A Boy Named Crow Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 4 hours ago, Dick Dastardly said: If you had a solar powered led light shining on a solar panel could it power the led light? Nah, the system isn't going to be 100% efficient, power loss would eventually cause the light to go out. You'd also need a bit of start up energy to get the LED going in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 6 hours ago, A Boy Named Crow said: Nah, the system isn't going to be 100% efficient, power loss would eventually cause the light to go out. You'd also need a bit of start up energy to get the LED going in the first place. I was thinking about this while i was out walking the dog. So the light is powered by a small solar panel. The led is then totally enveloped in a ball made out of solar panels. This is sealed so no light can get out. The ball solar panel provides power to the led ( so the led can still be powered at night) as well as charging batteries. P. S. I'd had a few last night when i posted an realise it's a bs post 😂😂😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 On 07/06/2022 at 22:59, Lone Striker said: Back in the 1200's, 1300's and 1400's - long before newspapers or organised mail services - did any ordinary person in Britain know who the King or Queen or Pope was ? Or even what King or Queen or Pope actually meant ? Loads of people couldn't read or write, so how did they know what was going on ? Did they just live like Baldrick, blissfully unaware of pretty much everything except how sh1t life must have been back then ? Gossips carried news from places to places much like on this . And pigeons On 08/06/2022 at 08:47, Dirk McClaymore said: 'Hoose Jock' is a quasi-racist term coined by fervent nationalists to describe Scottish born unionists. Although not directly racist in itself, the context in which it is employed and term from which it is derived most certainly is. See also 'Uncle Tam'. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=house ****** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom If a person has to argue that a phrase isn’t racist it usually means it’s racist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 On 08/06/2022 at 13:02, Lone Striker said: 👍 Interesting question you've come up with. When you think about it, there would almost be no point in trying to draw a picture of a wanted outlaw in the first place unless he had an easily recognisable feature - like a deformed ear, or big birthmark on his face. No photos, so just reliant on other Wild West folks describing some stuff to an artist. Maybe most of the wanted folk just looked much the same on the posters ? In which case, the sheriff might get a good response - with a tiny probability that the actual outlaw was one of the guys being fingered ! 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il Duce McTarkin Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 (edited) 23 minutes ago, JudyJudyJudy said: If a person has to argue that a phrase isn’t racist it usually means it’s racist There will be exceptions, but this is a good as a general rule. Edited June 11, 2022 by Dirk McClaymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Boy Named Crow Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Dick Dastardly said: I was thinking about this while i was out walking the dog. So the light is powered by a small solar panel. The led is then totally enveloped in a ball made out of solar panels. This is sealed so no light can get out. The ball solar panel provides power to the led ( so the led can still be powered at night) as well as charging batteries. P. S. I'd had a few last night when i posted an realise it's a bs post 😂😂😂 Your problem is still going to be heat in the system. Any heat produced is effectively lost power. Each time the power goes round the system, some power will be lost. EDIT hang on, is there a separate solar panel too, as in the inside and outside of the ball us a solar panel? If so, then yes, this might be a pretty efficient way of keeping an led going...but what would be the point if nobody could see it, and how would you know if it was still working? Schroedinger's LED... Edited June 11, 2022 by A Boy Named Crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 4 minutes ago, Dirk McClaymore said: There will be exceptions, but this is a good as a general rule. 🤙 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 38 minutes ago, A Boy Named Crow said: Your problem is still going to be heat in the system. Any heat produced is effectively lost power. Each time the power goes round the system, some power will be lost. EDIT hang on, is there a separate solar panel too, as in the inside and outside of the ball us a solar panel? If so, then yes, this might be a pretty efficient way of keeping an led going...but what would be the point if nobody could see it, and how would you know if it was still working? Schroedinger's LED... I was thinking you could use a smaller solar panel to light the led, which is then used to power the bigger, enclosed solar panels and create more electricity than was being created by the smaller solar panel on its own. World energy crisis solved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milky_26 Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 1 minute ago, Dick Dastardly said: I was thinking you could use a smaller solar panel to light the led, which is then used to power the bigger, enclosed solar panels and create more electricity than was being created by the smaller solar panel on its own. World energy crisis solved. i like it, you have found a way to break the laws of physics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 1 minute ago, milky_26 said: i like it, you have found a way to break the laws of