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The Fire gasses in a house fire (smoke) have lower and higher limits of flammability than acetylene and propane combined.
A deflagration is a sub sonic explosion
A backdraught occurs when a long burning fire becomes fuel rich fire due to a lack of oxygen or other supporter of combustion. This fire dies back almost to the point of extinction but usually smoulders continuing to create unburnt products of combustion (smoke). This compartment then has a source of oxygen introduced, usually by the opening of a door or window by fire crews or failing of a compartments structure. This introduction of oxygen enables an extremely rapid development of the fire to it's ideal mixture. This rapid development is extremely dangerous and will quite often lift the roof off the house.
It is possible to perform a J-turn at speeds as low as 14mph
Contrary to what Clarkson et al would have you believe, leaving traction control/stabilty programme on will not slow you down, you just look less exciting and probably live longer.
BMW cars tend to be more stable at high speed in reverse than other makes if car.
A Vauxhall Omega 3ltr v6 auto will top 90 in reverse but is incredibly unstable; blink and you're gone.
Fully kitted up whilst at work I weigh over 3 stone heavier.
The treatment for methanol poisoning is alcohol, we use vodka down a naso-gastric tube, essentially keeping people drunk for a day or two.
In an oil and gas field the hydro carbons are stored in the pores of the rock, so even though it is called a reservoir it is not like a reservoir at surface.
The treatment for methanol poisoning is alcohol, we use vodka down a naso-gastric tube, essentially keeping people drunk for a day or two.
that's proper learning, right there.
Mildred what do you do? You're the stig arent you?
A couple of weeks in the winter laying concrete blocks pretty much wears your finger prints away, just in time for xmas 'shopping'.
From the view out of my office window, it appears that Hotwheels (Cycle Sales Group) have about 10 HGVs of bikes going in or out every day - that's a lot of bikes.
Mildred at work....
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Local Councils and communities... while embracing Banksys works with open arms.. still disapprove of most other street art..
Also.. If you glue together two nozzles the opposite way up so that the nozzles squirt into each other.. (this can be ensured with a small bit of pipe) you will find that you can spray paint from the upright can into the upturned can and thus mix your own colours..!
Depth of field and depth of focus are two completely different things.
The WBD on a JSF takes 6 people to manually lift on and off the aircraft.
R=l÷r, where R is the fall factor, l is the lengh of fall and r is the length of rope
a fall factor of 1 is barely acceptable, however a fall factor of 2 or greater will injur or worse
Harness induced pathoogy occurs when a casualty lies suspended in a harness without movement between
8 and 15min, the blood pools in the legs due to restricive harness, if rescued in time the casualty must remain sitting, if the casualty stands up the thickened blood to the legs re enters the bloodstrean and can cause death
a fall factor of 1 is barely acceptable, however a fall factor of 2 or greater will injury or worse
exception - if your second can run downhill very quickly....
It is possible to perform a J-turn at speeds as low as 14mph...
BMW cars tend to be more stable at high speed in reverse than other makes if car.
A Vauxhall Omega 3ltr v6 auto will top 90 in reverse but is incredibly unstable; blink and you're gone.
I'm torn between you working:
* in the service department at my local car dealership
* for an airport parking service...
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From 2016 new dwellings will have to be ‘zero carbon’, but few new dwellings will replace existing ones; the average replacement rate of the housing stock, during the last fifty years, has been less than 1% per year. This means that, in any one year, only 0.03% of carbon dioxide emissions are associated with the new homes built that year
and 99.7% of emissions are associated with dwellings built in previous years. Over 80% of the current stock of homes will still be standing and occupied in 2050. Therefore the required 80% reduction in emissions associated with energy use in housing cannot be achieved without significant improvement in the energy efficiency of existing homes.
the emergency ladders at the side of the clyde in glasgow city centre were measured incorrectly and as a result are too short if someone falls in at anytime other than high tide
The minimum control speed in flight for an A320 with one engine failed is 119 knots.
A rule of thumb for working out the weight of a child is: (age + 4) x 2 = weight in kg.
