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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    I love this:

    List of deaths in London in 1632

    Favourites include:

    Cancer, and Wolf - 10 (Wolf apparently referred to cancer on the lower body)

    Cut of the stone - 5 (kidney/bladder stones)

    Kings Evil - 38 (or scrofula, swelling of the lymph glands curable by the touch of royalty)

    Murthered - 7 (yeah right)

    Planet - 13 (apparently stroke or heart attack)

    Rising of the lights - 98 (pneumonia/croup, lights being a common name for the lungs)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    Kil'd by several accidents - being killed by one accident is unfortunate but how much bad luck does one have to have to be killed by several accidents 😁.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    How the fcuk do u die of piles!!!!!!

    Do u bleed to death?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,530 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail




  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    My grandfather was born in 1912. I remember him telling me that he used to have a neighbour who had piles that were so bad that he'd had to get his wife to help him "put them back in" and his boots would often fill with blood from them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,520 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    'Made away themselves' - suicide?

    Not many people died of old age, wonder how 'grief' was arrived at as a cause.

    The 2 who died of lethargie just couldnt be arsed living any more.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,774 Mod ✭✭✭✭DBB




  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I don't know about romance, but my grandfather, his neighbour and his neighbour's wife (who was also granddad's neighbour, incidentally 😄), all are.



  • Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Not a great time to be alive. 40 people died of teeth.

    London was actually a population sink at the time. Deaths exceeded births until the late 19C iirc. Which means that most people in London are not descendants if the people who were there in the 16C.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,446 ✭✭✭silliussoddius




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    I assume the ones who died of odd things like piles and teeth actually died of blood infections from open wounds. Doctors back then just didn't know that's what it was.

    Other oddities listed:

    Jawfaln appears to be lockjaw

    Surfet is overeating.

    Tympany I think is just gas. Its difficult to find a meaning for that one. All the google results just say bloat/excessive gas in the stomach of a cow.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,530 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    tympany is just free air in a cavity so it could be bloating due to gas or it could be a pneumothorax i.e. collapsed lung. The large drums called Timpani get their name from it.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I'd say it's the other way around, the gas in the belly makes it sound like a drum then you tap it.




  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Corgi is a translation of the welsh for dwarf dog - Cor gi.

    In the Mabinogion, the welsh book of myths and legends, corgis were the battle steeds of fairies.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE




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


    Not a great time to be alive. 40 people died of teeth.

    That was a real issue. Before antibiotics and dentistry that didn'y involve tying a bit of string to a rotten tooth and the tying the other end to a nasty donkey a rotten tooth could quite easily kill people, certainly a mouthful of them could. Especially to urban living people who were exposed on an annual basis to a set of rolling "plagues" of every stripe weakening them. Interestingly in the earlier records of towns and villages, teeth are almost never mentioned. Throughout history people had generally much better teeth than in more recent times*. Crowding in the jaw was also very rare and wisdom teeth erupted without issue. The further back you go, the fewer the teeth problems. Stone Age man would leave a modern dentist looking for another career. Bugger all sugar and tougher food requiring more chewing saw to that. It was when cheap sugar from the colonies started to flood into Europe that "teeth" start to appear as a cause of death and with some regularity. People jumped on this new trend with vigour. Recipes of the time instruct on how to make facsimiles of common foods in moulded sugar with food colouring to complete the effect. On going for dinner in a middle class house you might be treated to a plate of bacon and eggs, only entirely made from sugar.


    *Though there were exceptions of course. Ancient Egyptians could suffer from bad teeth because of their diet. A diet that included a lot of flour, but flour ground in grindstones that sloughed off tiny grains of grit into the flour. It wore their teeth down basically, exposing the pulp and leading to pain and tooth loss. In other times it was the rich who suffered because they could afford sweeter foods and more starches. The poor had generally better gnashers. We can even see this going waaaay back. For example there was a study into the teeth of two Neandertal groups living in different environments 90 odd 1000 years ago. One ate far more grains and root veggies(full of starch), the others ate an almost exclusively meat based diet. The former grain eaters while having OK teeth, showed much more evidence of cavities, even abcesses than the latter meat eaters who hadn't a dental issue among their number.

    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.



  • Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think you’re right on that Wibbs. These days Sub Saharan teeth are always in good shape.

