John Buckingham

Interested in everything esp. low carbon, green shipping, heat management & marine propulsion and hydraulic systems!

[John Buckingham @BathBuck]

Feeling hungry? Think of those who can't just grab a snack. Make a donation to Bath Foodbank https://t.co/I44T5RNwVd

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Japanese designer Yasuhiro Suzuki created a giant zipper-shaped boat that gives the illusion of unzipping the water as it moves.

[Moz Perkins⚓️🇨🇶🇬🇧 Author 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @MozPerkins]

Military Rules

Royal Marine Rules:
1. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.
2. Decide to be aggressive enough, quickly enough.
... 3. Have a plan.
4. Have a back-up plan, because the first one probably won’t work.
5. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet, even your friends
6. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun whose calibre does not start with a "4."
7. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.
8. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral & diagonal preferred.)
9. Use cover or concealment as much as possible.
10. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
11. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose. In ten years nobody will remember the details of calibre, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
12. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating your intention to shoot.

SBS Rules:
1. Look very cool in sunglasses.
2. Kill every living thing within view.
3. Adjust speedo.
4. Check hair in mirror.

SAS Rules:
1. Walk 50 miles wearing 75 pound rucksack while starving.
2. Locate individuals requiring killing.
3. Request permission via radio from "Higher" to perform killing.
4. Curse bitterly when mission is aborted.

Army Rules:
1. Curse bitterly when receiving operational order.
2. Make sure there is extra ammo and extra coffee.
3. Curse bitterly.
4. Curse bitterly.
5. Do not listen to 2nd Lt’s; it can get you killed.
6. Curse bitterly.

RAF Rules:
1. Have a cocktail.
2. Adjust temperature on air-conditioner.
3. See what’s on Sky.
4. Ask "what is a gunfight?"
5. Request more funding from Government with a "killer" Power Point presentation.
6. Wine & dine ’key’ MPs invite MOD & defence industry executives.
7. Receive funding, set up new command and assemble assets.
8. Declare the assets "strategic" and never deploy them operationally.
9. Hurry to make 13:45 tea-time.
10. Make sure the base is as far as possible from the conflict but close enough to have tax exemption.

RN Rules:
1. Go to Sea.
2. Drink Beer.
3. Deploy Marines.
4. Travel World.

[Ian Fergusson @fergieweather]

Unfortunately we can't broadcast Points West at 6.30pm due to the situation described below... apols to our viewers!
Bristol power cut: Hundreds lose power as smoke pours from ground - BBC News
https://t.co/w9d3JGhZkT

[John Buckingham @BathBuck]

Queues to race course for #bhm

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

More than a third of the world’s commercial shipping capacity carries fossil fuels, including:

🛢️13,000 oil tankers,
🚢3,000 LNG/LPG tankers
🪨 2,500 bulk carriers transporting coal

A large proportion of the world’s shipping fleet are ghost ships in the making, even if their owners don’t yet realise it.

https://t.co/wvv7u8r3tx

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Every day I'm taking so many calls from people who have seen a hedgehog coming out in the open in the day, and have done nothing for 2, sometimes 3 days, because they'd read somewhere that it's normal, it's what hedgehog mums do.
This is so wrong and it's killing so many sick animals, condemming them to a slow painful death.
A hedgehog coming out in the daytime is always an act of desperation. In the vast majority of cases it’s because the hedgehog is dying, suffering from hypothermia as a stage of that process, and so is seeking the warmth of the sun.
It is extremely rare for a healthy hedgehog to be out in the day time. It’s dangerous for them.
The only time a hedgehog may be forced to appear in daytime is during the short nights of June and July, when there are not enough hours of darkness to enable the hog to forage sufficient food, and the hedgehog has need of extra nutrition (because she is pregnant or feeding babies). Or their nest has been disturbed and they have to make an emergency bed.
This will not happen in a garden where plenty of food is kindly provided nightly and the hedgehog’s nest is undisturbed.
And, as it is a desperately dangerous move, it is incredibly rare.
Yet because this rare possibility exists, it is clung to when we see a hedgehog out in the day - because:
1. it is comforting: convincing yourself it’s a sweet mum collecting bedding, not a dying animal,  and
2. because it means we don’t have to take any action other than videoing it and sharing it on SM for likes.
Sadly this is why so many sick animals, desperate for help, are seen, filmed, then ignored and left to die horribly and slowly.
So please, if you you see a hedgehog out in the open in the day, unless they actually have bedding in their mouth, assume he is sick and take him indoors and immediately phone a rescue to ask for advice.
A good rescue will ask you all the right questions to ascertain whether the hedgehog needs to come into care for treatment, or can be released.

Always take action.
Action can be reversed.
Inaction can’t.
Always grab first, ask questions later.
One of the many frustrations of this work is having a caller describe to you an extremely sick hog in urgent need of emergency treatment, only to be told that while talking to you the hedgehog has wandered off.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Is the #AMOC approaching a tipping point? Here's my take after researching this topic for over 30 years. Open access, peer-reviewed, in full colour & understandable for non-experts.
https://t.co/gMu6Zw5mR7

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

English Heritage staff preparing the stones at Stonehenge before they are moved on one hour tonight as the country moves to summer time.

[John Buckingham @BathBuck]

Ornamental cheery tree in @HedgemeadPark, Bath. https://t.co/zLzeR3RXHq

[Jaynit Makwana @JaynitMakwana]

12 most clever & hilarious ads of all time:

1. Word Wildlife Foundation

[Frome RFC @FromeRFC]

It’s Game Day

Counties 1 Southern South
Frome RFC v Dorchester RFC
⏰ 1430 KO

Counties 2 Dorset & Wilts Central
Westbury RFC v Frome RFC II
⏰ 1430 KO

Counties 4 Somerset North
Walcot RFC II v Frome RFC III
⏰ 1430 KO

🔴⚪️⚫️ | #FromeRFC | #Frome

[Doc  @DocAtCDI]

A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus spilled its load leaving New York Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, surprised, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, confounded, astonished, and numbed.

[John Buckingham @BathBuck]

Team bonding event for Naval engineers at @BMT_Defence in Bath, UK.

[RNLI @RNLI]

Today we remember the crew of the Solomon Brown, who lost their lives 35 years ago.

[John Buckingham @BathBuck]

Good luck to all the contestants at the Young persons design challenge evening at Western joint Branch for @IMarEST & @RoyInstNavArch.
https://t.co/VGPs3OopCc

[John Buckingham @BathBuck]

@FromeRFC Well done you Frome!

[Frome RFC @FromeRFC]

Todays Frome RFC Senior Results

Counties 1 Tribute Southern South
Dorchester RFC 20 - 29 Frome RFC

Counties 4 Tribute Somerset North
Frome RFC III 15 - 10 St Bernadettes OB’s II

🔴⚪️⚫️ | #FromeRFC | #Frome

[Decarbonising UK Freight Transport @DecarbonUKFT]

📣The DUKFT end of project report is published today.

Accelerating Investment for Decarbonising UK Freight Transport.

Download here: https://t.co/mEb9pnsAP3

[John Buckingham @BathBuck]

The Clean Maritime Plan Panel at #LISW23

[John Buckingham @BathBuck]

Sec of State for Transport, Mark Harper, gives keynote address at #cmdc Clean Maritime Day in #LISW23 .