Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]
Discussion
Ayahuasca said:
Has anyone had sex in space?
Male and female astronauts cooped up in close proximity and zero gravity on the ISS .... things gonna go down, right?
With my one track mind working overtime, I’d like to think so, had I been an astronaut, I may have found a way.Male and female astronauts cooped up in close proximity and zero gravity on the ISS .... things gonna go down, right?
When I was in a hot and heavy relationship with the Polish girl that I left my first wife for, I was in my very late thirties, we travelled a lot, and we’d enthusiastically decided to “get at it” in every country that we visited.
This was a piece of cake in the U.S., Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, but when we drove across Europe in 1974, to visit her aunts and uncles in Poland, we came across a fly in the ointment.
We had a day crossing from Harwich to Hoek Van Holland, and stayed in a Rotterdam hotel that night, next day I drove across Holland, and all across West Germany to Helmstedt and checked into a small hotel there.
Then the stumbling block, I had a transit visa to cross East Germany, I had to enter and leave on the same day, in the same car, with the same occupants.
The obvious border crossing for Poznań, Poland, was Frankfurt an der Oder, but I had to cross there into Poland on the same day that I had entered East Germany from West Germany, so I turned off the East German pound shop Autobahn, pulled into a field, climbed into the back, and kept up our love making decision.
Thankyou4calling said:
Do the police still have identity parades?
Do you know anyone who’s participated?
Years ago, I was in a public car park at the pay machine, a police car drove very slowly by me, stopped, the policeman got out and asked if I'd mind taking part in an id parade, I was like "yes of course, when?" thinking to myself how cool it would be to take part.Do you know anyone who’s participated?
Unfortunately I couldn't do it as I had something on at the same time, I was gutted.
Ayahuasca said:
How long after Stonehenge was built did people start to wonder who built it and why?
Did someone mention Stonehenge?https://youtu.be/zg5Ovdu6bOE
glazbagun said:
Why do performance turbo cars not rev as high as N/A cars? Do they hit some kind of diminishing return barrier sooner in terms of efficiency, or would they just melt from the extra fuel/air mix?
They don't need to. But they also find it harder as they have more volumetric losses in their air path.
Ayahuasca said:
How long after Stonehenge was built did people start to wonder who built it and why?
I understand why nobody touches it now but how has been there so long without someone thinking 'one of those stones is just what I need as a lintel for my medieval castle'? Or 'that would be great just beside the moat as a conversation piece'?Why is it still roughly complete after thousands of years?
Johnspex said:
Ayahuasca said:
How long after Stonehenge was built did people start to wonder who built it and why?
I understand why nobody touches it now but how has been there so long without someone thinking 'one of those stones is just what I need as a lintel for my medieval castle'? Or 'that would be great just beside the moat as a conversation piece'?Why is it still roughly complete after thousands of years?
Johnspex said:
I understand why nobody touches it now but how has been there so long without someone thinking 'one of those stones is just what I need as a lintel for my medieval castle'? Or 'that would be great just beside the moat as a conversation piece'?
Why is it still roughly complete after thousands of years?
Superstition Why is it still roughly complete after thousands of years?
And the fact it's in the middle of nowhere, so there was easier supplies of stone available to castle builders
Lily the Pink said:
Thankyou4calling said:
Do the police still have identity parades?
Do you know anyone who’s participated?
I have. A long, long time ago. All I can remember was thinking "what if they identify me ?"Do you know anyone who’s participated?
I never found out if they were picked as the witness was behind a screen and you didn’t see them. I remember they used to ask you to turn up in certain clothes and you had to take your belt off and stuff like that.
I asked once what if they pick me, the copper said generally they had enough evidence that whoever they had in custody would get put away and it was just confirming things but they’d ask where you were if you did get picked!
Clockwork Cupcake said:
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Interesting. Thank you for the links - that was genuinely interesting. I had literally never considered the possibility until then. Or the Caves of Weymss, with pictish art... and syringes and burnt out cars.
I can't find the wiki, but there's a really important standing stone on one of the scottish islands that was attacked one day around the turn of the 20th century by the farmer who owned the field and wanted it gone so he could plough properly.
A lot of the pictish and Gaelic cross fragments we have stood for centuries until being toppled and smashed during the reformation as being too catholic or pagan.
amgmcqueen said:
Why wasn't there an Aston Martin DB8?
There were some theories at the time. I believe the factory favoured "The DB9 was such a quantum leap forward from the DB7, DB9 seemed more appropriate". No-one gave that much credence.
The counter theories were that:
- With the DB8 name, the company thought buyers would assume it had a V8, not a V12.
- The name DB8 sounded too much like "deviate".
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