I bet you didnt know that

Realt Dearg Sec

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

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Titanic and Olympic stuff



Titanic and Olympic were two of the three Olympic-class ocean liners built by Harland & Wolff for the White Star Line. The third was Britannic. All three were designed not to be the fastest ships in the North Atlantic, but the most luxurious. The fastest at the time were Lusitania and Mauretania, with Mauretania keeping the trans-Atlantic record until 1929.

Olympic launched first, in 1911. Employed as a stewardess on board was Violet Jessop, the daughter of Irish emigrants to Argentina. Jessop was on board Olympic when it collided with HMS Hawke, a heavily armored British naval vessel. Olympic was badly damaged, with its hull breached under water, but didn't sink. Violet Jessop survived.

Olympic returned to Belfast for repairs, a move that delayed the launch of Titanic. Violet Jessop was convinced by acquaintances that working with the VIPs on Titanic would be a good career move and she took a job on board. Famously Titanic struck an iceberg on the 14 of April 1912 and 3 hours later it had sunk. Jessop made it onto a lifeboat and was eventually picked up by the Carpathia. Violet Jessop survived.

The third of the Olympic class vessels, Britannic launched in 1914 just before the start of World War 1, a conflict that caused Jessop to serve as a nurse. The British Admiralty found they had a dire need for troop transport and hospital vessels so they began to requisition civilian vessels, including Olympic. As luck would have it was on board the third of the White Star Line's Olympic class ocean liners that Jessop found herself serving. Guess what? While operating in the Mediterranean Britannic hit a German mine and sank. But Violet Jessop survived.

She didn't happen to get a job on the Lusitania after that by any chance?

Duckworth_Luas

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

She didn't happen to get a job on the Lusitania after that by any chance?

No, but you would think she would have stayed off ocean liners. She actually moved to the Red Star Line and continued her career.

KevRossi

And here's a picture of Violet Jessop with her husband.






*may not be true

TomSweeney

twinytwo wrote: »

Less of the chinwag more with the facts :pac:

- The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 18,979,564,000.

Puts me off learning it to be honest...

fergiesfolly

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Titanic and Olympic stuff



Titanic and Olympic were two of the three Olympic-class ocean liners built by Harland & Wolff for the White Star Line. The third was Britannic. All three were designed not to be the fastest ships in the North Atlantic, but the most luxurious. The fastest at the time were Lusitania and Mauretania, with Mauretania keeping the trans-Atlantic record until 1929.

Olympic launched first, in 1911. Employed as a stewardess on board was Violet Jessop, the daughter of Irish emigrants to Argentina. Jessop was on board Olympic when it collided with HMS Hawke, a heavily armored British naval vessel. Olympic was badly damaged, with its hull breached under water, but didn't sink. Violet Jessop survived.

Olympic returned to Belfast for repairs, a move that delayed the launch of Titanic. Violet Jessop was convinced by acquaintances that working with the VIPs on Titanic would be a good career move and she took a job on board. Famously Titanic struck an iceberg on the 14 of April 1912 and 3 hours later it had sunk. Jessop made it onto a lifeboat and was eventually picked up by the Carpathia. Violet Jessop survived.

The third of the Olympic class vessels, Britannic launched in 1914 just before the start of World War 1, a conflict that caused Jessop to serve as a nurse. The British Admiralty found they had a dire need for troop transport and hospital vessels so they began to requisition civilian vessels, including Olympic. As luck would have it was on board the third of the White Star Line's Olympic class ocean liners that Jessop found herself serving. Guess what? While operating in the Mediterranean Britannic hit a German mine and sank. But Violet Jessop survived.

A tour guide at the Titanic exhibition told is that most of the apparent pictures of Titanic are actually the Olympic. The Olympic got most of the press coverage as it was the first ship of the three to be launched. When Titanic was launched, newspaper and newsreel editors just used stock pictures of Olympic as the ships were identical and it would've been difficult to make out the names on the hulls, so no-one watching would've been able to tell the difference.

