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barath_s t1_j5kj75r wrote
Reply to comment by clanlord in Nearly 220 million people in Pakistan without power after countrywide outage | CNN Business by calbert1735
Pretty much everyone in Pakistan lives along the Indus valley or its tributaries - minus a small percentage.
barath_s t1_j2f1wqe wrote
Reply to comment by Onedayatat1m3 in Pakistan flooding: Millions still homeless, says aid volunteer by SympathyOver1244
Pakistan is surrounded by Afghanistan, Iran, India and an extremely mountainous touch of China. People without resources aren't likely to be migrating to another country
barath_s t1_j2f0znv wrote
Reply to comment by DryMachine2308 in India offers $280 million to Syria for building power, steel plant by Acrobatic_Effect4907
> Our consistent view in this regard has been that distribution of humanitarian assistance to Syrians, whether by crossline or cross-border mechanism, should be guided by needs-based assessments and not political motivations. Humanitarian assistance cannot be a matter of political expediency," she added..
barath_s t1_j1socdy wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Members of India’s main opposition Congress party and thousands of supporters walked into the capital on Saturday as part of a 5-month-long cross-country “unity march” seeking to challenge what they say is a “hate-filled” version of the country under the Hindu nationalist government by DoremusJessup
Lions have, but in Rome, not India
barath_s t1_j1dq5at wrote
Reply to TIL that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong apparently filled out and signed customs forms when returning from the moon in 1969. by The_Critical_Cynic
It was a bit of a joke ..
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Buzz Aldrin filed for travel reimbursement, driving his personal car to the houston air force base, flying to florida in a government owned vehicle, then to space and back for a kajillion miles in a government. owned vehicle..
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/03/buzz-aldrin-travel-expenses-moon-apollo-11
He got the personal car miles reimbursed.
There's also the Apollo13 rockwell /northrop towing charge story.. READ IT.
barath_s t1_j0yl6vz wrote
Reply to comment by c0reboarder in TIL Lake Baikal is located in southeast Siberia and is the oldest and deepest lake in the world, at 25 million years old and 1,700 meters deep. It contains 20% of the world's unfrozen freshwater and is home to a rich and unusual freshwater fauna that is of significant value to evolutionary science. by wisely_lined56
forget lake superior ..
> [Baikal contains] 22–23% of the world's fresh surface water, more than all of the North American Great Lakes combined
It's a bit larger than Belgium, so only the 7th largest by surface area
> It is also the world's deepest lake, with a maximum depth of 1,642 metres (5,387 feet; 898 fathoms), and the world's oldest lake,[9] at 25–30 million years.
It's the part of ancient rift valley that got filled up with miles of sediment and water
barath_s t1_ixg079c wrote
Reply to comment by Acceptable-Ticket242 in NASA’s Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before by madneon_
Here's a treat for you.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/webb-space-telescope-snaps-its-first-photo-of-an-exoplanet-20220901/
But you might not be able to image wasp39b even with JWSTC hits its full stride
e: The first exoplanet ever directly imaged
barath_s t1_ixfzwjg wrote
Reply to comment by CampEmbarrassed170 in NASA’s Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before by madneon_
Just jump on a rocket and head 700 light years in the direction of Virgo constellation. /s
We don't have the ability to image most exoplanets.
> The planet’s discovery, reported in 2011, was made based on ground-based detections of the subtle, periodic dimming of light from its host star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star.
That said, JWST did take a picture of a planet 7x size of Jupiter 400 light years away.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/webb-space-telescope-snaps-its-first-photo-of-an-exoplanet-20220901/
They think JWST may be able to take more such exoplanet pics, down to maybe even 1/3rd Jupter's mass. However Wasp39b is about 0,28 jupiter's mass, 700 liht years away and super close to its star (<5% of the distance from the earth to the sun, or about 1/10th the distance of mercury. Might not be feasible even when JWST reaching full flow)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASP-39b
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/5673/wasp-39-b/
barath_s t1_ix43uxy wrote
Reply to TIL: Morgan Freeman has suffered with paralysis in his left hand since he was left seriously injured in 2008 after his car flipped multiple times by JohnOfA
One car accident leading to broken hand with nerve damage to Freeman and other injuries to his passenger. He was driving Ms. Meyer's car on a dark two lane highway near his home in the Mississippi delta. Went off the road , flipped and landed in a ditch.
