Night night, sleep well, sweet dreams Buddies

@El Loro posted:

BBC collection of 9 photos of the supermoon seen by some on Thursday:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20pvkzdxe2o
A supermoon is where a full moon is closer to the Earth. This one was called Hunter's Moon which is just the popular name given to a full moon at this time of year.

gorgeous EL love moon photos

night EL slim moonsiee velvet

Good morning everyone

Going to be wet and windy weather here this morning but not expected to be as bad as elsewhere.

I hope everyone has a good day

Slim. nothing new worth watching on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week. I note that on Thursday "Valentino" (1951) is being shown, am indifferent biopic of the silent film star. Possibly more watchable than the Ken Russell film of that name but that's not a recommendation. One minor bit of trivia is that one of the characters in the film was played by Dona Drake, who was also the Rita Rio of the clips I posted some time ago of Rita Rio and her all girl band.

Slim, I haven;t mentioned "How Green was my Valley" (1941) to you before. John Ford's classic film on life in a coal mining village. Deservedly won several Oscars including Best Picture and Director. It's on Film Four tomorrow at 12.40.

@El Loro posted:

Good morning everyone

Going to be wet and windy weather here this morning but not expected to be as bad as elsewhere.

I hope everyone has a good day

Rather wet & blustery here too atm El 

Stay safe folks! 

@El Loro posted:

Slim. nothing new worth watching on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week. I note that on Thursday "Valentino" (1951) is being shown, am indifferent biopic of the silent film star. Possibly more watchable than the Ken Russell film of that name but that's not a recommendation. One minor bit of trivia is that one of the characters in the film was played by Dona Drake, who was also the Rita Rio of the clips I posted some time ago of Rita Rio and her all girl band.

Thank you El

@El Loro posted:

Slim, I haven;t mentioned "How Green was my Valley" (1941) to you before. John Ford's classic film on life in a coal mining village. Deservedly won several Oscars including Best Picture and Director. It's on Film Four tomorrow at 12.40.

I like the look of this film El...it has 5 stars in the Radio Times
Thanks again

@slimfern posted:

Rather wet & blustery here too atm El 

Stay safe folks!

And you too, Slim

@slimfern posted:

I like the look of this film El...it has 5 stars in the Radio Times
Thanks again

I'm not surprised that it has 5 stars in the Radio Times, Slim

"How Green was my Valley" has been shown a number of times over the years on television so you may find that you have seen it before.
There's another film called "The Stars Look Down" (1940) which is also about a British coal mining community. Has a different storyline though. So it would be quite easy to confuse one film with the other A good film which the Radio Times gives it 4 stars.

@El Loro posted:

I'm not surprised that it has 5 stars in the Radio Times, Slim

"How Green was my Valley" has been shown a number of times over the years on television so you may find that you have seen it before.
There's another film called "The Stars Look Down" (1940) which is also about a British coal mining community. Has a different storyline though. So it would be quite easy to confuse one film with the other A good film which the Radio Times gives it 4 stars.

I'll be able to tell you by late afternoon tomorrow if I've seen it or not El

@slimfern posted:

I'll be able to tell you by late afternoon tomorrow if I've seen it or not El

I've seen both of those films, Slim

Chopin's opus 66 as it should be played on a piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6cbCWzHXkg

And a version of that played on another piano which is somewhat different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aayDBlyg4Yw

@El Loro posted:

Chopin's opus 66 as it should be played on a piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6cbCWzHXkg

And a version of that played on another piano which is somewhat different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aayDBlyg4Yw

I think I might prefer the second version El

@El Loro posted:

Chopin's opus 66 as it should be played on a piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6cbCWzHXkg

And a version of that played on another piano which is somewhat different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aayDBlyg4Yw

tbh like both for different reasons thank you EL

night EL slim moonsiee velvet

Good morning everyone

A calmer day than yesterday.