BaZmO*

fergiesfolly wrote: »

A tour guide at the Titanic exhibition told is that most of the apparent pictures of Titanic are actually the Olympic. The Olympic got most of the press coverage as it was the first ship of the three to be launched. When Titanic was launched, newspaper and newsreel editors just used stock pictures of Olympic as the ships were identical and it would've been difficult to make out the names on the hulls, so no-one watching would've been able to tell the difference.

Original Fake News (of sorts)

Riddle101

The coconut crab is so frightening that the famous naturalist Charles Darwin once dubbed it “monstrous.” This enormous crab grows to approximately three feet long and is thought to be the biggest arthropod living on land.

Furthermore, scientists studying these immense creatures believe that they could have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of the aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.

The coconut crab is no ordinary crustacean. Its main asset, aside from its disturbing appearance, is its immense strength. Despite weighing no more than nine pounds, it can carry up to six times its own bodyweight. In addition, according to the BBC, the coconut crab has incredibly strong pincers, exerting as much force on its unwitting prey as the bite of a lion’s jaws.

Coconut crabs, as the name suggests, primarily feed on coconuts, and it is here that their powerful claws offer a distinct advantage.

Climbing high in the trees, the crabs use their strength to knock coconuts from the branches, and then dismantle the hard, gnarled shells with their pincers.

However, when coconuts cannot be found, these versatile creatures have been known to target other types of prey. According to the BBC, scientists studying the crabs were shocked to discover that they would also attack birds resting in the treetops.

In a graphic, violent scene, the crabs were observed to break the birds’ wings using their pincers, and then drag them down to their underground burrows.

They also eat carrion, and have been known to dismantle the corpses of other coconut crabs for food.

Coconut crabs rarely attack humans. However, according to the BBC, when they feel threatened, they may display aggressive behavior and can be quite dangerous.

A number of incidents have been reported in the South Pacific, where coconut crabs make their homes, in which humans have accidentally put their hands inside a burrow where a coconut crab was living.

The coconut crabs reportedly attacked, and in some cases managed to rip off several fingers or even a whole hand, using only the strength of their immense pincers.

Coconut crabs are a rare and unusual species, and we currently know relatively little about their lives, habitats and behavior. However, as more data is gathered, scientists have begun to speculate that these powerful crustaceans may hold clues about the disappearance of one of the world’s greatest aviation pioneers.

Amelia Earhart was a renowned pilot, adventurer and writer, and is known as the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic. During an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937, she disappeared, along with her navigator Fred Noonan, near Howland Island in the South Pacific. The circumstances of her death remain a mystery, as the bodies and the plane were never recovered.

In 1940, however, a badly fractured skeleton was found on Nikumaroro Island, close where Earhart is thought to have crashed. It has been speculated that Earhart’s body washed up on the beach, either dead or badly injured, and was subsequently dismembered by a group of coconut crabs.

In 2007, a team of scientists investigating the behavior of coconut crabs tested this theory by leaving a pig carcass in the same location that the body had been found. Within moments, a large number of coconut crabs emerged on the beach, crawling out of their nearby burrows, and tore the pig to shreds.

Although this theory is unsubstantiated, and it’s likely that we will never know whether the skeleton is that of Earhart, it is clear that it is certainly possible that her corpse was mutilated by the island’s resident coconut crabs. The colossal strength of these crabs is enough to crush human bones and devour a corpse in a matter of minutes.

The coconut crab might be intimidating, but human encroachment into its natural habitat means that it is classed as an endangered species. Numbers of these fascinating creatures have dwindled in recent years. As we begin to learn more about the lives and capabilities of these remarkable animals, we must work harder to ensure that they continue to survive.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/11/26/coconut-crab/?fbclid=IwAR3mjaAeZ7Xen8XzVG3_MLKH-dwtomhpuWuKJco5Yjvzg0WS14WVm-TnUqY

ohnonotgmail

Riddle101 wrote: »

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/11/26/coconut-crab/?fbclid=IwAR3mjaAeZ7Xen8XzVG3_MLKH-dwtomhpuWuKJco5Yjvzg0WS14WVm-TnUqY

I'm surprised we have not had a Sci-Fi channel movie about these guys.

