Whitey Grandad

But he doesn't know what he did, only what he didn't which was to be driving the car at 11:00 am.

I don't hold with the conspiracy theory in the slightest, but aren't the reflectors designed to reflect light back the way from which it came, a bit like the three-cornered mirrors or indeed a bicycle reflector?

Not technically a crime, is it?

Well, if the time is wrong then the speed may be wrong too.

All very good points. And what about the 381 Kg of moon rock that has been brought back, of which 19.3Kg has been used for scientific study? This can be compared with the 130g returned by the Russian Luna missions.

Presumably the photo would be in daylight, and show who was driving?

Thanks. So basically you should use 'the appropriate lane'. In the case of the junction we were discussing earlier it hardly counts as a roundabout, what with all the traffic lights and separate controlled sections, but why would anybody be in the left lane if they wanted to turn right?

Exactly. Driver awareness and training are what's necessary but that involves a whole new attitude.

Spanish is straightforward. I am of the generation that did Latin at school as well as French. My wife did A-level French and German and I wanted to catch up with her so I learnt it at evening classes when I was in my thirties. Then some ten years ago we both started learning Spanish in the evenings and if you already have the grammatical structure from your other studies then it's just a matter of hanging the correct words on to it and learning the pronunciation. The same goes for Italian which I'm working on at the moment but that's only useful for holidays there. I would love to have a working knowledge of Chinese, Russian and Arabic one day but I'm getting a bit old for that. From a business or travel point if view I would recommend giving Spanish a try for a while and see how you like it. Just think of all those señoritas that you can impress. :-)

Six months, I believe.

That's if you believe that speed cameras lead to safer driving.

That's amazing! Why haven't you mentioned this before?

How so? Whatever action he (or she?) takes in relation to this event will not have any effect on the future. What matters is that everybody drives more sensibly and more carefully.

If the time is wrong then how do we know the speed was correct?

Channel 5, 8 o'clock tonight: 'Did We Land on the Moon?'

What does The Highway Code have to say about this situation these days?

Wasn't it always thus so?

...and the roads...

Going round the world in 30 days in February and seeing how small and close-knit we all are. Having a heart attack and a quad bypass in July. My hearfelt thanks to all you lot on here for helping me to get through it all and let's hope that 2013 is even better for everybody!

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.