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#3108160 26-Jul-2023 09:29

Rikkitic:

Oh my god, they circumsised the rocket!

Don't know why that called to mind this verse from "The Good Ship Venus"

The cabin boy was Kipper

By Christ he was a nipper

We stuffed his axxx

With broken glass

And circumcised the skipper.

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#3108165 26-Jul-2023 09:39

Gurezaemon:

Simply say "cargo.alien.reddish."

Being careful to enunciate the difference between "reddish" and "radish"

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#3108168 26-Jul-2023 09:56

frankv:

Gurezaemon:

Simply say "cargo.alien.reddish."

Being careful to enunciate the difference between "reddish" and "radish"

Definitely a problem with a NZild eccent.

The first is a park in Fukushima, Japan, and the second (with 'radish') a national park in Tocantins, Brazil.

I understand that the makers of What3Words took this sort of thing into account, having places with similar-sounding words well apart from each other to avoid confusion.

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#3108258 26-Jul-2023 12:57

it must be a first but well done Bay of Plenty Regional Council who dropped my rates by $5 a week for this year. I doubt there are many other councils that have dropped their rates.

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#3108415 26-Jul-2023 16:09

vexxxboy:

it must be a first but well done Bay of Plenty Regional Council who dropped my rates by $5 a week for this year. I doubt there are many other councils that have dropped their rates.

Presumably they've stopped any new infrastructure investment since they're going out of business soon.

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#3108468 26-Jul-2023 16:24

vexxxboy:

it must be a first but well done Bay of Plenty Regional Council who dropped my rates by $5 a week for this year. I doubt there are many other councils that have dropped their rates.

Not to be negative or anything, but are you sure that the actual rates have decreased, and that you haven't e.g. finished paying off a Hot Swap Loan?

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#3108668 27-Jul-2023 09:23

Behodar:

vexxxboy:

it must be a first but well done Bay of Plenty Regional Council who dropped my rates by $5 a week for this year. I doubt there are many other councils that have dropped their rates.

Not to be negative or anything, but are you sure that the actual rates have decreased, and that you haven't e.g. finished paying off a Hot Swap Loan?

no i paid that off before they split the rates, they have gone from $16.30 a week down to $11.30 a week

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#3108820 27-Jul-2023 17:03

Misplaced a squash racquet which has very special once in a life time sentimental value and some person owned up to taking it by accident and returned it to me.

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#3108821 27-Jul-2023 17:12

The Rimacc Nevera

0-100 Kmph in 1.7 seconds.

Fully Electric

Production car.

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#3108824 27-Jul-2023 17:33

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0-100 Kmph in 1.7 seconds.

If I win lotto I'll make a point of building a car whose acceleration is provided by a Voitenko compressor. 0-20 km/s in 0.1s, no-one will ever beat that, and they'll have to some up with some new instantiation of Goodhart's Law to aim for instead.

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#3108825 27-Jul-2023 17:34

networkn:
The Rimacc Nevera

0-100 Kmph in 1.7 seconds.

Fully Electric

Production car.

I can see a few of those ending up in trees, lamp posts etc!

“The Rimac Nevera set a new 0-400kmh-0 record of 29.93 seconds,”

Insane.

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#3108826 27-Jul-2023 17:48

At what acceleration does your neck snap?

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#3108828 27-Jul-2023 17:54

networkn:

The Rimacc Nevera

0-100 Kmph in 1.7 seconds.

Fully Electric

Production car.

not quiet 0-100

"All acceleration records were completed with a standard one-foot rollout"

after the 1ft of rollout the car is already traveling about 10Kmph

Its still impressive but its something they fail to mention in all their media which is annoying and slightly misleading

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#3108829 27-Jul-2023 17:57

networkn: The Rimacc Nevera 0-100 Kmph in 1.7 seconds. Fully Electric Production car.

Red Traffic Lights STILL APPLY!🙃

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#3108830 27-Jul-2023 18:02

Rikkitic:

At what acceleration does your neck snap?

It takes 1000 to 1250 foot-pounds of force(torque) to break a human neck.

weight of a human head is about 11lb.

which is about 891 m/s2 or about 90G. Other body parts would likely break first, ribs for instance.

To equal 1g of acceleration, a car would need to get to 60mph in 2.74 seconds, roughly.

top-fuel dragster can go from 0-100 MPH is about 0.86 second.That kind of acceleration is worth about 5.3g

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