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[JamesV6CDX]

Ok, having discussed and slept on it, she's happy that Omega's are my thing, and that I should not pull out of this alltogether.

Apart from work, I don't really do much else, other than my car hobbies, so it's agreed I should be allowed to spend a reasonable amount of time with my Omega's and this forum respectively.

So I apologise if I was hasty in saying I might leave - because upon come calmer consideration, I'm not going to be doing so.

Especially as I've just bought a Meega project that I need to get through an MOT and repair a slight bump to the drivers side! (Yes, confirmed it's had a bump. 'dangle berries'!).

Sorry for any confusion. You're all an absolutely great bunch and I'd miss being away too much. I am going to have to re-consider the amount of hours I spend on here.. but I'll still get plenty of times when on nights when I can browse the forum to my hearts content, and I'm "allowed" approx one hour per evening, broken up over however much I want

Picking up the project tonight with any luck, so more news to follow..

[Admin]

Erm Ok.... says Dave having not read anything previous to this post!  :-?

Good, you are not leaving...

But...

What the   were you thinking last night??

Leave?? Us?....

Try it!  

 

[Markie]

Welcome Backl  

Funny creatures women arent they !

[RossPhim]

I know you never really left ........ but welcome back anyway!  

Maybe you should drop in and say hi, in the new users section.  

Good luck with SWMBO.

[bob.dent]

I would say welcome back James, but......er........have you actually been away??

Good to hear you got things resolved.

[nixoro]

Ok just posted in other thread but all the same good to see your still gonna be about

[tunnie]

Glad I don't have a Mrs, do what ever I want when i want.....  and I have permission to say that from my mum!  

Seriously though, good to see you back James  

[Marks DTM Calib]

Its all a matter of self control.......and learning to prioritize and plan.

And remember that you have to include personal things in your planning and priorities to (this is the bit that most people DON'T do!)

As I always say, they are is no such thing as not having the time, its a case of not considering something important enough to allocate the the time to it......thought for the day!

If there is something we really want to do, lets be honest, we try to find the time to do it!

[Martin_1962]

My wife watches quite a bit of guff TV so I'll surf instead!!

[Admin]

Its all a matter of self control.......and learning to prioritize and plan.

And remember that you have to include personal things in your planning and priorities to (this is the bit that most people DON'T do!)

As I always say, they are is no such thing as not having the time, its a case of not considering something important enough to allocate the the time to it......thought for the day!

If there is something we really want to do, lets be honest, we try to find the time to do it!

Gentlemen, Mark is also available for team building sessions, motivational seminars, workshops and is soon releasing a DVD.  

PM me for rates and availability

[Marks DTM Calib]

Its a theory which I came up with myself, I am sure there are over payed preachers out there who harp on about the same principles though.

I have some funny thought provoking ideas sometimes....like...

If you could travel faster than the speed of light and you traveled from the earth to the moon and then looked back at the earth.....what would you see.....

The truth is....nobody knows.....do you see an image of yourself coming toward you.....does the image crash into the already parked craft.....is an exact copy of you now in existence (assuming you had moved your craft by remote after you had got out of it) which is permanently copying what you did a period of time ago.....

Do you now still think we can travel faster than the speed of light.....without resorting to alternative route technology (worm holes etc)....

[Nickbat]

Its a theory which I came up with myself, I am sure there are over payed preachers out there who harp on about the same principles though.

I have some funny thought provoking ideas sometimes....like...

If you could travel faster than the speed of light and you traveled from the earth to the moon and then looked back at the earth.....what would you see.....

The truth is....nobody knows.....do you see an image of yourself coming toward you.....does the image crash into the already parked craft.....is an exact copy of you now in existence (assuming you had moved your craft by remote after you had got out of it) which is permanently copying what you did a period of time ago.....

Do you now still think we can travel faster than the speed of light.....without resorting to alternative route technology (worm holes etc)....

