The Taylor-made CVPL Chat Thread!

Suckit

quickbeam wrote: »

The lamp-post in the garden?

New Home wrote: »

With the lightbulb it's been acting like a magnifying glass for the sun, burning a circle in the grass.

Kinda like a slowbeam.......... :pac:



been drinking tonight..

New Home

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

True story https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article237352754.html

"Lawyer lawyer pants on fire" would have sounded so much better as a headline!

Damien360

New Home wrote: »

Boarding a Zeppelin from the top of the Empire State Building.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/realestate/26scapes.html

Capt'n Midnight

New Home wrote: »

Boarding a Zeppelin from the top of the Empire State Building.

"Mind The Gap !"

Mellor

That's not the empire state building. The empire state is very different at the top.

Looks like sit's a rural docking mast in England.


Although there is some "truth" to it, but not much.

The lower images are fake composites from the 1930s. The owners of the empire state made up a story that the top would be used for docking airships, to explain the "mooring mast" they were going to add to the top. But the real reason they were adding the structure so that it would be taller than the Chrysler Building that was about to be the Worlds tallest building when completed (1930). Empire State was finished the follow year and took the record.

New Home

Ah for fake's sake!

Capt'n Midnight

Mellor wrote: »

But the real reason they were adding the structure so that it would be taller than the Chrysler Building that was about to be the Worlds tallest building when completed (1930). Empire State was finished the follow year and took the record.

Fun fact, the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building was the tallest building in the world for approximately 1 month. Then, the Chrysler Building unleashed a hidden spire that was contained within the building, making it the tallest building in the world.






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Capt'n Midnight

New Home wrote: »

A US gallon of water is exactly 231 cubic inches. Which is exactly three inches by seven inches by eleven inches (go figure). Presumably because prime numbers are sooo much easier to deal with.

Room temp is 68–72 °F , so call it seventy.

Water at 70 °F weighs 62.300 lbs per cubic feet and there's 1,728 cubic inches in a cubic foot and 231 cubic inches in a foot and water boils at 212 °F and even then you have to use British thermal units which sounds like cheating and is so un-American as to render further calculation impossible.

cdeb

Outside of scientific stuff, how many times has anyone actually needed to know how much energy it takes to increase the temperature of a bit of water by one degree?

I couldn't give a ****e anyway.

And scientists can use computers to do the sums for them

New Home

Obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8

New Home

cdeb wrote: »

Outside of scientific stuff, how many times has anyone actually needed to know how much energy it takes to increase the temperature of a bit of water by one degree?

I couldn't give a ****e anyway.

And scientists can use computers to do the sums for them

Ask people trying to keep their weight in check, they actually count the bloody things.

cdeb

New Home wrote: »

Ask people trying to keep their weight in check, they actually count the bloody things.

What, calories? But sure you don't need to do science for that; you just read the back of the label

New Home

What sorcery is this? Reading?!? Reading is for nerds!

Capt'n Midnight

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

A US gallon of water is exactly 231 cubic inches. Which is exactly three inches by seven inches by eleven inches (go figure). Presumably because prime numbers are sooo much easier to deal with.

Room temp is 68–72 °F , so call it seventy.

Water at 70 °F weighs 62.300 lbs per cubic feet and there's 1,728 cubic inches in a cubic foot and 231 cubic inches in a foot and water boils at 212 °F and even then you have to use British thermal units which sounds like cheating and is so un-American as to render further calculation impossible.

Americans always like to brag that they got to the moon using imperial units, while conveniently forgetting that most of the top rocket scientists used to design flying bombs to aim at Britain, they used metric and converted all the measurements to imperial for the Americans to understand.

Victor

cdeb wrote: »

Outside of scientific stuff, how many times has anyone actually needed to know how much energy it takes to increase the temperature of a bit of water by one degree?

It would be important enough to know in the food & drink industries.

Mellor

Victor wrote: »

It would be important enough to know in the food & drink industries.

What about the making a cuppa tea industry?

cdeb

Victor wrote: »

It would be important enough to know in the food & drink industries.

It would.

But that doesn't invalidate my point that (a) 99.9% of people will never need to work out how much energy it takes to heat some water by a degree and (b) those who do need to work it out can use a computer which is a machine invented to work out unusual calculations for us so we don't have to.

So the quote NewHome linked sounds fun, but the more you actually think about it, the more pointless it becomes.

New Home

If you apply that logic, lots of things are pointless for a lot of people.

cdeb

Including that post?

New Home

Depends on who's asking.

It's best to learn the art of only boiling one cup of water.

RobertFoster

Deleted User wrote: »

It's best to learn the art of only boiling one cup of water.

Is that a US customary cup (236.5 ml), US "legal" cup (240 ml), a US coffee cup (118 ml), a metric cup (250 ml), a Japanese cup (200 ml)...?

New Home

RobertFoster wrote: »

Is that a US customary cup (236.5 ml), US "legal" cup (240 ml), a US coffee cup (118 ml), a metric cup (250 ml), a Japanese cup (200 ml)...?

It depends on how thirsty you are.

Capt'n Midnight

Deleted User wrote: »

Americans always like to brag that they got to the moon using imperial units, while conveniently forgetting that most of the top rocket scientists used to design flying bombs to aim at Britain, they used metric and converted all the measurements to imperial for the Americans to understand.

The Metric Act legalized the use of the Metric System in the U.S.

The Metric Act of 1866 pdf

Capt'n Midnight

RobertFoster wrote: »

Is that a US customary cup (236.5 ml), US "legal" cup (240 ml), a US coffee cup (118 ml), a metric cup (250 ml), a Japanese cup (200 ml)...?

A proper cup is two proper gills.

RobertFoster

RobertFoster wrote: »

Is that a US customary cup (236.5 ml), US "legal" cup (240 ml), a US coffee cup (118 ml), a metric cup (250 ml), a Japanese cup (200 ml)...?

A dolanbaker mug size, plus a couple of ml to warm the mug first, never leave a drop in the kettle.

RobertFoster

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

A proper cup is two proper gills.

Thanks, another archaic unit of measurement I can offer my elderly relatives when they want to know what something is in old money.

"Oh, Mary lost a stone? I'm sure there's plenty more in the garden."

Charlie-Bravo

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

A proper cup is two proper gills.

Love this unit of measurement. Now I don't drink spirits but I love having a chat with UK folks about our pub liquor shots being larger than theirs. Ours is 1/5 of one gill (35.5ml) while in the UK it's just 25ml.

1 imperial gill = 5 imperial fluid ounces = 142ml.

Now, l enjoy a good mug of tea. But I need to use up two Nespresso capsules to have a cup of coffee that doesn't even reach half up the cup!!

**Edited to be factually corrected. Thanks fellow posters.

aaronjennings

Speaking of mugs:

Suckit wrote: »

https://i.postimg.cc/0jFcyG0R/118154507-3496647880366830-8878035553386147223-n.jpg

Why is there a picture of IT on the mug? This picture raises so many questions :pac:

Victor

astrofluff wrote: »

1 imperial gill = 5 imperial fluid ounces = 148ml.

Google says 142.065 ml.

Wikipedia says "In Ireland, the standard spirit measure was historically ​1⁄4 gill. In the Republic of Ireland, it still retains this value, though it is now legally specified in metric units as 35.5 ml." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_(unit)