Walter_Sobchak Posted April 20, 2017 Report Share Posted April 20, 2017 Today I learned that Carl Bachle, the brains behind Continental Motors had some patents on free piston engines, including designs that allowed for better fuel economy at idle by either changing the stroke of the piston, or changing the mass of the piston by filling it with liquid. Free piston engines are weird. LoooSeR and Collimatrix 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguetechie Posted April 20, 2017 Report Share Posted April 20, 2017 Whoa Walter! Thanks man, this is actually applicable to things I've been thinking about lately. Free piston generators are all I've really run across, how does one make a free piston engine anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted April 20, 2017 Report Share Posted April 20, 2017 Walter posted this in chat earlier this evening.. LoooSeR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted April 20, 2017 Report Share Posted April 20, 2017 Continental must have thought that the concept held enough merit that it was worth making this patent in 1958. https://patents.google.com/patent/US2854085A/en?inventor=Carl+F+Bachle&page=1 For more on free piston engines for military vehicles, check out ENGINE-TRANSMISSION POWER PLANTS FOR TACTICAL VEHICLES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted April 24, 2017 Report Share Posted April 24, 2017 TIL that prior to the Second Punic War the concepts of predestination and the demigod are largely absent from Roman religion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted April 24, 2017 Report Share Posted April 24, 2017 TIL of a convincing argument that blackberries/brambles are a carnivorous plant. -they are notorious for catching sheep in their thorns -when caught, sheep will stand/sit until they die or are freed -being curved, blackberry thorns allow sheep to get in deeper but not escape -why would defensive thorns try to hold onto a thrashing animal -a dead sheep is a treasure trove of nutrients for the blackberry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted April 24, 2017 Report Share Posted April 24, 2017 Not so convincing on further examination: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/58569/is-bramble-blackberry-bush-carnivorous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 Earthquakes are still really really cool http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-39653873 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted May 4, 2017 Report Share Posted May 4, 2017 OH MY GOD THE PURITANS ARE FUCKING INSANE: Quote For I do find in my reading that anno 666, the year that designed and computed for the coming of Antichrist, Vita bishop of Rome, brought to the church singing of service and use of organs Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted May 7, 2017 Report Share Posted May 7, 2017 Today I learned that David Duke once authored a book under a female pseudonym on sex and relationship advice. From Wikipedia: To raise money in 1976, Duke (using the double pseudonym "Dorothy Vanderbilt" and "James Konrad") wrote a self-help book for women, Finders-Keepers: Finding and Keeping the Man You Want, which contains sexual, diet, fashion, cosmetic and relationship advice, and was published by the now defunct Arlington Place Books. Tulane University history professor Lawrence N. Powell, who read a rare copy of the book given to him by journalist Patsy Sims, wrote that it includes advice on vaginal exercises, fellatio, and anal sex.[128][129][130] The book is out of print and difficult to find; however, according to journalist Tyler Bridges, The Times-Picayune obtained a copy and traced its provenance to Duke,[131] who compiled the content from women's self-help magazines.[11] Belesarius and Donward 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted July 23, 2017 Report Share Posted July 23, 2017 That the most common issued weapon of the Volkssturm was the Carcano. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted July 23, 2017 Report Share Posted July 23, 2017 2 hours ago, T___A said: That the most common issued weapon of the Volkssturm was the Carcano. Oh really? No doubt because the Krauts disarmed their erstwhile allies after the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943 and having several rifles sitting around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted July 23, 2017 Report Share Posted July 23, 2017 OMG LEE HARVEY OSWALD was A NAZI??!?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted July 23, 2017 Report Share Posted July 23, 2017 wehrmacht 1963 T___A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 TIL about the Ugandan-Tanzanian War of 1978/9 including this on Libyan airstrikes on Tanzania*: Quote Late on 1 April, a LAAF Tu-22 bomber, which approached at low altitude over Lake Victoria, attempted to hit the fuel depot at Mwanza. The bombs missed not only all of their targets but the entire city, and landed in a nearby game reserve, injuring one person and killing six antelope and several birds. Similarly, another attack by Tu-22s against one of the Tanzanian bases south of the border ended with Libyan bombs landing near Nyarubanga - inside Burundi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted August 1, 2017 Report Share Posted August 1, 2017 Milk can kill fungal infections on plants https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/food-thought/dairy-solution-mildew-woes Also, tuna are hydraulic: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/newly-discovered-lymph-hydraulics-give-tunas-their-fancy-moves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Other than Nigeria Brazil has the highest population of people of African decent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 That's pretty decent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted August 13, 2017 Report Share Posted August 13, 2017 Jeeps_Guns_Tanks and Scolopax 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 Today I learned about the Giro Boat: This is rather similar to an idea the Germans had in WWII. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted August 18, 2017 Report Share Posted August 18, 2017 TIL that being hit by a car can remove not only your boots, but socks as well. Always thought that people claimed about remvoed boots/socks were just adding to story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 Apparently Manichaeism is alive in China. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 It was pointed out to me recently that despite there being 45 presidents only 44 people have held that office. Spoiler It's because Grover Cleveland is counted twice because of his nonconsecutive administrations. Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 Also speaking of Grover Cleveland, when he was sheriff he personally hanged two felons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted August 23, 2017 Report Share Posted August 23, 2017 I learned My arthritis has progressed into my shoulders and arms. My blood pressure is "Dear god, your blood type is "Low sulphur crude".". Asking the VA for a non narcotic painkiller is like asking a street dealer for "Some weed that just smells a bit, but won't get me high,thanks".. My headaches, occasional loss of vision in my left eye (and urge to turn the keys) is based on stress, and not my blood pressure or level of fitness. (I can still lift absurd amounts, even with half a bicep on my left arm,and outwork the swarm of 19 year olds here. Growing up heating with wood, I choose you!). I also learned I need to "seriously apply for SSI", since if I keep working it "may " kill me. Yeah,fuck that. All my grandparents had high blood pressure, smoked and drank like mad, and the youngest died at 93, trying to lift a 440 Chrysler block while sauced on Irish Whiskey.. I'd be happy to appear before St Pete in such a state. ETA- Also, If I ever fucking die, and one of yo reprobates finds my festering corpse. Besides feeding my cats and amusing them with bagpipe music, ALL my books, Manuals, Magazines, etc. go to "Canham and Sons" In Wickenburg Az. They will know what to do with them. My absurd gun and ammo collection goes to cousins, nieces and nephews. As well as all the "shit that goes boom" as far as the law allows. That includes my collection of gravity knives, you swine... I've left a note that whatever they;ve no interest in "Which should be the vast majority of my gun collection" should be sold and/or donated to this board. Oh, that includes the ammo. All ~40,000 rounds of ammo worth. Whatever they don't want , y'all get. May only be ~ 20 rounds of maypops, but do enjoy. Lord_James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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