How Can War and Space Help Caving ?

[wormster]

And then there's Lithium Ion cells, no more Stinky's or second hand dim glimmer Oldham Miner's lamps

 

[royfellows]

And then there's Lithium Ion cells, no more Stinky's or second hand dim glimmer Oldham Miner's lamps

That leak sulphuric acid onto SRT gear!!!!

 

[2xw]

These comments remind me of the early 19th century fears that the rapidly decreasing cost of paper printing, and the new (pulp) fictions that came about, would rot people minds and turn them to suicide and degeneracy.

It turned out alright.

 

[ZombieCake]

A metre???? If you need to accomodation many 1m diameter cavers there must be good beer and roast dinners a plenty in your neck of the woods 🤣

If it were smaller the buffet trolley (those heated trays do take up a bit of space) and drinks trolley would be more awkward to accommodate. Have to keep a modicum of civilisation in such places!

 

[ttxela2]

These comments remind me of the early 19th century fears that the rapidly decreasing cost of paper printing, and the new (pulp) fictions that came about, would rot people minds and turn them to suicide and degeneracy.

It turned out alright.

Did it?

 

[royfellows]

The perception of things being "alright" can be a mental conditioning of acceptance of something that if looked on impartially comes over as unacceptable. Quoting Mark Drakeford on his 20 mph speed limits - "People will get used to it"

 

[pwhole]

I've spent the last few days reading up on computer components, as I have to replace this one soon, and trying to weigh up all the options, including the thermal output of the CPU/GPU (and adequate cooling), the speed of throughput that I may require to get me through five years of potential work demands, and the ultimate cost of purchasing and running it all is frankly exhausting. I can technically 'forget all about it' once it's arrived, but getting it right now is critical.

There's not many other things I buy that involve this much thought, but it's been a significant chunk of my life spent working on one sort or another, starting on a Commodore Amiga in 1988, though never Apple. There was a wonderful couple of years when I was able to get the Amiga to pretend to be a Mac to output my work digitally to the layout company, thanks to a clever expansion card from the US, but Apple were never happy about that sort of thing. Happy days. It's a good job I don't drive, or I'd never go anywhere.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

I am not sure how my old HP still works after blattering thousands of photos though it for ten years. I am hoping Mendip Cave Research and Archive can accommodate 20,000 of them but thats another issue. ( Local regional cave archives dont seem to be working very well. )

 

[Chocolate fireguard]

These comments remind me of the early 19th century fears that the rapidly decreasing cost of paper printing, and the new (pulp) fictions that came about, would rot people minds and turn them to suicide and degeneracy.

It turned out alright.

It's possible to argue that if people's minds hadn't been softened by that unspeakable filth they would have forseen and avoided things like a couple of world wars, global warming and Brexit.

 

[royfellows]

Two things that constitute truthful ads and save a lot of problems happening in the long run:
1/ Calgon
2/ Intel Inside