Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]

[LordGrover]

DoubleSix said:

How do seedless varieties of fruit (satsumas etc) propagate?

Cloning (cuttings or grafts).

[DoubleSix]

LordGrover said:

DoubleSix said:

How do seedless varieties of fruit (satsumas etc) propagate?

Cloning (cuttings or grafts).

Ok, so briefly how does that work on a commercial scale?

[wilfandrowlf]

iambeowulf said:

Do tanks have horns?

Not specifically in WW2 but also nowadays.

Apparently yes they do!
Speaking to some REME guys I work with, next to f@&k all use though, over the roar of the massive Diesel engine. A legal requirement would you believe!

[Asterix]

wilfandrowlf said:

iambeowulf said:

Do tanks have horns?

Not specifically in WW2 but also nowadays.

Apparently yes they do!
Speaking to some REME guys I work with, next to f@&k all use though, over the roar of the massive Diesel engine. A legal requirement would you believe!

Yep - I'm a REME guy - in theory they should all have horns, indicators, lights and mirrors just like cars.

Utterly pointless but there you go.

The horns will be the smallest, crappiest possible as it's just a waste of money - I know we put a clown car horn on a FV432 just to get it through a test once.

Edited by Asterix on Monday 16th March 13:23

[P-Jay]

wilfandrowlf said:

iambeowulf said:

Do tanks have horns?

Not specifically in WW2 but also nowadays.

Apparently yes they do!
Speaking to some REME guys I work with, next to f@&k all use though, over the roar of the massive Diesel engine. A legal requirement would you believe!

I suspected as much, you'll have to forgive me as I wasn't into airfix as a kid and don't really know the difference between a APC, Self-propelled gun and a Tank, but the smaller ones are road legal are they not? The ones I've seen when they're having a recruitment drive are anyway.

Road legal means an MOT and an MOT means a horn.

[Einion Yrth]

Newc said:

TREMAiNE said:

If I went back in time to the start of the space race and gave my top spec smart phone to the leading scientists at NASA, how much different to you think our world would be today?

Interesting question. The processors and circuits, and to some extent the memory would be quite recognisable in the 60's. They are futuristic versions of contemporary devices. If you said "it runs on Unix" that would make sense too. Most gasping would be caused by the screen and the battery, as the tech behind flat panel and lithium ion is a long way off. So you would jump start those technologies, giving flat panel TVs in the 70's and fuel cell powered hologram TVs for us by now.

Unless you could give them some idea as to how to fabricate in < 30nm scales I very much doubt that just knowing for sure that it could be done would have helped much to be honest.

[rohrl]

DoubleSix said:

LordGrover said:

DoubleSix said:

How do seedless varieties of fruit (satsumas etc) propagate?

Cloning (cuttings or grafts).

Ok, so briefly how does that work on a commercial scale?

Lots of clones/cuttings. Same as for bananas, nearly all of which are perfect clones of each other.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/co...

[Moonhawk]

DoubleSix said:

Ok, so briefly how does that work on a commercial scale?

Don't know - but it must be.

Every apple tree in existence that is used to produce apples of a known type has been grafted - apples do not seed true (i.e. planting a seed from a Granny Smith apple will likely result in a tree that produces apples other than Granny Smith).

[DervVW]

Moonhawk said:

DoubleSix said:

Ok, so briefly how does that work on a commercial scale?

Don't know - but it must be.

Every apple tree in existence that is used to produce apples of a known type has been grafted - apples do not seed true (i.e. planting a seed from a Granny Smith apple will likely result in a tree that produces apples other than Granny Smith).

this really has opened my eyes, im like a dumb child!

[thismonkeyhere]

P-Jay said:

I suspected as much, you'll have to forgive me as I wasn't into airfix as a kid and don't really know the difference between a APC, Self-propelled gun and a Tank, but the smaller ones are road legal are they not? The ones I've seen when they're having a recruitment drive are anyway.

Road legal means an MOT and an MOT means a horn.

I've just spoken to my colleague who was a Major in the 17/21 Lancers - Challenger 2 - and apparently there is also a requirement for them to pass an emissions test on their 26-litre engines.

[Issi]

john2443 said:

Issi said:

Why is it that despite Birmingham being the second biggest city in the UK, but you very rarely see or hear a Brummie in the media?

There are loads of celebrities/bands from Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester etc, but the Midlands is like a cultural black hole.

Slade, Black Sabbath, UB40, ELO, Duran Duran, Moeen Ali, Adrian Chiles, Sue Lawley, Jamelia, Benjamin Zephania.

Maybe others don't speak in Brummie accents so you don't realise.

