Ask the Walker Brothers.
Would you hear it?
The lights would go out in 8 minutes but which part of the sun exploding would kill us, and how long would it take?
Assuming the speed of sound is 700mph it would take 24 WEEKS for the sound of the blast to arrive, I'm sure we'd be long dead by then....... but would there actually BE a sound of the blast or a blast 'wave' at all (no sound in space?) or would it just be a case of waiting for radioactive debris to smash the Earth to bits, and how long would that take to arrive?
might have had a strange dream last night, or might not have
Ok I ran the numbers last night and it looks like we’re all OK for golf tomorrow but beyond that all I can be sure of is you probably want a morning tee time as it’ll hit the back 9 on south facing courses before the front 9 and clubs are likely to offer credit rounds rather than refunds if you can’t complete 18 holes (stingy gits)
Rang the R&A for guidance on relief from 'impact from a fiery ball' but the line went dead so can only assume they’ve been struck first (just like the poll tax debacle) Anyway the closest I can find is to treat it as ball lost in hole made by burrowing animal and proceed as per RoG thereafter
If your FC is vaporised then you need to get someone else to mark your card for the remainder of the round (technically you need to have both markers signatures on the card so might be worth suggesting the FC signs as marker pre-round, I know it’s not the done thing but just explain why I’m sure they’ll understand
In the event of a full scale solar meltdown and impact with planet earth your post round lunch is likely to be delayed and slightly overcooked, so it’s business as usual in the kitchen
The GM rules forum will be closed between 3:00 & 4:00 on Sunday to allow for a review of the Rules Decisions in a post apocalyptic world but you can take it as read that the hole size will be remaining at 4.25 inches!
Oh and due to some weird highly toxic radioactive dust cloud covering the entire planet (well the leftover bits anyway) your GM forum post counts will be reset to zero, don't panic as plans are in place to restore this by end of the month as the Mods are predicted to survive the worst of things due to their thick skin and that they share 99.8% DNA with that other cuddly creature widely expected to survive a nuclear war.... MikeH
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What I find ironic is there are people who want to be buried when they die as they are afraid of cremation, they will eventually be cremated anyway when the Sun goes pop.
The rest of us will be cremated twice- just to make sure
James is definitely on something
Ok I ran the numbers last night and it looks like we’re all OK for golf tomorrow but beyond that all I can be sure of is you probably want a morning tee time as it’ll hit the back 9 on south facing courses before the front 9 and clubs are likely to offer credit rounds rather than refunds if you can’t complete 18 holes (stingy gits)
Rang the R&A for guidance on relief from 'impact from a fiery ball' but the line went dead so can only assume they’ve been struck first (just like the poll tax debacle) Anyway the closest I can find is to treat it as ball lost in hole made by burrowing animal and proceed as per RoG thereafter
If your FC is vaporised then you need to get someone else to mark your card for the remainder of the round (technically you need to have both markers signatures on the card so might be worth suggesting the FC signs as marker pre-round, I know it’s not the done thing but just explain why I’m sure they’ll understand
In the event of a full scale solar meltdown and impact with planet earth your post round lunch is likely to be delayed and slightly overcooked, so it’s business as usual in the kitchen
The GM rules forum will be closed between 3:00 & 4:00 on Sunday to allow for a review of the Rules Decisions in a post apocalyptic world but you can take it as read that the hole size will be remaining at 4.25 inches!
Oh and due to some weird highly toxic radioactive dust cloud covering the entire planet (well the leftover bits anyway) your GM forum post counts will be reset to zero, don't panic as plans are in place to restore this by end of the month as the Mods are predicted to survive the worst of things due to their thick skin and that they share 99.8% DNA with that other cuddly creature widely expected to survive a nuclear war.... MikeH
Some good points in this post but also raises a few questions......
If playing a competition and half the field gets vapourised, will I still get cut if I have a good round?
Don't tell Delc about the hole size, I think to him it's the biggest potential benefit of the Sun imploding.
Not happy about FC's pre signing the card, could become a cheats charter!
Can you add Homer into the list of survivors along with the Mods and MikeH, he has the thickest skin of the lot
Apart from these minor points, I'm nominating this as post of the month :thup:
My father was a fighter pilot during WWII, and one of the pilots biggest fear was crashing and being trapped whilst their plane burned. I imagine like my father the majority of pilots asked to be buried rather than cremated.F
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What I find ironic is there are people who want to be buried when they die as they are afraid of cremation, they will eventually be cremated anyway when the Sun goes pop.
The rest of us will be cremated twice- just to make sure
James is definitely on something
