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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2019 15:15:03 GMT 1
For years I used to think it was Good King Wenslas last looked out" not "Good King Wenceslas looked out" maybe not amazing, but a fact nevertheless
Actually Wenceslaus I (907-935 AD), Duke of Bohemia.....also known as Vaclac the Good.
He was murdered by his brother, Boleslaus the Cruel.....needs his own carol.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Apr 1, 2019 22:57:09 GMT 1
“Back in the day” my first job was in IT (or DP as it was known then). The computer memory consisted of ferrite rings which had wires passing through the middle. Passing an electric current through the wires resulted in the rings being magnetised. You got your 1 and 0 binary values (the fundamentals of all computing) dependant upon which direction the rings were magnetised. All pretty basic stuff. The latest memory is called FRAM. Gone are the ferrite rings and loops of wires. The logic state is now stored as the position of an atom within a molecule of Lead Zirconate Titanite. Who the hell worked out how to do that? IT was known as "double penetration"? Porn was well weird back then. |
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Post by explorer on Apr 2, 2019 7:39:30 GMT 1
“Back in the day” my first job was in IT (or DP as it was known then). The computer memory consisted of ferrite rings which had wires passing through the middle. Passing an electric current through the wires resulted in the rings being magnetised. You got your 1 and 0 binary values (the fundamentals of all computing) dependant upon which direction the rings were magnetised. All pretty basic stuff. The latest memory is called FRAM. Gone are the ferrite rings and loops of wires. The logic state is now stored as the position of an atom within a molecule of Lead Zirconate Titanite. Who the hell worked out how to do that? IT was known as "double penetration"? Porn was well weird back then. That it was. Even the office was rife with filth, code word being "anybody up for a bit of double-entry bookkeeping".... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 15:10:20 GMT 1
More people die in the world from eating too much rather than too little.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Apr 2, 2019 20:54:37 GMT 1
More people die in the world from eating too much rather than too little. 2000 a day die from diarrhea...thats more than AIDs and malaria combined. |
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Post by tobbyg on Apr 2, 2019 21:02:38 GMT 1
More people die in the world from eating too much rather than too little. 2000 a day die from diarrhea...thats more than AIDs and malaria combined. Thanks a lot you’ve just ruined a good old power shite for me. |
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Apr 2, 2019 22:19:11 GMT 1
2000 a day die from diarrhea...thats more than AIDs and malaria combined. Thanks a lot you’ve just ruined a good old power shite for me. A spine-chilling cronk? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2019 11:28:33 GMT 1
One city in Pakistan......Sialkot......manufactures more than half the world's footballs. Over 40 million pa. That's a mega-load of balls......
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2019 10:21:49 GMT 1
The world's human population is increasing by about 230,000.....per day!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2019 15:05:55 GMT 1
The world's human population is increasing by about 230,000.....per day!
It's increased by another 38,000 since I posted!
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Post by DeepSpace on Jul 15, 2019 16:52:10 GMT 1
Apparently, there are currently more male serial killers incarcerated in Texas alone than there have been known female serial killers in the history of most of Europe (possibly all) combined.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Jul 16, 2019 22:42:21 GMT 1
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Post by artysid on Nov 11, 2019 13:04:40 GMT 1
There's a Penis museum in Iceland phallus.is/en/....and a Vagina Museum has just opened in Camden Town www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/PS The vagina museum is free, so it's the kind of place you could take the wife if shes a little tight. |
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Nov 11, 2019 13:53:08 GMT 1
Peanuts are not nuts.
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Post by DeepSpace on Nov 11, 2019 13:54:06 GMT 1
We need a separate museum for that really. |
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Nov 11, 2019 13:55:47 GMT 1
In 2016 West Yorkshire had the smallest museum in the world. |
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Nov 15, 2019 12:52:17 GMT 1
iTunes and Amazon music ‘shuffle’ mode, which plays songs at random, is not random.
When it launched, iTunes received hundreds of complaints from users who said that it was playing songs from the same artist, which of course is completely random.
iTunes said ‘shuffle’ was too random so they put in an algorithm which makes you think it is selecting songs at random but in fact it is not random.
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Post by rubicon on Dec 3, 2019 15:13:42 GMT 1
Smith and Wesson revolvers rotate anti-clockwise, Colt and just about every other known make revolve clockwise.
I say just about every other, because Oti will probably know of some obscure Polish make that revolves counter clockwise!
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Dec 4, 2019 7:41:20 GMT 1
The average bullet travels 1700 mph.
Voyager 1 is travelling at 1700 miles roughly every 2 and a half minutes (11 miles per second), putting the speed of a bullet to shame.
Voyager has been travelling for 42 years and has still, nowhere near, left our solar system, in fact it will take 30000 years just to travel through the Ort cloud which still part of our solar system.
All at 11 miles per second.
