Seat68 Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 9 minutes ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said: Why do all bodycams have AXOM on the screen ? So when presented in court they just show the footage and remove the need to axom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Dogg Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 13 minutes ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said: Why do all bodycams have AXOM on the screen ? Is it AXON? They make bodycams. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 2 minutes ago, Mr_Dogg said: Is it AXON? They make bodycams. OH, OK thanks. They are doing very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted March 22, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 22, 2023 Kingfishers have extremely high mortality rates. Their young die in incredible numbers due to a variety of factors, including drowning when learning to hunt, nest destruction and flooding, and simply starvation. This means that only a quarter of their young make it to their first breeding season. However even then only a quarter of those birds make it to their next breeding season. They are extremely vulnerable to temperature change and during winter or severe cold snaps many die. They have increasingly limited habitat due to development, contamination and pollution. This is then exacerbated twofold - they require more than half their bodyweight in food per day to survive, which the limited and damaged habitat makes difficult, and they are extremely territorial and live solitarily, meaning where there is good habitat it's limited in how many birds it can sustain. The contamination and pollution also means they're exposed to accumulation of toxins which ultimately kills them. They also get picked off by predators, and are susceptible, like all small birds, to vehicle strikes. However, despite this high mortality, they are able to maintain their population. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 22, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 22, 2023 11 hours ago, Chindie said: However, despite this high mortality, they are able to maintain their population. They've obviously twigged that what is required is constant reproduction. Unlike pandas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stevo985 Posted April 12, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 12, 2023 On 09/04/2023 at 22:23, mjmooney said: This is fantastic. Really highlights the difference between a few long term injuries and multiple short term injuries. Ronaldo, for example, being such a small circle but missing more days and matches than Reus who has had far far more injuries 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 Where’s Pogba? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 12, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 12, 2023 1 hour ago, Genie said: Where’s Pogba? He'd be somewhere left of the Y axis. He's missed 158 games, which would be high enough to make the chart, but he's "only" missed 843 days, which doesn't make the chart. That's with 20 separate injuries (according to transfermarkt.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 27 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: He'd be somewhere left of the Y axis. He's missed 158 games, which would be high enough to make the chart, but he's "only" missed 843 days, which doesn't make the chart. That's with 20 separate injuries (according to transfermarkt.com) It’s crazy how much he will have earned whilst being unavailable to play. He’s made 2 appearances for Juve since re-signing for them 9 months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 12, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 12, 2023 1 hour ago, Genie said: It’s crazy how much he will have earned whilst being unavailable to play. He’s made 2 appearances for Juve since re-signing for them 9 months ago. True of everyone on that chart to be fair 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 12, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 12, 2023 5 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: True of everyone on that chart to be fair @Genie if Diaby earned an average of 50k a week (Google tells me he was on 65k a week at Arsenal) then he'd have been paid over £12m for the time he was injured 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted April 12, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 12, 2023 That chart has reminded me of a couple of things. Diaby, despite basically never playing, seemed to score against us for fun IIRC. And that Phil Jones still 'plays' for Manchester United. How on earth he's still got a contract for them I've no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted April 19, 2023 Moderator Share Posted April 19, 2023 Attempting to beat Ken Warby's current water speed record of 317.596mph has a 100% fatality rate. The record has stood since 1978 and since then only 2 people have made any attempt to break it. Both men crashed and died. Lee Taylor in 1980 and his wasn't even an actual attempt. It was a demonstration that went wrong. And Craig Arfons crashed in 1989 at over 350mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 Going that fast would be REALLY scary.Back in the day,I did "The ton" 3 times on my Triumph Tiger 110 and that was pritty scary. FYI,the ton is 100mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted April 19, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 19, 2023 Problem with a water speed record is there's absolutely no margin for error, and you're working with a surface that isn't stable. Worst of all worlds. Speed records on land are **** dangerous and that's done with a surface that we expect to be quite stable and flat, and where there's nothing to hit. Your main concern is rolling and we mitigate that with the design of the car, and provided nothing goes wrong you go very fast in a straight line and stop leisurely over a long distance. On water you simply can't control it, so the design effort becomes about getting as much of the boat out of the water as possible, but not so much that it goes fully airborne, which gives you a margin that's razor thin and goes very wrong if you catch a ripple or wave that's that little too big. If that happens, it turns into a bad plane for a second and then you hit a brick wall at 300mph with limited protection. One of those records that no-ones going to touch for a while. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted April 19, 2023 Moderator Share Posted April 19, 2023 29 minutes ago, Chindie said: Problem with a water speed record is there's absolutely no margin for error, and you're working with a surface that isn't stable. Worst of all worlds. Speed records on land are **** dangerous and that's done with a surface that we expect to be quite stable and flat, and where there's nothing to hit. Your main concern is rolling and we mitigate that with the design of the car, and provided nothing goes wrong you go very fast in a straight line and stop leisurely over a long distance. On water you simply can't control it, so the design effort becomes about getting as much of the boat out of the water as possible, but not so much that it goes fully airborne, which gives you a margin that's razor thin and goes very wrong if you catch a ripple or wave that's that little too big. If that happens, it turns into a bad plane for a second and then you hit a brick wall at 300mph with limited protection. One of those records that no-ones going to touch for a while. Correct. Not just the ever changing surface but the resistance of water too and the power required to compensate for that. I watched this yesterday which is where I got the trivia from 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted April 19, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 19, 2023 (edited) 11 minutes ago, BOF said: Correct. Not just the ever changing surface but the resistance of water too and the power required to compensate for that. I watched this yesterday which is where I got the trivia from Thanks - that'll be getting watched later. Should have considered the power to resistance thing - it basically becomes unfeasible to generate the power to defeat the resistance to build speed. We'll need to come up with a different way of moving something through water to go much quicker. A water based sonic boom would be fun/terrifying though. Edit - apparently the sound barrier underwater would be something like 3000mph so yeah... That's one for the modelling software only. Edited April 19, 2023 by Chindie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 19, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 19, 2023 45 minutes ago, Chindie said: Problem with a water speed record is there's absolutely no margin for error, and you're working with a surface that isn't stable. Worst of all worlds. Speed records on land are **** dangerous and that's done with a surface that we expect to be quite stable and flat, and where there's nothing to hit. Your main concern is rolling and we mitigate that with the design of the car, and provided nothing goes wrong you go very fast in a straight line and stop leisurely over a long distance. On water you simply can't control it, so the design effort becomes about getting as much of the boat out of the water as possible, but not so much that it goes fully airborne, which gives you a margin that's razor thin and goes very wrong if you catch a ripple or wave that's that little too big. If that happens, it turns into a bad plane for a second and then you hit a brick wall at 300mph with limited protection. One of those records that no-ones going to touch for a while. Reminds me of our schoolyard black humour back in 1967 - "I hear they've renamed Coniston Water - to 'Campbell's Soup". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 21, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 21, 2023 Former referee Jon Moss (now of the PGMOL) owns a record shop (The Vinyl Whistle) in Leeds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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