There are many words and phrases we use every day, and I became fascinated with the history of where these came from, especially if it arose from a military background. The definition of etymology from [more…]
This is not going be easy writing about this. However, as a challenge, I was asked about writing an article on this by Judas was paid. I have no idea why he requested it. Sorry, but [more…]
The picture below gives an idea of the size of our sun, but see later when we compare the size of our sun to other stars. The Prologue: I would like to give a h/t [more…]
A huge hat tip and thank you to EJ of this parish for providing the planetary GIF. Throughout this series, I would like to give a huge H/T to NASA.. I have used other sources as [more…]
The Start Tournaments will cost you to “Buy In“, you give a few pounds of your hard earned, and you receive a quantity of chips. All players who want to join can only buy the [more…]
Part 10 – Planet X/Planet 9 (X as in Unknown, not the Roman Numeral for 10) The hypothetical Planet X, which is actually Planet 9, but would be planet 10 if Pluto had not been [more…]
The Sunday Sermon – with the Rev Drunken Bastard A month or so ago I was reading the articles from Grimy Miller: https://going-postal.com/2018/01/sex-and-drugs-and-upper-firsts/ https://going-postal.com/2018/01/champagne-socialists-or-hooray-henrys/ These were about students drinking until they pass out, cause trouble [more…]
Part 9 – Pluto To give an idea of the size, the graphic below represents a view of Pluto and Charon (it’s largest moon) as they would appear if placed slightly above Earth’s surface and [more…]
Part 8 – Neptune To give an idea of the size, you can see here that Neptune is about the same size as Uranus, and you could fit 58 Earths into it. So another hydrogen [more…]
The one you have all been waiting for everyone, let the sniggering commence! Here’s a combined picture of Uranus: The picture above is from the Hubble telescope which show the aurorae on the planet as [more…]
To give an idea of the size of Saturn, you can see it here compared to some of our other planets. Not as big as Jupiter but you could still fit 764 Earths into it. [more…]
To give an idea of the size, you can see here that Jupiter is rather larger than Earth! I thought it best to include all our planets (and Pluto), as Jupiter is massive, relative to [more…]
To give an idea of the size, you can see here is from left to right, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars:
Part Three- Earth In this third part of a series of nine articles, today we look at the planet Earth. The Prologue: It’s round(ish), not flat. The Earth and the far side of the moon on [more…]
Firstly a hat tip to the Flat Earth Society, their website is: https://www.tfes.org/ also for Wikipedia, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies I thought it about time that we all knew something about The Flat Earth Society, (TFES). [more…]
Part Two – Venus In this second part of a series of nine articles we look at the planet Venus. The Prologue: Throughout this series, I would like to give a huge H/T to NASA. www.nasa.gov. [more…]
Part One – Mercury In this series of nine articles we shall look at each planet in our solar system, starting with Mercury and working out to Neptune, but I shall also include the dwarf [more…]
GP’S 2017 ADVENT CALENDAR OF CUISINE OK everyone, it’s that time of year when you see *friends* and those *family* members you do not really like very much come round yours. To keep face, and [more…]
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