Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
Discussion
john2443 said:
Nepal are 15 mins different to India, allegedly just so they aren't the same as India, to show independence.
They might want to keep it for that, but that's not why it was done in the first place. In the fifties Nepal Standard Time was introduced, with the meridian defined as at Gaurishankar. Back then, they were 10 minutes ahead of the Indians, whose meridian was at Calcutta (or Kolkata as is now preferred). Then in 1971 the Indians moved their meridian to Hyderabad and the time zones moved another 5 minutes apart. I love the idea that the Nepalese use this 15 minute difference to the rest of the world as a kind of 'flexibility' on times, but in my experience it's not enough, they're always massively late for everything
I know about (though don't really understand) Turing machines, the (never made until the millennium, I think) Babbage/Difference Engine and those really cool barrel calculators they used to have back in the day. Have there, excluding clocks/calendars, been any other particularly cool attempts at mechanical computing?
glazbagun said:
I know about (though don't really understand) Turing machines, the (never made until the millennium, I think) Babbage/Difference Engine and those really cool barrel calculators they used to have back in the day. Have there, excluding clocks/calendars, been any other particularly cool attempts at mechanical computing?
You cold say this things is a calendar...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanis...
But it's still pretty impressive for folks in sandals and togas.
FredClogs said:
glazbagun said:
I know about (though don't really understand) Turing machines, the (never made until the millennium, I think) Babbage/Difference Engine and those really cool barrel calculators they used to have back in the day. Have there, excluding clocks/calendars, been any other particularly cool attempts at mechanical computing?
You could say this things is a calendar...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanis...
But it's still pretty impressive for folks in sandals and togas.
The ancients were brilliant, they don't call so many of the last thousand years the Dark Ages for nothing. This Greek dude managed to figure out the circumference of the world to ~10/15% accuracy 200 years before Christ, without leaving Egypt thanks to someone looking down a well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
The history of Mathematics is pretty skull crushing to read.
Edited by glazbagun on Tuesday 9th May 22:53
Willy Nilly said:
TTmonkey said:
Why do Liverpool supporters all see themselves as experts at football management?
At the risk of having the whole of Merseyside want to kill me, will they ever shut up about Hillsborough and why are they always so quiet about Hysel? 
Wild extremes of wonderfully good and seriously bad traits.
It's weird - almost as if there's literally something in the water.
And I say this as a huge fan of the Liverpool and Liverpudlians (though I'm not one).
SpeckledJim said:
Liverpool is a very very odd place. Perhaps the strangest place of any significant size in the country, IMO.
Wild extremes of wonderfully good and seriously bad traits.
It's weird - almost as if there's literally something in the water.
And I say this as a huge fan of the Liverpool and Liverpudlians (though I'm not one).
Because a large number of them are attention wWild extremes of wonderfully good and seriously bad traits.
It's weird - almost as if there's literally something in the water.
And I say this as a huge fan of the Liverpool and Liverpudlians (though I'm not one).
es.I say this as a Scouser who escaped some 30 years ago and goes back as infrequently as humanly possible.
We know that the sounds of Firearms in the movies and television come from a sound studio rather than literal gunpowder.
So I've always wondered; How do they physically create the sound effects that we associate with different types of weapons ? Thinking Clint Eastwood Magnum.44 here ?
So I've always wondered; How do they physically create the sound effects that we associate with different types of weapons ? Thinking Clint Eastwood Magnum.44 here ?
Tyre Tread said:
SpeckledJim said:
Liverpool is a very very odd place. Perhaps the strangest place of any significant size in the country, IMO.
Wild extremes of wonderfully good and seriously bad traits.
It's weird - almost as if there's literally something in the water.
And I say this as a huge fan of the Liverpool and Liverpudlians (though I'm not one).
Because a large number of them are attention wWild extremes of wonderfully good and seriously bad traits.
It's weird - almost as if there's literally something in the water.
And I say this as a huge fan of the Liverpool and Liverpudlians (though I'm not one).
es.I say this as a Scouser who escaped some 30 years ago and goes back as infrequently as humanly possible.
cologne2792 said:
We know that the sounds of Firearms in the movies and television come from a sound studio rather than literal gunpowder.
So I've always wondered; How do they physically create the sound effects that we associate with different types of weapons ? Thinking Clint Eastwood Magnum.44 here ?
I always thought they used blanks, and only overdubbed if the gun was close to the victim's body. Even then I assume they'd have samples of various gun shots.So I've always wondered; How do they physically create the sound effects that we associate with different types of weapons ? Thinking Clint Eastwood Magnum.44 here ?
In the latter case, I have read of one director going to the bother of making sure the appropriate sound was used for each weapon, rather than a generic "bang!".
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