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When I was cub scout age in Calgary a guy from the left hand side of the normal distribution decided to test the safety of the ice on the Glenmore Resevoir by driving his VW Beetle onto it. It was safe for skating but not for cars.

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I've heard of two engined vw beetles, and a little googling pointed out that Emmerson Fittipaldi raced one in Brazil some time around 1969. https://jalopnik.com/5799726/emerson-fittipaldis-double-engined-volkswagen-beetle

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BASF is a huge german corporation that produced Zyklon B, the gas used in Ausschwitz to kill thousands of people. They're still going strong. It is by far not the only german corporation that benefitted greatly from the Holocaust. Take IBM for example, they delivered card-computing systems to manage concentration camp popula... Oh shit! IBM is american, my bad.
The Bundeswehr, the german military, was run by Nazi Generals in its early years. Just this year there were several scandals concerning Neo Nazis among their ranks.
A lot of people benefited from the atrocities of the third Reich. Don't kidd yourself. Remember, Hitler hired Ferdinand Porsche to develop the Volkswagen. The development of the VW Beetle was started by the Fuehrer.

It's surprising that the triggers are short on/off pulses, and not continuous. I would expect the opposite.
This system seems ripe for malfunction of the off pulse, leading to wings flapping uncontrollably until death. I wonder how the beetle naturally avoids that happening.

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Part of the reason George did this was that he and Eric Idle were good friends; Eric speaks about him a lot. There's one story that I love that tells a lot about their relationship. There are a few versions out there, but very roughly...

George heard that Eric was flying to Australia after a bout in hospital, and asked if he was going to be flying over India. As 'the spirital Beetle' he had a strong affinity to the country. As it happens, the flight did cross India, so George gave Eric an envelope to open when they were in Indian air space.

The cabin crew let Eric know when this was the case, and he solemnly opened the envelope. It contained one piece of sage advice: "Shag a Shiela for me."


Bonus fact: George appears in Life of Brian as "the gentleman who's letting us have the mount on Sunday": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbZRNM-9RKo

It doesn't make a difference to your ability to make a statement per se, but speaking to a friend of mine who is a physicist his answers are somewhat different. He's suggested that reading more about it will make it more confusing and that we are invariably wrong and don't know shit. I happen to agree with him. That's not to say one shouldn't attempt to gain as much knowledge as possible, but that it's not always as easy as "go read a text book and it should be nice and clear", because reading it should hopefully generate more questions than it answers. Hopefully I've worded that so it makes sense.

Anyway, the sum of human knowledge is dynamic steaming pile of shit. Yes, it's gotten us a long way. But we're still like dung beetles tending to it and it will be a long time until we can transform it into something close to the truth.

Maybe when we can integrate AIs into us we'll accelerate things a little.

I'll take any opportunity to listen to some Beetles. Some of those kids comments were pretty funny.

I remember seeing the "Songs From the Big Chair" tour and after every song it sounded like the screams from one the early Beetles live performances.

Nooooooooooo, she and Ryan were meant to be! HOW COULD YOU RYAN? Between this and stepping on a stag beetle this morning this is the worst day EVAR.

You don't think a whale dropping on you will kill you ? you know how much that stuff weighs. that'd flatten a volkswagon beetle !

* edit, oh I get it, you see a body that is left in a kayak motionless and you are thinking, " wow, they must be super duper to be alive after that " .