machinist@large
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Ohhhh, you are so low..... Here's a hint; it's a 5 digit number..... Your figure won't even cover the spread I was referring to...
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Ohhhh, you are so low..... Here's a hint; it's a 5 digit number..... Your figure won't even cover the spread I was referring to...
rocketkart
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well thats not nice. i know not what im doing.
machinist@large
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rocketkart
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oh yea you hurt my feewings. 
LOL
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rocketkart
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did you know If you eat a polar bear liver, you will die. Humans can’t handle that much vitamin A. A full head of human hair is strong enough to support 12 tons. Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey. One species of jellyfish, Turritopsis nutricula, are immortal.
Here's another aerospace trivia question. When Northrop Grumman was designing the Marine/ Royal Navy variant of the Joint Strike Fighter (F-35), they were running into big problems trying to come up with enough power for it to land vertically using just the thrust of the engine alone, like the original Harrier and Boeing's proposed entrant in the competition.
Then some one wondered "How much rotational HP can we get out of the engine to run a fan?" I've seen several different figures, so we'll just shoot for the average here.....
well the Pratt&Whittney F135 engine is capable of 191,3 kN of thrust with and 128,1 kN without the afterburner.
And (I now know how to convert thrust to power
)since you need speed to make that conversion it's almost impossible to calculate (it would end up in 0HP at zero speed)
Just for the fun let's calculate the Wattage for a moving plane.
128.1 kN at 278m/s would be 35.6MW ( or 48400 HP)
with afterburner at the same speed
191.3 * 278 = 53181.4 kW or 72300 HP (roughly)
[278m/s is 1000 kmph, that's why I chose that number]
Anyway I think this is going to be more about the escape velocity of the burned fuels that run the turbine therefor turbine rpm rather than thrust.
And that's where I quit with my numbers... If I had to make an assumption I'd say maybe 30 to 35 thousand HP *shrugs*
(can't find infos on the actual fan or turbine rpm)
that's likely but not always true..
the same rule applies to seal, husky, moose and walrus livers.
it's called Hypervitaminosis A; it's hazardous, but not always fatal.
Honey can spoil very easily!
Honey is hygroscopic, that means it attracts water say from the surrounding air.
enough water and it'll start fermenting (that's how Met is made
)Light can desintegrate the antibacterial ingredients that stop moulds.
So, a light humid place and it'll be gone in just a few years
And while it is true that there was honey found in pharaonic graves that was indeed edible (because well sealed). Honey has to be stored in a dark dry place to stay edible.
No they are not!
They are capable of reversly age (they can reset to a larva or rather nymph state)
But that resets they're mitochondria; only benefit: the copy is flawless;
Not like our mitochondria which have a shortening tail with every copy, without that shortening our cells would be flawless copys just like theirs, thus we wouldn't AGE (but we could still get hit by a bus
)So the immortal jellyfish ages normally but it can reset to a flawless copy of it's larva state,
if it doesn't it's as mortal as any other jellyfish.
(it can still be killed by a predator)
'sid
Poboy kartman
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Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.It will crystallize but will reconstitute with warm water.
I don't think that jellyfish is immortal. It may have an infinite natural lifespan but if it lives it can be killed.
EDIT-true or false: Saudi Arabia imports sand and camels?
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machinist@large
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'Sid, you just covered the brackets,(30,000 to 35,000 HP) which means I now give you a bow for being correct. The engine is intentionally derated from the 48,000 HP mark for longevity, and because they only need somewhere in the range of 28,000 HP to cover the expected peace time return load at landing. Peace time loading, for anyone who hasn't heard of it, is what most governments consider the baseline weapons load for peacetime border defense; it's what the plane is rated for to take off AND LAND WITH. The Naval version of any aircraft will have a much lower rating than land based birds because Carrier landing are a controlled crash.In any case, most combat aircraft have a higher combat loading allowance than their landing load, because they only max out their loads when the plan is to deliver them. Peace time loading is what they will come home with if the world is having a good day, i.e. no wars.
I will admit that I'm a little more plugged into the really basic end of the aerospace field from having worked in it for a brief time, several neighbors who have spent their entire careers in it, and an uncle who was a career military pilot.....
'Sid, once again, congrats; I think my first challenge was to vague; I tried to chose something a little clearer for my second one. Right now, I'm thinking that it would be great to meet face to face for a couple of beers some day....
Pat
true; australian camels ... that's odd.
Once again a lucky guess..
basically I just took 50% of both of my ratings @1000kmph and narrowed it in a little to get a nicer set of numbers;
since that's what sounded about right..
Right now, I'm thinking that it would be great to meet face to face for a couple of beers some day....
I'd love that!
So, aeronautic trivia (easy one)
What's the make and model of Nick Ryder's Helicopter?
'sid
fowler
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Australian camels are Saudi camels
From the late 1800s
They made good tractors and trucks
Used to pull dam scoops and haul freight
Loads of outback towns are designed with extra wide streets (like 50+ m)
Why is this?
From the late 1800s
They made good tractors and trucks
Used to pull dam scoops and haul freight
Loads of outback towns are designed with extra wide streets (like 50+ m)
Why is this?
Poboy kartman
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Where does Saudi get sand from and why?
that goes back to an 1800s law by which intersections had to be at least ~60meters so bullock trains had enough room to turn around and reverse.
from australia too.. (garnet sand)
as an abrasive for high pressure water jet cutters.
it's harder and more durable than arabian sands.
What happened to MY questions.. no answers??
'sid
Poboy kartman
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Maybe their too hard?
no they're not
okay I see the line thing will never come to a result so...
here's the correct answer:
9! (Nein! *gg* I never get tired of this ..)
But the make and model of the helicopter is a really easy one for anybody who watched TV in the eighties...
'sid
rocketkart
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measured in quantity LEGO is the biggest tire manufacturer in the world.
machinist@large
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My TV trivia skills flat out suck (i almost never watch commercial TV anymore except to catch the news now and again), but since you say it's from the '80's, I think I can narrow it down a little. Taking a big old WAG at it, I'm guessing you're referring to the Bell Jet Ranger flown by Tom Selack's (?) friend on the show Magnum P.I.
Nope
the TV show I'm referring to wasn't that popular.
But still well known, especially because of that helicopter.
Once you've seen it you will most likely remember that thing.
'sid
machinist@large
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Nope
the TV show I'm referring to wasn't that popular.
But still well known, especially because of that helicopter.
Once you've seen it you will most likely remember that thing.
'sid
The only other shows hat I can think of that had helicopters in them were Air Wolf and Blue Thunder, and I have no clue what models those were.
Air wolf was a lightly modified Bell 222 and blue thunder a heavily modified Aérospatiale SA-341G Gazelle (with an apache'ish canopy)
Both are not the one I was asking for.
Air Wolfs pilot was Stringfellow "Huckleberry" Hawke (strangefellow would also match),
Blue Thunders pilot was Frank Murphy.
I'm looking for Nick Ryder.
'sid
Both are not the one I was asking for.
Air Wolfs pilot was Stringfellow "Huckleberry" Hawke (strangefellow would also match
),Blue Thunders pilot was Frank Murphy.
I'm looking for Nick Ryder.
'sid
Orange Krate
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Sikorski, don't know the model but the name was the Screaming Mimi. Currently resides in Fate, TX working as a commercial lifter.
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