Biker, Happy Joan of Arc Day!

[crosslandkelly]

Ah man, you really know when a sandfly bites you. luckily they only seem to fly to hip high. The biggest one I saw was in Queenstown, near the dock.
I swear it stood on its hind legs, and took a drink from a puddle on the top of a 45 gallon drum.

 

[Goatboy]

Just a quick sorry folks, having trouble with the internet and may be offline for a few more days - or be sporadic at least. (I reckon it's Dad nibbling through the cables underground!). I'm pinching some-ones signal here at the moment (bad Goatboy). Hopefully normal service will be resumed ASAP.

In the meantime on this day in 1837 - Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufacture Worcester Sauce.
Worcestershire sauce, sometimes shortened to Worcester sauce is a fermented liquid condiment, primarily used to flavour meat or fish dishes.
First made at 60 Broad Street, Worcester, England, by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, the Lea & Perrins brand was commercialised in 1837 and has been produced in the current Midlands Road factory in Worcester since 16 October 1897. It was purchased by H.J. Heinz Company in 2005 who continue to manufacture and market "The Original Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce", under the name Lea & Perrins, as well as Worcestershire sauce under their own name and labelling. Other companies manufacture similar products, often also called Worcestershire sauce and marketed under different brand or private label names. Additionally, in recent years recipes have begun appearing for homemade variations of the British version.
Worcestershire sauce is made with anchovy and is therefore not suitable for use in strictly vegetarian dishes. It is often an ingredient in Welsh rarebit, Caesar salad, Oysters Kirkpatrick, and sometimes added to chili con carne, beef stew, hamburgers, and other beef dishes. Worcestershire sauce is also used to flavour cocktails such as a Bloody Mary or Caesar.Known as salsa inglesa (English sauce) in Spanish, it is also an ingredient in Michelada, the Mexican beer cocktail.


And a Prize to Mr Kelly for guessing that much under-rated movie "Flight of the Intruder" for the "Pickles Hot" quote. Todays should be slightly easier - remember no looking them up! "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

 

[crosslandkelly]

Ah Doctor, I have a strange love of all things silly. is there a name for this condition.okenest:

 

[crosslandkelly]

1965 August 29 - .

Landing of Gemini 5 - . Return Crew: Conrad; Cooper. Nation: USA. Related Persons: Conrad; Cooper. Program: Gemini. Flight: Gemini 5. The crew had to use the re-entry thrusters to orient the spacecraft due to OAMS system failures. The retrofire and re-entry were conducted in darkness by the spacecraft computer. However the computer had been misprogrammed with an erroneous rotation rate of the earth (390 degrees per day instead of 360.98 degrees per day). Cooper's efforts compensated for what he recognized as an erroneous reading and brought the capsule down closer to the ship than they would otherwise have been.

In the darkness near Hawaii, on the morning of 29 August, at 190 hours 27 minutes 43 seconds, the first retrorocket went off followed by the second and third. After what seemed like an eternity, the fourth fired. Cooper peeked out the window and felt as if he were sitting "in the middle of a fire." With the control system thrusters spewing flame in front and the retrorockets firing behind, a nighttime reentry had to rely strictly on instruments, Cooper discovered. There was absolutely no way of seeing the horizon or a landmark. He and Conrad stayed on instruments until they had passed over the Mississippi in the morning light.

Cooper held the spacecraft at full lift until it reached the 120,000-meter altitude and then tilled it to a planned bank angle of 53 degrees. The reentry gauge con indicated that they were high there might be an overshoot the landing point. Cooper, responding to the Instrument, slewed to 90 degrees left instead of 53 to create more drag and reduce the landing error. The g-loads quickly shot from 2 1/2 to 7 1/2.

At 20,000 meters, Cooper punched the drogue parachute button. Gemini V, unlike Gemini 1 did not oscillate - it was completely stable on the drogue. Cooper then cut in the second control ring thrusters to discard the fuel as the spacecraft came straight down. He and Conrad watched the main parachute as it unfurled and felt the expected jolt at two-point suspension. In contrast to the McDivitt-White landing, impact was very, very soft.

Gemini V landed 190 hours 55 minutes 14 seconds after launch, 130 kilometers short of the planned landing point. The computer had worked as it should in this case - the error had been human. Earth's rotation rate is 360.98 degrees per day. But, in programming the computer, someone had left off the two decimal-place numbers and fed the machine just the 390 degrees. Cooper's efforts to compensate for what he recognized as an erroneous reading had brought them down closer to the ship than they would otherwise have been.

The short landing caused no problems for the U.S. Navy recovery forces. A helicopter soon arrived over the spacecraft and three swimmers dropped into the water. Cooper and Conrad were very comfortable. With a calm sea, Cooper wanted to stay with the spacecraft on this pleasant summer morning (about 8:30, Cape time) until he learned that the carrier was still 120 kilometers away. Then he and Conrad rode the helicopter to the Lake Champlain.

