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I presume you would have to come down these backwards rather than forwards? Might be a pain in the long run. Steve.

The explanation behind the quote was not in your comment Ike! Glad he agrees with me :lol: :lol: Steve

Prof Hawking therefore scoops the award for stating the bleedin obvious! Its not supposed to be as powerful as the universe for goodness sake! Would you want the power of the universe at the fingertips of man?! Feeble compared to the creation of the universe could still be pretty powerful to be...

James Brown - self styled godfather of Soul for the Bishop. Its a difficult one since to recognise a performer from a silhouette really limits your choices. Who would you recognise at the size of a chess piece in this form? If you are not limited to people, then symbology may be better - a...

Can you buy off the shelf 4'x8' sheds? Looking recently standard sizes seemed to be 4'x6', 5'x7' and 6'x8'. My answer would depend on another question - what do you want to use it for? If its to store the lawnmower and garden fork etc then buy one. Building costs more (although quality is...

Agreed, yes I think Hamilton deserves the win. However, his problem was not in giving the place back, it was in taking it straight back again down the straight with the use of the tow from the Ferrari. If he had let Raikkonen lead into the next corner at the bottom of the straight he would not...

Ooh, a long time ago yes - used to build them out of poles and rope as a scout and fling potato bombs across a field. Agree that a tennis ball is not a good projectile - too light. If they will not accept golf ball try and go for cricket ball :wink: Steve.

No such thing as a Science Council as a single all encompassing entity Roy, but then again 'Science' is such an all encompassing term, covering R+D for industry, through pharmaceutical research, medical research, private research and governement and state sponsored research to name but a few...

Excellent! Skills I can only dream of. At the end it says they were excerpts from a longer film - dont have a link to the whole thing by any chance do you Wizer? Steve.

How are you funding scientific research Rich? And how do you judge what the truth is? How do you decide whether you are being ripped off or not as a taxpayer? Is it as simple as whether you agree with the results of the scientific evidence produced? There seems to be a general consensus that...

Speaking as a scientist (although not a climate change one) I DO take offence at the suggestion that most scientists are concerned only with self-perpetuation of their own careers and are dishonest Andy As an editor of a journal it is your job to try and ensure only good quality peer reviewed...

Why does that surprise you Roger - there has been religious education in schools since schooling began but if you made the suggestion that pupils got 2 hours a week on the science of evolution and the debunking of a belief system based on the absence of evidence I think you would meet with some...

Noooooo, don't tell me CDs will disappear - my grand plan (thought up at two in the morning while a little worse for wear, ahem) was to scroll jigsaw puzzles out of CD covers and flog them to puzzle loving music junkies. Sigh, I need another idea for Dragons Den now :( Steve.

If you say there should be compulsory voting, how do you plan to police this and what would the penalty be for not voting? How about the million people who were ill on voting day, or were run over, or were delayed by a rail strike, or any one of a number of reasonable reasons why they couldnt be...

What annoyed me about the closing ceremony/handover was our insistence on using David Beckham for anything associated with sport. We do not even have an olympic football team yet here he comes again - ambassador for our nation. Surely a former olympian such as Daly Thompson would have been a...

Some very nice cutting there Gill, done WHW proud :D Steve.

pfft, sailing - 15 races and still no winner yet! :lol: Now track cycling - one world record, one gold medal and one olympic record on day one alone. I am with Paul on this one, although I will miss tomorrow as I am off on holiday. Wonder if SWMBO will let me take my laptop... Steve.

Personally I watch it whenever I can, always been keen but mostly on the cycling and athletics - the horse riding and swimmimg I can take or leave. Phelps is certainly an exceptional swimmer, but the greatest Olympian ever? Not to my mind. Bet he will not be doing it in 5 successive games like...

Thanks - seems that of all the machines to extract the scrollsaw is not high up on the list. I do little enough I think that a face mask might be the way to go if I am scrolling MDF. Steve.

I learnt fairly early on in my marriage that 'I don't care' and 'I don't mind' is the most important distinction you can make in a conversation with the missus. What colour do you thing the curtains should be? I don't care will get you a week of grief, I don't mind (which to a bloke is the...