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I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

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    #1592
    mzungu
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    Sunsets on Mars are blue (see below). Fine dust makes the blue near the Sun's part of the sky much more prominent.

    On the other hand, the normal daylight makes the rusty dust colour that a lot of people associate with Mars more prominent.


    556_PIA19401_800.gif


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    #1593
    KevRossi
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

    Oh and the longest word in the English language is smiles.
    There's a mile between the first and last letters.

    Centaur is longer.

    'AU' stands for astronomical unit, the distance from the earth to the sun. It's used to measure distances in space. And 'cent' makes 100 times this. So it's about 14,959,787,070 Km.

    Give or take a bit.


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    #1594
    Evade
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    I see your centaur and raise definitely.

    A definite light year.


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    #1595
    FishOnABike
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    Surely there's no word bigger than infinity.


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    #1596
    New Home
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    ...and beyond! :D


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    #1597
    joeguevara
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    FishOnABike wrote: »
    Surely there's no word bigger than infinity.

    hippopotamus is a bigger word than infinity.


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    #1598
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    ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »
    Aside from the fact that I completely disagree with that statement, he hasn't presented that show in years. Its Sandy Toksvig

    ....who has a pretty "condescending patronising grating voice" herself, I'll never forgive her for ruining 15-to-1.

    Stephen Fry is a big fan of Ireland and Irish people, especially Mattress Mick of all people.

    Anyway, you know in "Live and Let Die" when James Bond runs across all those crocodiles like they're stepping stones?

    Turns out, that scene is real*. Apparently they were discussing how to film it and make it look realistic when the croc wrangler just said "I could probably just give it a go" and took off running. They dressed him up as Bond for the subsequent attempts, and.......well, who needs CGI?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDeUzB12ln8



    * it is unclear if the crocs were tethered in some way, though it certainly looks like it.


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    #1599
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Stephen Fry is a big fan of Ireland and Irish people, especially Mattress Mick of all people.


    You can watch the movie too. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5797094/
    Trying to save his struggling mattress business, Michael Flynn reinvents himself as the eccentric online persona 'Mattress Mick', under the guidance of his friend Paul Kelly. As business begins to grow, their friendship starts to implode.


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    #1600
    Capt'n Midnight
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    There's a nuclear power station in Limerick.


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    #1601
    Capt'n Midnight
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    FishOnABike wrote: »
    Surely there's no word bigger than infinity.
    That would be an ecumenical question.

    Literally.

    Here's the the answer in a story about an infinite hotel and an ecumenical council.


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    #1602
    mzungu
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    The term ‘footage’ comes from films being measured in feet, when being edited in the early days of film making.


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    #1603
    GrumpyMe
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    FishOnABike wrote: »
    Surely there's no word bigger than infinity.
    But inFINity has an end!


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    #1604
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    There's a nuclear power station in Limerick.

    Whereabouts?

    I'm assuming it's probably UL and a science dept?


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    #1605
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    Whereabouts?

    I'm assuming it's probably UL and a science dept?
    Nope.

    It's a full size power plant.


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    #1606
    Professor Moriarty
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Nope.

    It's a full size power plant.

    Sneaky!


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    #1607
    joujoujou
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    Limerick, Pennsylvania. Yeah. :)


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    #1608
    LostinBlanch
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    Helmut Simon, the guy who discovered Otzi the Iceman frozen in ice in the Otz valley in the Tyrolean Alps, was also found dead frozen in ice.


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    #1609
    mzungu
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    The first film with a $100 million budget was True Lies, which was made in 1994.


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    #1610
    Chancer3001
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    mzungu wrote: »
    The first film with a $100 million budget was True Lies, which was made in 1994.

    Jamie lee curtis in that movie brings back....memories...

    Schwarzenegger was a millionaire before he started acting from buying, improving and flipping properties.

