The first supersonic ejection seat was tested using a bear.
when there is literally more than enough resources for everyone.
Only to a fairly basic, subsistence level. If anyone wants more than that, and most people do, there, unfortunately, isn't, which is why the planet is burning.
As this is a bike forum: manuals. I am almost 60, and have really tried over the decades past. Failed. Did one once, on a BMX. Went sailing off into some bins.
Life, death, the Universe, time are but nothing as to how some people have so much skill to my none at all.
I only found out two days ago that Dave Grohl plays the drums on Run With The Wolves by The Prodigy. This blew my mind.
Not space as such, 'cos we all know that's incomprehensibly massive - but it's the life thing...we all know that we're one planet in a galaxy of which they are frickin' billions. Fine.
So then there's got to be life elsewhere. If there's just one planet with life in this galaxy, there's possibly one planet in every galaxy. Which means billions of planets with life.
But what is that life like? Floating snails? Teleporting lettuces? Or more likely a dimension our brains can't imagine - that's what really blows my mind...what 'life' means elsewhere, that exists outside of our limits of experience and imagination. It's got to be something we don't even have words for.
And where the **** did this all start? Like, REALLY start?
I think of this kind of thing often when out walking but, like tonight, I quickly give up because my brain can't handle it and order a fillet-o-fish & and start walking back.
bear - you've missed the two really big questions:
- what is a fillet-o-fish?
and
- whatever it is, why do you order it?
Everything else pales into insignificance.
Eve
Gwen Stefani
Stromatolites.
Strangler figs and other impressive trees.
That fact that absolutely all life on this planet, plant and animal has the same source. DNA is too complex to have started in parallel in different lifeforms so everything stems from one series of chemical reactions.
fingerbang
Free MemberThe passage of time, although not as era straddling as the above example
Pick something that for me anyway seems in the recent past like Italia ’90 world cup
That’s as close to today as it was to 1958. We’re so old 😁
Definitely Maybe is as old today as Sgt Pepper was when we were all getting excited about Brit pop in the 90’s
Eve
Gwen Stefani
Also, Gwen Stefani is 52 and a mother of 3, yet somehow still looks about 28. Kate Beckinsale who is 4 years her junior looks about 24.
I can only assume they no longer own their souls?
Definitely Maybe is as old today as Sgt Pepper was when we were all getting excited about Brit pop in the 90’s
Shut up shut up shut up SHUT UP.
People still support the current Tory government (with the exception of those who have financial investment in them).
DNA is too complex
and may just be chance anyway.
Number of police currently in Munich due to the G7.
Fat women who prioritise having nice nails and eyelashes over a normal bmi.
People who choose to sit in traffic.
Litter.
Looking at the night's sky.
The cost of health insurance in Germany.
The job I've just completed.... Four weeks prep just for our gear, two truckloads sent to Croatia, five days put-in, probably over 500 people involved when you include catering, deco, stagehands, techies, artists etc.... The cruise ship from Venice with its 1200 guests, two days across the Adriatic.... All that for a seven (7!)hour circlejerk. Budget for the party alone was over 2 mil. No idea what the AIDA cruise ship cost for the week long jolly.
Needless to say I'll be looking for a new insurance company when it comes to renewing the van insurance. Sickening.
and may just be chance anyway.
It is entirely chance.
Space - specifically the distances involved. The distance between Earth and the moon (238,000 miles) is sufficient room for every planet in the solar system to fit.
On a slightly larger scale, our nearest solar neighbour is 25.5 TRILLION miles away. You might quite rightly think "that's a bloody long way", but if the sun were the size of the full stop at the end of this sentence, Alpha Centauri would be 8 miles away.
Kate Beckinsale who is 4 years her junior looks about 24.
I can only assume they no longer own their souls?
Vampire??
If we're doing pop stars,
Toni Basil was born in 1943. When she sang Mickey in that cheerleader outfit, she would have been 39.
On a slightly larger scale
'Small' is equally boggling. Solid objects are mostly gaps between atoms.
Thinking about - if the big bang created everything, what was there before 'the big bang'; then trying to work out why no-one that really matters scientifically actually cares. (I know. It doesn't matter cos it can't be measured etc.)
Concerning Chicago, the fact that they raised whole blocks of buildings a metre or two to help with installing sewerage and drainage. And this was over 150 years ago.
In fact, a lot of these huge engineering operations they did before computers just baffles me.
Definitely Maybe is as old today as Sgt Pepper was when we were all getting excited about Brit pop in the 90’s
What's mind-blowing about this is that The Beatles album still sounds brilliant and Oasis like dated, dull, unoriginal crap, that I wouldn't care if I never heard again.. and I loved it when it came out!
In fact, a lot of these huge engineering operations they did before computers just baffles me.
Screw computers, what about the ones they did without any powered assistance, like the cathedrals that were built nearly 1000 years ago using nothing more than levers, pulleys, ropes and grunt.
From the HyperPhysics website.
If the Earth were scaled to 0.5 mm diameter, then the Sun would be a ball of diameter 5.4 cm (a little smaller than a tennis ball) at a distance of 5.9 m (19 ft). On this scale, Alpha Centauri would be about 890 miles away. If the sun were scaled to a 1 foot radius, then Alpha Centauri would be about 10,300 miles away.
In fact, a lot of these huge engineering operations they did before computers just baffles me.
Erm, I was doing structural design with a desk calculator in the 70s. Surveying required the use of 7 figure log tables as calculators weren't accurate enough.
When she sang Mickey in that cheerleader outfit
Sounds suspiciously like a deposit in your "bank" to me...
My wife worked for Piers Morgan at the Mirror, says he was a great boss to work for… that I just don’t understand!
Sounds suspiciously like a deposit in your “bank” to me…
Dude, I'd have been 10.
Dude, I’d have been 10.
I was 12. Oh yes......
‘Small’ is equally boggling. Solid objects are mostly gaps between atoms.
If you could remove the space between the elementary particles (protons, neutrons, electrons) that make up all atoms and molecules and just close pack the particles themselves, the whole of human existance on the planet would be about the size of a sugarcube.
only found out two days ago that Dave Grohl plays the drums on Run With The Wolves by The Prodigy. This blew my mind.
I think everyone knows this by now but the riff on 'My name is' by Eminem was played by Chas n' Dave
Definitely Maybe is as old today as Sgt Pepper was when we were all getting excited about Brit pop in the 90’s
Music is one of those things that constantly suprise me when it comes to time.
Katy Perry has been a mainstream pop star for a quater of a century now. Her breakout single is older than Kylie's Spinning Around, both of which came out pre-Millenium.
RHCP 2nd greatest hits album will be 20 years old next year.
Speaking of Oasis and The Beatles. Oasis lasted 18 years, and you could argue aside from the in-fighting and lineup changes ended being the same band they started. The Beatles last only 7 years and changed as much as they changed the musical world.
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In the same amount of time from when Mark Ronson released Uptown Funk and now.
RHCP 2nd greatest hits album will be 20 years old next year.
And I'd wager it sounded exactly the same as the first one...
The critical acclaim that RHCP get/had is something that blows my mind. They've written two songs - Under The Bridge and All the Others That Sound the Same
The Beatles last only 7 years
That blows my mind, as much as some of these time since comparisons.
Not talking about musical merit in comparison to the Beatles and what people think of them, but picking undeniably important or influential bands (also ignoring many are in gestation for years before they become 'a thing', and others then reincarnate - so ignoring eg: New Order, and just counting from breakthrough to demise)
The Doors - 5 years
Joy Division - <2 years from TV debut to Curtis suicide, < 1 year from debut album. ONE YEAR!
Smiths - just over 4 years from Hand in Glove single on Rough Trade to Strangeways and break up
Nirvana - 5 years from Bleach to Cobain's suicide
Even the Spice Girls were done and dusted in 6!!
Meanwhile Coldplay, - 22 years and counting 😉
A while ago, when computer chips were getting faster and faster and all the talk was about how many gigahertz etc I tried to look into the maximum speed possible. I got drawn into stuff about quantum vibration, Max Planck , 10 to the power of minus 37 and other things I didn't understand. It seems that the universe vibrates more times every second than there have been seconds since the big bang. And that's a lot of seconds. More than a million, I guess.
trying to work out why no-one that really matters scientifically actually cares
What makes you think no-one cares? I dare say there are theorists agonising over it. One thing there must have been is a hell of a lot of energy.
That blows my mind, as much as some of these time since comparisons.
Not talking about musical merit in comparison to the Beatles and what people think of them, but picking undeniably important or influential bands (also ignoring many are in gestation for years before they become ‘a thing’, and others then reincarnate – so ignoring eg: New Order, and just counting from breakthrough to demise)
The Doors – 5 years
Joy Division – <2 years from TV debut to Curtis suicide, < 1 year from debut album. ONE YEAR!
Smiths – just over 4 years from Hand in Glove single on Rough Trade to Strangeways and break up
Nirvana – 5 years from Bleach to Cobain’s suicide
Even the Spice Girls were done and dusted in 6!!
Meanwhile Coldplay, – 22 years and counting 😉
I don't want to drag this thread down too much of a path, but there's loads of other Cultural Icons who has short runs.
James Dean. His big break was 'East of Eden' released in April 1955, he died in Sept 1955 and Rebal without a Cause released in Oct 1955. 7 months from being a small time supporting actor on TV and Theater to his death, becoming a huge icon in the meantime.
Jimi Hendrix, first big hit in 1967, dead in 1970.
The Sex Pistols, 1 single, 1 album and you might argue lasted about a year.
If we’re doing pop stars,
If only...😢
Dude, I’d have been 10.
I meant your pocket money, saving to buy the single...obvs
Ahem.
Meanwhile Coldplay, – 22 years and counting
Is that all?
You think the USA grew fast, until recently China was using more cement per year than the rest of the planet!
In 2001 I was offered a job as engineering support on a 2 year contract at one of my previous employers, setting up their first facility in China.
It was basically a clearing in the forest with a city of about 5 million a few km away (3 or so million in the urban area, the rest in the "administrative area", however they define that.).
Roll forwards to 2022 and it's a city of over 30 million (urban), the factory is now 4 complete plants and a business park servicing it. Plus half a dozen of their competitors and suppliers are now nearby. The factories are also now completely enclosed by the city (and regularly getting complaints about noise pollution). The original 2 lane road from the city to the factory is one of two major highways used to transport good across china.
And they've gone from having a landing strip to having a fairly major domestic airport.
I don't like to think how much concrete/cement they used to do that.
A while ago, when computer chips were getting faster and faster and all the talk was about how many gigahertz etc I tried to look into the maximum speed possible. I got drawn into stuff about quantum vibration, Max Planck , 10 to the power of minus 37 and other things I didn’t understand. It seems that the universe vibrates more times every second than there have been seconds since the big bang. And that’s a lot of seconds. More than a million, I guess.
I don't know about maximum possible speed but it always impressed me that the speed of an electron is of practical concern when designing computer chips. They're fast enough now that a signal needing to travel a few centimetres can cause a bottleneck.
Electrical signals travel faster than electrons do. A wire is like a pipe that's already full of electrons - you put one in at one end and a different electron pops out of the other. If you had a tube full of ping pong balls and you put one in every second it would take a while for the actual ball to pop out of the other end, however *a* ball would pop out almost immediately.
Credit where it's due Mols, that is about the best explanation I've ever heard.
Is that all?
Feels much longer or shorter MCTD?