[video=youtube;dScETU2vcRA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dScETU2vcRA[/video]

 

[Goatboy]

Biker on this day in 1909 - Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Walcott on 30 August 1909, towards the end of the season's fieldwork. He returned in 1910 with his sons, daughter, and wife, establishing a quarry on the flanks of Fossil Ridge. The significance of soft-bodied preservation, and the range of organisms he recognised as new to science, led him to return to the quarry almost every year until 1924. At that point, aged 74, he had amassed over 65,000 specimens. Describing the fossils was a vast task, pursued by Walcott until his death in 1927. Walcott, led by scientific opinion at the time, attempted to categorise all fossils into living taxa, and as a result, the fossils were regarded as little more than curiosities at the time. It was not until 1962 that a first-hand reinvestigation of the fossils was attempted, by Alberto Simonetta. This led scientists to recognise that Walcott had barely scratched the surface of information available in the Burgess Shale, and also made it clear that the organisms did not fit comfortably into modern groups.

Excavations were resumed at the Walcott Quarry by the Geological Survey of Canada under the persuasion of trilobite expert Harry Blackmore Whittington, and a new quarry, the Raymond, was established about 20 metres higher up Fossil Ridge. Whittington, with the help of research students Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris of the University of Cambridge, began a thorough reassessment of the Burgess Shale, and revealed that the fauna represented were much more diverse and unusual than Walcott had recognized. Indeed, many of the animals present had bizarre anatomical features and only the slightest resemblance to other known animals. Examples include Opabinia, with five eyes and a snout like a vacuum cleaner hose and Hallucigenia, which was originally reconstructed upside down, walking on bilaterally symmetrical spines.




Congratulations to Mr Kelly for again guessing the movie and cryptically putting it down on the page, he correctly guessed it was Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Todays quote is "One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas, I don't know." So what's the movie and remember no Google Fu allowed.​

 

[Mesquite]

Good ole Groucho did like his crackers with all his animal films

 

[Goatboy]

Good ole Groucho did like his crackers with all his animal films

Well done Mesquite.

 

[Mesquite]

Well done Mesquite.

One of the very few film quotes I know the source of

 

[crosslandkelly]

30th August 1984
Space shuttle Discovery. First launch.

Discovery, the third orbiter to become operational at Kennedy Space Center, was named after one of two ships used by the British explorer James Cook in the 1770s during voyages in the South Pacific that led to the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. Empty Weight was 68,670 kg at rollout and 77,550 kg with main engines installed.

Discovery benefited from lessons learned in the construction and testing of Enterprise, Columbia and Challenger. At rollout, its weight was some 3115 kg less than Columbia. Two orbiters, Challenger and Discovery, were modified at KSC to enable them to carry the Centaur upper stage in the payload bay. These modifications included extra plumbing to load and vent Centaur's cryogenic Lox/LH2 propellants (other IUS/PAM upper stages used solid propellants), and controls on the aft flight deck for loading and monitoring the Centaur stage. No Centaur flight was ever flown. After the loss of Challenger it was decided that the risk was too great to launch a shuttle with a fueled Centaur upper stage in the payload bay.

Construction Milestones

01/29/79 Contract Award
06/28/76 Start structural assembly of Crew Module
11/10/80 Start structural assembly of aft-fuselage
04/30/82 Wings arrive at Palmdale from Grumman
09/03/82 Start of Final Assembly
08/12/83 Completed Final Assembly 10/16/83 Rollout from Palmdale
11/05/83 Overland transport from Palmdale to Edwards
11/09/83 Delivery to Kennedy Space Center
06/02/84 Flight Readiness Firing
08/30/84 First Flight (41-D)

Discovery underwent its first major OMDP-1 overhaul in February 1992. A complete structural inspection was conducted, and 78 modifications were made, including installation of a drag chute. IMDP-2 was conducted from September 1995 to June 1996, and included installation of the ISS airlock/docking system, improved payload bay lighting, 96 major and 87 deferred change and maintenance items.

[video=youtube;41nLvEKP_Ko]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41nLvEKP_Ko[/video]

 

[crosslandkelly]

Congratulations Steve. I had not heard that film quote before.

 

[crosslandkelly]

1998.08.31 - Kwangmyongsong 1
North Korea reported the launch of its first satellite on the first of September. This announcement was followed on September 14 by the release of a photograph of the satellite and the claim that the satellite had completed its 100th orbit of the earth between 08:24 and 11:17 local time (2017 GMT) on September 13. Video of the launch, the satellite, and an animation of the satellite in orbit around the earth were distributed to foreign news agencies the following weekend. The satellite appeared almost identical to the first Chinese test satellite (which itself appeared almost identical to the US Telstar).

