A 35km air cooled cycle-path? -Iin Qatar,where else...

On 2007-01-22, blah (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

BT Humble wrote:
Skewer wrote:
The link is a google video of talking about a (yet to be built) 35km
'air-conditioned' bike path system in Qatar. Scheduled for sometime in 2007.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3326850694033482725&q=bicycle

They've got more money than they can spend over there... for now.

I'll avoid it on principles, I think. Move there in August. Ought to be
interesting...

WTF? I saw an ad for a job in Qatar in a paper today. I've never
heard the place, and now I've seen it mentioned 3 times today.

--
TimC
An optimist thinks we are living in the best of all possible worlds. A
pessimist fears this is true. --unknown

On 2007-01-23, Nick Payne (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
"Skewer" wrote in message
...
The link is a google video of talking about a (yet to be built) 35km
air-conditioned bike path system in Qatar. Scheduled for sometime in
2007.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3326850694033482725&q=bicycle

Let's just air-condition the whole planet. The way things are going we'll
need to do to survive anyway...

Damn you laws of thermodynamics. And why is it that my house
immediately follows the upwards trends in temperature (during the
daytime, my flat's internal temperature is identical to, or 1 or 2
degrees higher than the temperature at the airport), but it doesn't
cool by more than 5 degrees in the 11 hours of the night?

And the more iceblocks I eat, the more the room temperature increases.

--
TimC
Some people claim that the UNIX learning curve is steep, but at least you
only have to climb it once. -- unknown

blah Wrote:

Yep - it surprised us, too. Best job we could hope for, though. One
positive is the Tour of Qatar each Feb and another is that nobody
drives on Fridays - empty roads!

Blah! Long time no see dude! I'll need someone at the feed zone at
this tour, you be free to help out?


--
gplama

TimC wrote:

On 2007-01-23, Nick Payne (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
"Skewer" wrote in message
...
The link is a google video of talking about a (yet to be built) 35km
air-conditioned bike path system in Qatar. Scheduled for sometime in
2007.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3326850694033482725&q=bicycle

Let's just air-condition the whole planet. The way things are going we'll
need to do to survive anyway...

Damn you laws of thermodynamics.

The planet is not a closed system. You *could* bleed the heat off into
space.

ghostgum Wrote:
A bit like a public transport system :-) That way pedestrians and
cyclists could both use it. The trick is making the trains/trams
arrive every 2-3 minutes.Bwhahahaha hahaha ah hahahahha.

Sorry.


--
cfsmtb

On 2007-01-23, Bleve (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

TimC wrote:

On 2007-01-23, Nick Payne (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
Let's just air-condition the whole planet. The way things are going we'll
need to do to survive anyway...

Damn you laws of thermodynamics.

The planet is not a closed system. You *could* bleed the heat off into
space.

But they you'll heat up Jupiter!

Easier solution:

Who cares about acid rain? Bring back sulphur! Bring back sulphur!
Bring on global cooling!

--
TimC
In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.
-- Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

TimC wrote:

On 2007-01-22, blah (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

BT Humble wrote:
Skewer wrote:
The link is a google video of talking about a (yet to be built) 35km
'air-conditioned' bike path system in Qatar. Scheduled for sometime in 2007.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3326850694033482725&q=bicycle

They've got more money than they can spend over there... for now.

I'll avoid it on principles, I think. Move there in August. Ought to be
interesting...

WTF? I saw an ad for a job in Qatar in a paper today. I've never
heard the place, and now I've seen it mentioned 3 times today.

We got offered some PhD studentships and postdocs there...
of course the catch is that you have to live in a
compound...

Tam

On Jan 24, 9:20 am, Tamyka Bell wrote:
TimC wrote:

On 2007-01-22, blah (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

BT Humble wrote:
Skewer wrote:
The link is a google video of talking about a (yet to be built) 35km
'air-conditioned' bike path system in Qatar. Scheduled for sometime in 2007.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3326850694033482725&q=bicycle

They've got more money than they can spend over there... for now.

I'll avoid it on principles, I think. Move there in August. Ought to be
interesting...

WTF? I saw an ad for a job in Qatar in a paper today. I've never
heard the place, and now I've seen it mentioned 3 times today.We got offered some PhD studentships and postdocs there...
of course the catch is that you have to live in a
compound...

I'm not. Maybe they want to quarantine people from Qld? It will be
quite different, though.

blah wrote:
Maybe they want to quarantine people from Qld?

Sounds like a sensible policy to me! ;-)


BTH