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Post by onlyMark on Nov 16, 2022 19:05:16 GMT
I have often wondered that since the computers in those days were not even as good as our modern pocket calculators. "........pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton stands next to the computer code that she and her team wrote to guide the Apollo spacecraft to the moon"
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 16, 2022 19:01:10 GMT
How did they ever manage to get to the moon all those years ago? Ahh... but did they really? I played truant from school to watch the moon landings. I think because I didn't get into trouble for it led me to continue over the years.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 15, 2022 17:08:05 GMT
World population reaches 8 billion.
It took 124 years to go from 1 to 2 billion. 2 - 3 took 31 years. 3 - 4 = 14 years. 4 - 5 = 13 years. 5 - 6 = 12 years. 6 - 7 = 12 years. 7 - 8 = 12 years.
The increase seems to have settled down. Never thought that. I was under the impression the increase would accelerate, so years get shorter. It seems not.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 14, 2022 20:22:11 GMT
I always used to try and not fill up in France because it was the most expensive driving between Spain and Germany. Luxembourg was always the cheapest. But I noticed this summer it was the cheapest out the lot. Good to know then. I've got about 530km Spain to Italy but I doubt it'll be any or much cheaper there.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 14, 2022 19:10:55 GMT
Last day at the house in Spain so slipped out for a meal. A menu del dia. Long story as to why I'm here by myself but in short, I drove from Bosnia to Croatia to take my mother in law back to southern Germany. She stays the summer in one place and the winter in the other. I then went north to Bonn to pick up a passport for a daughter. That was 2000km. Whilst there I was informed a couple of the outhouses at the house in Spain had been broken into. Nothing much stolen, bits and bobs like laundry baskets, but plenty of damage done to the corrugated steel doors. So I drove there. That was 2200km. I've been a few days doing repairs and tomorrow I'll drive via France, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia back to Bosnia. That adds on another 3000km. So today I had a bit of time off and ran out of food anyway, so had to go out. This is the menu. You get three courses, a drink and bread. Costs ten Euros. Unless you are familiar with the names of food it may not mean a lot especially as some are more regional preparations where I only know what the main ingredient may be - I started with the fourth one down, left side, lentils. It came with potatoes and a few slices of sausage inside - Main course was fourth one up from the bottom on the right side, Merluza (hake fish) - Dessert was a choice which the waitress told you as it depended on what they'd got that day. Usually a peice of fruit, or ice cream or a choice of cake/tart. I had tarte de manzana, which is a version of apple pie. Very nice it was too -
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Autumn
Nov 13, 2022 10:53:52 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Nov 13, 2022 10:53:52 GMT
That's lovely. And idyllic.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 11, 2022 7:35:17 GMT
Good luck. Did you work there long?
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 10, 2022 18:44:45 GMT
Abba.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 9, 2022 7:29:54 GMT
Can't you bring raw chicken on a plane?
By the way, the BBC report called it a fowl plan.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 8, 2022 18:11:40 GMT
Well done for all those things.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 7, 2022 16:21:39 GMT
1 Why do US citizens believe that their country is the best in the world when it patently is not. 2 Why do some UK citizens think they are still in the Empire and expect deferential attention. 3 Why do Aussies make a joke about everything, and shorten names and other words. Naivety and propaganda - tradition and arrogance - sunstroke. Though I've not come across number 2, maybe years ago in the 60's.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 6, 2022 20:47:34 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 6, 2022 20:34:28 GMT
I watched the Victorian, Edwardian and Wartime Farm parts.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 2, 2022 17:19:03 GMT
Valencia - 25 degrees and sunny.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 1, 2022 16:16:51 GMT
Wasn’t he Andy’s brother? Yes. Ran off to Gretna Green with Looby Loo.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 1, 2022 16:10:18 GMT
Thursday, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 24 degrees, sunny and warm. Friday, Porec, Croatia, 23 degrees, sunny and warm. Saturday, Konstanz, Germany, 24 degrees, sunny and warm. Sunday, Bonn, Germany, 23 degrees, sunny and warm. Tuesday - Just south of Valence (France) and going in the wrong direction. About 22 degrees and has been sunny all the way down from Bonn. The plan was to start the drive to Bosnia today but some shitbags have decided to break into two of the outhouses at the house in Spain. It looks currently as if little is missing (cross fingers), mainly because of they want to steal things like a mop and bucket, they're welcome. I'll be two more days getting there because Mrs M has banned me from driving straight through, the 2200km, and tells me I have to stick to truck driver's hours. Hence I now have to have a minimum of two nights in hotels. Don't know how long I'll be there for but then I'll need to drive about 3000km to get back to Bosnia.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 31, 2022 19:43:10 GMT
Tonypandy - Wales. Always loved that name.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 30, 2022 16:00:00 GMT
The skimmer you've got on the front wall, was that fitted to the old pool? I wondered what they were doing regarding emptying the pool in the first few photos until nearer the end when I realised you don't have a drain at the bottom. I see the drain is/was in the water catchment bit at the front. The next question is, I can see your pump and filter, but where now is the outlet from the pool to it and the inlet back into the pool - apart maybe from the skimmer as the only other hole I can see is for the light?
