JohnG Posted March 25, 2020 Report Share Posted March 25, 2020 OK Lets try this one on for size. It's as complicated as the thread title suggests. I'll start the ball rolling; No part of Berkshire is more than 8.5 miles from the M4. Now it's your turn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted March 25, 2020 Report Share Posted March 25, 2020 There is only one lake in the Lake District Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RobH Posted March 25, 2020 Report Share Posted March 25, 2020 A harvestman is not a spider. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Green 54 Posted March 25, 2020 Report Share Posted March 25, 2020 At the 2014 International Magnetics Conference in Dresden, Sony launched a magnetic tape cassette that could store 185TB of data. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lebro Posted March 25, 2020 Report Share Posted March 25, 2020 On the radio this morning: Seedless grapes do in fact have seeds, they are very soft, so you don't notice them. Bob. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deggers Posted March 25, 2020 Report Share Posted March 25, 2020 If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the colour you'll see is called "eigengrau". From the German "intrinsic grey", also Eigenlicht or "own light". Deggers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TorontoTim Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 Deggers, with all due respect to the others, that is my favourite so far Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tony_C Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 Anyone else know (of course I do!) who is the most travelled person in the world.. ever? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oddball Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 That’s easy, obviously it’s SANTA..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tony_C Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 Ha.. That’s exactly what I said...... Wrong though....... let me know if you need a clue? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cvtrian Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 How about Valeri Polyakov - 437 days in space, (Mir space station) surely he must beat other earthlings for miles travelled. Ian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
john.r.davies Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 We all are. The Earth's orbit has a circumference of 942,000,000 kilometers, so we all travel that far in a year. Then Gennady Padelka has the record for time on Earth orbit, in Mir and the ISS, of 879 days. In low Earth orbit the speed is about 28,000kph, so he will have travelled about 588,000,000 kilometers. His time in space means that he has travelled that much more than anyone else. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RobH Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 It all depends on your reference point. The Milky Way is travelling through space and rotates with the galaxy at about 792,000km/h .That means in an 80 year lifetime you would travel 555,000,000,000 km just from that, so the 588,000,000 km is a mere 0.1% more than everyone else - and that is ignoring the extra distance everyone travels due to orbit and rotation. You can tell I'm bored can't you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
john.r.davies Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 Yes, we all are. Bored enough to point out that the Milky Way IS our Galaxy. Did you mean the Solar System rotates in the Orion Arm of the MW? J Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RobH Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 Yes John. Trying to be concise and over-did it. (Congrats on your piece on dampers in TRAction received today.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cvtrian Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 I bow to the extra days in space by Gennady Padalka! But here is an interesting fact;- if you took a piece of string and stretched it around the circumference of the world, then added 36" to the length of that string and again stretched it around the circumference of the world keeping it equidistant from the earth all the way around, the gap between the string and the earth would be approximately 6", do the maths Ian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
john.r.davies Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 RobH, thank you, kind sir! Ian, stretchy string can go a long way, but I bow to your arithmetic! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RobH Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 (edited) Back to facts: The fear of match sticks is called spirtophobia Edited March 26, 2020 by RobH Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tony_C Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 Back to the ‘most travelled person fact’.......... You’ve all got to get your feet back on the ground! (Nothing to do with space; one person, who you all know, has travelled more across our planet than anyone else, ever........ Another clue coming in an hour or so (maybe cryptic) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
john.r.davies Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 Oh, come on Tony! New conditions! You're making the rules up as you go! OK, Peter Pan! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 1 hour ago, john.r.davies said: Yes, we all are. Bored enough to point out that the Milky Way IS our Galaxy. Did you mean the Solar System rotates in the Orion Arm of the MW? J Did you know that the Milky Way, Galaxy and Mars all come from Slough. And you can't see Southall from Slough because of the Hayes Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tony_C Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 30 minutes ago, john.r.davies said: Oh, come on Tony! New conditions! You're making the rules up as you go! OK, Peter Pan! Yep, nothing new here.... Here’s the cryptic clue...... ‘Boaty Mc Boatface’ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
john.r.davies Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 David Attenborough? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cvtrian Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 If David Attenborough is the answer, he has a large carbon footprint! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tony_C Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 YES John.... and I guess, Yes Ian.... he didn’t walk all those miles... Well done again John, clue was not cryptic enough! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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