Injuries to freeman and Ms. Meyer
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-people-morgan-freeman-022509-2009feb25-story.html
She sued him and the lawsuit said he had been drinking; but it was settled without disclosure of terms
barath_s t1_iunq302 wrote
Reply to TIL that Koreans have had heated floor technology since at least 1,000 B.C.E. by Nice-Violinist-6395
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondol#History
> Ondol ..or gudeul ... in Korean traditional architecture, is underfloor heating that uses direct heat transfer from wood smoke to heat the underside of a thick masonry floor. In modern usage it refers to any type of underfloor heating, or to a..........
> Use of the ondol has been found at archaeological sites in present-day North Korea. A Neolithic Age archaeological site, circa 5000 BC, discovered in Unggi, Hamgyeongbuk-do, in present-day North Korea, shows a clear vestige of gudeul in the excavated dwelling
barath_s t1_iui4xoy wrote
Reply to comment by GerUpOuttaDat in Swiss claim record for the world's longest passenger train | Switzerland’s largest private railway operator has set a new world record for the longest passenger train on a spectacular narrow gauge track through the Swiss Alps. by BezugssystemCH1903
It's perfectly possible to add additional information ; many people often seem to like it. The passenger train article doesn't talk about freight trains, so people who read the article may like to get some additional info.
I'm perfectly aware that the article is about passenger trains and that freight trains are not passenger trains. I assumed people with a basic level of competence would figure out the same without getting confused.
I'll take that apology now. Next time, try not to be such an abrasive asshole - especially as above, when it is unjustified.
barath_s t1_iuhnttl wrote
Reply to comment by genericusername123 in "Two-Finger Test To Confirm Rape Patriarchal, Sexist": Indian Supreme Court by dynamicEntr0py
A trial court convicted a person of rape and murder.
A jharkhand state high court acquitted him.
The national supreme court overturned the high court ruling and issued a slew of directives, slamming anyone who conducted such tests.
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It doesn't say much about the high court ruling or case but my WAG is that the high court taking it into account is horrendous, but doesn't mean they ordered it.
barath_s t1_iuhmviz wrote
Reply to Swiss claim record for the world's longest passenger train | Switzerland’s largest private railway operator has set a new world record for the longest passenger train on a spectacular narrow gauge track through the Swiss Alps. by BezugssystemCH1903
4 engines, 100 carriages = total length of 1,910 metres (~1.2 mi)
Traveled from Preda to Alvaneu in southeast Switzerland The entire journey of about 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) took about an hour
Also, freight trains around the world have often been longer. The longest train was in Australia.
> [A] BHP run on 21 June 2001, comprising 682 wagons and hauled by eight 6000 hp General Electric GE AC6000CW diesel-electric locomotives controlled by a single driver with a total length of 7.352 km (4.57 mi) on the 275 km (170.88 mi) iron ore railway to Port Hedland in Western Australia – total weight 99,734 tons on a 1,435 mm gauge line
barath_s t1_iuhkoow wrote
Reply to comment by genericusername123 in "Two-Finger Test To Confirm Rape Patriarchal, Sexist": Indian Supreme Court by dynamicEntr0py
FYI : The SC judges are slamming the 'test', not ordering it....
They are ordering the government to remove it from the curriculum of govt & private medical college study materials among other actions.
> The practice has no scientific basis to ascertain the sexual history of women, and it instead re-traumatises them, the Supreme Court said as it ruled that any individual conducting this test on a survivor will be held guilty of misconduct
barath_s t1_is0chgy wrote
Reply to comment by Doggydog123579 in TIL that passenger jet engines produce most of their thrust from fan at the front, not from the jet exhaust, and that this is called a high-bypass engine. by Rilot
SERVES YOU RIGHT FOR LOOKING AT THE ARK OF THE COVENANT BEING IN THE VICINITY OF THE THUNDERSCREECH
barath_s t1_irz1wr1 wrote
Reply to comment by amigammon in TIL Boeing B17 pilots often accidentally raised the undercarriage after landing, destroying the propellors and damaging the underbelly, due to the undercarriage lever and the flap lever looking the same. by Lkwzriqwea
It was early on in engineering days. BTW, it wasn't a mechanical engineer who found the issue and changed the shape. It was a psychologist
Psychologists Phill Fitts and Alphonse Chaponis realized the issue https://medium.com/swlh/the-flying-fortress-fatal-flaw-694523359eb
> One of his major contributions was shape coding in the aircraft cockpit. After a series of runway crashes of the Boeing B-17, Chapanis found that certain cockpit controls were confused with each other, due partly to their proximity and similarity of shape. Particularly, the controls for flaps and landing gear were confused, the consequences of which could be severe. Chapanis proposed attaching a wheel to the end of the landing gear control and a triangle to the end of the flaps control, to enable them to be easily distinguished by touch alone.
