The More You Know ★
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- Gardener2
- Thanks Diggler.Ramanisky2
- an hour and a half for a shower, then only 30 mins for golf. Can't be right. Gotta be bullshitIanbolton
- so he only works 2 hours a day if that. Now try to fit in a 12 hour work day like us peasants._niko
- twatNonEntity
- But can he do 40 clean pull ups?ETM
- fucking helmet breath markutopian
- Hopefully the half hour of prayer time is begging penance for his childhood hate crimes.garbage
- i think einstein had the same daily routine....neverscared
- half an hour of praying?drgs
- He's got a hell of a workout regimen, but this is bs.formed
- 3:30pm snack, I can get behind that.MrT
- praying is his code word for wanking..neverscared
- Hunter S. Thompson?fadein11
- sted3
- LOL!oey_oey
- those 'biscuits' taste like eating a dessert spoonful of icing sugar.shapesalad
- It is a cult and like Europeans who visited Italy, you have to lie about it while secretly remembering an experience in Spain.sted
- no one tell yurimonsarahfailin
- They're vegan!Akagiyama
- Oreo cookies are fucking disgustingcrazyprick
- Golden Oreos bumps it up a tiny tiny notch.jagara
- I gave them a go again last month at Doha airport's world-first Oreo cafe. No. Still filthy beermats.MrT
- Oreo cookies are amazing and delicious. Fuck anyone who says otherwise.monospaced
- Amen
* Illuminati secret handshakeYakuZoku - fuck me then, they're fucking shit!MrT
- just cookiessandpipe
- sted5
- hmm does it make it easier or harder?Beeswax
- Easier, I would think. More leverage.Continuity
- there is a screw at the bottom of the engine that can only be accessed from abovested
- this gives you an extra 90°, and works as a lever. So yes you can exert more force with it and you can always extend the ratchet with an iron tube :)sted
- WHATscarabin
- Umm....Akagiyama
- #notallscrewdriversimbecile
- https://www.mltools.…garbage
- That and a torque wreck.garbage
- *wrenchgarbage
- What do you do after you arrange them on the floor this way?i_monk
- Take a picYakuZoku
- Akagiyama7
- ok McGuyver_niko
- OLEAQUTE
- Prison lighterpango
- Better than a fucking lighter.palimpsest
- *McGuyver themedrgs
- I mean, it's an old hack. But better than a fucking lighter? Gonna do the math real quick.garbage
- Numbers roughly rounded, but your average Bic gets 3000 lights.garbage
- Five Gum comes in 15 pack boxes. You'd need 200 packs of gum.garbage
- Walmart sells 6 packs of this gum for roughly 8 dollars. You'd have to buy 33 of them.garbage
- So about $270 bucks vs a $2 Bic.garbage
- my childhoodsted
- Ramanisky25
- no, shitty 80's tv resolution is a real thing._niko
- I saw it in a theater the night it premiered.Ramanisky2
- chainmail on VHSgrafician
- well, movie theatre resolution wasn't much better then, the screen and projector seems to soften everything._niko
- also, you're fucking old! :)_niko
- ^ truthRamanisky2
- movie was epic tho'
https://www.youtube.…grafician - It’s amazing what passed for real stuff on when filmed back then. My brother worked in special effects and would show me stuff like that all the timeGnash
- I saw some builds he did for robocop and I couldn’t believe how diff they looked on screenGnash
- CoolYakuZoku
- No way! I'm duped by movie magic yet again. C'mon Bennett, let's potty.bezoar
- "don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired"prophetone
- lol always thought it's chainmailpango
- That is so funny, I must have seen this movie a hundred times back in the '80s and '90s, never once did I think it was anything BUT chainmail!elahon
- ^ exactlyRamanisky2
- mort_5
- *furiously writes in notebookAkagiyama
- I tried this with soup today, it was a fail, how can the inventor of forks sleep well at night?!grafician
- CAPITALISMscarabin
- This got a downvote when I posted it. I guess some smarty pants know-it-all already had this fine knowledge..mort_
- i've been upvoting a pile of dvs today someone here has coke slots for brainskingsteven
- QBN thanks you.mort_
- "Vegas has lots of slots!"GuyFawkes
- lol scarabincolin_s
- Stealing "coke slots for brains", and nobody will ever know what I'm talking about.garbage
- Who do we blame, here? The Coca-Cola Company, or the inventor of forks? Either way, someone has a lot to answer for.Continuity
- sted10
The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End
Say friend, did you know that the US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches.
That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.
I see, but why did the English build them like that?
Because the first railway lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Well, why did they use that gauge in England?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did their wagons use that odd wheel spacing?
Because, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads. Because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts.
So who built these old rutted roads?
The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The Roman roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts?
The original ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by the wheels of Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot.
And the motto of the story is Specifications and bureaucracies live forever.
So, the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back-ends of two war-horses.
So, just what does this have to do with the exploration of space?
Well, there's an interesting extension of the story about railroad gauge and horses' behinds. When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.
The railroad from the factory runs through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than a railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So a major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was originally determined by the width of a horse's ass.
