Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

When I was in Port Moresby in 1971, scrub clearing and earthworks for a new fence round Murray barracks in the middle of the city resulted in the discovery of a WW2 crash site - complete with the remains of the pilot (I seem to remember it was a P-40).

"A US woman discovered she had won $3m (£2.2m) from the lottery after checking her spam folder for an unrelated email.


Laura Spears, 55, had purchased a Mega Millions ticket online from the state lottery after she saw the jackpot climbing into the hundreds of millions.


"A few days later, I was looking for a missing email from someone, so I checked the spam folder in my email account," she told lottery officials.


"That's when I saw an email from the lottery saying I had won a prize."


"I couldn't believe what I was reading, so I logged in to my lottery account to confirm the message in the email," she said, calling the win "shocking".


She now plans to retire early, and to monitor her emails more closely in the future.


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Not changing my mass auto deletion process as I do not buy lottery tickets

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Originally Posted by NavyDiver

"A US woman discovered she had won $3m (£2.2m) from the lottery after checking her spam folder for an unrelated email.


Laura Spears, 55, had purchased a Mega Millions ticket online from the state lottery after she saw the jackpot climbing into the hundreds of millions.


"A few days later, I was looking for a missing email from someone, so I checked the spam folder in my email account," she told lottery officials.


"That's when I saw an email from the lottery saying I had won a prize."


"I couldn't believe what I was reading, so I logged in to my lottery account to confirm the message in the email," she said, calling the win "shocking".


She now plans to retire early, and to monitor her emails more closely in the future.


"

Not changing my mass auto deletion process as I do not buy lottery tickets

Aahh, but what if someone, family or Patient had bought you a ticket for being a nice helpful guy & you missed it? Bang goes your new Running Shoes, boat, deluxe Fishing gear & a squillion other things

It wasn't meant to go there. No one will see it, Will it really happen then? Explaining how they caused enough impact energy as a small nuclear explosion may not be needed then I did try to calculate how much energy it would be and failed



"How a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage ended up on a collision course with the Moon

They predict it will crash at 11.25:58am AEDT (give or take a few seconds) on March 4." link


Impact Energy "Work-Energy Principle and the Momentum Principle." my head started hurting half way into those equations

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

It wasn't meant to go there. No one will see it, Will it really happen then? Explaining how they caused enough impact energy as a small nuclear explosion may not be needed then I did try to calculate how much energy it would be and failed



"How a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage ended up on a collision course with the Moon

They predict it will crash at 11.25:58am AEDT (give or take a few seconds) on March 4." link


Impact Energy "Work-Energy Principle and the Momentum Principle." my head started hurting half way into those equations

My guess is that it is intentional to prove summat or other for Musk's team. Cynical? Moi?

Originally Posted by 4bee

My guess is that it is intentional to prove summat or other for Musk's team. Cynical? Moi?

While rocket casings etc have been deliberately crashed into the moon in the past, this one seems to be accidental. It is the second stage of the rocket that put a satellite a couple of million kilometres from earth, between here and the sun, to give early warning of "space weather" streams of particles from the sun, that pose a danger especially to humans in orbit.

The rocket was essentially abandoned after putting the satellite in position, and its position was unknown (and nobody was interested) for several years. Not too sure how it was identified when it was picked up heading for the moon - possibly by telescope and reading the writing!

Originally Posted by JDNSW

While rocket casings etc have been deliberately crashed into the moon in the past, this one seems to be accidental. It is the second stage of the rocket that put a satellite a couple of million kilometres from earth, between here and the sun, to give early warning of "space weather" streams of particles from the sun, that pose a danger especially to humans in orbit.

The rocket was essentially abandoned after putting the satellite in position, and its position was unknown (and nobody was interested) for several years. Not too sure how it was identified when it was picked up heading for the moon - possibly by telescope and reading the writing!

Some body went to SPECSAVERS but who knows, it may have fulfilled it's top secret function & has now been discarded.


I'm gullible, I can easily believe that in these times. It is folk like me that start conspiracy theories & the world owes us, big time.