In other words, shape coding was created as a result of this.; you're speking with beneift of the hindsight created.
Weight on wheels safety is a far cry from when you have electronic sensors than an era when planes had everything mechanical or hydraulic
barath_s t1_iryycqj wrote
Reply to comment by aalizznotwell in TIL according to the Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages by Sistermateriial
It's pretty darn huge. States were created on the basis of language (not the only criteria), so it's basically been pushed down a level due to federation.
barath_s t1_iryxkfd wrote
Reply to comment by Zebidee in TIL that passenger jet engines produce most of their thrust from fan at the front, not from the jet exhaust, and that this is called a high-bypass engine. by Rilot
Probably talking about turboprops where the prop tips are supersonic. These tend to be noisy.
Such as the Tu-95 and XF-84 Thunderscreech
> the outer 24–30 inches (61–76 cm) of the blades on the XF-84H's propeller traveled faster than the speed of sound even at idle thrust, producing a continuous visible sonic boom that radiated laterally from the propellers for hundreds of yards. The shock wave was actually powerful enough to knock a man down; an unfortunate crew chief who was inside a nearby C-47 was severely incapacitated during a 30-minute ground run. Coupled with the already considerable noise from the subsonic aspect of the propeller and the T40's dual turbine sections, the aircraft was notorious for inducing severe nausea and headaches among ground crews. In one report, a Republic engineer suffered a seizure after close range exposure to the shock waves emanating from a powered-up XF-84H
also wiki for Tu-95
> The Tu-95 is one of the loudest military aircraft, particularly because the tips of the propeller blades move faster than the speed of sound.
Note that turbofan tips for modern engines may also be supersonic
barath_s t1_iryxaky wrote
Reply to comment by dyskinet1c in TIL that passenger jet engines produce most of their thrust from fan at the front, not from the jet exhaust, and that this is called a high-bypass engine. by Rilot
> Turboprops are also limited to rotation speeds where the tips of the blades are below the speed of sound.
Laughs in Tu-95 and XF-84 Thunderscreech
> the outer 24–30 inches (61–76 cm) of the blades on the XF-84H's propeller traveled faster than the speed of sound even at idle thrust, producing a continuous visible sonic boom that radiated laterally from the propellers for hundreds of yards. The shock wave was actually powerful enough to knock a man down; an unfortunate crew chief who was inside a nearby C-47 was severely incapacitated during a 30-minute ground run. Coupled with the already considerable noise from the subsonic aspect of the propeller and the T40's dual turbine sections, the aircraft was notorious for inducing severe nausea and headaches among ground crews. In one report, a Republic engineer suffered a seizure after close range exposure to the shock waves emanating from a powered-up XF-84H
> The tips of the fan blades of a modern turbofan also move at supersonic speed, so the supersonic propellers on the Tu-95 do not create a direct disadvantage.
also
> The Tu-95 is one of the loudest military aircraft, particularly because the tips of the propeller blades move faster than the speed of sound.
barath_s t1_iryu3is wrote
Reply to comment by Extension_Ad6338 in TIL according to the Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages by Sistermateriial
That's a very Delhi centric view.
Ask the cholas, cheras, pandyas, satvahanas, nagas etc if they claimed to be the rulers of india ?
India was not defined as being the same as your country necessarily. India as a nation defined by boundaries may not have existed necessarily but it did as an identity (one of many), culture, etc.
barath_s t1_ir48h38 wrote
Reply to comment by blue-cube in TIL Queen Sophie of the Netherlands’ marriage with King William was so turbulent that when she died, she was buried in her wedding dress because she viewed her life ended on the day she got married. by AsianInvasian93
> After Sophie's death in 1877 he [William III] married Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont in 1879 and they had one daughter Wilhelmina, who succeeded William to the Dutch throne
His surviving sons were still heirs to the throne at the time of his marriage, but they died before he did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_the_Netherlands#Family_and_issue
barath_s t1_j5kkm2o wrote
Reply to comment by whatkindofred in Nearly 220 million people in Pakistan without power after countrywide outage | CNN Business by calbert1735
You just got to be able to make neutron stars collide - or the right kind of supernovae . That'd help you create uranium from hydrogen (with some extra steps).
Or you could skip that and go for fusion.
Eventually, of course, the universe will run down. somewhere between 10^13 to 10^23 years .. you don't want to wait until 10^67 or beyond...
At which point you got to learn how to create a new universe.
In other words, it is just that you don't have the tech to make nuclear renewable right now .