Ceptic Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 As kids we hated it for its proper use but wrap it round a comb and it made a great kazoo! Always handy in place of tracing paper. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 6, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 6, 2018 But at least we can thank Izal bog paper for these; http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brizalvan Mike. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted February 6, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 6, 2018 But at least we can thank Izal bog paper for these; http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brizalvan Mike. That's it. I want one! Kev. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted February 6, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6, 2018 Doh! She's lost the fuel cap, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 6, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6, 2018 One guy i Knew ordered a couple of hundred valves for a Aircraft simulator (yes it was a long time ago) accidentally got the wrong part number and a lorry load of Very large, Very expensive TV type Display tubes turned up. That's the problem when everything is a CV... There was no hint at what type of thermionic device it was without a cross reference. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Only people of a certain demographic will get this. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Only people of a certain demographic will get this. One can only imagine the thoughts of the captain of a Klingon/Thargoid/other Battle Cruiser seeing that come up on his scanners in about a thousand years! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 7, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2018 That's it. I want one! Kev. Reasonably easy to scratchbuild, all the basic components are available, and they are a standard shape, just the dimensions which need tweaking a tad. That's a project, (one of too many), in my roundtuit pille! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougN Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 I love the the fact that he has in green calming letters on the screen "Don't panic " I wonder if the driver has a towel? In great respect for Douglas Adams and the Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted February 7, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2018 I love the the fact that he has in green calming letters on the screen "Don't panic " I wonder if the driver has a towel? In great respect for Douglas Adams and the Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. In the glove box there is a copy of hitchhikers and a towel. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted February 7, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2018 If the bloke wanted to get shot of his Tesla why didn't he offer it to me? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jol Wilkinson Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Only people of a certain demographic will get this. Or those that watch BBC News? My initial reaction was "what a waste of money" My next was, "for someone who claims to be interest in the planet's future, what a lot of pollution for no benefit (other than the free PR)". Then I started to wonder if the car had been tested for such low temperatures and pressures (even allowing for leaving out the batteries, A/C system, etc.). All in all, it just comes down to a publicity stunt, for the entertainment of those who have just spent £1K on a new iPhone X. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted February 7, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2018 I can't help think that a British parallel would have an Austin Maxi, towing a caravan. Ian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Horsetan Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 If the bloke wanted to get shot of his Tesla why didn't he offer it to me? I guess he wanted to help make the remaining ones on Earth a bit more valuable.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jol Wilkinson Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Actually, it's even more simple then that: this was an inaugural test of a new type of rocket, so you're not gonna put a billion-dollar payload on top of it. You put something in it that, should something go astray, has little financial impact on the project, so what else that some clever free promo for your other project? I can think of some billion dollar payloads that they could have put on it. The cast of TOWIE, a US President, the Apple Corporation, Facebook, all the heroin and cocaine in the world, etc. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted February 7, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2018 My wife: (ex schoolteacher) “ tell me, what is the best bit you like about school?” 5 year old granddaughter: “when the teacher says you can go and play” 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 My wife: (ex schoolteacher) “ tell me, what is the best bit you like about school?” 5 year old granddaughter: “when the teacher says you can go and play” Nothing's changed in decades, then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted February 7, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2018 I can think of some billion dollar payloads that they could have put on it. The cast of TOWIE, a US President, the Apple Corporation, Facebook, all the heroin and cocaine in the world, etc. What would any alien make of that lot? No wonder they stay away, if they catch any radio/TV signal beaming out across the universe of the last 70 years! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 (edited) I can think of some billion dollar payloads that they could have put on it. The cast of TOWIE, a US President, the Apple Corporation, Facebook, all the heroin and cocaine in the world, etc. Jol, why am I thinking of hairdressers, marketing people and telephone sanitisers? Edited February 7, 2018 by Ozexpatriate 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 (edited) My initial reaction was "what a waste of money" My next was, "for someone who claims to be interest in the planet's future, what a lot of pollution for no benefit (other than the free PR)". Then I started to wonder if the car had been tested for such low temperatures and pressures (even allowing for leaving out the batteries, A/C system, etc.). All in all, it just comes down to a publicity stunt, for the entertainment of those who have just spent £1K on a new iPhone X. Jol, I'm not sure what your pollution reference refers to unless you mean that humans should not pursue space flight due to pollution concerns with rocketry. The choice of payload for the Falcon Heavy test was literally a 'throwaway'. It needed to be something of reasonable mass and could have literally been anything. SpaceX was very concerned that the Falcon Heavy test launch would be a disaster. Only a couple of weeks ago a very classified payload failed to reach orbit after an otherwise flawless Falcon launch, so they were pretty sensitized to losing a very expensive payload. The choice SpaceX made here, using a Tesla from Musk's personal collection along with the homages to David Bowie and Douglas Adams is, I think, deeply endearing to those of us (which I suspect is many of us here) for whom the "space age" was a big part of our lives. Using the Tesla made for good publicity but why not? The Falcon Heavy test needed something, why not make it fun? Edited February 7, 2018 by Ozexpatriate 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Perhaps Jol meant pollution of space? Mind you, mankind has already started that with all the space junk out there already. We don't learn do we? steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 If the bloke wanted to get shot of his Tesla why didn't he offer it to me? Because a Tesla is useless if it is free of charge? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted February 7, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2018 Just saw an ad in a shoe shop. "So good you'll want to buy more than one" I should hope so, unless your name is Pegleg Pete...... Cheers Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 (edited) The choice of payload for the Falcon Heavy test was literally a 'throwaway'. It needed to be something of reasonable mass and could have literally been anything. SpaceX was very concerned that the Falcon Heavy test launch would be a disaster. Only a couple of weeks ago a very classified payload failed to reach orbit after an otherwise flawless Falcon launch, so they were pretty sensitized to losing a very expensive payload. And they wanted the silliest thing they could think of as the payload. The homages to Bowie and Adams were really nice. As well as a the words DON'T PANIC it carried a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a towel and a copy of Asimov's Foundation series on optical disc. The original manufacturing plate has been replaced by one saying "Made on Earth by humans". The reference to the "certain demographic" was about the music in that particular video. The original live video was looping Life on Mars and Space Oddity. Cheers David Edited February 8, 2018 by DavidB-AU 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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