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There is a Killarney in Zimbabwe and a Navan on the Moon.
Navan is a crater on Mars, not on the Moon.
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Greybottle wrote: »Navan is a crater on Mars, not on the Moon.
Wherever it is, it's out of this world.0 -
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In Switzerland, it's illegal to own only one guinea pig. The reason is that they are sociable rodents and isolation is extremely bad for them. Hence this animal welfare law aims to stop that from happening.
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Greybottle wrote: »Up until the end of the 18th Century, St Stephens Green was the most popular place in Dublin for public executions, from 1780 to 1795 alone, 244 people were executed here. They usually came down from the prison near Thomas St, past St Patricks Cathedral and down Kevin St.
It was a huge attraction at the time, well before the time of organised sports.
Here's an extract from a 1773 burning:
I'm guessing that faggöt was the word that got swear-filtered.
Not your ornery onager
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Up to the early 1980s the northern Indian town of Gehlaur was cut off from the nearest major settlement by a mountain. In order to collect supplies or get professional medical aid the villagers had to make a highly treacherous 55 kilometer trek around this ridge on foot.
In 1960 Falguni Devi, while taking this path, fell and injured herself. Dasrath Manjhi, her husband, said enough was enough and decided that a safer path through this mountain ridge was needed.
Using only a hammer and chisel, purchased by selling three goats, Dasrath began to chip away at the rock formation.
Alone, after initially being mocked as a fool, he managed to excavate almost 8000 cubic meters of rock by himself using only handheld tools. That's 270,000 cubic feet.
In 1982, 22 years later, he completed what is known as the Dashrath Manjhi Breakthrough. A path 110 meters long, 9 meters wide and 8 meters deep cut through the rock solid ridge.
Alone and using only hammers and chisels.
Instead of the original 55 kilometer dangerous journey, the inhabitants of Gehlaur now had a much safer 15 kilometer journey.
Here is a satellite image of his work
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Duckworth_Luas wrote: »Up to the early 1980s the northern Indian town of Gehlaur was cut off from the nearest major settlement by a mountain. In order to collect supplies or get professional medical aid the villagers had to make a highly treacherous 55 kilometer trek around this ridge on foot.
In 1960 Falguni Devi, while taking this path, fell and injured herself. Dasrath Manjhi, her husband, said enough was enough and decided that a safer path through this mountain ridge was needed.
Using only a hammer and chisel, purchased by selling three goats, Dasrath began to chip away at the rock formation.
Alone, after initially being mocked as a fool, he managed to excavate almost 8000 cubic meters of rock by himself using only handheld tools. That's 270,000 cubic feet.
In 1982, 22 years later, he completed what is known as the Dashrath Manjhi Breakthrough. A path 110 meters long, 9 meters wide and 8 meters deep cut through the rock solid ridge.
Alone and using only hammers and chisels.
Instead of the original 55 kilometer dangerous journey, the inhabitants of Gehlaur now had a much safer 15 kilometer journey.
Here is a satellite image of his work
Google Streetview
I just have the one observation. The road, isn't that far down from the peak of the ridges there on both sides. Why couldn't they just walk over the top? Build a few steps up each side if it was slippy. There must have been a simpler way0 -
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Duckworth_Luas wrote: »Up to the early 1980s the northern Indian town of Gehlaur was cut off from the nearest major settlement by a mountain. In order to collect supplies or get professional medical aid the villagers had to make a highly treacherous 55 kilometer trek around this ridge on foot.
Here is a satellite image of his work
Google Streetview
Google maps tells me I can walk from here to there in 78 days and 15 hours.
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A double rainbow occurs when sunlight is reflected twice inside a raindrop. If you look closely, you can see that the colors of the secondary rainbow appear in reverse order.
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Ah no.Buford T. Justice V wrote: »Alan Bean, the 4th man to walk on the moon, died yesterday in Texas aged 86.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=52625
A very cool guy on so many levels. For my money the Apollo 12 guys were the best of the teams. They were actually good friends, before and after. They also had a major close call when the Saturn V rocket was hit by lightning just after lift off. Twice. This blew a few circuit breakers and had the instruments go crazy. The control panel lit up like a Christmas tree. Facing a possible "major failure of the vehicle"(IE kaboom!) mission control looked for a solution. One young engineer had seen similar in a simulation and the fix was "Set SCE to AUX", which means set Signal Conditioning Equipment (translated the various voltages to the different instruments) which had its main bus power supply compromised by the strikes to an auxiliary and clean unaffected power supply. Of the three men in that command module only Alan remembered what that was and flicked the switch. This saved the mission and they rode the rocket all the way to orbit and then the Moon.
Here's the entire launch to orbit audio with the "what the hell was that". When they get it figured out they start giggling and joke about how they need more all weather testing. Dunno how they fitted their man parts into those suits.
As an aside: The launch director at the cape for Apollo 12 was one Mr Walt "Kappy" Kapyran on his first time in that chair. He was involved in setting up procedures in case of future lightning strikes and became known affectionately as Captain Lightning. In my collection of mad stuff I actually have a copy of his personal verification tests manual for Apollo 15.
Some might be shocked how little I paid for that. Like a round of drinks for six people number. Mad.
Here's the actual audio and video of the approach and landing on the Moon.
They sound like two guys loving every second of it. Though oddly Alan keeps referring to his commander and mate Pete Conrad as "babe".
Pete loses the cool with excitement when they see the computers have them perfectly on track.
While setting up the video camera on the Moon, something went wrong with it(Alan gave a clatter of a hammer as a last ditch attempt to fix it, as one did with telly stuff back in the day. Vertical hold and all that). So no video from the Apollo 12 mission. Alan felt really bad about that and after he left NASA he got into painting as his job, trying to give an impression of what he saw in his time on the Moon for the rest of us. He sometimes added bits of moon dust from his gloves and boots that he was allowed keep.
RIP Alan Bean. Pilot, engineer, astronaut, artist and good egg.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.
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