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by agurk 1mo ago
During the ongoing redevelopment of Belgrade airport I did find myself with a short connection there and unable to find a departure board. I checked the airport website, but it only had the flight names and not gates! Beginning to get worri
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by agurk 1mo ago
To continue in the same vein of pedanticism, it seems from your link that he did not actually die on stage, but some hours later. Wikipedia has an article[0] of various people who died on stage and also some shortly afterwards, such as Moli
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by agurk 1mo ago
The Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina has a triangle on it that is meant to represent the shape of the country (roughly).
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by agurk 1mo ago
The article refers to Magnum ice creams a lot, and makes it easy to infer that it is a British ice cream although it never actually says that. There's one clue in the article: > The Magnum debuted in Germany in 1989, and hit the UK
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by agurk 3mo ago
As with all design on aircraft, weight is a key part of the specification. A nacelle that could contain all possible failure modes would be too heavy to fly. Losing a fan blade, as demonstrated in your two youtube links, is both a more like
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by agurk 10mo ago
There are some nuances to it. British Airways (not the original British Airways Ltd [0], who merged to form BOAC) was established to manage several existing airlines that had already been nationalised (BOAC, BEA) and two regional carriers (
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by agurk 11mo ago
You may be thinking of a different film, as all the cast members listed on wikipedia[0] are stated to have died after 1945. The trivia section of the German wiki page of the same film says there's a disputed rumour that the film was pr
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by agurk 1y ago
They probably mean Lynetteholmen, which is a giant artificial peninsula to be built on reclaimed land off Copenhagen. Curiously there's no English wiki page for it, but machine translation is good these days: https://da.wiki
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by agurk 1y ago
The second route is currently being built in Munich [0], with work started in 2017. I recently watched a youtube video by The B1M about rail projects in Germany that included a long section about the currently ongoing works in Munich [1] th
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by agurk 1y ago
On all the fuel injected engines I have owned there is a physical cable that controls the position of the throttle plate. There is an airflow mass sensor the other side of the plate to measure the amount of air and therefore how much fuel n
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by agurk 1y ago
If it takes energy to compress the air in the cylinder - doesn't it also release most of that energy when that compressed air is expanded on the subsequent stroke? If you release the compressed air without pushing the cylinder down you
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by agurk 1y ago
Curiously I have the opposite problem with Too Good To Go - they never give me notifications of available things I might be interested in, even though I've set that I want them. This is on Android though, so perhaps an ecosystem differ
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by agurk 1y ago
> More people are alive today than have ever lived. Assuming you meant died instead of lived to avoid a potentially nonsensical reading, this is not true. It seems this factoid[0] has been around since the 1970s, and at least in 2007 it
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by agurk 1y ago
You are absolutely correct about autorotation and helicopters not falling out of the sky. There is one nuance that the rotor blades still need to be able to rotate for this, and a failed gearbox can prevent that. Anecdotally that feels like
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by agurk 1y ago
Not all boots are made the same though. I had some bad luck with a pair of veldtschoen welted boots from the English firm Crockett and Jones in a custom leather. The commando sole split twice at the toe, which they repaired, but after less
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by agurk 1y ago
Some SLBMs (Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles) use star sighting to correct their trajectory mid-flight. ICBMs launched from silos know exactly where they're starting from, whereas a submarine is both moving, at different depths an
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by agurk 1y ago
An engine failing on an aircraft, especially a light aircraft, is not a guaranteed crash landing. It is a serious situation, however aircraft usually glide well. This means you have opportunities to find somewhere that is adequate for landi
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by agurk 1y ago
When you go around a tight corner and are thrown to one side, what term would you use for the tram's change in motion then? Deceleration is a useful but non-technical term, like vegetable. A tomato is a fruit which is a tightly defined
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by agurk 1y ago
Trolling is a fishing technique [0] of slowly dragging a lure or baited hook from a moving boat, and is likely the meaning that online trolling takes it from rather than a creature from Scandinavian folklore [1]. There's definitely a m
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by agurk 2y ago
Boots (a large UK pharmacy chain) sells it, but it's "behind the counter" so you have to ask for it. They will also only sell you one pack of 12 per visit It's the same for codeine-mixed products. Recently I got denied
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by agurk 2y ago
Two 'weird' places I have visited this year that required an IDP were Japan and Taiwan.
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by agurk 2y ago
Before the Ballmer/Zune use of the term I remember my father talking about data being squirted to A2A missiles (he was military) prior to launch, so perhaps that is one of the niches.
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by agurk 2y ago
Interestingly helicopters don't fall out of the sky when they lose power. Air moving over the rotorblades causes lift, as they are after all wings. During normal flight the blades are turned by the engine generating lift in the expecte
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by agurk 2y ago
> With a roundabout, you only have to look in one direction When being taught how to ride a motorcycle, one of the lessons is a series of extra checks that you're not taught when learning to drive a car. These are known as lifesaver
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by agurk 2y ago
I'm somewhat confused with the analysis of his predictions of the price of PV panels. Is it saying Smil said (is that meant to be countered with?) PV would cost 0.05 USD/W in 2020? Or was that meant to be Al Gore claiming that pri
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by agurk 2y ago
One detail here is that 1981 dollars aren't 2023 dollars, so to compare they need to be adjusted. Using [0] $3.5 bn in 1981 would have been worth $11.7 bn in 2023. Another comment [1] noted (but unfortunately didn't cite) that two
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by agurk 2y ago
> Normal glasses are recyclable Is this the case in reality? Everywhere I've lived drinking glasses were not accepted as part of domestic glass recycling due to their composition [0] Perhaps there is a commercial recycling route for
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by agurk 2y ago
I don't have an opinion on the health effects of sweeteners, but as I noted in a longer comment on this page, multiple sweeteners are commonly used together and aspartame is far from universal in the mix.
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by agurk 2y ago
> Virtually all artificially sweetened soft drinks in the Uk are sweetened with aspartame A quick look at a few soft drinks I could think of, and their UK sweeteners: Fanta: Aspartame, Acesulfame Coke Zero: Aspartame, Acesulfame-K
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by agurk 2y ago
I'm not aware of a B-52 being crashed in a barrel roll, but this did make me think of the 1994 Fairchild crash[0] that was caused by a pilot who was known as dangerous due to excessive self confidence. In this case he banked too tightl

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