gordon s Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Isn't the metre standard at Trafalgar Square or was it Greenwich? Either way, it's a long way to go to measure a bit of wood...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Posts crossed... I'd certainly like to see your chair, Jam, so let's see some pics later. Tony. Is it heavy? Is the Pope a catholic? I like things that are solid and in any case it won't be leaving home...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium eldavo Posted March 11, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2011 ... Tony. Is it heavy? Is the Pope a catholic? I like things that are solid and in any case it won't be leaving home...... That'll be good for the back then. Mrs S is going to struggle to get that up the stairs. Morning All, I think you'll find the prototype metre(meter) is held by BIPM in France. With my carpentry if I could get close to a millimeter accuracy in 300 I'd be well chuffed! Vacation day today so it's a busy one. The wife has left a list for this morning then I'm off to lay some track on a mates layout in the afternoon then onward to shift the club layout down to Portsmouth ready for the South Hants exhibition tomorrow. I had less to do when I was working! Have a good one all. Cheers Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisan100 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Tony. Is it heavy? Is the Pope a catholic? I like things that are solid and in any case it won't be leaving home...... STOP PRESS Gordon injures back trying to carry back-saving reverse loop from house to layout room above garage. Geoff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Just heard about the tsunami and earthquake in Japan Immediately checked online to see if a friend - living in Kyoto - was alright. Thankfully he was fine. Eight dead so far Tsunami on its way to Phillipines, followed by New Zealand it seems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 ... and Queensland again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted March 11, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2011 Morning all! Bit later on as I preferred to get various jobs done first. I'm still stuck with that cold, too, so I guess lots of tea will be consumed today! Have a good Friday everyone... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2011 Isn't the metre standard at Trafalgar Square or was it Greenwich? Either way, it's a long way to go to measure a bit of wood...... Physicists don't seem to like hanging round bars in Paris so the metre is now defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1â„299 792 458 of a second" although it was amended (probably as a result of lobbying by finescale modellers) in 2002 that this definition be restricted to "lengths which are sufficiently short for the effects predicted by general relativity to be negligible with respect to the uncertainties of realisation." Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 What about the role of the observer and quantum mechanics? Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 This is all getting a bit clever for me. I'm off to work to give my brain a rest...! Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2011 What about the role of the observer and quantum mechanics? Best, Pete. I think they count the number of waves while peeping over the top of the lab bench so that the laser doesn't think they are looking, Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2011 This is all getting a bit clever for me. I'm off to work to give my brain a rest...! Dave. I used to like the definition of the yard as being the distance from nose to finger on outstretched arm. It was advantageous to have short arms selling cloth once upon a time. Have a good day at work! Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Morning all! We have been busy this morning!! In work now after a slow start. Been feeling shattered the last week or so. Gordon, your circle's looking good. Dave/Max, I'll be sending a load of kits down to you if you're getting through yours that quickly! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2011 ...In work now after a slow start. Been feeling shattered the last week or so. Too many pancakes? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Too many pancakes? No, didn't have that many! Been trying to get more exercise and eat less to lose some of the extra pounds I've gained over the last year, so have ended up well and truly worn out. That plus work and probably less sleep than I need recently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2011 My NAS (LG special offer from dabs.com) drive arrived this morning and unlike previous attempts to attach such storage to our home network this worked perfectly. I've already backed up all my wife's research files so she now has 3 separate backups so hopefully there won't be major panics (last year's was somewhat traumatic!). Matthew is at the Geography Society grand ball tonight. This is a formal affair. I wouldn't have coped with such an event when I was his age but he seems able to cope. However he reckons he looks more like the chap in the "Go Compare" adverts than James Bond when he wears his dinner jacket! Hopefully he'll send us some photographs of the event. He did send us a group photo taken when he was out on a bar crawl with his friends last week. Aditi was very relieved that his friends looked "nice"! Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Morning all... Been up since 4.30 with hospital/general anaesthetic lag again. Had my knee done yesterday and all is well. In at 12.30, all done by 16.00 and home an hour later. Bandaged up and in heaven as I have no pain at all, but I suspect the morphine is hiding anything caused by the procedure. Had a look at the pics and before made my joint look like a littered back street and the after, clean as a whistle. Can't wait to get the other one done now. Shocked by some of the footage from Japan. Dreadful to see the carnage and loss of life from the tsunami that followed. Any exciting plans this weekend? I think the Basingstoke show is this weekend, but sadly I'll have to give it a miss. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Morning All, I am currently sitting here typing, with a fantastic view in front of me. Getting a signal isn't that easy around here - so I am somewhat sheltered about what is going on in the world. Heard the news of the Earthquake/ Tsunami and it doesn't sound good. It is a wonderful, but dangerous world that we live in - all of our technology cannot prevent Mother Nature at work. Have a good day everyone... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Nature has a way of putting us in our place when we start thinking we're too clever, there's no doubt of that. Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted March 12, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2011 Morning all Glad to hear that all has gone well Gordon. I hope the rest is as painless. Look after yourself....... who will keep the woodburner stocked otherwise. Plans for this weekend mostly involve a TV and lots of different shaped balls. Shouldn't really, there's a long list, but I think that might get lost. Have a good weekend all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Great news about the knee, Gordon. Some good news from Japan in that the missing boat has turned up and 87 passengers are safe. Perhaps balanced by the Nuclear Power Stations situation and the four missing trains. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted March 12, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2011 The BBC are reporting at least 1300 dead already. Sadly, I fear that this will rise considerably over the next few days. You are right Dave, nature can put us in our place, in so many different ways. It has the powe to be beautiful, awesome and deadly all at the same time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted March 12, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2011 You are right Dave, nature can put us in our place, in so many different ways. It has the powe to be beautiful, awesome and deadly all at the same time. Very well said indeed... Morning all – I believe the inhalation I did last night helped with the cold. Think I'll be taking things easy this weekend so that I'll be back in shape soon. Weather's predicted to be quite balmy for the next several days, at up to 17°. Have a good day everyone! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 The weather is quite barmy here, too. Not looking good at the Nuclear facilities. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I'm told one has blown. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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