physics That's exactly why i must be wrong. I could probably try and sell the idea to Elon Musk though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Boy Named Crow Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 1 minute ago, Dick Dastardly said: I was thinking you could use a smaller solar panel to light the led, which is then used to power the bigger, enclosed solar panels and create more electricity than was being created by the smaller solar panel on its own. World energy crisis solved. I think if you manage to pull that off, you'd create a rip in the space time continuum, people would be disappearing from polaroid photos left right and centre! The size of the second solar panel doesn't mean it can grab more power from the light generated by the first panel. It can only produce (a bit less than) what you put in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 1 minute ago, A Boy Named Crow said: I think if you manage to pull that off, you'd create a rip in the space time continuum, people would be disappearing from polaroid photos left right and centre! The size of the second solar panel doesn't mean it can grab more power from the light generated by the first panel. It can only produce (a bit less than) what you put in. Even if it's really shiny? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Why do fools fall in love ? and What becomes of the broken hearted ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaside jambo Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Why did he shoot the sheriff and not the deputy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Boy Named Crow Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 13 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said: Even if it's really shiny? I reckon shininess is has an inverse relationship to power genetated, it'd reflect the light away. You'd want it to be dark, really dark, like Back To The Future Part 2! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
been here before Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 18 minutes ago, Seaside jambo said: Why did he shoot the sheriff and not the deputy Because Sheriff John Brown always hated him. For what, I dont know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudi must stay Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Is the earth flat or round Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Striker Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 28 minutes ago, Seaside jambo said: Why did he shoot the sheriff and not the deputy Ahh - Meatloaf solved that one. Shooting the sheriff was one of several things he'd do for love....... but when it came to the deputy, he wouldn't do that. 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 32 minutes ago, A Boy Named Crow said: I reckon shininess is has an inverse relationship to power genetated, it'd reflect the light away. You'd want it to be dark, really dark, like Back To The Future Part 2! But the light wouldn't be able to get out of the enclosed space, so it would be totally absorbed by the solar panel. I think I'm on to something. I better not say too much more incase someone steals my idea and uses it for Nefarious Purposes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 37 minutes ago, Seaside jambo said: Why did he shoot the sheriff and not the deputy Well he swore it was in self defence so i can only presume the deputy didn't represent an imminent danger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 47 minutes ago, JudyJudyJudy said: Why do fools fall in love ? and What becomes of the broken hearted ? They become bitter and twisted. Straight men become misogynists and everyone else become radical feminists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 3 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said: They become bitter and twisted. Straight men become misogynists and everyone else become radical feminists. Thanks . That seems about right . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Striker Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 2 hours ago, JudyJudyJudy said: No need for a when James is on the thread 😃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 21 minutes ago, Lone Striker said: No need for a when James is on the thread 😃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maple Leaf Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Can robins really hear worms and insects moving underground? I have a robin's nest under my eaves and I've watched the adult robins feeding their chicks. They fly down onto the lawn, hop around once or twice, then thrust their beak into the ground and pull up some unlucky creature. Can they hear it moving over the sound of the wind in the trees, other birds chirping, distant traffic noise? It seems so improbable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obua Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 4 hours ago, Maple Leaf said: Can robins really hear worms and insects moving underground? I have a robin's nest under my eaves and I've watched the adult robins feeding their chicks. They fly down onto the lawn, hop around once or twice, then thrust their beak into the ground and pull up some unlucky creature. Can they hear it moving over the sound of the wind in the trees, other birds chirping, distant traffic noise? It seems so improbable. Could be if they do it often enough they get lucky, I’m sure they hop around to imitate rainfall to attract worms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boof Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 9 hours ago, Dick Dastardly said: I better not say too much more incase someone steals my idea and uses it for Nefarious Purposes. You're Dick Dastardly and accusing other people of Nefarious