    Interesting fact. The average temperature of a human has dropped since the 19C. They had more fevers or illnesses which pushed the average up. M

    so that 98.6 you learned in school is now 97.9 or so. I’ve just measured myself at 97.2.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,823 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Killed by ‘teeth’ what you bit yourself to death ??? Strange times...mind you Limehouse was a strange place in the 1600’s .



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    This is a very BAD idea.

    Because windows stores the make, model and serial number of every USB the computer has ever seen in the registry. Which means it's all traceable.

    But worse because they use Red Star OS in Naughty Korea so read only media like 8cm CD or DVD might still be a problem

    All files opened are tagged with a UUID which identifies the computer files are opened on. New UUIDs are appended to already tagged files. This way each file gets a complete history of all the machines who's touched them. This is highly useful in many ways. Torturing you to make you reveal co-conspirators is not required if you are arrested for distributing imperialist propaganda; their unique computer identifiers are embedded in your files.[1]

    This is not the only benefit of having secure kernel modules outside of your control running. Red Star OS has a very advanced anti-virus scanner which will identify documents and images containing imperialist propaganda and automatically remove the files and sign you up for re-education.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,530 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Because windows stores the make, model and serial number of every USB the computer has ever seen in the registry. Which means it's all traceable.

    that just means you can look in the registry and see whatever USB devices have been plugged into the computer you are currently. the list of computers that a USB has ever been plugged into is not stored on the USB drive as far as I am aware.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Pulgasari is an odd Kaiju film that came out of North Korea. It was produced and directed by Shin Sang-ok, a South Korean director who had been kidnapped and taken into North Korea and features special effects by the Godzilla effects team at Toho. It's complicated.

    While it's a terrible film, if you only watch one North Korean man in a rubber suit monster movie today this is probably the one to choose. Note Shin and his wife escaped to the US later on.

    On one hand, Pulgasari is a cautionary tale about what happens when the people leave their fate in the hands of the monster, a capitalist by dint of his insatiable consumption of iron. But it is also tempting to read the monster as a metaphor for Kim Il-sung, hijacking the "people's revolution" to ultimately serve his purposes.




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Look what happened to Sigurd Eysteinsson. Because Máel Brigte was bucktoothed.

    Long story short Sigurd was riding home after the battle with yer man's head strapped to his saddle, which was the style at the time, and his leg got wounded and infected from the sticky out teeth.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,154 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    Teeth.

    Periodontitis / gum disease can lead to cardiovascular problems and kill the person.

    Some king or Roman leader died from it 100,s years ago.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The First recorded evidence of Tooth Decay / Caries has been seen in the Reptile named Labidosaurus hamatus or the “lipped lizard” 275 million years ago.

    One thing that sucks about being a mammal is not having continuously tooth replacement.



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    No Windows does not update the USB key. But investigators could tell if you looked at a key. And TBH I would not be at all surprised if Windows doesn't 'touch' your key.

    But like I said Red Star OS phones home and stamps each file so it's moot.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    NASA still have the plans for the Saturn V so in theory you could make a new one. But you'd use modern materials and modern techniques, welding robots and 3D printing are way cheaper than doing it by hand. And you'd use modern off the shelf electronics.

    But the big change would be to replace the F-1's with RD-170's because over 3/4 of the takeoff mass is fuel in the first stage.

    The Russian engines have 7% more thrust at sea level and more importantly 17% higher specific impulse.

    The first means you can load 211 tonnes more propellant in Stage I , just super chill it to fit in the existing tanks.

    The second means it's more fuel efficient so you can keep burning the increased fuel load for longer.

    Plugging the numbers into the rocket equation and you get something like another 717 m/s from the first stage / 2,500 kmph more / 28% more (neglecting air resistance and gravity drag etc etc)



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The fastest animal alive today is a small carnivorous dinosaur.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    A 2x2 Lego brick can take the force equal to a tower of similar bricks 3.5km tall



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    The MGM lion was Irish born in Dublin zoo.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,223 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    further to this (and replacing the F1s) - as one of the comments says, it's the difference between being able to read a recipe, and being able to cook.




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight




    Simple Exhaust Duct - The RD-170's were more efficient because they didn't waste the turbopump exhaust and ran at a much higher pressure.


    Soviet engines or modifications are used on US Atlas III , V and Atares. South Korean Naro , Chinese Long March 5,6,7 and India's GSLV , and the Ukrainian Zenit/Sea Launch. Iran and North Korea also used older models on their space rockets. Europe just uses whole Soyuz rockets , engines and all.

