h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I know Ben was in the other team, coely, Metal Chicken, Candi and ...ummm..., no my memory fails me.

Galaxy Minstrels, Zomnker, not Wandering ones

Thank you all for the warm welcome. Witty, I know my reputation precedes me, but it was all a long time ago and I've given up drinking now.

The Atelier is already influencing my diet. After reading posting #733 from Kelli, I'd had a hankering for vegeburgers all afternoon. So I've just had some, following my own favourite recipe: go to frozen food section of supermarket, find s, bring home, grill.

Wow, there's no stopping the amazing running ! Good luck for tomorrow, Amy!

Oh gosh! I nearly added that you could also catch Hepatitis A from feltching.

I'm too shy to be a sex geek.

I'm also currently writing a Guide Entry on Syphilis.

Hi Ormondroyd

Toccata - I am indeed in deepest Hants and have passed on your best regards.
Give Glasgow a great, big sloppy from me. I miss it.

I only managed 16.57% in the Geek Test - but am proud to be officially 'A Geek', though obviously only an amateur compared to some of my more learned friends.

I am fed up of this humidity and would like a muckle, great storm to come along and clear the air. All this build up of charged particles is making me wheezy.
Does anyone know if they're negatively or positively charged particles which precede a thunder storm? Some Geek must know - physics never was my strong suit.

Z - please could you do an entry on what all 'those' words mean
I only have a vague idea what one of them means. Or am I better not knowing?

Not one for the Edited Guide, methinks .

Here's a good page about lightning, Teuchter. http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/estatics/u8l4e.html

Glad to here there was a quiz team, I'll be there for the next meet, surgical finals or not.

Vegeburgers... well you can make them with burgamix, available from health food shops. I can't work out how to make them yourself to be honest.

We've had a couple of thunderstorms today, and it's still too hot ()

Teuchter, I think it's negatively charged partciles that proceed a thunderstorm.

And no, you really don't want to know what those words mean. Well I don't think I could explain it without getting moderated. Mind you I've got a handout from my last talk on the subject (given by me) I could post on OTD if you want.

yeah, you don't want to know. I wish I didn't know.

Amy, that is an awesome site, thank you for posting that. Sometimes I really wish I gone into meteorology instead of Pchem. Maybe I can do that when I grow up. I love thunderstorms.

What do ants do to protect their hills from lightning?

Ya, I'd keep the descriptions of some of those words off of the Guide. They would surely get modded, and for good reason.

Ain't slang wonderfull?


On Rain.. Salt Lake has had a very mild summer so far, and we had a vey large rainstorm last night. It failed to clear our air however. The smog is still here

We've had the thunder, lightning but no rain. I suppose I shall have to go out and water the garden.

I haven't successfully managed vegeburgers for H, they always fall apart on the bbq. His favourite bbq food is large flat mushrooms with Boursin on top, and Quorn sausages.

OK caer, you have me wanting to make a portabella mushroom sarnie... Perhaps with a wine reduction glaze... Hmmm...
I think that I have the recipie bug.. This is off the cuff, so I don't know if it will be any good.

Reduce red wine and orange juice to a glaze.
Grill the prtabella caps with olive oil, then glaze with the above concoction... Serve with grilled pineapple...

We're having a proper monsoon season, at last, with thunderstorms most days and lovely cool evenings. Thunder in a mountain valley is awesome, with lots of echoes.

Lil, You've been to SLC as I recall. How big is the Bonita valley (hoping I have this right) in comparison to SL valley?

I love those lightning strikes where it becomes as bright as day momentarily.

That was a great site Amy! Thanks for the link.

There was an interesting programme on Radio 4 a few months ago about 'life in an anthill' and there was a 'dramatised' piece about what all the ants do if their habitat is stricken by a sudden deluge. Ants can apparently survive for several days under water. Do we need an smiley with scuba-tank and flippers?

I've been very busy booking a short trip for Ma and myself to go to Devon and visit the RHS Gardens at Rosemoor. She's always wanted to go there and it's her birthday next week.
smiley.

[Hati]

Regarding the pub quiz teams - I seem to remember that we tried to form this gargantuan Team Ant, but discovered that not even two tables pushed together would be enough to host everyone, so that's why we split up into two teams...

A thunderstorm woke me up this morning around 5 am - way too early...

Hi Ormy!~waves~

[Hyp]

And someone mentioned that it would be somewhat unfair to be 3 times the size of the other teams!

The radio series 'A Year in the Life of Ants' can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/lifeofants.shtml

Did you know that a third of the Earth's animal biomass is made up of ants? Well, a bit more than a third now that I've carb-loaded .