Purposes? Sheesh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Boy Named Crow Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 9 hours ago, Dick Dastardly said: But the light wouldn't be able to get out of the enclosed space, so it would be totally absorbed by the solar panel. I think I'm on to something. I better not say too much more incase someone steals my idea and uses it for Nefarious Purposes. The relected photons would effectively need to travel further, losing every all the time. I think the surface needs to be sticky, to trap the light. Any further discussion should be by PM though... who knows who's reading this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 If Yoda is so wide and intelligent why can’t he form a sentence in the correct grammatical way ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Boy Named Crow Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 (edited) 28 minutes ago, JudyJudyJudy said: If Yoda is so wide and intelligent why can’t he form a sentence in the correct grammatical way ? He does, everybody else is too beneath him to realise... I'm not into Star Wars at all, but the wife is. She was watching one of the films last night, and it occurred to me, Yoda is just a snide wee dick! Which leads to my question, has there ever been a less likable character who was so loved by fans of a film / TV series? Edited June 11, 2022 by A Boy Named Crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milky_26 Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 14 minutes ago, A Boy Named Crow said: He does, everybody else is too beneath him to realise... I'm not into Star Wars at all, but the wife is. She was watching one of the films last night, and it occurred to me, Yoda is just a snide wee dick! Which leads to my question, has there ever been a less likable character who was so loved by fans of a film / TV series? during the 90s/early 2000s any of the 6 main characters of friends Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Boy Named Crow Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 4 minutes ago, milky_26 said: during the 90s/early 2000s any of the 6 main characters of friends Good call, Friends did cross my mind, but the individual characters weren't universally loved by fans of the show. Folk would would have favourites and not be keen on others. Everyone who likes Star Wars seems to worship this Yoda prick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 26 minutes ago, A Boy Named Crow said: He does, everybody else is too beneath him to realise... I'm not into Star Wars at all, but the wife is. She was watching one of the films last night, and it occurred to me, Yoda is just a snide wee dick! Which leads to my question, has there ever been a less likable character who was so loved by fans of a film / TV series? Like Yoda I do 👍come to think about it my writing style is like his verbal communication 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Boy Named Crow Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 Again, not something I have always wondered about, it just came to me now. As I mentioned before, the wife loves Star Wars, she is currently watching Rise of the Clones. I remember the original films as a kid, they were pretty boring, then 7, 8 & 9 I saw with the wife. They just seemed like remakes of the originals, but with better CGI. What I don't get is how they got sign off to make 7, 8 &9 at all. Rise of the Clones is just eye bleedingly bad, how did films like this not kill off the franchise completely? I'm guessing some manipulation of 'The Force' was involved! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Boy Named Crow Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 Attack* of the... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel eyes Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 to boldly go where no man has gone before.…..Star Trek quote yet when they get there, someone already is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 9 hours ago, A Boy Named Crow said: The relected photons would effectively need to travel further, losing every all the time. I think the surface needs to be sticky, to trap the light. Any further discussion should be by PM though... who knows who's reading this Who ever is watching is surely losing brain cells with every sentence they read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 9 hours ago, Boof said: You're Dick Dastardly and accusing other people of Nefarious Purposes? Sheesh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pap Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 4 hours ago, A Boy Named Crow said: Again, not something I have always wondered about, it just came to me now. As I mentioned before, the wife loves Star Wars, she is currently watching Rise of the Clones. I remember the original films as a kid, they were pretty boring, then 7, 8 & 9 I saw with the wife. They just seemed like remakes of the originals, but with better CGI. What I don't get is how they got sign off to make 7, 8 &9 at all. Rise of the Clones is just eye bleedingly bad, how did films like this not kill off the franchise completely? I'm guessing some manipulation of 'The Force' was involved! You've got to understand. The original 3 were made for children and young teens. But they were so good that they stayed with us until we are adults. Then the first 3 new ones came out and "they destroyed our childhood" and there was this uproar from adults. The are kids absolutely loved them. And were huge commercial successes. Us as adults felt entitled to think that they should have been made to suit them. Sonething like that anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Boy Named Crow Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 3 hours