Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion, domestic terrorists?

[Mr Jack]

Thomas Sowell.

Who? He sounds like an irredeemable *****.

 

[Moley]

Who? He sounds like an irredeemable *****.

Black American Economist. Very smart man.

 

[arknor]

A few years ago, Kent trailed turning street lights off during the night. But in the end they had to turn them back on due to public concerns over safety.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-31143466

I wasn't talking about street lights I was talking about businesses, offices and digital billboards.
When all the shops are closed it's just a massive waste of electricity

 

[Angilion]

Blimey, was it a submarine as well? [..]

James Bond had a submarine car decades ago. Now he's retired he could start a car dealership

I'm now idly curious as to whether it's theoretically possible to drive around the world on land (including bridges and tunnels). Maybe it depends on what is meant by "around the world". Africa and Eurasia would be possible - they're a contiguous land mass. Maybe you could drive from Eurasia to North America during the winter. Sibera to Alaska over the Bering Strait? I vaguely recall that the ice up there during winter is thick enough to driver over. North America to South America is almost impossible by car due to the Darien Gap, but not completely. Nobody does it (it's far easier to get a ferry around it and rent or buy a car on the other side) unless they're well equipped and more than a bit mad, but it has been done.

Or maybe an amphibious car. They exist. They're crap, but they exist.

 

[Tombstone]

James Bond had a submarine car decades ago. Now he's retired he could start a car dealership

I'm now idly curious as to whether it's theoretically possible to drive around the world on land (including bridges and tunnels). Maybe it depends on what is meant by "around the world". Africa and Eurasia would be possible - they're a contiguous land mass. Maybe you could drive from Eurasia to North America during the winter. Sibera to Alaska over the Bering Strait? I vaguely recall that the ice up there during winter is thick enough to driver over. North America to South America is almost impossible by car due to the Darien Gap, but not completely. Nobody does it (it's far easier to get a ferry around it and rent or buy a car on the other side) unless they're well equipped and more than a bit mad, but it has been done.

Or maybe an amphibious car. They exist. They're crap, but they exist.

I dont think you could make it from North America to Europe, that would be the issue, you could start in the UK, down the tunnel, cross europe, cross Asia, cross the bering strait possibly, if it was particularly iced over, cross North America but that would be it I reckon. Unless maybe you went up north from Canada across the Arctic down into Svalbard and then down into Europe. But it would need to be a spectacularly cold period to have ice for that and you know, what with the world getting warmer and all the ice melting thats even less likely

 

[robfosters]

It would take a brave man to drive a 4X4 across hundreds of miles of ice knowing there’s 10,000ft of arctic water right under you

 

[Tombstone]

It would take a brave man to drive a 4X4 across hundreds of miles of ice knowing there’s 10,000ft of arctic water right under you

I expect those people would probably have a TV show on Discovery or History channel, like those Ice Road Truckers etc

 

[Bear]

Oh Diddums, poor woman.

It wasn’t meant as sympathy, for someone that enjoys travelling around the world, she has killed her chance to ever being able to enter some countries. Pretty stupid move.

 

[I cant post photos]

It wasn’t meant as sympathy, for someone that enjoys travelling around the world, she has killed her chance to ever being able to enter some countries. Pretty stupid move.

Yeah, I know. I have zero sympathy however.

 

[200sols]

I expect those people would probably have a TV show on Discovery or History channel, like those Ice Road Truckers etc

Do they drive over the Arctic ocean?

 

[Tombstone]

Do they drive over the Arctic ocean?

Technically in places, yeah. Only short distances though

 

[Angilion]

I dont think you could make it from North America to Europe, that would be the issue, you could start in the UK, down the tunnel, cross europe, cross Asia, cross the bering strait possibly, if it was particularly iced over, cross North America but that would be it I reckon. Unless maybe you went up north from Canada across the Arctic down into Svalbard and then down into Europe. But it would need to be a spectacularly cold period to have ice for that and you know, what with the world getting warmer and all the ice melting thats even less likely

Hence my question about what counts as "around the world". If you went round the coast of the Americas and back over the Bering strait and back to the UK via a different route, you might count that as "around the world".

It would take a brave man to drive a 4X4 across hundreds of miles of ice knowing there’s 10,000ft of arctic water right under you

The Bering strait is very narrow. Much less than "hundreds of miles". There are some islands in it too, so it's not over water all the way. Must have been a tense area during the cold war.

 

[V F]

Someone Start a Group called.

"Turn off the lights" but all you do is campaign outside of big buildings in your city for them to start switching off the lights at night.

Move from one street to the next.

you could probably make a big difference with no impact and have public support.

But only targeting commercial buildings.

this laying in the road or super glueing your face nonsense is just a bunch of bored middle class people trying to be relevant and important. it's the kind of thing you would expect kids to do because of tiktok, the glue your face to a motorway challenge, then time how long it takes the police to remove you and try to beat the record.

BTW did you know football stadiums cover the turf in grow lights between games.

also another big waste, it was never needed back in the day and people seemed to cope fine...

That's the thing that was so amusing about all this. Most of them looked from 35 to 60. With some up to 70. Almost like modern day hippy warriors.

 

[robfosters]

Hence my question about what counts as "around the world". If you went round the coast of the Americas and back over the Bering strait and back to the UK via a different route, you might count that as "around the world".



The Bering strait is very narrow. Much less than "hundreds of miles". There are some islands in it too, so it's not over water all the way. Must have been a tense area during the cold war.

Just checked, 55 miles wide. I still wouldn’t fancy it tbh

 

[Tombstone]

Hence my question about what counts as "around the world". If you went round the coast of the Americas and back over the Bering strait and back to the UK via a different route, you might count that as "around the world".

True, I think the terms of what defines around the world would have to be agreed upon, I mean technically someone could go to the north pole, walk away from it for 2 ft and then walk round it in a circle and then claim that they went around the world I guess