Apparently,

[rbkwp]

Is Stonehenge Unique?

apparently

and ironically huh
i personally never ever thouight stonehenge was any more significant than many possible 'lessor known' places similar
even in my own simplified uncomplicated mind,while travelling/viewing this structure,never gave it more than a 'passing thought' huh
viewed as a/the tourisim magnet at the time'

Although Stonehenge is the most famous, there are over 1,000 ancient stone
circles standing in the British Isles.
Stone circles such as Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, were probably
tribal gathering places for ritual observances, typically focused on the
change of seasons and the growth of crops. Beginning as early as 3,300
B.C., standing stones, often placed in a circle or ellipse, were built
around the British Isles. Many still exist -- perhaps as many as a thousand
-- but others were lost over the centuries as modern-day societies
expanded. In addition to Stonehenge, the most popular stone circles visited
by tourists are Avebury in Wiltshire, Castlerigg in Cumbria, and the
Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire.

 

[rbkwp]

How Did the Coast Guard Help on September 11, 2001?

APPARENTLY

The U.S. Coast Guard led the evacuation of more than 500,000 people from
Lower Manhattan on 11 September 2001.

Although most people are aware of the emergency evacuation efforts
undertaken by police officers and firefighters on 11 September 2001, the
extent of the U.S. Coast Guard's assistance on that day is less well known.
The Coast Guard contributed significantly by organizing the evacuation of
more than half a million people from Lower Manhattan after the September
11th terror attacks


Is Stonehenge Unique?

APPARENTLY

and ironically huh
i personally never ever thouight stonehenge was any more significant than many possible 'lessor known' places similar
even in my own simplified uncomplicated mind,while travelling/viewing this structure,never gave it more than a 'passing thought' huh
viewed as a/the tourisim magnet at the time'

Although Stonehenge is the most famous, there are over 1,000 ancient stone
circles standing in the British Isles.

Stone circles such as Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, were probably
tribal gathering places for ritual observances, typically focused on the
change of seasons and the growth of crops. Beginning as early as 3,300
B.C., standing stones, often placed in a circle or ellipse, were built
around the British Isles. Many still exist -- perhaps as many as a thousand
-- but others were lost over the centuries as modern-day societies
expanded. In addition to Stonehenge, the most popular stone circles visited
by tourists are Avebury in Wiltshire, Castlerigg in Cumbria, and the
Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire.

 

[1031939]

Last year i entered an erection contest... only got through to the semis.











A K A Chi-Town Hustler

Hahahaaaa!

 

[rbkwp]

Why Do Some Maps Include Fake Places?

Apparently

a neccessity to foil the dubious/nasty side of some of us humankind huh ..
Cartographers sometimes insert fake roads or fictional places into their
maps to catch would-be plagiarizers.
Although rarely acknowledged, cartographers have surreptitiously placed
fictitious streets and towns into their maps for years for one purpose: To
catch someone who might want to co-opt the information, and thereby violate
a copyright. Called “trap streets” or “copyright traps,” the
misinformation can be anything from a twisty road

 

[rbkwp]

What Was the First Country to Get Online?
Inbox

Apparently

 

[rbkwp]

cont

Beginning in the early 1980s, France's Minitel service allowed users to go
online for banking, chatting, and shopping.

At its height in the mid-1990s, French citizens owned about 9 million
Minitel devices -- the first widely available screen-keyboard combination
in any country. Minitel allowed some 25 million users to regularly connect
to more than 23,000 services, including being able to make train
reservations, check stock prices, monitor bank balances, and chat with
other users.

 

[rbkwp]

When Did the White House First Get Solar Panels?

APPARENTLY
some US Presidents are dead set against renewable energy,there position of power,mifluences the world ..

Jimmy Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the White House in 1979;
Ronald Reagan had them removed in 1986.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar panels at the White
House, largely as a reaction to the oil shocks of the 1970s. In 1973, the
OAPEC oil embargo had caused confusion and fear in the United States,
forcing motorists to line up for gas -- if they could find a station that
even had fuel. The crisis underlined the United States' dependence on
fossil fuels and created significant interest in alternative energy.
However, the solar panels -- which had been used to power the White House
water heater --- didn't last long. President Ronald Reagan had them removed
in 1986 while the White House roof was being resurfaced.

 

[rbkwp]

Why Is It So Quiet in Green Bank, West Virginia?

apparently
the Chinese will execute anyone within
a 100km radius
following the USA eg .
there new Telescope

https://www.google.com.au/search?hl...g..1.17.3895...0j0i10k1j0i10i24k1.YWJxnGo7bhc

Due to the nearby radio telescope, the residents of Green Bank, W.V., are
not allowed to use TV, cell phones, or Wi-Fi.

