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> Using bears for this is just plain cruel. Can't they use cats? Can you manage a payload of well under a kilogram? http://ukhas.org.uk/general:flight_data Babbage at about 17,000 metres at 14:38 BST: http://ssdv.habhub.org/images/2013-08-26--13-38-20-PIE-50A.jpeg Babbage at about 34,000 metres at 15:35 BST:http://ssdv.habhub.org/images/2013-08-26--14-35-55-PIE-51C.jpeg

The bear is fearless. Having apparently broken the amateur live photo height record yesterday, he's having another go at the skydive tomorrow about 1-2pm. I think this may be because his release from the main payload didn't work properly on Saturday. Same sites as above, I think, if you want live coverage. I assume stills and videos will be available later anyway.

It looks to me more like an Asch paradigm.

Home in time for tea. https://twitter.com/AnthonyStirk/status/371303694626603008/photo/1

The forum clock is inaccurate. Babbage has reached 39km now, 14:12 BST, and his height is shown as unchanging - maybe a glitch - the balloon is shown as still ascending. ETA: PIE and TED now both shown (separately) as decending at ~ 65m/s. [14:16] 14:28: at 13 km, falling at 17 m/s.

Babbage is now at 33,000m, 6 km (~12 minutes) short of the height at which he's scheduled to begin his skydive. Telemetry and photographs still seem ridiculously good. As well as the onboard photo stream, the recovery car channel is at http://www.batc.tv/ch_live.php (pick UKHAS Balloon launches stream)

Links at thread http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,1168665 Babbage Bear looks well in attached pic.

Babbage balloon launched at 12:18 BST. TED/PIE Map and altitude tracker at http://spacenear.us/tracker/?filter=PIE%3BTED (currently 7700m) and live photos coming in at http://ssdv.habhub.org/ (times arte UT, same as GMT). 19,500 metres (12 miles) high at 13:24 BST -- half-way to the height at which he will jump. Still ascending at ~6 m/s. The balloon has reversed its horizontal path twice so far. Babbage looks well. http://ssdv.habhub.org/images/2013-08-24--12-22-25-PIE-4A4.jpeg

Launch preparation underway at http://www.batc.tv/streams/ukhas2.

Babbage Bear will be seeking to emulate Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking 39,000m. freefall from a balloon at about 11 am tomorrow over the Newbury area. More details here: http://www.daveakerman.com/. There are no indications so far of any change to the schedule. Near-live photo feeds should be available, including some on-bear ones at http://ssdv.habhub.org/.

How serious were his injuries?

Google maps places it at the Underhill Road end of Henslowe Road.

Douglas Bader

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADT_Security_Services#ADT_in_the_UK ADT has an authorized dealer program. I'd guess it's one of those at work.

> No one expects anything to happen, With your husband's identification and testimony, combined with the police being able to match those to the perpetrator, via the car's registration number, I'd have thought there was a fair possibility. Maybe less so if both cars are stolen.

Does the screen display turn off and the fan turn on when the machine freezes? If so it might just be an occurrence (though rather a late occurring one) of an inherent known fault in some old ibooks: http://macintoshhowto.com/hardware/how-do-i-get-my-broken-g4-ibook-fixed.html/comment-page-1, of which those are said to be the symptoms. Does it have some way of displaying motherboard /processor temperatures? Machines will shut down if overheating, perhaps because of a fan that's failing or needs a bit of cleaning out with eg compressed air. Software problems, including those caused by a new version of some application, can also cause crashes. Are there system or application log files? They might contain a relevant warning or error report.

Will they be using ED airspace?

I don't think it's to do with being logged in or not. The URL you want to send seems to be http:// www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?30,812227 . What is actually sent shows up as http:// www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?30%2C812227 in the page source. The %2C is a valid encoding of a comma, but it appears to be causing difficulties for some software. I wouldn't sweat over the cause but just try resending the comma version. In both cases above I've put a space after the http:// , so that this forum's parser will display the full text here rather than making a link of it. Take the space out, of course, to send it. You should be able to test the link in your out tray. In any case, browsers should be able to manage without the http:// , though any software displaying it without probably won't treat it as a clickable link. Grisly details of URL encoding here for them as wants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

> I saw Richard Ayoade in sainsburys on saturday, that was quite exciting, the man is a genius. What did he do?

When I consider the diseases of these times, together with all the signs, symbols and tribulations, I fear a relapse, alas, alas, I fear a relapse.

> I have done a few on Coursera, MM perhaps heard the R4 programme on Saturday morning featuring its founders: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036j3qc > Lilly have you considered taking an online course? I suspect this is her coursework.

Aye, I won't say there's no risk of contagion. I allus use the disinfectant washes at t' forum gate. They's seen me through the while.

> Ellipses??? Who uses them? B@STARDS. That's who. Spoken with all the conviction of a convert or reformed sinner. Well done. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,90928,93056#msg-93056

He provides some personal background information in his contributions at http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/discussions/civilisation-measured-rights-grants-majority/discussion-17217708-detail/discussion.html#axzz2YCn3BBav

Hurra! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Jenny English lyric: http://www.songlyrics.com/judy-collins/pirate-jenny-lyrics/ Film: