The Grand Cafe

Lucky escape for that pointer :joy::woozy_face:

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Yes youā€™re not the first to have said that.

Are you OK.

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Has anyone been watching Mr. Muskā€™s satellites passing overhead and what do we think of them?
I think they look pretty impressive but am a little concerned at the large amount of stuff hurtling around above.

I did see a shooting star a few days ago but havenā€™t noticed Mr Musks toys. Where should I be looking.

You can find the best viewing times when you google Starlink tracker. I watched them at about 10.30pm with my 9 year old grandson on Friday night, It was a great experience for us to share.

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Cheers theyā€™re not visible in our sky for at least 5 days, there are some older ones about 5am.

Iā€™ll now keep an eye on it. Thanks for sharing. :+1:

There is plenty of space up there!

True but it does increase the chances of something hitting us :grin:

I guess anything that fell would burn up as it wouldnā€™t have the protection it left the ground with?

We will keep our fingers crossed.
There is a lot of concern about the visual impact, particularly for astronomers.

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The ISS has been hit by bits of small space junk before. Itā€™s also successfully steered clear of more dangerous space debris. In 2015, the station adjusted its orbit to avoid a piece of a Minotaur rocket that had launched two years before. ā€¦ The @Space_Station has maneuvered 3 times in 2020 to avoid debris.

I copied the above item from some non-descript part the Inter-net.

The space station is fitted with layered shields to protect it from the impacts with small pieces of space debris and no doubt space dust and other natural debris.

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Iā€™ve just decided Iā€™m going to propose my wife for the Nobel Prize of Peace.

She managed to get the kids to the playground.

Iā€™m going to give Mrs Pete the opposite, weā€™ve had grandkids here (she keeps swamping them around) since Christmas. The last go home this afternoon, I do love them them but god theyā€™re noisy and high maintenance bunch.

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Canā€™t you retreat to the studio and play loud music?

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No itā€™s right beside the bedroom they like.

Count your blessings Pete.

We would love to have our grandchildren stay again. But Rules donā€™t allow the three who live a couple of miles away to even enter the garden, never mind stay !!

And the two in Canada ā€¦ well !!!

You can only enjoy peace and quiet for so much.

Still, we do have frequent family Zoom get togethers.

So very true I do count them regularly it was tongue in cheek. Iā€™m well aware that there are a lot of people less fortunate than us.

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Our youngest kid is 4 and canā€™t spend all his energy during the day. He is overactive and is teasing us all. We learn a lot!

Iā€™ve cut hairs of one of my kids today.

Quite wartime, but without bullets.

I think youā€™re meant to have kids when your young and have a bit more energy. Mrs Pete and I have been going to bed at the same time as them, exhausted.

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I am amazed at the energy of my grand kids, what is the point when we could put all that energy to good use right about when we are loosing all ours.

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