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As people here work in various jobs / professions they might know things from work or study no one here knows yet. this is what this topic is about.

what do you know that we have never heard of?

Eg: you don't need to be great at maths to be an architect

this is obvious to me but everyone says to me "i wanted to be an architect but i was bad at math,i can barely add"

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KevRossi

Nixonbot wrote: »

The Everett factory is still the largest building in the world!

And Tesco in Donabate is the 9th largest building on the planet.

By volume - Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings

Skylinehead

RIGOLO wrote: »

At one time the Boeing Aircraft manufacturing building/hanger where they assembled their planes was the largest man made building in the world.
It was so vast in fact, that it would periodically generate its own weather resulting in rainfall within the hanger and them having to cover the planes. I dont know if it still is or does, its been a long time since I was there.

Also outside the building there used by a 737 (if i recall correctly) with the wingtips bent over so they were touching each other above the fuselage, all to demonstrate the robustness of the riveting.

Planes really are marvels of man made engineering.

The Everett factory is still the largest building in the world!

RIGOLO

Nixonbot wrote: »

The B-29 was so innovative and complex (pressurised cabin, massive range, remote-controlled turrets, altitude capabilities such that Japanese fighters simply couldn't reach them) that the cost of developing those planes actually outstripped that of the Manhattan Project itself.

At one time the Boeing Aircraft manufacturing building/hanger where they assembled their planes was the largest man made building in the world.
It was so vast in fact, that it would periodically generate its own weather resulting in rainfall within the hanger and them having to cover the planes. I dont know if it still is or does, its been a long time since I was there.

Also outside the building there used by a 737 (if i recall correctly) with the wingtips bent over so they were touching each other above the fuselage, all to demonstrate the robustness of the riveting.

Planes really are marvels of man made engineering.

Skylinehead

jmayo wrote: »

And they used a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber.

The B-29 was so innovative and complex (pressurised cabin, massive range, remote-controlled turrets, altitude capabilities such that Japanese fighters simply couldn't reach them) that the cost of developing those planes actually outstripped that of the Manhattan Project itself.

jmayo

mzungu wrote: »

In the space of a mere 29 weeks, Harry Truman went from senator (a role he held since 1932), to Vice President, to President, to dropping the first a-bomb.

And they used a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber.

Coincidence ?

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (a former Chelsea striker):

"People say that scoring a goal is better than having sex. It's not, they're just having bad sex."

One of the funniest footballer or sportsmen one liners has to be Peter Crouch who when asked.
"What would you be if you weren't a footballer?”
answered ...
"A virgin"

Sleepy

Wibbs wrote: »

Pregnancy and childbirth before the modern age was an extremely hazardous process for women. Depending on a mother's status the chances of death were 2-5% per birth. Given the average woman was around 15 at marriage** she could have at least 8 or 10 pregnancies in her life, with each one shortening the odds of her survival. High born women(more like girls in our point of view) with stuff to leave behind wrote their first last will and testament upon learning they were up the duff. High born women often had more kids and were at greater risk than poorer women, as they usually employed wet nurses and didn't breastfeed themselves. Breastfeeding dampens down fertility, so poorer women were usually better off in that sense. Plus the pressure on richer women was higher as they were required to produce more heirs. And since childhood mortality was scarily high(a quarter of newborns didn't make it to ten), they were baby factories.

As I recently learned during the Guinness Storehouse tour, Olivia Whitmore (Arthur's wife) gave birth to 21 children, of which only 10 reached adulthood. She would have spent over 16 years being pregnant.

Professor Moriarty

RIGOLO wrote: »

I remember a quote attributed to the great 90's Italian cycling sprinter (playboy) Mario Cippolini when asked after winning some race, what was the first thing he would do when he got home .
His reply was.. "The first thing I will do when I get home is make love to my wife, and the second thing I will do is put down my suitcases "

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (a former Chelsea striker):

"People say that scoring a goal is better than having sex. It's not, they're just having bad sex."

Fourier

Just to help out.