    He also had a thing early on where he didnt do a movie unless they paid him double what they paid him in the previous movie. Kept that going all the way until a 20m pay cheque AFAIK


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    #1611
    joujoujou
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    In 2007, Australian Government spent 84 million dollars to devise porn filter. 16 y.o. then boy cracked it in 30 minutes after it went online.

    https://gizmodo.com/australian-84-million-porn-filter-thwarted-by-16-year-293419


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    #1612
    joeguevara
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    mzungu wrote: »
    The first film with a $100 million budget was True Lies, which was made in 1994.

    The scene with the horse in the elevator was class.

    The car salesman who pretended to be an under cover agent who eventually p1ssed himself was hilarious.

    Watched it recently. Still a good film.


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    This is actually a request for info, feel some of you smarties might know - why in windy/stormy weather as we're experiencing does the water in the bottom of the toilet rock back and forth as if blown by the wind, despite being inside?


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    #1614
    Evade
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    Batrachotox wrote: »
    This is actually a request for info, feel some of you smarties might know - why in windy/stormy weather as we're experiencing does the water in the bottom of the toilet rock back and forth as if blown by the wind, despite being inside?
    There's a vent outsiude at the top of the waste pipe and the wind blowing across it creates a bit of a vacuum affecting the water in the toilet.


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    Evade wrote: »
    There's a vent outsiude at the top of the waste pipe and the wind blowing across it creates a bit of a vacuum affecting the water in the toilet.

    Precisely what I was looking for, sound!


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    #1616
    Capt'n Midnight
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    mzungu wrote: »
    The first film with a $100 million budget was True Lies, which was made in 1994.
    The Adventures of Pluto Nash in 2002 also cost $100m to make.

    In absolute terms, this movie made the largest financial loss of any movie to date, with a budget of $100 million and a total US gross of $4.41 million (loss of $95.59 million) and a lifetime worldwide gross of $7,103,973 for a total loss of $92,896,027

    Alec Baldwin disliked the film so much that he insisted on being uncredited.

    It's one of the worst examples of Hollywood accounting out there because virtually none of that $100 ended up in the sets or un-special effects that I could see.


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    The fringes of leather jackets worn by mountain men or frontiersmen of the American old west were so that in times of extreme food scarcity they could cut off bits of leather fringe to boil and eat.
    In those days the more fringes missing from a jacket, the harsher the previous winter had likely been.


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    #1618
    blastman
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    Bong Joon ho recently came close to equalling Walt Disney's record of most Oscar wins at a single ceremony. Disney's record of 4 wins, which has stood since 1953, was nearly equalled when Bong's movie Parasite took four Oscars at the 2019 ceremony. However, the Best International Feature Film Oscar does not count towards his personal tally, as under Academy rules, countries are the nominees for this award, and the director's name does not go on the plaque at the base of the statuette after the country and film title.

    Disney's four wins came for four different films, a feat no-one has come close to emulating since.


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    #1619
    mikhail
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    blastman wrote: »
    Disney's record of 4 wins, which has stood since 1953, was nearly equalled when Bong's movie Parasite took four Oscars at the 2019 ceremony.
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    I'm a pedantic ****er when I feel like it, but that's splitting hairs.


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    #1620
    blastman
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    mikhail wrote: »

    I'm a pedantic ****er when I feel like it, but that's splitting hairs.

    It's an established rule of the Foreign Film category, though, the same thing happened last year with Roma and Alfonso Cuarón. However, Roma didn't win Best Picture, so he didn't get as close to equalling Disney's record as Bong did.


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    BaZmO*
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    Batrachotox wrote: »
    The fringes of leather jackets worn by mountain men or frontiersmen of the American old west were so that in times of extreme food scarcity they could cut off bits of leather fringe to boil and eat.
    In those days the more fringes missing from a jacket, the harsher the previous winter had likely been.

    I'm not sure that's quite accurate, especially if the leather has been tanned and treated.

    "Fringes.....originally a functional detail, to allow the garment to shed rain, and to dry faster when wet because the fringe acted as a series of wicks to disperse the water"


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