What do you know today, that you did not yesterday?
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Mar 2021
2:50pm, 8 Mar 2021
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Cerrertonia
[My 2nd place finish in a parkrun came on an absolute quagmire, which meant that all the really good runners went elsewhere, and the good runners were brought down to my level...] Millom has the world's oldest amateur rugby league club, founded in 1873. There is a sign above the clubhouse entrance which says this. |
Mar 2021
3:08pm, 8 Mar 2021
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Dvorak
That course is ridiculousness, McG. V'rap, do you mean good for Aspatria in that pining five-lap mud-pluggers will boost the numbers? |
Mar 2021
3:14pm, 8 Mar 2021
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Velociraptor
I was thinking good for Aspatria in that it might get another bit of surfaced path, conditional upon public access. Though I'm probably going to withdraw from my "core team" commitment before even starting because I've lost impetus and because it's such an unappealing course.
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Mar 2021
3:33pm, 8 Mar 2021
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Dvorak
(Great if it could be put in place before the fourth peak. And properly finished, unlike my new local fpr course (well, cycle path) so far. Too many chuckies currently. And indeed the specially built section of Loch Leven parkrun.)
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Mar 2021
10:17am, 9 Mar 2021
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swittle
That fragments of a fireball seen on 28 Feb. that landed in a Gloucestershire garden are 'astonishingly rare'. Carbonaceous chondrites may contain material from 4.6 billion years ago, when the solar system was forming. bbc.co.uk |
Mar 2021
10:19am, 9 Mar 2021
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GregP
That was on R4's 06:00 news this morning. It's really properly exciting for those of us who can lose half an hour just staring at the little piece of moon rock in the Science Museum.
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Mar 2021
10:24am, 9 Mar 2021
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Cerrertonia
[There's a chap who came to the public astronomy talks that Cambridge University runs who makes his living buying and selling meteorites. Nomads get paid to keep an eye out for them in the Sahara. If you collect a quantity of dust off a flat roof or a gutter and look at each speck in a microscope and know what you're doing, you'll probably find some micro-meteorites.]
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Mar 2021
10:25am, 9 Mar 2021
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swittle
Yes, indeed. The overexcited scientist is an object of no little amusement and wonder imo. I smiled at the comment about what it had cost a Japanese mission to secure similar rock, compared with bouncing over to Gloucs. in the faculty's 1955 Series 1 Land Rover to inspect the find.
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Mar 2021
10:26am, 9 Mar 2021
73,604 posts
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swittle
[^ x post. Replying to Greppers. Enjoying Cerre's post too.]
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Mar 2021
10:27am, 9 Mar 2021
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GregP
[compare and contrast the thing that may be an urban myth about cocaine and dollar bills?]
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