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Vipers
15,633 posts
98 months
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SteellFJ said: Wish I had never read this, I get the fear when I start to think about the size of the universe! had never actually thought about the speed of light being a factor in the light we see as stars, only ever considered the scale side of it, not that it is sooooo huge even light take years/millenniums to get to us!
it must end somewhere, surely???
DAMN YOU!!!!!!! And when you see some stars in the sky, and have to convince yourself it dissapeared before christ was born, or even when dinosaurs walked on the earth, my heard starting to hurt again......... 
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Lefty
12,372 posts
72 months
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HD Adam said: NRS said: MR00PEA said: There is a more oil left than they would have you believe, I read somewhere there is at least 40 years worth alone still sat under Alaska. The problem is the cost of getting it. A lot of the big easy fields have been found. So it's smaller fields (harder too find), less oil in each (so need more finds to replace the big fields) and more costly for the infrastructure relative to produced volumes. Or you have the stuff like the oil sands, but they're expensive to produce (lots of wells, lots of energy used to heat up so they flow, poor recovery rate etc). That's exactly right. Think of it like this. There is lots of oil left but there is not much cheap oil left. The Peak Oil figure is a moving goalpost. It's always what can be extracted with current technology. To take a totally daft scenario, if somebody invented a Star Trek stylee transporter and you could beam the oil out of the ground, there would be a lot more available. Indeed. But if we had transporters we wouldn't need nearly so much oil as we do now. And it would be waaaay more expensive to run our overpowered cars
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S6PNJ
1,827 posts
151 months
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Hmm, things you find hard to get your head around..... How you can buy whisky, yet it not be ready for up to 7 years!  1 down 6 to go! Hi Lefty! Is it ready yet?
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Lefty
12,372 posts
72 months
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S6PNJ said: Hmm, things you find hard to get your head around..... How you can buy whisky, yet it not be ready for up to 7 years! 1 down 6 to go! Hi Lefty! Is it ready yet? f  k me, I avoid the cask thread and I STILL get s t about this! ;-p I'm changing my username! Oh, by the way, a mate of mine just bought a 200L rum cask from GLG. I am insanely envious...
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S6PNJ
1,827 posts
151 months
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Hi Lefty, slight thread derail! glad to see you haven't lost your sense of humour! if I had the money, I'd buy a lagavulin, laphroaig or talisker cask. Hmm, maybe oban as well. I'm just damn pleased you org'd the 4 casks I am in on. Cheers!
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renmure
1,550 posts
94 months
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I do some work at the smallest Michelin Tyre factory.
They make 26,000 tyres per day, each day.. every day.. day in.. day out.
That's one tyre dropping off the production line every 3 seconds, each minute, each hour, 24/7, all year.
Michelin have lots of tyre factories.
There are lots of other tyre manufacturers with lots of other factories.
That's one hell of a lot of tyres!!!
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Dr Doofenshmirtz
6,945 posts
70 months
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I've often wondered what fills the space from all the oil we extract?
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TheHeretic
69,452 posts
125 months
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Dr Doofenshmirtz said: I've often wondered what fills the space from all the oil we extract? Water and mud, chemicals, and so on, depending on the well.
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FloppyRaccoon
1,916 posts
36 months
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Dr Doofenshmirtz said: I've often wondered what fills the space from all the oil we extract? It's stored in porous rock (sandstones/limestones etc), only stopped migrating up by non-porous cap rocks. So water fills it's place in the rock as the pressure drops. They do block off the actual drilled hole though.
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theboyfold
8,416 posts
96 months
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TheHeretic said: I'm the same, but with beef. How much beef is consumed day in, day out... Every day of the year... The amount of cattle required must be f king immense. The amount of cattle that has to die each day to feed it, is immense, and then you have to factor in that it takes x amount of time for said beefy thing to grow up, then you have to birth as many beefy things as you kill. The figures must be daft. The same for any foodstuff, except for peanut butter. That is magic. I'm with you on that, but I'll raise you. Chicken wings. How many chickens are there, they only have 2 wings, that's a f k load of chickens to look after KFC alone. Where are they all kept?
