Mildly interesting

[jon-nyc]

@George-K

I want to be on the committee that decides these words of venery.

My first nomination would be “a haggard of milfs”.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

My first nomination would be “a haggard of milfs”.

(that almost deserves its own thread)

My nomination for that would be "sere." It's obscure enough of a word to make people take pause and think..."What?"

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

Details from La Wik:

Spearfish holds the world record for the fastest recorded temperature change. On January 22, 1943, at about 7:30 a.m. MST, the temperature in Spearfish was −4 °F (−20 °C). The Chinook wind picked up speed rapidly, and two minutes later (7:32 a.m.) the temperature was +45 °F (7 °C). The 49 °F or 27 °C rise in two minutes set a world record that still holds. By 9:00 a.m., the temperature had risen to 54 °F (12 °C). Suddenly, the Chinook died down and the temperature tumbled back to −4 °F or −20 °C. The 58 °F or 32.2 °C drop took only 27 minutes.[18][19][20] The sudden change in temperatures caused glass windows to crack and windshields to instantly frost over.[21][20]

[taiwan_girl]

Related to the above, I read that a mountain in NH just set the record for the coldest windchill. -106 F. -45 F temperature with 97 mph wind.

:eek

[jon-nyc]

[mark]

This image shows Comet 67P/C-G compared to the city of Los Angeles, California.

[jon-nyc]

@mark

Wow

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

@mark

Wow

Meh - that'll buff out

[George K]

@mark how many giraffes is that?

[mark]

@George-K probably more than all the Giraffes that are walking the planet.

[bachophile]

USS Arizona on the East River, New York 1916.

[jon-nyc]

@bachophile

Cool. No doubt heading out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

[jon-nyc]

Liszt’s writing desk.

[bachophile]

@jon-nyc I’ve been to Lizst’s home in Budapest.

[jon-nyc]

@bachophile

Me too.

[jon-nyc]

Hawa Majal in Jaipur. built 1799.

[mark]

There is no antidote for a blue-ringed octopus bite. However, if you can get a ventilator to breathe for you for 15 hours, you survive with no side effects

[George K]

@mark said in Mildly interesting:

There is no antidote for a blue-ringed octopus bite. However, if you can get a ventilator to breathe for you for 15 hours, you survive with no side effects

Tetrodotoxin

It's not as simple as that. Unlike classic paralytics (curare), TDX is a sodium-channel blocker whose effects are far wider-reaching than simply blocking the interaction of nerve and muscle.

This actually "paralyzes" the nerve itself.

It is the same shit as in pufferfish.