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The speed of sound is around 330 metres per second, so at this distance the engine would still be heard for a few seconds after impact.

Continuing with the above list from 1930 to 1934. 1930 Gene Hackman: legendary actor, looks very wough nowadays. Gary Snyder: American hippy poet, quite frail. Stephen Smale: one of the greatest mathematician of the last century, and often suspected of un-American activities. Off the radar for a while. Clint Eastwood: A-lister filmmaker, doing well despite having recently declined a bit. Jasper Johns: contemporary artist, doing well? Buzz Aldrin: original moonwalker, recently declined a bit. Stay away from flying aircrafts! Marie Bashir: longtime governor of New South Wales. Bilijana Plavsic: Yugoslav war criminal, was in critical condition with COVID during the pandemic. Vigdis Finnbogadottir: Icelandic president, in excellent health. José Sarney: Immortal Brazilian dictator, has suffered many ailments inclunding pleural effusion, strokes and serious falls in recent years. 1931 Heisuke Hironaka: Great Japanese mathematician, doing great in May 2024, frequently interviewed by the media. Leslie Caron: actress and dancer, has been frail for a few years. Rupert Murdoch: Australian mogul, serious health issues do not seem to affect him that much. Roger Penrose: Mathematical genius, Nobel Prize winner and controversial philosopher, doing astoundingly well. John Milnor: huge mathematician of the 20th century, health has probably declined in the last few years. Willie Mays: HoF baseball player, doing well but a bit frail Edwin Meese: US attorney general, still active in law and politics. Norman Tebbit: decrepit right wing politician, in failing health for years. Marjorie Jackson-Nelson: Governor of South Australia and Olympic athlete. Quite off the spotlight now. Jean Berko Gleason: psycholinguist, doing very well. 1932 The Wizard of New Zealand: political activist and nutshell, frail but still active. Walter Gilbert: Nobel Prize, doing well like those old immortal academics. Jacques Roubaud: French poet and mathematician. Louis de Branges de Bourcia: French-American mathematician, not heard so much nowadays. Alvin Plantinga: huge American philosopher, still active? Lady Antonia Fraser: British writer, survived a serious fall some years ago, has been on borrowed time for a while. Erró: Iceland greatest painter. John Searle: philosopher and alleged molester, now quite under the radar. Roy Hattersley: Brit politician, doing well though a bit decrepit. John Williams: legendary composer, bounced back from rough health. 1933 Roman Polanski: director and nonce, doing depressingly well. Yoko Ono: pain in the ass, suffered from Lewy body dementia for years, fucking overdue. Amartya Sen: Nobel Prize winner, suffered from every type of cancer for fifty years, fucking overdue. Joan Collins: actress, doing extremely well. John Burgee: architect, disciple of Philip Johnson, a bit off the spotlight now. Michael Caine: legendary for his film with Steven Seagal, frail but overall doing well. Michael Heseltine: Brit politician, doing incredibly well. James Meredith: civil rights icon, fell last year during his 90th birthday celebrations and looks a bit frail. Michael Dukakis: losing presidential candidate, doing well. Not so his wife. Al McCoy: Pheonic Suns announcer, retired last year, but still ocasionally commenting. 1934 Alan Garner: British novelist, doing well? Brigitte Bardot: French sex symbol of the 60s. Multiple health issues, most recently on oxygen for respiratory failure. Bud Selig: baseball commisioner, looks good due to a pact with the devil and his hairdresser. Piers Anthony: science-fiction writer, the classic name who could drop dead at any moment. Ralph Nader: legendary political activist and a clean bill of health. Wole Soyinka: Nobel Prize for literature, prostate cancer sufferer, variously rumored dead. Tony Hoare: one of the greatest computer scientists, these guys seem to go on forever. Sophia Loren: Italian sex symbol, suffered serious fall last year but bounced back. Carlo Rubbia: Nobel Prize winner and senator, doing very well. Jane Goodall: legendary ecologist, doing incredibly well.

What a tragic irony. To survive the most dangerous period in Spaceflight history only to die in a plane crash at age 90. It's not exactly a rare occurrence in astronauts as Ted Freeman, S. David Griggs, Elliott See, Charles Bassett and Manley "Sonny" Carter (albeit as a passenger) all died this way, but it's still extremely unlucky (especially as many old astronauts flew well into their senior years). Nonetheless we lost a legend in spaceflight history and another Apollo Astronaut, R.I.P.