This is exactly what I mean, 1.1 million people in Birmingham and you've managed to dredge up 5 extinct bands, and such public figures as Sue Lawley and Benjamin Zephania.

I've just googled a very small district of London (Bexleyheath), and they list Steve Backley, Kate Bush, Bernie Ecclestone, Boy George, Sheila Hancock, David Haye, Edward Heath, Roger Moore and Delia Smith.

So my question remains, if one small district can produce these people, why does Birmingham produce so very few?

[MissChief]

Money or perhaps better said as earnings? Here is more money swimming around London and the South East making ventures such as athletics, music and sport far easier with parents cash than doing so when living outside these areas? The need to actually make a living and earn a crust eventually supersedes any wish or desire to become a successful Olympian or music star?

[Justayellowbadge]

Clickable Links on websites.

Has anyone ever lived who 'will be truly shocked' or 'simply won't believe' or 'had to see' the tedious vapid celebrity nonsense presented?

[TheEnd]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_B...

[DervVW]

Issi said:

john2443 said:

Issi said:

Why is it that despite Birmingham being the second biggest city in the UK, but you very rarely see or hear a Brummie in the media?

There are loads of celebrities/bands from Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester etc, but the Midlands is like a cultural black hole.

Slade, Black Sabbath, UB40, ELO, Duran Duran, Moeen Ali, Adrian Chiles, Sue Lawley, Jamelia, Benjamin Zephania.

Maybe others don't speak in Brummie accents so you don't realise.

This is exactly what I mean, 1.1 million people in Birmingham and you've managed to dredge up 5 extinct bands, and such public figures as Sue Lawley and Benjamin Zephania.

I've just googled a very small district of London (Bexleyheath), and they list Steve Backley, Kate Bush, Bernie Ecclestone, Boy George, Sheila Hancock, David Haye, Edward Heath, Roger Moore and Delia Smith.

So my question remains, if one small district can produce these people, why does Birmingham produce so very few?

London hates our accent... and Manchester shouts louder?
Workshop of the world no longer...

[rohrl]

Justayellowbadge said:

Clickable Links on websites.

Has anyone ever lived who 'will be truly shocked' or 'simply won't believe' or 'had to see' the tedious vapid celebrity nonsense presented?

You might be surprised to hear that there's an excellent answer to that question if you click HERE

[Hugo a Gogo]

Issi said:

john2443 said:

Issi said:

Why is it that despite Birmingham being the second biggest city in the UK, but you very rarely see or hear a Brummie in the media?

There are loads of celebrities/bands from Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester etc, but the Midlands is like a cultural black hole.

Slade, Black Sabbath, UB40, ELO, Duran Duran, Moeen Ali, Adrian Chiles, Sue Lawley, Jamelia, Benjamin Zephania.

Maybe others don't speak in Brummie accents so you don't realise.

This is exactly what I mean, 1.1 million people in Birmingham and you've managed to dredge up 5 extinct bands, and such public figures as Sue Lawley and Benjamin Zephania.

I've just googled a very small district of London (Bexleyheath), and they list Steve Backley, Kate Bush, Bernie Ecclestone, Boy George, Sheila Hancock, David Haye, Edward Heath, Roger Moore and Delia Smith.

So my question remains, if one small district can produce these people, why does Birmingham produce so very few?

I clicked that link and saw R2D2 and Bob Carolgees, what more do you want???

[littlebasher]

What with all the Solar goings on today and the Aurora Borealis some of us got to see the other night, here's a question.

How come, despite being at a more northerly latitude than the USA, during solar storms they get the Aurora appearing much further south than we get here?

[Taff107]

iambeowulf said:

Do tanks have horns?

Not specifically in WW2 but also nowadays.

They don't and you don't need one. Tanks are combat vehicles and apart from for very short distances, they do not get driven on the road much. If there is a distance to travel, then they will be transported. In addition, have you ever been close to a tank running at (relatively)'high' speed / revs? The earth shakes and the noise can more accurately be described as a stomach-churning scream. Anyone who fails to notice something that isn't fit to be on the road!

[The Don of Croy]

It was a surprise when Dominoes pizza arrived in town - suddenly there's a fleet of mopeds delivering overpriced unhealthy pro-salt tepid food to your door.

So why don't Chippy's deliver? The chinese take-away has also been encouraging non-roadworthy MOT failures to hack around the suburban roadscape for years, too.

It's not the pricing, is it? What does a haddock and med chips cost now - £8 plus per head? Compared to the pizza a meal for 3 or 4 peeps must be similar cost/margin?

Maybe it's the aroma?