Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[dub16v]

aclivity said:

Fulton Surface to Air Recovery System

Tested with a pig ... Once it recovered, it attacked the crew

Anyone that has played MGS5 knows this system well. It's very reliable and safe. The only problem is that whenever I see a cargo container (in real life) I think about fultoning it and the treasures that lay within.

[slybynight]

Don't remember seeing this yet.. apols if already posted to the finest thread on the internet...... 90 year old monk still building his own cathedral without planning or church permission..... single handedly! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justo_Gallego_Mart...

[e600]

aclivity said:

Fulton Surface to Air Recovery System

Tested with a pig ... Once it recovered, it attacked the crew

As shown in a Roger Moore, James Bond film.

[glazbagun]

And the Dark Knight IIRC.

[Moonhawk]

Morningside said:

Starlite. The lost material that could withstand insane temperatures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite

Sounds similar to something I was working on during a year of post graduate research looking at the thermal stability of organic polymers,

I was synthesising polymers using small amounts of functionalised carboranes as oligomers to dope the polymer chain with boron and make them more resistant to thermal degradation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carborane

Results looked promising.

[ZOLLAR]

Moonhawk said:

Morningside said:

Starlite. The lost material that could withstand insane temperatures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite

Sounds similar to something I was working on during a year of post graduate research looking at the thermal stability of organic polymers,

I was synthesising polymers using small amounts of functionalised carboranes as oligomers to dope the polymer chain with boron and make them more resistant to thermal degradation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carborane

Results looked promising.

I understood a few of the words you said in your post like "I", "year" "them"

Some of the others I was unsure on

Are products like that already in use mainstream or will they in the next 10 years?

[Moonhawk]

ZOLLAR said:

Are products like that already in use mainstream or will they in the next 10 years?

No idea - but my work was being carried out around 2000 and there are papers going back to the 1990s on the subject.

[anonymous-user]

e600 said:

aclivity said:

Fulton Surface to Air Recovery System

Tested with a pig ... Once it recovered, it attacked the crew

As shown in a Roger Moore Sean Connery James Bond film.

Thunderball.....
http://youtu.be/RVwRDtEEEes

[mosp]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaimingjie_germ_we...

[MissChief]

The Wikipedia article on Wikipedia.

[Vaud]

Moonhawk said:

Sounds similar to something I was working on during a year of post graduate research looking at the thermal stability of organic wibble. I was synthesising polymers using small amounts of wibble wibble as wibble to dope the polymer chain with boron and make them more resistant to thermal degradation.

I edited it to show how it read in my brain.

[Pacman1978]

Anyone else remember watching that starlight inventor covering his hand in it then aiming a blow torch at said hand. On tomorrows world wasn't it? Cant believe the formula could be forever lost.. Amazing stuff.

[glazbagun]

Pacman1978 said:

Anyone else remember watching that starlight inventor covering his hand in it then aiming a blow torch at said hand. On tomorrows world wasn't it? Cant believe the formula could be forever lost.. Amazing stuff.

And blowtorching an egg for minutes, only to find it raw inside!

[El Guapo]

Moonhawk said:

I was synthesising polymers using small amounts of functionalised carboranes as oligomers to dope the polymer chain with boron

An easy mistake for a beginner to make.

[4x4Tyke]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

How the CURTA Works

[Fane]

Indians who fought against the British in WW2, sometimes alongside the Japanese.

Indian National Army

[mrtwisty]

Very grim, but fascinating. The linked article on the wider organisation (Ahnenerbe) is worth a read also.

I find it staggering the lengths the Nazi regime went to, to try and legitimise it's warped ideologies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_skeleton_co...

[DaveGoddard]

dudleybloke said:

The worlds smallest park.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Ends_Park

Just seen this one, there have been a few transatlantic spats between supporters of that one and this one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%27s_Park . The latter just happens to be in my home town.

[mrtwisty]

The little Dutch warship tht became an island during the day and sneaked off in the night.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Abraham_Crijns...

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-stranded-dutch-wa...

[thismonkeyhere]

The Yellow Fleet - group of ships trapped in the Suez Canal for 8 years following the 6 day way. Formed their own little community; even had a mini-olympics.

(Could have been posted before, but can't make the search tool work)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet