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tactcom7
31-07-12, 08:19 PM
6,000 tonnes of dog poo are deposited on the UK's streets every day..
Thunderace
14-08-12, 09:09 PM
None of the restaurants in the USA that serve deep fried squirrel have a warning on their menu that says may contain nuts!
Thunderace
14-08-12, 09:11 PM
A 50.Cal round can miss by 4 inches and still penetrate flesh & bone! Due to the air pressure difference it causes.
Not only is Rob Zombie a clever little metal man and film writer, producer and director but he composed the music for Gran Turismo 2 and had a lot to do with a children's tv series.
Thunderace
31-08-12, 07:18 AM
Belgium has the only fully lit Motorway network in the world.
punyXpress
31-08-12, 09:17 AM
Shame they dont spend some of the money on resurfacing, then.
punyXpress
03-09-12, 09:04 AM
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Thunderace
03-09-12, 11:36 AM
The lighthouse at Lizard Point is the largest lighthouse complex in the world.
Grant66
06-09-12, 04:11 PM
It would take 1,400,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
did you know that the hero blobs on the end of motorcycle foot pegs are set for a lean angle of 45 degree on that bike. why? as that's the safest lean angle for almost every single road tyre and its not until you get to racing tyres that the angle goes to 50 degree.
so remember peeps if your grinding your pegs then its a safe bet your running out of rubber.
Most users ever online was 435, 04-09-12 at 08:42 PM.
That's only just over a week ago!
andrewsmith
13-09-12, 06:53 AM
Most users ever online was 435, 04-09-12 at 08:42 PM.
That's only just over a week ago!
Might have something to do with a certain picture ;):eek:
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tactcom7
14-09-12, 09:37 PM
Nutmeg is mildy halloucenogenic (sp) and was used by Nostradamus to induce his 'visions'.
Never stick your finger were you wonldn't stick your d1ck.
Live by this and you'll not go far wrong.
About 99% of our DNA sequence is the same as other humans. And 70% is shared with slugs.
Fruity-ya-ya
17-09-12, 06:03 AM
Before waxed thread was commonly available seamstresses would use their own earwax to stop the cut ends of threads from fraying.
punyXpress
17-09-12, 08:36 PM
In the 1400's a law was set forth in
England that a man was allowed to beat
his wife with a stick no thicker than his
thumb. Hence we have 'the rule of
thumb'
ClunkintheUK
18-09-12, 08:08 AM
In the 1400's a law was set forth in
England that a man was allowed to beat
his wife with a stick no thicker than his
thumb. Hence we have 'the rule of
thumb'
I do believe that is not correct. There has never been any such law, (aside from the fact there was no statute as such in the 1400's for a law to be set forth in).
I have heard two competeing origins for "The Rule of Thumb". First is that carpenters would use their thumbs as a measuring devise, which was convienient and reliable, if not always accurate.
The other (and my favourite) is that brewers used their thumbs to test the temperature of beer as it was brewing. I think this is because it was supposed to brew at 60 degrees (i think) which is about as warm a liquid as you can put your thumb in.
ClunkintheUK
18-09-12, 08:20 AM
The Lockheed SR-71 (the Blackbird spyplane), had engines where ~80% of the thrust was provided by the shockwave of its forward motion. This effect was so pronounced, that when the Russians fired missiles at them and the crew evaded the missiles by accelerating and out running the missiles, the crew would report that they were ahead of their fuel curve. The plane was actually more efficient by both fuel per minute and fuel per mile at higher speeds.
The fusilage would heat up inflight and expand by as much as a foot, to cope with this the panels would be loose and ill fitting whilst on the ground and the plane would leak fuel and hydraulic fluids. Becuase of this the SR-71 would have to take off with a nearly empty tank, then perform a series of climb and dive manouvers to heat the plane up, before fuelling in flight and carry out the rest of the mission.
And my favourite fact about the Blackbird (I have many many more). Engineers at Lockheed initially had a large budget to develop sleeping arrangements for the two man crew (missions could last up to 48 hours). A lot of this was spent untill an intern showed up one day with two $10 reclining lawn chairs, which could be stowed easily in the cabin when not in use, and massively exceeded all other specifications in the design brief.
