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Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)
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Point Nemo: The Ocean’s Loneliest Place
Point Nemo, discovered in 1992, is the most remote location on Earth — a place so far from land that the nearest humans are often not on Earth at all, but aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 417 kilometers above.
Located in the South Pacific, it lies 2,687 kilometers from the nearest landmass in any direction, including Antarctica. This oceanic pole of inaccessibility is so isolated that ocean currents and winds barely disturb it, creating a quiet void in the vast Pacific.
Point Nemo isn’t just a geographical curiosity — it’s also where decommissioned spacecraft are often directed to crash, earning it the nickname “the Spacecraft Cemetery.” For most of human history, it remained an unmarked stretch of water, unknown and unreachable, until modern mapping revealed its true significance.
It is the closest thing Earth has to complete isolation — a reminder of how vast, empty, and mysterious our oceans still are.
On July 5th, 1973 on the east side of Kingman Arizona, Andy Devine Avenue, just before 2pm, a railroad worker was offloading a railroad tank car to a side tank. The tank was filled full of liquid propane. (Doxal then, now Ferrell Gas.) The valve stuck. He tried to force it. He dropped his wrench and hit a valve. It sparked a fire. The fire grew. Because of its location it took a few minutes to get a call to the local fire department. Actually the fire station was just down the street within sight. It only took the FD just a few minutes to arrive. At that time the Kingman Fire Department was operated by volunteers. Don't let the term fool you, these men were well trained and experienced. They respond from all directions from wherever to they were to converge on the pumper truck. The railroad tanks have a safety valve that if the pressure gets too high it releases the contents at a controlled rate. The responding firemen knew this and were operating a rehearsed procedure they had actually practiced not too long before. The safety valve failed. The firemen soon realized that the safety valve was not working as it was supposed to and began an evacuation procedure. It was too late. There is a term Kingmanites of the era now know, BLEVE, Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion. Of the dozen firefighter who responded, one survived. He was standing behind the firetruck at the time. For some it was instantaneous. Most suffered with agonizing burns for days. I believe the last to die was my High School principal, Lee Williams. He lived for 3-4 days from his burns. I believe some 50-70 others in the area were also injured. Locals were ferrying injured people in the backs of P/U trucks to the hospital. The local radio station was broadcasting pleas for locals to bring ice to the hospital. I believe the population back then was around 8,000-10,000.
Early in my career in the 80’s one of my projects was remanufacture, rebuild and test the hydraulic flight control actuators for the SR71. Way exotic metals, all the drawings were 1957-1958. no elastomeric seals. We would test them at 600 degrees f.
The World’s Largest Waterfall Is Underwater
Earth’s biggest waterfall is under the surface of the Denmark Strait, the waterway separating Iceland and Greenland. How, you might be asking yourself, can a waterfall form completely underwater? The answer is in part a quirk of geomorphology — namely, a troughlike formation in an oceanic mountain range. Because cold water currents are denser than warm water currents, they sink downward, and in this particular spot cold water collects in the trough. Eventually, it overflows the rim of the trough and then sinks downward against the mountainside — and boom, underwater waterfall. The rim, called the Denmark Cataract, is 11,500 feet tall, making this waterfall at least three times as tall as its tallest counterpart on land.
Wow never knew or heard that, what an ordeal...
1973 I'd been 14, I did travel to SoCal with my stepfather Bob a lot
his 64 GTO H/S, or G/S later a 68 Firebird 400 Ram Air II , or 71 Judge Ram Air III F?/S
(he would have had the 71 GTO in 1973)
sometimes into Az, off hwy-40 (?) Kingman area too,
they had a dragstrip at the airport, IIRC was cool lil' desert town...
Interesting story, but sad too
what made you think of that, ?
IIRC you were looking at property in Az at one time, was it near there ?
what's the connection ?
or just a fun (or sad story) fact you had ran across, chose to share...
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There is a thread on another web forum that is about these same topics.
The Kingman connection caught my interest. We were long to move but decided against it. We were looking at northwest Kingman. We made offers on two houses but lost out to other buyers on one. The second one… they declined our offer and a year later had dropped the price to below what we offered. Still no sale!
Thanks.
The Kingman connection caught my interest. We were long to move but decided against it. We were looking at northwest Kingman. We made offers on two houses but lost out to other buyers on one. The second one… they declined our offer and a year later had dropped the price to below what we offered. Still no sale!
Thanks.
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LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - It was almost 50 years ago that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, prepped for what would become her doomed final voyage.
