Stone56 said:
Yet more and more satellites beeing put up there some thing going on ??
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Yes indeed, that's why I've gone for satellite rather than the ailing 4G/3G that comes through the cell towers. There's no real incentive for the companies to install them in sparsely populated areas nor do they maintain them terribly often. Plus as the trees grow it makes a difference. The gradual deterioration of signal, especially the higher frequencies, suggests I'm further and further from a line of sight to the nearest cell tower, so it may be just trees. The satellites on the other hand don't know whether I'm in a town or out in the countryside so that's not a problem for them.
 
I've known quite a lot of people in strenuous occupations and with physically demanding hobbies who've got more and more decrepit as the years have gone by. As well as the obvious ones like building tradespeople and rugby players, ballet seems to give the body a real hammering at a young age, which yields a lot of muscular-skeletal pain in later life. Gymnastics too. The daughter of a friend of mine had to retire from gymnastics, at a point where she was starting to win prizes, because she was in so much agony, and they felt it wasn't worth pressing on in case it left her with permanent injuries. But equally a very inactive life will exact its toll.

We're in uncharted territory as regards human longevity. It's only very recently in evolutionary terms that we've had these really long life expectancies. For most ordinary people, that's mainly happened just in the last century.
 
Brown said:
It might well be possible to get a Starlink signal where you are @derwendolly because there are a great many of them and they're about 342 miles up, so at that height your place and mine look quite close together. If you're willing to pay that much it's worth it. Plus there are around 4,500 of them so there's usually at least one in the arc of sky visible to the dish. That diagram above is just a snapshot of where they are. You don't need a personal one directly overhead.
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I am certainly giving this some serious consideration. I have a landline with a broadband speed of 1.9 ??s at best - all through the old copper wires. Mobile phone signals are virtually non existent 'cos they are blocked by the hills. Sadly, I am totally ignorant of this new technology. Buying the kit is no problem but I do wonder about the £75 monthly subscription when there is only me using it and I'm already forking out for a BT Broadband service which is very, very slow with frequent dropping out.

Does the dish have to point in a certain direction like a SKY one does? I can have at least a clear 270 degree sky vision but the remaining 90 - which is where the SKY dish needs its viewing path - is blocked by my mature oak trees and I certainly don't want to cut them down! I don't think it helps living in a low bungalow! This means that even SKY can't give me any reliable reception when the leaves are on the trees!! If a dish pointed straight up towards the sky then I have a completely clear view all round! Star gazing here is first class - no light pollution at all. No moon - no light - pitch black!

As you can see I really do need to do a lot of research so that I can understand it all.
 
derwendolly said:
I am certainly giving this some serious consideration. I have a landline with a broadband speed of 1.9 ??s at best - all through the old copper wires. Mobile phone signals are virtually non existent 'cos they are blocked by the hills. Sadly, I am totally ignorant of this new technology. Buying the kit is no problem but I do wonder about the £75 monthly subscription when there is only me using it and I'm already forking out for a BT Broadband service which is very, very slow with frequent dropping out.

Does the dish have to point in a certain direction like a SKY one does? I can have at least a clear 270 degree sky vision but the remaining 90 - which is where the SKY dish needs its viewing path - is blocked by my mature oak trees and I certainly don't want to cut them down! I don't think it helps living in a low bungalow! This means that even SKY can't give me any reliable reception when the leaves are on the trees!! If a dish pointed straight up towards the sky then I have a completely clear view all round! Star gazing here is first class - no light pollution at all. No moon - no light - pitch black!

As you can see I really do need to do a lot of research so that I can understand it all.
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So you've got the "Bible black night" that Dylan Thomas wrote about.

I've just got my satellite dish sitting on the grass outside my shed. It comes on a little stand as standard but you can get various brackets to attach it to walls, posts, roofs, gable ends and the like. It doesn't point in a consistent direction - it changes its angle to find the best signal. This afternoon, mine's been variously pointing straight up, or vaguely southwards and south eastwards. I'm pretty sure you'll have places where one could go that is not directly overhung. Last week when I tried it out in Leicester in our back yard it was surrounded by buildings - it's just a little yard surrounded by three storey Victorian houses - and it was working fine. So provided it's away from the trees at the front of your property it should be alright.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
I forgot to mention, and this'll make peeps laugh, that when I was recently separated from W #1 I thought I'd better do stuff to make myself more attractive.
So I joined a (cheap) gym and worked out on the multigym a few times a week. I also went running until I did my knee in and gratefully gave it up.
It made a little difference, but I was very happy to discover that I didn't need it, I'd reverted to my ways as a young man and the world became my oyster again.
So I gave up again!

