Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 4]

[227bhp]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

227bhp said:

How do I put a degree symbol (the tiny o thing) into a post or an email? How do I get a normal keyboard to do this?

On Windows, you hold down the Alt key, type 248 on the numeric keypad, then release the Alt key.

100°

[hurstg01]

If you’re using your iPhone (I’m on iOS 12.1.14) hold the zero key til it shows the degree sign

[RATATTAK]

hurstg01 said:

If you’re using your iPhone (I’m on iOS 12.1.14) hold the zero key til it shows the degree sign

:thumbs: thanks

[RATATTAK]

alt 0 on a Mac

90º

[ambuletz]

Double decker london buses.

1- what PSI do they run at?
2- how strong are it's sidewalls?


I wonder this everytime I'm waiting for a bus and i see the driver get so close up to the kerb they're rubbing the sidewalls against the kerb for about 5-6 metres before coming to a stop.

[227bhp]

ambuletz said:

Double decker london buses.

1- what PSI do they run at?
2- how strong are it is sidewalls?


I wonder this everytime I'm waiting for a bus and i see the driver get so close up to the kerb they're rubbing the sidewalls against the kerb for about 5-6 metres before coming to a stop.

1. 60psi, the same as a good bottle of champagne.
2. Strong enough.

I don't think you really thought No.2 through very well really.

[SCEtoAUX]

Spock touched McCoy's head for perhaps three seconds and transferred the entire contents of his brain across.

What kind of bitrate are we talking about here?

[The Mad Monk]

hurstg01 said:

If you’re using your iPhone (I’m on iOS 12.1.14) hold the zero key til it shows the degree sign

Doesn't work for me.

[V8mate]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Most computational neuroscientists tend to estimate human storage capacity somewhere between 10 terabytes and 100 terabytes, though the full spectrum of guesses ranges from 1 terabyte to 2.5 petabytes.

That's a hell of a range.

It's almost entirely irrelevant when you discover, later in life, that you commited 85% of it to storing the lyrics of every song released between 1976 and 1987.

Add to that, further lyrics stored from outside of that period, and it explains why careers didn't pan out as might have been expected

[jet_noise]

V8mate said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Most computational neuroscientists tend to estimate human storage capacity somewhere between 10 terabytes and 100 terabytes, though the full spectrum of guesses ranges from 1 terabyte to 2.5 petabytes.

That's a hell of a range.

It's almost entirely irrelevant when you discover, later in life, that you commited 85% of it to storing the lyrics of every song released between 1976 and 1987.

Add to that, further lyrics stored from outside of that period, and it explains why careers didn't pan out as might have been expected

[Frank7]

ambuletz said:

Double decker london buses.

1- what PSI do they run at?
2- how strong are it's sidewalls?


I wonder this everytime I'm waiting for a bus and i see the driver get so close up to the kerb they're rubbing the sidewalls against the kerb for about 5-6 metres before coming to a stop.

The popular story in the sixties in London, (urban myth or not, I don’t know), was that the double decker 82 bus that ran through Rotherhithe Tunnel had steel reinforced sidewalls, as it constantly rubbed against the kerb in the Tunnel.

[StevieBee]

Frank7 said:

The popular story in the sixties in London, (urban myth or not, I don’t know), was that the double decker 82 bus that ran through Rotherhithe Tunnel had steel reinforced sidewalls, as it constantly rubbed against the kerb in the Tunnel.

And do you know why there's two bends in the Rotherhite Tunnel?

[Frank7]

StevieBee said:

Frank7 said:

The popular story in the sixties in London, (urban myth or not, I don’t know), was that the double decker 82 bus that ran through Rotherhithe Tunnel had steel reinforced sidewalls, as it constantly rubbed against the kerb in the Tunnel.

And do you know why there's two bends in the Rotherhite Tunnel?

There are more than two, but my first wife’s father used to say that the ones closer to the exits, in Limehouse, and Rotherhithe, were put there to stop horses bolting when they saw the light of day ahead, personally I thought that was bo££ocks, and that the bends were there because the original tunnellers had had to change course due to encountering a “rocky” bit of the bed of the Thames.

[StevieBee]

Frank7 said:

StevieBee said:

Frank7 said:

The popular story in the sixties in London, (urban myth or not, I don’t know), was that the double decker 82 bus that ran through Rotherhithe Tunnel had steel reinforced sidewalls, as it constantly rubbed against the kerb in the Tunnel.

And do you know why there's two bends in the Rotherhite Tunnel?

There are more than two, but my first wife’s father used to say that the ones closer to the exits, in Limehouse, and Rotherhithe, were put there to stop horses bolting when they saw the light of day ahead, personally I thought that was bo££ocks, and that the bends were there because the original tunnellers had had to change course due to encountering a “rocky” bit of the bed of the Thames.

