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  • #2452
    New Home
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  • #2453
    New Home
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  • #2454
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    The most Northerly point of Brazil is closer to Canada then it is to its most Southerly point.


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  • #2455
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,506 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    The most Northerly point of Brazil is closer to Canada then it is to its most Southerly point.

    And Africa too, if you count Cape Verde


  • #2456
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,485 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    The most Northerly point of Brazil is closer to Canada then it is to its most Southerly point.

    It's southernmost point is also nearer to Antarctica than it is to it's northernmost point.

    It's easternmost point is nearer to mainland Africa than to it's westernmost point.

    It's easternmost point is nearer to Spain (well the Canaries), than it is to it's westernmost point.

    To give it some perspective, east to west in Brazil is about the same distance as from Dublin to Uzbekistan.

    North to south is 300 km more than Dublin to the North Pole, or about the same as Dublin to Dakar.


  • #2457
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,264 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    KevRossi wrote: »
    It's southernmost point is also nearer to Antarctica than it is to it's northernmost point.

    It's easternmost point is nearer to mainland Africa than to it's westernmost point.

    It's easternmost point is nearer to Spain (well the Canaries), than it is to it's westernmost point.
    My eyes! The goggles do nothing!


  • #2458
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,485 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    cdeb wrote: »
    My eyes! The goggles do nothing!

    Sorry. Its annoiying is'nt it.


  • #2459
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,902 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    KevRossi wrote: »
    Sorry. Its annoiying is'nt it.

    Its not to bad


  • #2460
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,379 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    I'm very annoyed. Very very annoyed. Bank holiday weekend ruined now. Thanks for that.


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  • #2461
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    Thanks for that.
    yore well come


  • #2462
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,379 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    yore well come

    Chairs.


  • #2463
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,485 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    Thanks for that.

    *Thank's


  • #2464
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    yore we'll come
    FYP.


  • #2465
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    Chairs.
    No need for a standing ovation :)


  • #2466
    New Home
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    No need for a standing ovation :)


    Bravo, Capt'n, post of the week right there. *Slow clap*


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  • #2467
    New Home
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    A park bench in Bristol was given an official postal address so doctors could register the homeless as patients.

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  • #2468
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    In 1911 The Rigby family included their cat Tom in their census form. 'Tom Cat' was listed as being an 8-year old, married Mouse-Catcher, Soloist and Thief with 16 children. His birthplace was listed as Cheshire and he was described as being 'speechless' in the infirmity section of the form. :)

    (Cat picture for illustration purposes only).
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  • #2469
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    New Home wrote: »
    In 1911 The Rigby family included their cat Tom in their census form. 'Tom Cat' was listed as being an 8-year old, married Mouse-Catcher, Soloist and Thief with 16 children. His birthplace was listed as Cheshire and he was described as being 'speechless' in the infirmity section of the form. :)

    https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=F.D.C.+Willard&btnG=

    F.D.C. Willard , the F D standards for
    Felix Domesticus,


  • #2470
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Mozart has a pet starling (bird) which could sing part of his piano concerto in G Major. He had bought it from a shop after hearing it sing a phrase from a work he wrote six weeks previously, which had not yet been performed in public.


  • #2471
    New Home
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    Something to make you lose even more of your faith in humanity: Louis Vuitton burn any excess stock at the end of each year to main exclusivity, theft and avoid discount prices.

    and

    Something to restore it: there are 23 floating-year-round boat schools in Bangladesh due to constant flooding in the country. Starting in 2002, these schools ensure year-round education in a country where heavy monsoon rains can submerge 70% of the land mass under water.


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  • #2472
    New Home
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    In 1443, King Sejong single-handedly created Hangul, the Korean alphabet, in response to the immense difficulty that common people faced learning Chinese characters. The publication date of the document revealed in 1446 detailing the new alphabet is now a national holiday in both Koreas.

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  • #2473
    New Home
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    A 1000 year old bronze buckle from East Asia was discovered in Alaska, showing that indigenous people in North America might have been interacting with the Old World earlier than previously thought.

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  • #2474
    New Home
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    Sea snakes can die of thirst and rely on rainwater to make pools on the ocean surface in order to survive.

    https://www.insidescience.org/news/where-do-sea-snakes-go-drink


  • #2475
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,085 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    New Home wrote: »
    A park bench in Bristol was given an official postal address so doctors could register the homeless as patients.

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    They could have just registered them to their surgery.


