@oochillyo     First, DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS in any email   (unless you are quite certain they are legit).    I’m posting this now so you get it promptly.    I’ll follow with some more thoughts in a few minutes.

@oochillyo   Yes I get most of my DVD’s from charity shops.   Quite a lot of them still have Blockbuster or United Video or Video Easy labels on – not stolen, just sold off when the stores closed.    Which is sad.   Youtube is great to have but it killed the video stores.

Last night I watched Four Weddings and a Funeral for the first time (wh…[Read more]

@oochillyo  I have only read a couple of comics, mostly Dr Who related or Babylon Five related. I read a lot, alternating between fiction and non fiction, mostly history and archaeology. My taste in fiction is broad, literature, sci fi, fantasy, and like @dentarthurdent,  I avoid the popular stuff. Currently I am making my way through Terry P…[Read more]

@oochillyo   I watched I Robot recently.   Picked up the DVD for a dollar in the local charity shop  (my main source of DVD’s these days).   I wasn’t expecting much.   (A while before that I watched the re-make of Total Recall, the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie – the original was quite good.   Well the re-make was on Blu-Ray, the special effects we…[Read more]

@oochillyo   I like Andrew Garfield also and he was very good in the two part Doctor Who episode Daleks In Manhattan. He is a great actor.

stay safe

Hi @oochillyo    Um, favourite authors.    Well, I like authors that have an interesting style of writing and a nice turn of phrase.   Doesn’t really matter what the subject is, if the writer is good at his craft.

In fantasy / sci fi, I guess I’d include Terry Pratchett, Doug Adams, Arthur C Clarke (whose short stories usually had a twist at the…[Read more]

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Hello yourself. I don’t know which show you mean? If you haven’t got Netflix, then you wouldn’t have seen Lucifer.

Missy

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Hi Declan    Reading is a good habit to have.   I was a late starter reading but when I found I could actually do it, there was no stopping me.   I became a compulsive reader – books, notices on packaging, ingredients, instruction leaflets – I eventually had to make a rule that if I had time to read the stuff on the backs of cereal…[Read more]

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Hello there, yes I have watched Sweet Tooth, not bad. Other police series is of course Line of Duty. Happy Valley I couldn’t get into, unusual for me. The Good Doctor is very clever, especially Freddie Highmore. I  remember him in Finding never Land, which was wonderful Johnny Depp at his best.

However, my favourite TV series (apart…[Read more]

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Have seen MAYFLIES. Very sad.  Tony Curran actually looks like Van Gogh, have you seen some of his self portraits?

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I have heard of Evil’s Hour, but no sign of it as yet. Anyone watched Stranger things on Netflix? Very well done and funny, especially Dunstan and Hopper.  The Never Ending story  theme sung by Dunstan (D…[Read more]

Happy new year to all us Forum Buddies. To @oochillyo @dentarthurdent @nerys @janetteB @winston @nerys @blenkinsopthebrave and many more…

my NY reso is to work more in the garden, despite the muggy heat. I’d like to say exercise & diet but I doubt that’ll change!
Hope we all stay safe from further Covid outbreaks and that the unnerving polit…[Read more]

@janetteb and to you! Yes, we’re doing well. It’s hot here but we’ve had no rain & compared with the flood peaks expected today in Victoria (??), I believe, we’re very grateful. I know flood warnings came 7 days ago with expected river peaks effectively at midnight last night. Not good at all. It either never rains, and there’s fires, or it floods…[Read more]

@oochillyo Oh, and the energy in nuclear / fusion power doesn’t come from ‘nowhere’, it comes from ‘destroying’ (or rather, converting into energy) a minute amount of mass. (In the same way a litre of gasoline ‘produces’ energy by being converted into exhaust gas, though that’s a chemical reaction – so only a very loose analogy).
The energy…[Read more]

@oochillyo Thing is, there’s so much hydrogen around (think: water) and the power produced from a tiny amount of matter is so enormous, it’s ‘virtually’ limitless. Oil would run out soon (even if climate change didn’t force us to stop), coal about ten times longer or something like that (and ditto climate change), nuclear many times longer…[Read more]

@oochillyo Well, in theory, nuclear fusion Hydrogen -> Helium can supply almost unlimited energy for the foreseeable future. It’s what the Sun does, incidentally.

The problem is, starting it and controlling it. It has been achieved experimentally before, but this is the first time they’ve managed to get more energy out than they put in (in…[Read more]

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Yes, conservation of energy is a law, so far as I know. Though energy can ‘easily’ be converted from one form (e.g. gravitational potential energy) into another (e.g. kinetic energy), the total energy must remain constant.
There is just one exception – mass can be converted into energy by nuclear processes (and I guess energy can…[Read more]

Hey again @Oochillyo.
im sorry I didn’t see your other post. You absolutely, definitely shouldn’t give up your dreams of creating art. During Covid I think we all experienced terrible loneliness so doing anything remotely crafty is a must.

Don’t allow people to tell you you are rubbish. Beethoven was called an idiot, so was Mahler, Shost…[Read more]

Hi @Oochillyo

I wish I could help you! My areas are music & history. Yes, I’d like to know that too. I don’t think conservation of energy is a law, though….

I’d add, however,  that energy in & energy out isn’t the same & doesn’t need to be, as per your 5th paragraph.
🙂

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@oochillyo Declan Sargent, I think Doctor Who has painted itself into a corner. The first post-gap season did a good job of walking that fine line between introducing new aliens and bringing back the old ones. Then it seemed that we got caught in ever-increasing levels of fan service to make sure that every season had the old favorites … to the…[Read more]