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Christmas is just around the corner.
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The Largest Man-Made Accidental Explosion

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On December 6, 1917, an explosion ravaged Halifax, Nova Scotia, killing 2,000 people and injuring 9,000 others. But this mass disaster was not triggered by natural events. The explosion was, entirely, man-made.

Just before 8:45 A.M. on that day, the SS Imo, an empty Norwegian passenger and freight ship, and France’s SS Mont Blanc, collided. The Mont Blanc, a cargo ship, was loaded with munitions aimed at supporting French efforts in World War I. The Mont Blanc caught fire, and while its crew safely made it to shore, the language barrier — them, French; native Halifax residents, English — probably prevented any warnings given from being heeded. Twenty minutes later, amid hundreds of onlookers, the Mont Blanc’s payload caught fire. The ship exploded, as pictured above.

The explosion’s intensity was roughly one-fifth that of the atomic bomb which struck Hiroshima. The Mont Blanc itself was instantly vaporized; a fire plume shot up over a mile in the air. Roughly one square mile around the blast area was destroyed and rendered inhabitable, while structural damage to buildings was recorded as far away as ten miles from the epicenter of the explosion. An earthquake-like shake was recorded 75 miles away and the explosion could be heard over 100 miles north and 200 miles west of the blast. The blast was so powerful that a half-ton piece of the ship’s anchor mast shot through the skies, landing over two miles from where it came. (The fragment is now part of a monument placed roughly near its landing spot, as pictured here.)

The after-effects were also considerable. The explosion set off a tsunami, which struck the waterfront with 60 foot high waves. It also caused a black, sooty “rainfall” for ten minutes after the blast; survivors were covered in debris. And the Canadian military lost one of its key buildings, as the Royal Naval College of Canada was destroyed in the explosion.

The catastrophe is widely considered the worst man-made accidental explosion in history when factoring in not just the size of the blast but also the number of causalities, the radius of the damage, and the loss of property. The death toll was so immense that more Nova Scotians died in the explosion than otherwise in World War I.
 
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Do Any Animals Shrink When the Seasons Change?

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The common shrew has the ability to shrink its skull by almost 20% in the
winter, presumably to conserve energy.

It turns out that the common shrew is pretty shrewd. In a study published
in the journal Current Biology in October 2017, researchers reported that
the size of the tiny mole-like animal’s braincase shrinks by almost 20
percent in preparation for winter. Then, as spring approaches, its skull
expands, almost reaching its original size. In fact, shrews lose
significant overall body mass -- including the size of their brains,
organs, and spines -- in order to conserve energy and limit food
requirements as the cold season approaches.
 
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What Will the Cities of the Future Look like?

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could be possible,why not
but i dont think the planet/life/human existence as we know it will exists/bebefit from such
all a pipe dream as they say
we dont deserve it period !!!


Alphabet, Google's parent company, is developing its first "smart"
neighborhood, in a waterfront section of Toronto.

Google has a vision for what “smart” city life will be like in the
future. People will get around in taxibots and driverless buses, not
private cars. Freight robots will handle the messy chore of disposing
garbage and recyclables in underground tunnels. Residents will live in
affordable, pod-like modular buildings and enjoy stress-free commerce on
pedestrian-friendly streets. Underpinning this idealized vision of the
future is data-driven technology, making life affordable and
environmentally sustainable. The blueprint for this urban nirvana will be
tested in Toronto, Canada, where Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google
parent company Alphabet, will work with the city to redevelop a 12-acre
(4.9-hectare) waterfront area with 3.3 million square feet (306,580 sq m)
of residential, office, and commercial space.
 
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this one remembers him well,good on him for enjoying life and himself,no hiding away for Andre

The New York Police Department's Giant Problem
Pictured above is the late André René Roussimoff, better known as André the Giant. He was a literal giant -- billed at 7'4" and about 520 pounds. His size opened two career doors for him; first, as a professional wrestler, but then -- and more importantly -- as Fezzik in the 1987 movie classic The Princess Bride. It also allowed him to drink ungodly amounts of beer, wine, and the like. Legend has itthat on one occasion, he drank 102 beers in 45 minutes and on another, he downed a dozen bottles (bottles!) of wine in about three hours.

