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Exchemist: Um, I taught Astronomy/Physics/Chemistry at all age levels for almost 30 years. Intelligent, educated, informed is no special criteria. You're the pertinent example.

Sheesh.
 
Mr. G said:
I've held actual moon rocks in my hands. You're just a minor player on the spectrum of trying to be relevant.
I had to make it through layers of NASA some stuff to be able to get there.
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Last time I read that sort childish boasting ^ it was here:
krash661 said:
back in 2010 when i was scouted by the government and after an approximate of an year waiting for all of my clearances to be cleared, i sat and signed paper work that involved an abundance of gag orders for a couple of hours. my wrist and hand was hurting after that.
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Seems to crave attention and drama. When I first ran an online forum I had a predecessor who had a useful aphorism re trolls: "Feed them, and they will grow."
 
TheVat said:
Seems to crave attention and drama. When I first ran an online forum I had a predecessor who had a useful aphorism re trolls: "Feed them, and they will grow."
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Vat, I have been meaning to ask you why you picked Faraday for your avatar, I think of south east london when I see it.
The stainless steel box-shaped structure was designed by modern movement architect Rodney Gordon in 1959 and built in 1961, on the centre of what was the northern roundabout of the Elephant and Castle gyratory system. It commemorates Michael Faraday's importance as a scientist and was placed at Elephant and Castle because Faraday's birthplace is nearby in Newington Butts.The interior of the construction contains a London Underground electrical substation for the Northern line and Bakerloo line (somewhat appropriate for a memorial to one of the great pioneers of electricity). Rodney Gordon originally designed the box clad in glass, intending the workings of the transformer to be seen. The possibility of vandalism prevented this, so the design was changed to a metal casing.
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foghorn said:
Vat, I have been meaning to ask you why you picked Faraday for your avatar, I think of south east london when I see it.

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Ha. That Effing box at Elephant is a death trap for pedestrians trying to cross the road there. I used to have choir practice at St George's Cathedral and had to cross the road at that spot on my way there. Bloody lethal: you can't see anything coming round the corner and the traffic comes at speed.
 
exchemist said:
Ha. That Effing box at Elephant is a death trap for pedestrians trying to cross the road there. I used to have choir practice at St George's Cathedral and had to cross the road at that spot on my way there. Bloody lethal: you can't see anything coming round the corner and the traffic comes at speed.
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" I used to have choir practice at St George's Cathedral"
"and had to cross the road at that spot"

O for the wings, for the wings of a dove, O for the wings of a dove :)
 
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Pinball1970 said:
I think that is the kind of "carbuncle" Charles used to talk about when he was still Prince Charles.
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I’d have no objection to it sited in the right place and, God knows, Elephant is ugly as sin anyway. I suppose the practical point it is would be both hard and expensive to move the substation.
 
foghorn said:
" I used to have choir practice at St George's Cathedral"
"and had to cross the road at that spot"

O for the wings, for the wings of a dove, O for the wings of a dove :)
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Hmm, not one of Mendelssohn’s best efforts, in my opinion. But I’m more of a Renaissance and Baroque man.

The thing I am most grateful to Mendelssohn for is his reviving of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion - thus kicking off a general Bach revival.
 
foghorn said:
Vat, I have been meaning to ask you why you picked Faraday for your avatar, I think of south east london when I see it.
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Sheer admiration. Great all-around scientific thinker and experimentalist, who derived the maximum use from a minimum of formal education. And successful as both physicist and chemist. Is the object a bar magnet? DK.
 
TheVat said:
Sheer admiration. Great all-around scientific thinker and experimentalist, who derived the maximum use from a minimum of formal education. And successful as both physicist and chemist. Is the object a bar magnet? DK.
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Yep, I've read that Faraday should be up there with Newton, Einstein - and Maxwell, who is also not as well recognised as he should be.
 
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