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Groucho's Fact Hunt

Disgruntledgoat said:
Wouldn't there be some severe fallout/radiation that could be measured after the event? Unless they dug a massive shaft into the earth, of the kind the North Koreans are keen on...
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If there was a fireball in the sky, then yes there would be very detectable levels....extraordinary levels, mass death levels, that couldn't of been nuclear. If it was buried miles underground then possibly but then why the fireball in the sky ?
 
degsy said:
@chrismpw. Based on this map, I recently drove from Kings Lynn, over to Napier in the North Island, down through Saltzburg and Brussels to Winterville N Maine. Back up through Finland on to Cornwall and home. 3,850kms
Had to top up the 7.2 L of oil though. Put half a litre of oil in after 2,500kms.
Also had a minor electical fault...it is landrover after all. Finally took the fuse out. Sorted the horn problem.
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Cant beat a landy. Must have cost a fortune that trip.

Last time I drove mine, as I was approaching the junction of my street with the main road , in our quiet country town, I decided to pip the horn just to check it still worked. The horn stayed on - blaring. This caused great consternation amongst dog walkers and more significantly, the hoards of half marathon runners using the high street!

Took an interminable 2 minutes of embarrassed chaos before I realised the horn boss had stuck in.
 
Disgruntledgoat said:
Wouldn't there be some severe fallout/radiation that could be measured after the event? Unless they dug a massive shaft into the earth, of the kind the North Koreans are keen on...
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thebluenosebolt said:
If there was a fireball in the sky, then yes there would be very detectable levels....extraordinary levels, mass death levels, that couldn't of been nuclear. If it was buried miles underground then possibly but then why the fireball in the sky ?
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It's a very good point, I have often thought the same thing.

Plenty about it online, and it seems to have most people stumped.

The measurements suggest it was the scale of a smallish nuclear weapon, but with no radiation how can it be? If it was detonated underground leaving no radiation (as in the ridiculous "Broken Arrow") how was there a fireball?

My actual point was linked to the earlier post about the scale of Australia, the fact a group of loons can buy a farm, and then:

  • Develop and test a lethal nerve agent (Tested on sheep first)
  • Possibly set off a huge explosion that nobody to this day can actually confirm what it was
means it's a pretty big, sparsely populated place.
 
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chrismpw said:
Cant beat a landy. Must have cost a fortune that trip.

Last time I drove mine, as I was approaching the junction of my street with the main road , in our quiet country town, I decided to pip the horn just to check it still worked. The horn stayed on - blaring. This caused great consternation amongst dog walkers and more significantly, the hoards of half marathon runners using the high street!

Took an interminable 2 minutes of embarrassed chaos before I realised the horn boss had stuck in.
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That's exactly what happened, went off at 0330. Its a thing by all accounts, (the car alarm doors sensors do something similar by all accounts - pull out relay 10) springs get a bit tired and when it goes cold, the springs contract and make a connection.
After some google took out fuse No 16, which solved that problem...but the cruise control also goes through it as well.
So some mornings I'd put it back in if I was on long sealed roads.
Haven't priced 'new' switches - daren't; I'll probably live with it...or in my case - without it.
Might fit a remote 'on / off' toggle switch on the dash board, after the fuse to save messing with the fuse box under the bonnet.
As to cost; Spent $au650 on diesel, (ave 20mpg - 13L per 100km.) + X2 again on other stuff, but you can't take it with you
Next job is 300,000km service and rotate the tyres...will try and slide that bill in when mrs degsys not looking - fat chance.

Edit; soz abar the off topic @Groucho, but it is the International break and if you stretch it the No. 16 fuse thing is a fact...so feel free to drop it into your future conversations and amaze your friends
 

Disgruntledgoat said:
Wouldn't there be some severe fallout/radiation that could be measured after the event? Unless they dug a massive shaft into the earth, of the kind the North Koreans are keen on...
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@BNJ1878
Perth to Banjawarn is 750kms as the crow flies
Adelaide to Woomera where, in the 50s, the brits let off seriously big bombs like it was bommy night is only 520kms

Its 4200kms from our house by road...2 grand ought to cover it and I'll drive over and have a nosey
 
H G Wells' father was the first cricketer to take 4 wickets in 4 balls (for Kent).


www.cricketcountry.com

HG Wells: A short cricketing history of the great writer - Cricket Country

HG Wells, born September 21, 1866, was one of the greatest authors in English language. However, it is rarely recounted that his father Joseph Wells was a useful First-class cricketer and Wells himself harboured a passion for the game even if he did not play it. Arunabha Sengupta traces the...
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ClausThomsen said:
In Colonial times the leases of all rented property in New York City would expire on May 1st every year leading to nearly every single tenant in the entire city moving house, all on the same day, every single year.

The annual "Moving Day" lasted in one form or other until WW2!
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Doesn't it still happen somewhere in Canada?

Edit: Just fount it. It was Quebec.
 
Billysgingham. said:
Why didn't they just re rent.
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Landlords would use it as an opportunity to raise rent or get "problem" tenants out so they could partition the building up into even more rooms for more rent. So everyone would either be forced out or decide to look for a better deal. There was even a spell when it was frowned upon not to move!

It's one of those things were the rationale behind it seemed only to make sense to those caught up in, profiting from it or simply because people often have an absurd attachment to tradition regardless of how stupid or pointless that tradition is. Tradition for traditions sake.

Even contemporary observers from other parts of the country thought it bizarre. Talking of which....

malfosse said:
Doesn't it still happen somewhere in Canada?

Edit: Just fount it. It was Quebec.
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That's bizarre. Just read the wiki entry about it and there are the exact same problems with moving companies tripling prices and being completely booked up - it was the same with cartmen back in NYC.

Cannot fathom it.
 

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