Fun Fact Thread! (previously fun fact for the day, not limited to 1 per day anymore.)

[Nuke]

on one hand if i know doctor who would be were it is now, i would have never binged watched every serial and saved me a lot of time. on the other side of it i got to see the doctor at its best many times and there was more to be seen digging up the old episodes than can be gained with the new ones.

[Jacke]

On 9/30/2024 at 7:04 AM, kerbiloid said:

I still insist that the whole movie/series makes no sense without Tom Bombadil.

Everything in the 3rd epoch biosphere shouts out that he is the main demiurge of the specific MiddleEarthian species since the very first days.

So, without him Him all that skirmish is just a mouse coaster with no aim.

P.S.
Like with Jackson's LOTR, I've never seen Jackson's Hobbit with original text, only parodies.

They are anyway not farther from the book that the Jackson's ecranizations.

To squeeze The Lord of the Rings into even a generous ~14 hours of the 3 extended cut films (haven't seen them yet meself), there had to be a lot of editting down of the material.  I think Peter Jackson made good choices, but also some could have been better.

To really dig into this, there's a series of videos still being made by YouTube channel Fact or Fantasy, "Movies vs. Manuscripts", to cover the differences between LotR on the page versus on the screen.  He's still working through it, but he's also spread out to cover other works.

Spoiler

 

 

[DDE]

Baade 152, GDR's attempt at an airliner. First one crashed, second one was built with a regular undercarriage but the whole project got scrapped.

[darthgently]

1 hour ago, DDE said:

Baade 152, GDR's attempt at an airliner. First one crashed, second one was built with a regular undercarriage but the whole project got scrapped.

It probably needs a version 3 with double the ground tackle and training wheels

[AckSed]

Standardised screw threads for nuts and bolts the secret to Crystal Palace's speedy construction: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/how-londons-crystal-palace-was-built-so-quickly/

[DDE]

Fun with compound interest: the current Russian fine against Google is 42 quintillion times more than the world's combined wealth of $477 trillion, if WaPo's numbers are to be believed

[darthgently]

A technical history of a certain type of pestilence, how the CCP pickpocketed the F35 from the US, and the mess left behind

 

[Codraroll]

11 hours ago, DDE said:

Fun with compound interest: the current Russian fine against Google is 42 quintillion times more than the world's combined wealth of $477 trillion, if WaPo's numbers are to be believed

On the other hand, the fine is specified in Rubles, so give it a couple of years, and it will be something like $15.

[kerbiloid]

18 hours ago, Codraroll said:

On the other hand, the fine is specified in Rubles, so give it a couple of years, and it will be something like $15.

So, the total USA debt will be 2 kopecks?

[DDE]

23 hours ago, Codraroll said:

give it a couple of years

Yes, and Orel will have its first flight in 2018.

[Codraroll]

10 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

So, the total USA debt will be 2 kopecks?

With the ruble worth as little as it is, I don't think it will make any sense to further subdivide it into smaller units. What do you get for a hundreth of a cent these days?

[darthgently]

This is devolving into the economic version of yo mamma jokes: “yo currency is so inflated…”

Let’s not cross the lines, lol 

[kerbiloid]

5 hours ago, Codraroll said:

What do you get for a hundreth of a cent these days?

I didn't ever have smaller US currency unit than 5 cents, occasionally given to me as a change in the Soviet shop, but if the total google costs $15, I will be able to buy a dozen of googles for my current USD banknotes in the bookcase.
Sounds not bad, but excessive. What should I do with more than one google?

10 hours ago, DDE said:

Yes, and Orel will have its first flight in 2018.

And Orion has already studied the asteroid, brought to the Earth orbit.

CST-100 is a witness.

Same result for smaller money. Just one party prefers to flush down paper projects, while another one first tries to make them out of metal.

Edited November 4, 2024 by kerbiloid

[kerbiloid]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-developed-japan-heads-space-2024-11-05/

The first wooden satellite Lignosat made by Japan is in space.

This inspires further expectations:

1. First wooden orbital station like it was originally planned for Alien 3  (a wooden asteroid with monastery inside).

2a. First eggsat, using a hen egg as a pressurized hull. Preferably with Arduino or so.
Stabilized by attached feathers.

2b. Mass eggsat production by a chickenfarm.

Edited November 5, 2024 by kerbiloid

[kerbiloid]

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

Quote

The separation of curium and americium was so painstaking that the Berkeley group initially called those elements pandemonium (from Greek for all demons or hell) and delirium (from Latin for madness).

 

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

On 11/5/2024 at 3:19 PM, kerbiloid said:

ggsat production

War Monger.  Everyone knows that eggsats are offensive weapons! 

[kerbiloid]

2 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

Everyone knows that eggsats are offensive weapons! 

After feeding the hen with U/Pu-rich food:

"100% egg Pu-rity. Explodes the market!"

[kerbiloid]

On 11/11/2024 at 2:31 PM, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

 

 

To provide stabilization and artificial gravity.

Spoiler

Egg Scrambler!

https://www.amazon.com/Scrambler-Silicone-Powered-Homogenizer-Drawstring/dp/B09YRMSPN6

 

https://cs15.pikabu.ru/video/2024/11/11/1731302977284516227_e59ccd91_480x854.mp4

 

 

Everything good has already been invented.

_{Disclaimer: The testers tell that it works (though, can be easily replaced with a towel), but the scrambled egg taste is worse than thr original one.}

 

P.S.
Btw, and idea for the KSA game.
Let the creature species be reptiloids and have eggs, send them to another planets, aerobrake and softly land to found a colony.

 

Edited November 12, 2024 by kerbiloid

[AckSed]

Med kits, tinned food, even a cassette tape have been discovered in the storage lockers of the Skylab Astronaut Trainer, untouched for 50 years:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/skylab-time-capsule-revealed-50-year-old-artifacts-discovered/ar-AA1qyjoM

[kerbiloid]

10 hours ago, AckSed said:

Med kits, tinned food, even a cassette tape have been discovered in the storage lockers of the Skylab Astronaut Trainer

Spoiler

And caps.

 

10 hours ago, AckSed said:

untouched for 50 years

50...

Spoiler

 

Edited November 25, 2024 by kerbiloid

[AckSed]

Click-based echolocation can be trained in a 10-week course: https://hackaday.com/2024/11/26/humans-can-learn-echolocation-too/

[kerbiloid]

6 hours ago, AckSed said:

Click-based echolocation can be trained in a 10-week course: https://hackaday.com/2024/11/26/humans-can-learn-echolocation-too/

The blinds were doing this all the way by knocking with a stick or clicking with fingers.

[AckSed]

7 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

The blinds were doing this all the way by knocking with a stick or clicking with fingers.

Ah, the West Side Story method.

[kerbiloid]

6 hours ago, AckSed said:

Ah, the West Side Story method.

Haven't watched this.

But it's the blinds' usual practice.
Knocking the floor with the stick and/or clicking with fingers to the left - to the right, to hear the echo from walls/massive objects, and its absense from empty space or amount of soft matter (bodies, curtains, etc).

Also, when you are walking along a wall close to you, you can hear the difference between the left and right ear sounds.

https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/how-blind-people-can-use-echolocation

Just recalled. The See series is all about that.

[DDE]

It's possible to stand directly on/amidst Helena's Hair - remains of fuel rods streaming from underneath the upended top of the reactor - in Chernobyl and live. But you have to be a crazy photographer and not his subject