Post something Weird or Random

[NDR2]

 

[Caiman]

I took a picture of a beetle that looks like it would make a good indie album cover

 

[Judge]

What’s a cheque? Is it a type of doggie?

Nope. It's a kind of "ball" that bounced a little too often in Oz.

Other than to pay bills through the mail, I can't even recall the last time I wrote one in person.

 

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Religion on the move:

Photos: Entire church moved in Sweden’s Kiruna city for mine expansion

 

[Shevek]

Gad! That looks like it was designed by AI, especially the flying buttresses. Is the space completely clear inside to justify them?

 

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Gad! That looks like it was designed by AI, especially the flying buttresses. Is the space completely clear inside to justify them?

No idea, amazing feat of engineering to be able to pick a whole building up like that though. Notice all the glass still in the windows, no panes are broken.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I messed with another Cashapp scammer on Thursday. I kept answering her questions with more question and bizarre answers. My favorite is when she asked me to send her address and I replied, “What’s an address? Is it a type of Kitty? I like kitties. Especially when they say Woof!” She then said “Your house address,” and I replied, “What’s a house? Is it a type of birdie?” She stopped talking to me after that.

 

[Shevek]

No idea, amazing feat of engineering to be able to pick a whole building up like that though. Notice all the glass still in the windows, no panes are broken.

I like the pictures of the Amish moving whole barns by carrying them with a large crew. I once got about 40 people to come over and move a section of a stage 30 cm. I just marked chalk Xs where I wanted the feet to go, and counted down for everyone to lift in unison.

 

[Shevek]

 

[RemyZee]

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

 

[Shevek]

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The amount of carbon on Earth is indeed a constant. The issue is how much of it is in circulation in the atmosphere. Grazing cattle typically involves not only eliminating predators, some endangered, but cutting down forest and replacing it with grassland. Grass only turns to peat if not eaten. The bovine digestive system of four stomachs is basically a bio-processor to speed up the natural breakdown of cellulose. This not only returns the carbon to the air as quickly as possible, it returns it as methane which is 80 times as potent a greenhouse gas, albeit with less persistence than CO2. The current amount of warming is now melting ancient methane ices, which is now into positive feedback. For the last 10,000 years, we have had just the right amount of ice on earth to produce the most mild, predictable weather we can have, and we built to suit it. Now, the mountain top glaciers are too small to direct the winds and rains in their old paths, and the rivers they feed are failing. Thus the news we see about many weather-related disasters.

 

[VictorR]

 

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Solar Car Challenge

Futuristic homemade cars zoom through the outback in the name of science

 

[Shevek]

Those solar cars have special Michelin tires that they refuse to sell to the general public, but which are just what an efficient commuter car needs. Nothing else comes close. In one of the early races, GM finished with a huge lead, mainly because of their strategy of running down their battery on the first day to stay ahead of incoming clouds. GM was so happy with their subcontractor, Aerovironment, that they then ordered a small run of electric cars that were the first models that had real performance and enthusiastic test-owners. The program was then bobbled and soon scrapped entirely to delay the obsolescence of gas powered cars.

 

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Those solar cars have special Michelin tires that they refuse to sell to the general public, but which are just what an efficient commuter car needs.

Those harder compound tyres give a really bumpy ride and they're also illegal here for regular vehicles because they have very poor grip in the wet, more like skates than tyres.

The Darwin to Adelaide solar challenge has been happening every year since the early 90s and I've yet to see anything even remotely practical as far as a regular family vehicle is concerned. It also takes them between 5 and 7 days to cover that distance, for normal commuters it's a 2 day trip.

 

[Mary Terry]

Those harder compound tyres give a really bumpy ride and they're also illegal here for regular vehicles because they have very poor grip in the wet, more like skates than tyres.

The Darwin to Adelaide solar challenge has been happening every year since the early 90s and I've yet to see anything even remotely practical as far as a regular family vehicle is concerned. It also takes them between 5 and 7 days to cover that distance, for normal commuters it's a 2 day trip.

I've always liked to watch the solar challenge. It's a good event for aspiring engineers.

 

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I've always liked to watch the solar challenge. It's a good event for aspiring engineers.

A lot of the more successful teams over the years have been groups of high school students, teaching them with real world applications is a great idea I think.

 

[Shevek]

Those harder compound tyres give a really bumpy ride and they're also illegal here for regular vehicles because they have very poor grip in the wet, more like skates than tyres.

The Darwin to Adelaide solar challenge has been happening every year since the early 90s and I've yet to see anything even remotely practical as far as a regular family vehicle is concerned. It also takes them between 5 and 7 days to cover that distance, for normal commuters it's a 2 day trip.

I can't imagine a rubber so slick it would make a car less nimble than a large truck. The bump absorption is up to the air pressure first, with minor influence from the carcass and even less from the rubber. In any event, my problem is with the unavailability of a radial-belted carcass with the load rating of a motorcycle tire. There is no good excuse for a land vehicle to weigh more than it carries.

The Darwin to Adelaide is not set up to develop family cars. There are other economy runs with a class for that direction. However, the daily mileage covered is plenty for most commuters, and they would not usually need to carry the solar cells if charging is available with parking. For what you seem to have in mind, see Lightyear — Solar Electric Vehicle

 

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Snow is rare where I live, Adelaide in South Australia, but the forecast says we might get snow in the hills in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

One of the most widespread snow events in years heading for NSW