Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[AppleJuice]

Usget said:

Have you had a chat with Keith Adams who runs AROnline? He would love content like that.

Thanks - I'll drop him a PM/comment.

Edited by AppleJuice on Thursday 18th January 16:25

[Lordbenny]

The Don of Croy said:

Rick Rescorla - apologies if re-post.

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

- one of those you may have heard of but in all the 9/11 hubub I missed his details.

Cornishman, Rhodesia, 7th Air Cav in 'Nam, Twin Towers...some life.

His work at the WTC is very interesting, and his warnings of the vulnerabilities all too prescient.

Who’d you have playing him in a movie about him?

[cuprabob]

Lordbenny said:

Who’d you have playing him in a movie about him?

Gene Hackman

[cuprabob]

Lordbenny said:

Who’d you have playing him in a movie about him?

Gene Hackman

[SpeckledJim]

cuprabob said:

Lordbenny said:

Who’d you have playing him in a movie about him?

Gene Hackman

Hugh Jackman

[rodericb]

SpeckledJim said:

cuprabob said:

Lordbenny said:

Who’d you have playing him in a movie about him?

Gene Hackman

Hugh Jackman

Jack Hughman

[Blown2CV]

rodericb said:

SpeckledJim said:

cuprabob said:

Lordbenny said:

Who’d you have playing him in a movie about him?

Gene Hackman

Hugh Jackman

Jack Hughman

a huge jacked man

[SpeckledJim]

Blown2CV said:

rodericb said:

SpeckledJim said:

cuprabob said:

Lordbenny said:

Who’d you have playing him in a movie about him?

Gene Hackman

Hugh Jackman

Jack Hughman

a huge jacked man

Helping my Uncle Jack off a horse.

[zb]

SpeckledJim said:

Blown2CV said:

rodericb said:

SpeckledJim said:

cuprabob said:

Lordbenny said:

Who’d you have playing him in a movie about him?

Gene Hackman

Hugh Jackman

Jack Hughman

a huge jacked man

Helping my Uncle Jack off a horse.

[dmulally]

Gene Hackman turns 90 in two years.

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

[Risotto]

Have we had the Visible Human Project? In an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, a male and a female cadaver were cut into thousands of thin slices which were then photographed and digitized.

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

[FredClogs]

Boltzmann Brain and the complexity of the universe....

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

[Roofless Toothless]

Risotto said:

Have we had the Visible Human Project? In an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, a male and a female cadaver were cut into thousands of thin slices which were then photographed and digitized.

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

I've got a mandolin at home in the kitchen that could do exactly the same thing.

[AppleJuice]

Developed after Dahl's son Theo was critically ill after being struck by a taxi in New York:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade-Dahl-Till_valve
The creators agreed never to accept any profit from the invention.

[cuprabob]

AppleJuice said:

Developed after Dahl's son Theo was critically ill after being struck by a taxi in New York:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade-Dahl-Till_valve
The creators agreed never to accept any profit from the invention.

Thanks, that was really interesting...

[Usget]

AppleJuice said:

Developed after Dahl's son Theo was critically ill after being struck by a taxi in New York:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade-Dahl-Till_valve
The creators agreed never to accept any profit from the invention.

Really cool - never knew that fact about Roald Dahl.

[C&C]

Don't think we've had this one before...

Vesna Vulović - Serbian flight attendant.

World record for surviving highest fall without a parachute: 33,330 feet (10,160 metres).

[TTmonkey]

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

Only living recipient of a VC during Afghan conflict. Amazingly, a relative also won a VC during WW2. I find that link fascinating.

[Hugo a Gogo]

knowing the forces habit of giving nicknames, I wonder if he was called Cocka...

[Mothersruin]

TTmonkey said:

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

Only living recipient of a VC during Afghan conflict. Amazingly, a relative also won a VC during WW2. I find that link fascinating.

I initialy thought it it very poor form when he was hugged during his presentation by Gen Sir Nicholas Carter, but then I realised that even The Chief of the General Staff doesn't get to meet VC winners every day.

Not great form, but I don't blame him.

Josh Leakey get's free beer where I live.