Odd factoids

[Drago]

Falcon Heavy was originally designed as a firework. Elon musk cut off the wooden stick to convert it to commercial spaceflight use.

 

[NorthernDave]

Falcon Heavy was named after Elon Musk's road bike of the 80s...

 

[classic33]

The SpaceX Falcon 9 is named after the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars.

The "9" denotes the number of rocket engines the rocket has.

 

[Drago]

Star Wars is a cheap remake of WWII. The Death Star was the Bismarck.

 

[Markymark]

The Berlin wall has now been down for longer than it was up.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Berlin Wall was built in China to keep costs down.

 

[Dave7]

The Berlin Wall was built in China to keep costs down.

That is true.
However....just before it was delivered Angela Merkal raised import tax by 73.5% and it ended up costing more than the quoted price by Herr Paddy Shmidt.

 

[Drago]

The Berlin Wall was supposed to be built by VW, but they outsourced it to China and used the money saved to cheat eminissions tests.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The ISS moves so quickly that if you fired a rifle bullet from one end of a football field the International Space Station could cross the length of the field before the bullet traveled 10 yards.

It would also make an incredible mess.

 

[classic33]

If you reacted to the sound of the gun going off and had a reaction speed of 2/10th a second (twice that of the fastest Olympic sprinters) to react, then you would need to be at least 500 feet away to successfully dodge the bullet.

 

[Dave7]

When Gerry Rafferty recorded Baker Street he used a session musician for the saxaphone solo. The sax player was given a cheque for £27.00 which bounced. Rafferty recieved royalties of £80K a year for life.

 

[midlife]

If you reacted to the sound of the gun going off and had a reaction speed of 2/10th a second (twice that of the fastest Olympic sprinters) to react, then you would need to be at least 500 feet away to successfully dodge the bullet.

If the bullet was travelling faster than the speed of sound then you wouldn't hear it?

 

[classic33]

If the bullet was travelling faster than the speed of sound then you wouldn't hear it?

You'd hear the gun though.

 

[Drago]

Contrary to widely held belief, flash eliminators on rifles are not to hide the muzzle flash from the enemy. That would be more or less impossible. Their purpose is to minimise the flash they rifleman/woman sees, and thus preserve their vision and aim.

 

[classic33]

Flash Eliminators came about as a result of cutbacks in the armed forces.