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

[Hugo a Gogo]

MarshPhantom said:

How exactly does religion make the world a better place?

God cures all the kids with cancer who get enough facebook likes

[TheLordJohn]

Hugo a Gogo said:

God cures all the kids with cancer who get enough facebook likes

As Ricky Gervais said - That can't have been God, he was busy giving AIDS to babies in Africa.

[talksthetorque]

Terrible events are ( Insert Deity)'s way of getting you off facebook for a few days. As it just fills with crap even more than normal

[matchmaker]

Shakermaker said:

Ayahuasca said:

MissChief said:

gazzarose said:

Just watching Supertruckers and they have to move an airport firetruck. Why are airport fire Trucks different to normal for engines?

The engine also acts as a pump for the water cannon and foam lances, although I'm pretty sure that's just a gearbox or clutch that is engaged.

They also need to have some off road capability, cannot guarantee a crashed ac will be on tarmac.

Also, they are a lot more specialised with the function of what they are designed for - crashed aircraft with potential huge volumes of fuel on board that needs to be suppressed with heavy duty foam

And they can be quite a lot heavier, since they don't need to travel on the road they don't need to comply so much with the weight limits or width restrictions that might occur on a regular fire engine route.

I've been on one (years ago). Powered by a straight 8 petrol Rolls Royce engine. It could shift...

[Evoluzione]

RATATTAK said:

Cliftonite said:

RATATTAK said:

Good design IMO

Ignition on / Lights on:
choice of high or low beam
choice of front only or front and rear fogs
all go off when ignition is off (even if light switch is still in 'on' position so no more annoying bing bongs)

Ignition on / Lights off:
DRLs only

In which case, how does one leave the parking (side) lights on when parked?

Probably with the indicator stalk ... I'll check and let you know

Fiat group have always had odd parking light switches. I don't know about now, but for quite a few years they operated by a discrete button by the side of the ignition barrel, IIRC you pushed it, pulled the key out and the lights stayed on, it might have knocked off when the key was put back in. Many owners never knew they were there and It's rare you see someone using parking lights these days.

[Willy Nilly]

Shakermaker said:

Ayahuasca said:

MissChief said:

gazzarose said:

Just watching Supertruckers and they have to move an airport firetruck. Why are airport fire Trucks different to normal for engines?

The engine also acts as a pump for the water cannon and foam lances, although I'm pretty sure that's just a gearbox or clutch that is engaged.

They also need to have some off road capability, cannot guarantee a crashed ac will be on tarmac.

Also, they are a lot more specialised with the function of what they are designed for - crashed aircraft with potential huge volumes of fuel on board that needs to be suppressed with heavy duty foam

And they can be quite a lot heavier, since they don't need to travel on the road they don't need to comply so much with the weight limits or width restrictions that might occur on a regular fire engine route.

What happens to the foam once the fire is out? I'm guessing there is a huge contaminated area to clean up

[Shakermaker]

Willy Nilly said:

What happens to the foam once the fire is out? I'm guessing there is a huge contaminated area to clean up

yes, there is. I haven't watched them clean it all up before but they probably get through a lot of "Juan Sheet" to mop it up. I suppose they do have some mitigation against it contaminating the watercourses but exactly what I couldn't say.

But that is better than having to try and clean up after a huge fire I suppose.

[Balmoral]

MarshPhantom said:

How exactly does religion make the world a better place?

It's OK and pretty good when the sell outs and the moderates and the wishy washy types practise it, the ones who have twisted their religion by substituting "Kill the infidel" with food banks and hugs and stuff.

The problem is with those who are doing it right.

[boxst]

MarshPhantom said:

How exactly does religion make the world a better place?

That of course is an interesting question. Originally it was to provide some guidance in life and to make death more palatable. And to a certain extend that worked. It is the twisting of the words, the seas of blood and conflict against other somewhat similar at their heart religions that make it all go horribly wrong.

I am not religious, my wife is. At times I do envy her inner peace at dying and the utmost belief that things will be fine.

[TheLordJohn]

boxst said:

I am not religious, my wife is. At times I do envy her inner peace at dying and the utmost belief that things will be fine.

