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Peco do one.

I looked to see where you were a while back - you'll be lucky if you can get last month's Farmers Journal in colour...

"This is a near miss, that was a far away miss..."

He just needs to be given some responsibilities - and a uniform - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama_(cat) .

Just don't rest it on the bomb......

When it's exploded, it's not a bomb any more.

At least they're not ten-ton Grand Slams... Odd that they seem to have been found before, though.. We had a stick on the factory in WW2 and only one really went off, and nobody really knew how many there had been, either. Around 1985, we were digging a pit in the test area and hit an object about 15" diameter, where there was not supposed to be anything - it turned out to be an unknown, abandoned drain-pipe, but it was exciting for a while....

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/bomb-halts-train-services-33593/ - Why do they always describe them as "unexploded"? If they had already exploded, then they wouldn't still be "bombs" and we wouldn't be worried about them exploding. Using the phrase "dug up again" is slightly worrying. Note - I have carefully avoided saying "bombs found by the railway in Kent", in case I inadvertently provoked the evacuation of Cork station.....

I was an early adopter of CDs in the mid-1980s, and people often came to my house for a demo, before committing themselves to a purchase. One of my demonstration CDs was a very good steam train sounds one. During one demonstration, the 'target' got up to stand in the centre of the room, for the best effect. A low-loader, similar to that above, complete with steam engine, sailed slowly down the street, exactly in time to the sound-track. Poor chap thought he was hallucinating.

True high speed rail is not something that seems to happen over here - the UK has 68 miles of proper high-speed track. Starting at about the same point in time, China now has 7,450 miles.... The 800s are rated for 140mph, but there won't be many places that they will actually do that for a long time to come.

You need the weather for it.....

Nigerian Guinness is somewhat different to the white man's drink - and deceptively strong - 7.5%. In fact, a 600ml bottle contains more than the UK Government's recommended daily alcohol allowance - so, I always open one before midnight and finish it just into the next day, can't be too careful. The small bottles can often be found in Tesco and the large bottles are available via the internet.

The view from the Space Station today.

I like a warm pudding at this time of year. Cool ones are for the summer.

It's a long time since I was at school, too, and, as you say, filters have never created one wavelength out of another, they just select what passes through and what doesn't. Try putting a filter in front of a white LED and see what happens, be it a warm white or a cool white one. If you want warm white LEDs, then they are available, though the packaging is often lacking in information. They just have less blue output than a cool white one does.

A red filter will surely reduce the amount of blue passing through, for example? It's true that white LEDs only usually emit three single colour spikes, rather than the full spectrum, but a coloured filter will still change the relative heights of those spikes. It seems odd to sell these otherwise.

Is it feasible to mask/filter the existing LED with a felt pen?

RTÉ News is currently running this picture - - without any warning about the risk of setting fire to the genital area. Let's hope none of us end up in A&E tonight....

Excitement's OK - if you get away with it.....

Also the patron saint of Nigeria. I've got a case downstairs.

I'm there, too - I think the last time I was loco-hauled here on the 'mainland' was about 2000.

They were actually very lucky that the crane wasn't up to the weight - if they had had a capable crane, then they wouldn't have found out at that point..... Where I worked,for very complicated reasons involving take-overs and bankruptcies, we made transport cases for torpedoes for a while. These had internal suspension and were supposed to protect the torpedo from damage if it was dropped on a concrete dockside when being loaded. We had an "Inert Dummy", a genuine casing, with a filling to simulate the weights of the real innards, so that we could check that it would fit properly, etc. One morning, completely unannounced, two Land Rovers full of Naval MPs turned up, with a low-loader containing another Inert Dummy. "You will swap the one that you have for this one - now!" They refused to discuss the reasons behind this. I like to think that we might have just had a torpedo with a live motor*, but, knowing the Scampton Grand Slam history, I was happier when the swap had happened - if we even had the right one then, of course...... *The motor was a gas turbine running on Otto Fuel - that going off would have been exciting enough... ..but a 300kg warhead was another matter.. ..and from outside, it was impossible to tell, except for the markings, if they were right.......