog (F&WHR) station https://insidemotion.co.uk/webcams/. I've only just realised (Doh!) that it's possible to 'wind back' the live stream to watch something actually happening.

And, just to add to the above post - it's a myth that cockroaches can survive a nuclear explosion. I don't know if that cheers you up or not.
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nbg wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 7:46 am ^^^ My friend Mr Google found this Chris.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49319760

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Thanks Neil,

Apologies for not replying sooner, but I missed your initial reply. I will be having some discussions with some of my communications colleagues to see if this is something that can be better integrated into our dispatch workflow.
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I learnt of a significant piece of history which has shaped my life today, but for its political content I can’t share it here.
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‘A gas station owned by Harland Sanders was the site of the first KFC in 1930. Motorists were served fried chicken at his own dining-room table.’
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I found out this from my wives instagram this morning.
I drive around London for work, and I've not seen it yet, although i rarely pass Harrods.
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English has never been my first language hence not knowing where ‘mum’s the word’ originated, that’s until I looked it up last night. It seems to be a popular English idiom, explains why it was not used when I was growing up. I knew it had something to do with keeping quiet but had no idea it was related to an expression used by William Shakespeare, in Henry VI, Part 2. The word "mum" is apparently an alteration of momme, meaning, "be silent; do not reveal", not something that comes easily to me when someone else tells me to be quiet.
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^^^ Very interesting. “Keep Mum” was a propaganda phrase used on UK government posters in WW2 as part of the “Careless talk costs lives” campaign.

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The title of the 2005 (hilarious) black comedy “Keeping Mum” starring Rowan Atkinson and Maggie Smith is a double-edged play on the expression.

“Keep shtum” is a variant derived from Medieval German.
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A friend of mine often used to use the expression, "loose lips sink ships." I'd imagine that has origins harking back to WWII.

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I’m supply teaching in geography at the moment. One year group is studying volcanoes. I thought I could pronounce Eyjafjallajökull…but I couldn’t.

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Now I know what a Wormhole is; it's nothing to do with worms. :wink: :wink:
Stif wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 10:38 am To me, a rabbit hole suggests a journey with an unknown destination - you don't know where you'll end up when you enter, but you know there's be tunnels that lead you places.

A wormhole doesn't suggest that to me - because with a wormhole there is no journey, a wormhole is a shortcut between two points in space (essentially making them the same place, thus a wormhole makes the starting point and the destination the same...)
Thus as an analogy it just doesn't work for me... perhaps you do find that your journey ends up back at the beginning, and that's ok, but it's the journey that matters

(that's my 2ps worth!)

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This year will be the first time Big Ben will be put back to GMT since the end of the five year £80m restoration project.
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That a public auction for a pretty much intact fossilised T-rex skeleton is coming up at the end of next month in Hong Kong. The skeleton was discovered in Montana, USA in 2020 and is thought to be in the region of 70,000,000yrs old. The ultimate apex predator whose bite exerted a pressure of 7 x that of a hyaena and 4 x that of a croc. By the way, the skeleton has been named 'Shen' which translates to 'godlike'. I've included a link to the auction site which has some great photos and info if you're interested in that type of thing.

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^^^ that was a great read thanks! I was a bit disappointed when I realised that this auction was expected to be for museums and their collections. If I had just won the lottery I’d be there too! Or maybe I’ll go anyway in case no one else shows up and the reserve price is a few quid :D
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