Random, impulsive from-the-hip...facts

[NE2]

The best way to spot wild animals is studying the tracks they leave. The worst is by studying their bite marks.

The coolest is by studying their poo.

[NE2]

The all-Interstate corridor between the Mississippi and the Pacific with the largest percentage of non-frontage paved old alignments is 80-84-82-90 at 78.7%, with 90 in second at 77.1%. The smallest percentage is 54.5% on 10-8, and second smallest is 55.4% on 70-25-80. Route 66 is somewhere in the middle with 71.4%, and 80 all the way (mostly Lincoln Highway) has 61.7%.

In other words, if you want to see old alignments, go to Seattle.

[kkt]

The all-Interstate corridor between the Mississippi and the Pacific with the largest percentage of non-frontage paved old alignments is 80-84-82-90 at 78.7%, with 90 in second at 77.1%. The smallest percentage is 54.5% on 10-8, and second smallest is 55.4% on 70-25-80. Route 66 is somewhere in the middle with 71.4%, and 80 all the way (mostly Lincoln Highway) has 61.7%.

In other words, if you want to see old alignments, go to Seattle.

What a random fact.  Where do you find these statistics?

[NE2]

In the entrails of a goatse.

[kphoger]

In the entrails of a goatse.

Died before it could poo?

[CNGL-Leudimin]

33 tropical cyclones have formed in the Central Pacific (140º W to the dateline) since 1982. They all were given the following Hawaiian names:
Akoni, Ema, Hana, Iwa, Keli, Lala, Moke, Oka, Peke, Uleki, Wila,
Aka, Ekeka, Hali, Iniki, Keoni, Li, Mele, Nona, Oliwa, Paka, Upana, Wene,
Alika, Ele, Huko, Ioke, Kika, Lana, Maka, Neki and Omeka.

Of these, only three reached Category 5: Oliwa, Paka and Ioke. Oliwa and Paka reached Category 5 as typhoons, but Ioke was a hurricane when it first hit the strogest category of the Saffir Simpson Scale and then while at that strenght it became a typhoon.

[hm insulators]

The best way to spot wild animals is studying the tracks they leave. The worst is by studying their bite marks.

The coolest is by studying their poo.

But which way do they run the toilet paper, over or under the roll?

[CNGL-Leudimin]

The (world famous) running of the bulls track in Pamplona has a wrong-way overlap with the Way of St. James.

[Sanctimoniously]

In Minecraft, it's technically possible to break bedrock, but a force necessary to do so would crash the game.

[agentsteel53]

In Minecraft, it's technically possible to break bedrock, but a force necessary to do so would crash the game.

did they set its strength at 2^32-1 or something? while other objects have them in the 10-100s?

[sammi]

In Minecraft, it's technically possible to break bedrock, but a force necessary to do so would crash the game.

did they set its strength at 2^32-1 or something? while other objects have them in the 10-100s?

The blast resistance is 18,000,000 compared to 15-30 for regular blocks. The "hardness" is -1, so player damage will have no effect on the block.

Source

[agentsteel53]

The "hardness" is -1, so player damage will have no effect on the block.

that actually implies negative effect, aka it makes the block less damaged, aka "please sir, may I have another!"

[sammi]

The "hardness" is -1, so player damage will have no effect on the block.

that actually implies negative effect, aka it makes the block less damaged, aka "please sir, may I have another!"

Hmm. I forgot to mention. The fact that it is -1 means that it is handled differently in the code.

Code Select Expand


if hardness < 0
    damage = 0


[agentsteel53]

Hmm. I forgot to mention. The fact that it is -1 means that it is handled differently in the code.

Code Select Expand


if hardness < 0
    damage = 0


well that's not nearly as fun.  I had been hoping to be able to do -1 damage every time, and by hitting it 2^32 - 1 times, cause it to roll over and play dead.

(heaven help me if it's a 64 bit variable...)

[sammi]

well that's not nearly as fun.  I had been hoping to be able to do -1 damage every time, and by hitting it 2^32 - 1 times, cause it to roll over and play dead.

(heaven help me if it's a 64 bit variable...)

I honestly don't know the internal architecture of Java software such as Minecraft. I don't even know if they used the same logic as I wrote in the code.

[Roadsguy]

In Minecraft, it's technically possible to break bedrock, but a force necessary to do so would crash the game.

You must be using mods. Creative mode doesn't crash the game.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

The blast resistance is 18,000,000 compared to 15-30 for regular blocks. The "hardness" is -1, so player damage will have no effect on the block.

Source

FTFY.

If we make to Fernand (Currently up to Chantal has been used) and no Cat 5 hurricane has formed, then we would have gone around all the Atlantic lists without one.

[hm insulators]

33 tropical cyclones have formed in the Central Pacific (140º W to the dateline) since 1982. They all were given the following Hawaiian names:
Akoni, Ema, Hana, Iwa, Keli, Lala, Moke, Oka, Peke, Uleki, Wila,
Aka, Ekeka, Hali, Iniki, Keoni, Li, Mele, Nona, Oliwa, Paka, Upana, Wene,
Alika, Ele, Huko, Ioke, Kika, Lana, Maka, Neki and Omeka.

Of these, only three reached Category 5: Oliwa, Paka and Ioke. Oliwa and Paka reached Category 5 as typhoons, but Ioke was a hurricane when it first hit the strogest category of the Saffir Simpson Scale and then while at that strenght it became a typhoon.

My parents and I were living on Kauai when Iwa hit there in 1982. That hurricane was nasty enough, but in 1992, my parents went through Hurricane Iniki, which was much worse (I had long since moved back to the Mainland). I still have a copy of Kauai's local newspaper The Garden Island that was the first edition printed after the storm.

One of the hotels that Iniki wrecked was the famous Coco Palms on the east side of the island. Numerous celebrities and other famous people stayed there; part of Blue Hawaii was shot there in 1962, and the hotel was just clobbered. To this day, the ruins of the Coco Palms are still moldering and rotting away while down through the decades, this proposal and that idea as to what to do with the place sprouted only to promptly wither and die because of economic, environmental or political reasons.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Luckily Ioke (2006) didn't hit Kauai. That hurricane reached category 5, then became a typhoon and almost erased Wake Island from the map. Fact: all Hawaiian names starting with "I" used so far have been retired.

[Takumi]

There are two different Honda Accords currently made. The Acura TSX in North America is called the Accord in Japan and Europe, and the Accord Euro in Australia and New Zealand. The North American Accord keeps its name in Aus/NZ but is called the Inspire elsewhere.

[Takumi]

New Zealand's Ninety Mile Beach is 55 miles long.

[hotdogPi]

In a Pythagorean triple (3, 4, 5) or (5, 12, 13) or (8, 15, 17):

One number is a multiple of 3.
One number is a multiple of 4.
One number is a multiple of 5.

These sometimes have more than one description belong to one number, but not always.



And about Minecraft, I have built real-life roads of northeast Massachusetts within about a 25 mile by 25 mile box, with some buildings too. And bedrock is impossible to break (except in Creative).

[TheHighwayMan3561]

If everybody in the US drank the recommended amount of water (no more, no less) and got it exclusively from Lake Superior, the supply would last 2380 years.

[NE2]

If everybody in the US drank the recommended amount of water (no more, no less) and got it exclusively from Lake Superior, the supply would last 2380 years.

You probably forgot to take population growth into effect.

[Alps]

New Zealand's Ninety Mile Beach is 55 miles long.

It's Ninety Kilometer Beach, then