Yes, it's mind boggling. My own favourite is as follows:

If you throw a tennis ball at the front of a locomotive travelling at speed, it will bounce off. I believe that there is a law of physics which states that before an obeject (the tennis ball, in this case) can reverse along its previous trajectory, its forward speed must reach zero. Therefore at that split millionth of nanosecond that the ball strikes and achieves zero mph, it is in physical contact with the train, which must logically also be travelling at zero mph.

Is this too far off thread?  

[bob.dent]

Its a theory which I came up with myself, I am sure there are over payed preachers out there who harp on about the same principles though.

I have some funny thought provoking ideas sometimes....like...

If you could travel faster than the speed of light and you traveled from the earth to the moon and then looked back at the earth.....what would you see.....

The truth is....nobody knows.....do you see an image of yourself coming toward you.....does the image crash into the already parked craft.....is an exact copy of you now in existence (assuming you had moved your craft by remote after you had got out of it) which is permanently copying what you did a period of time ago.....

Do you now still think we can travel faster than the speed of light.....without resorting to alternative route technology (worm holes etc)....

Interesting stuff, and following on from that..........

What if you could travel at twice the speed of light and you travelled to a planet 1 light year away from Earth and then back again. What would the scenario be? Would you arrive back on Earth 2 years before you left? Would you meet a 2 year younger version of yourself? Would you be able to prevent yourself from leaving Earth in the first place?......and so on. Mind boggling stuff!! :-?

I suspect many thing will be possible in the future, but not faster than light travel. Worm holes may well be a means of connecting different parts of the universe and one day it may be possible to utilise them for space travel, and who knows what lies within or beyond a black hole!! :-/

**edit** Apologies for going off thread a bit but an interesting subject raised my Mark.

[Martin_1962]

Its a theory which I came up with myself, I am sure there are over payed preachers out there who harp on about the same principles though.

I have some funny thought provoking ideas sometimes....like...

If you could travel faster than the speed of light and you traveled from the earth to the moon and then looked back at the earth.....what would you see.....

The truth is....nobody knows.....do you see an image of yourself coming toward you.....does the image crash into the already parked craft.....is an exact copy of you now in existence (assuming you had moved your craft by remote after you had got out of it) which is permanently copying what you did a period of time ago.....

Do you now still think we can travel faster than the speed of light.....without resorting to alternative route technology (worm holes etc)....

Light speed is 3x10^8m/s 300,000,000m/s = 300,000km/s = 186,000miles/sec

earth - moon roughly 240,000miles

Lets say ship does 2C with instant acceleration. 0.65 seconds, light takes about 1.3 seconds so you see what was there 0.65 seconds before departure. You also see your ship heading back to Earth and appearing to arrive on Earth about 0.65seconds after it left the Moon. What you are seeing is your trip out.

[Martin_1962]

Its a theory which I came up with myself, I am sure there are over payed preachers out there who harp on about the same principles though.

I have some funny thought provoking ideas sometimes....like...

If you could travel faster than the speed of light and you traveled from the earth to the moon and then looked back at the earth.....what would you see.....

The truth is....nobody knows.....do you see an image of yourself coming toward you.....does the image crash into the already parked craft.....is an exact copy of you now in existence (assuming you had moved your craft by remote after you had got out of it) which is permanently copying what you did a period of time ago.....

Do you now still think we can travel faster than the speed of light.....without resorting to alternative route technology (worm holes etc)....

Yes, it's mind boggling. My own favourite is as follows:

If you throw a tennis ball at the front of a locomotive travelling at speed, it will bounce off. I believe that there is a law of physics which states that before an obeject (the tennis ball, in this case) can reverse along its previous trajectory, its forward speed must reach zero. Therefore at that split millionth of nanosecond that the ball strikes and achieves zero mph, it is in physical contact with the train, which must logically also be travelling at zero mph.

Is this too far off thread?  

The ball deforms a lot, the cab front/smokebox deforms a very little, perhaps compressed a few atomic spacings in with a smoke box (cast steel) or 1/100mm for a cab with sheet steel.