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Groucho's Fact Hunt
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Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
Jocky Wilsons birthplace.
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
Speaking of folding paper the current record is 12 times .
Beating the previous by 5 folds.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
2 to the power of 12 = 4096. The standard thickness of paper is .1mm so the paper ‘entity’ after 12 folds is 0.4096 metres. The Moon is 4 hundred million metres away so we have to extend the paper entity by a factor of 1billion.
The log of 2 goes into 9 (the log of a billion) 30 times...so that’s how many more times we need to fold that 12 folded paper entity.
You swine, was just about to post same and thought' I'd just better check, ah well, great minds and all that.
Black Belt Jones
Player Valuation: £25m
Some mindbenders in there. That one about the pollution of the 15 biggest cargo ships (5.37), though, can't be right - CO2 is a greenhouse gas and 15 ships aren't out-polluting the global car population on that score.
Maybe if it is just restricted to sulfur oxides then it is correct, which is still remarkable - I guess road petrol and diesel are very low sulfur compared to ship fuel.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
Some Guys Have All The Luck by Rod Stewart wasn't a cover of Robert Palmers effort
They were both a cover of this.
They were both a cover of this.
Brendan Janus
Player Valuation: £40m
That's spocky, I mean spooky !!
A big source is scuttled German ships in Scapa Flow.
davids
Player Valuation: £70m
But would it not have been exposed to radiation from under sea testing and waste from power stations?
"Since 1952 low levels of radioactive waste have been discharged into the Irish Sea, the English Channel and the Arctic Ocean. It is recognised that radioactive material needs to be isolated and encased (in glass and concrete) to prevent leakage on the ocean floor and it is now kept on land for some time whilst radioactivity levels decrease".
And once raised radiation in the atmosphere?
Its all to do with airborne radionucleides and the german ships have been under water since 1919
davids
Player Valuation: £70m
Not my field,but wouldn't some of the rubbish Sellafield pump out and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Scotland#Nuclear_reactors_in_Scotland have any effect? Plus once it's brought to the surface and exposed to the air...?
No.
From 1856 until the mid 20th century, steel was produced in the Bessemer process where airwas forced into Bessemer converters converting the pig iron into steel. By the mid-20th century, many steelworks had switched to the BOS process which uses pure oxygen instead of air. However as both processes use atmospheric gas, they are susceptible to contamination from airborne particulates. Present-day air carries radionuclides, such as cobalt-60, which are deposited into the steel giving it a weak radioactive signature
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