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NOT SURPRISINGLY, ON the last day of Britain’s membership of the EU, Brexit dominates the nation’s front pages on Friday.
The Daily Telegraph adopts a jubilant tone, with a picture of Boris Johnson under a Churchillian headline of “This is not an end, but a beginning”.
The Daily Mail hails it as a “new dawn for Britain”, The Sun says the nation’s course will change for the better, and the Daily Express is also euphoric.
The Times looks at business, leading on Johnson’s desire for a “Canada-style” trade pact with Brussels.
The Independent carries the word for “goodbye” in a multitude of European languages, but ponders whether it is “inevitable” Britain will one day rejoin the EU.
Metro opts for a simple “Thank EU and goodbye”, while the i calls it the UK’s “leap into the unknown”.
And The Guardian strikes a distinctly downbeat tone, with a headline of “Small Island” over a story about “the biggest gamble in a generation”.
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Jesus – I’m off to the beach to collect some sand
There’s a difference between going to the moon and buying the Cork Examiner.
Literally, friends in high places
A moon rock that was presented to the Netherlands turned out to be petrified wood.
@Finipops: I’m more inclined to believe the robbery/arson theory. More than likely robbed to order & is now sitting in someone’s private collection.
@Finipops: Could have been gall stones for what we know l..
@Finipops: Was that not Nixon mixing tablets with drink?
Lunacy.
That’s it now , maudlin Friday night it is , The carpenters , (close to you) is up first .
So they sprinkled moon dust
If that is Moon dust then it should be radioactive from the solar and cosmic radiations?
@Alois Irlmaier:
Explain the science behind your assumption?
Are you saying the whole moon is radioactive? Are the astronauts that landed there in danger? Aldrin has survived quite a long time.
Or maybe you’re an idiot.
@Stephen Coveney: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063312002085
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/08sep_radioactivemoon/
“The surface of the Moon is badly exposed to cosmic rays and solar flares, and some of that radiation is very hard to stop with shielding.” “All this radiation penetrating Human flesh can damage DNA, boosting the risk of cancer and other maladies.”
“When galactic cosmic rays collide with particles in the lunar surface, they trigger little nuclear reactions that release yet more radiation in the form of neutrons. The lunar surface itself is radioactive.”
@Stephen Coveney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Prospector#Gamma_Ray_Spectrometer_.28GRS.29
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2173172/The-Moon-layered-dust-bathed-radiation-prove-deadly-pioneers.html
@Stephen Coveney: Dailymail there meant to say neutron radiation not UV but UV would be dangerous but not as bad as the gamma and X Ray radiation there.
@Stephen Coveney: https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/284273main_Radiation_HS_Mod1.pdf
https://www.space.com/21353-space-radiation-mars-mission-threat.html
Read the part… “Dangerous Radiation in Space and on the Moon”
Capricorn One
Is it just me…eh dad, let’s not throw out that moon dust yet, could get a bit of craic off or with the lads later
A fool and his money are easily parted. Lol
You really need to be a great idiot to buy dust that can be from anywhere, even if it is from the moon!!!
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