Any device that generates electromagnetic radiation -- a cell phone, a
television, or a wireless Internet router, for example -- is not permitted
in the tiny town of Green Bank, West Virginia. That’s because the nearby
Green Bank Telescope, with a dish the size of a football field, is busy
scanning the cosmos for pulsars, gas clouds, and distant galaxies. The 143
people who reside in Green Bank must, by law, live without the gadgets that
most Americans take for granted

 

[rbkwp]

Do the Stone Heads on Easter Island Have Bodies?

apparently

now thats something i have known since stonehenge days
when all the poms made me gay,with there nude cavorting around s'henge,and esp that large penised with erection chalk man

made a point of viewing him,on my honda 90 stepthru UK sojurn ha
not game enough to masturbate over his beauty tho

disclaimer
as a age appro/legal lpsg teen
- but many are buried below ground level.

Known as “moai,” the giant stone statues on Easter Island do have
bodies, but many are buried below ground level.

Those famous carved stone heads that dot the hills on Easter Island, a
Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean, are actually not just heads -- they
are complete carvings, but some of the statues' bodies are buried beneath
the ground. In 2012, archaeologists began unearthing some of the buried
statues -- known as moai -- on the slopes of the volcanic crater Rano
Raraku, and found complete figures underneath. These buried statues are
among the most frequently photographed on Easter Island, which has given
many people the incorrect impression that the moai are just stone heads,
rather than complete bodies

 

[rbkwp]

Do All Sharks Swim?

apparently not
doesent mean the CHINESE should take/eat there fins,even if i really like the genuine stuff
better say,USED TO LIKE!!! true

Epaulette sharks use their fins like legs to “walk” along the ocean
floor, instead of swimming.

Epaulette sharks, named for the prominent black spot behind their pectoral
fins, are unique in the shark world. They make their homes among shallow
coral reefs and tidal pools around Australia, in water that is barely deep
enough to cover their bodies. Although epaulette sharks can swim, they
often prefer to walk along the seabed, looking for food, moving along by
wriggling their bodies and pushing with their fins.

 

[rbkwp]

How Energy Efficient Are Modern Buildings?

apparently

The Chrysler Building, built in 1930, has a better Energy Star rating than
7 World Trade Center, completed in 2006.
As part of the U.S. pledge to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by
2050, New York City has made an effort to improve the energy efficiency of
its public buildings. However, in 2012, energy audits found that some of
the city's newer, so-called "green" buildings -- such as 7 World Trade
Center, which opened in 2006 -- scored lower than some much older
buildings, such as the Chrysler Building, which opened in 1930

 

[BillM]

@rbkwp Damn TWO APPARENTLY in TWO day that may be a record, keep up the good research ( or what ever the hell you do ) ??? Bill just saying

 

[rbkwp]

How Good Is a Salmon’s Sense of Smell?

apparently

Wild salmon have such a good sense of smell that it helps them return to
the same stream where they were born.

The life of a salmon follows a predictable pattern. It begins in the upper
reaches of a freshwater river, as a small egg on a gravel bed in the
wilderness, typically in the mountains. After a couple of years, the young
salmon (known as a smolt) heads downstream and out to sea. When it reaches
maturity, one to eight years later, the adult salmon can find its way back
to the original stream or river, and uses its powerful sense of smell to
locate the tributary where it was born.


haha,depends on the crazed mood i geuss Bill ..

just saying
Welcome to the movement!

 

[rbkwp]

APPARENTLY

Hope you're having a good week! -- Dan
Marching Forward and Tumbling Down
Imagine a small group of military members, lined up four across, marching. You probably are now picturing two additional details; first, they're likely chanting some sort of military cadence, and second, they're likely moving in lockstep -- when one person takes a step with his or her left leg, so do the other members of the group. That second thing is called military step, and it's typically required -- except when going over suspension bridges.

In that case? Lockstep marching is a really bad idea.

Let's start with a photo.

That photo (via flickr) is of the Albert Bridge, which crosses the Thames in London. If you can't read the sign, it says that "all troops must break step when marching over this bridge." In other words, troops can't stay in sync -- they need to mix it up a bit.

The reason isn't some weird antipathy toward the military, a dislike of parades, or a preference of chaos over order. It's science -- and ultimately, safety. The culprit? As LiveScience explains, "structures like bridges and buildings, although they appear to be solid and immovable, have a natural frequency of vibration within them." That's usually not a problem, as the architects and engineers factor those vibrations into account. But what happens when something comes along that adds more vibrations at the same frequency? In that case, something called "mechanical resonance" kicks in. LiveScience continues: in those cases, "[the] force that's applied to an object at the same frequency as the object's natural frequency will amplify the vibration of the object."

And too much amplification is bad news, as most buildings aren't designed to account for that. For some -- like suspension bridges -- the results can be particularly dangerous. Unfortunately, that lesson was learned the hard way.

