I bet you didnt know that

StupidLikeAFox · 15-01-2017 1:49pm

Wibbs wrote: »

SOS didn't mean "Save Our Souls" as it originated with the German navy and apparently came about because it's the easiest/most clear signal when using morse code.

You reminded me of another one.

Remember the old Nokia message tone?

De de de, deeeee deeeee, de de de

That is morse code for SMS

BrianG23 · 15-01-2017 1:50pm

The sun is estimated to last another 4 billion years.
The andromeda galaxy is coming straight at the milky way galaxy. They will collide before the sun dies.
Our Sun orbits around the galatic core, just as earth orbits the sun...the structure of the galaxy is centered around a black hole

Cortina_MK_IV · 15-01-2017 1:53pm

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

You reminded me of another one.

Remember the old Nokia message tone?

De de de, deeeee deeeee, de de de
That is morse code for SMS

Are you thinking of this...?

Cartouche · 15-01-2017 1:53pm

At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL

StupidLikeAFox · 15-01-2017 1:57pm

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

Are you thinking of this...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2GDbEmjGE

It's this bad boy:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-01-2017 1:57pm

Cartouche wrote: »

At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL

At what point? 9.43am to 9.45am on February 16th?

Actually, when they launched AOL 4.0 in 1998, AOL used ALL of the world-wide CD production for several weeks. No music CDs were manufactured during that period.

Cartouche · 15-01-2017 2:10pm

12+1 = 11+2, and "twelve plus one" is an anagram of "eleven plus two."

bnt · 15-01-2017 3:08pm

If you want to hear Morse Code used creatively, have a listen to this instrumental song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpfp-J_I

It's called YYZ, after the airport code for Toronto, where the band Rush are from. One of them is a private pilot, and he heard the airport beacon on the radio blasting out -.-- -.-- --.. over and over again, and thought "hmmm" ... :cool:

Buford T. Justice XIX · 15-01-2017 3:23pm

A small group of Canadian Paratroopers stopped the Soviet advance into Northern Germany during WWII and stopped a potential Soviet takeover of Denmark.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/canadian-paratroopers-saved-denmark-soviet-occupation.html/2

Cartouche · 15-01-2017 3:29pm

During World War One, letters were the only real form of communication from the soldiers at the front to home
12 million letters were delivered to the front every week
Astonishingly, it only took two days for a letter from Britain to reach the front in France. The journey began at a purpose-built sorting depot in Regent's Park before being shipped to the trenches. By the end of the war, two billion letters and 114 million parcels had had been delivered

Cortina_MK_IV · 15-01-2017 3:37pm

Cartouche wrote: »

During World War One, letters were the only real form of communication from the soldiers at the front to home
12 million letters were delivered to the front every week
Astonishingly, it only took two days for a letter from Britain to reach the front in France. The journey began at a purpose-built sorting depot in Regent's Park before being shipped to the trenches. By the end of the war, two billion letters and 114 million parcels had had been delivered

Impressive... I posted a card from Castlebellingham, Co. Louth in September 2015 to Dublin and it still hasn't arrived.

Spanish Eyes · 15-01-2017 3:49pm

Cartouche wrote: »

During World War One, letters were the only real form of communication from the soldiers at the front to home
12 million letters were delivered to the front every week
Astonishingly, it only took two days for a letter from Britain to reach the front in France. The journey began at a purpose-built sorting depot in Regent's Park before being shipped to the trenches. By the end of the war, two billion letters and 114 million parcels had had been delivered

Ah the old days were the best. This technology age is rubbish.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-01-2017 3:54pm

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't!

and those who use ternary.

Senna · 15-01-2017 3:55pm

prinzeugen wrote: »

Why is this a good idea? Hotmail/Outlook are at this crap as well. The postman does not open and read my mail or make a decision about "what's important" before he sticks it through the letterbox so why the flying feck should google or hotmail??

OK I'll explain as you obviously don't understand, it's nothing to do with importance. It basically like a mail rule but instead of filtering by who send it, it's filtered by who are they sending it to, you can control that part by what addresses you use and where. that is very helpful to a lot of people, how anyone calls extra functionality that is at the user's discretion crap, is beyond me.

ToddyDoody · 15-01-2017 4:07pm

30 is the new 20.

Cartouche · 15-01-2017 4:08pm

Your body sees alcohol as a poison, or at least as something it doesn't actually want inside it. To fight back, and sober you up, humans produce an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase.