It's the horse thing. The ground is London Clay - no rocky outcrops to contend with.

Such a tunnel was unusual at the time and it was feared horses would get spooked when driven in unless the end was obscured.

[SpeckledJim]

StevieBee said:

Frank7 said:

StevieBee said:

Frank7 said:

The popular story in the sixties in London, (urban myth or not, I don’t know), was that the double decker 82 bus that ran through Rotherhithe Tunnel had steel reinforced sidewalls, as it constantly rubbed against the kerb in the Tunnel.

And do you know why there's two bends in the Rotherhite Tunnel?

There are more than two, but my first wife’s father used to say that the ones closer to the exits, in Limehouse, and Rotherhithe, were put there to stop horses bolting when they saw the light of day ahead, personally I thought that was bo££ocks, and that the bends were there because the original tunnellers had had to change course due to encountering a “rocky” bit of the bed of the Thames.

It's the horse thing. The ground is London Clay - no rocky outcrops to contend with.

Such a tunnel was unusual at the time and it was feared horses would get spooked when driven in unless the end was obscured.

That's some coincidence!

[V8mate]

SpeckledJim said:

StevieBee said:

Frank7 said:

StevieBee said:

Frank7 said:

The popular story in the sixties in London, (urban myth or not, I don’t know), was that the double decker 82 bus that ran through Rotherhithe Tunnel had steel reinforced sidewalls, as it constantly rubbed against the kerb in the Tunnel.

And do you know why there's two bends in the Rotherhite Tunnel?

There are more than two, but my first wife’s father used to say that the ones closer to the exits, in Limehouse, and Rotherhithe, were put there to stop horses bolting when they saw the light of day ahead, personally I thought that was bo££ocks, and that the bends were there because the original tunnellers had had to change course due to encountering a “rocky” bit of the bed of the Thames.

It's the horse thing. The ground is London Clay - no rocky outcrops to contend with.

Such a tunnel was unusual at the time and it was feared horses would get spooked when driven in unless the end was obscured.

That's some coincidence!

Just imagine the outcry if it had been Cassius!

[StevieBee]

SpeckledJim said:

StevieBee said:

Frank7 said:

StevieBee said:

Frank7 said:

The popular story in the sixties in London, (urban myth or not, I don’t know), was that the double decker 82 bus that ran through Rotherhithe Tunnel had steel reinforced sidewalls, as it constantly rubbed against the kerb in the Tunnel.

And do you know why there's two bends in the Rotherhite Tunnel?

There are more than two, but my first wife’s father used to say that the ones closer to the exits, in Limehouse, and Rotherhithe, were put there to stop horses bolting when they saw the light of day ahead, personally I thought that was bo££ocks, and that the bends were there because the original tunnellers had had to change course due to encountering a “rocky” bit of the bed of the Thames.

It's the horse thing. The ground is London Clay - no rocky outcrops to contend with.

Such a tunnel was unusual at the time and it was feared horses would get spooked when driven in unless the end was obscured.

That's some coincidence!

'London Clay' is a thing, apparently! : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Clay

[schmunk]

StevieBee said:

SpeckledJim said:

StevieBee said:

Frank7 said:

StevieBee said:

Frank7 said:

The popular story in the sixties in London, (urban myth or not, I don’t know), was that the double decker 82 bus that ran through Rotherhithe Tunnel had steel reinforced sidewalls, as it constantly rubbed against the kerb in the Tunnel.

And do you know why there's two bends in the Rotherhite Tunnel?

There are more than two, but my first wife’s father used to say that the ones closer to the exits, in Limehouse, and Rotherhithe, were put there to stop horses bolting when they saw the light of day ahead, personally I thought that was bo££ocks, and that the bends were there because the original tunnellers had had to change course due to encountering a “rocky” bit of the bed of the Thames.

It's the horse thing. The ground is London Clay - no rocky outcrops to contend with.

Such a tunnel was unusual at the time and it was feared horses would get spooked when driven in unless the end was obscured.

That's some coincidence!

'London Clay' is a thing, apparently! : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Clay

It was discovered by the novelist Jack London, who lived in London, Ontario and wrote "An American Werewolf in London".

That's where it gets its name.

[Nom de ploom]

when birds like kingfishers, cranes, pelicans etc eat live fish they often swallow them whole head first so the fins don't stick up the wrong way and risk getting stuck.

my question is if a Crane swallows a whole live fish how long will it stay alive for inside the bird?

does this affect the bird in anyway?

[captain_cynic]

SCEtoAUX said:

Spock touched McCoy's head for perhaps three seconds and transferred the entire contents of his brain across.

What kind of bitrate are we talking about here?

Depends what kind of compression he was using.

Then again this is a society that can't stop an EPS relay from exploding due to a lack of an ancient device called a fuse.