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ESA is a separate entity to the EU.

(When the UK left the EU it was able to remain in ESA because of this separation.)


Some time ago I realised that second-hand Ikea furniture is a cheap source of material for DIY projects. Facebook Marketplace (UK) has plenty of Pax cupboards which provide useful large boards. Prices vary, but you can pick up almost pristine items for almost nothing. If you don't need whole boards, spot damage is acceptable. Buying similar new materials would perhaps be better, but cost considerably more.


One option might be for the real Sean Byrne to move to the address in Sligo of the fictitious one, then ask to be removed from the Entity List on the grounds that he is a real person. I think that wouldn't work, and could be life-changing in a bad way, but it's an idea.


Ah, yes, irreversibly linking himself to the same address and adding an impersonation criminal charge will improve his situation a lot!


It might result in his address and birth date being added to the entry on the Entity List, now that the authorities have gained knowledge of that additional information. ;)


Sligo's not _that_ bad.


Dataset does seem sketchy. My village has two pubs, neither appear. Two non-pub licensed locations (social club, stately home) do appear. The dot for the pub in the next village is off by about 100m.


The words astro-nomy and astro-logy are similar, but this is no "fluke".

There's a Wikipedia article with some history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_astronomy

I imagine astronomers have been sighing resignedly at dinner parties for a couple of millenia:

In the Hellenistic world, the Greek words 'astrologia' and 'astronomia' were often used interchangeably, but they were conceptually not the same.

In his compilatory work Etymologiae [c. 625], Isidore of Seville noted explicitly the difference between the terms astronomy and astrology (Etymologiae, III, xxvii) and the same distinction appeared later in the texts of Arabian writers.


Yes, when I introduce my interests to new people these days I say "night-sky watching", instead of astronomy, just to avoid this problem.

"Astronomy? You don't really believe in all that nonsense do you? Jane, this guy believes those horoscopes in the paper!"

Sigh


Why did you change to enable the ignorant?


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