[Sticks]

does anyone have any decent pictures of a scrapyard / Junkyard.

I need one for a presentation to be given in the new year sometime. This is not a new obsession.

If you have any please can you either e-mail them to me or post them up here

[Janette]

You can't leave it there Sticks!!!!!!


What on earth do you want pictures of a junkyard for???????????????


What's the presentation?


And why???????????????

[Mairi]

Sticks, much as I'd love to help, junkyards aren't high on my list when it comes to taking photographs!!

Perhaps you will be able to find something suitable on the web.

Good look with the presentation.

[steve_o]

errrrr, no Sticks junk yards are not what I'd call very photogenic.

[Romantic Old Bird]

I love a scrapheap challenge!

Here is a nice black and white art shot Sticks........................

[Romantic Old Bird]

Perhaps this???



or this?

[Mairi]

Is taking piccies of junkyards a new hobby of yours, ROB?

[Romantic Old Bird]

No Miriam, I've just gone a bit 'Google'-y!!!

[Boris]

Now I know where there is a wonderful 'scrapyard' where you can take your own pics Sticks . Just let me know and I will tell you the address if you are interested. It is not ANYWHERE near the 'frozen north' where you live tho' ! SORRY !

[Sticks]

Thanks ROB
When I get home I will reveal why I need these pictures.

As A clue, I also will be using a picture of a Boeing 747

I will be surprised if anyone gets the connection

[steve_o]

Blimey, like the way you tell us that after you get the pictures. A pile of scrap and a boeing 747 sound well dodgey to me Sticks. How about something more cheerful during 2003. Your starting to worry me, you are.

[Sticks]

So you do not know he connection then

As a further clue, a tornado is also involved (The weather type not the jet fighter)

So what is the connection between a Junkyard, a Boeing 747 and a tornado

[Mairi]

So what is the connection between a Junkyard, a Boeing 747 and a tornado

I don't know, Sticks but I have a feeling you're going to tell us.

[Janette]

Ok, I'm going to give it a try even though I'm probably way off track!!!!!


There was a terrible tornado somewhere in America, and a Boeing 747 was caught up by it and blown completely off the radar screens. When Air traffic control finally found the aeroplane it had crashlanded on top of a junkyard and miraculously there were no fatalities!





(Am I close?)

[James]

Has your presentation got anything to do with the theory of evolution Sticks?

[Sticks]

Janette Freezing
James Getting warmer

[Boris]

Are we considering the 'Big Bang'

here at all Sticks?

[Sticks]

Just gone chilly

[Mairi]

I rather enjoy solving puzzles, Sticks, so I donned my "Sherlock Holmes" deerstalker this morning and made a few "enquiries".

I have a feeling that the answer to your question may well involve the late Sir Fred Hoyle, world-renowned astronomer.

[Sticks]

You are in danger of having to attend the burns unit.

Would you like to alaborate a bit more, or do you want me to

[Mairi]

As you are the one giving the presentation on this subject, Sticks, I think you should have the honour.

[Sticks]

Originally posted by miriam
As you are the one giving the presentation on this subject, Sticks, I think you should have the honour.

Sir Fredrick Hoyle, in discussing the curent theory that life arose from a chemical soup on the primordial Earth, said

“The chance that higher forms have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein {Hoyle on Evolution, Nature Vol 294, 12th November 1981}

Earlier he had also said

At all events, anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the Rubik cube will concede the near-impossibility of a solution being obtained by a blind person moving the cubic faces at random. Now imagine 10^50 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling at just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only biopolymers but the operating programme of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order

All I need now is an unscrambled Rubik cube.....

[Romantic Old Bird]

Miriam, I am starting to think you are a VERY dark horse!!!!

[Mairi]

Originally posted by Romantic Old Bird
Miriam, I am starting to think you are a VERY dark horse!!!!

Neigh, Neigh, ROB.

[James]

I consulted the Great Oracle at Google to get my information, by the way.

So what's your presentation about Sticks?

Is it about how life started or Darwinism? Are you one of these creationists?

If I remember rightly, Fred Hoyle proposed that microscopic life was delivered to the Earth by comets. He also didn't believe that the universe started with a Big Bang.