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It's next to the Schafbergspitze Hotel, on top of the Schafberg mountain in Austria.
You can get a steam train up the mountain, though the incline is so steep (up to 1 in 4) that the engine has to be tilted in order to keep its water level.
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from https://www.gordonbennettclassic.ie/history/
“A visitor stopped to ask directions to Kilcullen, the farmer replied ten miles Sir but in one of those yolks it should be less,"
“I could fill a book with experiences we had from practising over the course prior to the race. One thing we discovered was that the roads in Ireland were used as farm yards for the breeding of chickens and other birds and beasts. Whenever we killed a chicken we made a point of finding the owner and compensating him for his loss. A price was paid and the owner kept the carcase. But the number of chickens killed rose daily which led him to suspect that he paid more than once for the same chicken.”0 -
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This is a pressure model for a Adélie penguin's stomach.
And they need to build up a little more than 10 to 60 kilopascals.
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No, because it's proper science*. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.00926v1.pdf^^ That'd perfectly fit in WTF thread as well.
the tl;dr version you should keep at least 1.34 meters away from a penguin trying to poop.
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No, not something you eat or someone that preaches about Jesus but the type of nut you screw onto things. The Jesus Nut is the name for the retaining nut that holds the rotor onto the rotor mast of helicopters. It's so called because if it detaches then you're in Jesus's hands.
It's also used in engineering jargon to refer to a single point of failure which can have catastrophic effects.
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No, not something you eat or someone that preaches about Jesus but the type of nut you screw onto things. The Jesus Nut is the name for the retaining nut that holds the rotor onto the rotor mast of helicopters. It's so called because if it detaches then you're in Jesus's hands.
It's also used in engineering jargon to refer to a single point of failure which can have catastrophic effects.
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The very most venomous spider in the world (Guinness book of records) is the one that sometimes shows up in packets of bannanas in places such as W.Europe.
Brazilian wandering spiders (also ocalled armed spiders or banana spiders) genus Phoneutria (which means "murderess" in Greek) is known for building webbed nests on bananas.
Luckily a powerful anti-venom prevents deaths in most cases. Without that you're brown bread in 2hrs.
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"deadly boner spiders"Also closed casket may not be an option: https://mashable.com/2015/03/12/banana-spider-erection-death/?europe=true
:D:D 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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This is from The Onion
This isn't
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0096. Here, I estimate the theoretical maximal active consumption rate (ACR) in humans, using 39 years of historical data from the annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Through nonlinear modelling and generalized extreme value analysis, I show that humans are theoretically capable of achieving an ACR of approximately 832 g min−1 fresh matter over 10 min duration0 -
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The humble Jerrycan has been with us since the late 1930’s and came about as a pre WW2 German government proposal to provide a 20 litre fuel container for the military. Hence the name as “Jerry” was a shorthand usually pejorative name for Germans among the allies. A company by the name of Muller in Schwelm Germany came up with the winning design in 1937.
Allied fuel cans were pretty dire. The British ones got the nickname “flimsies”. Made of thin tin plate, with lots of seams and leaked like a teabag. This caused some serious logistical issues with fuel losses as up to 20% of fuel was being lost in this way(the Brits found a better use for them when empty as makeshift tea stoves). The German design on the other hand…
The text reads "Fuel 20 litres, flammable" with the year of production below and the factory logo below that. Most also had Wehrmacht stamped below that again and a production run number.
This design had some very cleaver features. At the top you find three handles as the government placed a requirement that a man should be able to carry two full cans or four empty cans. It also meant that men could carry cans in tandem and made it easier to pass cans along a line of men. Built to be stackable and easily strapped to vehicles.
The main can itself was made from two stampings of decent gauge steel with a single welded seam that was recessed to protect it. The X on both sides allowed for expansion and contraction in different temperatures. The inside and outside were coated with a fuel and corrosion resistant plastic taken from of all things the German beer barrel industry.
The captive cap featured a built in spout and a cap that required no tools to open and close and when open the cap slides back so it stays out of the way while pouring. They were also lockable with a wire or pin. Inside the spout there is a tube, which takes air from the raised rear hump so the fuel(or water) pours smoothly without glugging. This air pocket also allows the can to float when full off setting the weight of the can itself.
A couple of non Germans who saw one before the war recognised its importance and tried to interest allied governments, oddly to little initial interest. This changed soon enough as allied troops saw them and started using the captured “Jerry’s” cans and the British were the first to copy it and quite sensibly made millimetre perfect copies. The Americans for some reason didn’t and decided to reinvent the wheel and went their own pretty crappy way, only retaining the three handles and overall size and general shape of the German design. The US cans had crimped seams and more of them and a flat bottom so were much more prone to leakage and corrosion(some were galvanised to offset this and still leaked). The US lid was different too and required tools to open and close it and a separate funnel to pour. Not ideal.