Fruity-ya-ya
22-09-12, 06:11 AM
The common woodlouse has an average lifespan of aprox 2 years although some are known to have lived up to 4 years old.
widepants
24-09-12, 10:09 AM
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daveyrach
24-09-12, 11:06 AM
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That' so annoying, even when you try not to it still does.
Shawthing
12-10-12, 04:36 PM
Think you're having a bad day?
Betty Lou Oliver is best known as the 1940s elevator attendant for the empire state building who survived two large accidents on the same day.
Oliver was working on the 80th story of the building on July 28, 1945. On that day, due to thick fog a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building. The plane struck the 79th floor of the building. Oliver was thrown from her post and badly burned in the accident, though she survived, while 14 others did not.
When rescuers got to her they decided to lower her via the elevator, unaware that the cables had been weakened to breaking point. Once the elevator doors closed, the cables snapped and Oliver plummeted 75 stories to the basement. She screamed all the way down when falling in the elevator. Oliver survived but again had to be rescued and was later treated at the hospital for serious injuries. The thousand feet of elevator cable had fallen to the bottom of the shaft, creating a softer landing surface. The rapid compression of the air also likely helped slow the elevator's fall. This descent still stands as the Guiness World Record for the longest survived elevator fall ever recorded. Five months later, Oliver returned with an elevator inspector, who complimented her "guts" in riding the elevators to the full height of the building on that visit
Amadeus
12-10-12, 05:53 PM
Great fact Shawthing
Think you're having a bad day?
Betty Lou Oliver is best known as the 1940s elevator attendant for the empire state building who survived two large accidents on the same day.
Oliver was working on the 80th story of the building on July 28, 1945. On that day, due to thick fog a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building. The plane struck the 79th floor of the building. Oliver was thrown from her post and badly burned in the accident, though she survived, while 14 others did not.
When rescuers got to her they decided to lower her via the elevator, unaware that the cables had been weakened to breaking point. Once the elevator doors closed, the cables snapped and Oliver plummeted 75 stories to the basement. She screamed all the way down when falling in the elevator. Oliver survived but again had to be rescued and was later treated at the hospital for serious injuries. The thousand feet of elevator cable had fallen to the bottom of the shaft, creating a softer landing surface. The rapid compression of the air also likely helped slow the elevator's fall.This descent still stands as the Guiness World Record for the longest survived elevator fall ever recorded. Five months later, Oliver returned with an elevator inspector, who complimented her "guts" in riding the elevators to the full height of the building on that visit
i don't think that's possible due to the Otis safety brake fitted to elevators. in the event of a cable snap the elevator has a system that releases a ratchet system into the walls of the shaft where by locking the cart in position. but if its in the GBOR then in bust be true.
daveyrach
12-10-12, 07:25 PM
I think this may have been before safety features such as those.
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Thunderace
12-10-12, 07:36 PM
1874 was the year that safety brakes (emergency brakes) became standard on all elevators.
Source BBC2 QI series 5.
andrewsmith
12-10-12, 08:39 PM
1874 was the year that safety brakes (emergency brakes) became standard on all elevators.
Source BBC2 QI series 5.
This
The lifts could never fall (unless its removed) without the brakes coming on. Mythbusters
The same method is still used by manufacturers now, but using digital sensors and governor speed rope
Thunderace
12-10-12, 09:47 PM
Feck me! We agree on something!
Shawthing
12-10-12, 10:31 PM
This
The lifts could never fall
It must be great to live in black and white world!
Youve gone through disbelief and now are in denial.
I've moved on to acceptance.
Don't you think the plane impact could have caused the lift's 'spring' mechanism to have failed?
Never say never:
There are eyewitness reports of the elevator freefall effects in the twin towers 9/11.
or this reccently:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055034/Actors-plummet-floors-falling-elevator-Janie-Jones-film-premiere-party.html
We take risks in everything we do, and getting in a lift is no different!
daveyrach
13-10-12, 06:27 AM
Also if the cable snapped it would not feed through aforementioned speed brake, the lift would just fall.
