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panevthe3rd

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Transmogrifiers, ffs this is a knowledge thread not science fiction, can we get back to talking about the laser dinosaurs please?

https://youtu.be/LcmBALxDkRY

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Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Transmogrifiers, ffs this is a knowledge thread not science fiction, can we get back to talking about the laser dinosaurs please?

"It's amazing what they do with corrugated cardboard these days."

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AllForIt wrote: »

What's the difference between unlawful and illegal?

Unlawful is against the law and illegal is a sick bird.

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Black's Law Dictionary defines unlawful as "not authorized by law, illegal." Illegal is defined as "forbidden by law, unlawful." Semantically, there is a slight difference. It seems that something illegal is expressly proscribed by statute, and something unlawful is just not expressly authorized.

It had to be done Now we're all a bit wiser :pac:

I, for one, didn't know that!

The Pheasant2

Decompression doesn't kill by the change in pressure but rather the change in pressure causes the precipitation of blood borne lipids leading to the immediate blockage of blood vessels.

bonzodog2

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

Decompression doesn't kill by the change in pressure but rather the change in pressure causes the precipitation of blood borne lipids leading to the immediate blockage of blood vessels.

Does this happen quicker than nitrogen coming out of solution in the bends ?

The Pheasant2

bonzodog2 wrote: »

Does this happen quicker than nitrogen coming out of solution in the bends ?

It depends on the extent of the speed of pressure change, the scenario I described occurs in cases of explosive decompression, say a sudden change from 10 atmospheres to 1; while the bends occurs in cases of a more gradual (albeit still too quick) change in pressure.

Capt'n Midnight

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

It depends on the extent of the speed of pressure change, the scenario I described occurs in cases of explosive decompression, say a sudden change from 10 atmospheres to 1;

This sort of thing makes my blood boil :mad:

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I see what you did there.

Albert Einstein was a bit of a celebrity in his lifetime but didn't actively seek or court fame. In his will he left instructions to cremate his body after death and to scatter his ashes secretly to "discourage idolators".

Sadly, it seems his wishes were ignored. Shortly after his death the pathologist of Princeton University Hospital, a Dr. Thomas Harvey, performed an illegal autopsy, and while doing so removed Einsteins brain for research - and his eyeballs. He sought and gained permission after the act from Alberts son, Hans by convincing him that studying his fathers brain was essential research. He made a gift of his eyeballs to Einsteins eye specialist, Harvey Abrams.

His brain was never subjected to the extensive research promised, some study was done but nothing to justify ignoring his express wishes and parts of his brain were moved around with Harvey, spending years in their jar in a basement. His eyes remained with Abrams, and are now residing in a safe deposit box in New York City.

It feels like a rather undignified post script to such an extraordinary life.

Although maybe not as undignified as the fate of Napoleon Bonapartes' penis, which was illegally removed after his death and without being preserved given to a priest in Corsica, unkindly compared to a shrivelled baby eel, and amongst other indignities put on display in an exhibition in NYC. In the 1970's it was sold to an American urologist in New Jersey and resides there to this day.

IvyTheTerrific

Napoléon suffered from piles and this caused him quite a bit of discomfort in the saddle. It's speculated that he was have a bad bout during the Waterloo battle, which may have contributed to poor decisions made on his part...

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IvyTheTerrific wrote: »

Napoléon suffered from piles and this caused him quite a bit of discomfort in the saddle. It's speculated that he was have a bad bout during the Waterloo battle, which may have contributed to poor decisions made on his part...

The theory is that they caused him to be unable to sleep for a couple of days and he was sleep deprived as a result.

mzungu

IvyTheTerrific wrote: »

Napoléon suffered from piles and this caused him quite a bit of discomfort in the saddle. It's speculated that he was have a bad bout during the Waterloo battle, which may have contributed to poor decisions made on his part...

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

The theory is that they caused him to be unable to sleep for a couple of days and he was sleep deprived as a result.

I guess you could say he had a spot of.....rrhoid rage!





* Moves swiftly for the door

mzungu

Back in the early 1900s, Lobsters were considered to be the "cockroaches of the sea" and only ever eaten by the homeless, slaves and prisoners. Things changed first with industrialisation and then with WWII. As railways started to expand across the USA, transportation managers came to the realisation that if no one apart from people living on the coast knew what lobster was, it could be served to inland passengers as a rare delicacy.

It was also around this time that it was found that cooking them live tasted much better and this helped with increasing their popularity in restaurants. This increased popularity drove the price up as fishermen were not catching enough. Lobster was still a dirty word in some quarters, but certainly not in others.

By the time of the Great Depression, lobster was a luxury dish and cost as much then as it does now, but nobody had the cash for it. This resulted in the price plummeting and once again it became a cheap source of protein for the less well off. When WWII came around, lobsters were not rationed like other foods were, hence this time all social classes in America started to eat it (as did the troops). By the 1950s the "cockroach of the sea" had become a luxury dish once again, a position it still holds to this day.

BaZmO*

mzungu wrote: »

Back in the early 1900s, Lobsters were considered to be the "cockroaches of the sea" and only ever eaten by the homeless, slaves and prisoners. Things changed first with industrialisation and then with WWII. As railways started to expand across the USA, transportation managers came to the realisation that if no one apart from people living on the coast knew what lobster was, it could be served to inland passengers as a rare delicacy.

It was also around this time that it was found that cooking them live tasted much better and this helped with increasing their popularity in restaurants. This increased popularity drove the price up as fishermen were not catching enough. Lobster was still a dirty word in some quarters, but certainly not in others.

