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TheHeretic said:
Eric Mc said:
Of course. Being out of the country - or being off the planet - does not negate your obligations to HMRC.
Depends entirely on your occupation. Being at sea, (when an was in Britain), for own er 180 days of the year, was tax free. In the book version of "2001: A Space Odyssey", there is a litle discussion between the astronauts about having to file their tax returns whilst on the way to Jupiter.
TheHeretic said:
Er, yeah... You'd have to pay taxed owed before you left. Sort of goes without saying.
(Big fan of 2001 by the way. Read it, and the rest many times. Superb stuff, particularly '01 and '10)
I'm sure you could pay on-line even from Mars - even if there is a 10 to 20 minute time delay (Big fan of 2001 by the way. Read it, and the rest many times. Superb stuff, particularly '01 and '10)
I was a massive fan of the original Odyssey books almost from when they came out. I saw the original movie (in glorious Cinerama - something missed out on by later cinema and TV viewers) in 1969 and read the book for the first (of many) times in 1971 or so.
I bought the nover "2010" in 1982 in hardback (which I still have) and, of course, watched the 1984 movie version as soon as it came out.
Odie said:
aw51 121565 said:
This reminds me, for some reason, of Douglas Adams' writing regarding a space ship full of telephone sanitizers 
. The B Ark, if I recall? (Could be wrong, it's been a long time since I read his books 
.
Subsequent posts on this thread have just reaffirmed my thoughts that Mr Adams had some damn good ideas & insight!
Wasnt it a ship full lawyers? or am I thinking of something else. . The B Ark, if I recall? (Could be wrong, it's been a long time since I read his books .Subsequent posts on this thread have just reaffirmed my thoughts that Mr Adams had some damn good ideas & insight!
tired TV producers
insurance salesmen
personnel officers
security guards
public relations executives
management consultants
telephone sanitisers
account executives
jingle writers
TheHeretic said:
Now deleted - somebody with lawyes embarassed by chute failng to open properly?TheHeretic said:
The chute opened properly. There aware 3 of the big buggers deployed, and one of them flapped for a lot longer than it should have, (or at least it looked longer than it should have).
Sorry, by 'failing to open properly' I meant 'flapping for a lot longer than it should have' = not properly/as per Plan A = scope for embarassment = phone call to lawyers.The video is still available to see on other internet sites so I don't think lawyers had anything to do with the video being removed from Liveleak.
Reading a bit more on the test, it seems thatn part of the test was to see if the parachutes opened correctly and fully even if the deployment sequence was not exactl;y nominal. A non-standard delay was built into the reefing sequence and one of the set of lines was deliberately cut so that the sequence wqas not quite right.
It's all explained here -
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1207/18orion/
Reading a bit more on the test, it seems thatn part of the test was to see if the parachutes opened correctly and fully even if the deployment sequence was not exactl;y nominal. A non-standard delay was built into the reefing sequence and one of the set of lines was deliberately cut so that the sequence wqas not quite right.
It's all explained here -
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1207/18orion/
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