RIGOLO wrote: »

My usage of (big C and small c) to explain how there are multiple infinities stems from my recollection of my college maths-physiscs text book of more than 30 years ago.
I expect the author was using the letter C as it all stemmed from Cantors proof of an infinite number of infinities of infinitely different sizes... diagonialisation my dear boy

The two infinities you are thinking of are Aleph_0, the size of the whole numbers and fractions (rationals) and Aleph_1 the next biggest infinity and as you said it keeps going, Aleph_2 is another infinity etc

As you said C is used for the real numbers, this is because it is impossible to prove how big they are, it has actually been proven to be impossible to prove.

Cookie_Monster

RIGOLO wrote: »

Your comments are all very 'Cantor-esque' as at the time he too was pilloried by the maths community for his radical 'infinite' ideas....:-)

can never resist the auld dig at a poster can you?

RIGOLO

Wibbs wrote: »

Men produce more and better quality sperm and orgasm more quickly when with someone new. They also produce more if their girlfriend/wife has been away for more than a couple of days.

I remember a quote attributed to the great 90's Italian cycling sprinter (playboy) Mario Cippolini when asked after winning some race, what was the first thing he would do when he got home .
His reply was.. "The first thing I will do when I get home is make love to my wife, and the second thing I will do is put down my suitcases "

RIGOLO

RIGOLO wrote: »

Rescuing this thread again from the bumming Gala discussion ...
There are two types of infinity.
Big infinity - C
and small infinity - c
or one could argue there are in fact an infinite number of inifinities ...

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

what?
C is the speed of light in vacuum.
∞ is infinity.

My usage of (big C and small c) to explain how there are multiple infinities stems from my recollection of my college maths-physiscs text book of more than 30 years ago.
I expect the author was using the letter C as it all stemmed from Cantors proof of an infinite number of infinities of infinitely different sizes... diagonialisation my dear boy

one could argue '∞' is just a representation of an infinity.. one would need an infinite amount of symbols to represent all possible infinities..

Your comments are all very 'Cantor-esque' as at the time he too was pilloried by the maths community for his radical 'infinite' ideas....:-)

cdeb

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

what?
C is the speed of light in vacuum.
∞ is infinity.

C can be lots of things. It's the element carbon, the centigrade temperature scale, one unit of electrical charge (a Coulomb), a measurement of smoothness, one of the four composites of DNA (cytosine). It could be all those and large infinity too.

mzungu

In the space of a mere 29 weeks, Harry Truman went from senator (a role he held since 1932), to Vice President, to President, to dropping the first a-bomb.

Cookie_Monster

RIGOLO wrote: »

R
There are two types of infinity.
Big infinity - C
and small infinity - c

what?
C is the speed of light in vacuum.
∞ is infinity.

Ipso

Fourier wrote: »

I'll stop now as you could really go on about this, the Sumerians and Akkadians had so much sexual material in their religion. I'll finish off (:pac:) with two facts. That one text to Innana lists "Cock-kissing" as a sign of civilization in a culture. Also one of the songs to Inanna that a Gala sung had a verse for the best places to ejaculate on a woman. Hymn H in the Uruk collection to Inanna, [...] is a damaged tablet portion:

‘"[…] on your navel. My sweet illustrious sister, […] On your back […] My
illustrious sister, […] hand. In your vagina […] the gardens. Nanaya, […]. In your
anus […] the fields. My illustrious sister, […] the acres. Come to me, my sister,
[…]"’

Ride me sideways, that was another one.

[Deleted User]

Wibbs wrote: »

The latter has been suggested in folks with fertility issues. Rather than go at it like rabbits, dial back the nookie and separate for a week and then have a go again. Better quality and more swimmers. Women have more orgasms with lovers than their current longterm partners. It was thought that this increased the likelihood of conception, but that's up in the air as far as proof goes.

Interestingly, in the last week or so the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology published a Chinese study that has IVF docs revising the usual abstinence advice.

A study in the Centre for Reproductive Medicine in China involving 500 couples seeking IVF treatment concluded that the clinical and molecular evidence found that sperm quality and the chance of achieving pregnancy is at it's peak after only 1-3 HOURS abstinence.

The sperm produced after recent ejaculation is faster and stronger than later swimmers. It'll be interesting to see what corroborative evidence emerges in the wake of that, if any.

