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  1. Posted

    Erm, all well and good, but where were you when they wanted to stop Skylab falling out of orbit? :ninja:

     

    As far as I can remember, I was yet to be a fully qualified space cadet at that time.

    In the round I throught it was a shame. I would have thought the orbit was high enough. Just shows that the station needed it's own radio-controled flight module that could have made remote controlled orbit adjustments without crew aboard. Otherwise I would have sheduled an obit changing flight instead of doing the USA/CCCP meet-up.

    From Wiki:

    Skylab B

    A flight-quality backup Skylab was built. NASA considered using it for a second Skylab B station in May 1973 or later, but decided against it. Launching another Skylab with another Saturn V rocket would have been very costly, and it was decided to spend this money on the development of the Space Shuttle, instead. The backup is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

     

    Been there, done that, got the T shirt.

     

    As far as I recall there were no fatalities from Skylab's re-entry and subsequent crash (into the Pacific - or was that Mir?), as some enterprising folk started marketing Skylab protective hard-hats. The jingle began "i'm protected, he's protected, we're protected..." and was pretty annoying.

     

    I've also been to the Arr & Space museum but I got a Smithsonian Sweatshirt (which I'm sure I must still have somewhere, even though its shrunk and is now too small).

    :eshock:

    Ok, erm, I suppose I did ask.

    I know not to in future. :grave:

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    I've mashed together in two speadsheets each team's ordered picks (If the said person were someones first choice then 25pts would have been entered by their name, 2nd choice = 24pts etc etc - if not selected then no score would have been left) - totalled them (Lohan, got most points, 248 at this stage) re-assigned values against each team's list (and multiplied the valve of negative points at risk by this name's outstanding populatity) totalled the list agregates, ordered them and also built a "Considered Opinion" list (below): Would this mathmatical average entry win? It's all luck at the end of the year - only time will tell!

     

    248 Lohan, Lindsay ( 248 x 25 = 6,200 )

    226 Forsyth, Bruce ( 226 x 24 = 5,424 )

    221 Gascoigne, Paul ( ditto )

    190 Ballesteros, Seve ( ditto )

    176 Ali, Muhammad

    163 Philip, Prince

    153 Dunn, Clive

    152 Rooney, Mickey

    152 Hawking, Stephen

    150 Sykes, Eric

    140 Norden, Denis

    132 Baker, Danny

    126 Dawn, Liz

    120 Douglas, Michael

    114 Lynn, Vera

    110 Castro, Fidel

    110 Klugman, Jack

    107 Moore, Patrick

    95 Falk, Peter

    88 Mugabe, Robert

    86 Taylor, Elizabeth

    85 Borgnine, Ernest

    74 Wallach, Eli

    74 Marshall, Penny ( 74 x 2 = 148 )

    66 al-Megrahi, Abdelbaset ( 66 x 1 = 66 )

     

    That "team" would have a "combined value" of 52,095 "predictable risk exposure". That's a funny figure, but the higher it is, shows how "risk averse" your sellections have been, higher the value the better you have been at lowering your perceived risk (all things being relative).

     

    Now as I understand it, the actual scores will be in minus value and the winner will be the one closest to zero.

    I can see a case, that there will be joint winners still on zero at the end of the year. How cool would that be?

     

    Anyway I've looked at each team's "predictable risk" in turn and starting favorites to win look like this:

     

    47,967 Spade Cooley

    45,502 Bert Trautman

    45,403 Maryport

    44,569 Time

    44,517 Garn2

    44,379 DDT

    43,434 msc

    43,278 Captain Chorizo

    43,233 LG

    41,466 HCW

    40,910 Toast

    40,772 Madame Defarge

    39,435 RA

    39,306 CarolAnn

    38,394 Six

    37,401 Mr3374

    35,966 EST.1993

    Erm, all well and good, but where were you when they wanted to stop Skylab falling out of orbit? :eshock:

  5. Posted

    Last night I played football with Ralf Little out of Two Packs of Lager and a Pint of Crisps. Had no idea who he was until someone mentioned it after.

    Talking about Ralf Little, remember his mam in the Royle Family, Sue Johnstone?

    She's a workmate's Auntie.....

     

    I've got a better Lame to Fame©VIZ, though.

    Remember Kirsty Maccoll.

    Well, the guy who played the piano on "There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis" used to go out with my sister, and I'VE MET HIM.....

     

    Impressive, eh? :wheelchair:

  14. Posted

    It's all over and the English have something to smile about. 3-1 and the Ashes come home. :party:

     

    The Ashes :burnash:stay home! We already had them! :party:

    Well done to the Poms, for once.

    I feel that last time, you won, but didn't earn it -- Australia (Ponting more like) gifted it to you with some baffling and very poor captancy.

    But this time you won it well, no questions asked.

    Like I said, well done. Now, shut up and let's get on with something else.

    Rugby?Union

    Kiwis rule at the proper version of the game, we can't beat 'em though.

    Interesting the clip you linked has an ex-league player scoring a try, Union trained players only kick goals.

    See also Jason Robinson.

    Anyway, it's off topic.

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  16. Posted

    Aye, first managerial casualty of 2011, gotta be at Anfield.

     

    Liverpool haven't sacked a manager since the 50's, though there may have been one or two who have left 'by mutual consent'; these usually happen during the close season. Roy Evans was the last to resign mid-season after his work-share with Houllier didn't work out, back in '98.

     

    For these reasons, I dismiss any notion that the first managerial casualty will be at Anfield. I reckon it's more likely to be in London - SW6 to be more precise.

    You are Mystic Meg and I claim my £5...rauch10.gif

  18. Posted

    Ah, the Archers.

    Never did get into it mesen, but my late gran was addicted.

    Every time it came on, cats would appear from everywhere at the first notes of the theme tune, as she fed them when the evening broadcast came on.

    They always seemed a bit miffed at the "go hungry" afternoon show.

    So, was Ambridge shaken to the core?

    Or did the missing scarecrow turn up?

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