* Posts by Adam Wynne 1

9 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Feb 2010

Yule goat's five-year flame-free streak ends ignominiously

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Re: The Point of November 5th

"where is Screaming Lord Sutch"

He died 20 years ago. Sooo.... probably do a better job than Boris.

UK's Defra and Ministry of Justice facing £120m IR35 tax bills thanks to inaccuracies in assessing contractors' status

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Re: Now I'm not a cynical man but...

Or, I dunno, insurance?

OK, boomer? Gen-X-ers, elder millennials most likely to name their cars, says DVLA

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The Library - a 1991 Jaguar XJ6 4 litre inline 6, a Fine Gentleman's Conveyance.

Sparky - my current electrician's van (Transit Custom)

Starship Sponge - from 'back in the day' 2nd summer of love 1988, a blue Ford Cortina

Delilah - the camper van (Sprinter chassis), because, why why why???

Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair

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Coat

You're not a fan, then? :)

EU aviation agency publishes new drone framework. Hobbyists won't like it

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Coat

Re: Are model rockets still a thing?

The UKRA (Rocketry Association) have regular meets around the country (a massive field near Cambridge springs to mind).

Regular altitude top-outs at 6000 feet plus....

They will have a NOTAM declared to warn pilots to keep away, for the day, and also you don't launch if you can hear a 'plane.

The high power rocket enthusiast can safely be placed in the same bag as the model 'plane enthusiast - these things, whilst carrying massive kinetic energy, are hugely expensive to build and to fly. You don't want it landing in a tree or in an Airbus.

(Or deploying the chute at 6000' and getting caught in the breeze and never being seen again... IGMC, it's the one with the pyrodex in the pocket)

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Re: Home use

" you cannot legally fly a drone in the vast majority of the UK unless you own a large estate or farm and confine your drone to that estate or farm."

Yep, works for me :)

Boffins gently wake the Large Hadron Collider from annual hibernation

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Let us not forget the shed.

That is all.

Photographer hassled by Port of Tyne for filming a sign on a wall

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Let's not forget the aerial photography:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=port+of+tyne&rlz=1C1CHWA_enGB637GB637&espv=2&biw=1422&bih=1010&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlr9WBu5_LAhXDmg4KHSG7CG8Q_AUICCgD&dpr=0.9

Sellafield gull cull mulled

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Pirate

Pond 1 and Building 37

Imagine our surprise testing the new firmware on a collimated neutron detector when we found a seagull nest gently radiating americium neutrons on the flat roof of building 37 - pity the poor sap who had a desk on the other side of the wall from it - his dosage film always came back black, now we knew why :)