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Post by Oti's Ego on Dec 18, 2020 0:25:51 GMT 1
I believe i can also see Saturn with the naked eye at the moment....would that be correct? In Tenerife. I'm not sure about that Oti, but I think if you're young and supple enough you could be lucky enough to see Uranus with your naked eye... |
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Post by Oti's Ego on Dec 18, 2020 0:26:45 GMT 1
I'm not sure, as per CIT's post, I had thought this was happening in a couple of days time. I plan to keep a look out for it.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Dec 18, 2020 0:29:26 GMT 1
I believe i can also see Saturn with the naked eye at the moment....would that be correct? In Tenerife. I'm not sure about that Oti, but I think if you're young and supple enough you could be lucky enough to see Uranus with your naked eye... Naked i can see my Japs eye...now bugger off. |
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Post by Enoch Presley Blyth Jr. on Dec 18, 2020 0:30:32 GMT 1
I believe i can also see Saturn with the naked eye at the moment....would that be correct? In Tenerife. whereabouts you staying oti, get yourself up teide for some stargazing |
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Dec 18, 2020 0:41:16 GMT 1
I believe i can also see Saturn with the naked eye at the moment....would that be correct? In Tenerife. whereabouts you staying oti, get yourself up teide for some stargazing Considering it.....in little Moscow...Adeje. |
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Post by Enoch Presley Blyth Jr. on Dec 18, 2020 2:51:57 GMT 1
Don't know it to be honest. I normally stop on the front at playa del duque. It's where people like me and you hang about oti, staring into the Atlantic and laughing at the madness of the world and rayner.
Definetly get up teide on a evening whilst your there. You won't be disappointed.
Witnesed a strange happening there a few years back. About 1am, a sudden light glow, which faded then reignited before disappearing. Happened again and again for a hour before vanishing. Some say it was a flare, I say it was something different. Dogs started barking. Very odd.
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Post by DeepSpace on Dec 18, 2020 13:41:03 GMT 1
I believe i can also see Saturn with the naked eye at the moment....would that be correct? In Tenerife. Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn are all easily visible with the naked eye. Mercury isn't too hard but it's always close to the Sun so you will only spot it within a brief timespan either side of Sunrise/set depending on where it is. Uranus is just visible with the naked eye if you have good eyesight & know exactly where to look.
Aside obviously from Earth, Sun & Moon every other solar system object needs a telescope of varying power from backyard to a satellite in orbit.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Dec 18, 2020 14:47:46 GMT 1
I believe i can also see Saturn with the naked eye at the moment....would that be correct? In Tenerife. Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn are all easily visible with the naked eye. Mercury isn't too hard but it's always close to the Sun so you will only spot it within a brief timespan either side of Sunrise/set depending on where it is. Uranus is just visible with the naked eye if you have good eyesight & know exactly where to look. Aside obviously from Earth, Sun & Moon every other solar system object needs a telescope of varying power from backyard to a satellite in orbit.
Thanks, thought i was seeing Saturn and i had read Mercury visible with the naked eye. Mars too eh? I recall nights in the Sahara....i must have been able to see 20,000 stars. |
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Post by CanaryIsleTerrier on Dec 19, 2020 12:26:39 GMT 1
Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn are all easily visible with the naked eye. Mercury isn't too hard but it's always close to the Sun so you will only spot it within a brief timespan either side of Sunrise/set depending on where it is. Uranus is just visible with the naked eye if you have good eyesight & know exactly where to look. Aside obviously from Earth, Sun & Moon every other solar system object needs a telescope of varying power from backyard to a satellite in orbit.
Thanks, thought i was seeing Saturn and i had read Mercury visible with the naked eye. Mars too eh? I recall nights in the Sahara....i must have been able to see 20,000 stars. You can see Mars and it's pretty easy to spot. If you look South West after sunset the first point of light you will see is Jupiter, It's visible at dusk. If you keep looking that way after about 15 minuets or so Saturn will be visible. It's getting really close to Jupiter now. If you then look directly up above your head you will Mars. It's a very bright orange light. If you find a place with very little light pollution you can see the Milky Way here. We go camping to a remote beach about once a month and have seen it on about three occasions now. It's a stunning view. Let's hope the skies are clear! Been a bit cloudy here recently. Edit: Hopefully, if I have done this right, the image below is how the sky will appear on Monday at about 18:30. Jupiter / Saturn bottom right, Mars top left. The Moon splits them.  |
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Post by DeepSpace on Dec 19, 2020 13:55:43 GMT 1
Thanks, thought i was seeing Saturn and i had read Mercury visible with the naked eye. Mars too eh? I recall nights in the Sahara....i must have been able to see 20,000 stars. You can see Mars and it's pretty easy to spot. If you look South West after sunset the first point of light you will see is Jupiter, It's visible at dusk. If you keep looking that way after about 15 minuets or so Saturn will be visible. It's getting really close to Jupiter now. If you then look directly up above your head you will Mars. It's a very bright orange light. If you find a place with very little light pollution you can see the Milky Way here. We go camping to a remote beach about once a month and have seen it on about three occasions now. It's a stunning view. Let's hope the skies are clear! Been a bit cloudy here recently. Other than in very light polluted areas the Milky Way is an easy spot. If you have moderate light pollution you sometimes need to dark-adjust your eyes for 10 minutes or so, but you're right, in a really dark sky area, it's spectacular. I was once walking (a bit the worse for wear) down a middle-of-nowhere road somewhere near Mullingar in Ireland & must have nearly killed myself as I was so busy sky watching that I wasn't taking any notice of the pitch-black road I was supposed to be walking down. The Milky Way was as beautiful as I'd ever seen it. |
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Post by epsomterrier69 on Jan 5, 2021 20:36:02 GMT 1
Found out today in my family tree searches that Douglas Noel Adams, author of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was my 8th cousin once removed.
