As is the new normal we've been down about 12hrs now.

As is the new normal we've been down about 12hrs now.

Thank you sir, may the carp have another 12.

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Nah. it came back apx 13hrs.

You can easily buy cans of "rubber roller restorer" on Ebay. At election times our HQ office stuffing nachine goes through a 65,000 printing run. We need to stop half way and service it, as the rollers on the paper transport system, get very black and smooth and skid on the paper and envelopes. At home I can't be bothered to half dismantle a printer, so I live with it.

Cigarette lighter petrol or spirit (whiskey etc).

down again and it isn't just me.

Oh well, at least I can save the post into notepad.

And it came back up after about 3 minutes.

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down again and it isn't just me.

Oh well, at least I can save the post into notepad.

And it came back up after about 3 minutes.

Don't think Seti is down, but it is incredibly slow opening pages. Has been for well over an hour.

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I think "Staggering" would be an apt word - a bit like a drunk on the way home from a late night in the pub (you know, up, down, crawl, up......)

Just at the moment Seti appears to be ok, but time will tell.

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So last night I was watching the season 12 starter of Ancient aliens which started with the Breakthrough Listen initiative, and at around the 24 minute mark showed the Allen Telescope. From here there was a whole recount of the Wow! signal, a basic explanation of what Seti is still doing (without naming it), and ending with Giorgo walking between the telescopes talking to Seth Shostak about aliens, how to contact them and what we were looking for.

I was expecting something about that on the Seti boards, but just searched and.... nothing. Is everyone banned from watching this show? Or is everyone banned for discussing it because of the outer worldly claims they have? Or did you all just miss this? ;-) If you did, here is the Youtube video of that episode.

Perhaps that we can talk about the X-37B then as well? :)

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Let the weekly outrage begin....

(Why can't it have the decency to wait until I get back from lunch?)

The chief carp is out and about telling everyone how to live their life and run their, er his, project.

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Well, I'm going to ask everyone to behave and essentially do something for yourself. Watch the Eurovision Song Festival Pre-Final, or something.
As I won't be around tonight, as I'll be in the hospital having another MRI made. Not looking forward to that.

Tonight, you say? Yes, to lower waiting lists, they make them almost 24 hours a day. The thing is always on anyway, so why not utilize it then?
So my scan is at 9.30pm. Neck and shoulders, going to take approx 30 gruesome minutes. But this time I'm prepared and will bring along one of my Machinae Supremacy CDs. Hope their awesome music can overcome the awful noise the MRI makes. :)

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Hope the MRI goes ok Jord , least 1 thing i ain't allowed to have any of them now hehe .
Eurovision might watch it on Saturday if that Beardy tranny ain't on it again and wonder how Gt Britain will do P.M.S.L .
It's all fixed " blow sunshine up your neibours arses " and political as hell .
Spose 1 good thing is Grayham Norton taking the pee out of every contestant but never be as good as Sir Tel W !!!!

Dunno why the MRI makes that sort of noise, is it supposed to?

From Question of the Month: How does an MRI work, and why is it so noisy?:
An MRI is noisy because its magnetic field is created by running electrical current through a coiled wire—an electromagnet. When the current is switched on, there is an outward force all along the coil. And because the magnetic field is so strong, the force on the coil is very large.

When the current is switched on, the force on the coil goes from zero to huge in just milliseconds, causing the coil to expand slightly, which makes a loud "click." When the MRI is making an image, the current is switched on and off rapidly. The result is a rapid-fire clicking noise, which is amplified by the enclosed space in which the patient lies.

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The sooner we invent Bone's diagnostic couches from Star Trek, the better I would say :-)

Have to do something about it in the next decade or two , the helium used to cool the MRI's and CAT scanners is a finite resorce and when it's gone it's gone , unless they get fusion " licked " and then they can make Helium from Hydrogen but that's at least 50 + years away probably more like 100 years + away .
And been told that by people who know about gases there so ain't just hearsay .

He's alive!
And I can tell you, when you have music like this on your earphones, you don't hear the noise of the MRI. :-D

Now I know that for the future. The only thing that was a problem was that it was really hot in that tube. But I survived.
Will go relax now.

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Glad to see you escaped with all your bits intact ;-)



p.s. Like your choice of "calming" music :-)

Because I survived, I bought myself a present: Inform - Educate - Entertain and Every Valley by Public Service Broadcasting.(The race for space was sadly sold out). If you've never listened to this London-based band, best start now. They don't sing, but they make truly gorgeous music voiced over by the old PBS tapes of the 40s, 50s and 60s.

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Airflow sucks if they don't set it up correctly. Been in twice, once they had it a bit on the cold side, but that was okay, the other seemed okay but that time I was a bit more worried with the result.

Hope your results come back encouraging.

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Wondering if anyone has seen issues with not receiving email message notifications from this site?
Just realized I've not been getting pinged for the last week or so.
Have done the obvious things, such as checking/resetting email address, unsubscribe/re-subscribe to threads, etc.

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