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Mars landing
5 Aug 2012

All best wishes and hopes to NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover today. This SUV-sized rover – the largest NASA has ever attempted to place on Mars – is due to attempt its daring landing on the Red Planet at 10:31 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on August 5 (5:31 UTC on August 6, 2012).

Does anyone know anything about this - seen Tuesday near Mamhead obelisk?

On Tuesday the sea-wall path from the Warren to Dawlish was packed with walkers - but weather was better then

diving birds?
1 Aug 2012

On one of the far flung Scottish islands (can't remember which one) Gannets are the local delicacy - I think they are equally difficult to prepare and also involve some risk to life and limb in catching them.

I wonder what Coroebus would have thought about the disqualified badminton players today - not Olympian spirit.

Tarmac Dawlish
1 Aug 2012

@Nelson , lynne.  belated thanks.  walking back from mamhead obelisk to dawlish yesterday and found the marker for the cliff-top cyclepath.

@Andysport .  at last, good to find another mathematician in the community here - we're a rare breed aren't we.  perhaps you can help.  do you know of any integer solutions to x 3 + y 3 = z 3 ?

That got me thinking.  How come a humble Greek baker managed to win the Olympic race against all those naked, honed greek athletes?  And why wasn't the event recorded in the annals?  So I have an idea of how he won and this is how Homer might have written it as an epic poem .....  By the way Greek and Roman poets were often a bit bawdy so anyone who might blush easily should not read on - have ...

26 Jul 2012

The original naked chef too I believe!

diving birds?
25 Jul 2012

If they're white and sleek they are probably terns - right time of year for them

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