(and with regard to the pacemakers thing... they use large magnets to turn them on and off too so putting yourself into an MRI scanner will turn your pacemaker off - not necessarily a good thing)
It is possible to perform a J-turn at speeds as low as 14mph
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BMW cars tend to be more stable at high speed in reverse than other makes if car.
A Vauxhall Omega 3ltr v6 auto will top 90 in reverse but is incredibly unstable; blink and you're gone.
I'm torn between you working:
* in the service department at my local car dealership
* for an airport parking service...
Just snorted coffee out my nose!
iDave I yearn for such a svelte figure!!
Most enjoyable thread I've seen in ages. I can't find anything to back it up but... I read that the LCC Rocket could go up to 100mph in reverse, thus making it potentially the fastest reversing car. Mildred, what do you do?
Falling under a slow/stopping train will usually kill you very slowly and painfully as you get wrapped up in the gubbins under the train and effectivly you get squashed and held together at the same time. There is then normally a period of many minutes to several hours as the emergency services try to figure out the best extraction process for the casualty. The extraction process allows you to bleed out internally.
People are weird...
99% of constipated people couldn't give a sh1t! 🙄
old geek one the cb1100r motorbike could do 72mph in first gear, what were the rest for?
The 'rule of thumb' has been said to derive from the belief that English law allowed a man to beat his wife with a stick so long as it is was no thicker than his thumb. In 1782, Judge Sir Francis Buller is reported as having made this legal ruling and in the following year James Gillray published a satirical cartoon attacking Buller and caricaturing him as 'Judge Thumb'. The cartoon shows a man beating a fleeing woman and Buller carrying two bundles of sticks. The caption reads "thumbsticks - for family correction: warranted lawful!"
It seems that Buller was hard done by. He was notoriously harsh in his punishments and had a reputation for arrogance, but there's no evidence that he ever made the ruling that he is infamous for. Edward Foss, in his authoritative work The Judges of England, 1870, wrote that, despite a searching investigation, "no substantial evidence has been found that he ever expressed so ungallant an opinion".
It's certainly the case that, although British common law once held that it was legal for a man to chastise his wife in moderation (whatever that meant), the 'rule of thumb' has never been the law in England.
Not my area of work or speciality, although we do sell something similar (for consenting adults)
Being locked in a custody cell with a guy on remand for murder is not the picnic in the park that the Daily Mail might have you believe.
If ('t') = $C$10
If ('lo') = $C$11
If ('De') = $C$13
If ('K1') = $C$26
Then actual deflection =($C$11-$C$10)*(D32/100)
And actual load in Newtons =905495*(($C$10^4)/($C$26*($C$13^2)))*(B32/$C$10)*((($C$12/$C$10)-(B32/$C$10))*(($C$12/$C$10)-(0.5*B32/$C$10))+1)
hardcoded variables takisawa? tut tut tut.
There is no such thing as a 'life support machine'; it's just sloppy journalism.
Time in situ to successfully claim Adverse Possesion on unregistered Crown land is 30 years
hardcoded variables takisawa? tut tut tut.
I thought the same thing but then thought it would be too geeky to post.
Thanks Stoner 🙂
In the modern milling process, brown & white flour are made in exactly the same way.
We just throw some of the stuff we have sifted off back in at the end (unless its wholemeal when we throw all the crap back in)
Oh and I work for the firm that makes the flour for Kit Kat's, Jaffa cakes & Soreen Malt loafs.
Nascar damping pistons have alot of tiny prots in then to deal with tiny high speed movements to reduce vibration.
Don't ask me how I know this, lets just say I had an interesting meeting last night.......
you can stretch a muscle further if you contract it hard first for a few seconds
With all main hose reels connected at normal operating pressure the tank on the majority of fire appliances (1800 litres ish) will be empty within 40 seconds.... if you have a fire hydrant outside your house, maybe dont park over it.
Your digital mobile phone actually transmits and receives analogue waveforms (no square waves/noughts and ones).
