davey_83

Yeah didn't end well sadly. NASA name their rockets after this guys ships. You can supposedly overlay his maps with satellite images and they line up like my left hand over my right. The fact that this dudes maps are still used today some 250 years later, obviously all done by eye and at sea level is astounding. Clearly this guys was the very best at what he did, claiming countries along the way for the Queen. It wasn't the lack of technology holding this guy back, he's sailing the seas and drawing what he see's. Years and years at sea, circa 60,000 miles covered in one voyage, overall three attempts and yet he never mapped/found Antarctica. Don't add up............

Captain James Cook was an interesting dude, amazing map maker from the 18th century. His maps today are still used, he never mapped Antarctica even though supposedly that was his mission. What you think?

30bhp gain if you don't like driving, less 150kg if you like driving - I like driving

Perfect opportunity to advise (as the thread has just gone over to page 3), ive made an error *don't let the Mrs here I've said that out loud!!! So the venue for our club meet lunch wise, is no longer a international buffet. I've spoken with David there to book in and it's a carvery. For me this is even better, but I apologise for not checking this prior to the OP. I blame out of date Google maps info Cheers Simon, nope nothing else to confirm. I sure hope they have enough cooks/staff to accommodate haha I've added you and Mrs to the list, welkom aboard. 1. davey_83 - Lunch + 1 2. Mopedmark - Lunch + 1 3. Silky - Lunch + 1 4. Shezza - Lunch + 1 5. nissanman312 - Lunch tbc 6. antnee - Lunch 7. JamesT2992 - Lunch tbc 8. CLASSIX - Lunch + 1 9. Niknik350 - Lunch + 1 10. Flashback - Lunch +1 11. 14N - Lunch 12. Buster - lunch +1 13. MattyBacon - lunch +1 14. Bhupz350 - LUNCH (TBC) 15. TOM McKAY - LUNCH +1 (TBC) 16. Chaz Lunch +1 (via mattybacon) 17. Andy_Muxlow +1 Lunch. 18. JohnK (via mattybacon) no lunch 19. Justthejedi - Lunch 20. Wendy - Lunch 21. Valy + 1 - Lunch 22. Sim - Lunch 23. Mrs Sim - Lunch

Will we get to see the night side of the globe? Sure hope so as it's meant to be real pretty.

In a straight line possibly both options would perform similar?

Me and a good pal was chatting and had different views, the question posed was "would you rather an extra 30bhp from your Zed or have it weigh 150kg less?"

Me and a good pal was chatting and had different views, the question posed was "would you rather an extra 30bhp from your Zed or have it weigh 150kg less?"

I'd be looking to treat the clutch matter as a priority, the other repairs can happen later. Any decent independent garage will be able to replace the clutch, looking at 3.5hrs-4hrs labour plus parts.

Any breakdown cover? Check and see if Tarmac Sportz can book you in.

Any pictures?.......

Recommended for the e92 M3 for example is 10w60, I don't fully understand that one but it's out there. BMW recommends using Castrol TWS 10W60 oil in the following models: 2001-2006 E46 M3 (S54 engine), 2006-2010 E60 M5 & M6 (V10 S85 motor) , E9X M3 V8 S65 motor, as well as some 2000-2003 E39 M5 and Z8 cars.

Dude, nice car btw!!

And yet some M power cars use 10w60....... I think something along the lines of a thinker oil can carry away the heat better than a thinner one.

On a serious note, I think it's terrible to see special effect on footage put out by NASA which is meant to be real.

We need the boys to sort these chaps out.

Yes however NASA does themselves no favours, and remember how the Predator was able to bend light around him - these guys can do it too!!! Surely any signal lost would affect the entire picture, not just the green screen actor'nauts and a few items in the foreground.......

Jay84 I have no knowledge believe me, only saying what seems odd in my ickle mind. I've not questioned the speed of light or how it's measured. I was looking towards working out these great distances from the observation of brightness, which doesn't make sense. Google says: The idea of the ladder is to start with nearby objects like stars. We can measure their distances using a method called parallax. Back in the 90s a satellite called Hipparcos used parallax to measure the distance to thousands of stars. Once you know how far away a star is you can calculate how bright that star is. Now I'm confused, you say brightness dictates distance, however it would seem you need to know the distance first?

Same for Mercedes, the amount of C Class Coupes with fully rotten rear aches is shocking for 04-06 reg

Again I don't see the correlation between brightness and distance of stars. A dull star can be close and a brighter star far away, the brightness won't tell you a thing about distance. Again I call BS on the lot, reason its nowt but guess work. If we went thru space on a actual elliptical circle then maybe, but from what I gather it's more like a stretched slinky being dragged along by the sun's gravity. In which each 6 months allows us to make use of 186 million miles of diameter, IF it were a perfect circle but it isn't even. If you've done any of this simple light measurements yourself, I'd be mightly impressed.

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And called 911's jumped up beetles........

You can have a two suns, one twice as bright as our sun (this forumla has a name) and the other incredibly bright like 100's brighter than our own sun. I'm pretty sure the brighter sun can be twice as far away and yes still appear brighter than sun a) therefore sheer brightness has nowt to do with measuring distance IF you don't know the exact point of source. Your example of turning on the light to measure speed, works because you know the positions of both point a and point b in a room/environment.

Yes but are we looking at the travelled light or the star itself? I knew about the trigonometry, but not the colour spectrum. I'll have to read up on that. Brightness of an object doesn't initially tell one it's distance surely? Tbf I do love astronomy but we seem to impose so many assumptions. For example the d wave quantum computer is said to operator a much lower temperatures than anywhere in the universe? Yeah OK

And you know this how?