While he had a larger-than-typical tolerance for alcohol, the Giant could -- and often did -- get rather drunk. As the LA Weekly reported, "[on] the night of The Princess Bride's first script read-through, Andre got so drunk at the hotel bar that he passed out in the middle of the lobby. The hotel employees couldn't move him, so they put velvet ropes around his snoring corpse and told the maids not to vacuum until he woke up." That's a problem for the hotel in that case, but it could be a problem for others if situations lined up differently -- as the New York Police Department learned all too well.

After principal shooting for The Princess Bride wrapped, André the Giant and Cary Elwes -- Westley in the movie -- went out drinking, to no one's surprise. To start the night, they ended up hitting a Manhattan bar called P.J. Clarke's, one of André's favorite haunts. That, per Elwes, is when he noticed something amiss --in the words of the New York Post, "as André was downing his usual, a mix of hard spirits served in a beer pitcher, Elwes noticed a man sitting alone watching them."

As the night progressed, André and Elwes bounced from bar to bar, and all the while, this mystery man followed -- always alone, never treating himself to a drink. Elwes, perturbed, pointed out their stalker to his large supporting actor. But André did not share his concern. Their traveling companion wasn't there to hurt them -- quite the opposite, in fact. He was a plainclothes New York police officer, assigned to shadow the drinking Giant during his nights out on the town. Apparently, in a prior such binge, André the Giant got very drunk and, while waiting for a car to drive him hope, fell over -- injuring a passerby in the process. (Nearly seven feet and more than 500 pounds of drunk guy smashing into you -- that's gotta hurt.) Thereafter, to prevent such injuries -- and to protect André himself -- the NYPD had a special one-man detail for the Giant's nights out drinking.


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s “Auld Lang Syne” Still the Most Popular Song for New Year’s Eve?

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A recent study showed that only 3% of people in the United Kingdom knew the
lyrics to “Auld Lang Syne.”

Most people in the English-speaking world associate “Auld Lang Syne”
with New Year’s Eve celebrations, but few actually know many of the
words. Most revelers just have a sip of champagne, hug the nearest person,
and try to join in on the chorus. The Scots poem "Auld Lang Syne" means
roughly “old long since” or “long long ago.” Robert Burns gets
credit for the lyrics, and he may have written some, but he was really just
the first person to write down the lyrics of an old Scottish folk song,
perhaps dating to the 15th century. The British retailer Sainsbury’s took
a poll in 2017 to see how many people actually know the words, and found
that only 3 percent could recite them correctly.
 
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Is the Ivory Trade on the Decline?

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In December 2017, China implemented a complete ban on the domestic ivory
trade, to help combat elephant poaching.

Ivory is a precious commodity in China. Some wealthy residents think that
owning ivory makes them appear more successful. Others say that ivory
brings them luck. Ivory is also used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Historically, China has been one of the largest markets for ivory, and
experts say that up to 70 percent of the illegal ivory from 30,000 annual
elephant deaths end up there. But there’s hope for the gentle giants: On
the last day of 2017, China made the entire commercial ivory trade illegal,
closing 172 factories and shops throughout the year.
 
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The Island with No Garbage
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New York City has five boroughs with Manhattan -- home of the Empire State Building, One World Trade Center, Central Park, Times Square/Broadway, a and lot more -- the most prominent of the quintet. If you walk around the island of Manhattan enough, you’ll certainly come across a site like the one above -- garbage bags piled up on the curb. With more than two million people living on the island and nearly another two million entering each weekday to work and play, there’s a lot of trash to be collected. Building management, superintendents, and janitorial crews put the garbage out on the sidewalk so that sanitation workers can drive by, tossing the refuse into the back of their huge garbage trucks.

That’s not surprising, though. How else could Manhattan deal with garbage?

Well, it turns out that some of Manhattan has a different solution. Roosevelt Island sits in the East River, with the island of Manhattan to its west and Queens/Long Island to its east. This two-mile-long, 800-foot wide (at its widest) strip of land that is home to a bit more than 10,000 New Yorkers. Like its neighbor to the west, Roosevelt Island is part of the borough of Manhattan. Unlike the much more famous part of the borough, though, Roosevelt Island has almost no garbage trucks.

