Things that make you go "Hmmmm…" - Page 395

kriesel · 2021-07-25, 17:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by firejuggler

ah yes.. only a few order of magnitude.

5+ orderss. c ~300,000 km/sec; supersonic 0.4-1.7km/sec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_speed
Still falls well short of a legislator's million-fold inflation of a violence statistic, repeated after a reporter questioned it.

chalsall · 2021-07-25, 20:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by firejuggler

ah yes.. only a few order of magnitude.

Wow! I loved that picture! Thanks!

I've printed it out, laminated it, and placed it on the wall behind me. It will just be readable during Zoom meetings.

Xyzzy · 2021-07-28, 11:24

The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than football

firejuggler · 2021-07-28, 16:04

ah yes... recently (last month), Lambert Santelli made the entire GR20 hiking trail ( 180 kms) in about 30H. Take that , 19th century gentlemens!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR_20

tServo · 2021-07-30, 14:13

Workers in the control room of a nuclear power plant in Taiwan moved a chair to clean under it and accidentalt shut down a reactor:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/...lant_shutdown/

Xyzzy · 2021-07-30, 16:15

The Big History Behind January 6th

Dobri · 2021-07-30, 16:25

"I think the world may be on the cusp, of a revelation, that we are not alone."
—Ross Coulthart

<https://www.abc.net.au/radio/perth/programs/drive/in-plain-sight/13474452>

retina · 2021-07-30, 16:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dobri

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/perth/programs/drive/in-plain-sight/13474452

No evidence presented, just "stories" and "testimonies of sightings".

1/10

If it is real then where is the evidence?

Dobri · 2021-07-30, 17:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by retina

If it is real then where is the evidence?

Hmmmm… indeed.

masser · 2021-07-30, 17:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

The Big History Behind January 6th

Oof. Some good (if difficult to adhere to) advice in that coda.

Xyzzy · 2021-08-04, 17:07

700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built

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tServo "Marv" May 2009 near the Tannhäuser Gate 2·7·47 Posts	D'oh! Workers in the control room of a nuclear power plant in Taiwan moved a chair to clean under it and accidentalt shut down a reactor: https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/...lant_shutdown/

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