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Yorkie

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« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2010, 07:44:36 am »
See QUIZ TIME for Albert Einstein's Riddle, and see how intelligent you are.     ££$

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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #16 on: November 20, 2010, 05:24:40 pm »
Yes, Fester, you are correct. Must get a bigger tonge or smaller cheek.


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« Reply #17 on: January 03, 2011, 06:45:54 pm »
 Einstein was in all probability the BIGEST bluffer in history
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« Reply #18 on: January 03, 2011, 10:59:38 pm »
Einstein was in all probability the BIGEST bluffer in history

Are you speaking RELATIVELY , Blongb?

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« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2011, 09:02:09 am »
E = MC2 I suppose!   ZXZ

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« Reply #20 on: January 10, 2011, 04:57:51 pm »
Yorkie and Fester I shall treat your comments with the GRAVITY they deserve
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« Reply #21 on: January 12, 2011, 04:07:39 pm »
Yorkie and Fester I shall treat your comments with the GRAVITY they deserve

Now - will that be in ft per second 2 or metres per centimetre 3?      L0L

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Re: Space and astronomy
« Reply #22 on: March 19, 2011, 11:57:09 am »
A magnificent full moon tonight will loom larger and brighter than usual in the night sky, in a spectacle that has been called a supermoon.

At 7.10pm, the Moon will be a mere 356,577km (221,567 miles) away, the closest a full moon has been to Earth in almost 20 years, what is known as perigee. And in a rare astronomical conjunction, the peak of the full moon, when it reaches its maximum illumination, will occur just an hour earlier, at 6.11pm. As a result, the Moon will be 30 per cent brighter and 14 per cent larger than it appears at its farthest point from Earth, or apogee.

The weather forecast is encouraging for much of the UK, with plenty of clear skies, although a front approaching from the Atlantic could bring cloud to western regions.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

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« Reply #23 on: March 19, 2011, 12:06:11 pm »
I assume that's why we have the very low and high tides at the moment?
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Yorkie

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« Reply #24 on: March 19, 2011, 12:07:22 pm »
Aye, Aye matey!  The Moon has got a lot of "pull" in our Universe!     L0L

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« Reply #25 on: March 19, 2011, 08:20:24 pm »
looks the bloody same as it looked last night  ??? :laugh:

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« Reply #26 on: March 19, 2011, 08:44:35 pm »
Not quite the normal moon!

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« Reply #27 on: March 19, 2011, 09:12:45 pm »
Wow  $cool$  when I looked out it was cloudy  :rage:  L0L
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« Reply #28 on: March 19, 2011, 09:50:50 pm »
cloudy here too, :(

 I've just downloaded Google Skymap to my phone, amazing.

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« Reply #29 on: March 29, 2011, 01:11:26 pm »
Railroad Tracks, fascinating !
The US. standard railroad gauge is 4 Ft. 8-5 inches. An exceedingly odd No.

Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built US. railroads.

Why, did the English build them that way ? Because the first rail tracks were built by the same people who laid the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did 'They' use that gauge? Because the people who built the Tramways used the same Jigs and Gauges used for building Wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Why did Wagons have that odd spacing ? Well if they used any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on the highways of Britain, because of the spacing of the wheel ruts in the roads.

So who built those old rutted roads ? Imperial Rome, for their Legions to traverse the Country, and have used ever since.

And the ruts in the roads ? Roman Chariots formed the initial ruts, so wagon makers had to match those ruts for fear of damaging their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Romans, they were all alike in wheel spacings Therefore the US. standard Gauge derives from the specification of a Roman Chariot

So the next time you are given a Specification/Procedure/Process and wonder 'What Horses A*** came up with it.'? you may be exactly right as chariots were made to the width of two horses arses. Now the twist to the story.

When you see a Space Shuttle on the launch pad, there are two Booster Rockets attached. These are made by Thiokol in Utah. They wanted to make them larger, but they have to be transported by rail, but the railroad goes through a Tunnel, which is slightly wider than the railtrack, which you know is as wide as two horses arses.   So, a major Space Shuttle design of the Worlds most sophisticated transport, was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horses A***.  And you thought that being a Horse's A*** wasn't important.?
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