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"Big Ideas by the Sea promised talks and activities on "big issues that should concern everyone", organisers said."
"Inside the re-creation, visitors will find a floating museum documenting the galleons' history of exporting fruits, salt and cargo."
""We set out to explore, debate and champion positive change related to the big environmental issues that concern us all on a personal, local, global and intergenerational level," a festival spokesperson said."
"In a statement on social media, Dorset Council said: "This amazing tall ship is docked and ready for visitors. Bring your sea legs and climb aboard, land lubbers."
"The Big Apple may be the city that never sleeps but it is a city that certainly sinks, subsiding by approximately 1-2mm each year on average, with some areas of New York City plunging at double this rate, according to researchers."
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/may/19/15-tips-on-how-to-have-a-...
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A Point of Origin
Submitted by Captain Qahn on
Bellatrix?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCjMZ3nUfqw
It's basic astronomy, ffs.... albeit of an antipodean kind.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/19/mps-london-elites-...
Do Keep Up ;-))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3h7xz558EY
Best not mention Curtains.
"Nasa is already working with Elon Musk's SpaceX firm on a descent system based on its novel Starship rocket that will touch down as early as 2025.
It has now also awarded Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos a contract to build a landing craft to take a crew down to the lunar surface later this decade.
His Blue Origin company will produce a more conventional-looking vehicle."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65635005
Pottering.
""It is not static, and you are just not going to out-pace that incoming tide.""
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8v7e6628no
""The facts are there have been two surveys of the Cliff Lift and one site visit by Anglo-American, and all of the findings are very largely the same.""
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/whitby-cliff-lift-could...
Nope, it's defo some ancient kinda North Korean rocket launcher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5PBpbCQFH8&ab_channel=corine57
Best get Cracking.
A Desk to Paint
Submitted by Captain Qahn on
"If all this isn’t enough to make you want to jump on to a billionaire’s spaceship to Mars and exit civilisation forever, now the UK government is involved in your hot mess."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQkLGamKKAg
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jul/09/twelve-culture-secretari...
"One of the extraordinary things about cabinet reshuffles is that nobody is ever asked what they’d like to do or where their skills might lead them.”
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/uks-richest-gypsy-makes...
""Sea Breeze is a park that we bought that had no investment in it. When you're doing a park like that it's very important that you go on there and see some of the residents old and new."
""The people in the North East are real sort of salt-of-the-earth people. For that sort of reason - I'm from a very poor working class family myself, I'm a gypsy so I was born in a caravan - when I'm dealing with working class people, I'm dealing with people that have got the same heart as myself."
During his flying visit, Alfie oversaw works to modernise Sea Breeze Park and spoke with some of the residents living at the site about ongoing work. He even made some time to grab a quick chippy tea before flying off back home to his Surrey mansion."
Keep Smiling... ;-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTymtAbaG08
Sleep Tight.
'Snub Nosed'
Submitted by Captain Qahn on
"With newer multi-view scanning technology, security officials can view the bag from multiple angles to discern whether something is being covered up, or made to look like something else."
"But it can be stressful, and occasionally animals become seriously unwell or die (and in rare cases have escaped and been lost)."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/16/labour-changes-lit...
"AI seems to be all around us lately, and it may also have a role to play in the future."
"So is sleep the canary in the coalmine, a clue to the health of our minds?"
Whats-your-pdoom-ai-researchers-worry-catastrophe?
"On touchdown, the flight was met by biosecurity officials who transported the newly arrived pets to the quarantine facility to serve their mandatory quarantine time."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_tfihRqBnI
"The “p” stands for probability. The “doom” component is more subjective but it generally refers to a sophisticated and hostile AI, acting beyond human control."
Snakes on a Plane.
Hmmm ...
Erm how do you lose a dog on a Jet?
"Mr Shaddock embarked on his more than 6,000km-long (3,728-mile) voyage from Mexico's city of La Paz - but soon became stranded after his vessel's electronics were cut off by bad weather."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-66216191
Never, Mind.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/17/mystery-object-wa...
That's a rather large Parrot...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-74697280-e684-43c5-a782-29e9d11...
"“It is very interesting though, and is a way regular everyday people can get close to space, as often these things turn into souvenirs. People like to keep some space junk.”"
Sleep Tight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLH1l7jOWOw
"A cold or hot mint brew is great for cooling you down, as the natural menthol stimulates cool receptors in the body. It’s also a very low maintenance herb to grow on a windowsill or patch of back garden."
'Eucalyptus Recurva'
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"Wanted: highly motivated leaders willing to work in one of the harshest environments in the world.
The successful candidates will oversee teams in extremely remote locations where temperatures can plunge below minus-40 degrees Celsius. They'll live in close quarters with the same colleagues they manage each day, including in the peak of winter, when darkness persists for weeks on end."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-02/tas-antarctic-station-leader-how-...
"Given the timing of the site visit, the majority of vegetation was in full leaf. Views are therefore not representative of the ‘worst case’ in terms of visual conditions and the potential visibility of the scheme would be greater in winter."
"It owes its tenuous survival to the fact that it grows on what farmers might've once called 'rubbish country', shallow rocky soil that sheep and cattle avoid."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66979798
"The appraisal does not consider cumulative effects of other developments."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC2WpBcdM_A
"This is the rarest eucalypt in Australia, we've only got six known plants. I think it would be fantastic in people's gardens."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJTk64tzduQ
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/02/rivers-of-the-sea-h...
"Nevertheless, some people still believe the conspiracy theory that he really secretly rendezvoused with a Chinese submarine. Rips just don’t get any respect."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIPzucr7pLs
A 'Theme of Hobbies'
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"Once upon a time, there was a bridge. Some say it was built by fairies."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-67243087
“It lasted about four or five weeks before the National Trust took it down in a dawn raid,” says Ian Curtis. “The police were informed. But, of course, the fairies were watching and they put another one up. A better one this time, which is much harder to take down.”"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-67193789
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9JZWhjQDvc
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/28/michael-heseltine-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsXioRxVGO8
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/23880654.alixpartners-produces-final-re...
Cast No Shadow.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/29/artificial-intelli...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azdwsXLmrHE
'Cosmic Prospects'
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"If you're reading this, it means the global web of undersea communications cables is working."
"Almost everything you say, do, or see online on any device travels the globe as pulses of light flashing through undersea fibre-optic cables."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/17/democracys-super-bowl-40-e...
"It's the most important infrastructure you've never seen, forming the basis of everything from text messages and social media posts to our transport, health, education and financial systems."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYKYvmiQiDs
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-18/undersea-internet-cables-a-hotspo...
""If you really want to turn it off, it's not hard technically to disconnect a country or a region from the internet," he said."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBSyx85Kp8&list=PLOhV0FrFphUdVzceTbFDsk...
"You might have heard that to power the global energy transition we're going to need to increase the mining of key metals required to build solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPFAYIr8z2I
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-12-13/renewable-transition-impa...
"In Total Non-Recall, Sunak plays Dick, a man who has all his memories removed, but instead of being replaced with other memories, they are replaced by an endless loop of the phrase “I don’t recall” and a photo of a man touching a woman’s bum from the front of a Jilly Cooper novel. And it ain’t over ’til the fat lady’s head explodes!"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/17/rishi-sunak-supers...
Fact Checking... ;0
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/1165970.big-beautiful/
"... some take it very seriously while others see the funny side."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/19/tolkien-and-cs-lewis-manus...
lol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0ff9dvh/ten-pound-poms-series-1-e...