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The Sun going out for two weeks next week

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    The Sun going out for two weeks next week

    Anyone else heard about this

    a colleague mentioned it at lunchtime and said what would I do

    I said at chateau benes we have enough food to last three months, in the absence of gas and electricity we can cook on the fireplace in the living room - we already do jacket spuds in the fire for fun during the winter, we have 20 tons of firewood

    one thing, just in case it does happen I'll diesel all the cars in the benes fleet this weekend

    what about you lot ?

    Milan.

    #2
    we've got enough maglites and candles

    main thing is the fireplace in the living room, the thing can heat half the house and we can cook on it if needed

    what a resource that thing as

    each year, in mid march I switch of the gas central heating and continue for the last few weeks of the winter on the fireplace and then in autumn start with the fireplace and once we get the persistent cold switch on the gas central heating

    this year the gas central heating has been off since mid march - next week that's eight months !

    the fire wood costs a fraction of the gas bill, I use about 7 cubic metres of wood a year at 30gbp a cubic metre for hard wood

    quids in

    not to mention the house is insulated to the full, walls are 45cm bricks with 10cm of polystyrene on the outside 55cm thick in total



    Milan.

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      #3
      http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...ve-nibiru.html

      Personally I have everything you have - plus a large store of tapes to change to keep me occupied.

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        #4
        nice

        I bought a cast iron cooking pot with a lid in the summer, going to try cooking stews in the fireplace during the winter

        Milan.

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          #5
          Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
          we've got enough maglites and candles

          main thing is the fireplace in the living room, the thing can heat half the house and we can cook on it if needed

          what a resource that thing as

          each year, in mid march I switch of the gas central heating and continue for the last few weeks of the winter on the fireplace and then in autumn start with the fireplace and once we get the persistent cold switch on the gas central heating

          this year the gas central heating has been off since mid march - next week that's eight months !

          the fire wood costs a fraction of the gas bill, I use about 7 cubic metres of wood a year at 30gbp a cubic metre for hard wood

          quids in

          not to mention the house is insulated to the full, walls are 45cm bricks with 10cm of polystyrene on the outside 55cm thick in total

          Milan.
          Not sure what you're on about, but if the Sun did "go out" then air temperatures worldwide would plummet below the boiling point of nitrogen within two or three days, meaning most of the atmosphere would turn to liquid and rain out, so that air pressure would drop to nearly zero.

          It would carry on dropping until within a week or so practically the whole atmosphere would be a solid layer of blue "ice" a few feet thick.

          So in short, I wouldn't worry about it ..
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            #6
            Originally posted by zeitghost
            Yes, I've got a fire I can cook on in an emergency too

            Handy, innit?

            Someone once remarked that we'd be ok living in a cave, having observed the fireside cookery that was going on.

            ZeitGrandmother was very skilled at it, being of a generation preceding the invention of the electrick cooker.
            F^kin boomers. Got all the advantages. Spare a thought for the facebook crowd that won't be able to charge their iPads.

            - Purple helmet

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              #7
              Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
              Not sure what you're on about, but if the Sun did "go out" then air temperatures worldwide would plummet below the boiling point of nitrogen within two or three days, meaning most of the atmosphere would turn to liquid and rain out, so that air pressure would drop to nearly zero.

              It would carry on dropping until within a week or so practically the whole atmosphere would be a solid layer of blue "ice" a few feet thick.

              So in short, I wouldn't worry about it ..
              Would that happen even if he turned the heating up though?

              Maybe he means The Sun?
              First Law of Contracting: Only the strong survive

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                #8
                I've got five cats, so I'd only need to be covered in pussy to keep warm
                Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

                No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by zeitghost
                  Shotgun shells?

                  Shotgun?
                  Just get those two and you'll be able to get the rest for free...

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                    #10


                    So this isn't about Sun removing it's subscription service ?

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