I bet you didnt know that

TomSweeney

Manny7 wrote: »

The closest US state to Africa is Maine

WOW ! had to Google Maps it , but yeah it's true!!

cdeb

New Home wrote: »

I'm wondering whether the shade the wall casts when the light is at a certain angles would make it visible - so, it wouldn't be just the wall that's visible from space, but the wall and its shadow.

No.

That would be like seeing two strands of hair very closely together from 14m away.

The theory that the Great Wall can be seen from space pre-dates the space race. I think it goes back to the nineteenth century.

Evade

New Home wrote: »

I'm wondering whether the shade the wall casts when the light is at a certain angles would make it visible - so, it wouldn't be just the wall that's visible from space, but the wall and its shadow.

I have no idea at what angle the sun has to be to cast visible shadows in China but at only 5° above the horizon the hair would still be ~1m away.

elvis83

peasant wrote: »

That's because doublejuhteeeff is much more more difficult to say than the original..whereas saying laughing out loud out loud is just daft, even more so than lol.

Reminds me of the early days of the internet where every site was spoke with the www at the start. www is 3 times less efficient to say than World Wide Web

TomSweeney

Cartouche wrote: »

A severe weather front hit Ireland in the one of the coldest winters in Irish history in 1740. The great frost wiped out an estimated 400,000 people as temperatures plummeted and the cold intensified. The cold weather led to food riots, famine and epidemic and death.

I guess that was the same time the Thames completely froze over ? and they had markets and all on it.

Grayson

TomSweeney wrote: »

I guess that was the same time the Thames completely froze over ? and they had markets and all on it.

That lasted for years. Well, every winter. It was called the little ice age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

kona

Jessie Belle wrote: »

Apollo 13 nearly crashed on take off but a second malfunction fixed the first malfunction.

Its lost its centre engine on its first stage during lift off.
They had enough power from the other 4 after this point to get into space.

What was the 2nd malfunction? (Apart from the o2 tank exploding)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Grayson wrote: »

That lasted for years. Well, every winter. It was called the little ice age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

In effect the Thames only froze, on average, one year in every ten during that period.

mikhail

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

You know what human structure you can definitely see from space? Street lights at night.

In most places, yes...

ohnonotgmail

mikhail wrote: »

In most places, yes...

The only light on in North Korea must be in Kim Jong Uns bedroom.

mikhail

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

The only light on in North Korea must be in Kim Jong Uns bedroom.

The capital city gets street lighting at least some of the time, so kind of, yeah.

Sleepy

I'm pretty sure I've seen that image "debunked" before as being captured during a planned black-out period...

Worztron

gozunda wrote: »

Innacurate and misleading.
chick macheration - to use a bad pun is often 'over egged' and especially by vegans for some strange reasons. Not all egg production use commercial poulty suppliers. A range of producers sell eggs from poultry where no maceration is involved.

Neither are all male chicks are macerated in commercial operations. Asphyxiation is the primary method in the United Kingdom, processors also use gas to kill unwanted chicks.

In Ireland there are producers who rear the male chicks for eating. Whichever method is used it would appear that maceration is now viewed as wasteful and unnecessary and has led to the development of new egg scanning techniques making maceration redundant in the near future.

gozunda, I'm not surprised to see you defending the abhorrent practice of chick culling. Most male chicks are killed soon after birth. This equates to massive numbers. If anyone is being inaccurate and misleading, it's you. Dress it up all you want - it's still a despicable way to treat animals.

mikhail

Sleepy wrote: »

I'm pretty sure I've seen that image "debunked" before as being captured during a planned black-out period...

I've seen multiple sources claim they get only a certain number of hours of electricity each day over there. I could imagine it does vary quite a bit, but it's not that misleading.

DEFTLEFTHAND

This is believed to be the only picture ever taken of Titanic (on the right) with her sister ship Olympic.

Taken at Harland & Wolf, Belfast on March 2, 1912.

castletownman

Lyndon B. Johnson is the only US President to have been sworn in by a woman on his inauguration-Federal Judge Sarah T.Hughes, who happened to be a family friend.

Included among the dignitaries at JFK's funeral a couple of days later were De Valera, Charles de Gaulle, Emperor Haile Selassie, Prince Philip, British PM Alec Douglas-Hume and future West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.

Ted_YNWA

Chancer3001 wrote:

Regarding the German new year tradition of watching that show.

