tbodillia
tbodillia t1_j6bac5d wrote
Reply to comment by andreasdagen in TIL that air is a fluid by andreasdagen
OK, curious: Fluid Dynamics can be broken down to (among others) aerodynamics (gas) and hydrodynamics (liquid), or pneumatics (gas) and hydraulics (liquid). So what do Norwegians call "Fluid Dynamics" and what you you break it down to?
I fell like I'm delving into the American debate/argument that there is a difference between an engine and a motor. In most languages, when you translate "engine" it becomes motor.
I'm also reminded of the "stoner" meme that keeps popping up here: do crabs think fish can fly? Well, it's fluid dynamics. If humans think birds fly, sure crabs think fish fly.
tbodillia t1_j6b8v6s wrote
Reply to comment by Free_Composer_6000 in TIL that air is a fluid by andreasdagen
I've argued with people my age, 58, that air is a fluid. It's usually when a pump is sucking air and I say "the pump can only move one fluid at a time..." and then they want to argue that air isn't a fluid.
tbodillia t1_j2c9ch9 wrote
Reply to [Homemade] Arancini by Bloodfart2112
I can't remember the last time I had arancini! Nonna never served them like that though. Uncle once said nonna & nonno would make extra arancini when they went to Lago di Garda and sell them...and now I'm crying.
tbodillia t1_j1jxqyw wrote
Reply to TIL the SR-71 is the only aircraft with the “SR” designation, and it’s due to a mistake by President Johnson. by VisibleAcanthaceae45
That's the urban legend. This Week In History: Beale AFB , SR-71 or RS-71 .
tbodillia t1_j1d6ju0 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL judge of the peace Roy Bean chose jurors from his best bar customers and jurors were expected to buy a drink during every court recess. by Warm-Translator6171
Great movie! I wonder if I can find it streaming since I haven't seen it in decades. Trivial Pursuit was popular the last time I saw it.
tbodillia t1_j13lqnm wrote
Reply to TIL in 1968 the state of Florida began to build a gigantic airport for supersonic jets in the Florida Everglades but was stopped by an environmental coalition after a federal report found the project would “inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem” and the Everglades by MustacheEmperor
I thought this story sounded familiar. 2019, Drunk History did an episode on National Parks and covered how Marjory Stoneman Douglas was an author/ journalist/activist that helped save the Everglades. Her 1947 book, The Everglades: River of Grass , was influential in getting people to stop looking at the area as useless swamp.
tbodillia t1_j6gcnuc wrote
Reply to What if the planet stopped rotating? by bubba_boo_bear
Tidally locked and not rotating are 2 different things. The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth so we only see one face. The Moon rotates once every 27 days and orbits us once every 27 days. Mercury is tidally locked to the Sun.
Pick up a ball and have it "orbit" a lightbulb at home. A solar day (noon to noon) should be a year.
"Dark side" of the moon is a misnomer. All sides receive the same amount of sunlight. It's just generally people automatically assume the far side is always dark, and movies don't help.