To understand why, we have to start with Disney World.

When Disney came up with its plan for his magical city in Orlando, Florida, they had a grand desire to make it something beyond what anyone had seen. Having garbage on the roadside as Mickey and friends paraded down Main Street, U.S.A would be the opposite of that, so the Disney team sought other solutions. What they found was a Swedish company’s innovation, called the Automated Vacuum Collection system, or AVAC for short. AVAC was a series of interconnected, underground pneumatic tubes, in essence. Trash chutes were already common throughout the United States, particularly in larger buildings; AVAC used the same basic idea. But instead of that trash collecting in a dumpster or trash compactor, the garbage would flow into the AVAC. Using high-powered vacuums, the garbage would fly off to a centralized location away from the theme park’s hub -- and away from the guests. No trash bags on the street and no garbage trucks blocking traffic. Just a lot of invisible infrastructure.

Sounds great, right? The Swedish innovators thought so, and the company wasn’t intent on letting Disney keep this technology to itself. They believed that it was so transformative -- a city without garbage trucks! -- it’d sweep through the nation. But as we know, they were wrong. Mostly.

There’s one place in the U.S. outside of Disney World where you’ll find an AVAC system, and that’s Roosevelt Island. For most of its history, the island was mostly used to house hospitals and an asylum (literally called “the New York City Lunatic Asylum” until the 1930s), and few people outside of those institutions lived there full-time. But an effort to increase affordable housing in the city in the 1970s changed Roosevelt Island’s character -- state and federal grants funded the creation of apartment buildings there, as well as an above-water tramway connecting it to Manhattan Island. And when they built all those buildings, they did so in a way to minimize the need for cars. (Apparently, car-free pseudo-urban planning was a thing in the Seventies.) That included garbage trucks, so installing the AVAC system made a ton of sense. So if you live on Roosevelt Island, you don’t see a lot of trash or trash collectors. Instead, as the New York Times so nicely put it, there’s “a 1,000-horsepower vacuum [ . . . ] silently sucking garbage from their buildings at 60 miles per hour.”

As Roosevelt Island has grown, so has the AVAC system -- mostly. A few years ago, Cornell University opened a new campus on the island; it’s outside the reach of the AVAC. But for everyone else, there’s a magical garbage machine keeping things clean.
 
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How Do Farmers Identify the Most Fertile Soil?

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no wonder theres a resurgence in cotton' hrowing in Aussie,i noticed the other day
Au rural


Burying underpants is a way to test soil quality; the microbes in fertile
soil will devour the cotton within weeks.

Agricultural organizations around the world are coming to the realization
that a pair of cotton underpants can tell farmers a lot about the quality
of their soil. From the United Kingdom to California, farmers are trying
out this unconventional method, burying undies in their fields and digging
them up a couple of months later. Healthy soil teeming with microbes and
bacteria will devour the cotton, leaving behind only the waistband. In
lifeless soil, the unearthed undies come out intact.
 
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Is It a Bad Idea to Go Shopping When You Feel Hungry?

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Research shows that people tend to buy more "stuff" when they are hungry,
even when shopping for non-food items.

It’s never a good idea to shop for groceries when you’re hungry.
Studies have shown that such an approach can lead to overspending and even
buying items that you don’t really need or want. And now, new research
from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management suggests
that even shopping for non-food items on an empty stomach can lead to the
same sort of results. The reason, the researchers say, may be connected to
a hormone called ghrelin, which is released by the stomach when you’re
hungry. This hormone is known to affect the ventromedial prefrontal cortex,
an area of the brain that is involved in reward and motivation.
 
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forgive me for thinking they were dropping there balls in NYC, annually of course


Dropping the Balls
Bromide is a naturally-occurring chemical compound found in some groundwater. It’s safe to drink.

Chlorine, in small amounts in your drinking water, is also safe. It doesn’t occur naturally in groundwater, but it often added to the water supply to control for potentially harmful bacteria.

