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Love the gauges and switch gear, you may be building an e-type or it may be a spitfire. Have you had to make many tough decisions when it comes to purity versus sensible modern upgrades?

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Currently unemployed. What of it?

I really enjoyed the day, having no prior experience and a complacent view on how easy it was going to be, I learnt a lot. Would definitely recommend for anyone wanting to learn in a controlled environment, there isn't anything driving related you can ask the instructors at CAT they won't be able to help out with. I think I was most impressed when, after a day of trying to nail a drift, we challenged instructor Paul to show us how it's done, so he jumped in Wazzo's V8 Zed (a totally unique vehicle) and showed us how it's done in about 30 seconds flat.

Love all those paragraphs of sideshow, attempting to diffuse and cloud the issue at hand, all of which can be summed up in the simple phrase “based on current evidence”. Do you concede that bubbles can exist within water? Demonstrating that the surface of water can be curved when being acted upon by variables such as pressure, gravity, temperature and surface tension?

If google water bubble, see what comes up.

Case closed, cuff ‘em boys.

Where the hell is mustard in the poll?

Apparently NASA do it to protect their state funding. No ones really sure why they get paid more for a globe. Probably some sort of tie in deal with the Premier League.

When a serious challenge is made to something that has been claimed, it’s done so by applying the scientific method. Findings are published and peer reviewed to discern if the method and findings were rigorous and stand up to challenge. They don’t make a youtube and then say, “Ha ha, disproved!”. Where is this serious science in FE? There literally is none. Not a single piece. It’s the exact same pseudo-scientific fabrication as other conjecture like Intelligent Design. Never once proven, in any shape or form. In all of the many posts you’ve made in here, not one has any grounding in anything other than anecdote. You can’t pick and choose which science bits you agree and disagree with on a whim, because you’re not backing the hypothesis that you want so desperately to be true, you’re backing the process. The best bit of science is the constant challenges, but do it with rigour, not stories.

When you dismiss evidence derived from the scientific method, recreated by totally independent individuals across many different organisations and countries, in favour of anecdotes and conjecture. How do you reconcile that with, at the same time, benefiting from the conveniences that the very same scientific method provides? Things like the internet, healthcare, your camera or your 350z? Is there a system for cherry picking which bits of science are “true” or is it just a matter of accepting anything that’s convenient/useful?

You gotta treat them right on Valentine’s Day

Got my free tyre dressing yesterday

For the colour restore to black I really like this: Get it really clean first with something like diluted IPA

Dunno about buy locally but Bathe+ tops up SiO2 coatings nicely. I also quick detail with CarPro Reload from time to time for the same reason. http://gyeonquartz.com/product/batheplus/ https://carpro.uk.com/products/reload-inorganic-spray-coating-500ml-2015-edition That said, given the alleged “harder than glass, lasts for a million years” stuff that goes with coatings, it’s hard to imagine just regular car shampoo will do any harm.

If only someone had succesfully mapped it since the 1700s, gosh darn it It’s laughable that the constraints of 300 year old ship technology are completely disregarded when questioning why he wasn’t able to fully investigate some of the most dangerous waters on the planet. Even to this day it remains perilous to sail these waters, with advanced weather prediction and more resilient craft. That’s without questioning why he might spend less time investigating uninhabited ice when there was bountiful resources to steal from natives in warmer climes.

Weirdly, when you “research” actual flights, the Emirati based airlines stop in the Emirates and the Mauritius based ones stop in Mauritius. #fakenews

Next time you’re over, please can you ask them what their mathematical model is for predicting eclipses?

Are we really talking flat earth on here? We may as well start sacrificing goats in the hope for a bountiful petrol harvest at the garage The pseudo-scientific experiments/arguments are merritless, it’s a fabrication by a small group of people who have FE t-shirts and bumper stickers to sell to a public who, on the one hand are happy to have phones and internet and x-ray machines and aeroplanes, but in the same breath reject the very scientific method that made all those things possible. If you want to reject it, fine, but leave your car and your central heating and your healthcare behind as well. I get some people just want to believe in conspiracies, it makes them feel different and special and part of something, they fear the uncertainty of science, the idea that when some new evidence comes along, we just throw the previous hypothesis away and start again. This is seen as a weakness, but it’s obviously science’s greatest strength. The idea of dogmatically sticking to something, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary (or a complete absence of evidence), just because it’s comforting is bonkers. But all that’s just a psychological thing, it has no grounding in genuine discovery of anything new.

It's the coolest natural place I've ever been. If you ever get the chance to go, do it! Stay in a salt hotel, watch the astonishing night sky (with zero light pollution) then get really drunk on the local booze and annoy the Swiss couple you're travelling with by being incredibly slow to get up at 5am, with a horrible hangover, to go and watch the sun rise.

“Simplify, then add lightness.”

”Few items in the foreground”. So the astronauts plus, anything that doesn’t fit in with the narrative

Love the chocolate experiment @coldel

Same way anyone knows anything. It's what the bulk of evidence currently at our disposal supports.

When contemplating changes in the observed universe during the time of humans, you should consider that if the history of the universe is the size of a football pitch, then all of human history is an area the size of your hand.