Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[Rostfritt]

Samcat said:

From another topic, I read mention of an Electricity link between the UK and Denmark, who'd have thought the that UK Government would help to go carbon neutral by just importing green energy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Link

http://viking-link.com/


As I live in the west of the country I've not heard of this project, someone will probably say old news, but it's quite a project.
Looking on Google Maps you can see the route the cable will be taking from the Lincolnshire coast to the Sub-station.

We have quite a few links now between neighbouring countries to trade electricity. The most impressive planned link is one with Iceland, but I think they need to build more power capacity first.

[anonymous-user]

O.K not wiki but youtube, but these are really interesting videos in a wiki vein.

https://www.youtube.com/c/eons

Get ready to waste some time learning new stuff.

[R56Cooper]

Hell of a song and an interesting list

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_...

[silverfoxcc]

Rostfritt said:

We have quite a few links now between neighbouring countries to trade electricity. The most impressive planned link is one with Iceland, but I think they need to build more power capacity first.

Would it be possible to pipe hot water from the geysers also? ( i was going to put as well but didn't want 10 pages of puns!!)

And although the question was asked more in jest..could it work in theory, ot=r would the heat loss be too much?

[loafer123]

Easier to crack hydrogen with their geothermal power and pipe it/ship it, I would think.

[pakora]

18 year old awarded the VC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Hafiz_(VC)

[silverfoxcc]

I can highly recommend a visit to the IWM and the gallery

I was once under the misapprehension that Lord Ashcroft was buying these awards to hoard and gloat over.How wrong i was and i apologise for ever thinking that

It is, one of the most moving places i have ever visited and i just thought would any of todays youth do anything like that

Hopefully Yes, but the way authority is abused now as the Scots say 'I hae me doots'

Hopefully they will not be put in a similar situation to prove it one way or the other

[glenrobbo]

silverfoxcc said:

I can highly recommend a visit to the IWM and the gallery

It is one of the most moving places i have ever visited

Slightly OT, but I was deeply moved when I visited Ypres.
The "In Flanders Fields" Museum in the town centre, the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate Memorial, and a lingering visit to any of the numerous War Grave Cemeteries, all really bring a lump in the throat and a tear to the eye.

I think everybody should make at least one visit in their lifetime.

[silverfoxcc]

Glen

I would blub like a child if i ever went. I would get into the Guinness book of records fro biggest lump in throat Even when i see the lines of graves it brings a tear to my eye

As many people before have said What would they think if they saw how it all ended up

[glazbagun]

The Danes sent us a longboat to commemorate the 1500th anniversary of invading us. Maybe in another thousand years we'll have a surge in demand for Ships of the Line.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_(longship)

[Rostfritt]

silverfoxcc said:

Would it be possible to pipe hot water from the geysers also? ( i was going to put as well but didn't want 10 pages of puns!!)

And although the question was asked more in jest..could it work in theory, ot=r would the heat loss be too much?

I doubt it would come out hot at the other end after being piped through 1000km of sea water, even with all the insulation in the world.

It would be easier to find some geothermal sources here. There is a scheme in Southampton that heats a few buildings quite successfully.

[Fer]

Possibly another repost, but I found this an interesting read of something I don't remember happening at the time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLea...

[mrtwisty]

Fer said:

Possibly another repost, but I found this an interesting read of something I don't remember happening at the time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLea...

Holy st.

[anonymous-user]

mrtwisty said:

Holy st.

9 years in prison and now out with no restrictions, that is pretty f up as well as the crimes.

[paul.deitch]

glenrobbo said:

Slightly OT, but I was deeply moved when I visited Ypres.
The "In Flanders Fields" Museum in the town centre, the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate Memorial, and a lingering visit to any of the numerous War Grave Cemeteries, all really bring a lump in the throat and a tear to the eye.

I think everybody should make at least one visit in their lifetime.

It really does affect you. My grandfather's brother's name is on the gate. My grandfather came back from his first action in Gallipoli very badly injured.

[mrtwisty]

Build the goat. Try to burn the goat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gävle_goat

https://youtu.be/-zjJpFYtx9s

[off_again]

The Spruce Goose said:

mrtwisty said:

Holy st.

9 years in prison and now out with no restrictions, that is pretty f up as well as the crimes.

Glad I am not the only one that thinks that this is stupid! I am not a 'lock em up and throw away the key' type of person, but seriously? He heard voices in his head, stabbed and then decapitated someone, eventually eating the flesh off the dead body - and 9 years later he's Ok to live in society with no restrictions? I am sure there are people who can turn their lives around, but I cant help thinking this is something you dont come back from.

[Roofless Toothless]

Between six and seven hundred people drowned on the Thames in 1878.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_SS_Prince...

[matchmaker]

Roofless Toothless said:

Between six and seven hundred people drowned on the Thames in 1878.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_SS_Prince...

What a stty way to die - basically drowning in raw sewage!

[C n C]

mrtwisty said:

Build the goat. Try to burn the goat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gävle_goat

https://youtu.be/-zjJpFYtx9s

For some reason this struck me as extremely funny - particularly the table towards the end listing how the goat(s) each year had been destroyed. The decade 1970-1979 saw the goat destroyed every single year by:
fire
smashed to pieces
collapsed
stolen
fire
collapsed
hit by car
fire
kicked to pieces
fire/broken.

Excellent.

ETA - and in 2009, for protection it was monitored by 2 webcams, which were put out of action by a co-ordinated denial of service attack instigated by hackers just before it was (once again) burnt down!

Edited by C n C on Thursday 3rd September 18:38