CaaC (John)

Not long now where wee Avacado joins Puddin & Banana Bobbie as soul mates.

He's got a habit of vanishing for a year and then suddenly returning again.

He is an Arsenal supporter Which football team does Lewis Hamilton support? Hamilton is an Arsenal fan and has been since he was six years old, when his sister (Samantha Lockhart), playfully chided him into supporting the Gunners https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/which-football-team-does-lewis-hamilton-support/bltbe0fdf3ed7de9579

While you’re whizzing underneath Westminster on your way to work, or jumping on the Jubilee line for a few stops to meet a friend, do you ever pause and remember that you’re travelling on the oldest transport network in the world? It’s wild to think that, back on January 10 1863, Londoners hopped on the world’s first underground railway – the Metropolitan Railway – from Paddington to Farringdon. Back then, it was powered by steam and only had seven stops, including Paddington (Bishop’s Road), Edgware Road, Baker Street, Portland Road (now Great Portland Street), Gower Street (now Euston Square), King’s Cross (now King’s Cross St Pancras) and Farringdon Street (now Farringdon). Now, the London Underground serves 272 stations on 11 lines. Revisit some of the landmark moments in the Tube’s 160-year history. 1863 The London Underground opens as the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon as a way of reducing street congestion 1890 With the opening of the City and South London Railway, the Underground becomes the world’s first deep-level Tube service powered by electricity 1915 Maida Vale opens, staffed entirely by women 1933 All of London’s public transport comes under public ownership and Harry Beck produces the now-iconic Tube map 1979 The Jubilee line opens, which required careful tunnelling beneath central London 2003 The first Oyster card is tapped. Fun fact, the name is inspired by the security and value of the cards being like the hard shell and concealed pearl 2016 One for the night owls: all-night weekend services begin! 2020 TfL Go, the nifty app that helps countless Londoners plan their trips based on TfL data, is introduced, allowing them to check their journeys in real time on the move 2021 The Northern line is extended to Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms 2023 Bank station will complete its major upgrade in early 2023, increasing capacity by 40 percent https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/celebrate-the-tubes-160th-birthday-with-an-epic-treasure-hunt?fbclid=IwAR0qI2c2CIdgGIgBa2ewvHovmuZ_HZuFO4TeBMEorX4bIeBS8eBe_PwpcJ4

Just watched it on a stream, not bad, I liked the end bit.

Well, the Met reckons there is another type of 'Beast from the East' heading our way sometime this week, looks like we had a snow flurry last night but cold and sunny so far this morning, just waiting for the Beast, now if it arrives.

A little teeny, weeny one breaking into a house but one that size, fuck that...

Welcome aboard @Indegermany, great to have you aboard, and don't worry, your English is better than mine You should, if you want, pop in HERE and tell us a little bit about yourself, what part of Chile you are from, etc, anyway, keep posting.

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This artist’s conception shows a late-stage galaxy merger and its two newly-discovered central black holes. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), M. Koss et al (Eureka Scientific), S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF). The astronomers, announcing their discovery at an American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle on January 9, believe the finding will help estimate how many other SMBHs elsewhere in the universe are coming close to a collision. Such improved surveys of SMBH collisions will aid in efforts to detect gravitational waves – ripples in the very fabric of spacetime caused by intense gravitational events. Study co-author Chiara Mingarelli, a research scientist at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York City, says the short distance between the SMBHs “is fairly close to the limit of what we can detect, which is why this is so exciting.” Astronomers were forced to use seven different telescopes to differentiate between the two goliaths, including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The bright stars, and luminous gas and dust surrounding the black holes makes them undetectable directly using optical telescopes. But the pair was found soon after the search commenced, suggesting close-together SMBHs “are probably more common than we think, given that we found these two and we didn’t have to look very far to find them,” Mingarelli adds. This suggests to Mingarelli and her team that the first ever detection of gravitational wave “background babble” from all the SMBH collisions going on in the universe may come “very soon.” Previously, observations of merging galaxies showed only one SMBH because the central black holes are too close together to tell them apart using one telescope. The new survey of galactic mergers combined 12 observations made using seven different telescopes on Earth and in orbit. “It’s important that with all these different images, you get the same story – that there are two black holes,” says Mingarelli. “This is where other studies [of close-proximity supermassive black holes] have fallen down in the past. When people followed them up, it turned out that there was just one black hole. [This time we] have many observations, all in agreement.” https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/supermassive-black-hole-closest-collision/

The main board is playing up when you first click it but I normally click in the top right hand corner catagories >default and all the old emojis appear. mind you I noticed in the American State Game links are playing up too