Wibbs

Just remembered another thing about Cicero and his late marriage. One of the guests at the wedding suggested that maybe he wasn't as vital as he once was and this may prove a problem, and his greasy reply was "she may be a girl tonight, but she'll be a woman in the morning". Worse again as she was a legal member of his household, like an adopted daughter. That was common enough in Roman households, as was marrying a slave. The latter more for the common citizen, rather than the rich. It seems he wasn't the swordsman he advertised as his new bride buggered off with a few weeks back to her original family.

Wibbs

Fourier wrote: »

I'll stop now as you could really go on about this, the Sumerians and Akkadians had so much sexual material in their religion. I'll finish off (:pac:) with two facts. That one text to Innana lists "Cock-kissing" as a sign of civilization in a culture. Also one of the songs to Inanna that a Gala sung had a verse for the best places to ejaculate on a woman. Hymn H in the Uruk collection to Inanna, [...] is a damaged tablet portion:

‘"[…] on your navel. My sweet illustrious sister, […] On your back […] My
illustrious sister, […] hand. In your vagina […] the gardens. Nanaya, […]. In your
anus […] the fields. My illustrious sister, […] the acres. Come to me, my sister,
[…]"’

some of the ancients were well aware of the oul pull out method of contraception. One of the few methods they had that was useful. Various pessaries of the oddest things inserted in the lady's *ahem* were others. Cow dung plugs being one. Though they did have some herbal stuff that kinda worked(one went extinct because it was so popular) and they had herbs that produced terminations, with varying success. Mostly by killing the mother as well. The Greeks tried the rhythm method of sorts, but got it completely wrong as they thought a woman was at her most fertile immediately after her period.

Wibbs

Candie wrote: »

It's thought that since each teste has it's own independent temp control system that the differing lengths prevent them from overheating each other which is known to be bad for sperm production and motility.

A good example of the cowboy builder evolution can be. Ovaries need no such thermoregulation and do fine, but rather than evolving sperm production that works at higher temps(some mammals have, cetaceans for example, whales and such), no, let's dangle the male gonads outside the body in a very vulnerable position. Clearly not vulnerable enough as not enough males with external clockweights had them bitten off *crosses legs*, but still...

On that note, sorta... the largest cell in the human body* is the human ovum, which runs about one millimetre and is visible to the Mark 1 Human Eyeball(unless you're over forty and require a selfie stick to read the paper), while the smallest is the human sperm. Sperm are better survivors than eggs mind you. A released egg has about a day before it dies off, sperm can last up to five days in a woman's body. All of a woman's eggs are made before birth, so they're finite, whereas a man starts producing sperm from puberty until he joins the choir invisible.

Men produce more and better quality sperm and orgasm more quickly when with someone new. They also produce more if their girlfriend/wife has been away for more than a couple of days. The theory being that she may have had a quickie with someone else so the primary bloke has to up his game. The latter has been suggested in folks with fertility issues. Rather than go at it like rabbits, dial back the nookie and separate for a week and then have a go again. Better quality and more swimmers. Women have more orgasms with lovers than their current longterm partners. It was thought that this increased the likelihood of conception, but that's up in the air as far as proof goes.

The female orgasm itself has been a subject for many a debate. Usually by men. A fair few considered it a pale imitation, a vestigial thing of the male version. Mainly because it's clearly not required for conception and being men they never had one... Scientist Stephen Jay Gould espoused this theory(though TBH I never rated the guy too highly).

Pregnancy and childbirth before the modern age was an extremely hazardous process for women. Depending on a mother's status the chances of death were 2-5% per birth. Given the average woman was around 15 at marriage** she could have at least 8 or 10 pregnancies in her life, with each one shortening the odds of her survival. High born women(more like girls in our point of view) with stuff to leave behind wrote their first last will and testament upon learning they were up the duff. High born women often had more kids and were at greater risk than poorer women, as they usually employed wet nurses and didn't breastfeed themselves. Breastfeeding dampens down fertility, so poorer women were usually better off in that sense. Plus the pressure on richer women was higher as they were required to produce more heirs. And since childhood mortality was scarily high(a quarter of newborns didn't make it to ten), they were baby factories.

Set against all that, it makes good sense that sex, that most dangerous to women of acts, would be strongly desired and pleasurable.

