Today I Learned...

[Spuds]

Soccer.
Referee.
Best spring/fall job ever.

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

That a stamped steel beam is meant to twist in this application. Not exactly earth-shattering but still interesting.

That was weird. At first glance I thought that looked familiar but I couldn't quite place it. Hang on a sec! Am I in the right thread?
*light bulb moment* Read the text, makes sense now.

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

At 160km away the sound from Krakatoa’s 1883 eruption was estimated at 172db. At 5000km away it sounded like a nearby gunshot.

So it could have been only 171db.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

So it could have been only 171db.

Or 173!

Pretty sure they could "estimate" whatever they wanted.

[ScoobsMcGee]

TIL: It's pronounced "kah-say-ah" with a slight emphasis on the say. I was saying it as "case-ya".

[Yoshoobaroo]

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

TIL: It's pronounced "kah-say-ah" with a slight emphasis on the say. I was saying it as "case-ya".

What is?

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

So it could have been only 171db.

I guess It was calculated using the barometric pressure readings recorded at a city that was that far away. This excerpt was taken from wikipedia.

and caused a spike of more than 8.5 kilopascals (2.5 inHg) in pressure gauges 160 km (100 miles) away

[ScoobsMcGee]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

What is?

Really niche again: https://therecord.media/revil-ransom...kaseya-update/

TL;DR: I work in information security. Bad guys pushed ransomware via a bug in device management software that affected very large customers and resulted in a claimed 1 million computers being encrypted.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by beltax90

I'm poor!

Meh...

It looks like a very cold fancy hotel or office space not a home.

Frankly I'd much rather live in my current home than that, regardless of the amount of money I had to spend.

If I had stupid money to throw at a house, I'd want something like the house Dwayne Johnson has up for sale about 3 miles from where I live now.

Except I would want it on a lake somewhere.

[spcmafia]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Meh...

It looks like a very cold fancy hotel or office space not a home.

Frankly I'd much rather live in my current home than that, regardless of the amount of money I had to spend.

If I had stupid money to throw at a house, I'd want something like the house Dwayne Johnson has up for sale about 3 miles from where I live now.

Except I would want it on a lake somewhere.

Can you imagine cleaning 14K square feet worth of POLLEN.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I guess It was calculated using the barometric pressure readings recorded at a city that was that far away. This excerpt was taken from wikipedia.

This really raises the question of exactly who was staring at an old oil pressure barometer in the middle of the Sunda Strait at that precise moment in 1883.

In fact I am not convinced there was even a city with a full time barometer monitoring technician within 100 miles of there in 1883!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

Can you imagine cleaning 14K square feet worth of POLLEN.

I don't know but I would love to have the dead bird that hit the windows clean-up contract!

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

Can you imagine cleaning 14K square feet worth of POLLEN.

That's what the staff is for....oh staff....STAFFFFFF!

Now that I think about it, maybe that's why he's listed it for 1.4M less than he paid for it two years ago.

[spcmafia]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

That's what the staff is for....oh staff....STAFFFFFF!

Now that I think about it, maybe that's why he's listed it for 1.4M less than he paid for it two years ago.

I saw that too, asking for less than what he got it for, he must really want to get rid of it. Considering the state of the housing market.