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jetz0r posted:During ww2, the is navy could locate a depth implosion from a metal ball the size of a softball in the Pacific Ocean. Wild. What's the name behind this
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Milo and POTUS posted:Wild. What's the name behind this sofar sphere, sofar bomb, something like that. almost every reference to their use in ww2 leads back to the same lecture source that i heard it from https://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/PffP_textbook/PffP-07-waves-5-27.htm posted:an ingenious invention made by the physicist Maurice Ewing near the end of World War II. His invention involved small objects called �sofar� spheres that could be placed in the emergency kits of pilots flying over the Pacific Ocean. If a pilot was shot down, but he managed to inflate and get on to a life raft, then he was instructed to take one of these spheres and drop it into the water. If he wasn�t rescued within 24 hours, then he should drop another.
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Jun 23, 2023 10:26
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sofar so good
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Failed Imagineer posted:sofar so good boo-this-man.gif
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Antonymous posted:they probably know where Malaysia 370 is as well, but aren't telling us for good reason (aliens) hey, they had valid work visas
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Ruffian Price posted:hey, they had valid work visas Work for who... Aquaman?!?
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Lmao the state government in Melbourne is taxing landlords more and this is how the local Murdoch media covered it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaYKNTOuLig
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Lmao the state government in Melbourne is taxing landlords more and this is how the local Murdoch media covered it. Even converting from dollaridoos that's nonsense. ~$2,000 USD/month to ~$3,500 USD/month. Also hey what's up with keeping track of long-term rent in weeks? Smells funny in addition to the rest. I mean "unfortunately these landlords, who are beautiful people, they're being slugged [slight on-camera hand gesture demonstrating he definitely means "hit" and wasn't just saying "slagged" or some other Australianism] with this land tax" says a lot about this guy. stringless has issued a correction as of 12:39 on Jun 23, 2023 |
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FFT posted:"He already pays $700 [~470 USD] a week in rent" -> "We're looking at an increase of $500 [~335 USD] a week" The rent situation in Melbourne and Sydney is hosed and I agree price by week is weird (I'm a Canadian immigrant and my landlord still wanted monthly payments on my only rental). I now own a unit and my wife's best friend in the same building got essentially evicted for similar rate hikes. Still doesn't stop 30+ people lining up to see the unit. Demand is off the charts. And we just got named the third most livable city in the world lmao. I just enjoyed the framing that it was getting worse because the evil socialist state government was cracking down on housing barons.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:I just enjoyed the framing that it was getting worse because the evil socialist state government was cracking down on housing barons.
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jetz0r posted:sofar sphere, sofar bomb, something like that. almost every reference to their use in ww2 leads back to the same lecture source that i heard it from drat thats cool
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FFT posted:Well, yeah, even if that's exactly what's happening it's just the actual reality version of "if maccas has to pay a living wage, they'll make everything more expensive" Oops  https://au.indeed.com/cmp/McDonald's/salaries?location=AU%2FVIC
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jetz0r posted:sofar sphere, sofar bomb, something like that. almost every reference to their use in ww2 leads back to the same lecture source that i heard it from It's called that because it only sinks so far before imploding.
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jetz0r posted:sofar sphere, sofar bomb, something like that. almost every reference to their use in ww2 leads back to the same lecture source that i heard it from Learn something every day, holy poo poo Imagine how much other cool poo poo humans could do but don't bother cuz it's expensive
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Gunshow Poophole posted:Learn something every day, holy poo poo yeah that was my take way too. oh we found a comms channel in the deep ocean eh well nothing to blow up down there we’ll just use it to rescue downed pilots I guess
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Centrist Committee posted:yeah that was my take way too. oh we found a comms channel in the deep ocean eh well nothing to blow up down there we’ll just use it to rescue downed pilots I guess They use it to listen for Russian subs, which is why they sat on the news during the (futile) search.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's called that because it only sinks so far before imploding. It's less funny if you know that the SOFAR part is already probably meant to be a pun.
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Ham Equity posted:Can I get a link to this? Sorry, missed this! This is the one I was thinking of - it's advertised a lot on the telly: https://www.quooker.co.uk/catalog/collection
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Centrist Committee posted:yeah that was my take way too. oh we found a comms channel in the deep ocean eh well nothing to blow up down there we’ll just use it to rescue downed pilots I guess the lecture continues talking about a similar wave channel in the atmosphere that was used to listen to for soviet nuclear detonations via balloons with microphones. that wound up being discarded in favor of other methods, though. that underwater wave channel is also a key plot point in the hunt for red october. it's much better understood now, since it was basically just being discovered around ww2. then was kept as a secret for a while to listen for subs.
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Jun 23, 2023 19:56
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FFT posted:"He already pays $700 [~470 USD] a week in rent" -> "We're looking at an increase of $500 [~335 USD] a week" standard to pay residential rents weekly in AUS and NZ
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El Pollo Blanco posted:standard to pay residential rents weekly in AUS and NZ I don't know why they advertise the weekly amount but expect you to pay monthly, but they do.
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Yes it is. I've been renting in Australia for almost 20 years and in that time I've always paid weekly (or fortnightly).
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Tiggum posted:No it isn't. I've been living and renting in Melbourne for almost 20 years and in that time it's been standard to list the rent by the weekly amount in advertisements, but for the lease agreement to have the monthly amount. I've always paid monthly. are you shooting for the  est poster of 2023 prize already? first your wrong takes on kitchen appliances and now your wrong statements on rent. i concur with gotlag that it's weekly rent, both in aus and NZ, quoted and written.
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I paid monthly in Melbourne. Obviously landlords can ask for whatever they want. Sorry for this lovely derail.
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Weatherman posted:are you shooting for the Maybe Melbourne's an exception? I've never paid weekly rent. I've never heard of anyone paying weekly rent here.
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FFT posted:I mean "unfortunately these landlords, who are beautiful people, they're being slugged [slight on-camera hand gesture demonstrating he definitely means "hit" and wasn't just saying "slagged" or some other Australianism] with this land tax" says a lot about this guy. Yeah curious where they found this freak renter who loves his beautiful landlord. He has got to be a property owner somewhere else
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lol just own your home and then you don't have to pay rent, dummy.
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Always quoted weekly, paid fortnightly for me in 20 years of renting on Best Coast, West Coast. (in before Australians reply that Perth doesn't and has never counted)
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Milo and POTUS posted:Perth is east south africa Or according to some "charming" saffas I've met, "New Rhodesia".
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hooman posted:Or according to some "charming" saffas I've met, "New Rhodesia". I assume "saffa" is slang for South African, and it's very good. And I kinda want to say "suffer not the saffa to live (in Minecraft)"
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BonHair posted:I assume "saffa" is slang for South African, and it's very good. And I kinda want to say "suffer not the saffa to live (in Minecraft)" Yes! I'd never even considered that people wouldn't recognise it, but again, if you didn't grow up in a city with a large South African expat community, then why would you ever need one. In fairness a lot of the ones I know aren't nearly as racist as their ex-pat parents are (they grew up here) and are merely as racist as Australians are generally. By which I mean very.
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Tiggum posted:You use the grill. Broiler, if you're American, I think? Anyway, it takes the same amount of time as a toaster but works better. loving wasteful eurotrash trying to make me destroy the planet please gently caress off or explain why ceiling fans suck.
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i knew a left wing white south african and when we were drinking he basically said there's no way to be a cool white south african and it made him really sad
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please stop the slapfight over ceiling fans. Some regions and houses can be adequately cooled by airflow, others can't. The folks saying ceiling fans are worthless are probably in housing not at all designed to dissipate modern heat with it, or where the fans were added more as decoration than something to genuinely help with airflow. Hell, my last apartment technically had fans, but they weren't properly installed and anchored so anything beyond the lowest power setting nearly yanked the fans out of the ceiling. It was also a building designed for the heat of 70+ years ago, before climate change and urbanization turned the breezy coastal city into a heat trap that routinely cooks the elderly and unhoused alive. E: weird my awful app somehow took me pages back and made it seem like we went back to more ceiling fan poo poo. I had a crush on a South African girl in middle school because she was cute and had an accent, and I didn't talk to her enough to actually know her as a person so filled in the blanks in my head. Just looking at the timetable for when he family immigrated to the US, the math seems pretty grim on her family's views. Coolness Averted has issued a correction as of 19:54 on Jun 25, 2023 |
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sex excellence posted:loving wasteful eurotrash trying to make me destroy the planet please gently caress off or explain why ceiling fans suck. ceiling fans blow actually
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