(Shall we try the soundtrack thing again? Click here and press play on the video window. You can come back to appreciate the beautiful video if you need a pick-me-up of awesomeness later in the day.)
Hello! I hope today finds you in fine spirits and good health. Despite Senna having an appalling weekend – Renault had tyre trouble, leading to Senna’s brief flirtation with the wall – and Schumi attempting short-distance flight, there were some positives this weekend.
- The championship is still open mathematically. Vettel only needs to score one point in the remaining five Grands Prix, but we’re talking possibilities, not probabilities.
- We were privy to a Massa rant following an incident with Hamilton.
- All of this year’s rookies finished their first night race. Di Resta and Perez even scored points after coming in sixth and tenth, respectively.
- Kovalainen finished ahead of Petrov and Alguersuari in addition to the usual suspects at the tail end of the field.
In other motorsport news, Kevin Magnussen won the British Formula 3 race at Donnington. He moves up one place in the championship, leaving him third.
Conrad Rautenbach won the penultimate round of the South African Rally Championship, putting him at the top of the standings.
When I stumbled upon an article commemorating the 20th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s death, I thought I would find things that had happened this weekend in history.
Today was the first practice session under artificial lights in 2008. The Singapore Grand Prix weekend has evolved into a far more glamorous creature than that first event!
In its short history, the race has generated some controversy. This is the second anniversary of the announcement of Briatore’s and Symmonds’s bans from Formula 1, following Piquet’s admission that he had intentionally crashed in Singapore 2008.
Today in 1725, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was born in Void, France. He designed and built the first automobile. It was steam powered, travelled at 2 mph, and needed to stop every 10-15 minutes to have its boiler refilled. One of the prototypes was involved in the world’s first automobile accident in 1771 when the vehicle collided with a wall.
To finish off, I’d like to leave you with Angolan Spiderman and the fifty most important landmarks in the world (I’m quite patriotic that Victoria Falls made it onto the list, photographed from our side, rather than from Zambia).
See you in the comments!
New daily.
Oh good.
When I stumbled upon an article commemorating the 20th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s death,
I love him. I once saw an exhibition of his original sketches and works in progress. It was amazing.
Nice daily, Bridget. I'll check out all the links later.
I like the idea of this day in history and the first car.
Love Bridget's dailies. Will read this in the morning/afternoon
Interesting, from CNN
@FareedZakaria
If you take the entire world’s battery capacity - every battery everywhere - it can store just 10 minutes of the world’s current energy use.
And take 12 hours to recharge
Channel 4 is distinctly lacking in Gary Imlach tonight, I've never seen this other guy before
I'll put this in the daily now in case I don't get into the comments on Monday when it becomes Monday for me.
WaterFire in Providence pictures from last night
https://picasaweb.google.com/106400214729093018812/WaterFireProvidenceRhodeIsland02?authkey=Gv1sRgCI_FoseWhqz-VQ
Just tuned in. Danny Kelly is doing it this season. Not much good
I read the comments from the race today. You guys were funny.
What was funny?
Hey Steven. Passchendaele [DVD] is availible for 2.99 pounds via Amazon.co.uk. Why not pick up one of Christine's works at teh same time just in case mr. C or Christine might think about censoring this message? :p
Always good to get a plug in.
I just really enjoy people's quick wit when things happen and to see how the more boring the race got the more minds would wander a bit. It's what I went through on my own when I watched it.
So P Manning is out after neck surgery. I only catch up on the news when I watch games.
I can't remember anything funny being said. I guess when these things happen during a race you are so wrapped up in the minute that it doesn't go into the memory
Nice pass. Go Steelers.
I only found out last week
Nice first play
Gadget play fail
I'd research it for you, but suffice it to say that Lukeh and Bassano have some great comebacks, but everyone is so quick and naturally funny that I really enjoy commenting or reading them after.
Wasn't a gadget. Was the QB
I will read it tomorrow
Well, the former Red Baron landed in a pretty sorry way to land an airplane, let alone a racing car....
Oh crap, I just remembered how much I hate Roethlisberger or however you spell his name.
They seem to be on top already.
I have been waiting for that comment.
Simona DiSilvestra is at the Colts game. She just tweeted it. :)
Caught and dropped
hehe
#predictable.
When I saw his pudgy little face stuffed in that helmet it all came back to me.
Danica Patrick was at one of the other games earlier
I bet there are lots of drivers watch them. Never thought about it before
Pittsburgh gets the field goal, 3 points.
Kanaan just said "let's go horse"
Colts - horse
Never heard that before
Never heard the Colts called that, but, erm, they are horses....so maybe I'm just that uncool.
NASA saying there may be a piece of UARS satellite in Washington state
Kerry Colins is a good back up
huh. I like how I was waving at nothing the other night. or it's ghost, 'cause it was gone before it got to New England.
Tough for any QB to run no huddle
Morning folks
They have no idea when it landed. It could have gone over you and landed in mid Atlantic
Yeah, I was just thinking about all the practice for that with a backup.
How long ago did they know Manning wouldn't be back?
How does everyone be today?
Hi Leigh
Hi Kai
Few weeks I think.
Hi Leigh
Good. I got some good sleep last night and I'm ready for tomorrow. Just enjoying the game now with my friends (in England and Scotland). :)
Hi Leigh how was Donny?
Hi Steven,
Have a good weekend? Was the GP good in the end?
So no big pieces to see the evidence of where it came down?
Decent enough. A bit damp yesterday which was not as much fun though. Very busy though.
It was pretty dull. Interesting incidents though and a great result for diResta
NASA can't find them
Aye - saw little clips in between races. Saw the Hamilton boo-boo and Massa's rant. Oh well.
Manning had surgery Sept 8th
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=capress-fbn_colts_manning-8872604
yay.
Not sure I can manage a poem about that one this week. I'll see if anything comes to me.
I'll dig up links to my F3 stuff in the later morning when I've nothing to do in work
:)
Nothing incident. Rosberg punted Perez off track and gained a position - no penalty and no need to give the place back. Schumacher launched over the back of Perez and got a reprimand
Good
The glamour of being trackside
http://twitpic.com/6qcbzx
;)
Ah that's good. Have they got to work fixing the earthworks in the infield? In May it was a mess, the rest of it looked good mind.
Saw the tweet about not finding the castle, you can only really see it from the car park!
Didn't take too thorough a look to be honest, but I gather there's still work to do.
Never seen the castle but the museum is awesome
Lots of long passes from the Steelers tonight
Thankfully, Donington is very easy to get to -- and bus drivers in Derby are remarkably jolly.
However, I simply cannot envisage how this circuit and area would have ever been able to hold a modern GP.
Roethlisberger throws funny.
I can't figure out what it is but something about his action is odd
Could probably say the same about Spa, people complain about lack of spectators but there's nowhere for them to stay.
Met Tom Gaynor today. Were chatting about WSR for a while - seems like a fairly decent chap.
Haven't seen either of those yet. Thought Hamilton's mishap was utter brainlessness at best, but not a penalty
I get that, but - for example - at Silverstone, everything feels bigger. Donington is almost resolutely clubby through and through.
but they would've had a new pit lane and a track extension
His car was 6 inches from the perfect position. You can't penalise that.
I think he left his wing there to narrow Massa's corner entry and compromise his exit speed. Lewis is the only driver who consistently narrows another driver's corner entry.
Great read by Polamalu
I'm not talking about the circuit necessarily, but rather everything feels smaller.
Often to his own detriment.
Turns out he changed it last season. Shortened the delivery, and Roethlisberger keeping the ball in a "loaded position" instead of letting his right arm drop before throwing a pass.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/s_717932.html
Occasionally he loses out but if you watch a lot of his overtakes come from holding the outside line deep into the corner entry when the book says give it up
true but Silv is quite big.
Talk of ILMC / WEC 6 hours switching to Donington
Really?? This is a new one on me. Is Bahrain still in the picture for the WEC?
I don't think that is what I am seeing. It looks odd as he completes the throw and releases. I keep expecting the ball to come out tumbling endover end
Great throw
TD Steelers
81 yards on that one
I think his hand looks like it is under and ahead of the ball
nice.
wow. Great job.
I'll have to look more closely. I haven't paid attention to it much.
Yeah but the calendar has been deferred for a couple of weeks. supposed to be a deal to send another FIA series instead of F1.
I only started looking closely when it looked odd to me even on a long shot
His new throwing motion has helped his elbow, apparently. He doesn't have issues with it anymore.
