On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > >If you fancy a flight to Perth and back you can borrow it for the weekend, > but I need it back by the 27th. :)**** > > ** ** > > After an hour of searching and searching and searching (I think search > engines are broken!) I finally found a place about 4 suburbs away from home > that will do a weekend deal for the projector and screen for $150 from > Friday to Monday. The worst thing in web searching these days are those > “fake search engine” sites that intercept your request, reformat it > unreadably and recommend stupid results which are probably just paid > advertising. I think there was some furore a few months ago when Google said > they’d block these irritating sites in their search results. I hope they do. > **** > > ** ** > > It’s not Friday, but here is a quiz question I’m going to ask people on > Saturday night. Using only mental calculations and guestimates ...**** > > ** ** > > *If our sun was the size of grain of coarse beach sand (about 0.7mm > across), at that scale how far would it be to our close neighbour star Alpha > Centauri where the Space Family Robinson blasted off for back in 1997?* > > ** ** > > > 20m (which approximates one hell of a lot of things)
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