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Thunderace
13-10-12, 08:39 AM
The Otis brakes work as a ratchet system on the walls of the shaft, also multiple cables hold an elevator each one capable of holding the elevator fully loaded.
Thunderace
13-10-12, 08:41 AM
It must be great to live in black and white world!
Youve gone through disbelief and now are in denial.
I've moved on to acceptance.
Don't you think the plane impact could have caused the lift's 'spring' mechanism to have failed?
Never say never:
There are eyewitness reports of the elevator freefall effects in the twin towers 9/11.
or this reccently:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055034/Actors-plummet-floors-falling-elevator-Janie-Jones-film-premiere-party.html
We take risks in everything we do, and getting in a lift is no different!
So that link? Did you read it all?
A source told the paper: “The elevator went into a free-fall with the door open, and the emergency brake kicked in, stopping them between floors.'
andrewsmith
13-10-12, 10:09 AM
The Otis brakes work as a ratchet system on the walls of the shaft, also multiple cables hold an elevator each one capable of holding the elevator fully loaded.
This
I have had the pleasure of watching rope shortening on a lift and one rope is the same dia and construction to a small crane rope
1000 years ago there were no glaciers or ice sheets on the planet. It was too warm.
Bloody Global warming.... oh wait...
It was followed by the Little Ice Age, 400 years ago!
C
andrewsmith
19-10-12, 03:36 PM
So that link? Did you read it all?
A source told the paper: “The elevator went into a free-fall with the door open, and the emergency brake kicked in, stopping them between floors.'
To add bit more to the interesting fact!
Most modern lifts rarely use their brakes to stop, they regulate the speed via the motor and use a electric motor map (speed profile between sensors) so the motor does all the work.
The brakes are applied when the lift goes into 'standby'
andrewsmith
19-10-12, 03:36 PM
1000 years ago there were no glaciers or ice sheets on the planet. It was too warm.
Bloody Global warming.... oh wait...
It was followed by the Little Ice Age, 400 years ago!
C
Get this man a beer!
Thunderace
19-10-12, 10:19 PM
The USA spends more per year on porn than the entire national debt for sub-Saharan Africa!
God bless 'em that's a lot of porn!
Shawthing
20-10-12, 08:14 PM
The USA spends more per year on porn than the entire national debt for sub-Saharan Africa!
God bless 'em that's a lot of porn!
The Charity should be called called Yank Relief!
The Idle Biker
30-10-12, 07:14 AM
In most cases a shark will only attack you when you are wet :-/
dizzyblonde
31-10-12, 02:37 PM
The knights Templars invented the cheque.
And international banking.
In most cases a shark will only attack you when you are wet :-/
Also water is the leading cause drowning.
Specialone
01-11-12, 06:08 AM
Also water is the leading cause drowning.
Actually it's not, it's lack of oxygen.
There is plenty of oxygen in water ;)
Which is why a fish doesn't drown when you take it out of water. It dies of too much oxygen. Water at 15 degrees C contains about 10ppm dissolved oxygen, or about 0.001% Air is about 18% oxygen.
A fish can live outside water for far longer than we can live under it because oxygen poisoning is a slow process and you suffer few side effects from short exposures (why fish can be returned to the water 10 minutes after being caught for some fish). As it recovers it's not waiting for the oxygen level in it's blood to to go up, it's waiting for it to go down! :-)
C
widepants
01-11-12, 07:28 AM
Andrew smith talks twaddle
yorkie_chris
01-11-12, 09:02 AM
There is plenty of oxygen in water ;)
As a diver I can say confidently that for all practical terms for human survival there f***ing well isn't! :p
What may class as interesting is that in many cases of drowning when water hits the back of the throat it causes the larynx to go into spasm and close off the airway, meaning you drown without water getting into the lungs.
Owenski
01-11-12, 09:08 AM
As a diver I can say confidently that for all practical terms for human survival there f***ing well isn't! :p
What may class as interesting is that in many cases of drowning when water hits the back of the throat it causes the larynx to go into spasm and close off the airway, meaning you drown without water getting into the lungs.
Is there not also supposed to be a moment of euthoria just before you die, at the point where you're airways open and you try to breathe... then fail horrifically.
