Gori the Grey
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Shoulda called it "tanko," then. Ha ha. I'm sure it doesn't work in Japanese.
Wikipedia said:Western impressions of the Jagannath Ratha Yatra in Puri as a display of unstoppable force are the origin of the English word juggernaut.
Since we both seem to be falling down similar wikiholes...TIL that Arsenal Football Club were founded in 1886 by a Scot, David Danskin, and were originally called Dial Square Football Club, named for the workshop inside the royal arsenal complex where the founding 16 players all worked. After 1 year, they changed their named to Royal Arsenal FC. When they joined the Football League in 1893, they changed their name again, to Woolwich Arsenal FC. The workers of the royal arsenal formed a new amateur side, Royal Ordnance Factories Football Club (or just 'Royal Ordnance'). The first "Royal Arsenal Derby" was 25 April 1895, Royal Ordnance 1, Woolwich Arsenal 0. Royal Ordnance's first rivalry was with Thames Ironworks Football Club, which later became West Ham United. Royal Ordnance FC was dissolved in 1896. In 1913, Woolwich Arsenal moved to Highbury (it turns out the royal arsenal is not, in fact, in Highbury, it's in Woolwich) and renamed themselves yet again as The Arsenal. Later that same year, they dropped the "The" and became just Arsenal. Tales From an Alternate Universe: There is a disputed story that, in 1912, the new owner of Woolwich Arsenal tried to merge the club with Fulham FC, but the League blocked the deal. A close shave, for fans of both clubs.
I wonder if this is in fact true. Follow me on some fairly punctilious etymological considerations.If the Christian missionary who was so awed by one of the Ratha Yatra temple-chariots had arrived in a different city or at a different time of year, the English word for "enormous, powerful machine or force that crushes everything before it" might have derived from 'Balabhadra', 'Krishna', or 'Parvati.'
The first European account of the Juggernaut festival, and its attendant immolations, is that by Friar Odoric, c1321.
W. Bruton, Newes from East-IndiesUnto this Pagod..doe belong 9000. Brammines or Priests, which doe dayly offer Sacrifices vnto their great God Iagarnat... And when it [the chariot] is going along the City, there are many that will offer themselves a Sacrifice to this Idoll.
the English word for "enormous, powerful machine or force that crushes everything before it"
It has a better chance of being built than the Oblique Flying Wing which was being touted by Boeing about 20 years ago as the only viable supersonic passenger aircraft to replace Concorde.JetZero: Groundbreaking ‘blended-wing’ demonstrator plane cleared to fly
Blended wing aircraft could slash carbon emissions. This rendering shows a design by California-based JetZero, which aims to have a plane in service by 2030. Scroll through the gallery to see more.
Spoiler :JetZero
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[IMG width="981px" height="551.377px" alt="The blended wing is just one of a new generation of greener aircraft being explored by the aviation industry. Among the most innovative is the solar-powered Skydweller, which is based on Solar Impulse 2, an aircraft that has achieved numerous flight records, including circumnavigating the Earth without using a drop of fuel. Skydweller is pictured landing after its first flight, in December 2020. "]https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images...pg?q=w_2472,h_1391,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_618[/IMG]
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[IMG width="979px" height="624.112px" alt="In December 2019, Vancouver-based seaplane company Harbour Air <a href=[URL]https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/electric-commercial-aircraft-flight-scli-intl-scn/index.html[/URL] target=_blank>made history</a> with the first all-electric commercial aircraft flight. The <a href=[URL]https://www.harbourair.com/harbour-air-and-magnix-announce-successful-flight-of-worlds-first-commercial-electric-airplane/[/URL] target=_blank target=_blank>de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver seaplane</a>, which was first flown in 1947, was retrofitted with a 750 horsepower magni500 electric engine from magniX. "]https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images...pg?q=w_1600,h_1021,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_618[/IMG]
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[IMG width="977px" height="550.173px" alt="On March 25 2022, an Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial passenger airliner, completed a test flight powered entirely by SAF -- sustainable aviation fuel -- composed mainly of cooking oil."]https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images...irbus-saf.jpg?c=original&q=h_618,c_fill[/IMG]
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[IMG width="981px" height="599.28px" alt="Blended wing aircraft could slash carbon emissions. This rendering shows a design by California-based JetZero, which aims to have a plane in service by 2030. <strong>Scroll through the gallery to see more.</strong>"]https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images...coastline.jpg?c=original&q=h_618,c_fill[/IMG]
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The next generation of greener planes
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CNN —
The basic design of commercial airplanes hasn’t changed much in the past 60 years. Modern airliners like the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 have the same general shape as the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8, which were built in the late 1950s and solidified the “tube and wing” form factor that is still in use today.
This is because commercial aviation prioritizes safety, favoring tried-and-tested solutions, and because other developments — in materials and engines, for example — mean the traditional design is still relevant.
However, a seismic shake-up is about to take place. An entirely new aircraft shape has been cleared to take off into California skies. At the end of last month, Long Beach-based JetZero announced that Pathfinder, its 1:8 scale “blended wing body” demonstrator plane, has been granted an FAA Airworthiness certificate and test flights are imminent.
Much more at link.
To be economically viable at supersonic speeds would require very large aircraft capable of seating many passengers. The venture capital is probably available, but it will require a long time before any returns, if any.Flying wings of various sorts have been touted about since I was a kid many decades ago. Change is often hard when the cost of entry is high and access limited to only a few companies. Billions in venture capital nowadays makes it easier.
That's not just a theorical point, actually, we need to regularly recalibrate the clocks on satellites due to this or it would mess up with GPS.TIL that an atomic clock on the Moon would 'lose' approx. 1 second every 50 years, compared to an atomic clock on Earth, due to the low gravity.
"[Goshdarn] atomic clocks!"That's not just a theorical point, actually, we need to regularly recalibrate the clocks on satellites due to this or it would mess up with GPS.