Epic moment coming on Saturday morning.

[Don Petter]

That was after he drove his Chevy to the levee.

[MrGongGong]

[Nick Armstrong]

[Pabmusic]

The Ancient Greeks thought that pi was 3.

Wouldn't life have been so much simpler?

Not only the ancient Greeks. 1 Kings, 7:23 says of Hiram, who makde a large cauldron-type vessel (Authorised Version, but it's a reasonable translation of the Hebrew):

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

Pi thus equals three.

[To be fair, there is a wealth of aplogetics about this. The arguments are usually variants of "no-one measured very accurately in Biblical times". Well...]

[Flay]

Very clever!

:sigh: What's the next big day?



Oh yes, the Ides of March!

[eighthobstruction]

....can you see it?....http://dl.mehrad-co.com/src/Gallery/...com%28L%29.jpg

[Nick Armstrong]

....can you see it?....

Errrr...... the picture, yes....

Maybe an allusion to the fact that (assuming you survive the Ides tomorrow....), this Friday, that shiny thing will be 95% - 84% (depending on where north to south in the UK you live - 98% on the west coast of Lewis!) obscured in the next Solar Eclipse?

8.30 - 10.30am the times to be vigilant (and suitably protected of course, eye-wise), with the really spooky stuff happening 9.15 - 9.30am

[Anna]

8.30 - 10.30am the times to be vigilant (and suitably protected of course, eye-wise), with the really spooky stuff happening 9.15 - 9.30am

According to Prof. Brian Cox: First contact 8.20; 23% coverage 8.48; 59% coverage 9.10; 89% coverage Maximum eclipse 9.32; 43% coverage 10.04, last contact 10.41. Of course timings vary from West to North!
More precise timings are: Cardiff 9.27:54; Birmingham 9.30:44; London 9.30:52, etc., so Aberdeen doesn't get it until 9.37:53, a full 10 mins after Cardiff.

[Nick Armstrong]

Aberdeen doesn't get it until 9.37:53, a full 10 mins after Cardiff.

Sounds like a comment on the 'Favourite Jokes' thread...

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I'll get me sporran....

[mangerton]

According to Prof. Brian Cox: First contact 8.20; 23% coverage 8.48; 59% coverage 9.10; 89% coverage Maximum eclipse 9.32; 43% coverage 10.04, last contact 10.41. Of course timings vary from West to North!
More precise timings are: Cardiff 9.27:54; Birmingham 9.30:44; London 9.30:52, etc., so Aberdeen doesn't get it until 9.37:53, a full 10 mins after Cardiff.

Thanks, Anna. Very useful. By a process of interpolation, Dundee should get it (maximum eclipse) c 09.35. I'll try to nip out for a few minutes.

Here's a sporran - with the appropriate tartan - for Caliban.

[Nick Armstrong]

Here's a sporran - with the appropriate tartan - for Caliban.

MacNificent! cheers pal!

I'll copy this link here too, which rewards a browse: http://www.solareclipse2015.org.uk/the-partial-eclipse/

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Here's a sporran - with the appropriate tartan - for Caliban.

Is that the Ross tartan, mangerton (with sasanach apologies if this is a hugely offensive mistake)?

[mangerton]

Is that the Ross tartan, mangerton (with sasanach apologies if this is a hugely offensive mistake)?

No offence at all, fhg. It's a tartan not unrelated to my clan.

[Don Petter]

Here's a sporran - with the appropriate tartan - for Caliban.

So he does a bit of pawnbroking on the side?

[Nick Armstrong]

So he does a bit of pawnbroking on the side?

Good money paid for second-hand jokes!