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The year is 2192. The British Prime Minister visits Brussels to ask for an extension of the Brexit deadline. No one remembers where this tradition originated, but every year it attracts many tourists from all over the world. – at Camberwell, London
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This may be the first time I’ve agreed with Jeremy Hunt on a technical matter. Star formation rates in the Milky Way are declining and, on longer timescales, we do appear to live in a de Sitter Universe due to the non-zero cosmological constant.
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We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. No one can fool you as easily as you can fool yourself!
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#OnThisDay 1981: Carry On Thermocoupling: Kenneth Williams was a guest presenter on Tomorrow's World. BBC Archive adores this clip.
First image with an old first gen night vision tube of the bench top. Not much better than with night-adjusted eyes tbh but fun to try.
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#OTD 1977: John Noakes scaled Nelson's Column, on a wobbly ladder... with no safety harness...and no helmet...wearing flares... to clean some pigeon poo. Don't try this. Anywhere. Ever.