I bet you didnt know that

Capt'n Midnight · 03-02-2018 12:18pm

Riva10 wrote: »

The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days

Imagine how different the horoscope birth charts are.

Riva10 · 03-02-2018 8:35pm

. In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/29/Frank-Hayes-The-Only-Dead-Man-to-Win-a-Horse-Race/#!Bq6yf

Greybottle · 03-02-2018 8:59pm

^ The article above states that.... "This ruling makes Frank Hayes the only jockey to win a race while deceased. In fact, it is the only time in sports history when a competition was won by a dead man."

Which isn't strictly correct. Jochen Rindt won the 1970 Formula 1 championship posthumously. He was killed in practice at Monza for the Italian Grand Prix. Jacky Ickx could have won it, but he failed to win the last 3 races, so the lead that Rindt had at the time of his death was sufficient to claim the championship.

VW 1 · 03-02-2018 9:49pm

Greybottle wrote: »

^ The article above states that.... "This ruling makes Frank Hayes the only jockey to win a race while deceased. In fact, it is the only time in sports history when a competition was won by a dead man."

Which isn't strictly correct. Jochen Rindt won the 1970 Formula 1 championship posthumously. He was killed in practice at Monza for the Italian Grand Prix. Jacky Ickx could have won it, but he failed to win the last 3 races, so the lead that Rindt had at the time of his death was sufficient to claim the championship.

Its an interesting fact, but it doesn't make the prior one incorrect. Winning a championship as a result of compiling points from races while alive, isn't the same as winning a race while dead.

cdeb · 03-02-2018 10:26pm

It is a competition though, so the original sentence is just badly phrased

mzungu · 03-02-2018 11:33pm

Olympic gold medals are made mostly of silver. The last Olympic Games to use actual gold medals was the 1912 event held in Stockholm. Currently, gold medals are made up of 93 percent silver and six percent copper, and the remaining one percent is for the highly prized gold finish.

Capt'n Midnight · 04-02-2018 2:19pm

mzungu wrote: »

Olympic gold medals are made mostly of silver.

Nobel Prizes are gold.

Back in 1940 it was illegal to export gold from Germany. And if you were Jewish it was pretty much death penalty illegal.

So if you were in newly captured Denmark and were in possession of a pair of Nobel Prize medals with the names of the Germans who won them and were certain the invaders would pay your lab a visit shortly there'd be a problem for all concerned.

You can't bury the medals as that would be noticed and you are damn sure the Germans will take the place apart so what to do ?

You're in a lab ... so the solution is the solution.

You dissolve the gold in acid and leave it sitting in a flask for the duration.

Capt'n Midnight · 04-02-2018 8:33pm

At 6:20 on the morning of 22 September 1914 Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave was on an armoured cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.

At 6:55 on the morning of 22 September 1914 Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave was on an armoured cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.

At 7:20 on the morning of 22 September 1914 Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave was on an armoured cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.

Skylinehead · 04-02-2018 8:38pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

At 6:20 on the morning of 22 September 1914 Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave was on an armoured cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.

At 6:55 on the morning of 22 September 1914 Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave was on an armoured cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.

At 7:20 on the morning of 22 September 1914 Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave was on an armoured cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.

Dogger Bank (without looking it up, where's the fun in that)? I remember a lot of cruisers being sunk there in succession. Didn't know about him though.

Ted_YNWA · 04-02-2018 8:47pm

Was he the inspiration for Uncle Albert in Only Fools & Horses.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-02-2018 8:50pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

At 6:20 on the morning of 22 September 1914 Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave was on an armoured cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.

At 6:55 on the morning of 22 September 1914 Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave was on an armoured cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.

At 7:20 on the morning of 22 September 1914 Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave was on an armoured cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.

HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue & HMS Cressy, in that order I think.

Fourier · 04-02-2018 9:09pm

Ineedaname wrote: »

Every second the Sun fuses 700 million tonnes of hydrogen into 695 million tonnes of helium. The remaining 5 million tonnes are turned into the energy needed to prevent it collapsing under its own weight.

Just to combine my last post on Quantum Mechanics with this. The hydrogen nuclei don't actually have enough energy to fuse together. When they approach each other their electrical repulsion increases so quickly that they can't pick up enough speed to overcome it.

