Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Polish, and he was a national hero of the poles, but I don't recall why the peak was named after a Pole.

The mountain was named by the Polish explorer Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki KCMG CB FRS FRGS in 1840, in honour of Polish-Lithuanian freedom fighter General Tadeusz Kościuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the*Kościuszko*Mound in Kraków, Poland.

The Strzelecki track is named after the Polish explorer.

Originally Posted by bsperka

The mountain was named by the Polish explorer Paweł Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of Polish-Lithuanian freedom fighter General Tadeusz*Kościuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the*Kościuszko*Mound in Kraków, Poland.

The Strzelecki track is named after the Polish explorer.

"Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki KCMG CB FRS FRGS" you forgot the Sir

Bangalore: Dummies in police uniforms 'control' city traffic

Trivia at its best. I did send to my Ex navy police mates with a apology for being cheeky.

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Bangalore: Dummies in police uniforms 'control' city traffic - BBC News

In Qld, "P" plate drivers are not allowed to drive a modified vehicle, unless modified by the manufacturer. What this means is that, if an older, pre-seat belt, vehicle has had belts fitted, a "P" driver can't legally drive the vehicle. Remove the seat belts and all is OK.

Makes sense, hey!

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

What we get wrong about time - BBC Future

It is true that many events in the Universe can be put into sequential order – but time is not always segmented neatly into the past, the present and the future. Some physical equations work in either direction.

A few theoretical physicists, such as the best-selling writer and physicist Carlo Rovelli take it even further, speculating that time neither flows, nor even exists. It is an illusion.

Of course, although some physicists propose that time does not exist, time perception – our sense of time – does. This is why the evidence from physics is at odds with how life feels. Our shared idea of what the concept of “future” or “past” mean may not apply to everything everywhere in the Universe, but it does reflect the reality of our lives here on Earth.


My time was A- Well Spent B- Wasted or C- indeterminable

I'll bet he still lodged his time-sheets every fortnight!

Originally Posted by Saitch

In Qld, "P" plate drivers are not allowed to drive a modified vehicle, unless modified by the manufacturer. What this means is that, if an older, pre-seat belt, vehicle has had belts fitted, a "P" driver can't legally drive the vehicle. Remove the seat belts and all is OK.

Makes sense, hey!

NO it doesn't SH. Some of you Banana Benders are funny people.

Wouldn't that be overriden by the rule about having searbelts fitted? Weird.
Federal law overrules state law.

No. Seat belt fitting rules are not retrospective.

And Federal law only supersedes state law in areas that are withing the power of the Commonwealth under the constitution (or which states have passed on to the Commonwealth. There is nothing in the Constitution about motor vehicles, and since any powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution remain with the states, the only powers about motor vehicles that the Commonwealth has are those which have been agreed to by states or which exist because of specific federal powers.

Hence, for example, the Commonwealth can prohibit the import of vehicles which do not meet ADRs under its powers on international trade and treaties, but these ADRs only apply to vehicles being registered to the extent that state legislation says they have to meet ADRs.