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I am bloody knackered.... thought I had got away with doing some stuff round the house for a few days given I can't get the supplies I need only to find out the missus had put me forward in my absence to paint next doors house!! Just finished putting everything away.. ache like fuck... She asked me how much and I jokingly told her £2,000 per side and she panicked and said she only wanted the front doing so I said it would take at least 3 coats...

I've seen shooting stars on a few occasions but how fucking insane would it be to see this with your own eyes

Finished it last night... decent ending, as it should be. Thought they might have left a little hanger for hopes of a possible 3rd season but as you say it was not to be... Still, glad they got to see it through even if it was just the 2 seasons..

Good to see the Government being pro-active in putting people that come in to the country in isolation for 14 days or face fines and possible deportation.... The new measures are going to be in force sometime in June a little over 5 months after the outbreak first started.. and 3 months after everyone else had implemented it.. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/all-arrivals-to-britain-will-be-quarantined-for-two-weeks-and-face-£1000-fines-or-deportation-if-they-break-rules-which-will-be-enforced-by-spot-checks/ar-BB13Opcj?ocid=spartanntp I am going to start a twitter page where I want everyone in the country to come out on a Saturday night and slow hand clap the Government for it's appalling handling of the whole thing... "Exemplar of preparedness" my fucking arse..

Scientists obtain 'lucky' image of Jupiter Astronomers have produced a remarkable new image of Jupiter, tracing the glowing regions of warmth that lurk beneath the gas giant's cloud tops. The picture was captured in infrared by the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii and is one of the sharpest observations of the planet ever made from the ground. To achieve the resolution, scientists used a technique called "lucky imaging" which scrubs out the blurring effect of looking through Earth's turbulent atmosphere. This method involves acquiring multiple exposures of the target and only keeping those segments of an image where that turbulence is at a minimum. When all the "lucky shots" are put together in a mosaic, a clarity emerges that's beyond just the single exposure. Planet Jupiter's winds run deep Jupiter Great Red Spot has deep roots Infrared is a longer wavelength than the more familiar visible light detected by the likes of the Hubble telescope. It is used to see past the haze and thin clouds at the top of Jupiter's atmosphere, to give scientists the opportunity to probe deeper into the planet's internal workings. Researchers want to understand better what makes and sustains the gas giant's weather systems, and in particular the great storms that can rage for decades and even centuries. The study that produced this infrared image was led from the University of California at Berkeley. It was part of a joint programme of observations that involved Hubble and the Juno spacecraft that's currently orbiting the fifth planet from the Sun. Fast facts about Jupiter Jupiter is 11 times wider than Earth and 300 times more massive It takes 12 Earth years to orbit the Sun; a 'day' is 10 hours long In composition it resembles a star; it's mostly hydrogen and helium Under pressure, the hydrogen assumes a state similar to a metal This 'metallic hydrogen' could be the source of the magnetic field Most of the visible cloud tops contain ammonia and hydrogen sulphide Jupiter's low-latitude 'bands' play host to very strong east-west winds The Great Red Spot is a giant storm vortex wider than Planet Earth https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52587488

Inspired by watching The Beach the other day

Going to have to decide what to call @DeadLinesman now out of Mouchards, Chivatos, or Spitzel???

Just watched a programme about the Hubble Telescope from a couple weeks ago. Charting it's first journey in 1983 and the first pictures of Eagle Nebula - the largest pillar is 30trillion km high, which 1000x the diameter of the solar system & Horsehead Nebula. Sheer stunning imagery. Such pure pictures and vivid scenes. They're so colourful and surreal. It really is amazing the work that would have gone in to it, and still does, is fascinating. And it's even more special given at that time, even in 1980s, technology was not as advances as it is now. The minds that would have worked on such missions decades ago were so powerful to create such a vehicle to get in to space and relay these pictures back with such clarity and precision. And then it went searching for the Black Hole! I didn't even know there were more than one to such a scale. I thought it was just that one massive black hole that everyone talks about and that's it. It's actually very brave and daring all these missions up to the telescope they create and execute, even if it's just to do running repairs on this giant piece of machinery, as if it was a general fix on your TV or something. Just casually go up in to space and replace a bit of kit with a more advanced piece of tech . It's just mind-blowing.