Toxn Posted May 12, 2018 Report Share Posted May 12, 2018 6 hours ago, Collimatrix said: Then there's the issue of yaw control. Flying wings don't have a great way of doing this, although this new research suggests that their need for yaw control could be greatly reduced. The boring practical issue with no yaw control (for me, at least) is that your landing approach becomes an all-or-nothing affair. Better hope your approach is perfect or you get to play a rousing game of dip the wing into the tarmac. For most other purposes bank-and-yank seems to work fine for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 On 1/28/2018 at 7:45 PM, T___A said: TIL one of my ancestors was taken prisoners by the Confederates at Chickamauga. I learned today he was interned at andersonville Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 On 6/10/2018 at 5:47 PM, T___A said: I learned today he was interned at andersonville That's pretty interesting stuff. I don't think I have any relatives that fought in the Civil War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogensthegreat Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Using the LDS's family program, I have found 3 ancestors who fought in the Civil War, 2 Confederate and one Union (all on the same side of the family, interestingly.) also, TIL that programs like Ancestry are borderline scams because they get lots of their information from the LDS database, which is free to access, but then turn around and charge for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogensthegreat Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 TIL Finnish people bet on how many will drown over Midsummer weekend: https://www.varusteleka.com/en/page/midsummer-bingo-2018/24765 https://imgur.com/gallery/3MSf6He Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 4 minutes ago, Mogensthegreat said: TIL Finnish people bet on how many will drown over Midsummer weekend: https://www.varusteleka.com/en/page/midsummer-bingo-2018/24765 https://imgur.com/gallery/3MSf6He Seems like there are too many ways to rig the outcome imho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogensthegreat Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 6 minutes ago, Donward said: Seems like there are too many ways to rig the outcome imho. Rules of competition: It's strictly forbidden to try to influence the number by coming to Finland and drown or drown other people. If the winner has drowned in Finland or stands suspected for drowning someone in Finland, we'll select another. Self-drowning or drowning somebody in some other country does not affect the outcome. Edit: I hope this rule was added because someone tried it. Donward 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulric Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 TIL that Galil barrels do indeed have a nitrided bore. This discovery was made when I tried to cut my chamber 0.005" deeper so that it would close on the go gauge, and I was not actually removing any steel.... Well, on to plan B. Belesarius and Sturgeon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 On 6/20/2018 at 3:51 PM, Mogensthegreat said: TIL Finnish people bet on how many will drown over Midsummer weekend: https://www.varusteleka.com/en/page/midsummer-bingo-2018/24765 https://imgur.com/gallery/3MSf6He From a country that has folk songs about knife fighting, this doesn't surprise me at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 16 hours ago, Belesarius said: From a country that has folk songs about knife fighting, this doesn't surprise me at all. You're not an actual country until you have these tbh. Today I learned that George Orwell is a pen name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulric Posted June 30, 2018 Report Share Posted June 30, 2018 TIL that the world of interlocking helix fasteners is a strange engineering abyss. Looking into torque calculations was a rabbit hole that I was not prepared to go down. Fascinating stuff, though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted June 30, 2018 Report Share Posted June 30, 2018 Nordlock or get out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 TIL Emperor Hirohito had a thing for marine biology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekky Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 Chuck Tingle has a Humble Bundle Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogensthegreat Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Tigers are kinda smart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzoc Posted July 23, 2018 Report Share Posted July 23, 2018 Drunktards master race! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogensthegreat Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 TIL that Douglas MacArthur was a descendant of Commodore Matthew Perry. I couldn't think of a clever joke about an gene that makes one an enemy of the Japanese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted July 25, 2018 Report Share Posted July 25, 2018 Really? It's the gai-gene. @Collimatrix Mogensthegreat, Xlucine and Collimatrix 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted July 25, 2018 Report Share Posted July 25, 2018 1 minute ago, Sturgeon said: Really? It's the gai-gene. @Collimatrix groan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShamefurDispray Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 TIL that the Democratic Party still believes in the One Drop Rule, which was too much even for the racially autistic Nazis. Collimatrix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 TIL that there is a fashion item called a Vulva scarf that makes you look like your head is sticking out of a vagina. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_James Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 3 hours ago, ShamefurDispray said: TIL that the Democratic Party still believes in the One Drop Rule, which was too much even for the racially autistic Nazis. I would like a good laugh, is there a source for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 Elizabeth Warren. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 4 minutes ago, Lord_James said: I would like a good laugh, is there a source for this? Oh, you mean the Nazis. Quote Controversial “one-drop” rules stipulated that anyone with any black ancestry was legally black and could not marry a white person. Laws also defined what made a person Asian or Native American, in order to prevent these groups from marrying whites (notably, Virginia had a “Pocahontas Exception” for prominent white families who claimed to be descended from Pocahontas). The Nuremberg Laws, too, came up with a system of determining who belonged to what group, allowing the Nazis to criminalize marriage and sex between Jewish and Aryan people. Rather than adopting a “one-drop rule,” the Nazis decreed that a Jewish person was anyone who had three or more Jewish grandparents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_James Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 1 minute ago, Sturgeon said: Oh, you mean the Nazis. Actually no, I meant the Democrats. If that claim is true (and it wouldn’t surprise me if it was), I would personally find it humorous for its blatant hypocrisy. And I did just read about the Warren, Indian thing on the “democracy dies” thread: lol that’s rich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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