Wow,Troy. hehehe
Just too good
Sounds about right. By the way, you may be excited to hear that the FIA Truck Racing Championship may be heading to Istanbul Park from next year, so it's not all bad for Turkey.....
Colts punter should ask for a bonus. 3 punts in 1st quarter
Oh and the new Formula 3 engine regulations have been delayed until 2013, which is a bit of a pain considering the new car still débuts next year.
Trucks through turn 8!!!!
They might need to lift a little.
I'm stoked
are they still limited to 100mph?
They still have the 100mph speed limit? Maybe flat through part of it
No idea to be honest. Haven't seen a truck race in quite a while
Anyway folks, I've to be up for work in 4 hours. Will be back later on.
:)
Night Leigh
Good night
If so many of these guys keep growing their hair so long they're going to have to move the names on the jerseys. I have no idea who that one Colt is, his hair totally covers his name.
The names will need to be on the bottom of the jersey
Sacked anddropped the ball
ooops.
Terrible blocking by 77
and great job by Mathis.
Collins put that right in his hands
I've been watching Roethlisberger throwing vs. Collins. Do you think it has to do with his hand placement on the ball? They do look different when they throw, for sure.
I am still not sure. He looks like his hand is low and forward. He also looks more like he is putting a shot than throwing. The short passes look like he is using his shoulder rather than the elbow.
I wonder if he has elbow problems still
That's what I noticed right away. He's chucking it rather than having some kind of precise motion.
Good run by Addai. Should have got 3 yards and made 12
Yes. Odd. Maybe it is an elbow problem
He's so good.
Could be
I always cringe for their knees on those low hits from the side.
Steelers have totally dominated and yet it looks like it is going to be a 3 point game
I always think Theisman. Still remember the incident when he got his knee mangled
Steelers can't put the points up to reflect all that they're doing on the field.
and broke his leg. I didn't watch the replays (thank goodness) or I'd be seeing them now in my head.
Can't believe he threw that against Polamalu
I didn't see much of a chance there.
The only chance was 10 seconds earlier before Polamalu took his position.
:)
The only chance was 30 years ago, before Troy was born.
:D
Are you guys seeing that Dancing with the Stars clip? See what you're missing over here??
Yes.
We have our own version
our version starts next week so I'll be ignoring BBC for 3 months, but it doesn't look quite so.. Brash too harsh?
I don't watch it, but it's all glitz and showy and stuff that I don't like. :)
Our version is funny because everyone starts off thinking its a bit of fun then a few weeks in they all get serious
ours is glitzy etc too, and crossover promos on almost every Beeb TV and radio show
No way. He got that?
Everyone here gets all excited about how much weight they lose. It's now a coveted show to get on.
I don't understand throwing that when he has room to run
TD
Here, too.
WOW! Big man gets the TD on a recovery.
Now he'll need oxygen.
Took him a second to realise he should run
'fraid of all the blue shirts?
hehe
Loves those guys. You can tell they don't handle the ball all that much.
#never
A ball is for landing on
@RyanBriscoe6 Ryan Briscoe
Touchdown Colts! Nice!!!
Can't believe we never thought about this
I know. It never occurred to me.
Vick broke his hand
Crazy long pass
yeah, the non throwing hand
So stupid not to down him there.
Love the ref listning to the crowd and realising his mistake
hehe
the other ref is like "hey, Joe, no, no, the other guys, psst."
Interesting to feel the tide changing in the game right now.
Over threw it
Can't believe the Colts are leading
Odd half
Very
I'm going to turn in. I'll have to catch up tomorrow with the second half.
Thanks for the company.
Good night.
night.
think I'm going too, no way can I stay awake another quarter let alone the half.
Night Kai
I don;t think I will last a lot longer
I just checked the game again before I go to sleep.
It's tied at 13 with 6 minutes left. Seems like a great game.
Polamalu just scored after a fumble by the Colts.
Ok, sleep time. G'night
Terrible line up of concerts in AD this year http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/britney-spears-incubus-the-cult-paul-mccartney-to-play-abu-dhabi-f1
Squeaky pop doll, Couple of 2nd rate bands and some old bloke from an overrated band... brilliant. cant wait...
Morning ;)
Morning all (again)
:)
After the initial shock i am feeling more positive... Briney should have a good show around her, Incubus are good, even if they arent linkin park/ kings of leon levels of epic and i expect the crowd will love paul which should make it a good show
How well do you know your Formula 1 history?