However if they were very close, the strong nuclear force would pull them together more than the electric repulsion could push them apart. Under classical mechanics this would be impossible as they simply can't push through the electrical barrier enough to get this close.

However, as mentioned above, since the nuclei are quantum particles they are constantly randomly jumping between locations. Very rarely they will randomly appear next to each other, close enough for the strong nuclear force to overcome electric repulsion and fuse them. This fusing then providing a flux of high energy photons that act against stellar collapse.

Although rare, it occurs enough times in a stellar core to support the star against its own weight. So even stars are held up by quantum randomness.

5 million tonnes are turned into the energy

This isn't quite what happens, I'm still thinking how best to explain the "real" sequence of events.

Ineedaname · 04-02-2018 9:17pm

Fourier wrote: »

This isn't quite what happens, I'm still thinking how best to explain the "real" sequence of events.

I'm aware. I did simplify it. The complicated version involves all sorts of hijinks that would make your head explode. I'm only a keen amateur in the end so I'm not going to pretend I fully understand it.

Fourier · 04-02-2018 9:23pm

Ineedaname wrote: »

I'm aware. I did simplify it. The complicated version involves all sorts of hijinks that would make your head explode. I'm only a keen amateur in the end so I'm not going to pretend I fully understand it.

Not more complicated I would say just more abstract (there's really only three steps to the process), really due to the fact that nothing can be turned into energy. Energy is a property of objects, not a thing itself. Just as one cannot be turned into momentum or position.

As a first approximation you could say that the hydrogen is turned into helium and a bunch of high energy photons. The pressure exerted by those photons holds up the star.

EDIT: Let this not detract from Ineedaname's contribution, technical quibbling is all this is.

evolving_doors · 04-02-2018 9:27pm

If there were aliens over 65 million light years away viewing our planet now they could see dinosaurs.

New Home · 04-02-2018 9:45pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

At 6:20 on the morning of 22 September 1914 Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave was on an armoured cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.

At 6:55 on the morning of 22 September 1914 Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave was on an armoured cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.

At 7:20 on the morning of 22 September 1914 Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave was on an armoured cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue & HMS Cressy, in that order I think.

That's the worst battleship score I've ever heard of.

evolving_doors · 05-02-2018 12:55am

Airplane! (1980) is a shot by shot remake of Zero Hour (1957)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs

evolving_doors · 05-02-2018 1:08am

There wasn't really a Tulip Bubble in the Netherlands in the 17th Century.
Just some finger wagging calvanists.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/

evolving_doors · 05-02-2018 1:29am

Anish Kapoor is the only artist who is allowed to use Vantablack (the blackest black).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI7tLclZyrE

In response to this exclusivity, another artist Stuart Semple collaborated with scientists to create what he thinks is the Pinkest Pink.
He sells it on EBay to everyone except Anish Kapoor
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PINK-bright-pink-powder-paint-50g/253267788620?epid=629480631&hash=item3af7efc34c:g:V04AAOSwZlZaEffa

mickrock · 05-02-2018 10:42am

evolving_doors wrote: »

Anish Kapoor is the only artist who is allowed to use Vantablack (the blackest black).

There's something about this that's so black, it's like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.

New Home · 05-02-2018 3:01pm

aziz · 05-02-2018 3:25pm

mickrock wrote: »

There's something about this that's so black, it's like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.

Or is it just very very very dark blue:pac:

Realt Dearg Sec · 05-02-2018 3:31pm

aziz wrote: »

Or is it just very very very dark blue:pac:

They'll shaft you every time.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 05-02-2018 3:35pm

75 years ago today, Erwin Schrodinger delivered a lecture in Dublin that had a huge influence on Watson and Cricks discovery of the shape of DNA.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0205/938410-what-is-life-lectures/

redcup342 · 05-02-2018 3:43pm

All the dogs playing Lassie were male

Professor Moriarty · 05-02-2018 3:44pm

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

75 years ago today, Erwin Schrodinger delivered a lecture that had a huge influence on Watson and Cricks discovery of the shape of DNA.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0205/938410-what-is-life-lectures/

Strangely, that article doesn't mention the fact that Schrodinger took out Irish citizenship and lived in Ireland for 15 years. He came here in 1939 as he found Ireland to be tolerant of his views and DeValera offered him a job.