Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by Saitch

Is that percentage rate too low for him?

Mars or the moon for him please. A one way ticket as well

Dr Karl blew me away with a item on rust- red dirt and just one Telegraph wire needed some parts of Austrlia as the iron content allowed the second wire to be a simple steel stake in the ground for Telegraph to work here in OZ

Old Trivia but very very cool I thought

What makes red dirt red? Why do our sugar levels affect our moods? What's the difference between a conspiracy theorist and a science denialist?

Not the fastest yet clearly bloody fast for 90 year olds made me smile. Move it or lose it is so true. Two years laying or sitting slowed me down

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/sports/national-senior-games-runners.html

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Airforce flying plane loads of baby formula from EU to USA. Yep world is a bit crazy!

US shortage is "due to the closure of the nation’s largest domestic manufacturing plant in Michigan in February over safety issues"

I wonder if the Aussie baby milk industry is fast enough? Balla----

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Dr Karl blew me away with a item on rust- red dirt and just one Telegraph wire needed some parts of Austrlia as the iron content allowed the second wire to be a simple steel stake in the ground for Telegraph to work here in OZ

Old Trivia but very very cool I thought

What makes red dirt red? Why do our sugar levels affect our moods? What's the difference between a conspiracy theorist and a science denialist?

Dunno about Telegraphy requirements, but many country properties over here are fed by (high voltage) SWER, Single Wire Earth Return 240v power. Single phase, cheapest / easiest way to get grid power. Last point on feeder wire has a small pole pig (single phase tranny) atop the pole and a meter box down below.

In my mis-spent youth I managed a telephone using a single wire (fence, actually...) between two sheds. - and a jolly good earth connection. No practical use, just for the heck of it.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Airforce flying plane loads of baby formula from EU to USA. Yep world is a bit crazy!

US shortage is "due to the closure of the nation’s largest domestic manufacturing plant in Michigan in February over safety issues"

I wonder if the Aussie baby milk industry is fast enough? Balla----

There seems to be some layers to that story... Like warnings of coming food shortages...and a concentration of production plants, in this case, ABBOTT (spelingk ?) pinged for "contamination" - which is more than a bit suss as they're a Very Large and established food and drugs company....

Yes, the Tin hats are screaming "Conspiracy / Engineered Food Shortage"
In fairness, there seems to be an.... epidemic.... of Food Distribution Centers Suddenly and Unexpectadly catching alight and burning down.. (and NOT after a "short illness")

So far, over 30 in the past year or so. As most of these are what we call 'Warehouses' - you must wonder at "how?"

Well, the Chinese endorsed our baby formula....

Originally Posted by superquag

Dunno about Telegraphy requirements, but many country properties over here are fed by (high voltage) SWER, Single Wire Earth Return 240v power. Single phase, cheapest / easiest way to get grid power. Last point on feeder wire has a small pole pig (single phase tranny) atop the pole and a meter box down below.

In my mis-spent youth I managed a telephone using a single wire (fence, actually...) between two sheds. - and a jolly good earth connection. No practical use, just for the heck of it.

In my youth many rural areas had party telephone lines that were single wire/earth return, including one property i visited in the early 1950s that would have been at least seventy miles from the exchange. The voice quality on some of these was not up to modern standards (although better than many mobile connections!) but this was usually a result of their being constructed with galvanised iron fencing wire as the conductor, with mechanical joints mostly not soldered, and many being repairs by non-experts. At my sister's place next door to where I live now, when the phone became unusable, her husband was sent out to follow the line and fin where a pole had fallen and the wire lying on the ground or a fence,and fix it. If the problem was not located before the next house towards the exchange, someone would be recruited there to help, and so on. And this was in the 1970s. (replaced by buried copper and an automatic exchange around 1980)

Originally Posted by JDNSW

In my youth many rural areas had party telephone lines that were single wire/earth return, including one property i visited in the early 1950s that would have been at least seventy miles from the exchange. The voice quality on some of these was not up to modern standards (although better than many mobile connections!) but this was usually a result of their being constructed with galvanised iron fencing wire as the conductor, with mechanical joints mostly not soldered, and many being repairs by non-experts. At my sister's place next door to where I live now, when the phone became unusable, her husband was sent out to follow the line and fin where a pole had fallen and the wire lying on the ground or a fence,and fix it. If the problem was not located before the next house towards the exchange, someone would be recruited there to help, and so on. And this was in the 1970s. (replaced by buried copper and an automatic exchange around 1980)

It wasn't that long ago ( 90s, early 00s) that I came across a property with a SWER line. For the life of me, I can't remember where. I'm thinking somewhere in the Gulf or lower part of the Cape. Along the Einasleigh, perhaps.