And sunlight? Also good.

Unfortunately, the three don’t mix all that well. The combination of bromide and chlorine when activated by sunlight results in something called bromate, a compound suspected to be a carcinogen. Having a large-enough amount of bromate in the drinking water is a very big problem, and, if you live in the Los Angeles area, potentially a real one. In late 2007, two reservoirs serving the area were found to be contaminated with bromate. One, the Silver Lake reservoir, was taken out of use completely. The other, the neighboring Ivanhoe reservoir, wasn’t entirely abandoned. Instead, in March of 2008, officials drained the reservoir, refilling it two months later.

They felt comfortable doing so because they believed they had a solution — a way to block the sun.

With 400,000 black balls.

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The balls, seen above (via this photo gallery you really should check out), were originally designed to keep birds off the tarmac at airports — the balls were placed in areas where water would collect, making those areas less friendly to wading birds. They are made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), which is one of the most common forms of plastic (and is free from Bisphenol A). They are black in order to best deflect ultraviolet light and as one nearby resident told the Los Angeles Times, therefore makes it look like the reservoir was overcome by an oil spill. The balls are hollow and therefore float on the water’s surface.

But best of all, the balls are cheap. They cost about 40 cents apiece, making the Ivanhoe reservoir covering run less than $200,000 — pretty good for a public works project. Even the deployment methods were very low-tech — a few dozen workers, outfitted with large white nylon bags filled with just over 2,000 of the balls, poured them into the water, as seen below (via the same gallery).

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As TreeHugger.com reported, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power — the institution charged with operating and protecting the reservoirs — ordered a total of 6.5 million of the balls, with 3 million destined for Ivanhoe and a neighboring reservoir. The long-term plan is to build a permanent cover for Ivanhoe and other reservoirs, but for the short-term, the reservoir doubles as a huge ball pit. (But unfortunately, you can’t jump in.)
 
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Do Messages in Bottles Ever Get Found?

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and the poms are so switched on ab security concious like the USA
lets see them protect thee exile sheltered citiens huh


The oldest message in a bottle was found on an Australian beach in 2018; it
was thrown from a German ship in 1886.

A bottle that had traveled the ocean and had probably been covered by sand
on a Western Australia beach for more than a century was finally found in
January 2018. The bottle contained a message dated 12 June 1886, making it
the oldest such missive ever discovered. Tonya Illman was walking on the
beach near Wedge Island when she spotted the bottle and found a faded and
fraying 132-year-old piece of paper inside. The Illmans put it in the oven
at home to remove the moisture, then unraveled it and were able to read a
very faint message asking the finder to contact the German consulate. It
turns out that the message came from a German ship named Paula, which was
testing shipping routes in the Indian Ocean at the time, en route from
Wales to the Dutch East Indies.
 

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possibly neccessary warning for some kids

Why You Shouldn't Eat Those "Do Not Eat" Packets

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Pictured above, via Consumer Reports, are some packets of silica gel. You'll find it packaged with all sorts of products, ranging from consumer electronics and furniture to shoes and handbags. At times, you'll even find it packed alongside food items such as beef jerky and dried seaweed -- and even some vitamins and medicines. And that seems like a really bad idea because, as the silica gel pack so clearly states (with unnecessary quotation marks), "DO NOT EAT."

But what happens if you do? The good news: you'll most likely be okay.

Silica gel is a desiccant (as seen on the pack), which means that it's a substance used to keep things around it dry. Basically, silica gel absorbs moisture, keeping the cell phone, leather shoes, or dried meat it's packed with from getting ruined. If you were to rip a pack open, according to the North Carolina Poison Center, you'd find "either granular silicic acid, which resembles sand or tiny gel beads."

