What's made you smile today?

[jenks69]

Two days later and my Stilo now has new discs and pads all round, new handbrake cable and not too much more needed for the MOT! New caliper seals on the way as one gator totally wrecked and piston seal all but gone!

My smile is that in two days of sweat and tears there was no blood sacrifice :slayer::slayer::slayer::slayer:

 

[dtimmins1985]

Public transport is abysmal in Northern Ireland. Not only does it cost me nearly £5 for a single fare of 5.5 miles into the city.. but the busses have a tendency to not stop at my rural stop.... But hey, we have a bus service. What we don’t have is a government... I often wonder what the rest of the UK must think about us! Lol

I am in Northern Ireland tomorrow and yea - i get what your saying about the buses.

I am staying at the Jurys Inn and then have to head up to Castlereagh Rd to do some IT work in the office near Aldi.

It would have been cheaper to get a taxi to Leeds Bradford Airport, then hire a car for the rest of my visit - off the top of my head, its cost £140ish just to park in the long stay car park at LBA and use the lounge before my flight, thats without factoring in two buses in belfast and two taxi's - that would take it to around £185 ish...

Two taxi's (to and from LBA) would be around £50 max, hire car around £50, fuel £20 tops... a saving of over £80... however, work prefer me to do it the way i have done it, it would be different i was a manager though

 

[PuntoHowTo]

The SpaceX falcon heavy successfully launched tonight, carrying a Tesla into space and towards mars with the roof down, a dummy in the drivers seat and David Bowie playing on the radio and “don’t panic” written on the dash.

What was more impressive was the incredible feat of the two stage one booster rockets landing themselves perfectly together like a carefully coordinated ballet, just with enormous multi-million dollar rockets

 

[jackwhoo]

The SpaceX falcon heavy successfully launched tonight, carrying a Tesla into space and towards mars with the roof down, a dummy in the drivers seat and David Bowie playing on the radio and “don’t panic” written on the dash.

What was more impressive was the incredible feat of the two stage one booster rockets landing themselves perfectly together like a carefully coordinated ballet, just with enormous multi-million dollar rockets

Unfortunately it has now gone off course .

 

[JCarp16]

Unfortunately it has now gone off course .

Not content with covering our planet with rubbish and pollution it seems we're now looking to the stars...

 

[werdna]

I thought they changed their mind and sent a mannequin instead of the Dummy Trump

 

[PuntoHowTo]

Unfortunately it has now gone off course .

Given they thought it had a 50/50 chance of blowing up on the launch pad, I suspect they’ll still be happy with that result.

Not content with covering our planet with rubbish and pollution it seems we're now looking to the stars...

We’ve been firing junk in to space for decades, there is rather a lot of space so this is insignificant in the grand scheme of things and given that it was a test launch they would normally be sending up large blocks of pointless concrete.

Pollution in space is a very different thing to pollution on our planet

 

[jackwhoo]

Given they thought it had a 50/50 chance of blowing up on the launch pad, I suspect they’ll still be happy with that result.



We’ve been firing junk in to space for decades, there is rather a lot of space so this is insignificant in the grand scheme of things and given that it was a test launch they would normally be sending up large blocks of pointless concrete.

Pollution in space is a very different thing to pollution on our planet

Thank goodness.
Fair amount of pollution getting it into space perhaps?

 

[StevenRB45]

Got a new set of wipers because there was an offer on Bosch aerotwins (20 quid for the pair delivered)..

I now realise how much denial I was in about the 2 year old set of aerotwins I was replacing..

 

[JCarp16]

Given they thought it had a 50/50 chance of blowing up on the launch pad, I suspect they’ll still be happy with that result.



We’ve been firing junk in to space for decades, there is rather a lot of space so this is insignificant in the grand scheme of things and given that it was a test launch they would normally be sending up large blocks of pointless concrete.

