Strange and Unusual Facts

**tomcat** · 11-03-2021, 02:39 PM

...^boredom weighs heavily on the Dutch...

**panama hat** · 11-03-2021, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by tomcat

...^boredom weighs heavily on the Dutch...

Having been a working expat in Holland for four+ years I can safely say it is the Dutch who are boring.

**tomcat** · 12-03-2021, 07:59 AM

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A male freshwater gharial waits for his offspring to clamber on his back for safe passage. The photo was taken in the waters of northern India's National Chambal Sanctuary by Dirtiman Mukherjee.

**tomcat** · 12-03-2021, 08:57 AM

The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles (two million kilometers) of our planet on March 21, NASA said Thursday.

**Latindancer** · 12-03-2021, 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by tomcat

Dirtiman Mukherjee.

**VocalNeal** · 12-03-2021, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by panama hat

Having been a working expat in Holland for four+ years I can safely say it is the Dutch who are boring.

Wooden shoes, wooden head, wouldn't listen

**panama hat** · 12-03-2021, 02:42 PM

^

Too true

**harrybarracuda** · 12-03-2021, 06:01 PM

Slugs have four noses.

**cyrille** · 12-03-2021, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by tomcat

The photo was taken in the waters of northern India's National Chambal Sanctuary by Dirtiman Mukherjee.

Originally Posted by Latin Dancer

Probably 'Dhiritman'.

**tomcat** · 13-03-2021, 09:31 AM

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March 12, 2021 | 12th eruptive paroxism at the new Etna crater of south-east and Giuliano Borough. It would appear to have been one of the most energetic ones with an eruptive cloud above 12 km high...

**qwerty** · 13-03-2021, 10:21 AM

^ that is an awesome video! I loved the part where the announcer went "ooo ooo ooo ooo" went the first car crashed.

**Saint Willy** · 13-03-2021, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

That is fucking mental carnage!

**Backspin** · 13-03-2021, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by Edmond

If there was an issue with the Apollo crafts being unable to return to Earth (particularly risky was the reentry trajectory, and it skimming and bouncing off the atmosphere instead of reentering it, if there was any sort of malfunction, miscommunication or miscalculation) the Nasa protocol was to cut off all radio contact, leaving the astronauts drift away to certain death in silence, unable to contact 'home'.

It took me awhile but now I know that we are just as big of coonts as the Russians

**tomcat** · 13-03-2021, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by Backspin

I know that we are just as big of coonts as the Russians

...you and that "mouse" stirring your pocket...

**Backspin** · 15-03-2021, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by tomcat

...you and that "mouse" stirring your pocket...

A strange and unusual fact for you. We are just as big of cvnts as the Russians

**panama hat** · 16-03-2021, 02:41 AM

Originally Posted by Backspin

We are just as big of cvnts as the Russians

Speak for yourself, Canadian white boy

**Edmond** · 16-03-2021, 08:26 AM

**Edmond** · 16-03-2021, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by Edmond

If there was an issue with the Apollo crafts being unable to return to Earth (particularly risky was the reentry trajectory, and it skimming and bouncing off the atmosphere instead of reentering it, if there was any sort of malfunction, miscommunication or miscalculation) the Nasa protocol was to cut off all radio contact, leaving the astronauts drift away to certain death in silence, unable to contact 'home'.

Originally Posted by Backspin

A strange and unusual fact for you. We are just as big of cvnts as the Russians

I don't see it. Probably better for all concerned to say goodbye to loved ones, then cutoff communications.

**tomcat** · 18-03-2021, 02:44 PM

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The Nicobar Pidgeon is the closest living relative of the Dodo Bird.

**tomcat** · 19-03-2021, 05:51 AM

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After binging Breaking Bad, the legendary Sir Anthony Hopkins wrote Bryan Cranston a letter telling him his performance as Walter White was the best acting he had ever seen.

**Backspin** · 19-03-2021, 06:33 AM

Going balls to the wall huh ?

Gentlemen – this has nothing to do with anatomy, the typical wall, or nailing one to the other. “The expression comes from the world of military aviation. In many planes, control sticks are topped with a ball-shaped grip. One such control is the throttle—to get maximum power you push it all the way forward, to the front of the cockpit, or firewall. Another control is the joystick—pushing it forward sends a plane into a dive. So, literally pushing the balls to the (fire)wall would put a plane into a maximum-speed dive, and figuratively going balls to the wall is doing something all-out, with maximum effort.

Now to balls out.

The expression has to do with centrifugal governors used all the way back to the days of steam engines. Rotating machinery needed a way to regulate the engine’s speed. A simple way to do this is to spin two balls off the engine’s drive shaft. These are connected by a rod or a wire to a fuel valve. As the balls spin outward with the engine’s increasing speed, they tug on the wire which acts to close the fuel valve. Thus, the fuel is managed, the machine slows down and the balls droop. The machine reaches a steady-state at its pre-set running speed. Balls out=full power.

**Pragmatic** · 19-03-2021, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by tomcat

The Nicobar Pidgeon is the closest living relative of the Dodo Bird.

And there's me thinking it was Cyrille.

**tomcat** · 19-03-2021, 08:45 AM

...^555...

**Edmond** · 21-03-2021, 08:09 AM

**Saint Willy** · 21-03-2021, 08:42 AM

The mushroom cloud rising over Hiroshima, Japan. The city of Hiroshima was the target of the world's first atomic bomb attack at 8:16 a.m. on August 6, 1945. The cloud rose to over 60,000 feet in about ten minutes.

Atomic Bomb Cloud over Hiroshima | Photographs | Media Gallery.

Despite the very substantial burst height of 4,000 m (13,000 ft) the vast fireball reached down to the Earth, and swelled upward to nearly the height of the release plane. The blast pressure below the burst point was 300 PSI, six times the peak pressure experienced at Hiroshima. The flash of light was so bright that it was visible at a distance of 1,000 kilometers, despite cloudy skies. One participant in the test saw a bright flash through dark goggles and felt the effects of a thermal pulse even at a distance of 270 km.

A shock wave in air was observed at Dickson settlement at 700 km; windowpanes were partially broken to distances of 900 km. All buildings in Severny (both wooden and brick), at a distance of 55 km, were completely destroyed. In districts hundreds of kilometers from ground zero, wooden houses were destroyed, and stone ones lost their roofs, windows and doors; and radio communications were interrupted for almost one hour. The atmospheric disturbance generated by the explosion orbited the earth three times. A gigantic mushroom cloud rose as high as 64 kilometers (210,000 ft).

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html

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