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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 15h

Disclaimer: I'm not a professional astro-geologist, but I studied astrophysics at university (before dropping out!). So if any proper astronomers reading this want to correct me, I'm happy to be corrected!

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 15h

See my other post! I must have anticipated your question!

Not sure about the actual pole itself, but there's nothing stopping a big rock hitting Antarctica.

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 15h

Most meteorites come from asteroid belt debris, and one of the easiest places to find them is in Antarctica, because black rocks are very easy to spot when they land on snow and ice.

Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 15h

Basically it's more of a fat doughnut than a belt!

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 15h

Erm, vaguely! The asteroid belt is about 1AU thick. (About the distance between the sun and earth.) So they can come at us from quite wide angles.
Add on up to 24 degrees by which our axis is tilted with respect to our orbit, and an asteroid could strike almost anywhere.

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 15h

Snooker balls are all on the same plane. Asteroids can come from virtually any angle. Take a look at the moon! :-)

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 2d

We don't need to get minimum wage earners to pay more tax. I've been working for 40 years and the lowest tax rate has always allowed people to earn without paying tax. We just need the people who pay to pay more. 1% more all round, and maybe with an intermediate band in between the current bands.

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 2d

Okay. So? It's the Tories that put in place the current tax regime (given that Labour have barely changed anything), and it's Tories, and ex-Tory Reformers, who are now moaning about the outcome of their own policies. What other countries do, or don't do, is irrelevant to the point I made.

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 2d

Hang on! The low-tax parties are complaining that people aren't paying enough tax?! It's almost as if they actually believe it's only THEM that should pay less tax, and fuck everyone else.

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck me. America is doomed.

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 3d

It failed to get Alice Lowe's character in Prevenge, which is just rude

Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 3d

Perhaps there wasn't one. Read the thread. The door was open.

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 3d

"take a seat, I'll be with you in one minute" = "dance like a dog"?
FFS. Overdramatic nutter.

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 4d

Thank god. I thought he was trying to hypnotize me!

Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 4d

Change a letter, ruin a song

I Want to Hold Your Sand
This Ole Horse
Don't You Wank Me

Professor Stanley OooOOoonwin @professorunwin.bsky.social · 4d

Change a letter, ruin a song.

Lazy Madonna
Smoke on the Wafer
Gove Story
Litter Sweet Symphony
A Shiter Shade of Pale
The Dinner Takes It All

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a Tin

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 4d

4 and 5 are ambiguous. I think I put 'regardless' for 5, which was 'nevertheless'? Or the other way round? Or was it 'irrespective'?
It's a ridiculous test.

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Plaza Theatre, Romsey @plazatheatre.com · 4d

COMING UP on Sunday Oct 19th:
Romsey's Got Talent - A Night To Remember

The Mayor of Romsey hosts an unforgettable evening of entertainment at Romsey’s Got Talent – a community showcase celebrating the amazing local talent in our town!

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The Mayor of Romsey hosts an unforgettable evening of entertainment at Romsey’s Got Talent – a community showcase celebrating the amazing local talent in our town!

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/plazatheatre/romseys-got-talent-a-night-to-remember/e-qmozgr

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 5d

It's not "irrelevant". Solar power in Scotland in December is about 20% of the summer peak. So it's still useful. And what do you get more of in winter than in summer? Wind power. The point about renewables is to use a combination of alternatives, plus battery storage.

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 5d

They've just delayed them by 24 hours. Both on tomorrow evening, rather than having to wait a week.
It's buggered our Monday evening ritual too!

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 7d

The Uncanny Valet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 8d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 5d

Good grief, I'd completely forgotten about these, but for a brief few weeks (until they disappeared from the shops) they were my absolute favourite snack!

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6d

Horror Bags - Hammer House Of Corn Starch Classic Horror in extruded maize snack form gambit, proffering rib, fang, bone, claw and bat-shaped Universal-adjacent self-scaring crisps with Video Nasty-strength flavouring. Not quite Mary Whitehouse's 'bag'.

timworthington.org/2024/10/31/t...

Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 7d

You make a fair point. I still think he's a twat though.

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe. But the fesser is directly "punishing" people he has no quarrel with. Any possible inconvenience for the hire firm is minor, and indirect. He's still a twat.

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 7d

Why the fuck did that emoji appear there?

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Peter Moore @petercmoore.bsky.social · 7d

But throwing away the locking wheel nut inconveniences the next person to hire the car who gets a puncture. It doesn't punish the hire company. They just buy a new locking nut for a tenner after the 😇 customer has been inconvenienced.

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