Even if we could travel at speed of light, the fact that we could do so for a year and not be very far into the universe is staggering.
. Man can't travel at the speed of light and we really would need to go faster
Oh, I don't know. I once put on a pair of lined running shorts that had a wasp in them. I think I got those off quicker than that....
@taniwharugby said in Science!:
Yeah I still struggle to understand how they can say this happened so many billion years back, when, well, billions of years...yeah yeah, science, but still...guess its easier whan you have such a big window 2.229 billion years, margin of error of 5 million...pfft.
@booboo also time, in terms of light years, some more staggering numbers
A light-year is a measurement of distance and not time (as the name might suggest). A light-year is the distance a beam of light travels in a single Earth year, or 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers).
Yeah that always makes me feel really small.
The fact the that farthest star is reachable (if still around) if we travel at the speed of light for 9,000,000,000 years.
Even if we could travel at speed of light, the fact that we could do so for a year and not be very far into the universe is staggering.
@canefan said in Royal drama:
@Hooroo said in Royal drama:
@taniwharugby said in Royal drama:
so of that Stuff headline and summary...
Meghan and Prince Harry check out $41.6m Vancouver mansion in hunt for family home
The Duchess of Sussex is on the hunt for a dream home in Canada, reportedly having zeroed in on a CAN$35.88mn (NZ$41.6m) mansion in Vancouver for her new life abroad with Prince Harry and baby Archie.
I thought those titles were no more?
I think he is still Prince Harry but no longer the Duke of Sussex?
He is Prince Harry. And Duke of Sussex. But he can't use HRH. Apparently that is a big deal
Oh OK. That makes sense. I knew the HRH thing but didn't realise he remains the DoS
@taniwharugby said in Royal drama:
so of that Stuff headline and summary...
Meghan and Prince Harry check out $41.6m Vancouver mansion in hunt for family home
The Duchess of Sussex is on the hunt for a dream home in Canada, reportedly having zeroed in on a CAN$35.88mn (NZ$41.6m) mansion in Vancouver for her new life abroad with Prince Harry and baby Archie.
I thought those titles were no more?
I think he is still Prince Harry but no longer the Duke of Sussex?
@canefan said in Royal drama:
@Hooroo I don't think they can afford that can they? Harry is worth about 50M and MM less than 5M I think I read.....
I honestly have no idea.
Nothing quite like walking away from all those riches and starting again from the bottom.....
@mariner4life said in Science!:
@taniwharugby haha yea, timescales like that are too hard for my brain to comprehend
Like that ones about one type of dinosaur being closer in time to us than another type of dinosaur.
Yeah dinosaurs existed from 240m years ago to 60m years ago.
So front end dinos existed 180m before the last ones, only 60m years ago.
Only a tiny fraction of the 4.5 billion years earth has existed, or 3.5b years of life.
On a similar note the mammoths and pyramids one gets me.
What the Mammoths/Pyramids one?
@dogmeat said in Beer thread:
@Hooroo link I provided says a 130kg male is safe having drunk 6 cans of 4% alcohol over 3 hrs but borderline at 7.
After 12 cans you are going to lose your licence and will need to leave it another three hours to be borderline and four to be sure. All of the above is for the 240 limitYou can drink 10 cans in 3 hrs and be just under the 400.
Don't blame me if all the above puts you wrong as there are so many other factors that affect alcohol absorption. I would definitely keep a buffer below those limits
Absolutely agree and I was curious rather than taking any of this as useful to me. My rule of thumb is that if I haven't eaten, I don't drink much at all.
No point at putting others at risk.
It's hard enough to text and drive as it is!
What I would like to know is what is my 400 limit? I reckon it must be a dozen 4% cans?? Over three - four hours?
@dogmeat said in Beer thread:
http://alcoholhelpcenter.net/Program/BAC_Standalone.aspx
For a 100 kg person 4 handles in two hours puts you way over
..... what about 130 KG? 
All I know is that I have pulled out of the pub on more than one occasion with at least four under the belt and have failed the detection part (name and address conversation) and then blown a pass when you just keep exhaling.
One time I may have had 6.
I have just realised that the handles are only 440ml rather than the 500 standard.