These simple cans became vital to the war effort. First for the Germans and then for the allies. In 1944 after the allied invasion of Europe a lack of them had actually held up moving forward as though they had enough fuel at the rear they were running out of cans to get it to the front. In France the allied forces even enlisted the help of the locals and children to collect discarded cans from ditches and fields giving out prizes of chocolate and the like. In one month they had collected nearly one million of the things and had field stations that would repair and refurbish any damaged ones.
Mine was made in 1943 by the company in Schwelm that came up with the design. It’s an example of one that was collected and refurbished by the allies, panzer grey* originally, repaired seam and overpainted with green. Still fuel tight and in use to this day(the inner lining still looks brand new). When I got it it had been painted red at some time down the years. Hit it with paint stripper and that came off no bother, the underlying paint wasn’t even touched by the modern safer paint stripper.
So there you go, the humble jerrycan and a masterpiece of industrial design.
*German cans came generally came in either panzer grey or sand colour for desert troops. I’ve seen the occasional one in red. The water/wasser cans also had a painted white cross to avoid any confusion. There were also tags that could be attached to the handles to denote type of fuel. Red with an embossed circle(so you could feel it in the dark) for petrol, black with an embossed D for diesel. Sometimes they have stencilled painted "Heer" for army, or 20l.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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Yeah. All it needed was a new rubber seal in the cap and the new ones fit it so... I've seen examples that were dragged out of ditches in France with only surface rust, a bit of a rub down, a new paint job and back in service. Mad.
Like many things since the interwebs they've become "collectables" and some can be mad money. The ones with SS stamped on them go for many hundreds of quid, for those lounge room nazis that are into that sorta thing. They're even faked which tells you enough about the market.
The company that originally made the SS cans is a Czech company still going today(Sandrik) and in the 90's they did a run of the SS ones using the original presses which sold like hot cakes. Ironically and weirdly the Israeli Defence Forces of all people buy their metal jerrycans from the same Czech company.
Nazi example:
Israeli example:
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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The humble Jerrycan has been with us since the late 1930’s and came about as a pre WW2 German government proposal to provide a 20 litre fuel container for the military. Hence the name as “Jerry” was a shorthand usually pejorative name for Germans among the allies. A company by the name of Muller in Schwelm Germany came up with the winning design in 1937.
Allied fuel cans were pretty dire. The British ones got the nickname “flimsies”. Made of thin tin plate, with lots of seams and leaked like a teabag. This caused some serious logistical issues with fuel losses as up to 20% of fuel was being lost in this way(the Brits found a better use for them when empty as makeshift tea stoves). The German design on the other hand…
The text reads "Fuel 20 litres, flammable" with the year of production below and the factory logo below that. Most also had Wehrmacht stamped below that again and a production run number.
This design had some very cleaver features. At the top you find three handles as the government placed a requirement that a man should be able to carry two full cans or four empty cans. It also meant that men could carry cans in tandem and made it easier to pass cans along a line of men. Built to be stackable and easily strapped to vehicles.
The main can itself was made from two stampings of decent gauge steel with a single welded seam that was recessed to protect it. The X on both sides allowed for expansion and contraction in different temperatures. The inside and outside were coated with a fuel and corrosion resistant plastic taken from of all things the German beer barrel industry.
The captive cap featured a built in spout and a cap that required no tools to open and close and when open the cap slides back so it stays out of the way while pouring. They were also lockable with a wire or pin. Inside the spout there is a tube, which takes air from the raised rear hump so the fuel(or water) pours smoothly without glugging. This air pocket also allows the can to float when full off setting the weight of the can itself.
A couple of non Germans who saw one before the war recognised its importance and tried to interest allied governments, oddly to little initial interest. This changed soon enough as allied troops saw them and started using the captured “Jerry’s” cans and the British were the first to copy it and quite sensibly made millimetre perfect copies. The Americans for some reason didn’t and decided to reinvent the wheel and went their own pretty crappy way, only retaining the three handles and overall size and general shape of the German design. The US cans had crimped seams and more of them and a flat bottom so were much more prone to leakage and corrosion(some were galvanised to offset this and still leaked). The US lid was different too and required tools to open and close it and a separate funnel to pour. Not ideal.