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Post by DeepSpace on Dec 4, 2019 17:20:41 GMT 1
The average bullet travels 1700 mph. Voyager 1 is travelling at 1700 miles roughly every 2 and a half minutes (11 miles per second), putting the speed of a bullet to shame. Voyager has been travelling for 42 years and has still, nowhere near, left our solar system, in fact it will take 30000 years just to travel through the Ort cloud which still part of our solar system. All at 11 miles per second. After all that travelling as well, Voyager 1 is around 20 Light Hours away from us (so a radio message, for example, would take about that time to reach us). So not even yet 1 Light Day away. Meanwhile the next nearest star to us is just under 4 Light Years away. |
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Post by captainblack on Dec 17, 2019 17:28:08 GMT 1
Yes folks we all possibly going to die , in approximately
3.75 billion years the Andromeda galaxy is due to collide
with our own Milky Way , Earth may not necessarily be destroyed
but it may be a good idea to stop putting off tidying up the garden!
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Post by galpharm2400 on Dec 17, 2019 18:05:25 GMT 1
Yes folks we all possibly going to die , in approximately 3.75 billion years the Andromeda galaxy is due to collide with our own Milky Way , Earth may not necessarily be destroyed but it may be a good idea to stop putting off tidying up the garden! Galaxy over milky way? Never been any competition! 😋😋😋😋😋😋 |
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Dec 18, 2019 7:32:44 GMT 1
Yes folks we all possibly going to die , in approximately 3.75 billion years the Andromeda galaxy is due to collide with our own Milky Way , Earth may not necessarily be destroyed but it may be a good idea to stop putting off tidying up the garden! The distance between stars is so vast that you would be quite unlucky to be hit when the galaxies collide. Most stars will remain unscathed. |
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Post by galpharm2400 on Dec 18, 2019 9:17:58 GMT 1
Yes folks we all possibly going to die , in approximately 3.75 billion years the Andromeda galaxy is due to collide with our own Milky Way , Earth may not necessarily be destroyed but it may be a good idea to stop putting off tidying up the garden! The distance between stars is so vast that you would be quite unlucky to be hit when the galaxies collide. Most stars will remain unscathed. Thanks for that crumb of comfort Joey.. I wasnt looking forward to being obliterated in a few million years. I had considered cancelling the milk man. |
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Post by DeepSpace on Dec 18, 2019 10:16:27 GMT 1
It's more of a merger than a collision; although some collisions would occur as mentioned, most stars wouldn't hit anything. In fact, I think our galaxy is currently merging with several other smaller galaxies currently & other galaxies are likely to join the party. Of note is the fact that it will take the length of time mentioned even though they are approaching each other at around 70 miles per second. The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object visible without optical aids, at around 2.3LY. It's fairly easy to spot if your eyesight is good enough & the sky is reasonably dark (I've spotted it many a time from my garden) using 'star-hopping' techniques. Find the Square of Pegasus (it sits close to Cassiopoea which is a 'W' shape, always visible to us & a famous asterism) on a good, dark night, then from the top left move 2 stars to the left & 2 stars up & it's a fuzzy blur to the left. If you try not to look directly at it, you actually see it slightly more clearly & you can wow your kids by explaining they are seeing it as it was when our ancestors were more monkey than man. Oh, and it's coming to get us  |
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Post by Uddersfield on Dec 18, 2019 11:59:29 GMT 1
Yes folks we all possibly going to die , in approximately 3.75 billion years the Andromeda galaxy is due to collide with our own Milky Way , Earth may not necessarily be destroyed but it may be a good idea to stop putting off tidying up the garden! The distance between stars is so vast that you would be quite unlucky to be hit when the galaxies collide. Most stars will remain unscathed. Speaking of stars, it take around 10 minutes for the light to reach us. So effectively, at night, you're looking at what the star looked like 10 minutes ago. |
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Post by galpharm2400 on Dec 18, 2019 12:32:06 GMT 1
The distance between stars is so vast that you would be quite unlucky to be hit when the galaxies collide. Most stars will remain unscathed. Speaking of stars, it take around 10 minutes for the light to reach us. So effectively, at night, you're looking at what the star looked like 10 minutes ago. Unlike watching celebrity big brother and looking at what 'stars' looked like decades ago? |
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Post by DeepSpace on Dec 19, 2019 8:27:16 GMT 1
The distance between stars is so vast that you would be quite unlucky to be hit when the galaxies collide. Most stars will remain unscathed. Speaking of stars, it take around 10 minutes for the light to reach us. So effectively, at night, you're looking at what the star looked like 10 minutes ago. That's the Sun you're thinking of...that's about 8.5 light minutes away. The Moon is about 1.5 light seconds away. Every other star you see at night would count in galactic terms as our neighbours & you're seeing them as they were between a few years ago & up to about 150 years ago. |
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Dec 19, 2019 10:41:33 GMT 1
As we know, if the sun suddenly disappeared we would know 8 minutes and 20 seconds after this happened.
We would also still be gravitationally bound for this amount of time as gravity propagates at...the speed of light.
After 8 minutes we would be flung out in to the cold and dark.
Though this wouldn’t be great news for humans, the earth would be just fine really. Yes, no photosynthesis, no life on earth, but underneath, at the bottom of the oceans, extremophiles would still thrive without the sun, in fact they never even knew it existed in the first place.
With an ice sheet miles deep the ocean bottoms would be liquid water due to hydrothermal vents and maybe, after millions of years of travel, the earth would come close to another star, maybe orbiting the star, maybe to start life all over again.
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Post by Stewpot on Dec 19, 2019 17:52:41 GMT 1
This explains it all well.
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