# Best Wikipedia page I've seen in a long time. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-wikipedia-page-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/481560 "2009-01-16T05:16:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-wikipedia-page-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/481560/21 "2009-01-28T03:10:51Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > But there’s still … Pyongyang. …a city built largely of concrete tower blocks. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-wikipedia-page-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/481560/22 "2009-01-28T03:14:37Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > …a city built largely of concrete tower blocks. Then … Tehran? (Paris will do in a pinch.) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-wikipedia-page-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/481560/23 "2009-01-28T11:36:28Z")
On this same general theme– Orbital Goat Cannons (listed for the newbies) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=41020&highlight=goat+cannon](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=41020&highlight=goat+cannon) Incendiary Pigs– [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=279280&highlight=goat+cannon](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=279280&highlight=goat+cannon) ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-wikipedia-page-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/481560/24 "2009-01-28T12:27:54Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > “The humour of the entire situation suddenly gave way to a run for survival” [http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AtVSzU20ZGk](http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AtVSzU20ZGk) Surely it would have been easier and cheaper to just get a tugboat to pull it out to sea, and sink it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-wikipedia-page-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/481560/25 "2009-01-28T12:58:37Z")
Heh, the orbital goat cannon reminds me of a whimsical scientific D&D thread… I don’t remember where exactly. Either on the Order of the Stick forum or the Wizards of the Coast one. The basic idea was that, since passing an item to another character is a free (hence, instantaneous) action, a long line of peasants passing a pig along constituted a rail gun, as the pig was accelerated to insane speeds over a single round (i.e. 10 seconds). The math was solid, too. As the thread grew on, they found the precise pig-line length to achieve planet busting power as per impact damage rules. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-wikipedia-page-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/481560/26 "2009-01-28T13:52:33Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Surely it would have been easier and cheaper to just get a tugboat to pull it out to sea, and sink it? 🙂 That’s not the good old boy way of doing things. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-wikipedia-page-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/481560/27 "2009-01-28T17:00:13Z")
How about a giant permanent aircraft carrier? [Project Habakkuk - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Habbakuk) Gotta love Wikipedia, where a relatively obscure _Simpsons_ character gets just about as much ink (er, electrons) as historic European royalty: [List of recurring The Simpsons characters - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Moleman) [Sophia of Nassau - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_of_Nassau) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-wikipedia-page-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/481560.md?page=1)