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Ha ha!

I also hate divers watches and starmer.

Johnson is getting an absolute kicking here isn't he. Lovely.

Such an arrogant entitled cunt sack...

(North) London Fixated Groupies Socialist Skiderti

This is fucked up:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/22/eunuch-maker-appears-london-court-gbh-charges-castration

Fucked up, indeed.

Wish I hadn’t clicked on that

The Star always brighten up my day with their front page

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Good to see toads getting some much-deserved love, too.

This story about Scottish hospitals retaining deceased childrens body parts without consent is immeasurably distressing and sad.

Lowering the tone somewhat..

https://www.nockolds.co.uk/farting-barrister-wins-135k-in-employment-tribunal/

Edit to add.. @Howard apologies if trivialising the story above which is horrible..

So the end of the world is nigh. Anyone else slightly dubious about their claims there's "no chance" it'll hit earth as it passes between us & the moon when they can't even get the size locked down between 40-90m wide? I'm no scientist but surely there's at least a teenie tiny chance?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/24/city-killer-asteroid-to-pass-harmlessly-between-earth-and-moon

Developments in quite a notorious Irish murder and subsequent botched police investigation

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0324/1366037-kerry-babies/

Also not a scientist but presumably it's easier to track the precise location of something like that than accurately determine its size.

If they where something in space has been, they know where it's going with very high accuracy.

Not really. You calculate the orbit/position based on its position in the sky relative to stars. You calculate its size based on brightness. As you're measuring two different things, uncertainty about one doesn't mean uncertainty about the other

Like a car driving towards you with headlights on. You don't need to know what colour it is to know where it's going

Who knows - just seems odd to say no chance on predicting a trajectory when the size could be over 100% bigger than the estimate.

Would be cool to see it go past though!

The Chelyabinsk airburst occurred on the same day as a large asteroid flypast. Although apparently unrelated

Still suspicious it might get trapped in our orbit, wipe out all the satellites before spiralling towards the surface causing a new ice age as the debris blocks the sun for a millennia.

We can but hope.

Like a car driving towards you with headlights on. You don't need to know what colour it is to know where it's going

If the car is heading away from you, it's red. If it's heading towards you, it's blue. SCIENCE!

I think you're confusing redshift with brake lights

might head to the pub now just in case.

For six pints of bitter?

towel at the ready