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Miscellaneous / Re: The Shellfish Scene

Last post by billy rubin - Today at 02:42:35 PM

ive walked tbrough linneaus's house in sweden.

but i would have liked to see whether anything remains of the gravel path in darwins garden that was made so famous

#2

Current Events / They have caught the insurance...

Last post by Tank - Today at 11:12:00 AM

It'll be interesting to see why he did it.


Luigi Mangione charged with murdering healthcare CEO in New York

#3

Laid Back Lounge / Re: Jokes Thread (Was named An...

Last post by Anne D. - Today at 03:19:49 AM

^^^This. Every day.

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Sports / Re: F1 and Indy Car (mostly F1...

Last post by Tank - December 09, 2024, 05:17:31 PM

^ Congrats to your son and family!  ...and the team!

Thank you. It has been a true team effort. Next year is going to be very interesting indeed.

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Sports / Re: F1 and Indy Car (mostly F1...

Last post by Dark Lightning - December 09, 2024, 02:41:56 PM

^ Congrats to your son and family!  ...and the team!

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Miscellaneous / Re: The Shellfish Scene

Last post by zorkan - December 09, 2024, 01:42:45 PM

interesting that youve visited darwins home. what was it like?

Having walked up the hill from the River Severn I was told I could only view it from the outside.
It's used by the financial mafia, and they don't like intruders.
Make do with this.
https://www.myshrewsbury.co.uk/blog/a-tour-of-mount-house/

Dawkins lives close to the River Thames, and he doesn't like intruders either, but maybe not the pigeons which fascinated Darwin.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2171218/The-atheist-prof-cars-door-war-pooping-pigeons.html

Not sure if you can go inside Wallace's home.
https://onthebusesm.blogspot.com/2016/06/usk-birthplace-of-alfred-russel-wallace.html

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Sports / Re: F1 and Indy Car (mostly F1...

Last post by Tank - December 09, 2024, 09:41:20 AM

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Sports / Re: F1 and Indy Car (mostly F1...

Last post by Tank - December 09, 2024, 09:18:22 AM

#9

Sports / Re: F1 and Indy Car (mostly F1...

Last post by Tank - December 09, 2024, 09:17:03 AM

Well McLaren did it. World champion constructors.

It must be a jolly feeling to have a son working for the winning team, and no doubt he's rather pleased as well. I hope they give out bonuses to celebrate. 

Well he earned it. He's been there through thick and thin. He went to Arrows in America and then went to Astra systems. Andrias Stella personally kept in contact with him. And his personal relationship as friends with Lando was what brought him back at the beginning of this season. He is coming back to the UK with his family in the new year. He's staying in the pit job as a performance engineer next season. But has been promoted so has other responsibilities in other areas.

I believe that there are substantial bonuses involved.

They couldn't have won with a better total of points

[Icarus]

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Science / Re: Materials Science

Last post by Recusant - December 09, 2024, 05:12:56 AM

^ ^ Will wonders never cease? One would hope not.

Fully agree Icarus!  In the course of assembling that post I learned three new words. "Voxelated" I think I should have already known--a voxel is basically a three dimensional pixel. "Mesogen" (general descriptor of liquid crystal) and "smectic" (of, relating to, or being the phase of a liquid crystal characterized by arrangement of molecules in layers with the long molecular axes in a given layer being parallel to one another and those of other layers and perpendicular or slightly inclined to the plane of the layer) on the other hand, being more or less specific to the field of liquid crystal, are a bit more arcane.