By the time of the Great Depression, lobster was a luxury dish and cost as much then as it does now, but nobody had the cash for it. This resulted in the price plummeting and once again it became a cheap source of protein for the less well off. When WWII came around, lobsters were not rationed like other foods were, hence this time all social classes in America started to eat it (as did the troops). By the 1950s the "cockroach of the sea" had become a luxury dish once again, a position it still holds to this day.

Oysters and Scallops used to be extremely cheap too. I remember watching something a few years ago and they said that the decline of the popularity of oysters was due to a series of high profile deaths in London due to food poisoning from eating oysters. This was due to high levels of pollution of the oysters habitat.

BaZmO*

I’m sure everybody heard about the recent gorse fire on Bray Head in Co Wicklow that has revealed an ÉIRE sign which dates from the Second World War.

Such signs were made up of stones and carved into the ground in coastal areas around Ireland in order to warn Allied and German airmen that they were flying over a neutral country. Apparently the signs were more common on the west coast of Ireland and were used as a navigation aid by US Bombers.

I’m actually surprised that they were less common on the east coast as I had heard that it was quite common for German Pilots to overshoot the UK with many of them crashing in the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. In fact, in Glencree in Wicklow there is a German Military Cemetery, which is 20km due west of Bray Head.

"The cemetery contains 134 graves of mainly Luftwaffe (Air Force) and Kriegsmarine (Navy) World War II personnel. Many of those interred within washed up on the country’s beaches or crashed their aircraft overhead."

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

BaZmO* wrote: »

I’m sure everybody heard about the recent gorse fire on Bray Head in Co Wicklow that has revealed an ÉIRE sign which dates from the Second World War.

Such signs were made up of stones and carved into the ground in coastal areas around Ireland in order to warn Allied and German airmen that they were flying over a neutral country. Apparently the signs were more common on the west coast of Ireland and were used as a navigation aid by US Bombers.

I’m actually surprised that they were less common on the east coast as I had heard that it was quite common for German Pilots to overshoot the UK with many of them crashing in the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. In fact, in Glencree in Wicklow there is a German Military Cemetery, which is 20km due west of Bray Head.

"The cemetery contains 134 graves of mainly Luftwaffe (Air Force) and Kriegsmarine (Navy) World War II personnel. Many of those interred within washed up on the country’s beaches or crashed their aircraft overhead."

The intention was to assist the US pilots not the Germans.

BaZmO*

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

The intention was to assist the US pilots not the Germans.

Well it was more so to assist the Americans, and to stop the Germans from bombing us.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

BaZmO* wrote: »

Well it was more so to assist the Americans, and to stop the Germans from bombing us.

No, they were never intended to be markers of our territory and were purely an aid to the allied forces. That they were territorial markers was a fake story put out at the time, to leave the impression of our neutrality.

ohnonotgmail

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

No, they were never intended to be markers of our territory and were purely an aid to the allied forces. That they were territorial markers was a fake story put out at the time, to leave the impression of our neutrality.

Exactly. if they were just territory markers we would not have put numbers after them. The USAAF used the numbers for navigational purposes.

BaZmO*

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

No, they were never intended to be markers of our territory and were purely an aid to the allied forces. That they were territorial markers was a fake story put out at the time, to leave the impression of our neutrality.

Well the story is still being reported now. Do you have a source?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

BaZmO* wrote: »

Well the story is still being reported now. Do you have a source?

It's well documented and there have been tv programmes down the years about it too.

ohnonotgmail

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

It's well documented and there have been tv programmes down the years about it too.

unsurprisingly enough there is a webpage dedicated to them



http://eiremarkings.org/

ohnonotgmail

The word helicopter comes from Greek helix ‘spiral’ + pteron ‘wing’. Pter as in pteranodon.

Baggly

ohnonotgmail wrote:

The word helicopter comes from Greek helix ‘spiral’ + pteron ‘wing’. Pter as in pteranodon.

You learn something every day.

miamee

BaZmO* wrote: »

Oysters and Scallops used to be extremely cheap too. I remember watching something a few years ago and they said that the decline of the popularity of oysters was due to a series of high profile deaths in London due to food poisoning from eating oysters. This was due to high levels of pollution of the oysters habitat.

Very randomly, I was watching a programme last night that had a small bit about this oyster poisoning in London! :eek: The oysters came from a particular part of the coast where a sewage pipe also went into the sea. Typhoid present in the waste being dumped through the pipe was filtered through the oysters in the seawater and fed back to the humans at a particular high falutin' party after which a number of well known and well connected people died. And so ended the popularity of the oyster in London, at least for a while. Before that they were given free with a stout in some establishments due to their cheapness and ready availability.

BaZmO*

miamee wrote: »

Very randomly, I was watching a programme last night that had a small bit about this oyster poisoning in London! :eek: The oysters came from a particular part of the coast where a sewage pipe also went into the sea. Typhoid present in the waste being dumped through the pipe was filtered through the oysters in the seawater and fed back to the humans at a particular high falutin' party after which a number of well known and well connected people died. And so ended the popularity of the oyster in London, at least for a while. Before that they were given free with a stout in some establishments due to their cheapness and ready availability.

Yeah that was it. Probably the same programme. Were they in a fish shop or a bar talking about it?

cdeb

On the same note, Julio Cesar Benitez was an Uruguayan footballer who played for Barcelona in the 60s. He died in 1968 aged 27, 3 days before he was due to play I a game against Real Madrid, after eating bad seafood.

Sounds like a very Victorian way to go, but far from it

miamee

BaZmO* wrote: »

Yeah that was it. Probably the same programme. Were they in a fish shop or a bar talking about it?

I think it was a bar. The programme I saw it on was Inside the Factory on BBC2.

BaZmO*

miamee wrote: »

I think it was a bar. The programme I saw it on was Inside the Factory on BBC2.

That's the one.