These simple cans became vital to the war effort. First for the Germans and then for the allies. In 1944 after the allied invasion of Europe a lack of them had actually held up moving forward as though they had enough fuel at the rear they were running out of cans to get it to the front. In France the allied forces even enlisted the help of the locals and children to collect discarded cans from ditches and fields giving out prizes of chocolate and the like. In one month they had collected nearly one million of the things and had field stations that would repair and refurbish any damaged ones.
Mine was made in 1943 by the company in Schwelm that came up with the design. It’s an example of one that was collected and refurbished by the allies, panzer grey* originally, repaired seam and overpainted with green. Still fuel tight and in use to this day(the inner lining still looks brand new). When I got it it had been painted red at some time down the years. Hit it with paint stripper and that came off no bother, the underlying paint wasn’t even touched by the modern safer paint stripper.
So there you go, the humble jerrycan and a masterpiece of industrial design.
*German cans came generally came in either panzer grey or sand colour for desert troops. I’ve seen the occasional one in red. The water/wasser cans also had a painted white cross to avoid any confusion. There were also tags that could be attached to the handles to denote type of fuel. Red with an embossed circle(so you could feel it in the dark) for petrol, black with an embossed D for diesel. Sometimes they have stencilled painted "Heer" for army, or 20l.
You don't happen to have any Allied paraphernalia do you?
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Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »You don't happen to have any Allied paraphernalia do you?
Wibbs: oh no that kind of thing wouldn't interest me at all actually I do. I've a US can knocking about the place. Just in this case the Jerry one is by far the best and the original of the species. 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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Feck off!And here is Wibbs' audio book with bonus pics:D Mad that the allies alone manufactured 20 million of the things, and god knows who many the Germans made, they had 12 or 15 factories cranking them out. I do recall reading of some chap high up in the US military saying that the jerrycan was one of the most important military items they had and would have been in real trouble without them. Irony all over the place that a German invention would be one of the things that would ultimately lead to Germany losing.
What has long fascinated me is German industry and inventiveness during the war. A) they kept the industries going even at the hight of the allied bombing, in fact production of some things went up(largely because of Albert Speer. Opportunistic slither of a nazi when it suited, bland derivative architect, but incredible at organising production).
some of the crazy stuff they came up with was years, even decades ahead of the time. I mean just look at this thing:
That's a Horten flying wing in 1943. Being towed by a 30's truck, with 30's propeller planes in the background. It looks like something from a science fiction film and not real. Like a 90's stealth plane had fallen through a time warp. And they got it to fly without computers and developed a pressure suit and ejection seat for the pilot and it was mostly made with wood because of shortages of materials.
The more you read the background the more you see that in the little death and personality cult around Hitler he kept everybody guessing so all the manufacturers eager to please him and get lucrative contracts were more free and pressured into coming up with really out of the box thinking. This also caused major problems because he might OK a project but then insist on sticking his oar in and they'd have to go along with it. EG the ME 262, the first operational jet fighter. Well he insisted it had to carry bombs which added weight and lead time and delayed it for many months. A good thing for the world because if they hadn't been delayed and had entered service in any numbers the allied bombers and fighters would have been in real trouble.
They even came up with the first assault rifle, though in that case the head of the company didn't want to show it to Hitler thinking he'd think it a bit out there. Someone lower down did show him and he loved it, but again there was a year or more delay in getting it made in any numbers. If they had big numbers of assault rifles capable of laying down withering fire and at some distance in the hands of their army at D-day instead of mostly bolt action rifles with the odd sub machine gun, again the Allies would have been in real trouble.
Mad postscript to the above rifle. A hoard of them was found a few years ago in Syria of all places and pressed into service by various groups.
See what I mean? It looks like a modern assault rifle. 70 years old.
Speaking of nazis... sorry "naturalised and loyal true blue American citizens"(don't mention the war and the slave labour under Werner Von Braun...) who did mad engineering and were very important in getting the US to the moon(fair play to the Soviets who mostly did it on their own).
Well not really. They planned the missions so that they would always be in sunlight for the duration. The same lunar rover was almost an afterthought and was resisted by some in NASA. The final design which had to be folded up and stuffed into a port on the side of the lander descent stage and had to be able to be unfolded by two guys in pressure suits was a kind of private project of a couple of NASA engineers who made a little model of it and its folding tech and showed it to Von Braun who OK'd it.Capt'n Midnight wrote: »The Apollo 17 Lunar Rover had a top speed of 11.2 miles per hour 18.0 km/h and had a fender repaired with duct tape. So you could keep in sunlight.
As long as the batteries lasted.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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