Not a fact, but a cartoon I have to share
Item in the lower left “Apply for an exciting career at Nerrex, Inc.” really cracked me up.
If you don’t get it, you need to broaden your range of movies.
Okay, I’m whooshed.
Tortoise? What’s that?
Blade Runner,
Despite being finished in 1936, parts of the cement in the Hoover Dam are still drying and curing. But that apparently is not a problem.
I learned today that, when they perform maintenance work on an aircraft, the USAF maintainers are not allowed to use portable impact drivers for bolts/screws. They’re prohibited even if they just want to loosen and remove them. They have to use manual tools like ratchets and speed wrenches.
I am not sure why.
How on earth did you learn that, without learning WHY?!?
Just spitballing, but they aren’t allowed to use for tightening things because of the risk of over-tightening and damaging the fastener or the object it is attached to.
They aren’t allowed for loosening because if the tool is near at hand, the risk of someone using it for tightening is too high. And if you didn’t tighten it with a power tool, it probably isn’t that hard to remove it manually.
I did ask. He shrugged his shoulders and said, “I dunno.” He said he watched a maintainer spend at least an hour removing a canopy using a speed wrench, and guessed it would have taken less than ten minutes with an impact driver.
I agree that there’s a lot more risk when using an impact driver to tighten a bolt/screw vs. loosening it. So why not modify the impact driver so it can only be used to loosen bolts, i.e. so that it can only spin CCW?
Downtown Julie Brown of MTV fame won the World Disco Dancing Championship in 1979, when she was 16.
We’ve been wearing Tungsten Carbide rings for a few years. I’ve lost enough weight that my ring now easily slides off after washing my hands so I just ordered one a size smaller. This will be my third Tungsten Carbide ring, my first was similar to what you describe – black with a blue line through it – but the blue line was so narrow that it was barely noticeable. Current ring is black with a turquoise inlay and the new one is black & gold.
The flag we associate with the Confederacy (blue cross on a red field) is actually not their flag at all. That actually was their battle flag. The national standard had that same flag in its canton. It was on a flag of white, until people noticed it looked like a flag of surrender. So a red bar was added to the right side.
Also, I have heard some people refer to the aforementioned flag as the ‘stars and bars’. The stars and bars predated this flag, and literally consisted of, well, a couple of stars and a couple of bars.
Pop quiz on all this information tomorrow 
The drive from Woonsocket, Rhode Island (birthplace of Norm Abram) to Woonsocket, South Dakota (birthplace of Eleanore McGovern, wife of George) takes 23 hours and 23 minutes.
At what average speed, using which route?
Erwan Fichou seems to be some sort of enfant terrible photographer from France. One of his delightfully weird projects is Dogwool, in which (in his own words)
I photographed dogs and their masters wearing coats or sweaters carefully knitted from lovingly gathered dog hair.
Well shoot, what’s not to like? Link to the Dogwool gallery on Erwan Fichou’s website. Click on the small images for a larger picture.
Aside #1: I came across this in the Horniman Museum, London. Wonderfully weird. As if someone had decided to have A Museum Of All Human Knowledge In Great Detail - housed in a not very big building. So most of human knowledge has been left out, but detail remains part of the mission statement.
Aside #2: Dogwool - well, dog wool - is a thing:
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Yep. One of my sisters was going to try spinning wool from fur shedded by our Husky mix, until she realized how much fur she’d need and how involved it would be.
So ‘Dracula’, was translated into Icelandic in the late 1800’s. It took a full hundred years before anyone discovered that the translator had just written his own kind of fanfic. Added new characters and entirely changed the story!
I certainly find this next one interesting. I still use high school algebra. And haven’t been to any kind of a school in over twenty years.
I mean, how else could you figure out how long a trip would be ?
Velocity is distance divided by time. Using simple high school algebra, we get time equals distance divided by velocity.
So if you know how far you’ll be traveling (distance), simply divide by how fast you think you’ll be going (velocity). And voilà, you get time.
This never ceases to fascinate me .
Laden, or unladen?
My high school chemistry teacher turned us on to the beauty of multiplying by 1. Like if you have 2 lbs of hamburger…
2 lb x 16 oz/lb, the unit lb falls out (one’s in the numberator, another’s in the denominator) and you have 32 oz. 16 oz and a lb ar the same amount, so it’s like multiplying by one.
So if gas costs 1.77 euros per liter, how many dollars is that per gallon?
1.77 euro/liter x dollar/0.93 euro x 3.785 liter/gallon=$7.20/gallon.
I was curious to know how many people Nolan Ryan struck out. That number is 5714. Eddie Feigner? 141,517.
About Eddie 'The King" Feigner…
On February 18, 1967, Feigner appeared in a celebrity charity softball game against many Major League Baseball players. In the game Feigner struck out Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Brooks Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Maury Wills, and Harmon Killebrew all in a row.[1][2]
Pick up the action around 8:40 to see Willie Mays. Eddie throws him a devastating changeup for strike one and ultimately strikes out the legend with a between the legs pitch.
