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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My account shows nothing at all. Evidently my interests are of no consequence. Or so varied that their algorithms cannot track me.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do share how to access this. Also, I didn't know you had railway interests. Other than studying timetables.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Build data centres under the North Sea. Beside the wind farms. Power, cooling, land use and eyesore issues solved at a stroke.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Doomwatch episode involved a modified bacteria that eats plastic. It got loose on a plane and almost crashed it. You may be thinking of Survivors. A series where a virus killed most of the world population.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pigeons are getting more skills.

A pigeon hangs upside down on a feeder to get at the seeds.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Chicken wire over everything. Sorted. Ukraine has entire roads covered.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She just won the shirt off someone's back?

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Err, did the Ordnance Survey start during the Napoleonic wars?

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Container ships in the North Sea.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You couldn't protect Westminster for that much, let alone Britannia. Iron Dome was designed for ballistic missile attack. It would struggle gainst massed drones or hypersonic missiles. It ignores objects that will impact unpopulated places. Sheep may safely graze?

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh to have had a couple of minutes alone to snaffle a few of those.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In the UK we call it 2-stroke. In your case that may be literally your fate.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As a comparison, a complete Dyson sphere is in the billion earths range.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Waking up now. Surface area of a cylinder is 2*pi*r*h. 2*pi*93M*1M = approx 600 trillion square miles. Earth surface = 4*pi*r^2. Approx 195 million square miles. So I was roughly right with 3 million earths.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are two major oceans at opposite sides to balance the ring somewhat. I think by pumping water somehow. One of these has islands laid out like full size maps of Earth, Mars, the Kzin homeworld and some other planets.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's the warp capable tardigeade from Star Trek Discovery.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think the numbers are somewhere in the books. From memory, a Ringworld is about 3 million earth surfaces but I can't remember if that includes oceans and my brain isn't in a good spot to recalculate right now.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ringworld is, as you say, 1AU in radius. It is a million miles wide with walls 1000 miles high to retain the atmosphere. It spins fast enough to replicate 1G at the surface. By day, the distant ring would be invisible but at night a thin line (called the arch) is visible higher up in the sky.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The British had the Boulton Paul Defiant in WW2. A fighter with a turret behind the pilot. Meant to approach enemy bombers from below. Sadly was almost useless against fighters. Bolton Paul were furniture makers. I guess they didn't design the engine and weapons.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Book2 2 if the Rama series ups the action. The last two were an anticIimax for me, with the final being a real cop out. Get into Ringworld, it's sequels and then the Fleet of Worlds series. They are epic stories.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maybe they built more data centres.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now elevated to the penthouse.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Say the people who allow a washing machine in their bathroom.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can I get all my 3D printing software on it? I have printers from Bambu, Elegoo, Prusa plus various design stuff like 3D Builder. I now have a decent Win 11 machine but my 12 year old Dell can't be upgraded to 11.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Battle scenes are worth watching.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1. Robots. 2. A chute in every home that conveys all the trash to sorters and then to mulchers or big 3D printers to recycle everything. Where do you think all of Picard's teacups go?

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you watched the TV series Jam and Jerusalem, you'll have seen this discussed. Also rimming, which of course is rubbing a finger round the rim of a wine glass to make a sound.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Time to get those board games out.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our gardener has just fixed the fence panel that blew down in February. So that's a plus.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the 1980s, Streatham was being gentrified. They pronounced it St Reatham.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Now that series really fritzed my brain.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Ringworld RPG is close but with lots of aliens. Despite the vast world, the game is generally localised. With few internal perils, I can't see where the conflicts arise in Rama. Now Rama 2 et seq...

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The World Perfumed Darts Championship is not to be sniffed at.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Did he write a book? The name seems familiar.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Exciting development. This time next year, you'll be a millionaire!

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Did you receive any other mail between those dates? We often go a few days with no delivery and the posties tell us it's due to staffing levels. They have less than half the people compared to a few years ago. We've never gone 10 days without any post.

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Andrew Holmes @evenpickier.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Congratulations. Our leeks never got fatter than pencils. Potatoes did well.

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