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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1925 on: 15 September, 2017, 10:25:53 am »
I'd expect a substantial proportion of the horses to be for ceremonial duties, mainly in London.

We don't (yet) use tanks for ceremonies.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1926 on: 15 September, 2017, 10:32:01 am »
Not military parades, no.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1927 on: 15 September, 2017, 10:33:52 am »
Where's Valiant?  :)
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1928 on: 15 September, 2017, 11:51:26 am »
one of the companies I used to work for did stuff for the military around outsourced maintenance for green painted vehicles.  Apparently the mean time between breakdowns of tanks is around 200 miles
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1929 on: 15 September, 2017, 12:15:45 pm »
So that's about 10 maintenance stops from Stalingrad to Berlin. Amazing they did it in two years, really.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1930 on: 15 September, 2017, 01:30:35 pm »
I think the old T34 was a bit more agricultural, apparently far more robust than the highly sophisticated, but prone to breaking down German offerings
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1931 on: 16 September, 2017, 07:00:54 pm »
That the hole in my shoe from the crash I had in May lines up perfectly with the Red Baron's front mech cage.  That explains the small bruise, missing chunk of shoe and how the mech was a write-off without any damage to the big chainring.  It further suggests that my right knee was flexed at point of impact, explaining how the rest of that leg was uninjured.

ian

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1932 on: 16 September, 2017, 09:56:59 pm »
How to quantize spacetime. It involves half-integer spin. Obviously, chorused the cats, because cats get quantum mechanics. It's easy for them. Just that no one usually asks them. They'd happily unify quantum mechanics and classical relativity for a couple of tins of tuna.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1933 on: 18 September, 2017, 09:41:28 pm »
That there is an electric bike "manufacturer" in Whitstable (well SwaleCliffe or even - whisper it - very nearly Herne Bay).  Passed their place picking up the cranky old grid from the menders this morning.

https://www.kudoscycles.com
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1934 on: 20 September, 2017, 04:57:41 pm »
Old, work-hardened Marathon Plus tyres can be an absolute bastard to remove. Involving many of teh BRITONS' BAD SWEARSTM

Leaving me with a terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.

Who knew . . .
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Chris S

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1935 on: 20 September, 2017, 05:02:41 pm »
IME, considerable beerific libation is required before attempting to unite/separate M+ with/from rims.

Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1936 on: 20 September, 2017, 05:04:08 pm »
Sadly, being shitfaced in front of the customers doesn't appear to be a good business model...
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1937 on: 20 September, 2017, 11:17:15 pm »
That both Claude Shannon and Ludwig von Boltzman have their famous equations inscribed on their graves

$H = - \sigma p_i \log p_i$

and

S = k log W

ETA:
Oh, there are a lot more.
Schwinger (alpha/2pi)
Schroedinger,
Max Born
Paul Dirac
von Lindenman
Otto Hahn
von Thunen
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1938 on: 21 September, 2017, 01:28:40 pm »
Can we be sure Schroedinger is in there, though?

David Martin

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1939 on: 21 September, 2017, 10:40:56 pm »
Heisenberg might be there. Again I'm not sure.
Schroedingers cat is there, but whether it is alive or dead we don't know.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1940 on: 21 September, 2017, 10:54:59 pm »
Heisenberg might be there. Again I'm not sure.
Schroedingers cat is there, but whether it is alive or dead we don't know.

<drifting off topic>

My Dad was 90 back in August and we had a big party at which I made a speech. I almost managed to shoe horn the Heisenberg speeding joke into it.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1941 on: 26 September, 2017, 12:04:06 am »
That "N+1" applies to Ukuleles, as well as bikes 'n trikes 'n stuff.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1942 on: 26 September, 2017, 07:47:30 am »
That "N+1" applies to Ukuleles, as well as bikes 'n trikes 'n stuff.

When it comes to books, I believe it is obligatory.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1943 on: 26 September, 2017, 11:47:59 am »
Not for the ones borrowed from the library, though.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1944 on: 26 September, 2017, 01:41:17 pm »
That duck roasted two or three days after the eat-by date is much better than duck roasted a week before it.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1945 on: 26 September, 2017, 01:49:40 pm »
That duck roasted two or three days after the eat-by date is much better than duck roasted a week before it.

Ah, the Stilton principle...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/M5pfkcUz_D4&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/M5pfkcUz_D4&rel=1</a>
https://youtu.be/M5pfkcUz_D4

T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1946 on: 26 September, 2017, 02:14:44 pm »
Delightful accent, too.

If ever the shops get honest about eat-by dates we'll all die of food poisoning.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1947 on: 26 September, 2017, 04:17:48 pm »
There are twice as many legal pot shops in the Denver Metropolitan Area than there are branches of Starmucks.
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1948 on: 26 September, 2017, 04:56:52 pm »
What I have also learnt today: my hands are no longer steady enough to apply silicone mastic round the bottom of a shower without making a pig's arse of it.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1949 on: 26 September, 2017, 05:23:43 pm »
How to drive a tower crane.

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