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From: Albert T Cone on 28 May 2010 11:02 boltar2003(a)boltar.world wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2010 11:47:58 +0100 > Albert T Cone <a.k.kirby(a)durham.ac.uk> wrote: >>> Just to be pedantic (this is uk.rec.driving after all) light does bend but >>> you'd need something pretty heavy nearby to notice. A black hole for example. >>> So if someone dropped one of them on a bend you'd be in luck! Until you got >>> sucked into it a few microseconds later of course... >> Or, since we are being pedantic, something with a refractive index >> gradient, like, perhaps some of the optic-fibre which has probably >> carried this message? > > Do be even more pedantic light doesn't actually bend in an optic fibre. Its > all internal reflection so its going in straight lines constantly bouncing off > the fibre walls. Bent spacetime however makes light go in a genuine curve. Unless it's a *graded index* fibre, as most multimode comms fibres are, in which case the light most definitely does bend inside the fibre.
From: Chris Bartram on 29 May 2010 05:54 On 28/05/2010 14:46, Ret. wrote: > Well, I don't know enough about car manufacturing and retailing to make > an informed comment upon that. > But you could take a guess. There's lots of cars in that sector, and many of them are at least OK. To launch a *really* bad one was madness.
From: Chris Bartram on 29 May 2010 05:57 On 28/05/2010 15:22, Adrian wrote: >> True I was thinking more of the BL conglomerate which swallowed Rover >> up... and wasn't the original Mini called the "Rover Mini" in it's last >> few years of production? > > Didn't they also slap the Rover badge on the Maestro and Montego briefly? Yes to all 3. I never thought the Montego/Maestro were that bad, apart from the usual build quality issues.
From: Ret. on 29 May 2010 06:38 Chris Bartram wrote: > On 28/05/2010 14:46, Ret. wrote: > >> Well, I don't know enough about car manufacturing and retailing to >> make an informed comment upon that. >> > > But you could take a guess. There's lots of cars in that sector, and > many of them are at least OK. To launch a *really* bad one was > madness. You cannot argue with that! -- Kev
From: Ret. on 29 May 2010 06:41
Chris Bartram wrote: > On 28/05/2010 15:22, Adrian wrote: > >>> True I was thinking more of the BL conglomerate which swallowed >>> Rover up... and wasn't the original Mini called the "Rover Mini" >>> in it's last few years of production? >> >> Didn't they also slap the Rover badge on the Maestro and Montego >> briefly? > Yes to all 3. I never thought the Montego/Maestro were that bad, apart > from the usual build quality issues. I traded my Pug 309 in for a Montego - I disliked it that much that I traded it back in within two months for a Cavalier. It had very strange gearing and required constant down changes to make any decent progress. -- Kev |