Jonathan Gullis (Stoke-on-Trent North) Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North) Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset and Hanham)

Ria Lubbers, widow of former Prime Minister of Netherland Ruud Lubbers, dead at 83

Two things I found quite illuminating from last night, now I've had a sleep. Penny Mordaunt said the Tories were planning tax cuts and was rightly challenged on the highest tax burden since 1948. While the laughing was going on, she insisted that her party "hated every minute" of raising tax. There's no evidence of that. No defections, no resignations, no impassioned speeches from the benches, nothing from raising tax - waving of order papers and cheers of MOOORRREEEE yes. It has been where the tax cuts fall, the vast majority of those for the ultra-wealthy. If we have the highest employment rate ever with more people paying tax, you would have thought that tax cuts were affordable and all public services would be adequately financed. Mordaunt's faux remorse is like your school bully taking your pocket money, giving you a purple nurple and then saying they had to do it because their therapy wasn't going well. The response to Flynn's comments on immigration got a huge round of applause. Astonishing. Wasn't it only a few years ago that would have been met with silence, they are taking our jobs and working for less, let's bomb out of the EU and everything will be better? I think that took the wind out of the sails of both Labour and Conservative reps, and even Farage looked like he had been slapped onto the fishmonger's slab ready for filleting. I think the country has come to the realisation that you can't blame everything on the immigrants a la Farage and Boris, that in fact it is the Government's absolute failure to get a grip of it and not spend our money responsibly. It is a gambit from Flynn I'd never have expected to get the warm reception it did.

Banana opens the round with Bangladeshi actress Rista Laboni Shimana. We've been a little short on those subcontinent names this year, haven't we? She was discovered in a casting show in 2006 and had been a steady figure in TV shows, commercials, modeling, and the like. A nasty brain hemorrhage unfortunately ended her life at only 39. In other news, wannamaker's joker Dr. Mazeika Sullivan already died in May, but it was only revealed on the 4th of this month. According to the rules then, wannamaker is "Out of luck", and has to continue without those joker points. But then, even if he had died a day later, there's no obit coming up. There's the legacy obit that doesn't count: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/dr-sean-mazeika-sullivan-obituary?id=55283305 If nobody else has the strong wish to take over, I will probably host for another year. And I think I have to set the bar for qualification for the academic types a little higher - I might even be doing the players a favour with this... But then wannamaker's first sub would have been Mamie Loverock who is "miraculously recovering". So, it's probably a wash anyway. GuyFromFuture 0-0 wannamaker Banana 4-0 max_bossetti

Yeah right. What son? He had no son, that was mocked up. That picture he supposedly took? Never happened. Apollo 8 - no such craft. Etc.

Jason Carter interviewed again. So make of his remarks what you will. On his grandfather "No change really" and "Isn't awake every day" https://www.southernliving.com/jimmy-carter-update-grandson-jason-carter-plains-8660173

Since the very notable names born in the 20s are fading out, here's a quick list, from 1924 to 1929, of the 10 people whose Wiki page was created the earliest, for each year. 1924 Jimmy Carter: former POTUS, Absolute King of Immortals, God of Deathlist Robert G. Shulman: American biophysicist, doing very well. Eve Marie Saint: American relic actress, in good health... 6 years ago. Tomiichi Murayama: Japanese PM, minor issues here and there. Khamtai Siphandone: likely on life support for a while, uberfrail. Charlie Smith Dannelly: North Carolina State Senator, doing well. Marshall Allen: Sun Ra Arkestra leader, doing unexplicably well for a hard-living character like him. William H. Webster: former FBI director, doing very well. Torsten Wiesel: Nobel Prize, doing very well despite having declined a bit recently. Lee Adams: Lyricist. 1925 Leo Esaki: Nobel Prize, still doing very well. Mahathir Mohamad: Malaysian legendary PM, extensive heart issues, miracolusly doing well. Daniel J. Evans: senator and governor, frail but recently less frail than before. Ann Fagan Ginger: political activist, still doing well. Dick Van Dyke: DL legend, still doing very well. Roy Haynes: Jazz legend, unexplicably alive despite hard living for 99 years. Peter Murray: British DJ and DL pick, quite overdue at this point. Alan Bergman: recently widowed composer. Adele Addison: operatic singer, Van Vetchen's portrait, not seen in a while? June Lockhart: Lessie's mum and perennial dead pool pick, not seen in a while? 1926 Mel Brooks: comedy legend, still well, but won't be a surprising death just in case. David Attenborough: Brit legend who is reportedly doing well, but I think he has vastly declined recently. Alan Greenspan: US economist, fading from the public scene quickly. Jean-Pierre Serre: French mathematical genius, still acting as he is in his 30s, but for how long? Tsung Dao-lee: Nobel Prize and Immortal, not seen in years. Lou Donaldson: Jazz saxophonist and another unexplicably longeve guy. Gyorgy Kurtag: legendary composer, still giving interviews last year. Abdoulaye Wade: Senegalese president and Immortal. Rumoured dead multiple times, but seemingly unsinkable. Roscoe Bartlett: Legendary US representative, now living off-grid. George Ariyoshi: Hawaii governor, very frail for years. 1927 William J. Perry: Secretary of Defense who was scammed by Theranos, doing incredibly well. Herbert Blomstedt: Swedish conductor, hospitalised in December, but still working. Vernon L. Smith: autistic Nobel Prize, unsinkable. John Kander: composer, doing very well. Pierre Alechinsky: fuck, is he still alive? Major avant garde artist. Doc Severinsen: Jonny Carson's sidekick, doing well. LK Advani: BJP patriarch, frail. Marcel Ophuls: another one "still fucking alive"? William Labov: apparently huge name in sociology. Leontyne Price: American soprano, a bit overdue at this point. 1928 Desmond Morris: ethologist, DL pick, doing well. James Watson: Nobel Prize who faked dying for years in order to avoid obvious controversies stemming from his ideas. Noam Chomsky: DL pick, on the brink of death for months. Tom Lehrer: legendary comedic songwriter, very reclusive. Jean Marie Le Pen: immortal patriarch of French right wing, hospitalised multiple times in recent years, bit overdue. Zhu Rongji: Chinese PM, has suffered from Parkinson's for the last ten years, permanently hospitalised for five years. Hans Blix: OH, NO, HANS BRIX! Elias James Corey: Nobel Prize, father of the retrosynthetic approach and known in the field to be quite a slaver. John Little: MIT professor, Little's law namesake. Dr. Ruth Westheimer: survived massive stroke last year. 1929 Jurgen Habermas: disfigured German sociologist, WW2 veteran. Frank Gehry: legendary architect. Len Deighton: British writer who feels a bit overdue. Bob Newhart: Comedic genius who has been dying for the last five years. Alfred Moisiu: Overweight Albanian president, doing incredibly well. Eddie Stobart: agriculture fuhrer of UK, not seen in a while? Hal Lindsey: apocalyptic prophet, not seen in years. Eric Kandel: Nobel Prize, doing well as you expect from decrepit academics. Jim Whittaker: legendary climber and mountaineer, going strong. Ramon Luis Rivera: Puerto Rican retired politician, looks frail.