The A9 in Scotland is the longest uninterrupted by motorway road in the UK at 279 miles (268 according to Google Maps). it runs from Cadgers brae Roundabout in Grangemouth to Scrabster Ferry Terminal just outside Thurso
the A1 is the longest but has motorway
the A38 and A30 are interrupted by the M5
the A6 is interrupted by the M6
ClunkintheUK
09-11-12, 06:40 AM
Which is why a fish doesn't drown when you take it out of water. It dies of too much oxygen. Water at 15 degrees C contains about 10ppm dissolved oxygen, or about 0.001% Air is about 18% oxygen.
A fish can live outside water for far longer than we can live under it because oxygen poisoning is a slow process and you suffer few side effects from short exposures (why fish can be returned to the water 10 minutes after being caught for some fish). As it recovers it's not waiting for the oxygen level in it's blood to to go up, it's waiting for it to go down! :-)
C
No they don't. They extract exygen from the water with very fine capilaries in the gills. When they are in water these float around and are separated out (lilke long hair in the bath), providing a nice big surface area for oxygen to be transported into their bodies. When they are out of water these capillaries become matted (like long wet hair when you come out the bath) providing a very small surface area, and they asphyxiate.
They survive for quite a while because they can still extract from oxygen from the air which is, as you say, much more oxygen rich than water.
Shawthing
30-11-12, 10:15 PM
Happy 50th Brithday to the RED LED. As seen in SV650 brake lights.
The first Visible light emmitting diodes reported in the journal 'Applied Physics Letters' 1st Dec 1962. Thanks Mr Holonyak.
Thunderace
09-12-12, 12:43 AM
There are only eight planets in our solar system. Pluto meets none of the criteria by which a planet can be judged!
daveyrach
09-12-12, 09:39 AM
There are only eight planets in our solar system. Pluto meets none of the criteria by which a planet can be judged!
Isn't it classed as space debris (I.e Very large rock)
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xXBADGERXx
09-12-12, 10:11 AM
Isn't it classed as space debris (I.e Very large rock)
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Classified as Dwarf Planet now
Of which there are five. Pluto isn't even the largest!
punyXpress
10-12-12, 02:29 PM
Ada Lovalace's 197th Birthday
Without her, we'd all be posting via pigeons.
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Shawthing
12-12-12, 07:59 AM
Today is Roadie's day.
One-Two, One-Two, One-Two. :smt035
Today is Roadie's day.
One-Two, One-Two, One-Two. :smt035
I suppose they deserve a special day once every 100 years.
Mr Speirs
13-12-12, 02:39 PM
Na we had one on the 1st of Feb this year too.
BanannaMan
14-12-12, 05:08 AM
Tonight the annual Geminid Meteor Shower is in full view from my house.
Peaking at 80 - 100 'shooting stars' per hour.
Quite a show!
When im not riding my bike i think about riding it.
When im riding my bike i think about riding it faster.
Why is that???
That all i could come up with me is not clever.
EssexDave
21-12-12, 02:18 PM
In case you hadn't notice, the world didn't end. Shock.
savage86
22-12-12, 09:19 PM
Sex cures headaches
littleoldman2
23-12-12, 08:13 AM
Must tell the wife
punyXpress
23-12-12, 11:37 AM
. . tried that, but she's got deafness as well as a headache! ;)
littleoldman2
23-12-12, 02:31 PM
My wife deafness varies with what I say.
punyXpress
23-12-12, 03:26 PM
Snap!
xXBADGERXx
23-12-12, 03:39 PM
Is this what I have to look forward to when .... if I reach your age ?
punyXpress
23-12-12, 03:46 PM
It gets better by the day, Carl!
BTW: Condiments of the Season, young Pup
xXBADGERXx
23-12-12, 04:06 PM
It gets better by the day, Carl!
BTW: Condiments of the Season, young Pup
Sigh ......... can`t even get my name right
punyXpress
23-12-12, 06:17 PM
Nowt new there, Brocky!
Polly Gee's.
keith_d
24-12-12, 05:05 PM
Is this what I have to look forward to when .... if I reach your age ?
