Mildly interesting

[Horace]

@Copper said in Mildly interesting:

I played 18 holes in 75 minutes this AM, a new record for me.

All the more impressive when one considers that you fit 250 shots into those 75 minutes.

[taiwan_girl]

@Copper said in Mildly interesting:

I played 18 holes in 75 minutes this AM, a new record for me.

That is really fast. Were you doing the speed golf?
https://www.speedgolfusa.com

"Speedgolf is a fun, faster, fitness-oriented alternative to the traditional game.
In Speedgolf, duration of play is assigned a score value: one minute is equal to one stroke. The goal is to produce the lowest combination of minutes and strokes."

[George K]

[LuFins Dad]

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

@Copper said in Mildly interesting:

I played 18 holes in 75 minutes this AM, a new record for me.

All the more impressive when one considers that you fit 250 shots into those 75 minutes.

Not true, he only had 4 shots!

Oh, you meant swings.

[Catseye3]

@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:

"Speedgolf is a fun, faster, fitness-oriented alternative to the traditional game.
In Speedgolf, duration of play is assigned a score value: one minute is equal to one stroke. The goal is to produce the lowest combination of minutes and strokes."

Thus FUBARing golf's major attraction. (Eyeroll.)

[Copper]

@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:

@Copper said in Mildly interesting:

I played 18 holes in 75 minutes this AM, a new record for me.

That is really fast. Were you doing the speed golf?
https://www.speedgolfusa.com

"Speedgolf is a fun, faster, fitness-oriented alternative to the traditional game.
In Speedgolf, duration of play is assigned a score value: one minute is equal to one stroke. The goal is to produce the lowest combination of minutes and strokes."

That would be fun, but I haven't tried anything like that yet. That world record of 65 strokes plus 42 minutes was 107.

My 75 minutes with 81 strokes would be 156, not really competitive. Maybe if there was an old man competition.

[taiwan_girl]

@Copper That is still really good!!!!

[George K]

[mark]

@Copper said in Mildly interesting:

I played 18 holes in 75 minutes this AM, a new record for me.

Wow! Solo? I have gotten close to that at about 85 minutes.

[mark]

I hate when they use photos of other galaxies and call it the Milky Way and of course the location of the solar system is not correct either.

But the number of orbits remaining is accurate.

[Catseye3]

@mark Whew! I was worried until I redd the bottom part!

[Copper]

@mark said in Mildly interesting:

@Copper said in Mildly interesting:

I played 18 holes in 75 minutes this AM, a new record for me.

Wow! Solo? I have gotten close to that at about 85 minutes.

Yes, solo. Lately it has been with 2 or 3 other guys. But I had a solo day and decided to speed it up. I think I could get under an hour if I pushed.

[George K]

This would put some porn "stars" to shame.

Four meters...

[George K]

Population density around the world

For example.

[Mik]

[Copper]

One hundred thousand pounds in legal tender bills were issued on April 25, 1759, to be valid until March 1, 1767. This was later extended until October 15, 1769. The Penn family's coat of arms appears on the front of the bill and a nature print is on the back. Benjamin Franklin and David Hall printed the bills in Philadelphia. The spelling of "Pennsylvania" differs on most of the denominations of the notes, and it is thought that Franklin purposely did this to deter counterfeiting.

[George K]

A (mildly) interesting thread on nuclear waste.

[Horace]

[Catseye3]

Excerpted from Wiki: "The Carrière Wellington is a museum in Arras, northern France. It is named after a former underground quarry which was part of a network of tunnels used by forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the First World War. Opened in March 2008, the museum commemorates the soldiers who built the tunnels and fought in the Battle of Arras in 1917.

"From the Middle Ages through to the 19th century, the chalk beds underneath Arras were extensively quarried to supply stone for the town's buildings. The quarries fell into disuse by the start of the 20th century. In 1916, during the First World War, the British forces controlling Arras decided to re-use the underground quarries to aid a planned offensive against the Germans, whose trenches ran through what are now the eastern suburbs of the town.

"Thousands of soldiers were billeted in the tunnels for eight days prior to the start of the Arras offensive on 9 April 1917. At 05:30 that morning, exits were dynamited to enable the troops to storm the German trenches. The Germans were taken by surprise and were pushed back 11 km (6.8 mi). This counted as an extraordinary success by the standards of the time. However, the offensive soon bogged down and it was eventually called off after casualties reached 4,000 a day."

For more interesting details about the tunnels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrière_Wellington

[jon-nyc]