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Cerrertonia Mar 2021 2:50pm, 8 Mar 2021 13,803 posts	Quote Pin Cerrertonia [My 2nd place finish in a parkrun came on an absolute quagmire, which meant that all the really good runners went elsewhere, and the good runners were brought down to my level...] Millom has the world's oldest amateur rugby league club, founded in 1873. There is a sign above the clubhouse entrance which says this.
Dvorak Mar 2021 3:08pm, 8 Mar 2021 22,095 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak That course is ridiculousness, McG. V'rap, do you mean good for Aspatria in that pining five-lap mud-pluggers will boost the numbers?
Velociraptor Mar 2021 3:14pm, 8 Mar 2021 51,815 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor I was thinking good for Aspatria in that it might get another bit of surfaced path, conditional upon public access. Though I'm probably going to withdraw from my "core team" commitment before even starting because I've lost impetus and because it's such an unappealing course.
Dvorak Mar 2021 3:33pm, 8 Mar 2021 22,097 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak (Great if it could be put in place before the fourth peak. And properly finished, unlike my new local fpr course (well, cycle path) so far. Too many chuckies currently. And indeed the specially built section of Loch Leven parkrun.)
swittle Mar 2021 10:17am, 9 Mar 2021 73,602 posts	Quote Pin swittle That fragments of a fireball seen on 28 Feb. that landed in a Gloucestershire garden are 'astonishingly rare'. Carbonaceous chondrites may contain material from 4.6 billion years ago, when the solar system was forming. bbc.co.uk
GregP Mar 2021 10:19am, 9 Mar 2021 125,679 posts	Quote Pin GregP That was on R4's 06:00 news this morning. It's really properly exciting for those of us who can lose half an hour just staring at the little piece of moon rock in the Science Museum.
Cerrertonia Mar 2021 10:24am, 9 Mar 2021 13,806 posts	Quote Pin Cerrertonia [There's a chap who came to the public astronomy talks that Cambridge University runs who makes his living buying and selling meteorites. Nomads get paid to keep an eye out for them in the Sahara. If you collect a quantity of dust off a flat roof or a gutter and look at each speck in a microscope and know what you're doing, you'll probably find some micro-meteorites.]
swittle Mar 2021 10:25am, 9 Mar 2021 73,603 posts	Quote Pin swittle Yes, indeed. The overexcited scientist is an object of no little amusement and wonder imo. I smiled at the comment about what it had cost a Japanese mission to secure similar rock, compared with bouncing over to Gloucs. in the faculty's 1955 Series 1 Land Rover to inspect the find.
swittle Mar 2021 10:26am, 9 Mar 2021 73,604 posts	Quote Pin swittle [^ x post. Replying to Greppers. Enjoying Cerre's post too.]
GregP Mar 2021 10:27am, 9 Mar 2021 125,682 posts	Quote Pin GregP [compare and contrast the thing that may be an urban myth about cocaine and dollar bills?]