Despite these claims no foreign observer ever detected the satellite visually, by radar, or picked up its radio signals. The Pentagon at first claimed it was an ICBM launch, and that the satellite story was just a cover for the test. However on further analysis of the data collected on the launch they admitted nearly a month later that there had been some a satellite launch attempt. What seems to have happened is that the third stage either failed and fell into the Pacific or misfired and put the satellite into a low orbit where it decayed very quickly before it could be detected by foreign observers.

North Korea reported the launch of its first satellite as follows:

"Our scientists and technicians have succeeded in launching the first artificial satellite aboard a multi-stage rocket into orbit. The rocket was launched in the direction of 86 degrees at a launching station in Musudan-ri, Hwadae county, North Hamgyong Province (40.8 deg N, 129.7 deg E) at 12:07 August 31, 1998 and correctly put the satellite into orbit at 12 hours 11 minutes 53 seconds in four minutes 53 seconds.

"The rocket is of three stages. The first stage was separated from the rocket 95 seconds after the launch and fell on the open waters of the East Sea of Korea 253 km off the launching station, that is 40 degrees 51 minutes north latitude 139 degrees 40 minutes east longitude. The second stage opened the capsule in 144 seconds, separated itself from the rocket in 266 seconds and fell on the open waters of the Pacific 1,646 km off from the launching station, that is 40 degrees 13 minutes north latitude 149 degrees 07 minutes east longitude. The third stage put the satellite into orbit 27 seconds after the separation of the second stage.

"The satellite is running along the oval orbit 218.82 km in the nearest distance from the earth and 6,978.2 km in the farthest distance. Its period is 165 minutes 6 seconds. The satellite is equipped with necessary sounding instruments. It will contribute to promoting scientific research for peaceful use of outer space. It is also instrumental in confirming the calculation basis for the launch of practical satellites in the future. The satellite is now transmitting the melody of the immortal revolutionary hymns ‘Song of General Kim Il Sung’ and ‘Song of General Kim Jong Il’ and the Morse signals ‘Juche Korea’ in 27 MHz. The rocket and satellite which our scientists and technicians correctly put into orbit at one launch are a fruition of our wisdom and technology 100 percent. The successful launch of the first artificial satellite in the DPRK greatly encourages the Korean people in the efforts to build a powerful socialist state under the wise leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il. "

[video=youtube;AlZ6oiKeoz8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlZ6oiKeoz8[/video]

 

[Goatboy]

Biker, Happy The Scream Day!

2006 - Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was recovered on this day in a raid by Norwegian police. The paintings were said to be in a better-than-expected condition.
The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910. Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature) is the title Munch gave to these works, all of which show a figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky. Arthur Lubow has described The Scream as "an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time."
Edvard Munch created the four versions in various media. The National Gallery, Oslo, holds one of two painted versions (1893). The Munch Museum holds the other painted version (1910) and a pastel version from 1893. These three versions have not travelled for years.
The fourth version (pastel, 1895) was sold for $119,922,600 at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern art auction on 2 May 2012 to financier Leon Black, the highest nominal price paid for a painting at auction. The painting was on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York from October 2012 to April 2013.
Also in 1895, Munch created a lithograph stone of the image. Of the lithograph prints produced by Munch, several examples survive. Only approximately four dozen prints were made before the original stone was resurfaced by the printer in Munch's absence.
The Scream has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery was stolen. It was recovered several months later. In 2004, both The Scream and Madonna were stolen from the Munch Museum, and recovered two years later.

Film quotes.

Well done to Mesquite yesterday, I think today will be easy too - but you never know it could trip you up.
"Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape."

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[crosslandkelly]

Apes inhabited this planet, long before man.

[video=youtube;CsbYx6hevoQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsbYx6hevoQ[/video]

 

[Goatboy]

Well done Mr Kelly, since I've been AWOL a lot we'll do two today and this should be harder if you don't go Googling it.

“I don’t deserve this. I’m building a house”

 

[crosslandkelly]

You'll never be forgiven, if you keep this up. I'm only building a man cave.

 

[Huon]

Well done Mr Kelly, since I've been AWOL a lot we'll do two today and this should be harder if you don't go Googling it.

“I don’t deserve this. I’m building a house”

You'll not be forgiven for this one

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[crosslandkelly]

Okay. "Badges? we don't need no stinking badges".

 

[Huon]

Okay. "Badges? we don't need no stinking badges".

He's blazing today.

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[Huon]

"You are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence"

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[crosslandkelly]

He's blazing today.

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Hey,hey. Another winner. Okay, your turn.