- https://encrypted-tb…_niko
- They could have moved the factory.calculator
- Thanks, that was fun!Green_Pork
- fun read but a myth. https://magazine.eng…Beeswax
- @Beeswax “Mind your own!” Lol... Sorry, couldn’t resist.Green_Pork
- kingsteven10
- For the children.face_melter
- nice!moldero
- Wit to until their golden child starts listening to some of the lyrics.utopian
- gi gi gi giver her the knife!moldero
- We will remember the Wu-Tang Clan when the sun envelopes the earth in 4 billion years. That's how important they are.jagara
- renderedred10
- Amerikkka is Fucked Threadutopian
- i lol’ed way too harddasohr
- He's Captain Texas which is way betterTurboslacker
- so he works for the IRS?son_dey
- Gardener11
- where the FUN isRamanisky2
- I was approached in Paris by this beautiful girl, I was hesitant, got a bad vibe. Glad I walked off. Sometimes instinct and experiences really keep you safe.Wordsworth
- Gardener9
- mind blowncapn_ron
- minutes or hours ?neverscared
- days or weeks?utopian
- I subtracted two testicles and added two titties, now I'm confused...elahon
- hans_glib7
- https://i.pinimg.com…imbecile
- as much as I am 100% digital, i will always find vinyl utterly fascinating for just how physical a medium it is. ^that gif is like nails down a blackboard to meNairn
- ^^ That is deeply satisfyingContinuity
- What really draws me to vinyl is the expense and the inconvenience.jagara
- "it just sounds different"doesnotexist
- To be fair, I believe it does ;)jagara
- it is different. at its essence, the sound wave is literally a different shape.imbecile
- I treated my vinyl properly in the 20th century.CyBrainX
- Gardener7
- I've been down this path.
At the peak you will find Octavio Mesa.palimpsest - Peruvian Psychshapesalad
- Peruvian Amazonian Cumbia, even.palimpsest
- hahah god damnit Palimpsest I've been now listening to Octavio Mesa all day thank you for this brilliance lol_niko
- https://youtu.be/4Wd…prophetone
- Next level: Play this music in Japan at night while its raining.Akagiyama
- Lol, I'm somewhere in the middle one at the momentdee-dubs
- I've been down this path.
- Gardener11
- https://i.imgur.com/…Akagiyama
- Oh, about $10 a pop. Nicehydro74
- Bluejam8
- 'just humour me for a minute and centre-align everything... oh yeah, that does look awful'Ianbolton
- My son suggested you use Bleeding Cowboy for the title.hydro74
- Bleeding cowboy is the new papyrusscarabin
- I've heard this term used many times.CyBrainX
- My old boss' wife was/is an askhole. Her requests gave me a nervous breakdown, and my boss ended up yelling at me for not being more accommodating.jagara
- neverscared3
Human sperm cells contain about 37.5MB of data each. The average "load" contains nearly 16TB of data
- So, is that compressed or un-compressed data?Continuity
- "the average load" LOLutopian
- lol continuity, imagine the compression artifacts :)fadein11
- I’m gonna think about tossing eight copies of Shrek on DVD every time i jizz now, thanksscarabin
- iam into big data nowneverscared
- I'm not sure what to do with this infoKrassy
- If average male orgasm lasts 10 sec, that's 1.6TB per second, USB 3.1 not even closedrgs
- Suddenly I’m interested in data sciencenb
- Def flash memorycannonball1978
- Pretty amazing a sock can hold 16TB.BH26
- Bluejam8
- I'll bring this up with the architects next time I'm working on a new project.
'...the climate stuff is neat an' all but have you considered ghost traffic?'face_melter - Ha, I know where this is from - as do many of us, I imagine :)
https://images-na.ss…Nairn - For a sec I thought diagram on the right showed path taken by a ghost coming out of a toilet u-bendNonEntity
- What's funny is that most of us will laugh at flat earthers, anti-vaxxers and Pillow Guy but probably a third of the people in the US believes in ghosts.CyBrainX
- Bill Burr does a funny bit about ghosts, "Why would you spend eternity in a basement when you can fly to D.C. and sit in on some CIA meetings?"toemaas
- I'll bring this up with the architects next time I'm working on a new project.
- SimonFFM2
Did you know houses in Sweden have a built-in vacuum cleaning system? They don't use vacuum clears like in other countries. You have a socket in each room and only attach the tube to it.
- Pretty standard here, tooGnash
- That's nothing, I have programmed a swarm of drones to 'fan' up dust particles and collect them in an old sock.shapesalad
- These are pretty common in the US and Canada as well.zarkonite
- we had a house that sucks when I was a teenager in Australia toosausages
- ive only seen one house in the US that has this. A custom made house of a friends parents in the 80's.fooler
- My house has one, I rerouted one line to a kickplate under a kitchen cabinet, sweep and go https://bit.ly/3qgK9…whatthefunk
- Amazing, guys. For me this was all new.SimonFFM
- Doesn't suction go down the longer a tube is?Nairn
- ^ ya, but most of that loss is through friction. The internal tubes are smooth bore, vs the corrugated hoses on the biz endGnash
- Dyson hates them.ideaist
- houses in the 50's were built with these systems in the US.sarahfailin
- Ever home that I ever been it that has one of these...they all blow ass and barely work, regardless of how many sockets they have around the house.utopian