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I do like to get out and take pics.

Not a shark movie but I enjoyed In the Heart of the Sea with Chris Hemsworth. The true story that inspired the novel Moby @Devil-Dick Willie

Echo that! some nice pics there

Nice pics @Rick.

It seems that like most films sometimes you have a great idea that's badly executed on low budget or a big budget film with great special effects that is as boring as fuck and I would put 'Deep Blue Sea' and 'The Meg' somewhere in between the 2 as not great by any stretch but very watchable but the truth is it's very hard to replicate the classics like Jaws.. That semi drunk tale of how all those sailors lost their lives to Tiger Sharks for example and the classic.. "We're gonna to need a bigger boat" stands the test of time no matter how old it gets.. I mean you compare any of the above with the likes of Sharknado, Two headed Shark Attack and Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus and you can see why we are all starved of something that can fill that decent shark film gap..

You might want to check out 500px. It's basically the same photo sharing concept as Instagram, but solely for photographers (all levels, from the very beginners to pros with amazing portfolios), so you don't get stupid influencers, advertisers and whatnot. They also run numerous photography challenges and quests regularly. If you wish, you can also license your photos with them and sell them that way.

Thinking of doing a 30 day photography challenge to keep my creativity up during this lockdown. Started a new Insta recently just for my photos so might do it on there. The cat seems to be a good enough subject...

NASA has released the Artemis Accords, a set of principles for international Moon exploration. https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-accords/index.html

Devil-Dick Willie

What do you do and what does your house have in it? I need interior photos, exterior photos, nudes, ect ect

In working from home I'd have to say: I've never been busier or more productive. I've never been less physically active I interact with a much smaller circle of employees than in the office. I love being able to take my kids out for a bike ride in my lunch break The high point that comes at the end of the week, with Friday being a social lunch at work, and talk of beers after, and generally being psyched about the weekend has all disappeared.

Same. Knew we had something in common Also, one of the best things about working from home isn't even the work anyway. It's so fucking good to be able to watch all the sport tournaments usually in summer without feeling guilty Yeah some roles lend themselves to always being in the office or having capability to do it or not. The company needs to have infrastructures to do it as well. No use asking everyone to work from home when you need to access work systems but connectivity through work VPNs are rubbish (had that experience many a time). Ironically, the logistics of it all need to be adequate enough to sustain that productivity the company would want...

Mars: Mudflows on Red Planet behave like 'boiling toothpaste' Scientists have made a surprising discovery about Mars by playing with muck in the laboratory. An international team of researchers wondered how volcanoes that spew mud instead of molten rock might look on the Red Planet compared with their counterparts here on Earth. In chamber experiments, simulated Martian mudflows were seen to behave a bit like boiling toothpaste. Under certain conditions, the fluid even began to bounce. The mucky gunge resembled a certain type of lava referred to as "pahoehoe", which is observed at Hawaii's famous Kīlauea volcano. The research results could now complicate some investigations at the Red Planet, believes study lead Dr Petr Brož from the Czech Academy of Sciences' Institute of Geophysics. "You'll look at some features [from space] and you won't know for sure whether they are the result of lava flows or mudflows. "Without a geologist on the ground to hit them with a hammer, it will be hard to tell," he told BBC News. For a long time, Dr Brož had a sceptical view about mud volcanoes on Mars. The phenomena are well known here on Earth, but he'd actually spent several years trying to disprove an interpretation that large numbers of conical forms on the Red Planet might also be the same thing. Eventually, he came around to the idea, and that led him to wonder how mud - if it really does spew from the ground on Mars - would behave in the extreme cold and low-pressure conditions that persist there. This took him to Dr Manish Patel and his team at the UK's Open University. They have a special chamber that can recreate the Martian environment. It's the kind of set-up in which equipment destined to go on a space agency rover would be tested. And although ordinarily every effort would be made to keep the chamber spotlessly clean, the researchers soon found themselves tipping experimental muddy fluids down a sandy slope. Under "Earth conditions", these muddy mixes behave as you would expect: they're smooth like gravy poured on to a dinner plate. But under "Martian conditions", the mud progresses via a series of ropy and jagged lobes. It all comes down to how the low pressure - 150 times less than the pressure of Earth's atmosphere - makes water rapidly evaporate, boil and ultimately freeze. "The skin on the fluid freezes, but this flow is thick enough that the inside remains fluid," explained Dr Patel. "So the skin will stop the flow for a bit, but then the momentum from the fluid inside breaks through at weak points in the skin, and the flow propagates forward. It's just like pahoehoe, except that's molten rock. But again, it's a cooling skin that forms before hot material bursts through." And although ordinarily every effort would be made to keep the chamber spotlessly clean, the researchers soon found themselves tipping experimental muddy fluids down a sandy slope. Under "Earth conditions", these muddy mixes behave as you would expect: they're smooth like gravy poured on to a dinner plate. But under "Martian conditions", the mud progresses via a series of ropy and jagged lobes. It all comes down to how the low pressure - 150 times less than the pressure of Earth's atmosphere - makes water rapidly evaporate, boil and ultimately freeze. "The skin on the fluid freezes, but this flow is thick enough that the inside remains fluid," explained Dr Patel. "So the skin will stop the flow for a bit, but then the momentum from the fluid inside breaks through at weak points in the skin, and the flow propagates forward. It's just like pahoehoe, except that's molten rock. But again, it's a cooling skin that forms before hot material bursts through." The team reports its initial experiments in a paper in the journal Nature Geoscience. Not captured in this publication are subsequent experiments in which the flows were repeated for a "hot day" on Mars. There are places where it can get as high as 20C for short periods. In this scenario, the mud boiled vigorously in the low pressure; "it was jumping over the surface as if levitating," said Dr Brož. The team's work should be a reminder to scientists that when they look at planetary bodies, physical processes can sometimes produce unexpected outcomes, he added. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52713131

I love working from home and wouldn't change it for anything else. Granted, it's not for everyone, but for me, it's the best thing ever.

Thankfully my job lends itself to quiet and very long periods working alone, so WFH suits me for now. That said, I am not anticipating being formally asked back to the office before autumn, by which point I probably will have gone spare.

Working from home is fucking shite.

Reminds me of this: