Yes! You must have recorded it on a TDK AD-C90 or something!

Those were the days …. brains in buckets ….

Yes indeed - 20 years ago …. I don’t think we’ve changed much :-)

I think we should go for both - sort of like the 12 days of Christmas. A 2 week-long Feast of Astronomy.

Huge congratulations - I agree that completing a PhD is both tremendously difficult and tremendously rewarding.

It does doesn’t it! Total bollocks.

:-)

I could not agree more. I think most people vote optimistically - for the party they believe will offer a better future. Aiming for competence is not a compelling vision, although admittedly at the last election it was sufficient given the circumstances!

I don’t agree. I can’t see the big picture - what is the U.K’s place in the world? Are we to regain our place in Europe or attempt to be a lower-tax, deregulated country which is more US facing? The big strategic questions can’t be dodged much longer.

It’s called Titanic.

Yes. I’m pretty fed up with ‘red lines’.

I still agree with myself - I think that was 2014!

It is the same, yes. Which leads to the twins paradox. The resolution is the symmetry between the clocks is broken when one accelerates (changes direction) to return and meet the other. If you google it, note that the AI summary is wrong. You don’t need General Relativity to deal with the problem.

Everyone has to have the same protection going down there whether they are mining or not - so I suppose it’s to do with mining!

It’s a very impressive operation. The first time I went down was in the late ‘90s. Maybe he was as manager then?