You shouldn't eat it because it isn't food, but silica is non-toxic. The North Carolina Poison Center explicitly states that silica gel "it is not poisonous if eaten;" Illinois'equivalent resource says that there's no risk of overdose and that if a child were to ingest some, you should just "give the child a few sips of water." And that's probably just because the gel is causing a little bit of dry mouth. So if you call Poison Control, expect them to tell you not to worry. After all, as ThoughtCoexplains, you've probably eaten silica before:Silica is added to improve flow in powdered foods. It occurs naturally in water, where it may help confer resistance against developing senility. Silica is just another name for silicon dioxide, the main component of sand, glass, and quartz. The "gel" part of the name means the silica is hydrated or contains water. If you eat silica, it won't be digested, so it will pass through the gastrointestinal tract to be excreted in feces.Okay, so, why the big "DO NOT EAT" warning? The packets tend to get stuck in our throats. Or, as Slate explains, "many children don't just eat the beads; they eat the whole packet. In that case, the hazard isn't poison, it's choking." If you're not able to get them down, that's an enormous problem. If you are, you should be fine, but please, do not try to find out.

Either way, if you or a loved one eats a packet of "DO NOT EAT" stuff, play it safe, and call Poison Control. (Silica gel isn't poisonous, but some other desiccants can be toxic.) In the United States, you can reach them at 1-800-222-1222.
 

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Have Baleen Whales Always Been the Largest Animals?


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a million years can make a difference in/to living things

Three million years ago, climate change increased marine prey
concentrations, favoring the growth of massive whales.

Many whales that are alive today are bigger than even the largest dinosaurs
that once roamed the Earth, but this hasn't always been the case. Even the
massive blue whale -- the biggest creature in history -- was relatively
puny until a few million years ago, when climate change inundated the
oceans with an influx of marine life that allowed filter-feeding whales to
grow exponentially. These are the findings of a recent collaborative study
between the University of Chicago and the Smithsonian Institution's
National Museum of Natural History that looked back 30 million years and
found that even the biggest whales on record from that time were only a few
yards (or meters) long. Then, during the ice age of about 3 million years
ago, the Earth's ice sheets grew, pushing water deeper and closer to the
warm Equator, ultimately resulting in pockets of animal life for whales to
feast on. The larger they were, the better they were able to capitalize on
these concentrations of tiny marine creatures, so they grew even bigger and
were also able to extend their migratory patterns and find even more food.
 
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The Sound of World War II Planes
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If you've ever seen a World War II video, you've heard the sound of the German bomber planes flying over the sky. But if not, here's a montage on YouTube. You'll note, perhaps immediately, that their wails are loud and almost impossible to not notice. And the noise is probably very familiar, even if you didn't immediately associate it with World War II. In the years since, the sound has been adopted by many movies, cartoons, and the like whenever a plane makes a steep descent. As a result, many think that any time a plane comes hurtling toward the surface, it makes that sound.

That's not quite right. Very few planes make that sound at all -- and none of them have to. Not even the German bomber planes which made the sound famous.

The sound -- now known as the Stuka Scream -- came from a German warplane called the Junkers Ju 87, seen above. These planes were dive bombers or, in German, "Sturzkampfflugzeug" (hence "Stuka" -- the rz kind of fell out). The Ju 87s had a simple job: fly over a target area and dive as close to the ground as possible. Once there, they could release a bunch of bombs with decent accuracy, so that's exactly what they did. Then, the pilot would pull up and fly away. It wasn't a foolproof plan -- it was almost impossible for a dive bomber to stealthily engage their targets, and the people on the ground below could hear them coming.

But it wasn't the Stuka Scream that gave them away. The engines were noisy enough to give the planes away, but nothing nearly as loud or menacing as what we've come to associate with the planes. Unable to overcome this sound, the Germans decided to turn it into an advantage. In designing the warplanes, German engineers realized that they could equip them with small fans attached to the front of the landing gear. Those fans acted as sirens, making the now-common wailing sound at the planes sped toward the Earth below.

That's right: there's nothing about the Ju 87 which's engine, propellers, or aerodynamics, that requires that it make a Stuka Scream. The siren wasn't a design flaw at all -- it was a feature. The screams from above would, as Wikipedia notes, "weaken enemy morale and enhance the intimidation of dive-bombing." Basically, when the dive bombers would pass over the enemy line, they'd only be able to strike at a small percentage of it. The sound, however, would spread the terror over a wider distance, giving German forces an extra advantage as they advanced.

