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From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 15 Apr 2010 16:59 On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:48:00 +0100, steve auvache <dont_spam(a)thecow.me.uk> wrote in <pTPNORBwzvxLFwKi(a)auvache.force9.co.uk>: > In article <hq6u7d$pq9$1(a)news.albasani.net>, crn(a)NOSPAM.netunix.com > writes >>ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: >>> I flew in from Zurich last night, leaving three of my colleagues behind >>> to fly back this morning. They're now stuck in Zurich for at least >>> another day while I sit at home on the sofa with my feet up. Haha. >>Probably longer, all of the planes are in the wrong place to get started. >>Bristol and Cardiff are landing flights destined for Birmingham and >>northwards and scratching around for busses to take the passengers onward. >>Even if the volcano stops erupting and/or the upper winds change direction >>it is going to take a fair while to get the planes and crews positioned >>to restart flights. > It gets worse. My BBC is reporting that the loan defaulting scum are > predicting another volcano is just about to blow and may be even bigger. I liked the coment: "Memo to Iceland, we said send *C*ash!" -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
From: wessie on 15 Apr 2010 17:18 Mike Buckley <Mike(a)hotmail.com> wrote in news:$j4rvOars3xLFwqy(a)hotmail.com: > Not sure I'd be that happy as a paying > customer being told "it's ok" when every other bloody plane in the UK is > on the runway. > bragging rights in the fora, "I flew when even Ryanair thought it was unsafe"
From: Mike Buckley on 15 Apr 2010 17:30 In message <Xns9D5BE2E558649wtymmmsas(a)188.40.43.245>, wessie <putmynamehere(a)tesco.net> writes >Mike Buckley <Mike(a)hotmail.com> wrote in news:$j4rvOars3xLFwqy(a)hotmail.com: > >> Not sure I'd be that happy as a paying >> customer being told "it's ok" when every other bloody plane in the UK is >> on the runway. >> > > >bragging rights in the fora, "I flew when even Ryanair thought it was >unsafe" It's ok, we can go around if we miss the runway, not like there are any trees nearby or anything. -- Mike Buckley RD350LC2 CB72
From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 15 Apr 2010 17:47 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, zymurgy <zymurgy(a)technologist.com> typed > >Looks like Mu will need to set an extra place setting :-) Our friends are currently in the air betwixt San Diego and Chicago, en-route to us. We haven't bothered changing the sheets on the spare bed yet... -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: ts on 15 Apr 2010 17:54
Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote: > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The village > previously known as Charlie <nospam(a)all.ta> typed > >On 15/04/2010 14:28, prawn wrote: > > > >> How about this.<http://www.flickr.com/photos/ice-cold/4497761488/> > >> > >> Aurora and volcano in one shot. > > > >Tuh, and there was I expecting a photo of a secret US spy-plane. > > > >Beautiful photo, tho-but. > > Clearly photoshopped. > > The ash cloud is all wrong. How should it have been, then? With a longish exposure and some wind, I'd expect it to look blurred like that. <fires up Starry Night> Also, the location of the constellations match what would be seen in the north-easterly direction at 11-12 pm at that latitude, from Lyra (with Vega) in left centre to Corona borealis at the right. -- ts in Surrey // to send e-mail, remove vehicle K-RS 8v, 80/7, 750SS |