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A thread concerning both aviation and space flight coupled together with the branch of science which deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole. The Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is set to fall to Earth over this weekend. The latest from the European Space Agency (ESA) predicts 1615 hrs GMT on Sunday 1st April 2018 plus or minus nine hours. This tracker is continuously updated to show the current position and height as the orbit decays. When Skylab fell to Earth in 1979 a $400 littering ticket was issued by a park service official in Western Australia; apparently it still hasn’t been paid and has been written off. Useful Sites Heavens-Above is a website developed and maintained by Chris Peat as Heavens-Above GmbH. The web site is dedicated to helping people observe and track satellites orbiting the Earth without the need for optical equipment such as binoculars or telescopes. It provides detailed star charts showing the trajectory of the satellites against the background of the stars as seen during a pass. Special attention is paid to the ISS, Iridium flares and other satellites. Space shuttle missions were tracked until the program was retired in July 2011. The website also offers information on currently visible comets, asteroids, planet details, and other miscellaneous information. N2YO provides real time tracking and pass predictions with orbital paths and footprints overlaid on Google Maps.It features an alerting system that automatically notifies users via SMS and/or email before International Space Station crosses the local sky. The N2YO.com system powers ESA's, Space.com's and many other's satellite tracking web pages. NASA Lunar Eclipse Explorer computes the local circumstances for every lunar eclipse for any century from 2000 BC to 3000 AD. Forget about city etc, just enter your latitude and longitude as a decimal. NASA Solar Eclipse Explorer computes the local circumstances for every solar eclipse for any century from 1500 BC to 3000 AD. Again, forget about city etc, just enter your latitude and longitude as a decimal. International Space Station Transit Finder calculates when the ISS transits across the face of the sun and moon from a position near you. Don’t forget your solar filters if you’re looking at the sun. Telescope.org is where you can request The Open University’s automated telescope on Mount Teide, Tenerife to take a photograph for you. Airliners.net is an aviation website that includes an extensive photo database of aircraft and airports, as well as a forum catering to civil and military aviation together with spaceflights. If you have any questions, please ask and I’ll do my best to answer them.

Good luck to Sean. Would say well played but we were both Shite

Happy 111th to our seemingly indestructible pal

Statistically, you and Sean have the best defence so far. 0 conceded in 2 rounds so far. DDT has 0 in 1 round. Most Conceded 1. Dead Cow 13 2. Heef 9 3. Sir Creep 6 4. Joey 6 5. Deadsox 6 6. Sean 0 7. DDT 0 8. YWillz 0 Most Scored 1. Dead Cow 26 2. Sir Creep 17 3. Joey 13 4. Heef 10 5. Sean 9 6. Deadsox 7 7. DDT 6 8. YWillz 4 So The Dead Cow is basically Klopp's Liverpool here.

Note we have a new player entering for April - ebless. The way I worked it with the last new entry was I said that they could play, bringing the total pool of entries up to 21, but only the first 20 to get their teams in each month would play for that month. I would be reluctant to bring in another newcomer except that I suspect that we have at least one or 2 players who may have dropped out (E Souza and madhatter 2) as they sat out last month, and maybe even a third. So I think we can let ebless in and still stay within our 20. Any objections?

Yo....someone tell Dead Sox to get off all my entries lol. Damn....we got like half each other's team. Great minds or two dummies, time will tell. SC

