Astonishing Facts....

[227bhp]

Nobody knows for sure why a 99 ice cream is called so.

[paua]

Ayahuasca said:

Vaud said:

Couple of sites show this stat:

In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G's. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8 G's.

I think the wheel base car must have reached 100 mph is 0.35 secs.

Perhaps, it was a loooooong wheelbase car?

[nealeh1875]

227bhp said:

Nobody knows for sure why a 99 ice cream is called so.

i always thought it was, at least when i was growing up, because they was 99p?

they arent this cost anymore though

[TwigtheWonderkid]

nealeh1875 said:

227bhp said:

Nobody knows for sure why a 99 ice cream is called so.

i always thought it was, at least when i was growing up, because they was 99p?

they arent this cost anymore though

Thought it was something to do with the Italian king in days gone by. He had an elite guard of 99 soldiers. So at the time, anything product that was elite and special was called a 99 version.

When Italian immigrants into the UK started making ice cream, the special with the flake was called a 99, the elite product. Also, I think these guards had a brown uniform, so the flake looked like an elite soldier, but that last bit may be an embellishment. Maybe the whole story is a lie!

[227bhp]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

nealeh1875 said:

227bhp said:

Nobody knows for sure why a 99 ice cream is called so.

i always thought it was, at least when i was growing up, because they was 99p?

they arent this cost anymore though

Thought it was something to do with the Italian king in days gone by. He had an elite guard of 99 soldiers. So at the time, anything product that was elite and special was called a 99 version.

When Italian immigrants into the UK started making ice cream, the special with the flake was called a 99, the elite product. Also, I think these guards had a brown uniform, so the flake looked like an elite soldier, but that last bit may be an embellishment. Maybe the whole story is a lie!

Yes, but no-one knows for sure, that's a fact.

Many years ago a wicked girlfriend of a friend asked an ice cream man for a 69 with juice, poor chap didn't know where to put himself

[Ayahuasca]

paua said:

Ayahuasca said:

Vaud said:

Couple of sites show this stat:

In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G's. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8 G's.

I think the wheel base car must have reached 100 mph is 0.35 secs.

Perhaps, it was a loooooong wheelbase car?

Top fuel dragsters wheelbases are limited to a maximum of 300 inches. This allows the g to be calculated.

[227bhp]

Ayahuasca said:

paua said:

Ayahuasca said:

Vaud said:

Couple of sites show this stat:

In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G's. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8 G's.

I think the wheel base car must have reached 100 mph is 0.35 secs.

Perhaps, it was a loooooong wheelbase car?

Top fuel dragsters wheelbases are limited to a maximum of 300 inches. This allows the g to be calculated.

A few years ago now there was one on display at Autosport International, the facts surrounding these cars really are astonishing. I asked the guy showing it what the length of 70mm pipe was which cut across the bottom of the cockpit, it looked like a piece of household drain pipe. "That's the fuel pipe" he told me. If you didn't know, an average road car has 6 or 8mm pipe and that's enough for 500bhp or so.
Other nuggets were why the engine had heavy straps over it, these are to stop the cylinder heads jumping into the crowd when they blow off (note, this is not if, but when). The other ones are how often and how quickly they rebuild the engines - after every run.

[GreatGranny]

227bhp said:

A few years ago now there was one on display at Autosport International, the facts surrounding these cars really are astonishing. I asked the guy showing it what the length of 70mm pipe was which cut across the bottom of the cockpit, it looked like a piece of household drain pipe. "That's the fuel pipe" he told me. If you didn't know, an average road car has 6 or 8mm pipe and that's enough for 500bhp or so.
Other nuggets were why the engine had heavy straps over it, these are to stop the cylinder heads jumping into the crowd when they blow off (note, this is not if, but when). The other ones are how often and how quickly they rebuild the engines - after every run.

The costs involved are staggering.

The team in the vid runs something like 7 cars each with its own trailer and team.

The top fuels make 11,000bhp!

They have to limit burnout times due to the possibility of running out of fuel.
Consider a run takes 3.66 secs.

They can strip an engine and put it back together in 40 minutes!

[5pen]

I haven't read the entire thread, so apologies if this has been mentioned already.

I was surprised to discover that the guillotine was still in use as recently as the 1970s as the official method of execution in France. It was last used in 1977.

[shakotan]

louiechevy said:

The golden child from the film the um the golden child, is in fact a girl!

Well, it was a 50:50 chance at best, nothing astonishing about that.

[singlecoil]

shakotan said:

louiechevy said:

The golden child from the film the um the golden child, is in fact a girl!

Well, it was a 50:50 chance at best, nothing astonishing about that.

I've not seen the film, but my guess is that the golden child was supposed to be a boy.

[NoddyonNitrous]

nealeh1875 said:

i always thought it was, at least when i was growing up, because they was 99p?

they arent this cost anymore though

Nah, they were called that in the days of £sd.

[shakotan]

singlecoil said:

shakotan said:

louiechevy said:

The golden child from the film the um the golden child, is in fact a girl!

Well, it was a 50:50 chance at best, nothing astonishing about that.

I've not seen the film, but my guess is that the golden child was supposed to be a boy.

True, but Chewbacca wasn't played by a wookie either.

I'd hardly call the fact that a young girl acted the part of a young boy remotely astonishing.

[singlecoil]

shakotan said:

singlecoil said:

shakotan said:

louiechevy said:

The golden child from the film the um the golden child, is in fact a girl!

Well, it was a 50:50 chance at best, nothing astonishing about that.

I've not seen the film, but my guess is that the golden child was supposed to be a boy.

True, but Chewbacca wasn't played by a wookie either.

I'd hardly call the fact that a young girl acted the part of a young boy remotely astonishing.

I think a lot of the facts presented in this thread fall well short of astonishing, so the fact presented here fits in quite well.

[shakotan]

singlecoil said:

shakotan said:

singlecoil said:

shakotan said:

louiechevy said:

The golden child from the film the um the golden child, is in fact a girl!

Well, it was a 50:50 chance at best, nothing astonishing about that.

I've not seen the film, but my guess is that the golden child was supposed to be a boy.

True, but Chewbacca wasn't played by a wookie either.

I'd hardly call the fact that a young girl acted the part of a young boy remotely astonishing.

I think a lot of the facts presented in this thread fall well short of astonishing, so the fact presented here fits in quite well.

Standard, man, standards!

[warp9]

The longest ever recorded single human poo was 26 feet.

https://unrealfacts.com/longest-human-poop-ever-re...

[bertie]

227bhp said:

Nobody knows for sure why a 99 ice cream is called so.

I thought it was because the flake was 99mm long?

[227bhp]

singlecoil said:

I think a lot of the facts presented in this thread fall well short of astonishing, so the fact presented here fits in quite well.

A 26ft long poo certainty fits the bill quite well, single coil too.

[SCEtoAUX]

GreatGranny said:

227bhp said:

A few years ago now there was one on display at Autosport International, the facts surrounding these cars really are astonishing. I asked the guy showing it what the length of 70mm pipe was which cut across the bottom of the cockpit, it looked like a piece of household drain pipe. "That's the fuel pipe" he told me. If you didn't know, an average road car has 6 or 8mm pipe and that's enough for 500bhp or so.
Other nuggets were why the engine had heavy straps over it, these are to stop the cylinder heads jumping into the crowd when they blow off (note, this is not if, but when). The other ones are how often and how quickly they rebuild the engines - after every run.

The costs involved are staggering.

The team in the vid runs something like 7 cars each with its own trailer and team.

The top fuels make 11,000bhp!

They have to limit burnout times due to the possibility of running out of fuel.
Consider a run takes 3.66 secs.

They can strip an engine and put it back together in 40 minutes!

11,000bhp sounds like a lot, and it is, but consider the earlier posting in this thread about the Rocketdyne F1 engine that powered the Saturn V rocket. The turbine in those engines produced 55,000 bhp JUST TO PUMP THE FUEL AND OXYGEN! And there were five of them on the first stage.

So just to pump stuff into the thrust chambers, well over a quarter of a million horsepower was needed which pumped around 3,400 gallons of fuel PER SECOND. By comparison, Wikipedia tells me that a top fuel dragster's fuel pump delivers around 1.5 gallons per second.

Edited by SCEtoAUX on Monday 23 April 17:39

[Moonhawk]

toastybase said:

I think that’s just a bad good angle.

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