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The "diffraction spikes" are caused by James Webb's six-sided mirrors. Notice that Hubble's image has no such spikes because Hubble's mirror is round Sadly, James Webb's overall mirror diameter was too big to have been made circular, so instead it was made as a mosaic of sixteen separate hexagonal mirrors that could be foldered up for launching inside the rocket's nosecone fairing.

Classy. 😜

The Moon does it too. When you look up at the Moon, it's also an illusion. That's what it looked like 1.3 seconds ago because of the Moon's 240,000 mile distance from the Earth.

The difference between the Hubble and JWST is the much larger mirror size, the fact JWST has infra red heat detection abilities and is cooled to temperatures so cold that JWST could detect the warmth of a single bee flying above the Moon's surface if it were possible. Hubble has a smaller mirror, does not have infra red detection and is encased by a big shiny metal tube that gets warmed up every time the Sun shines on it.

Peeve: People who say they're "baking" food when they're instead toasting, boiling, grilling, frying, or steaming the food.

Even our view of the Sun is an illusion of time. Everytime you see the Sun, that's what it looked like eight and a half minutes ago, as it's light takes that long to reach us. from a mere 93 million miles away. At the moment the Sun dips below the horizon at sunset, the Sun had actually set eight and a half minutes before you saw it do so. And at sunrise, had already risen eight and a half minutes before dawn!

Same view, but Hubble Space Telescope on left and JWST on the right. The six pointed star effect is a side-effect caused by JWST's hexagonal shaped mirrors.

Look how some of those central galaxies seem to have been bent, stretched and warped. This is caused by the gravitational forces warping space-time itself, along with the light travelling from these distant galaxies. Then consider that the light from these galaxies has taken over 13 billion years to reach us, at a speed of 671 million miles per hour. Many of those galaxies are so old and so far, far away that they may not even exist any longer. The JWST is literally a time machine that looks back in time almost to the Big Bang. Everything in that image could be hidden behind the tip of a needle held out at arms length. Consider all that other "empty space" too.

Ten new regions have been added to the north of Newbrooke. They are named: SSPWalrus Carpenter, SSPSeaspot Run, SSPLobsta Roll, SSPMulligan, SSPMcGuffin, SSPSpearfish, SSPRingy Dinghy, SSPAhoy Matey, SSPBarge Inn, SSPBowline.

How about building a high-level suspension bridge from Sansara across to Bellisseria? After three years, there is still no physical road link between the two continents! Or if a bridge is too visually intrusive, a road tunnel instead? The six Elements regions in southern Sansara haven't been used in ages (years?) and could be used for the northern end of the road link. For the southern end of the road link in Bellisseria, there's a nicely positioned spit of land at Wheelhouse and Jacinto regions which already has a road very close to it. The road link could then be built from there across the sea to the Elements regions in southern Sansara. And then onwards to link (somehow) to a Linden Route road.

@Amanda Crisp The thirteen colonies were not mini-countries, they were English commercial settlements set up to harvest raw materials and ship them to England where they would be processed into goods for international trade. The colonies were there only for business, not to build new countries. As businesses, they were not eligible for representation in the English parliament as they were not part of England proper, they were initially only privately owned overseas business enterprises instead. To have give these trading colonies represented in England's parliament would have been as weird and ridiculous as giving McDonalds and Disney their own representatives in todays US Congress. The thirteen colonies were also used as penal colonies which gave English prisoners the choice of starting a useful new life elsewhere, rather than being executed or rotting in an English prison. The thirteen colonies were managed by trading companies based in the City of London which had special licences from the Crown which guaranteed trading exclusivity and military protection. They later became Crown Colonies after companies failed and were liquidated. Other such British trading companies include the East India Company, whose the United States "borrowed" (stole) to become the first US flag, the Grand Union Flag, in 1777. And the US also stole the tune for their national anthem from a London-based private gentleman's club called the Anacreon Society who had a song called "Anacreon In Heaven", which they sang at their meetings.

Imagine if a videogame company made a series of deeply satirical games about the US which deliberately poked fun at it This has actually happened. Grand Theft Auto is a British videogame franchise that originated in the UK and has become the largest and most profitable videogame franchise in history. It has earned more money from its GTA games than Hollywood and the music industry did in the same space of time. For me, the thing I find funniest about GTA is not the game itself, but the American gamers who play them, they think the games are of American origin, because they're "so realistic" and "about them", while blindly not realising that they and their culture are actually being savagely mocked by a foreign videogame franchise for profit. The same videogame company also produces the very popular Red Dead Redemption franchise, which is basically the same kind of game as GTA, but is set in the 19th century "Old West" era, which has the same kind of satire as GTA. 😜

