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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

It's zero because the gravities and accelerations cancel out.


It's like getting paid and all your money going out in debts and bills and living expenses. You aren't getting nothing, but you have nothing at the end of the week :mad:

Effective gravity is a combination of gravity and acceleration. So the effective gravity on the ISS is very close to zero but is not zero.

Capt'n Midnight

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Effective gravity is a combination of gravity and acceleration. So the effective gravity on the ISS is very close to zero but is not zero.

technically speaking everything in the universe has gravity.

Two people inside the ISS will be attracted to each other by gravity.


But that force will be far less than the constant movement of air by fans which has to be done because the lack of gravity means there's a lot less recirculation of air otherwise.

Kat1170

Gravity is a myth ......... the earth sucks

Meleftone

Yeah!!!Down with gravity.

evolving_doors

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

It's zero because the gravities and accelerations cancel out.


It's like getting paid and all your money going out in debts and bills and living expenses. You aren't getting nothing, but you have nothing at the end of the week :mad:

That's like saying if you close yer eyes then there's effectively zero sun.

The phrase they should be using is 'simulated zero gravity'.
Sorry I just had to listen to some pop-science intelligent comedian who wrote a book say 'and do you know the way there's zero gravity in space....?'.

Fourier

Gravity isn't actually a force like the electromagnetic, strong and weak forces. This is because it doesn't "pull" on you, i.e. impart acceleration.

New Home

valoren

On December 12, 1962, Warren Buffett obtained 2,000 shares of Berkshire Hathaway through his investment partnership at a price of $7.50 per share. This failing mill would eventually become the umbrella company we know today, the shares of which are now worth $628 million.

He paid his broker Tweedy Browne & Co. $20 to execute that original trade.

If they were feeling generous and executed it free of charge, that $20 could have bought another 2.88 shares and today those shares would be worth just over $900,000 .

New Home

stimpson

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Two people inside the ISS will be attracted to each other

But ironically...

Are Am Eye wrote: »

Sex is banned aboard the International Space Station.

IvyTheTerrible

Sex and relationships are banned from the space station because of the danger of conflict in enclosed spaces!
Astronauts get psychologically assessed before being recruited but a few unbalanced people have made it through...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3506971/I-know-heart-wanted-dead-Air-Force-captain-attacked-female-astronaut-bizarre-love-triangle-speaks-struggle-return-normalcy.html

Capt'n Midnight

Fourier wrote: »

Gravity isn't actually a force like the electromagnetic, strong and weak forces. This is because it doesn't "pull" on you, i.e. impart acceleration.

Lorelli!

Appetite suppressant, Ayds candy was popular in the 70s and 80s but sales rapidly dropped in the mid 80s because the brands name was pronounced the same as AIDs and the increase in public awareness of the disease. Eventually it was withdrawn from the market.

harry Bailey esq

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Yet!

Kexit will be the new word on everybodys lips come 2019...

Capt'n Midnight

You can tell which country issued a Euro note by the first letter of serial number.
T = Ireland
J = UK


Also the UK prints Euros.

retalivity

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

You can tell which country issued a Euro note by the first letter of serial number.
T = Ireland
J = UK


Also the UK prints Euros.

I heard somewhere before that no euro notes are actually printed in Ireland - those issued by here are printed in the UK. Not sure if true or not

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

retalivity wrote: »

I heard somewhere before that no euro notes are actually printed in Ireland - those issued by here are printed in the UK. Not sure if true or not

Print code K are printed in Ireland
F (Austria) and H (UK) also print Irish Euro notes.

IvyTheTerrible

Lots of you will know the famous Robert Doisneau photo The Kiss, but maybe you don't know that the man wearing the beret in the background is an Irishman! https://www.irishtimes.com/news/passing-fame-for-the-man-in-the-beret-1.436771?mode=amp

His family didn't realise it until the nineties when his son recognized him on a poster of the photo.

dxhound2005

In American prisons, convicts have to use clear plastic radios and music players.

https://www.geek.com/news/the-one-consumer-electronics-market-sony-still-dominates-prison-1582587/

Oldtree

The Blakes of Menlough Castle, Co. Galway issued tokens to their workers that could only be spent in the estate shop. These came to be known as "Blake tokens".

The reverse of the token shows the Menlough crest and is inscribed with the somewhat ironic “Virtus Sola Nobilitat” (Virtue alone enobles). Workers had no choice but to take the tokens as payment for work and pay inflated prices for goods, making them easy to control, hardly a virtuous thing to do.

I still have a set that I picked up in my youth.

Capt'n Midnight

Yorkshire police are now using on the spot fingerprint scanners.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/police-trial-new-home-office-mobile-fingerprint-technology

New mobile fingerprinting technology will allow frontline officers across the country to use their smartphones to identify people in less than a minute – saving police time and reducing costs.

Capt'n Midnight

Oldtree wrote: »

The Blakes of Menlough Castle, Co. Galway issued tokens to their workers that could only be spent in the estate shop.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

- Merle Travis

donegaLroad

Zorro was actually an Irishman by the name of William Lamport.

Link

Duckworth_Luas

donegaLroad wrote: »

Zorro was actually an Irishman by the name of William Lamport.

Wrote a bit about him on a different thread.

Widdershins

The murders in the rue morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1841, is widely considered to be the first English language detective story, predating by a year the word ''detective''. In the story, Poe established the prototype of the detective and his sidekick investigating a mysterious crime. This became the template for subsequent detective fiction pairs such as Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson.

Realt Dearg Sec

Widdershins wrote: »

The murders in the rue morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1841, is widely considered to be the first detective story

In English. In French and German there are precursors to be found.

Oldtree

The round leaved sundew (Drosera Rotundifolia) is one of the most common of Ireland's 10 carnivorous plants. They are tiny and gorgeous and can be found in most bogs, but are very sensitive to airborne pollution. They catch up to 5 insects a month, but how that figure was arrived at I don't know, maby that's the base amount of food needed for survival.



This time-lapse of a sundew shows what happens to an insect that gets trapped in the sticky sundew and then digested.

pleas advice

the Venus Flytrap is native only to the coastal bogs of North and South Carolina in the United States, specifically within a 60-mile radius of Wilmington, North Carolina.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

The border between Donegal and Leitrim is wider than the Gaza Strip.


There's still communities in the US with a majority French speaking population (Only 5 of these areas have a population over 1,000).

Skylinehead

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

The border between Donegal and Leitrim is wider than the Gaza Strip.


There's still communities in the US with a majority French speaking population (Only 5 of these areas have a population over 1,000).

You mean Donegal and Sligo? Leitrim is the Gaza Strip