After a while, though, the siren's bark lost its bite. While the bombers were indeed dangerous, troops below learned not to fear them unduly due to their sounds alone. The siren, as one expert explains, came at a cost -- "it kept reducing airspeeds by 15 miles-an-hour." As a result, the Germans removed the sirens from the planes well before the war was over.
 
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A Traffic Jam That's For the Birds

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If you’re
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driving around Austria coming south on your way up to Austria, you’re likely on a roadway called the A2. This 377.3 km (234.4 mi) stretch of highway is the longest in the country and typically moves pretty well. But if you were there in early October 2006, you may have been stuck in traffic for a while -- a multiple-kilometer traffic jam gummed up the roads. There were three causes behind the delays, two of which are common: it was rainy, causing motorists to slow down, and there was a dense layer of fog, further giving drivers a reason to proceed with caution. But the third reason was something one rarely sees: there were about 40 dead birds in the way. It looked like they had just had just dive-bombed into the road -- as if they had just fallen from the sky.

That’s because they had.

The birds weren’t sick -- at least not in “bird flu” sense of the term, although that was everyone’s initial concern. And they didn’t fly into an invisible castle in the sky, although the actual explanation is only a bit less fantastical than that. Per Swedish news site The Local, the rain and fog played a role — the birds “didn’t know where they were going and lost their bearings over the motorway, crashing into cars and trucks.” Those conditions normally wouldn’t be enough to cause such confusion, but these birds had something else going on: they were drunk.

Autumn can be a tricky time to fly, it turns out. Birds eat berries but, in the fall, there’s a pretty good chance that those berries will end up with a relatively high alcohol content. If the temperature falls below freezing — not an uncommon occurrence overnight — the berries may freeze. They’ll thaw shortly after daybreak but by noon or so, the damage is done. As National Geographic explains, "freezing causes the berries to convert starches into sugars, while subsequent thawing makes it possible for yeast to get in and speed up the fermentation process.” Basically, the berries turn into little Jell-o shots but filled with berry bits instead of Jell-o. Eat enough of them and you’re going to end up pretty snookered.

And these birds on the Austrian roadway? They feasted on spiked berries. Discover Magazine quoted a spokesperson for Vienna’s veterinary authority as saying that “the birds' livers showed so much damage from drinking that ‘they looked like they were chronic alcoholics.’” And like humans who are under the influence, going anywhere near a roadway was a bad idea. The drunk birds, it turned out, had flown way too low, smashing into the ground, car windows, and everything else with fatal results. (Well, fatal for the birds at least; there are no reports of injuries to people.)
 
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Is It Ever Worthwhile to Get Angry?


Research shows that men can influence others to accept their views by
acting angrily; the opposite is true of women.

The results of a 2015 study published in the journal Law and Human Behavior
reinforce the notion that when men respond forcefully -- even with obvious
anger -- in group deliberations, they are more likely to influence other
people to agree with them. However, in classic double-standard style, women
who do the same thing are regarded as overly emotional and their dissent is
considered counterproductive. “Our results lend scientific support to a
frequent claim voiced by women,” the researchers said, that their views
are “sometimes dismissed as paranoia."
Read More: http://www.wisegeek.com/is-it-ever-worthwhile-to-get-angry.htm?m
 
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What Happens to Old Clothes? Inbox

cool
i
love old clothes/recycling
while in london/sydney lived in real flash good qality cheap clothing
esp my fetish for jackets,leather or seude,dress not heavy ha
SO CHEAP,40 bucks maybe,not my fault they likely quit them for drugs huh


The average American throws away about 80 lbs (36 kg) of clothes every
year, amounting to 14 million tons of waste.

Donating clothes that you don’t want, or that you don’t fit into
anymore, is a good thing. The secondhand clothing industry employs 100,000
workers and creates $1 billion USD in wages in the United States alone. But
the Council for Textile Recycling estimates that only 20 percent of those
clothes are ever sold. And although tons of clothing are shipped to
countries in the developing world, huge amounts end up in landfills. It is
estimated that each year, the average American tosses away 80 pounds (36.3
kg) of clothes, amounting to 14 million tons of waste -- or more.

THANKS BILLM
 
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