A couple or Triumphs in there today .

It’s starting to worry me ! 

That's looking very special. Excited to see it finished* *These things are never finished are they

We ran through electrical requirements today as we are close to the car being ready to be sent over to the electrical man .  The passenger foot plate still needs trimming and fitting but very happy with it . The 6” pipe sticks out 2” passed the wheel line so the 4” version should work . 

... or maybe the Higher Being was bored one wet Thursday and thought he'd give Life a go one one of those more remote planets down there in the bottom left hand corner, and see how it goes. Just the one planet for now. "If they make a go of it and behave, I'll trying rolling it out elsewhere. Hell, I could even franchise it and make a bob or two!"

It's the time thing.   Given the age of the universe, the chances must be vanishingly small of another intelligent life-form existing just at the right time and at the right stage of development for us to hear signals during the 60-year-ish window we have been capable of receiving them from space.    Our own high-power broadcast transmissions at long and medium wave and VHF must have peaked and are now being replaced by low power GHz  and fibre.  Maybe that is what all civilisations do so receivable signals may only last for 100 years or so.

Distance, distance and distance. And then there’s the time problem.  If there really is no way to travel faster than light or take short cuts through undiscovered dimensions, then it all gets a bit academic.

Indeed, Roger, but the number of planets is enormous.    Given the Gaia evidence quoted by Colin, there must be Billions (10^9), if not Trillions (10^12) of them in the Milky  Way alone.     How many have life is the subject of Drake's Equation, which can give a wide range of answers. We have  been sending out organised electromagnetic radiation for about a century and a quarter, and able to listen for the same from elsewhere for about a century, so we should modify Drake to include only the area around us with a radius of 100 light years.   That reduces the number of accessible (by radio) planets by 0.000003 (Area of radius 100 Light years/Area of Milky Way).     But that estimates 3 million such planets!    The proportion that have life must be smaller, but out of 3 million ??  Is there nobody out there? John  

The set. The plates in black are inside the wheelarches and will get shutz'd

All done now (?), but would a DiY spraying bay limit your clear-up task?   Large cardboard box, perhaps with an extractor fan and filter?