My Southern Independence Party begins their campaign just after the election. We want a referendum before 2029. Take Back Control etc.

Alex Chalk (Cheltenham). Lee Anderthal (Ashfield). Robert Largan (High Peak).

Could have been worse, he might have hit your house!

Won a Daytime Emmy for his role on Days of Our Lives.

No need. Confirmed dead by his son.

Oh Jesus Christ! I'm not sure how much longer I can deny this.

I think the key point here is "wanted to act". I've found Coogan an insufferable presence for many years, supposedly making us "laugh" at the same character for 30 years. Yes, he has done other things, but he's a second rate impressionist with little performance skills. As usual, funny when he started but he's been conning the public for too long. Try as I may, I can't bring myself to dislike O'Leary. Just my opinion, I don't bother with radio much anyway.

We're open for suggestions. Pick 1, 2 or 3 sitting MPs who are standing for re-election, in the hope that they will lose by the largest margin (winner of seat votes as against your pick votes). Also enjoy the tears, the fake smiles, the shock and awe of results night, and even those who lose by a whisker as a side show. You can pick someone who has been picked by someone else. I'll do a list. Entries close at 7 am BST on 4th July. I'll have a go at Rob Roberts (Clwyd East), Lee Anderson (Ashfield) and Bim Afolami (Hitchen).

FBI releases 475 page document on O.J. Simpson weeks after his death. They focus mostly on the murder investigation of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman https://www.krmg.com/news/trending/fbi-releases-documents-relating-oj-simpson/JB3PYHS6CJDIDFOLO5ZZ2QALZA/?taid=6663e55dfa637600017797f4

Nancy Sinatra is 84.

8/Jun/2024 51 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 41 Coldplay — Paradise +4 41 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 40 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 39 Lorde — Royals 39 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 37 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 35 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) 34 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 34 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 31 Avicii — Wake Me Up 30 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 28 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 27 Jessie J — Domino 25 Rihanna — Diamonds 25 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 25 Little Mix — Wings -3 23 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 23 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 22 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 20 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 20 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It 16 OneRepublic — Counting Stars -3 14 Ellie Goulding — Burn 14 Cover Drive — Twilight 06 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You

7/Jun/2024 50 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 43 Coldplay — Paradise +4 40 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 39 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 38 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 37 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 35 Lorde — Royals 34 Little Mix — Wings 34 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 33 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) 32 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 30 Avicii — Wake Me Up 29 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It 29 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 27 Jessie J — Domino 25 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 25 Rihanna — Diamonds 23 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 23 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 21 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 20 Cover Drive — Twilight 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 19 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 18 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You 16 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 14 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us 14 OneRepublic — Counting Stars -6

I'm not a viewer of his fad diet type programmes but he's done some good documentaries on BBC Four (I'm aware I'm probably one of the youngest people who still watches that channel though). Surprised that so few people here seem to have heard of him given how many other obscure names show up on here that everyone just seems to know.

If AI is taking over the planet while the illuminati are also doing so and the Aliens are also doing so and Covid vaccine companies are doing so, why is BetFred or William Hill not offering odds on the winner?

The 2024 DL has now fallen behind the 2017 DL and 2019 DL, becoming the slowest performing yet, since 2015. Jonnie Irwin & Frank Field should have risen the total up to 5; they were unnecessary misses, no others to put in that category so far this year.