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Dr Jekyll
5,531 posts
130 months
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Jabbah said: If all the humans on the planet paticipated on one massive daisy chain, would it be long enough to go round the equator? The population of the UK could do it twice over.
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sleep envy
59,337 posts
118 months
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Can you road register a hovercraft?
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Justayellowbadge
29,474 posts
111 months
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sleep envy said: Can you road register a hovercraft?  Quite simply the best question I have ever heard.
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sleep envy
59,337 posts
118 months
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No clamping and no towing away.
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Fabric
3,047 posts
61 months
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No emergency stops either. 
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OlberJ
11,980 posts
102 months
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Tried to corner in one of those things?
You'd need a banked oval everywhere u go.
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sleep envy
59,337 posts
118 months
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Fabric said: No emergency stops either. so what? you could run people over and they'd be fine.
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GTIR
19,078 posts
135 months
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Fabric said: rohrl said: GTIR said: I heard years ago that the ceramic bit of a spark plug can shatter car windows by just throwing a small piece at it. Is this true? I saw a Police, Camera, No Further Action years ago where some ne'erdowell was found to have a pair of socks and some ceramic chips in his tracksuit pocket which were described as the tools of a car thief, so I'm going with true.  The ceramics in spark plugs are incredibly tough compared to glass, thus break it easily. Example  ing knew it.
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OlberJ
11,980 posts
102 months
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Tested this out on a Camry we were breaking a couple of years ago thinking it was rubbish. Near cacked myself when the window went in 1st go.
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JonnyFive
26,734 posts
58 months
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GTIR said: Fabric said: rohrl said: GTIR said: I heard years ago that the ceramic bit of a spark plug can shatter car windows by just throwing a small piece at it. Is this true? I saw a Police, Camera, No Further Action years ago where some ne'erdowell was found to have a pair of socks and some ceramic chips in his tracksuit pocket which were described as the tools of a car thief, so I'm going with true. The ceramics in spark plugs are incredibly tough compared to glass, thus break it easily. Example ing knew it. Damn thats cool. I want to do it now..
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DrTre
12,428 posts
101 months
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sleep envy said: Fabric said: No emergency stops either. so what? you could run people over and they'd be fine. The breeze from hover traffic would blow skirts up too. Booze cruises would be easy. There are only upsides to this plan.
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sleep envy
59,337 posts
118 months
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DrTre said: The breeze from hover traffic would blow skirts up too.
Booze cruises would be easy.
There are only upsides to this plan. Traffic on Embankment? No problem, you can use the Thames. Natch. Good to meet you last night!
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bomb
1,859 posts
153 months
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theironduke said: Another...
In the merchant Navy how do officers address each other? although they wear rank insignia is "sir" and "maam" used as befitting rank? Or is it just first names? The Captain / Master is referred to (in his absence) as 'The Old Man'. To address him its normally 'yes Captain' or 'Aye Captain' or plain yes sir. The Chief Engineer is referred to as 'Chief' at any time. The Chief Officer ( one rank below Captain/Master) is known as 'Mr Mate'. The Second officer would be addressed the Officer of the watch' or 'Second Mate' The second engineer ( one rank below the Chief Engineer) is known as the 'Second'. The Bosun (who runs the deck crew) would be known as 'The Blocker' or 'The Bosun'. cadets normally get called 'Hoy, You!' The lowest member of the deck crew used to be called 'The Peggy' ( historical name due to them normally having one leg, and hence just did menial tasks and small cleaning jobs. The 'Chief Steward' would be known as 'The scab lifter' ( due to ability to look after you when you would be ill etc), or The Grocer.
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DrTre
12,428 posts
101 months
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sleep envy said: Traffic on Embankment? No problem, you can use the Thames.
Natch.
Good to meet you last night! Are there rules to say we can't do that? You too, all of you! (a little jaded today)
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sleep envy
59,337 posts
118 months
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DrTre said: Are there rules to say we can't do that?
You too, all of you!
(a little jaded today) Possibly but they've got to catch you first. T'was only a few beers, proper sessions are at DD's 
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DrTre
12,428 posts
101 months
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Yeah, I was pondering dd's on the way home...I'd be incapable...of anything...
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MiseryStreak
758 posts
76 months
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Jabbah said: If all the humans on the planet paticipated on one massive daisy chain, would it be long enough to go round the equator? Current population estimates give the world's population as 7.026 billionThe average height of a human being is 5'6" or 1.676m (multiple sources, probably unreliable) When forming a daisy chain, I have estimated that a person's width is 60% of their height with partially outstretched arms, so 1.0m (convenient). So the total length of the chain would be 7,026,000,000m or 7,026,000km (4,365,754 miles) Assuming that the people standing over the oceans have suitable floats to stand on. The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 24,901 miles or 40,075 km. DIviding the length of our daisy chain by the Earth's circumference gives 175.32. So the human daisy chain would encircle the Earth 175 times.It would be long enough (again, if enough spacesuits were provided and jet packs for the ones still within the Earth's gravitational field) to reach the moon (384,400 km away so 7,026,000/384,400 = 18.28) and back 9 times. Mars is 54.6 million km away at its closest point to the Earth, so we would need to increase the Earth's population by 770% or to a population of 54.6 billion to form a daisy chain that reached our Martian neighbour. Venus is only 38 million km away at its closest point to the Earth, so not quite the stretch. Either way, we've got some breeding to do before we can form a chain to one of our neighbouring planets. So get f king people.
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Justin Cyder
6,153 posts
18 months
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Worst chat up line ever.
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Jonboy_t
2,538 posts
52 months
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MiseryStreak said: Jabbah said: If all the humans on the planet paticipated on one massive daisy chain, would it be long enough to go round the equator? Current population estimates give the world's population as 7.026 billionThe average height of a human being is 5'6" or 1.676m (multiple sources, probably unreliable) When forming a daisy chain, I have estimated that a person's width is 60% of their height with partially outstretched arms, so 1.0m (convenient). So the total length of the chain would be 7,026,000,000m or 7,026,000km (4,365,754 miles) Assuming that the people standing over the oceans have suitable floats to stand on. The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 24,901 miles or 40,075 km. DIviding the length of our daisy chain by the Earth's circumference gives 175.32. So the human daisy chain would encircle the Earth 175 times.It would be long enough (again, if enough spacesuits were provided and jet packs for the ones still within the Earth's gravitational field) to reach the moon (384,400 km away so 7,026,000/384,400 = 18.28) and back 9 times. Mars is 54.6 million km away at its closest point to the Earth, so we would need to increase the Earth's population by 770% or to a population of 54.6 billion to form a daisy chain that reached our Martian neighbour. Venus is only 38 million km away at its closest point to the Earth, so not quite the stretch. Either way, we've got some breeding to do before we can form a chain to one of our neighbouring planets. So get f king people. The width of your arms is exactly the same as your height. Apparently.
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OlberJ
11,980 posts
102 months
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Forget that, he wants us all to bum each other.
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