As I've said before, "getting old is s*** but it's better than the alternative."
xXBADGERXx
25-12-12, 10:42 AM
As I've said before, "getting old is s*** but it's better than the alternative."
Now that made me chuckle :smt023
punyXpress
28-12-12, 10:49 PM
"The verb "Zlataner" has officially entered the Swedish language . .
punyXpress
28-12-12, 10:50 PM
. . in reference to England tormentor Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Paris Saint-Germain's Sweden international striker. The word, meaning "to dominate by force", is one of 40 new expressions to be included in the latest edition of the Swedish dictionary.
punyXpress
01-01-13, 11:29 AM
Greetings, Comrades
From today, beer officially becomes an alcoholic beverage in Russia. . .
. . so that's worth celebrating! :drink:
The formula to calculate the volume of a Pizza with a radius of Z and a height of A is
V = Pi*Z*Z*A
BanannaMan
07-01-13, 04:06 AM
The formula to calculate the volume of a Pizza with a radius of Z and a height of A is
V = Pi*Z*Z*A
I read the above on my phone earlier at the time it was posted.
I was in a restaurant, waiting on a pizza!
yorkie_chris
07-01-13, 10:39 AM
I made a square pizza the other night. It was very tasty.
DarrenSV650S
07-01-13, 01:21 PM
I made a square pizza the other night. It was very tasty.
Did you calculate the volume?
xXBADGERXx
07-01-13, 01:32 PM
More importantly .... did he wash his paws ?
yorkie_chris
07-01-13, 01:41 PM
It did not last long enough for any calculation of volume.
More importantly .... did he wash his paws ?
I did actually as I'd been working on the van and had about half a pound of CV joint grease under my nails.
Interesting fact for today: On this day in 1559 it was the celebrated coronation of Elizabeth I. She reigned for 44 years, 127 days.
punyXpress
31-01-13, 07:55 PM
60 years ago - the Great Flood!
The biggest tyre manufacturer in the world is... Lego - over 870,000 each day.
Fruity-ya-ya
01-02-13, 05:41 PM
Isn't there a forfeit for this kind of thing?
;)
Yesterday, 10:03 PM
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?p=2824983&highlight=lego#post2824983
12-12-11, 04:37 PM
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?p=2637283&highlight=lego#post2637283
01-01-09, 10:49 PM
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?p=1732341&highlight=lego#post1732341
punyXpress
01-02-13, 06:31 PM
Looks like a mid-winter thing when some can't or won't go out & play with their bikes.
Reckon Adolf will be along to sort them out shortly.
Shawthing
04-02-13, 08:14 AM
Alice Cooper gets his bus pass today. Happy 65th Birthday Vince.
When the Challenger Space shuttle broke up on re-entry, a Vacuum cleaner, a device for measuring eyeball pressure and some worms from an on board experiment were the only three things that came down intact.
The worms went on to reproduce!
C
The Idle Biker
08-02-13, 07:29 PM
Well not a fact as such but Interesting nevertheless. Well I thought it was anyway.
IPM8OR6W6WE
DarrenSV650S
08-02-13, 07:44 PM
That stuff is amazing. They had it on grand designs a few years ago. He painted his whole house with it to stop the white render getting dirty
ClunkintheUK
13-02-13, 03:51 PM
Yeah, but will it blend?
BernardBikerchick
14-02-13, 05:26 PM
helllllllloooooooooo
** Jiggles Jugs a bit **
:smt082:smt082:smt082:smt082:smt082:smt082:smt082: smt082:smt082:smt082:smt082
:smt007:smt007:smt007:smt007:smt007:smt007:smt007: smt007:smt007:smt007:smt007
xXBADGERXx
14-02-13, 05:48 PM
Carry on
punyXpress
26-02-13, 10:28 AM
26 February 1932 Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the Land Speed Record @ 253.96mph - if he'd had rear view mirrors, he'd have seen Joe Marcon on his case.
Those cage drivers!
punyXpress
05-03-13, 10:41 AM
from Goggle:
March 5, 1936
Supermarine Spitfire, First flight
Shawthing
05-03-13, 12:29 PM
Alessandro Volta , Italian Inventer of the Battery, died This day in 1827.
His Batteries have been dying ever since.
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