h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Indeed, the past few days were just humid. Very nice late Autumn days, I'd say

We'e had storms and high winds.

Yep, typical summer days, I'd say

No-one in the British Isles lives more than 75 miles from the sea.

I think the person who lives the furthest from the sea must be exactly 75 miles from at least 3 coastlines.

Don't - I hate living 1000 km from the sea in any direction.

Wind turbines' power output increases as the square of the radius swept by the rotors.

Wouldn't that be useful in some contexts?

The technological principles remain the same regardless, so..... no, I don't really think so.

Eh? If the technological principles kept changing, it *would* be useless. It would also no longer be factual.

Did you know that in the space race, the Americans discovered that ball point pens needed gravity in order to work or the ink would stay up. What's more, they spent millions of dollars researching into a antigravity pen. The Russians on the other hand took pencils.
As the pencil is not driven by fluids, instead by friction of a solid on a surface, they didn't need gravity to work!
So while the Americans spent millions of dollars on pens, the Russians spent a few dollars on pencils.

Sorry, doesn't classify as a FACT... it's untrue.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

The original Kermit the Frog muppet was crafted from one of Jim Henson's mother's old coats.

My point was that no matter how big the turbine is, it will still provide power dependant on wind. Obviously the bigger the turbine the more power it produces (unless it's so big the wind can't move it), but knowing the /exact/ rate of increase isn't necessarily useful.

Macaulay Culkin, who stared in the 'Home Alone' movies, turned 30 today.


You just felt much older, didn't you?

Probably been done but hey ho...

An Englishman invented the modern day kilt

In a survival situation never eat a polar bear's liver becuse the Vitamin A will poison you.

Tut tut swl. This is a potentially useful piece of information.

Nah... it's useless. In said survival situation no human would choose to eat the liver when there's a whole polar bear sized pile of meat surrounding it. Unless, of course, you just happened to have some onions.