The book That'll be the Day: 365 F1 Stories takes a look at significant moments or quirky happenings on this day in Grand Prix history. Can you guess what event the following describes?
No, I think your first reaction was right ;-)
In all fairness, I don't think F1 Rocks ever have quality / intellectualised music in mind when they do their bookings.
This is Yasalam rather than F1 rocks.
F1 rocks tend to do events away from the tracks in the cities, whereas at yas they are right next to the track.
Bizzarely they have fatboy slim & Wycliff playing in the city this year...
how could you be negative about that line up! I am super jealous, it's a goal of mine to see Paul one day
The last 2 years probably spoiled us, lots of people here were shocked, but i think we are all coming around to it now
Not too late to buy tickets :P
that's a way better line up than the last 2 years! For my taste its the best line up I've ever seen at any race
bank account says no. As would boss!
I see from GP+ mclaren are planning some new factories around the local dump/recycling centre... not very Mclaren!
Speaking of GP+
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/the-race-after-the-race/
Interesting choices. I'd go to The Cult and Paul.
I am applying for tickets to see Alex Zanardi do his hand-cycling at the Paralympics
good luck :D
Indeed. And Incubus is a great band - would act as a great pull to the GP.
i'd vote all of them are better than Linkin Park :D
Maybe not Britney. :D But Incubus and Paul, for sure.
Ta :)
The deadline is today. £20, bargain. Friday 7th Sept at Brands Hatch if anyone else wants to book.
I'm just seeing what's on the day before and day after. You can get a day pass for the Olympic Park or the ExCel arena which is quite tempting, but I might go for the athletics on Thursday night with the 100m and 200m finals. Pistorius!
I wanted to see Britney when she was here, but not $160 worth of wanting to see her.
And I freaking love The Cult :D
Yeah, they're better than Linkin Park too. :D
I imagine having it at Brands Hatch means there'll be plenty of tickets. From reading @Pearcesport it sounds like lots of people will miss out on Paralympics too, its surprisingly popular.
Interesting, didn't expect that.
So good that lunchtime approacheth....
I think people are just desperate to get inside the Olympic venues in any way shape or form :)
I keep thinking its Sunday and getting confused why everyone is going to work
Before I forget, some F3 stuff from the weekend
http://theformulaoneandmotorsportsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/2011-british-f3-rnd-of-donington-rd-9-race-1-sept-24th/
http://theformulaoneandmotorsportsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/2011-british-f3-rnd-of-donington-rd-9-race-2/
http://theformulaoneandmotorsportsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/2011-british-f3-rnd-of-donington-rd-9-race-3-sept-25th/
:)
I never got a chance to really sit down and relax over the weekend, so I've no idea what day it's supposed to be today
I've not been to work since Tuesday and I don't go back until Wednesday, my sense of time is all over the place
Karun is at the Indian GP circuit:
www.twitpic.com/6qwpxt
www.twitpic.com/6qwqnz
www.twitpic.com/6qwrbw
www.twitpic.com/6qwsdn
to elaborate on questions I missed from the last few dailies,
I didn't talk to Crofty in the lift, I kind of talked to Timo in that I missed the fact the lift had arrived so the doors were closing when I tried to get in so I had to shove my arm in. I said "sorry" to the people in the lift for holding them up, as you do, then I looked up and one of them was Timo haha.
Alonso was hilarously drunk in that he was a bit stumbly, thats about it. Not something you ever expect to see :)
Sounds like the place to stay then, to bump into people
definitely. not cheap though but the hotel was ace, the pool was ace, the service was ace and the view was ace. You definitely get what you pay for. I'm just sad I never saw Catherine, she tweeted yesterday that she'd gone for a swim just shortly after we'd left the pool!
A bit opportunistic by Adam Cooper
It's getting a bit much isn't it?
So was Korea...
So I went to a mate's house to watch the cycling race yesterday - it was great fun and a brilliant atmosphere. We got on TV too, apparently.
Watched the race when I got home without seeing the result and I quite enjoyed it.
And out of nowhere, Dan Wheldon will be competing at the Kentucky Indy on Sunday
I took a video from our hotel room of the awesome view :) http://twitpic.com/6qxvx9
i see the hotel with the ship on top!
