Today I Learned #2: Gone for a Wiki Walk

[Zkribbler]

MIT has a time capsule that they can't open because the lid is 36,000 pounds.

Bah. give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the world.

 

[Ajidica]

TIL the Minnesota Air National Guard 148th Wing in Duluth is equipped with F-16s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/148th_Fighter_Wing
Who are they supposed to defending against? Some grumpy Canadian moose? Maple syrup smugglers?

 

[Takhisis]

Bah. give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the world.

But that place to stand would very probably be outdoors…

 

[Valka D'Ur]

But that place to stand would very probably be outdoors…

Obviously, since the nearest place to stand would be on the Moon, and there aren't any buildings there. Yet.

But he'd have to hustle so the International Space Station doesn't smack into this long lever.

 

[Cutlass]

TIL the Minnesota Air National Guard 148th Wing in Duluth is equipped with F-16s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/148th_Fighter_Wing
Who are they supposed to defending against? Some grumpy Canadian moose? Maple syrup smugglers?

They'll be a reserve force for NORAD. But the real point of it is that they can be deployed to other places on short notice.

 

[Hakim]

TIL that Soviet troops occupied part of Denmark (Bornholm island) almost a year after WW2 ended.

 

[r16]

american airspace is regularly being violated these days , not clear by whom but the National Guard thing is a way of keeping qualified people around . Training a combat pilot was already costing like 2 million dollars in the 1980s .

 

[Hrothbern]

TIL about the "Archers Paradox" and how arrows with the right flexibility get the right deflecting, the right snake like vibrating when launched.... not a simple straight line.

Can you understand above ?
I wouldn't

Here the vid, with a master archer and a longbow, that explains it by showing what happens.

 

[Farm Boy]

Hole in the middle of the fiberglass in front of the string brah!

 

[Hrothbern]

Hole in the middle of the fiberglass in front of the string brah!

That's a child's toy solution... as shown with such a toy in the vid

 

[Farm Boy]

It's the same solution the compound bow uses. It centers the arrow without the tension in the way. The difference in draw means it has to be engineered differently but the reason/solution is the same. If the toy needed to shoot farther it would offset from the side instead of put a hole in the middle and it'd cost a little more. The guy shooting and mastering bendable arrows seems to have practiced a bit. As does that younger fella with the compound that avoids the whole thing.

 

[Hrothbern]

It's the same solution the compound bow uses. It centers the arrow without the tension in the way. The difference in draw means it has to be engineered differently but the reason/solution is the same. If the toy needed to shoot farther it would offset from the side instead of put a hole in the middle and it'd cost a little more. The guy shooting and mastering bendable arrows seems to have practiced a bit. As does that younger fella with the compound that avoids the whole thing.

yes
that compound bow shown in the vid has even a gadget to lessen the effect of the vanes of the arrow hitting the bow... high tech

 

[Farm Boy]

That was new to me too! I'm assuming they're breaking records everyday. Otherwise they're just poor little posers. Like track and lighter shoes with spikes on bouncy ground/track designed to provide grip for the airspikeshoes.

I guess I could believe that the *******s/athletes in the oxygendep tents are better humans on things like long distance times, but it's all toys.

 

[Hrothbern]

That was new to me too! I'm assuming they're breaking records everyday. Otherwise they're just poor little posers. Like track and lighter shoes with spikes on bouncy ground/track designed to provide grip for the airspikeshoes.

I guess I could believe that the *******s in the oxygendep tents are better humans on things like long distance times, but it's all toys.

It's what I learned as kid when buying in sport fisher shops new gadgets that would make catching fish more succesful
and someone said... you don't need all that... those gadgets are to catch your wallet... not fish.

 

[Farm Boy]

Lol! Yes! The truth of the matter at the hundredths-of-a-second edge that 100meter Olympians run, or the edge where contestants of a "reality" show compete, is going to be totally lost where the 99.99% of "plebs" reside turning out their performance at everything sans the slick editing and presentation/everything else well in advance. For all them worthless sods there is subsidy and Elon Musk's/Bill Gate's mercy to make them less simple dirty apes. Well, until they all have to go, whenever that is. For whatever reason of the hour.

 

[The_J]

TIL that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, was actually also a science fiction author.
I'm not sure if I should feel surprised or not .

 

[Samson]

TIL that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, was actually also a science fiction author.
I'm not sure if I should feel surprised or not .

I is better than that. Word is many people discussed starting a religion to get round US laws with him:

Scientology is bull&%$£! Man, I was there the night L. Ron Hubbard invented it, for Christ's sakes! … We were sitting around one night... who else was there? Alfred Bester, and Cyril Kornbluth, and Lester del Rey, and Ron Hubbard, who was making a penny a word, and had been for years. And he said "This bullfeathers's got to stop!" He says, "I gotta get money." He says, "I want to get rich". And somebody said, "why don't you invent a new religion? They're always big." We were clowning! You know, "Become Elmer Gantry! You'll make a fortune!" He says, "I'm going to do it."

Source

Mr. Patterson revealed to me, "RAH [Robert Heinlein] and LRH [L. Ron Hubbard] had one or more discussions during 1944 and or 1945 when they were both in Philadelphia, and RAH pointed out to LRH that religions had an inordinate amount of legal latitude in the U.S. and that churches could engage in a great many activities otherwise thought of as secular, under the tax and other protection churches enjoy. He had already explored these ideas in some of his stories and was to revisit these notions in their original form in Stranger. It is possible that this conversation or series of conversations took place as late as December 1945 or early 1946 and in Los Angeles."

Source

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I learnt the origin of the word "boycott".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott

 

[Ajidica]

Not so much a TIL, but "Recently This Happened", a local TV weatherman (Sven Sundgaard) known for posting thirst traps on Instagram was fired because he retweeted someone who called the anti-quarantine protesters Nazis.

 

[H4run]

TIL

I never know that she is that awesome.

On this day, 4 May 1929, actor and member of the Dutch resistance Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium. The daughter of wealthy British and Dutch fascists, Hepburn rejected the politics of her parents and worked as a courier for and performed in underground concerts to raise funds for the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance during Holland's occupation.

Spoiler Audrey :

source: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/