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Post by DeepSpace on Feb 10, 2021 9:42:56 GMT 1
Playing cards in their current (52-card) form probably originated in France somewhere around the mid-15th century.
If you give a pack of cards a genuine shuffle, the statistical likelihood is that the order they end up in has never occurred before in human history & will probably never happen again.
If cards had been invented by Neanderthals, and every human to ever live shuffled a pack every second of their lives, the chance of your shuffle being a repeat of any that had ever happened before would still be somewhere in the order of 1 in 10^40.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Feb 10, 2021 23:43:12 GMT 1
Playing cards in their current (52-card) form probably originated in France somewhere around the mid-15th century. If you give a pack of cards a genuine shuffle, the statistical likelihood is that the order they end up in has never occurred before in human history & will probably never happen again. If cards had been invented by Neanderthals, and every human to ever live shuffled a pack every second of their lives, the chance of your shuffle being a repeat of any that had ever happened before would still be somewhere in the order of 1 in 10^40. I will have to revisit that....its late....but it simply cannot be true. And still one to the power 40? Nah, give me until tomorrow evening...half-pissed. 5,000,000,000 humans x 1,500,000,000 seconds (average age 50) is 75,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Feb 10, 2021 23:43:58 GMT 1
Actually, might be right...need a think.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Feb 10, 2021 23:47:17 GMT 1
In a lifetime a man produces enough sperm to re-populate the entire world of 7.6 billion over 250 times!
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Post by DeepSpace on Feb 11, 2021 0:08:32 GMT 1
Actually, might be right...need a think. I’ve seen the maths on it. I can cut & paste it when you sober up :-) |
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Post by mandysidebottom20 on Feb 11, 2021 0:28:32 GMT 1
In a lifetime a man produces enough sperm to re-populate the entire world of 7.6 billion over 250 times! In layman's terms, that's a thousand boxes of Kleenex!🤮 |
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Post by sabailand on Feb 11, 2021 1:16:34 GMT 1
In a lifetime a man produces enough sperm to re-populate the entire world of 7.6 billion over 250 times! In layman's terms, that's a thousand boxes of Kleenex!🤮  |
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Post by ambryboy on Feb 11, 2021 1:45:36 GMT 1
In a lifetime a man produces enough sperm to re-populate the entire world of 7.6 billion over 250 times! That's a bit hard to swallow  |
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Post by artysid on Feb 11, 2021 10:57:06 GMT 1
An average person, living to around 80 years of age, will produce around 12 tons of faeces.
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Post by Oti's Ego on Feb 11, 2021 11:02:10 GMT 1
An average person, living to around 80 years of age, will produce around 12 tons of faeces. That's just about the daily quota for DATM... |
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Post by harrychrishner on Feb 12, 2021 19:31:12 GMT 1
The silver ant which lives in the Sahara Desert is only active outside in the searing heat for about 10 minutes a day. When it comes out though it's a wonder to behold as it runs at a speed of 3.6 km/h! That would equate to a 6 ft man running at 720 km/h in human terms if you calculate it using body length and distance covered per second. It is of course the fastest of 12,000 known ant species.
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Post by Will on Feb 12, 2021 21:30:32 GMT 1
Two Cumberland sausages from Haighs with veg fed 4 of us handsomely tonight.
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Post by Iffy & Bent on Feb 12, 2021 21:40:03 GMT 1
Two Cumberland sausages from Haighs with veg fed 4 of us handsomely tonight. Get it in the sausage thread, man! |
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Feb 24, 2021 22:03:17 GMT 1
This one will blow your mind. There have been just 1400 winners of the Victoria Cross.....only 3 men have won it twice. Charles Upham was the first. What a story, got it all. Singlehandedly killed a 100 Germans in numerous skirmishes. Shot three times on three occasions and fought every time whilst injured. Even got shrapnel in the shoulder. Hand to hand, running at machine guns, driving through enemy lines....many crazy encounters and rescues. Jumped from a guarded train and broke his ankle....ended up in Colditz. Anyway, two Victoria crosses. He married a lady in 1938 in New Zealand...who was related to the second man ever to win two Victoria crosses....Noel Chavasse! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Upham |
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Feb 24, 2021 22:06:58 GMT 1
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