Missing: one big, yellow, fiery ball

cjcp
cjcp Posts: 13,345
edited June 2009 in Commuting chat
It's been lurking in the blue sky above recently.

Anyone know WTF it's gone? :?
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  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    Late lunch?
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Its visiting Scotland. I don't imagine that it will be staying very long though, don't worry.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    I wish. I just looked out the window. I distinctly remember putting sun cream on this morning before I left the house.
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    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • R_T_A
    R_T_A Posts: 488
    I think it's lurking... just waiting for us fairer people to not go out prepared with factor 50.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I reckon it's behind those grey fluffy things.
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    yup my wife was complaing about the lack of sun this lunch time, i like this as I'm happy at about this temp though lower is better.
  • risi
    risi Posts: 231
    I thought this was going to be a thread about Lance Armstrong... (but that would be in poor taste)

    then I looked out the window and understood - I can report the sun missing in Bristol too.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    edited June 2009
    [Pedant][Uber Geek]

    The Sun, which is a star, is in fact not a ball of fire. Fire as we understand it cannot survive in the vacuum of Space. The Sun, is - for want of a better term - a giant ball of plasma. As are all stars.

    [/Uber Geek][/Pedant]
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I reckon it's behind those grey fluffy things.

    Mice?
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I reckon it's behind those grey fluffy things.

    Mice?

    Sky-mice. The horror. :shock:
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I reckon it's behind those grey fluffy things.

    [Uber Geek]

    Those grey fluffy things are in fact not fluffy, in texture, at all....

    [/Uber Geek]
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I reckon it's behind those grey fluffy things.

    [Uber Geek]

    Those grey fluffy things are in fact not fluffy, in texture, at all....

    [/Uber Geek]

    Oh don't talk wet.





    I'll get me coat
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  • risi
    risi Posts: 231
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I reckon it's behind those grey fluffy things.

    [Uber Geek]

    Those grey fluffy things are in fact not fluffy, in texture, at all....

    [/Uber Geek]

    [Über Über Geek]

    Its Über or Ueber, not Uber

    (sorry)

    [/Über Über Geek]
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  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    It is in my pants. I have harnessed its power.
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    risi wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I reckon it's behind those grey fluffy things.

    [Uber Geek]

    Those grey fluffy things are in fact not fluffy, in texture, at all....

    [/Uber Geek]

    [Anal]

    Its Über or Ueber, not Uber

    (sorry)

    [/Anal]

    Sorry just cleared that (the above) up for you.

    I'm using an English keyboard with English text. I'm not opening Microsoft Word to change Uber to Uber-with the dots above the 'U', copy and paste it onto Bikeradar so that I can spell Uber properly. That is monumentally Anal!
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  • risi
    risi Posts: 231
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Sorry just cleared that (the above) up for you.

    I'm using an English keyboard with English text. I'm not opening Microsoft Word to change Uber to Uber-with the dots above the 'U', copy and paste it onto Bikeradar so that I can spell Uber properly. That is monumentally Anal!

    I did say sorry. I'm just bored (CCSDS File Delivery Protocol to spacecraft anyone?) and couldn't resist the temptation.
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  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    edited June 2009
    cjcp wrote:
    It's been lurking in the blue sky above recently.

    Anyone know WTF it's gone? :?

    Rest assured the sun is still there othewise it would be dark :roll: .
    I think you mean the kiljoy clouds have turned up to spoil the party :oops: .
    Still we are promised lots of rain for the w/e in south and east. It will reduce pollen levels and give the garden a good watering hopefully. Large cracks due to lack of rain are appearing in mine :( .
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    Hence the Germans adopting Ueber for those to lazy to find the one with the 'dots above' (called an Umlaut for crying out loud!).

    Certainly the big round yellow thing is missing in the Midlands today, much nicer riding in this morning as I could keep on it that bit longer before getting too hot!

    Simon
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  • risi
    risi Posts: 231
    [Anal/Geek/whatever]

    And, don't forget, you could just type 154 while holding down Alt to get Ü. No M$ Wierd required.

    [/meh]
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    edited June 2009
    I did say sorry. I'm just bored (CCSDS File Delivery Protocol to spacecraft anyone?) and couldn't resist the temptation.
    I;m just messing, I just wanted to use the word ANAL today... why... who knows....
    The Beginner wrote:
    Hence the Germans adopting Ueber for those to lazy to find the one with the 'dots above' (called an Umlaut for crying out loud!).

    Certainly the big round yellow thing is missing in the Midlands today, much nicer riding in this morning as I could keep on it that bit longer before getting too hot!

    Simon

    WTF is a Umlaut?