I am at peace with death. I know that when I die, that's it. End of. No more.
Making things up to make us feel better about 'Mum is with Dad now" and that sort of guff worked 300 years ago when there was no education for the masses, but it's clear to any sensible, reasonable, half-educated human being that it's complete codswallop.

[SpeckledJim]

Balmoral said:

MarshPhantom said:

How exactly does religion make the world a better place?

It's OK and pretty good when the sell outs and the moderates and the wishy washy types practise it, the ones who have twisted their religion by substituting "Kill the infidel" with food banks and hugs and stuff.

The problem is with those who are doing it right.

Agree with this. Follow the Bible to the letter and you'll be in jail by lunchtime.

[Balmoral]

SpeckledJim said:

Balmoral said:

MarshPhantom said:

How exactly does religion make the world a better place?

It's OK and pretty good when the sell outs and the moderates and the wishy washy types practise it, the ones who have twisted their religion by substituting "Kill the infidel" with food banks and hugs and stuff.

The problem is with those who are doing it right.

Agree with this. Follow the Bible to the letter and you'll be in jail by lunchtime.

We are constantly being told that it is the extremists/radicals that have "twisted" the religion. It's more the case that the moderates have twisted adapted to living in a socially progressive, liberal world, tolerant of other religions and those with no religion. However, as you say, the instruction manual hasn't really changed much, and so there are numerous green lights for some pretty heinous stuff for the fully committed. Bible or Koran or whatever.

[austinsmirk]

Ok- vaguely topical question. In Bradford last week, there was a huge outcry that copies of the Quran were placed by accident into a skip.

not on purpose by some BNP nutter, but an Islamic bookshop having a shop refit. Cue "community up in horror" " public apologies" and all the other nonsense.

Therefore, if you cannot dispose of said book in a bin or suitable receptacle when it is no longer required: what do the scholars say you should do with it.

No book lasts forever.


NB:

other religions are available, all contain the same amount of complete nonsense about twisting your interpretation of something a sky pilot may/may not have said into whatever you fancy to suit your own purposes.

[Jonboy_t]

Just watching comic relief - why do they have to ask if you want to gift aid? Why isn't it just assumed?!

[Shakermaker]

Jonboy_t said:

Just watching comic relief - why do they have to ask if you want to gift aid? Why isn't it just assumed?!

Because not every donation qualifies for gift aid, and so you have to declare it.
You have to be a UK taxpayer, and you have to be donating your own money. For example, if you hold a charity cake sale at work and then go to pay the money to the charity, you aren't able to apply gift aid to that payment.

[Cold]

Cadbury Mis Shapes. Are they really factory rejects or are they specifically manufactured to fulfil a gap in the choccy market?

[wiggy001]

Cold said:

Cadbury Mis Shapes. Are they really factory rejects or are they specifically manufactured to fulfil a gap in the choccy market?

I wondered the same about the boxes of broken biscuits you can buy.

[Fane]

It seems an odd strategy to add in a process (the breaking of the biscuits) in order to charge less for them, but if there's a market for them....

[rab.s]

Willy Nilly said:

Shakermaker said:

Ayahuasca said:

MissChief said:

gazzarose said:

Just watching Supertruckers and they have to move an airport firetruck. Why are airport fire Trucks different to normal for engines?

The engine also acts as a pump for the water cannon and foam lances, although I'm pretty sure that's just a gearbox or clutch that is engaged.

They also need to have some off road capability, cannot guarantee a crashed ac will be on tarmac.

Also, they are a lot more specialised with the function of what they are designed for - crashed aircraft with potential huge volumes of fuel on board that needs to be suppressed with heavy duty foam

And they can be quite a lot heavier, since they don't need to travel on the road they don't need to comply so much with the weight limits or width restrictions that might occur on a regular fire engine route.

What happens to the foam once the fire is out? I'm guessing there is a huge contaminated area to clean up

AFFFP (Aqueous Film Forming Fluoro Protein), is made from refined bovine left overs. Hence not too much of an issue to the environment. Can cause issues if it goes into water courses neat. Airports have settling ponds for their surface water, hence easily diluted before discharge. Also a reason why Fire Fighter is not a good career choice for vegans.

[glazbagun]

In the documentary Universal Soldier, Dolph puts his fist straight through the skull of a scientist who refuses him more steroids.

If one were to replicate this, how fast/much force would be required?