Hello sailor!
Well, this man appears to be sailing, except that wheel looks to be at rather an odd angle, doesn't it?
Who can it be?
Monday, March 31, 2014
Another Ridiculously Easy Photo Quiz
Hello sailor!
Well, this man appears to be sailing, except that wheel looks to be at rather an odd angle, doesn't it?
Who can it be?
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Stephen Hawking - Sailor and Rower
Congratulations to LaurenceFL for correctly deducing the answer to yesterday's photo quiz. The young boy sailing on the Norfolk Broads in England was indeed Stephen Hawking.
Did you know that Hawking was also a rower? Or to be more accurate, while an undergraduate at Oxford he did join the Boat Club as a cox. Check out The Clever Cox on Hear The Boat Sing. Would you have found it easier to guess the mystery man from this picture?
The pictures of Stephen Hawking sailing and rowing both appear in his 2013 autobiography My Brief History which I have recently been reading and from which I learned that the first symptoms of Stephen's motor neuron disease didn't appear until his final year at Oxford. He noticed that he was getting clumsy and, after falling downstairs on one occasion, he went to a doctor who advised him to "Lay off the beer!"
Here is a video of the memorable scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation in which Hawking appeared as himself playing poker with Newton, Einstein and Lieutenant Commander Data.
I was planning to use the punch line of this scene, "Wrong again, Albert!" as a clue, but then LaurenceFL worked it out before I had a chance.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
Wind
US Wind Generation Capacity by Year
in Megawatts of Installed Capacity
According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the contiguous United States has the potential for 10,459 GW of onshore wind power. The capacity could generate 37 petawatt-hours annually, an amount nine times larger than current total U.S. electricity consumption.
Hmmm!
Friday, March 21, 2014
Thursday, March 20, 2014
World's First 3D Printed Kayak
Hmmm.
Maybe I won't buy an RS Aero after all.
I'll just print me a boat.
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