That enzyme gets its shot at your alcohol when it attempts to pass through the stomach lining, and when it reaches your liver, primarily. On contact, it snatches a hydrogen atom off the ethanol molecules in your drink, rendering it into non-intoxicating acetaldehyde. Humans can then use aldehyde dehydrogenase as a kind of clean-up crew, breaking down the acetaldehyde that's sometimes considered a cause of hangovers, along with dehydration.

harry Bailey esq · 15-01-2017 4:18pm

RobertKK wrote: »

While around 10% of Irish people have red hair (ginger) 46% of Irish people carry the red hair genes.
If both parents carry red hair genes, their offspring have a 25% of having red hair.

Is there any kind of scientific for checking potential suitors for prevalence of the gene?

BrianG23 · 15-01-2017 4:21pm

I'm stuck with that gene, "ginger'. You can see the ginger beard in alot of irish, brown hair/blond hair and a gingey beard. I just have gingerish hair.

Dr Turk Turkelton · 15-01-2017 4:34pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Is there any kind of scientific for checking potential suitors for prevalence of the gene?

Have a look to see do the carpets match the curtains?

Winterlong · 15-01-2017 4:36pm

Lego make more tyres than any other manufacturer. At 380 million tyres per year they make twice as many as the 2nd biggest manufacturer (Bridgestone)

Cartouche · 15-01-2017 5:59pm

Before he was a famous director, Quentin Tarantino once played an Elvis impersonator on The Golden Girls

Satriale · 15-01-2017 6:08pm

You can eat Japanese Knotweed when the shoots are young. It's a bit like chicken rhubarb.

Satriale · 15-01-2017 6:10pm

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Have a look to see do the carpets match the curtains?

What if its wall to wall lino?

GritBiscuit · 15-01-2017 6:49pm

Most people have never heard of Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - let alone realise that he's the only person to have their ashes scattered on a celestial body other than the earth.

Shoemaker was pivotal in pioneering the field of astrogeology by founding the Astrogeology Research Program of the United States Geological Survey in 1961 at Flagstaff, Arizona. Among other things Shoemaker helped train American astronauts, was prominent in the study of impact craters and discovered several asteroid families during a decade long sky-survey. He never made it to the moon in his lifetime when he was disqualified from the Apollo missions due to being diagnosed with Addison's disease.

His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.

Robineen · 15-01-2017 7:01pm

Another one related to my earlier post in the thread. Now, maybe this is common knowledge but when I was told this a few months ago, I was so surprised.

In the late 70s and early 80s, Tim Allen of 'Home Improvement' fame served time for drug trafficking after being caught with over a pound of cocaine at a US airport in 1978. He avoided possible life imprisonment by supplying the names of other dealers.

But I don't have a problem with his subsequent success or that of Gino D'Acampo, who I mentioned earlier. They paid their debt to society. They did the time and didn't reoffend. You'd have to admire them for moving on so well.

Cortina_MK_IV · 15-01-2017 7:11pm

Robineen wrote: »

<snip> But I don't have a problem with his subsequent success or that of Gino D'Acampo, who I mentioned earlier. They paid their debt to society. They did the time and didn't reoffend. You'd have to admire them for moving on so well.

He stole Paul Young's guitars. I'd admire him more if he'd got a f**kin' job and kept out of people's houses.

Robineen · 15-01-2017 7:21pm

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

He stole Paul Young's guitars. I'd admire him more if he'd got a f**kin' job and kept out of people's houses.

Obviously he was very wrong to do what he did. But my point was, he didn't get away with it. He was jailed and after that, he did get a job! And moving on after doing prison time is not easy.

Spanish Eyes · 15-01-2017 7:24pm

A Jeep (the basic version as seen in many a war movie from the past)

Means "Just Enough Essential Parts"

Squall Leonhart · 15-01-2017 7:28pm

Spanish Eyes wrote:

A Jeep (the basic version as seen in many a war movie from the past)

Means "Just Enough Essential Parts"

I thought it came from a GP (general purpose) vehicle. The jee-pee sound just got abbreviated.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-01-2017 7:30pm

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

A Jeep (the basic version as seen in many a war movie from the past)

Means "Just Enough Essential Parts"

It's a homonym of GP for General Purpose vehicles in WWII.

I bet you didnt know that

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