The Entertaining Pictures Thread
I like marmite, but even I wouldn't want that.
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Insane_Homer
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“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
https://www.farmersguide.co.uk/british- ... -in-spain/
Seemed too ridiculous, even for food labelling tricks.
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Tanker coming in to land off Falmouth
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There are only so many polite words that come to mind when one spots a ship apparently hovering above the ocean during a stroll along the English coastline.
David Morris, who captured the extraordinary sight on camera, declared himself “stunned” when he noticed a giant tanker floating above the water as he looked out to sea from a hamlet near Falmouth in Cornwall.
The effect is an example of an optical illusion known as a superior mirage. Such illusions are reasonably common in the Arctic but can also happen in UK winters when the atmospheric conditions are right, though they are very rare.
The illusion is caused by a meteorological phenomenon called a temperature inversion. Normally, the air temperature drops with increasing altitude, making mountaintops colder than the foothills. But in a temperature inversion, warm air sits on top of a band of colder air, playing havoc with our visual perception. The inversion in Cornwall was caused by chilly air lying over the relatively cold sea with warmer air above.
Because cold air is denser than warm air, it has a higher refractive index. In the case of the “hovering ship”, this means light rays coming from the ship are bent downwards as it passes through the colder air, to observers on the shoreline. This makes the ship appear in a higher position than it really is – in this instance, above the sea surface.
“Superior mirages occur because of the weather condition known as a temperature inversion, where cold air lies close to the sea with warmer air above it,” said David Braine, a BBC meteorologist. “Since cold air is denser than warm air, it bends light towards the eyes of someone standing on the ground or on the coast, changing how a distant object appears.”
David Morris, who captured the extraordinary sight on camera, declared himself “stunned” when he noticed a giant tanker floating above the water as he looked out to sea from a hamlet near Falmouth in Cornwall.
The effect is an example of an optical illusion known as a superior mirage. Such illusions are reasonably common in the Arctic but can also happen in UK winters when the atmospheric conditions are right, though they are very rare.
The illusion is caused by a meteorological phenomenon called a temperature inversion. Normally, the air temperature drops with increasing altitude, making mountaintops colder than the foothills. But in a temperature inversion, warm air sits on top of a band of colder air, playing havoc with our visual perception. The inversion in Cornwall was caused by chilly air lying over the relatively cold sea with warmer air above.
Because cold air is denser than warm air, it has a higher refractive index. In the case of the “hovering ship”, this means light rays coming from the ship are bent downwards as it passes through the colder air, to observers on the shoreline. This makes the ship appear in a higher position than it really is – in this instance, above the sea surface.
“Superior mirages occur because of the weather condition known as a temperature inversion, where cold air lies close to the sea with warmer air above it,” said David Braine, a BBC meteorologist. “Since cold air is denser than warm air, it bends light towards the eyes of someone standing on the ground or on the coast, changing how a distant object appears.”
Nah, it's just fallen off the edge of the flat earth, and because gravity isn't real it's follow the density gradient off the edge, so going up /flatearthernonsense.
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Happyhooker
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I'll have you know that me and my cousin father brother were discussing this with our mother sister and she agreed that's it's all true!
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UK based, if anyone can help?
“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
Isn’t that one of the models removed from the market because of fire risk?
Especially for mat the expat
Japanese samurai sword, The Sword Of Heaven is forged from a meteorite that landed in Namibia 4 billion years ago. The renowned blacksmith Yoshindo Yoshi crafted the blade of the sword from a fragment of the massive Gibeon iron meteorite. Making it out of this world.
Japanese samurai sword, The Sword Of Heaven is forged from a meteorite that landed in Namibia 4 billion years ago. The renowned blacksmith Yoshindo Yoshi crafted the blade of the sword from a fragment of the massive Gibeon iron meteorite. Making it out of this world.
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mat the expat
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Yoshi is the son of Yoshihara - very coolKiwias wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:14 am Especially for mat the expat
Japanese samurai sword, The Sword Of Heaven is forged from a meteorite that landed in Namibia 4 billion years ago. The renowned blacksmith Yoshindo Yoshi crafted the blade of the sword from a fragment of the massive Gibeon iron meteorite. Making it out of this world.
His style of blade (Bizen) is very much in my style of liking
mat the expat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 11:14 amYoshi is the son of Yoshihara - very coolKiwias wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:14 am Especially for mat the expat
Japanese samurai sword, The Sword Of Heaven is forged from a meteorite that landed in Namibia 4 billion years ago. The renowned blacksmith Yoshindo Yoshi crafted the blade of the sword from a fragment of the massive Gibeon iron meteorite. Making it out of this world.
His style of blade (Bizen) is very much in my style of liking
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Insane_Homer
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“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
Japan's 2011 tsunami, then and now - in pictures
What a difference 10 years makes!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021 ... -pictures
What a difference 10 years makes!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021 ... -pictures
£500,000 plus for some new HiFi kit 
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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Dan D’Agostino Relentless power amplifier, from £250,000 forapair; dCS Vivaldi system (DAC, upsampler, transport and clock), £85,000; Dan D’Agostino Momentum HD preamplifier, £81,000; and Transparent Magnum Opus cable, from £23,000; all from Absolute Sounds (absolute sounds.com)
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Not using Monster Cables,so obviously a 2nd rate system ....SaintK wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 3:46 pm £500,000 plus for some new HiFi kit
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