What an incredible view though.
wow
its most depressing to look out my window now and see my neighbours. Wheres the balcony! Wheres the view! Whyyyyyy!
get one of your photos, get it blown up in size to cover your windows. whala!
good idea!
I liked people from the paddock tweeting going 'heres my view!' and it was exactly the same as mine. It was like .....are you my neighbour? I worked out Crofty was my 3 floors below me neighbour :D
So how is he eligible for the Las Vegas challenge now? The whole point was that he hadn't raced since Indy.
No idea. If I ask myself too many IndyCar related questions at the minute, I may get a headache.
How many times did they come past? I saw a bit of it before switching over to F1
Seventeen. Started at 10:15, came by every 15ish minutes until 4:30. You can just see us for a second on the last two laps...
I think they'd be insane to turn down the Indy 500 winner - especially seeing as that no one else bothered to sign up.
Not quite true - they had one signed and two in close discussion.
Ah that's not too bad, I couldn't work out the course at all so wondered if it was once an hour or something!
Are they still going to Vegas?
It was a woodland road circuit between 3 or 4 villages north of Copenhagen. It's a pretty nice part of town. They started in the CDB and went there for the circuits.
Travis Pastrana broke his foot just after signing while testing a Nationwide car (nasty smash actually)
Neither Alex Zanardi nor Kasey Kahne would only drive for Ganassi or Penske - neither team wanted any part of the plan.
Evening folks
evening jim,
what goes on?
Going over data from this weekend and preparing for this coming weekend. Always busy.
Need to find more time and need to have higher sustained g's in cornering
Good stuff. Where were you at?
Verona VA. I do autocross which takes place on parking lots and airfields.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X57O950FIS8
Sweet. I've seen some of the videos before. Would love to do some karting again, but I hardly know anyone interested in motorsport, let alone karting.
:/
I lucked out with wear I live, I have a lot of nationally talented karters to learn and travel with. It is not easy when I'm on my own so I can definitely relate.
Enjoy a little something from the Sidepodcast back catalogue.
- Live: Hungary 2011 - Free Practice 1
Originally published 29 July 2011.
Right folks,
I need to disappear for a while - back later
Good afternoon.
Monday's over! We're closer to the weekend! Hurra!
Dr Seuss rocked my world when I was a kid. I owe a large part of being a word geek to Dr Seuss.
Indeed :) 'Tis a wonderful feeling, is it not? I <3 weekends (well, the ones when I don't have to work. I suppose I should be happy for the employment, but still...weekends).
Evening. Love the fifty landmarks link, thanks Bridget
Vettel was told by his engineer Rocky NOT to risk setting a fastest lap to beat Button
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/15064019.stm
It's a lovely link, isn't it? And thank StumbleUpon (and, by association, my best mate at uni who's been on at me for over a year to get the toolbar. I got it after my laptop needed reformatting after a crash, when I suddenly found myself with space for these things) ;)
Hehehe, points for HRT? Colin Kolles has created OTA - the One Team Association :)
http://plus.autosport.com/free/feature/3903/behind-the-scenes-in-singapore/
Thought it was pretty amusing!
LOL. Is this his answer to people being able to buy shares in Williams?
Just had something from Robert Llewelyn pop up on google plus. They are filming a new series of Red Dwarf next year.
What is the google plus equivalent of tweets? googlets? googlies? They must have a name
I like Googs
So he just Googed me?
Giggs!
Too many punchlines
maayyybbe not
What happened to Buzz Out Loud? I rarely ever watch or listen to it but canning it and turning it into a weekly show seems like a big step back for CNET
Better than he googlied me
They're becoming a weekly show and apparently the 404 are picking up the news tab in their Daily show. It might ruin both if they're not careful!
I thought BOL was their flagship show. Turning it into weekly sounds like they are trying to create their own TWIT
I can't remember if I mentioned this earlier, but in a show earlier on I was watching Stephen Fry appears to have Sebastien Vettel when he's being a race steward in 20 years time http://twitpic.com/6qzari
The guy was german and everything!
They must be related
Love the daily post. Just got round to reading it.
Can't believe I have never heard of Cugnot. How can he have flown so far under the radar
The Angolan spiderman is crazy.
