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neilh

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Linked-in is like a business version fo Facebook.  It's been around for years and basically lets you keep in contact with business associates/contacts.  There are a number of specialist groups for specific business areas.

Yes, well spotted - looks like a spoof!!  But who would plant a butterfly like this in the middle of nowhere?

Mars landing
6 Aug 2012

Here's an amazing picture of the Curiosity lander parachuting down to the martian surface.

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 ?