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TheHeretic
69,452 posts
125 months
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theboyfold said: I'm with you on that, but I'll raise you. Chicken wings. How many chickens are there, they only have 2 wings, that's a f k load of chickens to look after KFC alone. Where are they all kept? In a box of chicken wings, obviously. The vast majority of chicken wings are in fact rat legs... True story.
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Vipers
15,633 posts
98 months
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renmure said: I do some work at the smallest Michelin Tyre factory.
They make 26,000 tyres per day, each day.. every day.. day in.. day out.
That's one tyre dropping off the production line every 3 seconds, each minute, each hour, 24/7, all year.
Michelin have lots of tyre factories.
There are lots of other tyre manufacturers with lots of other factories.
That's one hell of a lot of tyres!!! And when all these tyres wear out, why isnt there piles of rubber dust along the roads, where does it all go??? 
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Edinburger
2,509 posts
38 months
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renmure said: I do some work at the smallest Michelin Tyre factory.
They make 26,000 tyres per day, each day.. every day.. day in.. day out.
That's one tyre dropping off the production line every 3 seconds, each minute, each hour, 24/7, all year.
Michelin have lots of tyre factories.
There are lots of other tyre manufacturers with lots of other factories.
That's one hell of a lot of tyres!!! And Michelin arent the biggest tyre manufacturer in the world. Heard this in a pub quiz. Which company makes most tyres in the world. Cue answers of Pirelli, Michelin, etc. The answer is...... Lego!
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Dusty964
5,530 posts
60 months
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I struggle to grasp why I cant buy 'Cherry Ripe' bars anywhere but in Australia.
That, and why was the Texan bar discontinued.
Meaningful stuff, eh?
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TomN94
2,395 posts
28 months
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Another one from me. Our universe, the Milky Way, currently, us people of Earth are the only living beings in it, until proven otherwise. But, in other universe's? universii? the plural anyway...are there other planets like ours, with humans on?
Are they more advanced than us, with cures for cancer, and flying cars and what not?
Or are they less developed, and still living in caves, going out hunting and hitting each other over the head with clubs carved out of stone?
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dmulally
2,849 posts
50 months
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Dusty964 said: I struggle to grasp why I cant buy 'Cherry Ripe' bars anywhere but in Australia.
That, and why was the Texan bar discontinued.
Meaningful stuff, eh? Send me a PM if you want me to hook you up with some CR's.
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mybrainhurts
71,777 posts
125 months
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It's small that baffles me.
How the hell does a gnat find out where to stick its todger?
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Nick M
3,149 posts
93 months
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I often wonder about the sheer scale and logistics involved in supplying a modern city.
We used to live in Phoenix, Arizona, which isn't exactly one of the prime farming locations in the US. Yet the supermarkets all had gallons of milk on the shelves, fresh sea food, meat, vegetables and all manner of other perishables. The sheer scale of the logistics effort required to supply all of those things to a relatively remote city on a regular basis just make me stop and think about how much we take for granted.
I also sometimes stop and wonder about all of the metal, glass and plastic which has been produced over the years - in some cases lots of years, e.g. iron and steel - and how much of that has now disappeared (as rust or other corrosion, by erosion, etc.) and how much could be recycled.
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TheHeretic
69,452 posts
125 months
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TomN94 said: Another one from me. Our universe, the Milky Way, currently, us people of Earth are the only living beings in it, until proven otherwise. But, in other universe's? universii? the plural anyway...are there other planets like ours, with humans on?
Are they more advanced than us, with cures for cancer, and flying cars and what not?
Or are they less developed, and still living in caves, going out hunting and hitting each other over the head with clubs carved out of stone? What makes you think they will be human?
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The Don of Croy
1,127 posts
29 months
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TomN94 said: Another one from me. Our universe, the Milky Way, currently, us people of Earth are the only living beings in it, until proven otherwise. But, in other universe's? universii? the plural anyway...are there other planets like ours, with humans on? If you've never seen a David Attenborough prog, now would be a good time to catch up...
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