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6 Mar 2024 | 4
You actually means just after *supper*.
WHOA: Get a load of Asteroid DX110 JUST MISSING planet EARTH
Asteroid 2014 DX110 will, on Wednesday, March 5, pass Earth within 345,600km – that's closer than the Moon at 384,400km. The fly-by should be a beauty: the asteroid is a 30m (98ft) space rock that will whizz by at 2106 UTC (1306 PST, 1606 EST). Updated at 2345 UTC to add: See below for videos of the event. The Pan-STARRS 1 …
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Wednesday 5th March 2014 20:08 GMT Zack Mollusc
Mealtimes
How can you have your main meal in the middle of the day?
You have to clock out, leave the premises, queue up at the sarnie shop, eat your sarnie, get back to work and clock back in again within 45 minutes. The main meal is when you get home after work, at tea time, approximately six PM.
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Thursday 6th March 2014 09:05 GMT BongoJoe
Re: Work?
Tell you what, why don't you prise yourself away from websites and go to something called a "Job Centre". If you have any talent at anything, you'll get to find out.
Tell you what, if you have any talent at anything, then you needn't spend all of one's daylight hours 'working' for someone else and one could 'work' a couple of hours a day at home eating proper meals whenever one wishes.
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Wednesday 5th March 2014 07:49 GMT Paul J Turner
Re: Video
Not for me either, none of their JW-Player stuff does, presumably because I use AdBlock.
I too wish they'd just use the Youtube address and skip their ad-shovelling.
This is mainly an IT News site, do they really assume that their audience is too dumb to get around it?
Here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2AbPcaU73o
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Wednesday 5th March 2014 21:17 GMT Charles Manning
Meter
It is a new Reg unit - like swimming pool, London bus etc - just smaller.
Like feet vary until we standardise on one person's foot, meter will vary depending on whether we're using a light meter, gas meter, dial or digital, etc etc.
In order that we standardise this more rigorously, I decree that we use a meter close to the Greenwich Meridian. The width of the electricity meter in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich will do fine.
Beer (honourary) to the first comentard that gets down there and reports back the metric equivalent.
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Thursday 6th March 2014 10:30 GMT Graham Dawson
Re: Meter
The foot was not based on anyone's actual foot. It's a silly myth made sillier by the fact that the measurement has been near-constant since minoan times. It's only the French that ever changed it (leading to the myth that Napoleon was short).
You can derive the foot from the motion of the stars:
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/making-an-english-foot/
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/chasing-the-greek-foot/
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Thursday 6th March 2014 12:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Meter
That's a pretty sweeping statement. The unit called the foot (pous in Greek, pes in Latin) has varied between around 275-330mm in different societies at different times. I wouldn't describe a 20% range as "near-constant".
Referring to the website you link to, I really find it hard to imagine the foreman of a Greek temple building site going to all that trouble to derive a unit, especially when there is not one, but there are many different, "Greek feet". It's far more probable that different building companies each evolved their own slightly different unit for use in construction - exactly as machine shops did for screw threads before Whitworth.
Whatever, the foot is a very variable unit and the system of units used by the US is especially silly - like when they divide pounds mass by pounds force in rocketry formulae and cancel them out. Don't get me started on the slug.
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Thursday 6th March 2014 10:53 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Fuck a duck...
No it's clearly due to austerity measures.
Let's hope that Ed Milliband announces a freeze on the movement of all interplanetary object while a fundamental review of the laws of physics is undertaken to see if large objects such as the sun are exploiting their dominant gravitational position
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Thursday 6th March 2014 08:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
Video?
I can't make head nor tail of the time lapse video. It looks to me like every single star in shot is jumping about like a drunk at an office disco.
Is that the rock in the middle or a scratch on the lens?
If this is the quality of imagery they're working with no wonder they don't spot these things until they're sailing straight past ...
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Thursday 6th March 2014 08:51 GMT Pascal Monett
Agreed. The time-lapse may be significant for some, but for me it was just ever-changing black splotches on a white background with a small grey streak in the middle.
No sense of impending doom, no perspective, not even an idea of where the Moon is.
Totally, utterly useless.
But hey, even that must be rather tricky to get a pic of, so kudos to whoever took the snaps. Next time, could you have a few arrows added to it, pointing to relevant celestial bodies ? Like, the Sun is this way <-, the Moon is that way -> ? Thanks in advance !
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