The Benefits Of Tecnology
Seasonal Science
Astounding A I
On a serious note, the use of clever computer technology, that isn't AI, might be yet another way in which pressure groups can cause mayhem without even leaving their keyboard!
Horrific Happening!
Completely fake. The building is in Milan (high fbb memory unreliability factor) and there are no train lines anywhere nearby.
And, ultimately, we are paying! Did anybody ask us?
Competition for Coventry
Readers may remember the period of experimental street running on a quarter of a mile of "busy city street" closed to all traffic. Apparently it went OK.
It is not clear what the word "success" means in this context, but the aspirations for dozens of these mini trams scuttling around the streets of Coventry seem to have become as politically embarrassing as a certain horse ride.
Modern recreations of the historic and defiant ride by her ladyship seem to involve participants with abnormally long hair!
But, moving quickly on, our friends across the channel have come up with a jolly good idea.
Looks familiar? But this one is designed for low-use branch lines; not city streets. And it will be driverless!
It is being developed in Bersee on the border between France and Belgium.
Here there is a short test track.
In purely practical terms, the car has been displayed in Paris.
Yeah, right!
Bonne chance!
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G rim G uidance
Whoops! Forgot the Quirky Quiz Question yesterday : so here it is with the answer below.
What did Moses take off as he approached the Burning Bush?
There really is no point in belittling this experience. Moses had murdered an Egyptian official and run away to the sanctuary of life as a shepherd, married, and only wanted a quiet life. Either the experienced a real miraculous physical happening or a huge mental vision. Either way it sent him back to Egypt to rescue his people from slavery.
Quirky Answer : he took off his sandals out of respect for the holiness of the encounter.
Archaeology has found the area of Goshen were the Hebrews lived as slaves, and it appears to have been suddenly abandoned.
We are told that, in a competition between the Egyptian Witch Doctors and Moses' God, God won at every turn. A string of nine disasters struck the nation.
Remarkably, the plagues did not effect the Hebrew settlements.
The tenth plague was the death of the oldest child (and the oldest animal). To escape this disaster Moses instructed his people to slaughter a perfect, pure young lamb and smear its blood on their doorposts.
The blood of the perfect and faultless "lamb" saved the people.
The "angel of death" would pass over their houses. "Pass Over"? Possibly a good name for later celebration?
Sounds familiar?
That's CHRISTmas again.
Quirky Question : What is really strange about most depictions of the "tablets of stone"?
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Next Farcical "First" blog : Monday 8th December
Why does that picture of the train under its "canopy" remind me of photos of the ill-fated Bennie Railplane in Scotland?
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that electric buses have lower operating costs compared to diesels. As long as that reduced operating cost can fully compensate for the higher initial purchase price, then in the long term, the operator would not have to pay more. That is, of course, the theory: in practice, the operator might have to borrow more money to buy the more expensive electric buses, and the interest payments would eat into the savings from the operating costs.
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