What have you got planned for 2036?

[Derekstuart]

Russ

 

can I ask how many times you have been to Russia, how many Russians you know etc?

 

I know it is very fashionable to believe what is written in the tabloids these days, but fortunately most of what is written about Russia is not very accurate and is certainly influenced to a high degree by some of our own politicians and their questionable foreign policy.

 

However, I believe that is getting close to the no politics rule.

I don't really trust Russia these days. I would prefer something like this to be developed by the international group that runs the space station

[newbryford]

I thought Hollywood had already sorted this??

 

Let's hope that Bruce Willis is still alive.  (I bet Liv Tyler is still good looking in 2036..........)

 

Cheers,

Mick

[HeeleyBridge]

The last episode of 'Babylon 5' comes to mind.

The first last episode or the last last episode?

 

If life is just a state of emotion

And death is just a chance to relax

If light is just a particle waving

The least we can do is wave back.

(©C&P McMahon - Haze)

[Colin_McLeod]

I might have my layout nearly finished in time for my 83rd birthday. (or my grandson's 20th)

[PhilJ W]

By 2036 I might have finished all the kits on my to do list!

Twenty years worth more will have accumulated by then.

 

I might have my layout nearly finished in time for my 83rd birthday. (or my grandson's 20th)

My layout is still not finished, I started it 25 years ago.

If I'm still around then I'll be pushing 88 or pushing up daisies.

[DougN]

I still won't have retired.... Well I will be 62.... Australia will have moved the pension age to 85 by then!

[luckymucklebackit]

Think we might have other missiles to worry about before then 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35600599

 

Anyone read Tom Clancy's book "SSN", it is beginning to look very prophetic.

 

Jim

[Derekstuart]

I wouldn't worry too much about it Jim. First world Countries will never attack first (no leader wants to live in a bomb shelter for the rest of his life). The danger is the "developing Nations".

 

China is displaying its strength to ward off America. America will undoubtedly increase its presence to ward off China.

 

It plays terribly well to home crowds. obama can assure the "home folk" that America is still running the planet(!) and people must remember that China's structure is evolving; total dictatorship in China finished many years ago and whilst still not a paragon of democracy, the ruling elite are no longer able to ignore the people's will in the way they used to. No population will ever punish a leadership for flying the flag (except in Britain, but we've had unique problems for years now).

 

A new cold war might well be a damned good thing. Plenty more people have died as a result of war since the end of the cold war.

 

Oh Martin "Templot" Wynne. What can of worms have you opened?

[martin_wynne]

Oh Martin "Templot" Wynne. What can of worms have you opened?

 

Sorry about that.

 

I wasn't actually looking for the doom and gloom.

 

I went to http://spaceguardcentre.com/ because it seems their radar, and the civil aviation radar on Clee Hill, are producing a bright error echo along a line between them, on the rain radar web sites. Yesterday was very wet in these parts. See: http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar

 

Martin.

[railsquid]

In other news, the National Near Earth Objects Information Centre located in Wales has determined that the Near Earth Objects being tracked are made up of water droplets with an annoying tendency to precipitate (and yes I am familiar with the general area).

[Derekstuart]

Martin

 

On a serious point, what a well written, objective and credible site that is. None of the shock-horror of tabloid reporting. (which is what I believe to be responsible for the comments above).

 

In early winter 2015, I saw a particularly impressive object entering the atmosphere. Normally you get a very quick trace of bright white. On this occasion it lasted for perhaps 3 seconds compared to the usual half a second or so, starting white and then going to red/orange.

 

What I assume this means is that it was far larger and instead of breaking up on entry like most do, this one was large enough to come down much lower, which meant it slowed down (orange/red is not as hot as white of course). When it disappeared you could clearly see speckles of the parts as it broke up, rather than it evaporating.

 

Would anyone have a guess based upon that observation how big it would have been? Not big enough to make the tabloids obviously, but big enough to be of interest to astronomers.

[Dunsignalling]

Reading an email from Hatton's telling me that Bachmann's Brighton Atlantic is expected between May 2036 and July 2036.

 

(always supposing I'm still around to do so, of course)

 

J

[Kenton]

Another alien spacecraft we managed to get before it landed?

Thin air - our secret weapon.

