You don't see that every day.
Goalie scores from 70-metre free kick.

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Grant
Darwin NT

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

As you may, or may not, know. One of my favourite pastimes is computer gaming.

I have been playing on and off for around 30 years.

My latest game comes from the "Fallout" franchise. Fallout games are set in a alternate timeline that diverged from ours around 1947, when the Fallout universe didn't discover transistors. However went to to become the world that was portrayed in 50's Sci-Fi stories, robots, power armour fusion power etc.

If you want to know more go here.

Fallout World

However all was not well in this timeline and on October the 23rd 2077 China attacked the USA with nuclear weapons.

The game centres on survivors of "The Great War" and the struggle for survival. Most of the protagonists were the lucky few who survived in underground "vaults" run by a crooked company called "Vault Tech".

The latest episode is called Fallout 76 and is an online game (not my favourite way to play). You play as one of the 500 vault dwellers in Vault 76 who on the 23rd of October 2102 leave the safety of the vault to go and "Rebuild America".

Note: The post apocalyptic world is full of people and things, mostly things that will certainly try and interfere with any rebuilding. :-)

Vault 76 is in Vest Virginia, which as you may be aware is where the Greenbank Telescope resides in our universe :-)

So I was interested to see if the Fallout world had it's counterpart. It is a large game map and it take a while but recently I was on the eastern side of the map and saw this.





It is called "The National Isolated Array", in the fallout world but is obviously Greenbank

Early morning shot.



Interesting that the game designers would go to the trouble to include that.

Oh and this is my character resplendent in his "Excavator Power Armor".

Then there is the Sub Millimeter Array in Hawaii, a total of 8 20' radio telescopes. I was looking for the radio telescopes seen in the movie battleship, needless to say I came up empty on that.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

What price Vanity :-)

So much for growing old gracefully. :-)

Thanks to Weekly World News and the KGB now we know why aliens have big heads.

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

Ha ha... Thank you Pierre for my morning laugh.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

My latest game comes from the "Fallout" franchise.

I have played the Fallout games starting with Fallout 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7a1GVlC9SM
Then Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4.
Now Fallout 76 perhaps:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9FGaan35s0
"In vault 76 our future begins"
I think Fallout 3 was the most entertaining where the game start being born in vault 101 and first growing up and going to school before you go out in to Capital Wasteland and District of Columbia.

'Are we supposed to pick up the phone and then do it?' Hilarious footage shows two teenagers completely baffled by a rotary telephone when given four minutes to make one call

* Two American 17-year-olds were challenged to make a call on a rotary phone

• They were told to dial a single number within a four-minute time frame
  
• Neither had used an old-style handset before and had difficulties with dialling
  * The bamboozled pair did not know to pick up the receiver before starting to dial

The four minute video is embedded in the article

Kevin Bumstead filmed the video which featured his nephew Kyle and son Jake.

He said: 'I saw a video similar on YouTube and I thought it would be funny to see how my kids and their cousins handled this challenge at Christmas. So I divided them up by age group (24, 22, 22) (19 & 19) these 2 (17 & 17) and (14 and 12) and gave them the phone number and 4 min to dial the phone.

'These two were the most entertaining and they took the longest and sort of figured it out.'

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'Are we supposed to pick up the phone and then do it?' Hilarious footage shows two teenagers completely baffled by a rotary telephone when given four minutes to make one call

* Two American 17-year-olds were challenged to make a call on a rotary phone

• They were told to dial a single number within a four-minute time frame
  
• Neither had used an old-style handset before and had difficulties with dialing
  * The bamboozled pair did not know to pick up the receiver before starting to dial

The four minute video is embedded in the article

Kevin Bumstead filmed the video which featured his nephew Kyle and son Jake.

He said: 'I saw a video similar on YouTube and I thought it would be funny to see how my kids and their cousins handled this challenge at Christmas. So I divided them up by age group (24, 22, 22) (19 & 19) these 2 (17 & 17) and (14 and 12) and gave them the phone number and 4 min to dial the phone.

'These two were the most entertaining and they took the longest and sort of figured it out.'

LOL! That's good, a rotary phone, piece of cake.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

The average British teenager is much worse. :-)

In that case, use the current excuse: Brexit's fault. :-)

They certainly aren't any better from what I have seen. It seems to me that in the UK it's mostly down to schools dumbing down education and exams to maintain pass levels to secure future funding. That and junk TV and heads stuck in iPhones and iPads. Meanwhile youth clubs and organisations are closing down through lack of members.

They are not dumbing down education, they are dumbing down the pupils. They are taught, this is the way to answer this type of question, no "thinking outside the box" allowed.
When we were at school if you didn't think outside the box, and find a solution, you failed.
It's not those two boys fault, the fault lies with the teachers, and the parents who think schools should do all of the teaching, for not allowing or teaching pupils to think for themselves.

P.S. If you do teach your kids to think for themselves, some teachers classify you, the parent, as a trouble maker.

And this is cool, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46891412

And this is cool, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46891412

Blin:) It looks like a pancake.
Have to be Grey Aliens making those.

They certainly aren't any better from what I have seen. It seems to me that in the UK it's mostly down to schools dumbing down education and exams to maintain pass levels to secure future funding. That and junk TV and heads stuck in iPhones and iPads. Meanwhile youth clubs and organisations are closing down through lack of members.

They are not dumbing down education, they are dumbing down the pupils. They are taught, this is the way to answer this type of question, no "thinking outside the box" allowed.
When we were at school if you didn't think outside the box, and find a solution, you failed.
It's not those two boys fault, the fault lies with the teachers, and the parents who think schools should do all of the teaching, for not allowing or teaching pupils to think for themselves.

P.S. If you do teach your kids to think for themselves, some teachers classify you, the parent, as a trouble maker.

And this is cool, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46891412

Uh, it is called teaching to the standardized test. Very effective when your bonus is based on the test result.

Owner gets stuck up tree trying to rescue own cat

A pet owner had to be rescued from a tree after climbing it to free her missing cat.

Marie Parry spent "three days of searching and no sleep" after Harry the tabby disappeared from her home in Fareham, Hampshire.

When she found the bedraggled moggy in a back garden she climbed the tree "by instinct" to comfort him before getting stuck herself.

Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said the pair were rescued using a ladder.

For Annie, and everyone.

Yes, even birds need a hand.

Kind man helps pigeon quench its thirst at water fountain
January 18, 2019

Steven Pesantez, a kindly man waiting for the Staten Island Ferry in New York City, helped a pigeon get a cool drink from a water fountain in a cute new video. As Steven wrote on Twitter, “I saw that my mans was thirsty so I decided to help him out.”

https://nypost.com/video/kind-man-helps-pigeon-quench-its-thirst-at-water-fountain/

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Awwww :) that's brilliant, Lynn! Thank you for posting it :)

Norman Greenbaum at work. :-)