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Zebra mussel major problem.

Yep. Feck all to do with the sand.

Which is probably causing other problems

Probably fair to say that the origin of the fire may not be climate related, but the difficulty in putting the damn thing out most certainly is.

[What a player, probably the best defender I've seen.]

What a player, probably the best defender I've seen.

f**king hell here we go again. The Best Ever. Unrivalled. No Equals.

The important bit of that is underlined ye muppet.

Their opinion based on what they've seen. Not telling you what your GOAT should be.

If an attacking player is in the square with the ball and fist passes to another player who is standing in the square is that a square ball?

No because the ball is already in the square.

[It is aimed at main-line or inter-city services.]

Local commuter rail is not factored in. It is aimed at main-line or inter-city services.
Any commuter rail would be a bonus.

What's the majority of people on these? Leisure travel or business travel?

But in the meantime, until it gets sorted (if ever) what should be done in the meantime to reduce the crashes? As it's not the drivers fault, is there something else that can be used?

Would a significant bulk of the accidents be people pulling out not seeing/realising there was oncoming traffic?

Could probably adopt those automated speed reader things you see in some towns/villages to flash a red beacon back down the road upon detecting oncoming traffic - so the person in the side road knows something is coming.

Suppose another question worth asking is...

If the majority of people on the trains would be commuters, and they are commuting to office jobs (reasonable assumption given tradesmen need a van full of gear) - would much of the benefit be derived by forcing companies* into either letting people work from home, or by having multiple regional offices within easy commute of the employee rather than all centralised to a city or two?

Which coincidentally would also do wonders for the rural economy.


*if big companies expect the govt to support them by providing all the infrastructure to transport their employees to one central very congested hub without a compelling reason (i.e. its a manufacturing site as opposed to the back-offices of a bank), then tax the shite out of them for it.

Link is here:

https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/265178/a839ee26-16c4-407d-bd5b-327ce0e067f5.pdf#page=null

(Bit surprised they printed in Times New Roman, do they not know its long since been discarded in favour of more dyslexic friendly fonts like Calibri or Tahoma...!)

This investment would take the best part of 25 years to deliver, which suggests an annual capital spend of the order of € .27/£1.06bn would be required in addition to existing commitments (2021 prices, excl. VAT). Updated cost estimates in 2023 prices are provided in Appendix B. While significant, these costs would represent a similar annual spend as was committed in the middle of the 2000s when Ireland expanded its motorway network, and they would be shared across both jurisdictions

Would the upgraded rail network deliver the same benefits as the motorway network? I wouldn't think so in terms of transport times or cost - it'd only be in terms of carbon footprint - and that's dependent on the govt getting people off the motorways and onto the trains. Would electrifying the motorways so they'd charge electric cars deliver better "carbon" returns on the investment?

(or more to the point, just delivering point charging infrastructure! https://assets.gov.ie/220099/2ee020ea-99a6-439e-851b-48d0b410e746.pdf)

Other references of interest:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/ehighways-could-slash-uk-road-freight-emissions-says-study

If they were all amalgamated, would the GAA not immediately be accused of not knowing what's best for the ladies game(s)?

My boss went to pick up his all electric Audi. Dealer told him hydrogen will be ushered in quicker that people think. Replacing electric cars. (Ain't gonna  be tomorrow but food for thought)

Ah, not convinced.

I got a run in a Merc fuel cell motor in Hamburg over 10 years ago now. Was a demo model that Merc were renting to people for evaluation.

Never went anywhere. Big problem has remained unchanged - efficiently storing the hydrogen and avoiding embrittlement over the long term.

Mad fact - there is more hydrogen in a litre of water than there is in a litre of liquid hydrogen! (~110 g of H2 in a litre of water, ~ 71 g of H2 in a litre of liquid H2)

The majority of them are paid far too much.

Its not like there is a vast pool of alternative employers for them - dunno why in contract negotiations RTÉ don't just say "grand so, go away off wherever you want then, we'll get someone else"

Ye'd soon find that the bulk of them would moderate their pay demands then.

I've always been confused why the Russian air force didn't make a bigger impact in Ukraine.

Lack of good precision guided munitions and electronic warfare.

They were saying on the news last night that the shape of Titan compared to other submersibles could have been a design flaw as the pressure wouldn't have been distributed around it evenly.

Its definitely a design compromise. You get more useable internal volume in a capped cylinder than you do in a pure sphere.

Its only a flaw if the designers didn't account for the various stress concentrations that arise from that compromise. Which I'd be very surprised if they didn't think they were doing that right - its pretty basic.

What happens a body exposed to that pressure so quickly. Would there be anything left of them? Terrible tragedy but in one way a better way to go than waiting for days for the end.

They'll have been vapourised when the internal air was exposed to the external pressure.

Suppose the silver lining is- they won't have known or felt a thing, from the initial crack till the end, it'll all have been over in milliseconds.

I was shocked to read that Joe Brolly was planning to boycott the Ulster Final if RG was there. Isn't or wasn't he a barrister? I'm sure he's had to defend some unsavoury characters

You have to open your wallet to get them to park their morals.