Once the largest ship on the Great Lakes, the 729-foot Fitzgerald left Superior, Wis. at 2:15 p.m. on Nov. 9, 1975. Her crew planned to cross Lake Superior to deliver the load at Detroit's Zug Island.
But a day later, she was gone, broken in two and lying on the lake's bottom in 530 feet of water, all 29 souls aboard lost.
Once the largest ship on the Great Lakes, the 729-foot Fitzgerald left Superior, Wis. at 2:15 p.m. on Nov. 9, 1975. Her crew planned to cross Lake Superior to deliver the load at Detroit's Zug Island.
But a day later, she was gone, broken in two and lying on the lake's bottom in 530 feet of water, all 29 souls aboard lost.
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Canadian George Scoggie pioneered the concept of a modern telegraphic news wire in the early 20th century. Working with Canadian Press, he developed systems to distribute breaking news to multiple publications across vast distances rapidly.
These are actual comments made by State Troopers that were taken off their car videos:
1. "You know, stop lights don't come any redder than the one you just went through."
2. "Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch after you wear them a while."
3. "If you take your hands off the car, I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document." (My Favorite)
4. "If you run, you'll only go to jail tired."
5. "Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that's the speed of the bullet that'll be chasing you." (LOVE IT)
6. "You don't know how fast you were going? I guess that means I can write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?"
7. "Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I'm the shift supervisor?"
8. "Warning! You want a warning? O.K, I'm warning you not to do that again or I'll give you another ticket."
9. "The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?"
10. "Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy and corn dogs."
11. "Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven."
12. "In God we trust; all others we run through NCIC." ( National Crime Information Center )
13. "Just how big were those 'two beers' you say you had?"
14. "No sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to, but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we can."
15. "I'm glad to hear that the Chief (of Police) is a personal friend of yours. So you know someone who can post your bail."
AND THE WINNER IS....
16.. "You didn't think we give pretty women tickets? You're right, we don't. Sign here...
1. "You know, stop lights don't come any redder than the one you just went through."
2. "Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch after you wear them a while."
3. "If you take your hands off the car, I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document." (My Favorite)
4. "If you run, you'll only go to jail tired."
5. "Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that's the speed of the bullet that'll be chasing you." (LOVE IT)
6. "You don't know how fast you were going? I guess that means I can write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?"
7. "Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I'm the shift supervisor?"
8. "Warning! You want a warning? O.K, I'm warning you not to do that again or I'll give you another ticket."
9. "The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?"
10. "Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy and corn dogs."
11. "Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven."
12. "In God we trust; all others we run through NCIC." ( National Crime Information Center )
13. "Just how big were those 'two beers' you say you had?"
14. "No sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to, but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we can."
15. "I'm glad to hear that the Chief (of Police) is a personal friend of yours. So you know someone who can post your bail."
AND THE WINNER IS....
16.. "You didn't think we give pretty women tickets? You're right, we don't. Sign here...
In 1797, Samuel Bentham, an Englishman, built a machine for the production of veneer and applied for a patent. In his registration, he described the concept of bonding multiple layers of veneers with glue to form a thicker board - these were the first descriptions of what we now call plywood. About 50 years later, Immanuel Nobel, the father of the famous scientist Alfred Nobel, realized that bonding thin layers of natural wood together would create a material with extremely good durability and strength. In the 1890s, the quality of plywood was greatly improved, the market gradually opened, from which plywood production developed rapidly, and many plywood factories were born. By 1905, the first plywood appeared at the Lewis & Clark Fair. Demand for plywood increased, and a number of companies began to manufacture it, not only for home interiors and general construction, but also for use in trains, buses, and airplanes. In 1928, the first of what is now standard size 4 ft x 8 ft plywood sheet was introduced in the United States for use as a general building and furniture material...
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In 1797, Samuel Bentham, an Englishman, built a machine for the production of veneer and applied for a patent. In his registration, he described the concept of bonding multiple layers of veneers with glue to form a thicker board - these were the first descriptions of what we now call plywood. About 50 years later, Immanuel Nobel, the father of the famous scientist Alfred Nobel, realized that bonding thin layers of natural wood together would create a material with extremely good durability and strength. In the 1890s, the quality of plywood was greatly improved, the market gradually opened, from which plywood production developed rapidly, and many plywood factories were born. By 1905, the first plywood appeared at the Lewis & Clark Fair. Demand for plywood increased, and a number of companies began to manufacture it, not only for home interiors and general construction, but also for use in trains, buses, and airplanes. In 1928, the first of what is now standard size 4 ft x 8 ft plywood sheet was introduced in the United States for use as a general building and furniture material...
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