It was on BBC earlier today.

Freddie Frinton is getting a German stamp in his honour in 2019.

DEFTLEFTHAND

castletownman wrote: »

Lyndon B. Johnson is the only US President to have been sworn in by a woman on his inauguration-Federal Judge Sarah T.Hughes, who happened to be a family friend.

Included among the dignitaries at JFK's funeral a couple of days later were De Valera, Charles de Gaulle, Emperor Haile Selassie, Prince Philip, British PM Alec Douglas-Hume and future West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.

He was also sworn in on a Catholic missal (owned by JFK) which was on board AF1 as opposed to a Bible.

Big Nasty

Worztron wrote: »

gozunda, I'm not surprised to see you defending the abhorrent practice of chick culling. Most male chicks are killed soon after birth. This equates to massive numbers. If anyone is being inaccurate and misleading, it's you. Dress it up all you want - it's still a despicable way to treat animals.

Why don't they just sell them or give them away?

Gloomtastic!

Big Nasty wrote: »

Why don't they just sell them or give them away?

You’re talking millions of them. Not good enough for eating seemingly and anyways, they probably wouldn’t be able to live together without killing each other.

New Home

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

You’re talking millions of them. Not good enough for eating seemingly and anyways, they probably wouldn’t be able to live together without killing each other.

How agressive they get depends on the breed, but they're waaay less likely to attack one another if they're born and raised together and have never been kept apart.

But I agree, it's brutal.

gozunda

Worztron wrote: »

gozunda, I'm not surprised to see you defending the abhorrent practice of chick culling. Most male chicks are killed soon after birth. This equates to massive numbers. If anyone is being inaccurate and misleading, it's you. Dress it up all you want - it's still a despicable way to treat animals.

Not to take it personally - defending nothing there my friend. Simply clarifying and detailing same as happens in other posts in the thread.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

gozunda

New Home wrote: »

How agressive they get depends on the breed, but they're waaay less likely to attack one another if they're born and raised together and have never been kept apart.But I agree, it's brutal.

Unfortunately in my experience sexually mature rosters will often fight each other to death - even where born and raised together and are naturally aggressive. In nature many more rosters (jungle fowl) are born than survive and reach reproductive age. As for commercial poultry the good news is that It looks like the process of selectively culling the males will be soon replaced by pre-selection resulting in female only fertilised eggs.

New Home

gozunda wrote: »

Unfortunately in my experience sexually mature rosters will often fight each other to death - even where born and raised together and are naturally aggressive. In nature many more rosters (jungle fowl) are born than survive and reach reproductive age. As for commercial poultry the good news is that It looks like the process of selectively culling the males will be soon replaced by pre-selection resulting in female only fertilised eggs.

Eh, no. I've three of them (admittedly, three are not three thousand) and only one hen, and they're the best of friends.

gozunda

New Home wrote: »

Eh, no. I've three of them (admittedly, three are not three thousand) and only one hen, and they're the best of friends.

Lol you must be up early in the morning with that amount of crowing at dawn. Btw are they fully sexually mature? If not expect ructions

New Home

I'd say they're at least three years old, at this stage, and have the spurs to prove it. They behave like the knights of the round table with Guinevere. There's a definite pecking order, but they're absolutely harmless towards each other. In fairness, they're not in a confined space, and it could be down to their breed (whatever it is), but the fact that they've always been together does make a big difference. I would not attempt this with grown roosters that don't know each other.

Edit: Actually, they were born in the spring of 2016.

gozunda

New Home wrote: »

I'd say they're at least three years old, at this stage, and have the spurs to prove it. They behave like the knights of the round table with Guinevere. There's a definite pecking order, but they're absolutely harmless towards each other. In fairness, they're not in a confined space, and it could be down to their breed (whatever it is), but the fact that they've always been together does make a big difference. I would not attempt this with grown roosters that don't know each other.

That poor hen lol - does she ever get a night off

Ken.

Mod- Ladies and gents*. Drop the chicken subject. Take it to pm if ye want to carry on.


*term used very loosely.

New Home

Sorry Putinbot.

Capt'n Midnight

cdeb wrote: »

The theory that the Great Wall can be seen from space pre-dates the space race. I think it goes back to the nineteenth century.

It's not that you can see it from space, it's that you can't possibly see all of it from the ground.