*in diameter. Some neurones like those found in the spine are long. like near a metre IIRC(3 feet in old money).

** take Ancient Rome as an example for which we have fairly good records, girls were married off at around 15, sometimes younger. On average men married in their twenties. But divorced men of greater ages, particularly wealthier men, would tend to keep picking younger women of that kinda age. Cicero, a "renaissance man" of Rome married in his late twenties a woman of 17. When he divorced her a few decades on, he married a "woman" of about 16, when he was nearing 60.

New Home

Are you sure you wouldn't prefer a cigarette, Candie? :pac:

[Deleted User]

I need a cup of tea and a lie-down after reading that.

Fourier

Wibbs wrote: »

You Sir, win the internet.

I'll stop now as you could really go on about this, the Sumerians and Akkadians had so much sexual material in their religion. I'll finish off (:pac:) with two facts. That one text to Innana lists "Cock-kissing" as a sign of civilization in a culture. Also one of the songs to Inanna that a Gala sung had a verse for the best places to ejaculate on a woman. Hymn H in the Uruk collection to Inanna, [...] is a damaged tablet portion:

‘"[…] on your navel. My sweet illustrious sister, […] On your back […] My
illustrious sister, […] hand. In your vagina […] the gardens. Nanaya, […]. In your
anus […] the fields. My illustrious sister, […] the acres. Come to me, my sister,
[…]"’

dxhound2005

Candie wrote: »

Testicles have their own arteries and veins of different lengths because one testicle hangs lower than the other. In 65% of men, it's the left testicle. It's thought that since each teste has it's own independent temp control system that the differing lengths prevent them from overheating each other which is known to be bad for sperm production and motility.

Women don't have symmetrical breasts, and again it's the left one that's bigger in 65% of women, but the reasons for this are aren't so clear and it's likely just the lack of perfect symmetry that we see from each side of all our bodies to some degree.

Symmetry and attractiveness are strongly correlated but if your boys really do hang low or the twins are more like cousins, don't worry too much unless your face looks like it belongs to two people, because that's the area that counts most.

Who measures these things (and bits)?

[Deleted User]

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Everyone has checked themselves just after reading that ^^^

Teste testing!

Ipso

Candie wrote: »

Testicles have their own arteries and veins of different lengths because one testicle hangs lower than the other. In 65% of men, it's the left testicle. It's thought that since each teste has it's own independent temp control system that the differing lengths prevent them from overheating each other which is known to be bad for sperm production and motility.

Women don't have symmetrical breasts, and again it's the left one that's bigger in 65% of women, but the reasons for this are aren't so clear and it's likely just the lack of perfect symmetry that we see from each side of all our bodies to some degree.

Symmetry and attractiveness are strongly correlated but if your boys really do hang low or the twins are more like cousins, don't worry too much unless your face looks like it belongs to two people, because that's the area that counts most.

Thanks, it's good to keep abreast of these things.

Ted_YNWA

Everyone has checked themselves just after reading that ^^^

[Deleted User]

Testicles have their own arteries and veins of different lengths because one testicle hangs lower than the other. In 65% of men, it's the left testicle. It's thought that since each teste has it's own independent temp control system that the differing lengths prevent them from overheating each other which is known to be bad for sperm production and motility.

Women don't have symmetrical breasts, and again it's the left one that's bigger in 65% of women, but the reasons for this are aren't so clear and it's likely just the lack of perfect symmetry that we see from each side of all our bodies to some degree.

Symmetry and attractiveness are strongly correlated but if your boys really do hang low or the twins are more like cousins, don't worry too much unless your face looks like it belongs to two people, because that's the area that counts most.

Lady Haywire

mzungu wrote: »

Back to the matter at hand....

Pretty much all cats with three colours (excluding grey) are female. They are part of a group known as Calico that gets its colours from chromosomes. Their base colour is usually white.

And most gingers cats are usually male!

New Home

bonzodog2 wrote: »

He's just in the wrong thread, you should see some of his other jokes! :eek:

I have....

bonzodog2

New Home wrote: »

Someone, please stop Capt'n. He's getting worse!!!

He's just in the wrong thread, you should see some of his other jokes! :eek: