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eldar said:
Ford was just starting mass production, and petrol was cheaper and simpler, and only lead acid batteries.
In backwoods America there was little access to mains electricityfor charging, large distances between villages, towns, shops, etc. exceeded the meagre range of EVs so a petrol powered conveyance
was king.
So, little has changed then ?
Nethybridge said:
eldar said:
Ford was just starting mass production, and petrol was cheaper and simpler, and only lead acid batteries.
In backwoods America there was little access to mains electricityfor charging, large distances between villages, towns, shops, etc. exceeded the meagre range of EVs so a petrol powered conveyance
was king.
So, little has changed then ?
eldar said:
Frimley111R said:
If the Arctic snow cap melts completely it won't make any difference to sea levels.
No Egyptian pharaoh was ever buried in a pyramid.
Fleas carried the plague. Mice carried fleas. If you had a cat you were unlikely to get the plague because the cats stopped/killed the mice. Many single women had cats and people often believed that they were witches as they didn't catch the plague. Hence, why cats are associated with witches to this day.
(All from Neil Degrasse Tyson)
Cats are susceptible the plague, and quite efficient at spreading it. No Egyptian pharaoh was ever buried in a pyramid.
Fleas carried the plague. Mice carried fleas. If you had a cat you were unlikely to get the plague because the cats stopped/killed the mice. Many single women had cats and people often believed that they were witches as they didn't catch the plague. Hence, why cats are associated with witches to this day.
(All from Neil Degrasse Tyson)
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/healthcare/veterinarian...
Look up hence in a dictionary.
mko9 said:
KaraK said:
hairy v said:
The fastest manmade object isn't a hypersonic jet or spacecraft, but a large manhole cover....
When the US started doing underground nuclear testing, nobody really knew what would happen. One test bomb was placed at the bottom of a 485-foot deep shaft on July 26, 1957, and someone thought it was a good idea to put a half-ton iron manhole cover on top to contain the explosion. The bomb turned the shaft into the world's largest Roman candle, and the manhole cover was nowhere to be found.
Robert Brownlee, an astrophysicist who designed the test, wanted to repeat the experiment with high-speed cameras so he could figure out what happened to the cover. So another experiment was created, this time 500-feet deep, and a similar half-ton manhole cover was placed on top. On August 27, 1957, they detonated the bomb. The high-speed cameras barely caught a view of the cover as it left the top of the shaft and headed into oblivion. Brownlee used the frames to calculate the speed to be more than 125,000 miles per hour.... more than five times the escape velocity of the Earth, and the fastest man-made object in history.
Physicists have debated the whereabouts of the two manhole covers ever since. Recently, with the help of supercomputers and a lot more scientific knowledge, physicists are certain that they wouldn't have had time to burn up completely before exiting the atmosphere. This means both of the remaining pieces would have passed Pluto's orbit sometime around 1961 and are way beyond the edge of the solar system by now.
Always a great story, I have to say though [citation needed] on the last bit. Whenever I see the anecdote repeated that "physicists" are "certain" it would have survived the trip out of the atmosphere there's never any names or links to work supporting it.When the US started doing underground nuclear testing, nobody really knew what would happen. One test bomb was placed at the bottom of a 485-foot deep shaft on July 26, 1957, and someone thought it was a good idea to put a half-ton iron manhole cover on top to contain the explosion. The bomb turned the shaft into the world's largest Roman candle, and the manhole cover was nowhere to be found.
Robert Brownlee, an astrophysicist who designed the test, wanted to repeat the experiment with high-speed cameras so he could figure out what happened to the cover. So another experiment was created, this time 500-feet deep, and a similar half-ton manhole cover was placed on top. On August 27, 1957, they detonated the bomb. The high-speed cameras barely caught a view of the cover as it left the top of the shaft and headed into oblivion. Brownlee used the frames to calculate the speed to be more than 125,000 miles per hour.... more than five times the escape velocity of the Earth, and the fastest man-made object in history.
Physicists have debated the whereabouts of the two manhole covers ever since. Recently, with the help of supercomputers and a lot more scientific knowledge, physicists are certain that they wouldn't have had time to burn up completely before exiting the atmosphere. This means both of the remaining pieces would have passed Pluto's orbit sometime around 1961 and are way beyond the edge of the solar system by now.
The only times I've seen physicists do any actual math on it the answer always comes out that it's almost certain to have vaporized well before it reached space, if there's new data out there though it would be cool to see.
This got some of them thinking which gave birth to Project Orion...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nucle...
https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/george-dyson/proje...
Now the Space Shuttle had a blunt nose to keep the hypersonic shock wave and thus the worst of the heat away from the fuselage and a manhole cover is even more blunt and would've been exposed to a much shorter heat pulse so on one hand it's nice to think there's a couple of manhole covers exiting the solar system at somewhere close to warp .5 but I suspect they well may have shattered due to the immense acceleration.
Stick Legs said:
And reusable packaging.
Home delivery on a subscription model.
Milk floats predicting the modern world.
Except that the milkman invariably got the right address, delivered the product in good order and was punctual. And, drunken students apart, the main porch pirates were blue tits in those daysHome delivery on a subscription model.
Milk floats predicting the modern world.
. psi310398 said:
Stick Legs said:
And reusable packaging.
Home delivery on a subscription model.
Milk floats predicting the modern world.
Except that the milkman invariably got the right address, delivered the product in good order and was punctual. And, drunken students apart, the main porch pirates were blue tits in those daysHome delivery on a subscription model.
Milk floats predicting the modern world.
. psi310398 said:
Stick Legs said:
And reusable packaging.
Home delivery on a subscription model.
Milk floats predicting the modern world.
Except that the milkman invariably got the right address, delivered the product in good order and was punctual. And, drunken students apart, the main porch pirates were blue tits in those daysHome delivery on a subscription model.
Milk floats predicting the modern world.
. Although they could be at risk from evil looking bakers with stale pork pies (showing my age here)
Kowalski655 said:
psi310398 said:
Stick Legs said:
And reusable packaging.
Home delivery on a subscription model.
Milk floats predicting the modern world.
Except that the milkman invariably got the right address, delivered the product in good order and was punctual. And, drunken students apart, the main porch pirates were blue tits in those daysHome delivery on a subscription model.
Milk floats predicting the modern world.
. Although they could be at risk from evil looking bakers with stale pork pies (showing my age here)
In 1976 Lewis Collins auditioned for the part of Gambit in ‘The New Avengers’ but it went to Gareth Hunt, Collins was then given another role an episode called ‘Obsession’ alongside Martin Shaw in 1977. Not long afterwards Shaw was cast as Doyle in ‘The Professionals’ and Hunt auditioned for the part of Bodie but was rejected in favour of Anthony Andrews. Within a week of shooting the first episode it was decided that Andrews wasn’t right for the part, so Collins was given a screen test and was immediately cast as Bodie.
Jader1973 said:
In 1976 Ford offered a factory Starsky and Hutch paint scheme on Gran Torinos. They built 1305 in total.
The factory cars are not red with a white stripe. They were painted white on the production line and were then masked up and had the red paint applied.
The "Starsky and Hutch" Torino appeared in the pilot (SE01, EP01) of Dukes of Hazzard, driven by Cooter.The factory cars are not red with a white stripe. They were painted white on the production line and were then masked up and had the red paint applied.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo...
nismocat said:
Jader1973 said:
In 1976 Ford offered a factory Starsky and Hutch paint scheme on Gran Torinos. They built 1305 in total.
The factory cars are not red with a white stripe. They were painted white on the production line and were then masked up and had the red paint applied.
The "Starsky and Hutch" Torino appeared in the pilot (SE01, EP01) of Dukes of Hazzard, driven by Cooter.The factory cars are not red with a white stripe. They were painted white on the production line and were then masked up and had the red paint applied.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo...
eldar said:
Ours still does, except it's just a Transit? Nissan? electric van and it has 4 wheels!Jader1973 said:
In 1976 Ford offered a factory Starsky and Hutch paint scheme on Gran Torinos. They built 1305 in total.
The factory cars are not red with a white stripe. They were painted white on the production line and were then masked up and had the red paint applied.
In the 70s there were more than 1305 Allegros, Marinas, Avengers etc with a S&H white stripe The factory cars are not red with a white stripe. They were painted white on the production line and were then masked up and had the red paint applied.
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