Decided to give some thoughts on some of the picks for this round: Anzaki - went from 4 picks the first round to 5 the second round. Now it's reduced to 3 in round 3. He's gonna be the deciding pick in the finals round, isn't he? Blanco - Charon was the only one who went for her in the first two rounds. With him out (and not even picking her this time anyways), DDT picks up the unique for her. Maybe April is the time she goes... Bracknell - Went from 4 picks last round to 3; the two survivors who also had her last time and myself. Thought she might've been on one or two more though, as she sounded quite pessimistic in her two most recent interviews, and she usually was optimistic. Cappotelli - Once again, Sean is the only person who kept faith in him from previous round. Maybe his consistent support will finally pay off. Clegg - Another one that Sean has been the only person who kept consistent support in all three rounds, and his latest news wasn't exactly the best news, though he might be a bit early Da-Ren - Went from 0 to 4 to 5, the most selected person this round. Don't know which sod revealed that he was in a three day coma according to foreign sources though. Jose Jose - Went from 11 picks to 2. Clearly a reaction to him not being as ill as thought. Jowell - Now a unique for YoungWilz. And she's one month closer to expiring from brain cancer still. Lynott - 9 picks to 3 to none. The remaining people who picked her last time has either been eliminated or now has now pushed her to the side in favor of better picks. Mack - Has each match gone down one less team, and now he's a unique for deadsox. Hm, I somehow get the feeling he might be on no teams , and not necessarily because no one picks him when he's still living. Manan - Jumped from a unique from last round to three teams, the person who picked her last month and two people from the same tie. McCain - Went from 8 to 5 to 2, and only DDT kept faith in him from the people who moved on to the next round. McCormick - One of those picks that jumped from nowhere to 3 picks, and part of that was because my research didn't pick him up. His situation certainly sounds dire. Moss - msc was surprised when he was only on 4 teams last match. Now he's a unique for Heef. Obyashi - Went from 2 people in round 1 to 3 in round 2 on 5 separate teams. Now the only person out of those 5 who picked him in the last two rounds that broke into the quarterfinals has now chosen him as a unique. Rae - Was somehow a unique for msc last round. Now she's somehow a unique for me. What do you know sometimes? Shore - Was a unique for two people in past rounds, and neither of them made it through. Now she's on 3 teams. Must've been some tweets asking for prayers Skripal - Went from nowhere to four teams. Personally his daughters recovery made me turn away from him, but maybe they made the right call on him. Stefansson - The first round saw him on three teams, who all exited the cup. The next round also saw him on three teams, this time they all broke through. Now he's on four teams, and his outlook certainly doesn't look good. Vento - Went from 1 to 4 picks. Now only two people picked him, and it's the same two that made it to next round that picked him last time. Wilkins - The other pick who went from nowhere to half the teams, and it's not really looking good for him right now... Vervoort - Went from all 16 teams to only 2 teams. Clearly a reaction to articles that might've pointed her to a potential fraud.

Shoulda got a Scenic

You are the best! Can't wait to check all the links out. Hope you got to enjoy the lineup of planets early March and our rare blue moon x2 already.

What I will say is that all 8 teams have major potential, so, imo, everyone has a chance to make it to the semifinals...

WTF, no I loved him in Street Fighter

Quarterfinals masterlist 2018 1. Mahmoud Abbas – Joey 2. Le Duc Anh - Joey 3. Satoru Anzaki – Dead Cow, Heef, Deadsox 4. Pope Benedict XVI – Ywillz 5. David O Belcher - Deadsox 6. Leonard Bighetty – Heef 7. Wolfgang Bosbach - Sean 8. Kathleen Blanco – DDT 9. Leah Bracknell – Heef, Sean, Joey 10. Colin Butts – Sean 11. Matt Cappotelli - Sean 12. Orlando Cepeda – Ywillz 13. Johnny Clegg - Sean 14. Fu Da-Ren – Sir Creep, Dead Cow, Heef, Deadsox, Joey 15. Bishop David Foley – Sir Creep, DDT 16. Dean Francis - Sean 17. Steve Gleason - Sean 18. John Hileman – Sir Creep 19. John Hume – Ywillz 20. Clive James – Ywillz 21. Jose Jose – DDT, Deadsox 22. Tessa Jowell – Ywillz 23. Chris Kirubi - DDT 24. Dilip Kumar - YWillz 25. Li Lijuan – Sir Creep 26. Peter Lorimer - Joey 27. Ted Mack - Deadsox 28. Azreen Manan – Sir Creep, Dead Cow, Joey 29. John McCain – Ywillz, DDT 30. Fergie McCormick – DDT, Dead Cow, Heef 31. D Mc3w3n – Sir Creep 32. Stirling Moss - Heef 33. Dennis Nash – Heef 34. Nobuhiko Obayashi – Joey 35. Lyle Odelein - Joey 36. Manohar Parrikar - Sean 37. Sidney Poitier – Ywillz 38. Charlotte Rae - Joey 39. John R Reid - Heef 40. Lindy Remigino – Dead Cow 41. Simon Ricketts – Sean 42. Nanci Ryder - Sean 43. Mitzi Shore – Ywillz, Dead Cow, Deadsox 44. Doug Silsbee – Dead Cow 45. Sergei Skripal – DDT, Dead Cow, Heef, Sean 46. Stefan Karl Stefansson – Ywillz, DDT, Dead Cow, Deadsox 47. Nobby Stiles - YWillz 48. Nabi Tajima – Sir Creep, Deadsox 49. Ernie Thacker – Sir Creep, Deadsox 50. Gary Thibodeau – Sir Creep 51. U Tin Oo - DDT 52. ND Tiwari – Sir Creep, Dead Cow 53. Ray Wilkins – DDT, Dead Cow, Heef, Joey 54. Mike Willesee – DDT 55. Vader - Joey 56. Joe Vento – Sir Creep, Deadsox 57. Marieke Vervoort – Heef, deadsox

