Whitey Grandad

Number 16 for me. I'm very pleased to see that they do this. My granddaughter #2 was born two days before Christmas without a bladder and with other problems so she was taken up to Great Ormond Street and operated upon at 7pm on Christmas Eve. The place was deserted, partly because Robbie Williams (I think)was visiting one of the wards and all the nurses wanted to see him. Thanks to the surgeons and staff at the hospital she is doing ok and will be twelve years old this Christmas.

To get the shots showing a blue earth with swirling white clouds you need to be a long way out in space, not impossible I grant you but before the landings nobody ever thought it would look like this so why would any conspirator have done so? I'm saying that the flag did not move when it was not being moved by a human agent. This would not have been possible with people moving around it unless they were in a vacuum. The dust was blown away from the ground under the lander. Dust in a vacuum will not return because there is no air motion to carry it. Sun and shadows on the earth are completely different from a lunar environment. The was an attempted reconstruction made at night time in the desert to try to reproduce the type of shots that were taken on the moon and they were reasonably similar. This is not a typical earth-bound situation.

This is all getting a bit heavy for a Wednesday moring. We are venturing into the realms of determining the nature of existence itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary/secondary_quality_distinction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

Indeed. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. Of course the landings were genuine. The clincher for me is the way that the image of the Earth is portrayed ever since the landings. Before them it was always shown like it is in atlases with no clouds and nothing like as blue as we now know it to be. As for the flag, the important fact is that it doesn't wave when nobody is waving it by twisting the pole. If there were any air around then it would move at the slightest breath. I remember one comment saying that the moon lander's feet pads should be covered in dust because when it landed all the dust would be blown about and some was bound to have landed on them but any derbrain would understand that the dust would all be blown away from the lander and would follow ballistic trajectories and not return to cover the feet. The arguments that the conspiracists put forward all seem to be based on a lack of understanding of the physics of space.

Please remember that some drivers may not be local, the road markings may be obscured by other vehicles and that at nighttime when it's raining it can be impossible to see any markings at all.

They're not. There are some very strict fitness tests that they have to pass.

Nobody in that photo is committing an offence. It's what happened later that matters.

What is that photo suposed to illustrate?

Ah, I thought it was free when I first got it. £3 seems a lot for any App.

It's responsible for broadcasting the recording and promoting their actions. You should never broadcast anything without the other party's permission, in the same way that you shouldn't publish photographs without approval.

I use Tapatalk, it's free.

There does not have to be contact for it to be a foul. The wording of the law is 'trip or attempt to trip'. Having said that, you would normally only give a foul if the offended player had found it necessary to take evasive action from the swinging leg and thereby had lost possession, or maybe stumbled.

Names?

Who are we going to blame?

Sir Patrick Moore, please. I have always enjoyed his programmes and only yesterday I watched the most recent Sky at Night. A wonderful enthusiast for his subject and the heavens will seem a little bit emptier. Perhaps they can name a star after him? I have his Atlas of the universe from 1970, I must go there someday. Thanks, old chap.

If I survive, can I come on here for advice? It's not the apocalypse that worries me, it's having to rely on you lot afterwards.

No, I can't agree with that. Don't stick anything in your ears that's smaller than your elbow.

Wasn't there a foul just before the ball hit Mertesacker?

They didn't show it on MOTD, shame as I was looking forward to seeing it again. Where did you see it?

Yes, but that was every week.

So do I.

He did ok. Shame he didn't score.

I know what it isn't.

Why not combine both?