The 50 landmark links are a great addition to a bucket list
Thanks :)
I hadn't heard of Cugnot until I googled who was born today in history. The guy who played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ was also born today, but Cugnot was more interesting ;)
Angolan Spiderman reminded me of a friend from uni's boyfriend - he once climbed into the third floor window of the physics department because they'd locked him out a prac for being late - but Angolan Spiderman is far more dexterous at climbing!
I've ticked two off...Santorini next ;)
We need to find out which landmarks have been visited by the sidepodcast population
I have been to a few
St Basil's - looks really small in real life. From across Red Square it looks like it would fit in your pocket
Eiffel Tower
Big Ben
Niagra - only the American side
Versailles
I am sure we should be able to tick a few more off the list that have been seen by others
They appear to have missed out the Tyne Bridge, the Angel of the North and such . Shocking omission, I mean they have some stones in the south but nothing up here.
My bad, I mis-counted:
Houses of Parliament/Big Ben, London
Victoria Falls (only from the Zimbabwean side on the ground, although Dad flew us over it, so I've seen it from Zambian airspace)
Cape of Good Hope
Table Mountain (you should see the plants up there! The proteas are gorgeous!)
How can they have passed those over in favour of the source of the Amazon? It's terrible ;)
They just don't know anything.
I expected to see the Sydney version of the Tyne ridge at least
I never think of plants on a mountain
There are actually a few species endemic to Table Mountain, although I wasn't allowed to wander around the top to find them (grandpa has diabetes and no longer has sensation in his feet. It puts quite a hand-brake on exploring in rough terrain).
I would've expected to see Cape Agulhas (most southern tip of Africa; where the two oceans *really* meet), rather than Cape Point (where Capetonians claim the two oceans meet). Although, all there is at Cape Agulhas is a really old lighthouse and a chippie...the chippie serves a better fish-n-chips than any I've encountered in Scotland.
Wandering about the top of a mountain with no sensation in your feet sounds risky so I can see why it would restrict your adventures.
Maybe we should make another list of 50 landmarks that should be there. That shouldn't prove too difficult
I've seen the Statue of Liberty from a distance.. out of the window at Newark airport.
I'm sure I'll see the Little Mermaid in a couple of weeks when I see Gavin. :)
Stonehenge is smaller than it is made out to be.
Big Ben and Tower Bridge
Been driven over the Millau Bridge but sadly didn't stop and the walls are too high to see the view, although with how I am with heights that might've been a good thing.
I forgot about that one. I saw it out of the window of a plane from Newark 3 weeks after 9/11
I've been to ...
stonehenge
big ben
neuschwanstein (I can't believe that's on of the 50)
tower of pisa
north cape
lascaux
Kilimanjaro
Piazza San Marco
Tower Bridge
White Cliffs of Dover
It looks like an interesting building/location, I'd never heard of it before.
Have you been to the top, or just seen it?
Good list Kathi
I missed part 2
On that part I have seen
The Kremlin
Louvre
Tower Bridge
Sacre Couer - Best view of Paris from their
Dover
Where in the world are you now Kathi?
unfortunately I've only seen it. My sister went halfway up.
Still in Icland. I will go back to Germany in November. After that I don't know yet.
Looking forward to getting back to Germany?
If that counts, I'm putting the Sphinx down on my list - we flew over it during a layover in Cairo.
Respect. I'd like to climb at least some of it, but it's closed for cleaning (and I'm terrified of heights).
It was the pet project of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. It bancrupted him and almost the state as well. Ludwig commited suicide/was killed and it was never finished.
No.
Sounds like something worth reading up on
Cleaning a mountain?
That is definite at least. I am sure you will find something interesting to do
It's covered in the litter and excrement of a century-odd's climbers. Because it's so high up, the yellow snow never melts.
I see
It's also quite tricky to clean, considering the boiling point of water (and thus blood) at the top is blood temp. I don't know what the stats are, but if sweeping, etc. at this altitude burns approx 250cal/hr, I'd imagine the effort expended to clean the top of Everest must be quite monumental.
And now diet coke just came out my nose...
I'm sorry! The fizz really itches nasal membranes, doesn't it? ;)
I must sleep...g'night everyone!
Night Bridget
:)
See ya
My nose is closed for cleaning.
Interesting. Like a mini Sagrada Familia or however you spell it.
Hehe.
Sweet dreams Sidepodpeeps!