Pollution in space is a very different thing to pollution on our planet

Until, one day you're pootling along in your shiny new spaceship, when crash*bang*wallop a piece of debris takes your face off. Now try telling me it's not an issue.

 

[JCarp16]

This! The Rock defies the laws of physics... Or does he? https://www.boredpanda.com/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-skyscraper-jump-funny-reactions/

 

[PuntoHowTo]

Until, one day you're pootling along in your shiny new spaceship, when crash*bang*wallop a piece of debris takes your face off. Now try telling me it's not an issue.

33million miles to mars from earth and this car is headed for an asteroid belt which contains more than a million asteroids more than 1 km across.. I don’t think this car is going to be your main issue, when you get your shiny new spaceship.

Every atom of that car would have come from space, and space is infinitely hospitable to life, the problem with pollution on our plannet is the affect it has on the life that’s hear.

You could make a similar argument, that there you hurtling through space on your little blue plannet when crash*bang*wallop a 100km wide meteor crashes into you. Now that’s an issue!

If only we had some sort of rocket we could use to defend our selves from such and event, or just stick to living in caves and keep our fingers crossed.

If it’s such an issue then give up your car right now and take to walking everywhere, as a 2 minute drive up the road to buy milk will have a bigger impact on our planet than that Tesla will have on the whole of space.

 

[PuntoHowTo]

Thank goodness.
Fair amount of pollution getting it into space perhaps?

You could set 100 nuclear bombs off in space 200,000km from earth (still a lot closer than the moon) and it wouldn’t make the slightest difference to anyone.

Thousands of tons of material falls to earth from space every year, some of it man made but most of it is debris floating around in space, and pretty much all of it radioactive.

This little car makes so little difference to the whole of space, every breath you take in and out makes a bigger difference to earth.

 

[JCarp16]

33million miles to mars from earth and this car is headed for an asteroid belt which contains more than a million asteroids more than 1 km across.. I don’t think this car is going to be your main issue, when you get your shiny new spaceship.

Every atom of that car would have come from space, and space is infinitely hospitable to life, the problem with pollution on our plannet is the affect it has on the life that’s hear.

You could make a similar argument, that there you hurtling through space on your little blue plannet when crash*bang*wallop a 100km wide meteor crashes into you. Now that’s an issue!

If only we had some sort of rocket we could use to defend our selves from such and event, or just stick to living in caves and keep our fingers crossed.

If it’s such an issue then give up your car right now and take to walking everywhere, as a 2 minute drive up the road to buy milk will have a bigger impact on our planet than that Tesla will have on the whole of space.

Well Star Trek the Motion picture tells me something different. With the computing power aboard that Tesla - it could return in several decades as an angry sentient being covered in gubbins.

 

[jackwhoo]

You could set 100 nuclear bombs off in space 200,000km from earth (still a lot closer than the moon) and it wouldn’t make the slightest difference to anyone.

Thousands of tons of material falls to earth from space every year, some of it man made but most of it is debris floating around in space, and pretty much all of it radioactive.

This little car makes so little difference to the whole of space, every breath you take in and out makes a bigger difference to earth.

You have missed the point.
There is an issue with polluting planet earth.

 

[PuntoHowTo]

You have missed the point.
There is an issue with polluting planet earth.

Then why are you complaining about polluting space.

 

[jackwhoo]

Then why are you complaining about polluting space.

I didn't.
Hence you are missing the point.

 

[PuntoHowTo]

Then you’re going to have to explain what you meant.

Thank goodness.
Fair amount of pollution getting it into space perhaps?

Having re-read what you said you seem to be suggesting we fire pollution into space ??

 

[jackwhoo]

Then you’re going to have to explain what you meant.



Having re-read what you said you seem to be suggesting we fire pollution into space ??

It appears clear - fair amount of pollution getting it (Tesla) into space

 

[Eklipze3k]

It appears clear - fair amount of pollution getting it (Tesla) into space

Scientific advancement isn't a clean process, sadly. However, more pollution comes from cows. What would you suggest we do there?