I hope everyone has a good day

The planet Mars has come to Gloucester cathedral:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05gq0ypdddo
The artist Luke Jerram has previously shown the Moon which I mentioned quite some time ago.

@El Loro posted:

The planet Mars has come to Gloucester cathedral:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05gq0ypdddo
The artist Luke Jerram has previously shown the Moon which I mentioned quite some time ago.

Sounds like quite an amazing experience, will you be going to see it El?

@slimfern posted:

Sounds like quite an amazing experience, will you be going to see it El?

Probably not Slim as you can find clips of Luke Jerram's Mars on youtube. Looks as if he created it 3 years ago and has been shown elsewhere during that time.

Besides Mars and the Moon, some years ago he made Gaia (the Earth). That was also shown at Gloucester cathedral and Luke Jerram created this video which is in 360°. So you can rotate the view during the clip. It's 33 minutes long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgZhnBgsCjw
(Mention is made of The Ecclesiastical Insurance Group which specialises in insurance cover for churches and happens to be based in Gloucester,)

Good afternoon Buddies

Cold day here but still dry

Enjoy the day everyone

There's a bit of sunshine here, had been cloudy all day

@El Loro posted:

There's a bit of sunshine here, had been cloudy all day

The sun has just burst out here too El

Night night, sleep well, sweet dreams Buddies

@El Loro posted:

The planet Mars has come to Gloucester cathedral:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05gq0ypdddo
The artist Luke Jerram has previously shown the Moon which I mentioned quite some time ago.

wow that is stunning EL would love to see it

night EL slim moonsieee velvet

Good morning everyone

Some sunshine at times here and may be some showers.

I hope everyone has a good day

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

wow that is stunning EL would love to see it

The Mars globe does get shown elsewhere, Ros so you might get a chance to see it one day.
A link to the page of tour dates which would get updated from time to time:
https://my-mars.org/tour-dates/

The final series of "Vera" is to be shown at the end of this year or at the start of next year. The two episodes are called "Inside" and then "The Dark Wives". The last one must be the adaptation of Ann Cleeves' novel of that name which was published at the end of August. Brenda Blethyn is 78 so not surprising that the series is ending.

Largest known prime number found so far found is  2^136,279,841 − 1. That works out as a rather large number. Starts with 8 and ends with 1 but has 41,024,318 digits in between. There's a youtube clip which shows the number but at a very fast frame rate as it would take a very long time to show at a viewable rate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyGRDrDfbI

2^136,279,841 − 1 is what is called a Mersenne prime number. Those are always 2 to the power of a prime number less 1. For instance 2 to the power of 3 (a prime number) is 8, 8 less 1 is 7 which is a prime number. There are only 52 such Mersenne prime numbers found so far.

Re that prime number. There about 3 millions letters in Tolstoy's "War and Peace". So to write out that prime number would take about 13-14 times as long as to write out "War an Peace"

@El Loro posted:

Re that prime number. There about 3 millions letters in Tolstoy's "War and Peace". So to write out that prime number would take about 13-14 times as long as to write out "War an Peace"

That's totally
Only a complete nerd would attempt it surely...

@slimfern posted:

That's totally
Only a complete nerd would attempt it surely...

There are people going back centuries who have spent time searching for those Mersenne primes. Nowadays, the search is done via computers. There's an ongoing project which people use their computers on a group basis to look for such numbers.

Perfect numbers are those where the sum of the divisors of a number is the same as that number.
Simplest one is 6, divisors are 1, 2 and 3 - 1+2+3=6
Next is 28, divisors are 1,2,4,7, and 14 - 1+2+4+7+14=28.
Perfect even numbers are linked to Mersenne primes. They are always of a form 2^p−1(2^p − 1) where where 2^p − 1 is a prime number (those Mersenne primes). So if p =  2, the result is 2*3=6 and if p=3, the result is 4*7=28. Euclid was the one who proved this back in around 300 BC, which gives you an idea as to just how long people have been looking got such numbers.

An odd perfect number has never been found but no-one has proved that there aren't any.