Neat adrenaline is great for stopping cuts from shaving.
crikey - MemberThere is no such thing as a 'life support machine'; it's just sloppy journalism.
You mean " the machine that goes "ping"" ?
You can get a muscle to contract more strongly if you stretch it quickly first.
The equity markets are only now beginning to realise the scale of the carnage ahead. Ireland is bust, Portugal is next.....if Spain goes down you all want to start stocking up on tinned food and shotgun cartridges.
I know of a prison that, due to government cutbacks, cut the amount & quality of the food it was giving to prisoners in an effort to save £5k a year. The prisoners went on the rampage (mainly) because of this & now It's going to cost £5,000,000 to fix 3 wings.
All fugures are ficticious but you get the idea.
TJ, my brother is a journalist and I've really, really tried to get him not to use the phrase, but he says even when he is accurate, the sub-editor changes it back; what can you do?
you can stretch a muscle further if you contract it hard first for a few seconds
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Fascilitation?
I'm not the Stig. However, I do know that the ideal angle of approach for a car wheel to mount a kerb to drive around an object blocking the road is 45 degree. At this angle the chances of puncturing are far less.
I also know that if you drive too fast and lose control of your car, then try to stop it with your head against a tree, the tree will always win. Additionally, you will not have a head left and you'll spread your brains for a considerable area.
Mildred, are you a crash test dummy?
Although [i]not[/i] associated with any diagnostic hominin fossils, the blade-based leaf points of the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician technocomplex are believed to have been manufactured by Late Neanderthal populations during the later stages of Marine Isotope Stage 3.
Nascar damping pistons have alot of tiny prots in then to deal with tiny high speed movements to reduce vibration
Loco, what's a prot?
The drugs don't work.
I design and model Vibrators
Nope, not a crash test dummy, though at times...
My daily vernacular consists of phrases such as "back stop" and "over penetration"!
The UK, particularly the South West is at a once in every 50 year risk of being hit by tsunamis.
In the past they've killed people on the Scilly Isles and flooded up to 500m in land.
People generally are not that keen to be detained in hospital against their wishes.
Joxster - MemberI design and model Vibrators
Do you work in the Cambridge area?
Jemima, do you work for a wave power developer? If so me too 🙂
DrT, indeed I do. You based in Edinburgh?
A tiny sample of blood from every Scottish newborn of the last 9 years has been through the instrument I was servicing the other day.
Genetic illness screening by LC/MS.
Some very interesting stuff on this thread.
People are prepared to risk other peoples lives rather than see shiney stainless steel pipes protruding from their nice new/old buildings.
The Xenon arc lamps (bulbs) used in cinema projectors can rate up to 15000 watts and can explode with the force of a car bomb if dropped or damaged. Body armour has to be worn when replacing them.
landfill sites settle about 1m / year as the waste breaks down and gives off landfill gas.
The Xenon arc lamps (bulbs) used in cinema projectors can rate up to 15000 watts and can explode with the force of a car bomb if dropped or damaged. Body armour has to be worn when replacing them.
I can hear Trouties brain calculating the size of battery and run time with that bulb right now.
Taipei 101 has the fastest passenger lifts in the world and on a high speed run can reach the speed of 3300 feet per minute or 17m/s
A broken false fingernail is neither an accident nor an emergency.
Some people don't appreciate being told this.
The cheese slices you buy really are made from cheese which has been swept up off the floor.
Not from the current job but an old one in market research:
Chickens can't see in blue light, it needs blue lights - in response to adaptations need on truck mounted forklift.
Current job:
Chaos equals need squared.
Drinking lots and lots of dissolvable asprin will make you puke, a lot.
66kg - the average weight of the kit carried by a front line soldier in Afghanistan.
If you disagree with WHAT I have done, there is an appeals process.
If you don't think I have the jurisdiction to do what I have done, then you have to go to County Court.
As I have told you several times over the last few weeks, in person, in emails, by letter, on the phone......[you know who you are!]
You need a shed load of bleach and acid to kill you!
