The Thread about Nothing....

Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by alienator

My guess is......

Incidentally, do we have the best weather radar? I've occasionally searched for O.S. radar sites when watching live sport from Europe, etc, etc, but I've only found comparatively ordinary stuff.

Here's us: bom.gov.auIDR022.loop.shtmlOpen ↗
Can you see me? I've flashing a torch up toward the sky

531Aussie said:

Can you see me? My torch song is belting out toward the sky.

Yes, I can see you flaming.

Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by Wilchemy

And good luck to lama for ToB this weekend.

I second that, smash 'em @gplama [IMG]files.cyclingforums.comcool.pngOpen ↗[/IMG]

Weather is looking fantastic to 25 and 31 degrees with virtually no wind. I rode it a few times in the mid 90's when it was held in May, even in atrocious weather inc. rain, strong wind and snow, it's a cracker of a race.

Good luck lama and mrs lama.

Good luck Llama. Smash the cnuts!

Yeah! What weight did you get down to?

lamaweight, more than bantamweight, but a lot less than us fat cnut weekend warriors

Llama - first in Masters. I think, only about 24 seconds off the day's best time. Stupendous effort.

Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by paulambry

Llama - first in Masters. I think, only about 24 seconds off the day's best time. Stupendous effort.

17:44. 14 seconds off best time in A/NRS. First off in my grade, they started me 10 secs early, tried to correct it, then sent rest of the field 20 seconds early, then +20secs to everyone's on-the-line time. So I'm taxed +10 seconds on the final result. Still won. [censored] timing systems is a little tiring to be honest.

Best ride I've had in a while though. Won't be a GC contender, I'm there to ensure others won't be.

gplama said:

Best ride I've had in a while though. Won't be a GC contender, I'm there to ensure others won't be.

So, you're there to pretty much be a [censored]-blocker on wheels then?

Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by alienator

My guess is that the Parkes dish was stowed pointing up (they do that when it gets windy and perhaps other times)--or was pointed up, scanning the sky looking for transient interstellar events while the Earth rotated--the weather conditions were just right, and what you saw was scatter seen by weather radar. Weather radar usually uses S-band EM frequencies, and the Parkes dish is opaque and thus a reflector at those frequencies. S-band is good from short distance to long range distances, so no matter how far away the weather stations, an image like this is what you would see once all the stations' radar returns had been stitched together in a single image.

Besides, everyone who's not an idiot knows that aliens use cloaking technology so that their ships can't be seen with radar or laser beams.

I like it. By the time it's parabolic reflection has reached the satellite in question, it's a profound thing. Thanks alienator.

Well done Lama. And by the way the Mont has nearly sold out again. You up for it next year? I'm certainly not fast enough, but if you want a gentle social team, I'll sponsor it.
If I'm in it, of course. I'm not some starfucker.

Well done lama. Not bad for a fat [censored]!

The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting was a bit hit and miss I thought. Some riotously funny stuff, but equally some seriously unamusing stuff too.

Oh yes, well done Llama!

[censored] blocker - Yep! I have a lifetime of chase-sit-on-chase-sit-on to repay for years of having it happen to me.

Not sure about the Mont24 Beeps. Awesome fun last year though. If the planets align we might be there.

Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by matagi
The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting was a bit hit and miss I thought. Some riotously funny stuff, but equally some seriously unamusing stuff too.

And sadly I'd never even heard of it until I saw that clip on some Seppo website.
I'll leave my flag at the door.

Well, I might, if I had one. But I don't, and I won't, so I sha'nt.

Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by gplama

Not sure about the Mont24 Beeps. Awesome fun last year though. If the planets align we might be there.

You know you want to, and perhaps even need to. Now that Vadar's not taking the frustrated roadie trophies from you these days, you've got to give yourself those pure riding pleasure moments occasionally. Although having done Kowen outside of a racing weekend recently, there are some wonderful tricky little hidden sections they can't afford to send 3000 people though in a race, so you'll just have to come up and enjoy it all and more again before then.

Have you ridden Stromlo yet?

Ha. This is half funny. These guys play a prank on their mate by rigging cold kegs through all his plumbing, then put cameras around the joint to watch his reaction when he comes home. Skip to the 5min mark if you just wanna see the money shot

Watch

Well, it's certainly no worse than the last, first few in the series. Eh, cobber?