TomSweeney

Lego is called Lego cos ages ago right ... some kids were playing with it - brother and sister and they started fighting over it, and the Mam butted in and said "Lego o that!" (Let go of that)
and the name just stuck




*according to Karl Pilkington anyway ...

b318isp

What is a magnet or, perhaps more accurately, a magnetic field?

While many people understand the mechanism by the movement of an electric charge, there is also a second cause related to the spin properties of fundamental particles.

When you experience the effects of a permanent magnet on magnetic materials, or another magnet, you actually are directly detecting quantum affects creating a form of angular momentum. It's inherent in the atomic motion of certain particles, such as electrons and photons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_moment#Atoms,_molecules,_and_elementary_particles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(physics)#Magnetic_moments

gozunda

TomSweeney wrote: »

Lego is called Lego cos ages ago right ... some kids were playing with it - brother and sister and they started fighting over it, and the Mam butted in and said "Lego o that!" (Let go of that)
and the name just stuck




*according to Karl Pilkington anyway ...

I think the Lego company may disagree
According to the blurb - the company adopted the name "Lego" derived from the Danish phrase 'leg godt' which means "play well". 

Capt'n Midnight

b318isp wrote: »

What is a magnet or, perhaps more accurately, a magnetic field?

Magnets don't always attract.

They repel diamagnetic materials.



Which means you can't pickup diamonds with a magnet.

mzungu

The US Navy uses xbox controllers to control their latest Virginia-class attack submarine. This is the first of its kind and has been implemented primarily as a cost cutting measure. The controls they would have used in times past to operate periscopes and the like cost $38,000 and were not easily replaceable. An Xbox controller costs max $40 and can be bought pretty much anywhere.

The US Army also use the Xbox 360 controller for a high-energy laser gun that's used to take down drones and mortar shells.

New Home

"War games", hmm?

Franz Von Peppercorn

gozunda wrote: »

I think the Lego company may disagree
According to the blurb - the company adopted the name "Lego" derived from the Danish phrase 'leg godt' which means "play well". 

You’ve ruined my faith in Karl Pilkington. Another personal hero destroyed.

Thanks.

Paddy Cow

Ewan McGregor's brother Colin flew in the RAF with the code sign "Obi-Two" :pac:

Capt'n Midnight

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Magnets don't always attract.

They repel diamagnetic materials.



Which means you can't pickup diamonds with a magnet.

I understand that diamonds can successfully be used as magnets to attract and pick up people.

New Home

Candie wrote: »

I understand that diamonds can successfully be used as magnets to attract and pick up people.

They work with gold diggers, too, funnily enough.

After programs spanning five decades involving education, treatment and vector control which took the number of cases of malaria from 80,000 plus in the 1940's to no new declared cases this year, Paraguay was confirmed by the WHO to have eradicated malaria in June this year. Making it the first country in the Americas to have done so since Cuba in the 1970's.

Following Paraguays success, Algeria, Argentina and Uzbekistan are expected to be declared malaria free within the next year. Mexico and Uraguay are expected to follow suit before 2020. This success on top of improvements in detection and treatment of HIV/AIDS and TB means that it finally appears as though the toll of the 'big 3' is being solidly eroded year-on-year.

SuperS54

Candie wrote: »

After programs spanning five decades involving education, treatment and vector control which took the number of cases of malaria from 80,000 plus in the 1940's to no new declared cases this year, Paraguay was confirmed by the WHO to have eradicated malaria in June this year. Making it the first country in the Americas to have done so since Cuba in the 1970's.

Following Paraguays success, Algeria, Argentina and Uzbekistan are expected to be declared malaria free within the next year. Mexico and Uraguay are expected to follow suit before 2020. This success on top of improvements in detection and treatment of HIV/AIDS and TB means that it finally appears as though the toll of the 'big 3' is being solidly eroded year-on-year.

