The thread of learning something new every day
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@Snowy The spire on the Empire State Building was designed as a mast for airships. The plan was to have passengers disembark across an open gangplank, process through a customs hall on the top floor and be out in the street in less than 10 minutes. However high winds meant it was basically impossible to dock.
Barnes Wallis of bouncing bomb fame designed the R101 that was destroyed in France and Neil Shute the novelist was Chief Engineer on the R100
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@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Snowy The spire on the Empire State Building was designed as a mast for airships. The plan was to have passengers disembark across an open gangplank, process through a customs hall on the top floor and be out in the street in less than 10 minutes. However high winds meant it was basically impossible to dock.
Barnes Wallis of bouncing bomb fame designed the R101 that was destroyed in France and Neil Shute the novelist was Chief Engineer on the R100
We've got our very own QI going on here!
Having been to the top of the Empire State I can say that that was a fucking stupid idea (and there wasn't a gorilla in sight).
Did this ever happen? The movie. Never seen it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-45731665
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@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I learned two things
1 Wireless buds don't work very well if you leave them in your jacket pocket when you put it through the washer and dryer
2 I learned where I'd left my missing budsI've never used my wireless buds as I too will do dumb shit like this. Or I'll lose one of them within a week. Plus, I think they look stupid sticking out of people's ears.
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@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I learned two things
1 Wireless buds don't work very well if you leave them in your jacket pocket when you put it through the washer and dryer
2 I learned where I'd left my missing budsYeah, well, imagine how gutted your jacket was when the music cut out only minutes into the cycle...
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@dogmeat said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I learned two things
1 Wireless buds don't work very well if you leave them in your jacket pocket when you put it through the washer and dryer
2 I learned where I'd left my missing budsYeah, well, imagine how gutted your jacket was when the music cut out only minutes into the cycle...
fucking LOL
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Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson cuts a slender figure as she shows off weight loss in busty dress - The Mirror
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
Can’t stand Rebel Wilson. Over
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
It's the theory of relativity
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@Machpants said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
It's the theory of relativity
It's science!
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
Fuck I just learned I'm anorexic.
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@JC said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Slender doesn't mean what you think it means.
Rebel Wilson has proudly showed off her dramatic weight loss as she works towards her goal weight of 165lbs (75kg) by the end of this year
Can’t stand Rebel Wilson. Over
weightratedHer only selling point is that she is fat and willing to be the butt (#dadjoke) of fat jokes.
I’ve seen her on a few interview type shows recently and she actually comes across as extremely unfunny and verging on unpleasant. Tries to be “aloof” but comes across as very arrogant.
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Apparently something like 10,000 people that play the National Lottery (UK) every week, pick the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6...
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Apparently something like 10,000 people that play the National Lottery (UK) every week, pick the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6...
Are they not just as likely to come up as any other numbers? Slightly lacking in imagination though.
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@Snowy statistically I assume having 6 sequential numbers (be it 1-6 or 12-18 etc) come up must be much higher odds that 6 non-sequential?
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Snowy statistically I assume having 6 sequential numbers (be it 1-6 or 12-18 etc) come up must be much higher odds that 6 non-sequential?
Not if the draw is fair, all balls are equally weighted, etc. Each ball is a mutually exclusive event, the previous one has already happened. If a one was first, a two is just as likely as any other number. I studied stats at uni and it never seemed quite right to me, but I believe it to be true - never seen it of course, but I've never picked the winning lotto numbers either.
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@Snowy said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Not if the draw is fair, all balls are equally weighted, etc. Each ball is a mutually exclusive event, the previous one has already happened. If a one was first, a two is just as likely as any other number. I studied stats at uni and it never seemed quite right to me, but I believe it to be true - never seen it of course, but I've never picked the winning lotto numbers either.
fuck your 'facts' in my mind, it is less likely.
Anyway, lets say the Lottery was £10,000,000, split between 10,000 people...
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Anyway, lets say the Lottery was £10,000,000, split between 10,000 people...
That changes it completely as to the pay out. The odds of 10,000 people taking the same numbers as your are significantly different.
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@Snowy tahts what I mean, everyone that plays the lottery, does so in hopes of the winning the big one, but given there are supposedly c10,000 people picking those same numbers, and they come up, your big one, just turned into fuck all.
