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racefaceec90

i just read on wikipedia that daphne oram was born in my home town of devizes.

for anyone who doesn't know who daphne oram is,she was the co founder of the bbc radiophonics workshop along with desmond briscoe    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop. ;

well i think it's cool anyhoo lol

over to you   

joeyowen

Cows can't walk down stairs

joneve

racefaceec90 said:

i just read on wikipedia that daphne oram was born in my home town of devizes.

for anyone who doesn't know who daphne oram is,she was the co founder of the bbc radiophonics workshop along with desmond briscoe    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop. ;

well i think it's cool anyhoo lol

over to you   

Devizes! 

Do you work for Wadworth like everyone else in the town? 

Bellycaster

The Planet Earth is actually flat.

camoflamingo

There's a cluster of five galaxies called Stephan's quintet. We can view them with the Hubble telescope colliding with each other. We view them colliding 280 million years ago. They're so far away, that's how long light takes to reach us (or Hubble). 

I can hardly get my head around it and wondered if the light would persist so long. I guess because there's no atmosphere there's nothing to diminish or attenuate the light. 

lustycourtier

Carlsberg Special Brew was first brewed to commemorate Winston Churchills visit to Sweden

tampaxboo

i've been thinking a lot about mars, and the fact that it once had a magnetosphere like ours, and even an early atmosphere that may have supported primitive lifeforms.

basically being so much smaller than us, its iron core cooled and hardened, while ours remained molten and in a state of constant flux (convection currents).
those iron core convection currents give us our N/S poles and a magnetosphere that prevents our atmosphere from being blown away by the solar wind.
mars cooling to hard meant it lost its poles and magenetosphere and its early atmosphere got swept of the face of the planet by the solar winds.

anyyway, i've been wondering what it would take to remelt the iron core of mars (nuclear or similar chain reaction fusion process? or a purely chemical fusion process?), and whether that remelting and reinvigorationg of convection currents (gravity should take care of that once it remelts) would restore the magnetosphere and allow a new atmosphere to develop within which new lifeforms could begin to develop.

jellyroll

tampaxboo said:

i've been thinking a lot about mars, and the fact that it once had a magnetosphere like ours, and even an early atmosphere that may have supported primitive lifeforms.

basically being so much smaller than us, its iron core cooled and hardened, while ours remained molten and in a state of constant flux (convection currents).
those iron core convection currents give us our N/S poles and a magnetosphere that prevents our atmosphere from being blown away by the solar wind.
mars cooling to hard meant it lost its poles and magenetosphere and its early atmosphere got swept of the face of the planet by the solar winds.

anyyway, i've been wondering what it would take to remelt the iron core of mars (nuclear or similar chain reaction fusion process? or a purely chemical fusion process?), and whether that remelting and reinvigorationg of convection currents (gravity should take care of that once it remelts) would restore the magnetosphere and allow a new atmosphere to develop within which new lifeforms could begin to develop.

But who's gonna want to live there ...without wifi?

proggy

You can tell the sex of an ant by dropping it in a glass of water.

Sinks: Girl Ant.

Floats: Boy Ant.

FACT.

the_jaffa

tampaxboo said:

I've been wondering what it would take to remelt the iron core of mars

Surely, just drilling a hole into the core then dropping a McDonalds Apple Pie or a Pop Tart straight from the toaster in would be sufficient

FX_Munkee

tampaxboo said:

i've been thinking a lot about mars, and the fact that it once had a magnetosphere like ours, and even an early atmosphere that may have supported primitive lifeforms.

basically being so much smaller than us, its iron core cooled and hardened, while ours remained molten and in a state of constant flux (convection currents).
those iron core convection currents give us our N/S poles and a magnetosphere that prevents our atmosphere from being blown away by the solar wind.
mars cooling to hard meant it lost its poles and magenetosphere and its early atmosphere got swept of the face of the planet by the solar winds.

anyyway, i've been wondering what it would take to remelt the iron core of mars (nuclear or similar chain reaction fusion process? or a purely chemical fusion process?), and whether that remelting and reinvigorationg of convection currents (gravity should take care of that once it remelts) would restore the magnetosphere and allow a new atmosphere to develop within which new lifeforms could begin to develop.

More importantly I wonder if you'd be able to hail a Johnny Cab there.

VimFuego

hang on, surely mars is flat like the earth...
EDIT: and all this talk of going there is crazy, we haven't even been to the moon yet. Priorities people.

Lestratcaster

Crisps best before dates are always a Saturday.

jellyroll

VimFuego said:

....we haven't even been to the moon yet....

Err.....hello....

https://vimeo.com/38091345

gubble

Pandas aren't bears !

jellyroll

gubble said:

Panda's aren't bears !

Apostrophe police! Apostrophe police!

kaypeejay

proggy said:

You can tell the sex of an ant by dropping it in a glass of water.

Sinks: Girl Ant.

Floats: Witch.

FACT.

FTFY

Kilgore

At the 12th fret, the notes start again.

axisus

Pluto isn't actually a planet. Turns out it's a Disney dog.

axisus

"is this big enough for you" is not a very successful chat up line

thermionic

It only took 66 years to go from the first powered flight to landing a man on the moon.