ArcaneGadget

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[–] ArcaneGadget 16 points 1 month ago

It concerns me (like) a cardboard-duck. (Danish)

[–] ArcaneGadget 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mhhmm Käääseee...

[–] ArcaneGadget 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just chiming in, because I had never heard a water heater referred to as a "geyser" before. I was very confused about the application of an electrically heated hole in the ground.

[–] ArcaneGadget 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't google that by the way...

[–] ArcaneGadget 6 points 2 months ago

Damnit! Now you made me curious...

Alright! Here goes:

An Olympic pool is 50x25m and a minimum of 2m deep, 3m are recommended for multi-discipline pools. That's a minimum of 2.500m³ or 2.500.000L for the smallest pool and 3.750.000L for the recommended one.

According to WolframAlpha Jell-O has a density of 1.141g/L. That's 2.852,5T of Jell-O for the 2m pool and 4.278,75T for the 3m one.

According to Wikipedia; a rhino weighs anywhere from 21 to 96 tonnes depending on species and gender.

Assuming the 2m deep pool: That's between 0,0072 and 0,0337 Olympic pools of Jell-O. For the 3m one it's between 0,0049 and 0,0224 pools.

[–] ArcaneGadget 2 points 2 months ago

About the same i guess. A lighter tram probably has a shorter braking distance though. And in relation to other vehicles 96 tonnes is a lot more kinetic energy and damage. But that's not really the point is it? The gist is; that this thing is heavy and moving at speed, so don't get in the way. But the way they have chosen to describe that, is hilariously convoluted and imprecise. Especially because most people, me included, have no concept about how much a rhino weighs, much less 30 of them...

[–] ArcaneGadget 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's anywhere from 21 to 96 tonnes depending on species and gender. Assuming average weight ranges. Writing that a tram weighs as much as 30 rhinos is about as useful as writing "quite a lot"...

[–] ArcaneGadget -1 points 3 months ago

~~Dinkleberg!!!~~ Russia!!!

[–] ArcaneGadget 8 points 3 months ago

The link you decided not to follow gives a lot of context. Although in French, which I do not speak.

These people weren't murdered at Dachau. They are being cremated there, after dieing aboard the prisoner transport train from the Royallieu-Compiègne internment camp.

The German Wikipedia about the Sonderkommando photographs describes those as the only surviving photos taken by prisoners inside the camps.

[–] ArcaneGadget 74 points 3 months ago (9 children)

"Just stop being sad!"

If only it was that easy...

[–] ArcaneGadget 17 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Harris ist NICHT DIE MAMA!

[–] ArcaneGadget 4 points 3 months ago

BREAKING!: Performing maintenance and renewing worn parts improves reliability and efficiency! More news at 11!

Bit of a strange article isn't it? It shouldn't come as a surprise, that infrastructure like this isn't a case of building it, and then be done forever. Of course it needs maintenance after a number of years. Using the most modern parts when replacing stuff is just good sense.

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