CaaC (John)

Astronomy Picture of the Day 2021 August 9 Perseus and the Lost Meteors Image Credit & Copyright: Tomas Slovinsky (Slovakia) & Petr Horalek (Czech Republic; Institute of Physics in Opava) Explanation: What's the best way to watch a meteor shower? This question might come up later this week when the annual Perseid Meteor Shower peaks. One thing that is helpful is a dark sky, as demonstrated in the featured composite image of last year's Perseids. Many more faint meteors are visible on the left image, taken through a very dark sky in Slovakia, than on the right image, taken through a moderately dark sky in the Czech Republic. The band of the Milky Way Galaxy bridges the two coordinated images, while the meteor shower radiant in the constellation of Perseus is clearly visible on the left. In sum, many faint meteors are lost through a bright sky. Light pollution is shrinking areas across our Earth with dark skies, although inexpensive ways to combat this might be implemented. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Disintegates, dissolves in the tube or maybe @Batard has got that alian from Mars in his Mafia game and can make things vanish.

You beat me to it.

Sabrina (1995) - Harrison Ford - Comedy/Drama/Romance - 8/10 So used to see Harrison in films like Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Arc etc but this re-make from 1954 (Bogart & Hepburn) had me and the wife having a wee laugh here and there, quite enjoyed it.

Buddy the Gecko having her afternoon stroll, the daughter let her out of her glass air-conditioned enclosured to stretch her legs plus she is shedding her old skin, she will soon have a playmate with wee Puddin when he arrives. She even likes watching tv.

Puddin coming on well, ordered this for our daughter as a present for the kitten.

But this is only the start. Over the next few years, EMU will use the ASKAP telescope to explore even deeper in the Universe, building on these discoveries and finding more. All the data from EMU will eventually be placed in the public domain, so that astronomers from around the world can mine the data and make new discoveries. But don’t take my word for it. You can already use EMU Pilot Survey data to explore the radio sky yourself, using the zoomable image on our website. Use your mouse wheel to zoom in from the big picture down to the finest details, and see what you find. Perhaps you may even discover something there that the astronomers have missed. https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/dancing-ghosts-emu-project/

The bit where she was sitting at the table, got her fork to poke at a pudding whatever then an eyeball popped out looking at her and then blood everywhere, the wife had just took a bite of her toast with jam she just made when that happened and she nearly choked on it, I fucking pissed myself laughing.

Drag me to hell (2009) - Horror - 4/10 More of a laugh than anything else, some bits made you laugh when they were supposed to make you scared which the wife did and kept jumping out of her seat, but she chose the film and didn't want to admit it was not up to much.

Nice one @Rab, just noticed this in the top right hand corner Chose a Gif which is showing or just type in what kind of Gif you are looking for and bingo, I typed in Space and this popped up with more options.

Brilliant, these animals are more intelligent than the animals called human beings with brains in their feet who run around knifing people and what not. I am not one for zoo's I am afraid and the last time I went to a zoo was when I was in the PTA at the primary school when our son & daughter were wee nippers, their school, and I helped out when they arranged the the school to go for a visit to Edinburgh Zoo. When you see wild animals in glass enclosurs just staring at us humans breaks my heart as their freedom of movement is around a grass field no bigger than a football pitch.

Hit Scotland buddy, that won't go a miss, drop off in Edinbuegh and have a tour of Edinburgh Castle and have a look at the Edinburgh Ghost & Vampire underground tours, our daughter went there with her eldest son Connor and she said it was scary but they both enjoyed the experience. https://www.getyourguide.com/edinburgh-vaults-l8843/the-original-underground-tour-edinburgh-t47520/ Or, something I have always wanted to see which the wife has years ago, I have only been to mini ones around here but the big ones with the Tossing of the Caber would be brilliant. https://www.highlandexplorertours.com/1-day-tours/highland-games

Gives me the heebie-jeebies reading anything like that, they must have a plan b if anything goes wrong and could risk the space station's crew life threatening danger where they could launch a rescue mission. I know that is only like watching a movie on anything like that but how many times have we been through a scenario where they said "That could never happen, that's only for the movies..." and it happens, they say it takes a disaster to happen to stop another one happening, as I said, that gave me the heebie-jeebies reading that.

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The wife always picks beautiful flowers but seeing she worked in a florist as a manager years ago I can understand why, but I am thinking about buying some artists paints and brushes and paint a picture of these below, that was one of strongest subjects when at school and was given a chance to go to an art college but turned it down as our old man had left home at that time and I had to stay and get a job and look after my mum, wee sister and brother who was handicapped.