  • #2476
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    New Home wrote: »
    In 1443, King Sejong single-handedly created Hangul, the Korean alphabet, in response to the immense difficulty that common people faced learning Chinese characters. The publication date of the document revealed in 1446 detailing the new alphabet is now a national holiday in both Koreas.

    https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/69-60b0e4946e3d0__700.jpg[

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    Sequoyah was a Cherokee who could neither read nor write or speak any other language.

    But he recognised that literacy was useful. So rather than learn English he invented a new system for describing Cherokee syllables using new and borrowed letters and symbols.

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  • #2477
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    They could have just registered them to their surgery.
    It's mostly a failure on the behalf of whoever developed the software they're using not to consider edge cases. You expect that from student code, but it's pathetic in commercial software.


  • #2478
    New Home
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    I doubt it's just a system weakness, I bet there's some obscure bye-law, maybe set to prevent undocumented immigrants. If you don't have an address you can't get an ID Card or a passport, etc.


  • #2479
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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  • #2480
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    It's Mau/Mao in Chinese too. Chairman Cat doesn't sound nearly so dastardly. :D

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #2481
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Wibbs wrote: »
    It's Mau/Mao in Chinese too. Chairman Cat doesn't sound nearly so dastardly. :D

    style. Beauty. Grace. That’s what matters. If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty cruel little bastards they are.
    - Pterry


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  • #2482
    New Home
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    Frogs are beautiful and cats are misunderstood.

    . -- Somebody or other, circa 19something something.


  • #2483
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Wibbs wrote: »
    It's Mau/Mao in Chinese too. Chairman Cat doesn't sound nearly so dastardly. :D
    The mao meaning cat has a different tone to the family. It's as distinct a word to the Chinese as a different vowel sound would be to us, Wubbs.


  • #2484
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,880 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Trash metal band Anthrax once played a GAA club in Omagh. Something I thought I'd never see and put together

    https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/anthrax/1989/omagh-st-endas-gaa-county-tyrone-northern-ireland-3bdd903c.html

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kift90ikc2A


  • #2485
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    This Is A On Gate Blocking Road Access To Some Cell Towers.

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    You can open the gate by unlocking only one padlock. The way it's designed means that multiple people can use the gate, and if one person loses their keys, only their padlock needs replaced. As opposed to one padlock with many keys, you'd need to give tons of people the new key.


  • #2486
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,085 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    New Home wrote: »
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    I had to go search for this as I wanted answers as to how it worked:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/n0s3ym/this_is_a_on_gate_blocking_road_access_to_some/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


  • #2487
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,902 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Trash metal band Anthrax once played a GAA club in Omagh. Something I thought I'd never see and put together

    https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/anthrax/1989/omagh-st-endas-gaa-county-tyrone-northern-ireland-3bdd903c.html

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kift90ikc2A

    In the 90s fugazi played a gig at the friary hall in kilkenny, basically a bingo hall. It was phenomenal.


  • #2488
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    For those who like dusting


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    And there's lots of cubic light years of space between us and the neighbours.


  • #2489
    New Home
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  • #2490
    New Home
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  • #2491
    New Home
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  • #2492
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    New Home wrote: »
    Frogs are beautiful and cats are misunderstood.

    . -- Somebody or other, circa 19something something.

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  • #2493
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.


  • #2494
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,634 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Scheele's Green was developed in the 1700's and used arsenic as a main component meaning it was highly toxic. It was widely used as a paint, and dye for fabrics and papers at the time. I listened to a podcast this morning that mentioned that Charles Dickens saw the colour and loved it so much he wanted to paint his entire house in it. Fortunately, his wife hated it and refused.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele's_Green


  • #2495
    New Home
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  • #2496
    New Home
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    True, apparently.


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  • #2497
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    What is a pirates favourite letter ?

    A letter of marque and reprisal.




    A letter of marque is permission to cross over the frontier into another country's territory in order to take a ship

    A letter of reprisal authorizes taking the captured vessel to the home port of the capturer.


    With these a pirate becomes a privateer subject to the country that issued the letter(s) and technically isn't an "enemy of mankind". Even today any government that catches a pirate on the high seas can legally do pretty much anything they want to them.


  • #2498
    New Home
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  • #2499
    joujoujou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,802 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


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  • #2500
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    You can clear dust off a solar panel by trickling sand nearby.

    Or at least you can on Mars if your lander has a robotic arm with a scoop on it.


  • #2501
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    New Home wrote: »
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    This is a mechanical OR gate (with 20 inputs).


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