    Soviet Rocket Engine family tree - 94 minutes. Summary text version



    Lots of the American designs flying today date back to the Apollo era or stuff that was meant to replace Apollo.

    SpaceX make their own engines. Blue Origin are years late with their BE-4 that ULA are also relying on. Bigelow Aerospace had plans for a commercial space station but they were relying on ULA...



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The divorce rate of albatrosses has gone up. Just another sign of global warming.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    You tend to find higher mountains in the tropics because old mountains are limited to a height of 1.5Km above the snow line.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    65 years ago on Nov 30th 1951 Lyons tea shops ran the world's first commercial programs on a computer LEO that they designed and built themselves.

    The really impressive bit wasn't the technology but that they got customers requirements right something that sadly seems to be a lost art these days.



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    I think elephants have something like continuous tooth replacement.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭WildWater


    I always though that they first ran it on the 29th. LEO stood for Lyons Electronic Office. They wanted to build it years earlier but the war forced them to delay. After the war, they went to look at pioneering computing efforts in both the UK and the USA but realised that those computers, which were designed for military purposes, were unsuited to business. That’s ultimately why they decided to build it themselves.

    LEO was so successful, that that they immediately realised that the company would become completely dependent on it. Thus they set about building more enhanced version. These LEO Mark IIs were also sold to other companies and eventually they formed a separate company that lasted into the 70s.

    Capt’n you are completely on the money, re the customer requirements. The didn’t really view themselves as a computer company, more of a technology business consultancy. They were way ahead of their time. The Science Museum in London has some great exhibitions about LEO.

    BTW Lyons were also the first company in the world to have a graduate recruitment programme.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    It's something like.

    Their cheek teeth do get replaced six times, new teeth at the back of the mouth move forward to displace worn down teeth, but then it's not good news.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Sharks are the luckiest, in that department.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Until 2 billion years ago there were less mountains because the cyanobacteria were too small and so there less organic carbon in the earth's crust.

    Obvious really.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭larchielads


    Hope your all sittin down for this guys, Rod Stewart is English, born and raised in london.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Which is faster the hare or the tortoise ? Over short distances a hare can hit 80km/h.

    During the height of the space race in 1968 the Russians sent Zond 5 to the moon and back before the US Apollo 8 mission.

    The Zond 5 caused a scare in the United States when on 19 September 1968, the voices of cosmonauts Valery Bykovsky, Vitaly Sevastyanov and Pavel Popovich were transmitted from the spacecraft and intercepted by Jodrell Bank Observatory and the CIA.[35][36] The cosmonauts were apparently reading out telemetry data and computer readings, and even discussing making an attempt to land. At the height of the Cold War, there was a real concern that the Soviets might actually beat NASA to the Moon. Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan remarked that the incident had "shocked the hell out of us."[37]

    Popovich would later recall: "When we realized we would never make it to the moon, we decided to engage in a little bit of hooliganism. We asked our engineers to link the on-the-probe receiver to the transmitter with a jumper wire. Moon flight missions were then controlled from a command centre in Yevpatoria, in the Crimea. When the probe was on its path round the Moon, I was at the center. So I took the mic and said: "The flight is proceeding according to normal; we’re approaching the surface..." Seconds later my report – as if from outer space – was received on Earth, including [by] the Americans. The U.S. space advisor Frank Borman got a phone call from President Nixon [actually Johnson], who asked: "Why is Popovich reporting from the moon?" My joke caused real turmoil. In about a month's time. Frank came to the USSR, and I was instructed to meet him at the airport. Hardly had he walked out of his plane when he shook his fist at me and said: "Hey, you, space hooligan!"[38]

    Zond 5 contained the first earthlings to go round the moon. A pair of tortoises. Reentry velocity was close to 40,000km/h



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    You know things are serious when President Biden release oil from the US strategic reserve last week.

    You know things are really serious when Canada's (who controls 70% of global supply) most strategic reserve has been released by the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers 😮



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The end is nigh!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,446 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    We’ll come to a sticky end.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭lmimmfn


    ^^ "Coordinate", that's only the latitude, good debunk - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pyramid-location-speed-light/

    Ignoring idiots who comment "far right" because they don't even know what it means



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    such precession - there is no north star. Polaris has the job for now but brighter ones get the job from time to time



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