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[MaverickSawyer]

What is small? And can you make a laser hit just the debris and not everything before and behind it?

Size of a fist and smaller. As for not hitting whatever's behind it, that's going to be the tricky part, but I'm pretty sure that careful timing would be able to manage the majority of the instances where there could be a conflict.

 

[C3PO]

No, not at all - usually we also had the rain during the strongest gusts, when a thunderstorm augmented the storm.

On Heligoland and Borkum we had measured mind-blowing 191 km/h during a gust (All time record in German history); A place in Denmark got 193 km/h winds.

This is really weird. We usually get hit by those depressions before they reach Europe, but the last few days have been quite nice.

In 1988 an anemometer (just under 2 km from my home) hit 215 km/h before the mast buckled. I wonder if that gust would have made it into the record books.

 

[Urwumpe]

In Sankt-Peter-Ordning, they measured 172 km/h yesterday, the strongest gust ever measured in the flatlands...

 

[Athena]

172 km/h yesterday, the strongest gust ever measured in the flatlands...

That...is one thing i am not going to deal with anytime soon. :uhh:

We got a Tropical Depression heading right for us right now, and its still far out sea...most likely going to become a Typhoon before landfall.

 

[MattBaker]

Riding the train into a big city (nightlife) on Halloween evening when the next day is public holiday.

Now I know what was wrong with my planning.:facepalm:

 

[Quick_Nick]

The Sun is getting excited for Halloween.

"Earth orbiting satellites have just detected another strong solar flare, this one from departing sunspot AR1875. The blast, which peaked on Oct. 29th at approximately 2148 UT (02:48 PDT), measured X2 on the Richter Scale of Solar Flares. NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash"

"X-class flares are big; they are major events that can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms."

A few other X-class flares in recent days; here's today's:

 

[MattBaker]

The Sun is getting excited for Halloween.

The Sun is waving* at us before it takes a vacation (for a few minutes).


*bad pun towards waves, wavelength and ultraviolet radiation

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Didn't realize until today that my recently operational smartphone uses GLONASS in addition to GPS for position determination! :speakcool: I'm glad that there is a direct daily use of the fruits of the Russian spaceflight industry within my own hands...

 

[tblaxland]

Chris Hadfield ejected from movie theatre for loudly heckling Gravity: :lol:

Responding to numerous patron complaints, the staff of the Empire Theatres Waterloo reportedly removed famed Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield after he would not stop heckling a screening of Gravity, the space thriller that has recently dominated the domestic box office.
...
Witnesses report that he did not go quietly. One patron recalled, “The last thing I heard him yelling was, ‘Have you been to space? Because I’ve been to space!’”

BTW, highest recorded wind speed was in Australia at 408 km/h :blink: That was on an island off the coast - highest on the mainland was 267 km/h. Locally, we had 94 km/h yesterday and it's been an unusually windy month - 18 days with gusts > 50 km/h. Add that to the 7 days > 30 deg C and you can see why our firefighters have been so busy. Nice spring so far

 

[RisingFury]

The Sun is waving* at us before it takes a vacation (for a few minutes).

I think it's more like a sneeze...

 

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24741832

Dell users:
I wonder what my compaq smells of?

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24741832

Dell users:
I wonder what my compaq smells of?

N.

My Medion smells like a drink called Diesel, a mixture of beer and Cola...oh wait....source identified.

 

[N_Molson]

...rather a mixture of beer and coffee... Hmm, has someone tried to mix both in one glass ? That would save time... :hmm: :stirpot:

... but at the price of

 

[Urwumpe]

...rather a mixture of beer.....

There is beer in France??? :blink:

 

[N_Molson]

There is beer in France???

"Classic" white or blonde beer from Britanny :

Very strong beer (15% vol.) :

Another small quality brewery from Vendée :

etc...

Now I totally agree this is an insult to beer if it's what you meant :

 

[Notebook]

Aren't they Lagers?

N.

 

[MattBaker]

I thought whole Brittany would drink cider.:lol:

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Chris Hadfield ejected from movie theatre for loudly heckling Gravity: :lol:

I think thats a joke. I hope so anyways :lol:

Have you been to SPAAACE lately?

 

[jedidia]

The Sun is getting excited for Halloween.

Let's just really hope it doesn't go "trick or treat" on us... :blink:

I think thats a joke. I hope so anyways

On the beaverton? no way, those guys are always dead serious... :shifty:

 

[Linguofreak]

I think thats a joke. I hope so anyways :lol:

From the site that published this, I think so.

More to the point, this: http://www.thebeaverton.com/disclaimer