Biker, Happy Joan of Arc Day!

[Biker]

Just watched "World war Z" with my daughter. The best thing I can say about it, it kept a lot of people in employment for a few months. What a load of predictable rubbish.

Got about a 1/4 of the way into it watching it online then gave up trying. Might give it another chance another day but based on your feedback perhaps not.

Yes, GB I did indeed duff my shoulder up using a battery screwdriver. Unlike the time before when I was fighting off a zombie attack with a soggy stick of celery... but that's another story.

G'night fella's off for an early night. Had a crap night last night, couldn't stop thinking about how to rewire the house... wish I could say it was something female that kept me awake .

G'night Goatboy, Colin and the rest of the Waltons.

[video=youtube;6omR281klfw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6omR281klfw[/video]

 

[Goatboy]

Sleepy-byes Pa!

 

[crosslandkelly]

Nighty night brother! View attachment 24630

 

[Huon]

Got about a 1/4 of the way into it watching it online then gave up trying. Might give it another chance another day but based on your feedback perhaps not.

Yes, GB I did indeed duff my shoulder up using a battery screwdriver. Unlike the time before when I was fighting off a zombie attack with a soggy stick of celery... but that's another story.

G'night fella's off for an early night. Had a crap night last night, couldn't stop thinking about how to rewire the house... wish I could say it was something female that kept me awake .

G'night Goatboy, Colin and the rest of the Waltons.

[video=youtube;6omR281klfw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6omR281klfw[/video]

Something female?

Are you up to your old tricks with the livestock again Pa?

 

[Goatboy]

Something female?

Are you up to your old tricks with the livestock again Pa?

You know Pa, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, some would even say he does it to thought too. He certainly goes against the natural order of things... Still it keeps him happy and away from us Bro!

 

[crosslandkelly]

You lucky b'stards. He still knows where I live.

 

[Goatboy]

You lucky b'stards. He still knows where I live.

(hoarse, haunted voice) But it's not really a life; always on the move, always looking over the shoulder, laying deception after angle after turn, just trying to stay ahead and ...safe, knowing that he's out there, slowly shambling through his own clouded reality relentlessly onwards towards you... Sob! Sob!

 

[crosslandkelly]

[video=youtube;2KeniFoiT-0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KeniFoiT-0[/video]

 

[Goatboy]

Or knowing him...

[video=youtube;cy7ztJ3NUMI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy7ztJ3NUMI[/video]

 

[Goatboy]

Biker! Happy Dictionary Day!
Biker! Today you can amaze your French neighbours with this as today in 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.

Device of the printer Jehan Calvez 1499

Catholicon (from the Greek Καθολικόν, universal) is a Breton-French-Latin dictionary. It is the first Breton dictionary and also the first French dictionary. It contains six thousand entries and was compiled in 1464 by the Breton priest Jehan Lagadeuc and printed in 1499 in Tréguier. A manuscript of the dictionary is preserved in the national library in Paris identified as Latin 7656.

I like the printers device with the axe and froe in the middle. Should maybe be the Crest over the door of the new Biker Mansion?

Todays Strange But True!
Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible--Briefly But don't linger in the interstellar vacuum, or hold your breath.

As far as certain death in a science fiction plot line goes, being ejected into the vacuum of space is more than a pretty sure thing. A shove out of the air lock by a mutinous lieutenant or a vicious rip in a space suit, and your average movie victim is guaranteed to die quickly and quietly, though with fewer exploding body parts than screenwriters might have you believe.

In reality, however, animal experiments and human accidents have shown that people can likely survive exposure to vacuum conditions for at least a couple of minutes. Not that you would remain conscious long enough to rescue yourself, but if your predicament was accidental, there could be time for fellow crew members to rescue and repressurise you with few ill effects.

"In any system, there is always the possibility of equipment failure leading to injury or death. That's just the risk you run when you are in a hostile environment and you depend upon the equipment around you," says Dartmouth Medical School professor and former NASA astronaut Jay Buckey, author of the 2006 book Space Physiology. "But if you can get to someone quickly, that is good. Often spacewalks are done with two spacewalkers and there is continuous communication. So if someone is having a problem, hopefully the other can go get them and bring them in."

Vacuums are indeed lethal: Under extremely low pressure air trapped in the lungs expands, tearing the tender gas-exchange tissues. This is especially grave if you are holding your breath or inhaling deeply when the pressure drops. Water in the soft tissues of your body vaporizes, causing gross swelling, though the tight seal of your skin would prevent you from actually bursting apart. Your eyes, likewise, would refrain from exploding, but continued escape of gas and water vapour leads to rapid cooling of the mouth and airways.

