Any info on these? Tri-Ang set.

A box and a bag full of track, locos, carriages and other stuff. They're marked as Triang.

u/kam_pra — 3 days ago

In a school zone, 20 mph limit. Not sure how they parked it...

Maybe it was the meteor shower, the eclipse or the planetary alignment but this happened yesterday in Peckham.

u/kam_pra — 7 days ago

My Cousin Vinnie: Vinnie knows Law but becomes better by actually practicing it, what other examples are there of movies with characters that "know" how to do things but it's only by actually doing them that they get good?

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u/kam_pra — 10 days ago

All gold on earth comes from a supernova. But the stuff we dig up is from the terminal bombardment 3.9 bya. Earth's own gold is locked in the core. Would that apply to other rocky planets and how much gold would they have comparatively?

During planetary formation any gold in the Earth's disc would have gone down to the molten core, presumably never to be seen again?

But meteorite bombardment later on deposited gold in the crust. Were Venus, Mars, Mercury also subject to the bombardment and could they have got more or less gold compared to Earth based on their position and the source of these meteorites?

According to a BBC report the Earth's silicate mantle has 1000 times more gold than would be expected without the bombardment.

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u/kam_pra — 13 days ago

Womens soccer and basketball seem to have massive support and national leagues, why don't women's baseball and football have the same?

Reposting here as this was removed from Ask an American by the mods (not sure why)

UK based here. The WNBA is part of the NBA and has been around since 1996, USSF has had womens soccer since 1999?

But baseball and American football (as opposed to soccer, apologies, I have to add the American as otherwise it would be just football here in the UK) leagues don't seem to have pro leagues for women, or have only very recently started them. What's the reason for this? Is it is facilities, popularity, money etc etc?

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u/kam_pra — 13 days ago

All gold on earth comes from a supernova. But the stuff we dig up is from the terminal bombardment 3.9 bya. Earth's own gold is locked in the core. Would that apply to other rocky planets and how much gold would they have comparatively?

During planetary formation any gold in the Earth's disc would have gone down to the molten core, presumably never to be seen again?

But meteorite bombardment later on deposited gold in the crust. Were Venus, Mars, Mercury also subject to the bombardment and could they have got more or less gold compared to Earth based on their position and the source of these meteorites?

According to a BBC report the Earth's silicate mantle has 1000 times more gold than would be expected without the bombardment.

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u/kam_pra — 13 days ago
▲ 52 r/2000ad

After the Mandalorian, Killjoys, The Bondsman and other show, surely there is an appetite for a weekly Strontium Dog show? Who would be your leads? I agree with consensus about Taron Egerton and Kristofer Hivju.

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u/kam_pra — 17 days ago
▲ 124 r/grammar+1 crossposts

Do you say Fahrenheit Four Five One or Fahrenheit Four Fifty One?

Watching Tomorrowland and during the classroom scene where there is a montage of teachers cut together to show the bleakness of the world (MAD, environment etc) the English teacher references a number of books including 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.

But the teacher says it as Four Fifty One. I (UK) have always said Four Five One.

Have I been saying it wrong compared to what Bradbury would have said? Is there a split between different ways of saying it and is it UsA vs UK or just random?

ETA Thanks for all the replies so far.

Maybe it's because it's a book title I always use single numbers but I've now found that Ray Bradbury himself also referenced it the same way in interviews. So maybe the Four Fifty One is a variation that works for some people, quite a few actually.

It's interesting to me that we might all be talking about the same book but using different ways to say the title.

interview with Ray Bradbury

u/kam_pra — 22 days ago

Princes of the Universe was written by Queen for the Highlander movie and has now been used in Master of the Universe. What other songs, written specifically for one film, have been used in another?

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u/kam_pra — 25 days ago
▲ 301 r/bbc

Why can't the BBC learn to frame people correctly or take into account the bottom ticker?

This isn't the only example I've seen recently, but BBC news channel seems to be oblivious of the fact that the bottom ticker and other stuff cover up the bottom of whatever video they're playing. So in this example the speaker in the lower left doesn't even have a mouth let alone a chin.

Don't producers pay attention to this in the gallery or does the BBC not have a preset that will shrink broadcast out to fit the space above the ticket etc?

It just seems lazy. Another gripe about this is that camera crews seems to like really tight framing on packages so we get the same thing on prerec packages which really should be checked before broadcast.

u/kam_pra — 26 days ago
▲ 101 r/photographycirclejerk+1 crossposts

Can anyone identify what camera this is being used on the touchline for Sui v Col tonight? (FWC26)

Seems very old school for sports photography.

u/SedentorySensor77 — 1 month ago

UK: what are decent rates for freelance jobs?

Ok. I've been doing this for a while now. Based in London and doing everything from simple camera work for training interviews, podcasts, internal and external short videos (not social media stuff, more announcements, events or case studies etc).

Also do editing, so often I'm going from brief to finished product delivery.

Very much one man band with cupboards filled with kit so I can do this portfolio stuff.

I haven't changed rates for a long while but what would be a good quote for a simple interview through to a more complex packaged piece?

I'm canon for kit, topping out at a C70, lights of all sorts, pro mics and other kits as needed and software that's professional.

Is eg 450 a day production/editing decent?

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u/kam_pra — 1 month ago

How old is old enough for excavation of burials?

Apart from excavations that are part of investigations, like mass murders, genocide, or possibly for medical purposes, all of which, and other examples, could be very recent, when might there be a reason or purpose to archeologically extract recent burials for research and how old/recent is the cut off period?

Across London there's always work going on which means Victorian graveyards might be being moved, needing excavation and analysis.

HS2 cuts across the countryside and I can understand iron age, medieval etc burials and bodies that are discovered being lifted, analysed and moved.

But when might eg Brompton cemetery or Highgate cemetery become a source of analysis and research?

Sorry if this seems a strange question. I come from a culture where all my ancestors would have been cremated, as will I, so there's never a thought that our remains might be disturbed but I was wondering about those whose ancestors have been buried.

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u/kam_pra — 1 month ago

So, two E II R boxes, side by side in the Barbican. Wondering why they didn't use one bog box?

The Stamped Mail label on the left one is after the fact but maybe the other was Franked Mail?

u/kam_pra — 2 months ago