On April 21, 1831, a detachment of 74 British soldiers stationed in the town of Salford, Greater Manchester, were marching back home over the Broughton Suspension Bridge, which at the time was only five years old. They never made it across. Wikipedia explains what went wrong:The soldiers, who were marching four abreast, felt it begin to vibrate in time with their footsteps. Finding the vibration a pleasant sensation some of them started to whistle a marching tune, and to "humor it by the manner in which they stepped", causing the bridge to vibrate even more. The head of the column had almost reached the [other] side when they heard "a sound resembling an irregular discharge of firearm." Immediately, one of the iron columns supporting the suspension chains on the [first] side of the river fell towards the bridge, carrying with it a large stone from the pier to which it had been bolted. The corner of the bridge, no longer supported, then fell 16 or 18 feet (4.9 or 5.5 m) into the river, throwing about 40 of the soldiers into the water or against the chains.Thankfully, none of the men died -- the relatively shallow water meant a lot of broken bones and concussions, but no drownings. (That said, another bridge collapse -- in France in 1850 -- resulted in over 200 deaths, although corrosion, stress from a recent storm, and having too many troops on it at once may have contributed more to the tragedy than some coincidental harmonics.) And also thankfully, the architects at the time were able to identify mechanical resonance as the culprit.

As a result, you'll rarely see troops march over bridges in step. The Albert Bridge makes sure of that with its signs, but it doesn't really have to worry any more -- its nearby barracks closed in 2008.

 

[rbkwp]

What Happened to Central Park’s Sheep?

apparently

sent to NZ as reported by some ..
of course they still graze on our parklands thruout the country ..no problems ..

Sheep used to graze in Central Park, but they were moved in the 1930s for
fear that New Yorkers might see them as food.

The original 1857 concept for New York’s Central Park, designed by
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, included an open lawn known as the
"Greensward." Borrowing from the concept of the traditional English garden,
where polite society communed with nature, the plan specified that a flock
of sheep should graze in the 15-acre meadow on the west side of Central
Park. In 1864, some 200 sheep called the park home

 

[BillM]

STUD, You and your SHEEP!!! Bill

 

[rbkwp]

Is There a Limit to How Much Information the Human Brain Can Store?

APPARENTLY

By some estimates, the storage capacity of the human brain is equivalent to
a DVR holding 3 million hours of TV shows.
It may not always be as efficient as a computer, but the human brain has a
spectacular storage capacity. Consider this -- the human brain contains
billions of neurons, and each neuron forms about 1,000 connections with
other neurons. That’s trillions of connections. But we’re not talking
about one memory per neuron. Data is shared exponentially throughout the
neural network, so the brain’s capacity is closer to 2.5 petabytes --
which would be similar to a DVR that could store three million hours of TV
shows. In other words, you’d have to leave the TV on for 300 years to use
up all that storage capacity.

 

[rbkwp]

What Is the Most Unusual Job at NASA?

APPARENTLY

and/but,i love NASA

NASA employs a planetary protection officer who ensures that we don't
contaminate other planets with Earth life.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) employs nearly
18,000 civil service employees, ranging from scientists to clerical
workers, but perhaps the most unusual job at NASA is that of the planetary
protection officer. He or she is responsible for ensuring that all NASA
missions abide by the International Outer Space Treaty of 1967. This treaty
precisely regulates how scientific research can be conducted in other parts
of the solar system in order to prevent biological contamination. The
planetary protection officer carries out policies so that all requirements
are followed, such as sterilizing the spacecraft, not crashing into a site
that may have life, and destroying the craft after the mission to prevent
bacteria from contaminating the location.

 

[rbkwp]

What Is the Most Efficient Hunter in the Animal Kingdom?


APPARENTLY
and here i was foolishly thinking it was/is, the human animal
ps
daddy long leg spiders are purportedly supposed to be pretty ruthless as well, i have heard/long be known? ha true'

Dragonflies are among the world’s most efficient predators; they catch
95% of the flying insects that they chase.
What’s the best hunter on the planet -- an animal that successfully
snares its prey 95 percent of the time? It’s the odd-looking but
strangely beautiful dragonfly. This insect is a virtual machine when it
comes to gathering food, often snatching oblivious flying insects right out
of the air. Dragonflies are able to hover, dive, fly backward and upside
down, pivot 360 degrees, and reach speeds of 30 miles per hour (48 km/h).

 

[rbkwp]

Who Invented Corn Flakes?

apparently

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg invented corn flakes as part of a vegetarian diet
for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
Corn flakes were invented in 1898 as an experimental follow-up to wheat
flakes, one of the first ready-to-eat breakfast cereals. Dr. John Harvey
Kellogg, superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a holistic
healthcare facility in Michigan associated with the Seventh-day Adventist
Church, followed the religion’s dietary principles with his patients. As
his patients grew weary of the strict vegetarian diet that forbade tea,
coffee, and condiments and only allowed limited eggs and dairy, he started
developing cereal recipes with his wife, Ella, and younger brother Will
Keith (W.K) Kellogg. They accidentally discovered that cooked and cooled
wheat would become individual flakes after being rolled - a method they
subsequently discovered also worked with corn.7