ago, Dick Dastardly said: Who ever is watching is surely losing brain cells with every sentence they read It certainly can't be good for them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnybob72 Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 On 08/06/2022 at 03:56, Maple Leaf said: It was a strange world in those days. Most people never left the village they were born in their entire lives. I read that if you picked up a person and dropped them off ten miles away, they wouldn't be able to find their way home. In many cases the village didn't even have a name, or the residents didn't know the name, so the lost person wouldn't know how to ask for directions. If fuel prices keep going the way they are we may get back to this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 On 12/06/2022 at 00:20, A Boy Named Crow said: He does, everybody else is too beneath him to realise... I'm not into Star Wars at all, but the wife is. She was watching one of the films last night, and it occurred to me, Yoda is just a snide wee dick! Which leads to my question, has there ever been a less likable character who was so loved by fans of a film / TV series? Bernadette in The Big Bang Theory was a shrill, manipulative bully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesie27 Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 16 hours ago, A Boy Named Crow said: Again, not something I have always wondered about, it just came to me now. As I mentioned before, the wife loves Star Wars, she is currently watching Rise of the Clones. I remember the original films as a kid, they were pretty boring, then 7, 8 & 9 I saw with the wife. They just seemed like remakes of the originals, but with better CGI. What I don't get is how they got sign off to make 7, 8 &9 at all. Rise of the Clones is just eye bleedingly bad, how did films like this not kill off the franchise completely? I'm guessing some manipulation of 'The Force' was involved! Disney bought Star Wars and produced it themselves. No need to get anything signed off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Boy Named Crow Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 (edited) 13 minutes ago, hughesie27 said: Disney bought Star Wars and produced it themselves. No need to get anything signed off. Aye, that'd make sense. I was just stunned at how awful the prequels were. Taking what you and @Papare saying, you can see how Disney would look at it, two fan bases, young and old, ready to be milked...it also explains the series after series of tangential story lines they have been able to churn out Edited June 13, 2022 by A Boy Named Crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gentleman Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 On 16/10/2013 at 09:36, BoJack Horseman said: How can we tell what substance a planet is made of just by looking at it? Laser spectroscopy of its light. How do radio signals travel through solid walls? Because electromagnetic particles (photons) are massless. Who decided, and how did they decide, on the original borders for all the countries? The winners of the fight got to decide. How did folk draw maps pre-20th century? Laborious triangulation. How do we know what the flesh of extinct animals looked like? We don't, but we can make a reasonable extrapolation from studying bone minerals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown user Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 On 08/06/2022 at 08:47, Dirk McClaymore said: 'Hoose Jock' is a quasi-racist term coined by fervent nationalists to describe Scottish born unionists. Although not directly racist in itself, the context in which it is employed and term from which it is derived most certainly is. See also 'Uncle Tam'. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=house ****** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom It isn't at all racist. Racism is using negative racial stereotypes, it isn't Scottish people calling other Scottish people names based on their political ideology. On 11/06/2022 at 12:02, JudyJudyJudy said: If a person has to argue that a phrase isn’t racist it usually means it’s racist Although in this instance it's because it's an accusation made in poor faith and simply untrue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taffin Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 11 minutes ago, jonesy said: It’s a term with a loaded racist history. It shows up those who use it to be deaf to the crassness of their cheap jibes. Let’s see folk who use it online do so within earshot of black Americans descended from slaves. It shouldn't need explaining. Also, the inference is of course that there are non-"hoose" jocks (as your recent play on the usage has alluded to). Imo, to equate Scots to slaves is incredibly offensive to those who actually suffered that hardship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown user Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 34 minutes ago, jonesy said: It’s a term with a loaded racist history. It shows up those who use it to be deaf to the crassness of their cheap jibes. Let’s see folk who use it online do so within earshot of black Americans descended from slaves. So it isn't racist then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il Duce McTarkin Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 There are none so blind as those who will not see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown user Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 18 minutes ago, Dirk McClaymore said: There are none so blind as those who will not see. Those that see racism where there is none are probably on a par to be fair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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