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Thanks, appreciate the comment, but by no means an expert, just an enthusiast. I don't want to say definitely no, because a) I'm not qualified, and b) nothing is absolute, but it is highly, highly unlikely. First of all, the comet's entry into the inner solar system has it passing a long way away from Earth (as above, some 116 million kilometers) And secondly, the comet's orbit isn't even on the same plane as the rest of the solar system: So even though it appears to be passing very close to Venus, it's still way, way off. If you want to speculate about possible "doomsday" comets/asteroids, have a look at NASA's Near Earth Object database: There will be an asteroid zipping by the Earth tomorrow at less distance than the Moon is away from the earth (bear in mind it's still 360,000km away, Geostationary satellites orbit at a tenth of that distance), but it's only 13-30m in diameter. The next big one to pass is 1998 OR2, but about 16 times farther away than the Moon. It is a couple of kilometers in diameter though. Below is the Top 10 closest (known) passes in the future: If you're interested in reading some more, have a look at ʻOumuamua, the first known interstellar (i.e. not from our Solar System) object ever detected.

Strava hasn't been supported for a long time. Best would be to push the HRM directly to S-Health, but you can give it a try via the Wahoo app to see if it works. I don't want to say it definitely works directly with S-Health, but before The Girl got a Garmin watch we used to record with her Wahoo strap to S-Health and it worked fine.

I'm nervous... Also, Killing Eve is back!!!

C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) was only discovered on 27 November 2011 and passed the Sun on 16 December 2011, less than a month after its initial discovery. It skirted very close to the sun at only 140,000 kilometres, and survived the trip around, leading to a magnificent tail visible to the naked eye, as seen from the International Space Station: It also passed by Earth a bit closer than ATLAS is being predicted to: I spent a couple weeks chasing it, but due to excessive rain and clouds over the holidays I was only able to catch it on the 3rd of January, by which time it had dimmed significantly (no longer visible to the naked eye, so I was super chuffed once the processed images revealed a faint, but long tail)

Ja no there's a bit of misinformation going on here. Halley's Comet was 1986. Comet Hale-Bopp was 1997. It will pass Earth at a Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance of ‎0.063 AU, not 0.6 AU, which is approximately 116,855,706 km, or somewhere between the orbit of Mercury and the Sun. As of 2 April 2020 it appears to have started breaking up, but comets are weird and it could yet brighten up again, only time will tell. Amateur Astronomers have been tracking it with fairly large telescopes, but it will (if it will) only become visible to the naked eye towards the end of this month. It peaked at 7 Magnitude, but has since receded to 9 Magnitude (the larger the number, the dimmer the object, and going from 9 -> 7 makes it about six times dimmer).

I had the total wrong impression of dropped, whew! Edit: Also, I was thinking of Mindhunter, ignore me...

It really whips the llama's ass

Bear in mind that it also runs on tablets and phones, and cheap laptops, not super swanky gaming PC's.

Goodness those SAA 747's are pretty.

Budget?

Must have something to do with the undersea fibre cable break.

It was good fun guys, thanks a lot! I'll ride again on Monday if there's a meeting!

Stumptown has been a good watch, we've enjoyed it. Thanks for the recommendation Cap!

Followed, will join you guys tomorrow!

It was me.

Did you adjust your front derailleur limits when you changed the crankset? It might be that the position of the blades is not exactly the same as before.

So this is a current conversation in an estate group

Ag please. When I broke my hip last year I was confined to a bed for 2 weeks and home for 6 weeks, it's not that bad. People will be fine.

Yeah at the moment you just have to ride out the storm. I trust that the fund managers know more than I do, and a 7.5% drop in the current situation is actually not too bad. When you're looking at companies like Atterbury (ATT) having lost 40% in the last month, Redefine (RDF) down 60%, things aren't too bad for me personally at this stage.

My personal investments (all with Allan Gray through various funds) are down about 7.5% since the beginning of the month, which doesn't seem too bad, but it's a lot of actual value gone almost overnight. My pension and preservation funds at Discovery however are down about 20% on the contributed amounts. Which is scary.

How are you going to install the temperature sensor into the geyser? TH16 is rated for 3.3kW I believe, but it will fail over time. These mechanical relays don't like switching on and off all the time, especially at such high loads.

Do you want to ride on Zwift, on someone else's trainer?

This bit came through from Allan Gray a couple of days ago:

Yeah, this was my reasoning behind getting one. I stay in the east of Pretoria, and within a couple of minutes you've got dirt roads for days. I constantly see people rolling around on R100K S-Works to go have a coffee at Rosemary hill, and I just wonder, what's the point. Fair play to them, they can ride what they want, but the gravel bike is just faster across dirt roads, and tar, than an MTB would be, and that's why I enjoy mine. And I've done a rocky 10km/800m climb to the top of the communications towers near Sabie and it was totally capable. It was a bit hairy on the descent at times, I'll admit.