The flat earthers and anti-vac's will find a way to reverse that soon enough.

mzungu

The physics of mammal urination.

Scientists at Georgetown University have found that all mammals weighing more than 2.2 pounds (a kilogram) empty their full bladders in about 20 seconds. This means it takes an African elephant about 22 seconds to empty its 42 gallon bladder in nearly the same time that a Great Dane dog will empty its 0.4 gallon bladder (around 21 seconds).

Realt Dearg Sec

mzungu wrote: »

The physics of mammal urination.

Scientists at Georgetown University have found that all mammals weighing more than 2.2 pounds (a kilogram) empty their full bladders in about 20 seconds. This means it takes an African elephant about 22 seconds to empty its 42 gallon bladder in nearly the same time that a Great Dane dog will empty its 0.4 gallon bladder (around 21 seconds).

Huh...so it turns out I've been pissing like a race horse all along.

Cookie_Monster

elvis83 wrote: »

Reminds me of the early days of the internet where every site was spoke with the www at the start. www is 3 times less efficient to say than World Wide Web

The kiwis sorted that years ago
Dub-dub-dub

Graces7

New Home wrote: »

So the island was name after a dead woman.

No. Eternal life...there is also a strong awareness that folk do not really die as long as we remember them. Hence the wondrous Irish graveyards for Christmas

cdeb

In 1822, a 20-year-old Canadian called Alexis St Martin was shot in the stomach. The wounds were quite severe, and he was not expected to survive at all, but with the help of Dr William Beaumont, he did pull through.

He was left with a fistula - a small opening - between belly and stomach, through which the stomach could be seen. For two weeks after the injury, food he ate emerged back through this fistula. Our doctor decided this would be a great way to, for the first time ever, examine the stomach in action and work out the processes of digestion. And so he did - for the next ten years.

One experiment involved dipping some food - tied to a string - into St Martin's stomach and analysing it at various stages of digestion. The experiments were immeasurably important in figuring out how our insides actually work and led to advances in food science and dietary understanding.

St Martin wasn't paid anything for this; he was illiterate but was asked to sign an agreement making him Beaumont's servant for the duration - so adding the effects of heavy lifting on the stomach to the experiment list. The experiments finally ended when St Martin left Beaumont and refused to return.

St Martin died aged 80 in 1882, his stomach fistula still being open. His family waited until the body had started to decay before burying him to counter the thread of body-snatching, as he was still keenly sought by medical people.

gozunda

Candie wrote: »

After programs spanning five decades involving education, treatment and vector control which took the number of cases of malaria from 80,000 plus in the 1940's to no new declared cases this year, Paraguay was confirmed by the WHO to have eradicated malaria in June this year. Making it the first country in the Americas to have done so since Cuba in the 1970's.

Following Paraguays success, Algeria, Argentina and Uzbekistan are expected to be declared malaria free within the next year. Mexico and Uraguay are expected to follow suit before 2020. This success on top of improvements in detection and treatment of HIV/AIDS and TB means that it finally appears as though the toll of the 'big 3' is being solidly eroded year-on-year.

Now if only they could get rid of those darn mosquitos .....

TomSweeney

New Home wrote: »

I always thought he played the lyre, or something similar.

I think he was playing with his flute.


big difference :P

TomSweeney

So here's the planets in comparison to the Sun ...



And Sun v Aldebaran an Orange Giant star ~60 light years away, the other night I was showing my
boy and even next to the full moon you could see it's orange tinge.



This just blew my sons mind ... it's great to get kids into Astronomy.

And Aldebaran is not even that big ...

TomSweeney

https://twitter.com/marsrader/status/1068511489189978112

TomSweeney

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

And they maintain it saved thousands of jobs. Some jobs! Pumping gas.

Best job I've ever had, a summer in the USA on a J1 .... bliss ...