EEPhil
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If you want to wind up up the locals call the football teams Notts County and Notts Forest.
you've wound me up! 
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you've wound me up! 
Black Hole
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FFS (Daily Mail):
EEPhil
Number 28
Difficult to see what "each year" means in this context. Unnecessary!
I'm not sure about the story. Where is the power from all the other solar farms going? If the national Grid : Live is showing renewables and solar (and has been for quite a while) then surely the story is bs.
I'm not sure about the story. Where is the power from all the other solar farms going? If the national Grid : Live is showing renewables and solar (and has been for quite a while) then surely the story is bs.
MikeSh
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Done a little dig and it's as I suspected. From the Bristol Post:
... the first in the country to be connected up to the National Grid’s high voltage network .... Until now, all solar farms in Britain have connected to the country’s distribution networks, the lower voltage regional grids
Pure puffery imo.
Black Hole
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This kind of thing turns up all over the place, particularly in adverts etc about power generation. Sometimes it's failure to understand the difference between energy and power. The people who write this stuff are not science-literate, and no doubt celebrate that as good (the same as it's "not cool" to be good with numbers).
EEPhil
Number 28
Judging by my local on-line paper the "journalists" haven't got a nose for a story and aren't literate. In my day we'd call them YTS trainees.
everthewatcher
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Black Hole
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You mean the way the sea remains steady as a rock while the buildings wash up and down? Yes, I thought that was strange too.
prpr
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How improbable is that?
???? What sea????? the buildings are static for me and the only not so odd thing I see is the bird being larger when it reappears from behind the laptop.
everthewatcher
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Black Hole
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Equal and opposite reactions should have the bulk of the bird going up when the wings beat down, and vice versa.
Two to the power of 16 million to one and falling.
everthewatcher
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Have a look at the flight of the bird. Notice anything wrong?The link just takes me to a 'local news' website. No idea what anyone is talking about
I am not sure that the laws of physics apply to an animation of an origami bird.
Equal and opposite reactions should have the bulk of the bird going up when the wings beat down, and vice versa.
Two to the power of 16 million to one and falling.
MikeSh
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Ah, I see it now.
The creator would have taken media studies at school and therefore not physics (I expect).
gomezz
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I see no bird.
Edit: Now see it using Chrome rather than my usual Firefox. I think that is about as good as you could expect using just a couple of alternating GIFs.
everthewatcher
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Fine under my default FF here.
Black Hole
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So far as I can see there's nothing stopping the bobbing being antiphase with the wing beats rather than in phase.
everthewatcher
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When I first noticed this I had a look at the page source to see if the animation could be separated out but gave up.