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

[Ben J. Kerman]

weltenbauer Software Entwicklung GmbH has made both construction simulator games with Liebherr equipment and an actual crane job planner for Liebherr.

[SunlitZelkova]

2 hours ago, Ben J. Kerman said:

weltenbauer Software Entwicklung GmbH has made both construction simulator games with Liebherr equipment and an actual crane job planner for Liebherr.

This is epic.

[kerbiloid]

Skeletonics exoskeleton.

Spoiler

 

 

[DDE]

55 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Skeletonics exoskeleton.

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Powerless armor. Also a giant, complex waldo. Might actually have some use cases, but without mechanical amplification, not too many, I figure.

[darthgently]

On 11/28/2022 at 4:28 PM, DDE said:

Fallout excuses the unrealistic mutations with the lore surrounding the Forced Evolutionary Virus. So, labs were involved.

Yep, real world studies of wildlife around Chernobyl proved all the far out claims wrong.  Cancer from direct exposure, yes, inherited mutations, virtually nope

[kerbiloid]

And the wolves from Belorussian territory. They ate everything mutated, including mutated wolvlings.

[kerbiloid]

https://www.energy.gov/articles/secretary-granholm-statement-doe-order-vacating-1954-atomic-energy-commission-decision

J. R. Oppenheimer is allowed to have an access to the Manhattan Project files again.

[Ben J. Kerman]

Since Iberia owned many South American airlines in the 90s, their liveries all looked similar:

And all of them looked awesome 

Edited December 18, 2022 by Ben J. Kerman
I think Austral Líneas Aéreas was owned by Aerolineas Argentinas, but they had the Iberia style livery, so Austral got it too,

[Beamer]

On 12/5/2022 at 7:50 PM, Vanamonde said:

As of 2013, the various models of Boeing 737 had collectively performed 184 million flights. (Paragraph 3.) One hundred and eighty four. Million. flights. MILLIONS. One hundred and eighty-four of them.

I've told this to several people and no one finds it as stunning as I do. 

I always find it useful to make such numbers a bit more understandable by making them... well, smaller They've been in service for 54 years, so that means it's about 6.5 flights per minute, 24/7. On average for the past 50 years every 10 seconds one took off somewhere in the world, (and one landed somewhere else, hopefully). It is pretty stunning indeed.

I don't know what the average flight time is but it's a safe bet to say that there are more than a 1000 of them somewhere up in the air at most times of the day.

Edit: just noticed the "as of 2013" part so the numbers are some 15% higher still, but in the ballpark

 

Edited December 26, 2022 by Beamer

[Beamer]

According to wikipedia, all planets of the solar system have at least one city or town named after them, except for Uranus. That includes Earth, Texas, USA (, Earth).

There is however a tourist attraction on the old Route 66 called Uranus in Pulaski County, Missouri, USA. It has 25 residents but no local government, and all local businesses are owned by a single person who calls himself "Mayor of Uranus". Most notably it holds the Guinness World Record for having the largest belt buckle in the world.

Just thought you would want to know that...

 

Edited January 3, 2023 by Beamer

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

24 minutes ago, Beamer said:

Just thought you would want to know that

I did not know that I did... But I did. 

[rahulvattya]

Funny facts are more interesting if they are related to a subject. Start some events that seem old but new in life. Leave some memories in life so that people can't forget your life.

[Abel Military Services]

Spent fuel pool(a big pool for cooling used fuel rod)is very safe. You can swim in it, just don't touch the fuel rods. 

[StrandedonEarth]

4 hours ago, Abel Military Services said:

Spent fuel pool(a big pool for cooling used fuel rod)is very safe. You can swim in it, just don't touch the fuel rods. 

Nice and warm too. 

[steve9728]

Sony Music registered an account on Bilibili which online video web has most youth people in China using. They have uploaded probably over 100,000 of their copyrighted music. And the most hits one is: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1GJ411x7h7/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0

Of course!

Edited January 8, 2023 by steve9728

[Abel Military Services]

22 hours ago, steve9728 said:

Sony Music registered an account on Bilibili which online video web has most youth people in China using. They have uploaded probably over 100,000 of their copyrighted music. And the most hits one is: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1GJ411x7h7/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0

Of course!

GET RICKROLLED LOL

"kerbal" comes from the little green man which @HarvesteR used to put on his fireworks. 

Typical KSP noob moment. 

Edited January 9, 2023 by Abel Military Services

[Abel Military Services]

Apollo 13 Astronauts throw a can of Plutonium into the tonga trench. 

That is such a waste. If they have enough space we could reuse that. Then I guess the juno mission can use RTG. 

Edited January 9, 2023 by Abel Military Services

[kerbiloid]

It's warm, so to the moment it's probably already occupied by a growing hill of life forms.

Years later it will become an atoll.

Years more later the water will corrode the hull, get inside, moderate the neutrons, and we shall see the first radioactive volcano.

***

Oops,.. Did it begin?

 

[Abel Military Services]

The Apollo 13 plutonium is covered with Graphite, Beryllium and Titanium. The whole stuff is the size of a small fire extinguisher. 

Edited January 9, 2023 by Abel Military Services

[Abel Military Services]

NASA is running out of Plutonium. The Juno probe uses solar panels, and the Curiosity rover's Plutonium is bought from Russia.

[steve9728]

The de facto world's most overcrowded, inmate controlled Bilibid prison had more than 20 cells converted into villas, striptease room with flashing lights and a professional recording studio before the Bilibid prison corruption case in the Philippines was uncovered in 2014.

And this, was recorded from the studio in the prison

I kinda like the melody of the song if only from an artistic point of view and without considering him as a bank robber and drug lord.

Edited January 13, 2023 by steve9728

[farmerben]

Spoiler

 

Post-Modernism for Aerospace Engineers

[kerbiloid]

4 Li + O₂ → 2 Li₂O
Li₂O + H₂O → 2 LiOH
2 LiOH + CO2 → Li₂CO₃ + H₂O
Li₂CO₃ + Al₂O₃ → 2 LiAlO₃ + CO₂

France, Grand Couronne, Li batteries (20 000 m2) + tyres (6 000 m2)

edge-upvideo.rbc.ru/archive/2023/01/17/__mp4/576p.mp4

[StrandedonEarth]

https://i.imgur.com/oq1Hb5M.mp4

 

Edited January 27, 2023 by StrandedonEarth

[TheSaint]

54 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said:

https://i.imgur.com/oq1Hb5M.mp4

 

When we shoot .22LR at steel at distance, like 50-100 yards, it's usually slowed down enough that the bullet doesn't shatter against the steel target, it just pancakes and falls to the ground. If you look around in the dirt near the target you can find a bunch of little lead pancakes. When we're bringing new folks to shoot, especially kids, I point them out to them and they usually end up taking a couple home as souvenirs.