Astonishing Facts....

[deckster]

Rawwr said:

paua said:

You Sleeping on the couch tonight?

I can assure you I'm not

No, it's the shed for now. Quite a while yet before he gets his couch rights restored.

[Dr Jekyll]

Jacob Rees Mogg is younger than Kylie Minogue.

[kowalski655]

[GTI16V]

Dr Jekyll said:

Jacob Rees Mogg is younger than Kylie Minogue.

Apart from being a bit taller and greyer, JRM has looked through same since he was about 12

[Frimley111R]

McDonalds sells more chicken than KFC

[Ayahuasca]

There are more cricket clubs in America than in England.

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Dr Jekyll said:

Jacob Rees Mogg is younger than Kylie Minogue.

Older she may be but I suspect Kylie looks better in hot pants.

[Ayahuasca]

Nanook said:

Ayahuasca said:

There are more cricket clubs in America than in England.

USA?

Or the continent?

The continent, obviously. You are aware that America is more than just the USA?







hahaha it is normally me who makes comments like that... anyway I believe there are more cricket clubs in the USA than in England, as well as more in America (big America) than England.

[Condi]

kowalski655 said:

We made massive advances very quickly in the early 20th C, but since then progress has been very limited to small incremental improvements, and some would say that since loosing Concorde we've actually gone backwards.

[louiebaby]

Condi said:

kowalski655 said:

We made massive advances very quickly in the early 20th C, but since then progress has been very limited to small incremental improvements, and some would say that since loosing Concorde we've actually gone backwards.

By my reckoning, we crossed the line between the two in August this year.

Interesting fact.

[Ayahuasca]

Condi said:

kowalski655 said:

We made massive advances very quickly in the early 20th C, but since then progress has been very limited to small incremental improvements, and some would say that since loosing Concorde we've actually gone backwards.

Our ability to spell correctly simple words in the English language certainly has.

[av185]

Ayahuasca said:

Condi said:

kowalski655 said:

We made massive advances very quickly in the early 20th C, but since then progress has been very limited to small incremental improvements, and some would say that since loosing Concorde we've actually gone backwards.

Our ability to spell correctly simple words in the English language certainly has.

As has our ability to phrase simple sentences correctly.

[Roofless Toothless]

GTI16V said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Jacob Rees Mogg is younger than Kylie Minogue.

Apart from being a bit taller and greyer, JRM has looked through same since he was about 12

Do you know, that's exactly how I have always mentally pictured Adrian Mole.

[BrettMRC]

Roofless Toothless said:

Do you know, that's exactly how I have always mentally pictured Adrian Mole.

With or without hot pants?

[Halmyre]

Condi said:

kowalski655 said:

We made massive advances very quickly in the early 20th C, but since then progress has been very limited to small incremental improvements, and some would say that since loosing Concorde we've actually gone backwards.

I quibble - the modern jetliner is more technically advanced than Concorde, albeit slower. A WW2 Meteor pilot would understand Concorde but a Dreamliner would baffle him. It would be like showing Alexander Graham Bell an iPhone.

[Rostfritt]

Halmyre said:

I quibble - the modern jetliner is more technically advanced than Concorde, albeit slower. A WW2 Meteor pilot would understand Concorde but a Dreamliner would baffle him. It would be like showing Alexander Graham Bell an iPhone.

Indeed, if there was a market for it, we would have supersonic jets now that are even faster, bigger and more fuel efficient than Concorde. But there isn't a market, so we just have aircraft that are bigger and more fuel efficient, or smaller so we can get to Spain for ten quid.

[Condi]

Rostfritt said:

Indeed, if there was a market for it, we would have supersonic jets now that are even faster, bigger and more fuel efficient than Concorde. But there isn't a market, so we just have aircraft that are bigger and more fuel efficient, or smaller so we can get to Spain for ten quid.

There is a market, but the technical ability to overcome the problems with Concorde (passenger capacity, sonic boom, emissions, etc) have prevented its replacement.

If you can get to Spain for a tenner, most people would spend £20 to get there in half the time. Business passengers would pay considerably more than £300 return across the Atlantic to cut the time by 2 or 3 hours each way.

[Shakermaker]

Condi said:

Rostfritt said:

Indeed, if there was a market for it, we would have supersonic jets now that are even faster, bigger and more fuel efficient than Concorde. But there isn't a market, so we just have aircraft that are bigger and more fuel efficient, or smaller so we can get to Spain for ten quid.

There is a market, but the technical ability to overcome the problems with Concorde (passenger capacity, sonic boom, emissions, etc) have prevented its replacement.

If you can get to Spain for a tenner, most people would spend £20 to get there in half the time. Business passengers would pay considerably more than £300 return across the Atlantic to cut the time by 2 or 3 hours each way.

I don't think the market exists for business travel for Concorde as much as it used to, now that a lot of meetings can be done remotely etc. It doesn't solve everything, but it solves enough of it to warrant it unnecessary for most. The time difference is not so great that people in the USA and UK are miles out of alignment to make a meeting work. You'd have to do a meeting at 5pm UK time for someone in LA to have it at 9am, but trade is more with New York and Washington, so a 3pm meeting is a 10am meeting at their end. Feasible.

However I suspect that if, for example, we were doing a lot more trade with Australia and New Zealand, 12-13 hours out, and 24 hours travelling, then some option of getting their sooner would become a possibility. For example I may have to go and meet with our NZ counterparts in the next few weeks, but its going to need a week out of work to travel there and back and have a couple of days of meetings, which becomes dead time whilst I travel and who knows about the jet lag..

[P-Jay]

We didn't go slower when they grounded Concord, we went much, much quicker.

Phft, 3.5 hours to get to New York (well the flying bit anyway) - I can Skype globally now.

[Ayahuasca]

Shakermaker said:

Condi said:

Rostfritt said:

Indeed, if there was a market for it, we would have supersonic jets now that are even faster, bigger and more fuel efficient than Concorde. But there isn't a market, so we just have aircraft that are bigger and more fuel efficient, or smaller so we can get to Spain for ten quid.

There is a market, but the technical ability to overcome the problems with Concorde (passenger capacity, sonic boom, emissions, etc) have prevented its replacement.

If you can get to Spain for a tenner, most people would spend £20 to get there in half the time. Business passengers would pay considerably more than £300 return across the Atlantic to cut the time by 2 or 3 hours each way.

I don't think the market exists for business travel for Concorde as much as it used to, now that a lot of meetings can be done remotely etc. It doesn't solve everything, but it solves enough of it to warrant it unnecessary for most. The time difference is not so great that people in the USA and UK are miles out of alignment to make a meeting work. You'd have to do a meeting at 5pm UK time for someone in LA to have it at 9am, but trade is more with New York and Washington, so a 3pm meeting is a 10am meeting at their end. Feasible.

However I suspect that if, for example, we were doing a lot more trade with Australia and New Zealand, 12-13 hours out, and 24 hours travelling, then some option of getting their sooner would become a possibility. For example I may have to go and meet with our NZ counterparts in the next few weeks, but its going to need a week out of work to travel there and back and have a couple of days of meetings, which becomes dead time whilst I travel and who knows about the jet lag..

There never really was a profitable market for it - if BA had had to pay a commercial rate for the aircraft they would never have flown them.