Looks really good now anyway.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 30, 2022 11:27:59 GMT
Thursday, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 24 degrees, sunny and warm. Friday, Porec, Croatia, 23 degrees, sunny and warm. Saturday, Konstanz, Germany, 24 degrees, sunny and warm. Sunday, Bonn, Germany, 23 degrees, sunny and warm.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 28, 2022 12:43:05 GMT
Quite common they are. It's a wild place.
On the other hand, he was born in Nairobi and lived there until he joined the RAF at twenty. When my parents married in 1947 they went back to live there for a few years.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 28, 2022 5:56:40 GMT
To the day he died my father would turn his shoes over and shake them before putting then on. Came from having two older brothers who took delight in putting tarantulas in them.
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Autumn
Oct 23, 2022 17:12:19 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Oct 23, 2022 17:12:19 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 22, 2022 20:13:41 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 22, 2022 19:12:22 GMT
By the way, my mistake with using en masse. It doesn't fit with the circumstances.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 22, 2022 18:10:58 GMT
You don't seem to know much about the instability of Italian politics, do you? Nope. But I know about leopards and spots. All it takes is one party to pull out of the current coalition If. It was mostly a case of national pride for the leavers who couldn't stand not being important in the EU -- or at least less important than Germany and France. Nope.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 22, 2022 16:48:03 GMT
Giorgia Meloni has already made it clear that she will not be as radical as she appeared to be - and you trust a politician when they say that? Naive at best. Foolish at worst those that accept that as truth. On a more extreme note, that's exactly what the Taliban said and in that thread on here I said they'd go back to their old ways as soon as they came into power. She will as well. The reasons for Brexit we've gone into at length, one being knowledge of how important the EU is/was for the UK but but still voting en masse to leave. Millions of people. The focus is too much on the practical aspects to understand why and seem to think they are the only reason, hence they don't understand, but practicality was not the only factor in decisions of that sort. Not by a long chalk.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 22, 2022 14:52:11 GMT
I do wonder what would have happened if Brexit never existed. I just can't see that the UK, with all that's happening due to covid/Russia/immigration etc etc wouldn't have been roughly in the same position, especially because of the standard of politicians we have. At least we didn't elect far-right leader Giorgia Meloni. I'm waiting for someone to tie that into Brexit as well.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 21, 2022 6:13:20 GMT
Had to laugh. A group of so called scientists demonstrated against climate change by gluing their hand to the floor of a Volkswagen dealership in Germany. They were extremely miffed that the staff went home at the end of the day and switched all the lights and heating off. "They refused our request to provide us with a bowl to urinate and defecate in a decent manner while we are glued, and have turned off the heating,' one of the protesters, Gianluca Grimalda, said." They couldn't order food either so they went on "hunger strike".
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 19, 2022 18:04:41 GMT
I've been getting a police one for a few years already. Nice pocket money but I couldn't live on it.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 19, 2022 14:47:57 GMT
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