[Penlan]

2036, Uhmn, well I will be 93 then....
As most of my relations have passed on prior to their 90th birthday.
I think I may be wondering who put the casket upside down in the grave.
I'm a Scottish land owner, or at least I have the Deeds to a 10' x 6' plot in Inverkeilor Churchyard.  

[Derekstuart]

Time to start re-reading Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvouz with Rama" again. Though this time I hope part 2 and part 3 have sorted out whether the Octospiders are good or bad creatures.

[PhilJ W]

Martin

 

On a serious point, what a well written, objective and credible site that is. None of the shock-horror of tabloid reporting. (which is what I believe to be responsible for the comments above).

 

In early winter 2015, I saw a particularly impressive object entering the atmosphere. Normally you get a very quick trace of bright white. On this occasion it lasted for perhaps 3 seconds compared to the usual half a second or so, starting white and then going to red/orange.

 

What I assume this means is that it was far larger and instead of breaking up on entry like most do, this one was large enough to come down much lower, which meant it slowed down (orange/red is not as hot as white of course). When it disappeared you could clearly see speckles of the parts as it broke up, rather than it evaporating.

 

Would anyone have a guess based upon that observation how big it would have been? Not big enough to make the tabloids obviously, but big enough to be of interest to astronomers.

In fact the Earth is being struck by meteors all the time and several make it to the surface every year. But because the larger part of the surface is covered with oceans and a considerable part of the land area is sparsly populated many go unrecorded. It is only the introduction of siesmographs over the last century that these impacts have become known.

[Horsetan]

....I'm a Scottish land owner, or at least I have the Deeds to a 10' x 6' plot in Inverkeilor Churchyard.  

 

That would be a basement property, then. Ten feet long and six feet deep? Or six long and ten deep? 

[hmrspaul]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned last nights Horizon programme which was about meteorites etc. striking the earth. They were re-assuring about the future but I thought the most interesting was the huge remains in the North of the Yucatan which it suggested accounted for the demise of the non flying dinosaurs (I live with a flying dinosaur and I don't mean my life partner!).

 

Paul

[Derekstuart]

Oh yes of course. But most of us never get to see them for real- and if we do, probably never want to see another.

 

This one that I saw is certainly the largest that I have personally witnessed with my own eyes- magnitudes of brightness above anything before, but nowhere near some that I have seen on film.

 

 

In fact the Earth is being struck by meteors all the time and several make it to the surface every year. But because the larger part of the surface is covered with oceans and a considerable part of the land area is sparsly populated many go unrecorded. It is only the introduction of siesmographs over the last century that these impacts have become known.

[roundhouse]

I might actually just about get all 110 Bulleid light pacifics by then

[newbryford]

Thin air - our secret weapon.

 

But surely hot air is RMWeb's secret weapon?

 

Cheers,

Mick

[Derekstuart]

Could you imagine if science/Military discussions were like those on this forum? My neither.

 

But I suspect there would be arguments as to whether missile warheads should be 16.5 megatons, 18.2 or 18.83 megatons. Then some bright spark would suggest that 16.2 megatons would give just as good effect as 18.83 megatons, but allow some of the equipment from the earlier 16.5 MT missiles.

 

There would then be a big debate about whether older, Italian and British (Margate) made missiles had any place in the future and whether or not there were too many or too few grill slats on the SLW missile's casing.

 

Bachmissiles would announce the latest version of their missile for imminent release in a year or two (code named "operation DBSO") and it would eventually appear in missile silos 5 years late and over-run costs by about 900%.

 

There would be a big debate as to whether or not it was realistic to expect Hornfly aerospace to replace missiles that fell to pieces as a result of poor quality metals being used.

 

However, I think the biggest argument that would occur would be "that missile should not appear in that location, at that time, in that colour"

[DougN]

Oh should we point out that they should only use one standard measurement type.... not imperial! Just ask the americans who screwed up the calculation only for an Australian scientist telling them their trajectory is wrong with a probe  .... to then be told all they were to do was track it.... to the comment coming back OK then you will see the probe then it will disappear as it is too close  .... Nahh your wrong again.... Oh there it is..... pop....

 

So use decimal measurement!  

 

Any how I do wonder if I will have got any further with a new layout by 2036! 

[Horsetan]

I wonder what measurements the tumbleweed in Wangaratta uses....

[Guest Nevadablue]

2 0 3 6

 

Hopefully resting in the ground next to my pet wolf who departed in December 2012. Pushing up... sagebrush, daises don't do well here unless someone is around to water them.