Ha! The one where Wendy Richard thought she'd see 2013 and Arthur Fowler was dead.

Anyhow on the topic of Doctor Who, I do hope @themaninblack comes back at some point.

Especially for you?

Out of soon-to-be 42 people, we have two matches. The first match came at nr. 29. We have 9 September birthdays and only one in December. Both matches were in September. Second most-frequent month is August with 6 birthdays. So I'm pretty sure that the zodiac sign Virgo is the most frequent one. And as astrology says, Virgos like to categorize, to get things into order. Oh, and famous deaths on my birthday: RIch Piana (that's why I could easily remember that August 25th was such a deathless day...), Neil Armstrong, Ted Kennedy, the woman R Kelly peed on.

Liv loses: court rules Feud did not slander her by having her played by a Welsh woman who has to suck an old man's cock.

American guitarist Harvey Mandel (who played in Woodstock with Canned Heat etc.) is 73. Starting in 2013, Harvey began undergoing what was to become dozens of operations for cancer and is "succeeding in his fight"

Right. Vernee X , the 4/64 gig version. Cost £121 at the time, didn't get customs but for the first time a vat charge via the Royal Mail. £6.32 + £8 handling charge so total was £136. Fine. Still waiting on Oreo update but I'm not fussed, might fix some bugs that are reported tho, but as I'd want to put on a different ROM anyways to get rid of the Google apps, I can wait. It really is literally a stock android, hence only google Shite, but choice of keyboards which are easy to toggle. Play is pre installed..... Camera seems fine to my eyes, and the two front/ two back setup I honestly can't tell on photos, but I'm not putting them on a bigger screen so fuck knows if beneficial. Screen is gorgeous size, and looks good in playback of films etc. Sound was, as is common, quiet. 'But' as its a mediatek chip I know the engineers mode. Enter *#*#3646633#*#* into the phone keypad as if making a call, scroll to audio and change the settings for headphone, speaker, and headphone+speaker, from 124 to the max which is 160. Save each time, exit, and audio level is perfect. Standard stuff for phones. Battery life. Lol. Fucking great. Been off charge since @ 3am, downloaded lots which chews battery, watched an hour at max brightness plus a good bit of youtube and browsed a few hours. Still at 42%. I honestly don't know how long to charge from flat as it isn't an issue. Stick on charge at bedtime and 3 hours later its full, and even if you're stuck, 20 mins charge would get it hours of use (fast charge ramps it early then tails off). There are fast charge power banks available anyroads if you going camping for a time. Verdict... Happy. Be happier if XDA release a lighter ROM and I update it, but it is as light a phone as you can buy. Alternatives include Umidigi S2 lite and some of Xaomi stuff in sub £150 market. ____________ Re Facebook stuff of late, the Chinese take on it, 'tencent' caught up in terms of worth in December last year. Now $78B more. Netflix. A fraction of the subscribers compared to Chinese most popular streaming service. And they say Chinese stuff is full of spyware. Laugh Out Loud America is not the only fruit....and they ain't the richest or most popular either. Be smart, buy Chinese....

Lacist.

Deal of the week

Just for reference, a conspiracy theory forum I mooch on is half convinced John McCain doesn't have cancer at all. I'm reserving judgement but apparently his 'hurt leg boot' (whatever you call the thing) has mysteriously swapped from one leg to the other - people are wondering if he's not ill at all and the boot is actually hiding an ankle tag bracelet. Terminal cancer would apparently be a good way to avoid awkward questions about his naughtiness in the past. Just putting it out there!

This is where feminism falls over with the bunnies. Bitch n whine that the mansion/playboy is sexual oppression of women, while stating women should be free to do what they want with their bodies #FreeTheNipple