Plastering a nice flat accurate wall is very very satisfying 😉
I have watched the following being removed from peoples bottoms;
light bulbs, tow ball covers, cans of deodorant
and about 4 of these;
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...you'd think they would put some kind of string on sex toys.
Forested Canadian peatlands are losing resilience to natural disturbance. Disturbance is fundamentally changing ecosystem type from wetland to upland.
End result: Risk/shown increase in monsterous wildfires because of increased fuel loading/lowered water table.
Blame: Changing precipitation patterns.
Aircraft fuel is closer to low grade diesel than most people would think.
Downloading an average You Tube video across a mobile network uses a similar amount of data traffic as 500,000 text messages....
Contractors extending the nuclear reactor on campus: Noise considerate
Contractors replacing the tandem accelerator: Definitely not
we [b]will[/b] see you coming....
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To treat Ethylene Glycol (antifreeze) in cats you give them intravenous alcohol. Pissed cats but it saves their kidneys if caught early enough!
I was once sent to a Harley Street clinic by my then employer, to look at a broken PEME machine. I was a mainframe support engineer then and had no experience of any medical equipment other than what my old man used (he was a GP).
The physician at this clinic, (who seemed quite unlike a physician), said the company who had been maintaining these machines had fallen out with her.
I tactfully asked to see any documentation she had as I had no clue about what a PEME machine was and she produced a leaflet. As she opened the draw to get this, I caught a glimpse of the manual for the machine with "FOR EQUESTRIAN USE ONLY" stamped clearly on the front cover! I got a quick look at it when she went out of the room for a bit - lots of pics of how to use it - ON A HORSE! WTF?
I opened up the machine to see if there was anything easy to rectify, like a fuse blown and discovered a PCB laden with coil inductors. Having worked on manufacturing HF circuits years before, I realised that the tiniest bending of these coils could send the high frequency circuits wildly out of tolerance. I called the office and explained that we couldn't do anything without schematics. I was then asked to take it back to the office.
Before I left, a woman brought her small child in for treatment with one of the other machines!? I left feeling really concerned, but this physician was supposedly a friend of the MD of the company I worked for, so I had my hands tied.
When I got the thing back to the office, I explained to the engineering director that there were some serious ethical issues - the machine was not approved for use on humans. Aside from this, as we had no schematics etc, the HF circuits could be well out of spec. As the machine was engineered to radiate electomagnetic energy to warm deep tissues to promote healing, an HF circuit being out of adjustment could potentially be very harmful - bit like putting your hand in a microwave!
He sat back in his chair and looked at me for a few seconds and cajoled me in an arrogant tone "You are worrying about nothing, it's just a little circuit board". I politely told him he'd have to get someone else to go there in future as I was not going to be a part of it. He was an non-technical sales guy by trade - but a ****in arrogant ignoramus! What an oki cokey outfit that was!
We hear much about cowboy builders (an easy target), but who would dare challenge Harley Street physicians? There is a general opinion that Harley Street is where some of the finest medical people in the world reside, so it's a shocker to find some seedy little back street style clinic there, run by unqualified quacks!
You wouldn't catch me blindly phoining one of these clinics. I'd insist on recommendation from a senior health expert who works for the NHS.
Scary stuff!!
We use a drug called protamine to reverse Heparin (a blood thinning drug). Protamine is made from fish sperm.
I have the right to break into your house if you live in Northern Ireland and I think I have reason to do so.
If I discover methane in your property at a level of 1% gas in air, I will ask you, anyone else within your property, your neighbours and anyone else I deem necessary to kindly take yourselves elsewhere. Thats 20% of natural gasses lower limit of combustion, or LEL (lower explosive limit). Above 15% gas in air will not ignite. But I wouldn't fancy proving that one.
Poo, is immensely useful. It's rich in nutrients, gives off a highly flammable gas which can be used to generate heat and electricity, and in the bigger poo processing plants, pretty much all the electricty used to run the plant, comes from the poo it is processing.
There is no standard symbol for cliffs on OS mapping.
Some cartographers managed to sneak their names into their freehand cliff symbols.
Those on the Isle of Wight are the easiest to spot 🙂