Wish I hadn't though as I hate seeing my reflection now, especially sideways on!

But I still hate doing excercise for the sake of it.
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I don't know if this is what you're alluding to, but I've regularly been surprised over the last few years about just how nice young women are being to me. I can't imagine why, because I'm old and wrinkly, my hair has mainly fallen out and my teeth are following suit, and yet this demographic seems to be very pleased to meet me, and warm and enthusiastic; they insist on cuddling me as part of the greeting ritual, and seem to like looking after me and helping me find my keys, my laptop, my notes and suchlike. It never used to happen when I was in my 20s!

Even so, I try and keep active and keep my chest bigger than my waistline.
 
Brown said:
I don't know if this is what you're alluding to, but I've regularly been surprised over the last few years about just how nice young women are being to me. I can't imagine why, because I'm old and wrinkly, my hair has mainly fallen out and my teeth are following suit, and yet this demographic seems to be very pleased to meet me, and warm and enthusiastic; they insist on cuddling me as part of the greeting ritual, and seem to like looking after me and helping me find my keys, my laptop, my notes and suchlike. It never used to happen when I was in my 20s!

Even so, I try and keep active and keep my chest bigger than my waistline.
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I have no idea what it is. But even just before I retired, so in my late 50s, I had 6th form girls, (I particularly remember one who was not only one of the best students I have ever had but also the sort of girl who never did anything by accident), make a pass at me, but also a young colleague, who had been one of my general studies students, ask if she could come with me when I went to my place in France to do DIY over a 2 week Easter holiday. My wife wasn't able to come as she had to work. You'd think a teenage crush would wear off. But she knew she would be sharing a cabin and everything else with me. I didn't dare.
Maybe a reverse Oedipus complex or the female equivalent. Very flattering but frightening at the same time.

Or maybe we just remind them of their grandpas!!!
 
Stanleysteamer said:
I have no idea what it is. But even just before I retired, so in my late 50s, I had 6th form girls, (I particularly remember one who was not only one of the best students I have ever had but also the sort of girl who never did anything by accident), make a pass at me, but also a young colleague, who had been one of my general studies students, ask if she could come with me when I went to my place in France to do DIY over a 2 week Easter holiday. My wife wasn't able to come as she had to work. You'd think a teenage crush would wear off. But she knew she would be sharing a cabin and everything else with me. I didn't dare.
Maybe a reverse Oedipus complex or the female equivalent. Very flattering but frightening at the same time.

Or maybe we just remind them of their grandpas!!!
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It's called an Electra complex. ;)
 
WhiskyLassie said:
Its too soon to talk about it....
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Hope it dont look like this............ (sorry) 🤣
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Brown said:
I've known quite a lot of people in strenuous occupations and with physically demanding hobbies who've got more and more decrepit as the years have gone by. As well as the obvious ones like building tradespeople and rugby players, ballet seems to give the body a real hammering at a young age, which yields a lot of muscular-skeletal pain in later life. Gymnastics too. The daughter of a friend of mine had to retire from gymnastics, at a point where she was starting to win prizes, because she was in so much agony, and they felt it wasn't worth pressing on in case it left her with permanent injuries. But equally a very inactive life will exact its toll.

We're in uncharted territory as regards human longevity. It's only very recently in evolutionary terms that we've had these really long life expectancies. For most ordinary people, that's mainly happened just in the last century.
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Pain ooooftt ive given my body a battering thinking about it, playing ice hockey, heavy weight training, commercial/agricultural
tyre fitting, time trial cycling (hill climbs) ice climbing n snowboarding. Even now boat moorings heavy chains/train wheels :oops:
If I slow down I'll turn into...........
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kermit_rr said:
Starlink seems great but it's an awful lot of tat floating about so we can share cat pics
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Whilst I do agree that space does seem to be being used as a dumping ground but for those of us who do not have the availability of almost all the communication methods that the majority of people take for granted this use of space can be an absolute lifeline for being able to live in the modern world.
 
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