Firstly, the United Kingdom is not a country, it's a single sovereign state and a union of four nations (not countries) in a political and economic union. Three of the four nations are on a large main island called Great Britain. The fourth is found on the northern part of another island called Ireland, which the country known as "Ireland" also shares. The four nations of the UK are called England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. They are not "countries", or even "one country" as they are not independant or sovereign. They are nations instead, collectively called The Home Nations. They all share a single monarch, in one kingdom - a united kingdom, which is why the sovereign state is so named the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Or UK for short. England and Scotland were once internationally recognised separate sovereign countries and rivals, but were unified together in a union of crowns, thrones and a single kingdom in 1606 when a Scottish king named James inherited the English throne and kingdom of England, because Queen Elizabeth I of England (a relative of James) was too busy building an Empire and "forgot" to give birth to an heir. A century later in 1707, under the reign of Queen Anne, England and Scotland were then politically unified with a common parliament based in Westminster, which used to be the seat of the English parliament (Some in Scotland still say it still is!). This is how the sovereign state of Great Britain was formed. Great Britain is also the geographic and geological name of the ninth largest island in the world, and has England, Wales and Scotland on it. But not Northern Ireland, which is on the neighbouring island of Ireland. Great Britain was chosen as a neutral name for the unified sovereign state of England, Wales and Scotland - although Scotland was never part of the Roman territory of Britannia, which the island of Great Britain got it's English name from. The Romans, wise as they were, didn't fancy their own chances against the Scots and taking their land which the Roman's called Caledonia, so they built a defensive wall, Hadrian's Wall (named after a Roman Emperor of the time) across the top of Britannia to mark the territorial edge of the Roman Empire. Wales is not and has never been a country, as it was once a principality that was fully annexed into the Kingdom of England in 1536, and was regarded as part of England during the Unions of 1606 and 1707. In recent times, Wales has been considered a nation of the UK when it got it's own flag for the first time in 1959 during a revival of popular Welsh culture and nationalism. Probably because Prince Charles had been born and he then became Prince of Wales, a title always given to the first-born male heir to the British throne. Northern Ireland ... well.... depending on your British or Irish viewpoint, it's either one of the four nations of the UK, or are six counties of the Irish province of Ulster that broke away from Ireland in 1921 to rejoin the UK, after Ireland had been given Home Rule (partial independence) in 1921 by the British. The UK, because it is not a country, does not have an official national flag. No law has ever been passed to create an official one either. Instead, the UK presently unofficially uses a royal sea flag from 1606 called the Union Flag as a "national flag", a flag which was originally created in 1606 to identify King James' (remember him?!) fleet of Royal Navy warships at sea. The first version of the Union Flag mixed the two patron saint flags of England and Scotland; of Saint George of England and Saint Andrew of Scotland. Because Wales was regarded as part of the Kingdom of England after 1536, it was left out of the first Union Flag design of 1606. And still is. The Union Flag was also known as a Union Jack (from King James' latin name, Jacobus) and became very easily known and recognised across the globe during the days of the British Empire. It became a defacto "British Flag" through its common use overseas. In 1801, a third patron saint flag was mixed into the Union Flag when Ireland became part of the newly created "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland". It was actually illegal to fly the Union Flag on land in the UK until only recently when outdated rules were relaxed, as the flag had become popular in modern pop and sports cultures. But its still illegal to fly it at sea, because the Union Flag is still a royal flag and is property of the Crown and can only be flown from the jackstaff of Her Majesty's warships of the Royal Navy. The Union Flag had afterall been created in an era before "national flags" became common elsewhere in the world which used them in revolutions. Which the UK has never had. However, the four nations of the UK do have their own official national flags too, mostly derived from religious saints. Some people prefer using their own national flag instead of the Union Flag. We are a very complicated group of nations to understand, because we do not fit into the usual model of "country". We're not states because we're not in a confederation or a republic, we are a Constitutional Monarchy. And we're not countries because we're not individually sovereign. Only our "UK" identity is, which ironically, isn't a country either....

My heart rate, after recieving new electricity bill. Holy sh... !

Your country doesn't even have an actual real name, the "United States of America" is just a description of what it is and where it is on the planet. 😜

Hello is a relatively recent greeting word, which originally meant something else. Hello was (and still is) a reactionary verb used in circumstances when someone is surprised by something unexpected "Hello, what's this/that?" someone might have asked curiously. Now imagine yourself in the Victorian era in a house when suddenly and unexpectantly, you hear a loud strange metallic bell sound ringing. You trace and approach the source of the strange ringing to a wood and brass mechanical device and pick part of it up. The loud ringing sound suddenly stops. "Hello?" the confused person asks curiously. That is how "Hello" became the common greeting, when the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.

Oi is similar to Hey - another shouty aggressive attention-getting word. It's not a greeting. You're likely to earn yourself a fat lip or a black eye by greeting people with oi!

Peeve: Being greeted with a "Hey!" Hey is considered a very loud, shouty and aggressive word in England, usually used to gain other people's attention in such circumstances as: "HEY! That's my fianceé/car/property that you're messing around/stealing, stop it!" "Hey" has been imported from the US, which in turn got it from Norwegian migrants, where "Hei" (pronounced hey), literally means hi or hello, but with the original E that was dropped in the US.

Thomas Crapper, not John.

Loo originates from the Anglo-Norman (French) for water: l'eau. As does Gardyloo, a warning phrase which came from "regarde l'eau!", meaning "watch out for water!". The "water" being the contents of a bedroom chamber pot, thrown from an upstairs bedroom window.

I like that. A lot.

Peeve: Just discovered a billion flying ants in the garden! FLYING ANT DAY IS TODAY!!!

Me: "What do they call a conservatory in the US?" American: "What's a conservatory?" Me: "It's a large ground floor single-storey room extension built onto the back or side of a house, and usually has glass walls and a glass ceiling. Very nice for sitting in for natural sunlight and warmth." American: "Oh that's a greenhouse." Me: *facepalms*

Table Tennis originated from the dining room tables of Victorian England. This after-dinner game which utilised the dining table and small cork balls was called Wiff Waff instead, because of the sound the ball made when hit.