Water and dissolved gas in the blood forms bubbles in the major veins, which travel throughout the circulatory system and block blood flow. After about one minute circulation effectively stops. The lack of oxygen to the brain renders you unconscious in less than 15 seconds, eventually killing you. "When the pressure gets very low there is just not enough oxygen. That is really the first and most important concern," Buckey says.

But death is not instantaneous. For example, one 1965 study by researchers at the Brooks Air Force Base in Texas showed that dogs exposed to near vacuum—one three-hundred-eightieth of atmospheric pressure at sea level—for up to 90 seconds always survived. During their exposure, they were unconscious and paralyzed. Gas expelled from their bowels and stomachs caused simultaneous defecation, projectile vomiting and urination. They suffered massive seizures. Their tongues were often coated in ice and the dogs swelled to resemble "an inflated goatskin bag," the authors wrote. But after slight repressurisation the dogs shrank back down, began to breathe, and after 10 to 15 minutes at sea level pressure, they managed to walk, though it took a few more minutes for their apparent blindness to wear off.

However, dogs held at near vacuum for just a little bit longer—two full minutes or more—died frequently. If the heart was not still beating upon recompression, they could not be revived and the more rapid the decompression was, the graver the injuries no matter how much time had elapsed in the vacuum.

Chimpanzees can withstand even longer exposures. In a pair of papers from NASA in 1965 and 1967, researchers found that chimpanzees could survive up to 3.5 minutes in near-vacuum conditions with no apparent cognitive defects, as measured by complex tasks months later. One chimp that was exposed for three minutes, however, showed lasting behavioural changes. Another died shortly after exposure, likely due to cardiac arrest.

Although the majority of knowledge on the effects of vacuum exposure comes from animal studies, there have also been several informative—and scary—depressurization accidents involving people. For example, in 1965 a technician inside a vacuum chamber at Johnson Space Centre in Houston accidentally depressurized his space suit by disrupting a hose. After 12 to 15 seconds he lost consciousness. He regained it at 27 seconds, after his suit was repressurised to about half that of sea level. The man reported that his last memory before blacking out was of the moisture on his tongue beginning to boil as well as a loss of taste sensation that lingered for four days following the accident, but he was otherwise unharmed.

When it comes to exposure to the interstellar medium, you might survive it with timely help but it probably won't be to your taste.
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[petrochemicals]

could you start doing on this day, week, month, year of decade, decade of century, century of millenium, as I just dont get enought to read.

Boom boom.

 

[crosslandkelly]

On this day in..

1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I.
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1935 - The game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company.View attachment 24639


1963 - Archaeologists found the remains of a Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.View attachment 24636
More here, http://archaeology.about.com/cs/explorers/a/anseauxmeadows.htm

1977 - Ozzy Osbourne quit Black Sabbath only to rejoin a few weeks later. He later quit again to pursue a solo career. View attachment 24638

 

[petrochemicals]

On this day in..

1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I.

never heard of it papa kelly, we do have a bonfire tonight though, alot like the wickerman we have really.

 

[crosslandkelly]

never heard of it papa kelly, we do have a bonfire tonight though, alot like the wickerman we have really.

Have you found your victi...er I mean guest.

 

[Biker]

I seem to be guilty of forgetting today was the fifth. Funny how it creeps up on you.

[video=youtube;LF1951pENdk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF1951pENdk[/video]

And for the truly stirring speech V gives later in the film click here

Hopefully my kids are familiar with this brilliant film.

Happy Dictionary day too.

Hey GB keep looking over your shoulder son MUHAHAHAHAHAHA In the words of the Mighty Wez. "You can run but you can't hide!"

 

[Goatboy]

Hey GB keep looking over your shoulder son MUHAHAHAHAHAHA In the words of the Mighty Wez. "You can run but you can't hide!"

You know sadly I've not seen the film, the audio play is good though...

 

[Huon]

I seem to be guilty of forgetting today was the fifth. Funny how it creeps up on you.

[video=youtube;LF1951pENdk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF1951pENdk[/video]

And for the truly stirring speech V gives later in the film click here

Hopefully my kids are familiar with this brilliant film.

Happy Dictionary day too.

Hey GB keep looking over your shoulder son MUHAHAHAHAHAHA In the words of the Mighty Wez. "You can run but you can't hide!"

Familiar with both the OK film and the superb graphic novel it was based on. I know reading isn't your thing unless it is blood scrawls on walls but..... have you read the graphic novel Pa?

 

[Goatboy]

More memories and kindnesses with Pa!

 

[Huon]

I always saw Pa less as a father and more as an epicure:

 

[Huon]

His interest in bushcraft and his concern for the environment were both very obvious though: