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Looking at the ground surrounding the rock I'd suggest that the rock was still hot when it came to rest - darkening to the surrounding area. Wild speculation of course 

Graeme

Excellent picture on Spaceweather.com by Jan Koeman, from the Netherlands of a plane passing 'spot 720.

Now why do I miss shots like that?

Graeme

Has anyone seen any updated images of this yet? I've been searching for ages and found nothing other than "it will hit by the 15th Jan '05..."

Graeme

I'd have to agree GCNR its "Waa Waa Waa I Want It NOW!"

Seriously though, if this thread was on a newsserver at least I'd have had chance to filter it out, the title for a start its not what you'd call well written    (abusive and 2 spelling mistakes should probably give us a good idea as to the poster). Later contents of the thread could be considered racist, which is just poor form.

If people are just wanting pretty pictures to look at and make up theories about different shapes they can see in shadows, then there is no need to send probes at all - just stick an artist in a room for a few days and let them crack on. I'd rather see a few raw images to know that the camera was working and give them time to clean them properly, and we should remember that the mission was not just a disposable camera to Titan mission - but a science mission. Real science is not done by guessing then running with the first idea that comes to you, real science takes time.

Graeme

As long as people claim Kyoto is just an underhand economical attack on some countries the idea behind it will not progress any further.

Just as you can say that with an every increasing population you can not keep down CO2 emissions, you could look at it from another angle and say that with more people the effectiveness of CO2 controls could be improved.

It's too easy to keep passing the buck, eventually it has to stop somewhere, if every country keeps going "you start".... "no, you start" we'll be able to see which model on global warming is correct.

Graeme

Yes and you have subsequently posted the quote three times now - using the quote out of context is pretty bad form, and posting the same quote over and over could be classed as spamming.

Its a large jump from one person saying I don't know what to expect, to "DUCK!!!! IT'S GONNA HIT US!!!!"

Graeme

That is one of the problems with environmental issues, the idea that just because we did not directly cause it means it will not affect us in any way.

We know so little about the environment in reality that any theory at the moment could probably be made to fit the facts if you tried hard enough.

I'd rather take the stance that if we can prevent pollution as much as reasonably possible then we are already on the way to reducing global warming (if the theories are correct).

Graeme

The last time I was in a costume hire shop, you could hire Nazi uniforms, pirate costumes, cowboy outfits, KKK, grim reaper, the list goes on and on. It was bad form for him to wear the nazi uniform, sure, but I think the media as usual takes things was out of proportion. He's a young lad, that unlike me and the majority of others is making his mistakes in a very public stage - I'd have hated to make my mistakes in public like that, with every gaff photographed and plastered over the front of newspapers and on TV. You'd think he'd have a PA that would help prevent such public errors, but I don't think the lad should get so much stick for a mistake that many of us could have made.

As for Edward VIII and his abdication, it was a different time, a different era, he did what he thought was right for the crown. It does show though that people just love to point at the famous and pick faults, if he'd stayed and married, people would have been outraged and the status of the crown lessened, so he went, and people start on with conspiracies that his love life had nothing to do with him going - some times you just can't catch a break.

Graeme

Well, you learn something new every day so they say, and they're right http://www.schweich.com/sbdA.html#Para130]1st Result and very informative, though being a member of the IoP I'm more biased towards the following site http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/8/12/5/1]LINK for my info - its similar to one posted earlier.

*Shaun - The image you posted above to me does not show patterns created by differing types of sand, though I must confess until I saw this thread I'd not seen the image before, i'd almost think that the surface had been baked hard then cracked.

Graeme

The worst bit is (for me at least) on the saturday morning I was coming home from a night shift just after 6am. The route I normally take is over a bridge, as I got to the end of the bridge a van was parked up, the driver unable to get through the flood water. So I parked up nearby and thought I'd wade through the flood as my house was only a couple of miles away and the other roads were by then blocked.
I walked back across the bridge and stood next to the water I had no idea the extent of the flood in the dark with only a torch to see by but in the end I decided against the walk and looking at the pictures afterwards it was a good idea not to attempt it http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/im … l?45]IMAGE LINK

I did get the shakes afterwards when they said on the radio that the bridge may have moved due to the flood - and I was standing on it trying to pick a route.

Cowardice does have its rewards some times!

Graeme

Four days of local radio - arghhh!!!

Due to recent storms we spent just over four days without electricity - cooking over a coal fire is fun for about two seconds! You can cope with stuff like that, but why oh why does the loca radio think it has to announce the schools open/closed due to the storms every half hour (it takes nearly that long to list them all) - we just got power in time to watch Deep Impact take off, but I missed it (think it was the excitement of running round turning lights on and off )

Normal service will now be resumed I hope :blues:

Graeme

It's been slow over the Christmas/New Year period but I don't think it signifies the end of New Mars. Many forums/newsgroups have been quiet over this time. But the truth is many forums/newsgroups go through periods that are quieter than others, I don't think it means they are nearing their end.
Anyway if the discussion is good, does it matter? I'd rather see a good discussion with only a few posts than a poor discussion with hundreds of posts

Graeme