    I don't want to spell it Ueber, it lacks the effect of 'uber'. At least people know what I mean by Uber and understand the limitations of my keyboard....

    And the yellow thing is arguably not even yellow. Something that hot can't be yellow surely it should be white with (light being bent) and/or the distance the light has to travel as it slows being changed to yellow. The colder/older the Sun gets the darker it'll become in relation to the distance the light has to travel to the person looking at it.

    - I may have made all of the above up. But it sounds right.
    Food Chain number = 4

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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    risi wrote:
    [Anal/Geek/whatever]

    And, don't forget, you could just type 154 while holding down Alt to get Ü. No M$ Wierd required.

    [/meh]

    <anal geek>

    using the numeric keypad


    </anal geek>


    :wink:


    (this holds true for all the extended ASCII character set, starting at ALT-128)
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I did say sorry. I'm just bored (CCSDS File Delivery Protocol to spacecraft anyone?) and couldn't resist the temptation.
    I;m just messing, I just wanted to use the word ANAL today... why... who knows....
    The Beginner wrote:
    Hence the Germans adopting Ueber for those to lazy to find the one with the 'dots above' (called an Umlaut for crying out loud!).

    Certainly the big round yellow thing is missing in the Midlands today, much nicer riding in this morning as I could keep on it that bit longer before getting too hot!

    Simon

    WTF is a Umlaut?

    snips

    my little sister (all 6ft or so of her) has a Umlaut as Chloë.
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Was dots above letters a vogue like back in the day where people had hyphen's in their names or when people started naming their children after things: Apple, Zelda (after the Nintendo game) Paris, Prince, AK47, ASBO....
    Food Chain number = 4

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  • risi
    risi Posts: 231
    And the yellow thing is arguably not even yellow. Something that hot can't be yellow surely it should be white with (light being bent) and/or the distance the light has to travel as it slows being changed to yellow. The colder/older the Sun gets the darker it'll become in relation to the distance the light has to travel to the person looking at it.

    Light slowing? Don't let Einstein hear you say that. Usually its something to do with the way your eyes work, or photon scattering (which is why the sky appears blue).
    Is it home time yet?
    I;m just messing, I just wanted to use the word ANAL today... why... who knows....
    Must be subliminal. Have you been reading the "at it in the woods" thread?
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    risi wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I reckon it's behind those grey fluffy things.

    [Uber Geek]

    Those grey fluffy things are in fact not fluffy, in texture, at all....

    [/Uber Geek]

    [Über Über Geek]

    Its Über or Ueber, not Uber

    (sorry)

    [/Über Über Geek]

    [über-über-über geek]

    Interestingly the Swiss often don't umlaut capitalised words, in my experience - they tend to use the Ue option...

    Oh and DDD you can just do ALT+129

    [/über-über-über geek]
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  • the_hundredth_idiot
    the_hundredth_idiot Posts: 813
    roger merriman wrote:
    snips

    my little sister (all 6ft or so of her) has a Umlaut as Chloë.

    Wouldn't an umlaut mean her name was pronounced something like Chloer (i.e. like the drink Schloer)?

    Surely the diacritic above the e of Chloë is a diaeresis. Same as the one in Zoë, Brontë, reënter, and so on. It's not an umlaut because it doesn't change the sound of the vowel but it's a diaeresis because it means that the vowel is pronounced independently of the preceeding letter?

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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    risi wrote:
    And the yellow thing is arguably not even yellow. Something that hot can't be yellow surely it should be white with (light being bent) and/or the distance the light has to travel as it slows being changed to yellow. The colder/older the Sun gets the darker it'll become in relation to the distance the light has to travel to the person looking at it.

    Light slowing? Don't let Einstein hear you say that.

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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Yeah, apologies - I left the sun in Turkey. Not happy about being deskbound today. I'd grown rather attached to my sun lounger and crisp bottles of Efes.
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    edited June 2009
    If all types of light travel at a single constant speed, it would only have a singular form.

    However, light acts as both particles and waves. It travels faster in one form than the other. That is why it is able to do so.

    Edit: To add; Waves travel at different speeds (think Sound waves, which can be slow or fast). Light in the form of waves are no exception to the rule.
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    biondino wrote:
    risi wrote:
    And the yellow thing is arguably not even yellow. Something that hot can't be yellow surely it should be white with (light being bent) and/or the distance the light has to travel as it slows being changed to yellow. The colder/older the Sun gets the darker it'll become in relation to the distance the light has to travel to the person looking at it.

    Light slowing? Don't let Einstein hear you say that.

    Haha, beat me to it. DDD, go stand in the corner for being a self-professed über geek but making such a monumental nerd fanny-up.
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    When it travels through the north circular,for example, it appears to slow to a complete stop.

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