Well it is an electric train... I did mean to put the info into the description, but only put it in the tags.

The train is a Siemens Taurus, ES 64 U2. According to Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia, it has a top speed of 230 km/h, although there is a really similar model which proved itself quite a bit faster at 357 km/h in testing prior to delivery. It also says it has a quill drive, but I'm not really sure what that means or why it would reduce track forces.

This is how the white man goes to war --

Excuse me, do you by chance happen to um you know have any large sources and/or surpluses of precious resources?

1. No, ok bye. You need religion and economic aid for your local warlords to exploit and starve you.

2. Yes, ok you're bad and you believe in bad things. Anglo Saxons to the rescue -- if you don't like progress and [INSERT POLITICAL IDEOLOGY HERE], prepare to die -- or maybe be tortured and interned while we figure out what the hell our long term plan is.

Hey Jimbo, what's our short term plan?

Hell if i know. Here's a term stolen from the Chinese and reinterpreted to mean whatever the hell we want it to mean --- GUNG HO!!!!!! And here's a new one: SHOCK & AWEEEE-yeeaah! Oooooooooohhhhhh... *Hillary Clinton looking at balloons in wonderment -- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra*

Yes. I think all the successful landings have used Of course I still love you. According to Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia, Just Read the Instructions is based in the Pacific for launches from Vendenberg and most of the recent launches have been from Cape Canaveral.

Well, I think that depends on how highly you rate ABBA! I think it's really about the entertainment rather than looking for the next great talent.

You can check out the list of previous winners at Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Eurovision_Song_Contest_winners

Of course some of them were already well known before entering the competition.

*doublepromote (as a Melbournite, I'm basically obliged to)

Perhaps it would have been better to say that fuel isn't the only reason. The Airbus A320 in this example has roughly 55% better fuel efficiency than a pre oil crisis Boeing 707, although as Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia points out, that's barely better than the 1950s era prop planes like the Douglas DC-7.

Better automation has also allowed the A320 to reduce the staffing requirements, the 707 required 3 or 4 crew to operate the aircraft, but the A320 only requires 2. The DC-7 also requires 3 crew, but only seats half the passengers (doubling the flight crew costs per passenger).

Greater competition is probably a larger factor. Talking about airline profitability and competition, Warren Buffett joked that had a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk for the Wright Brothers' first flight, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

There weren't Jeeps here until 1994 when Chrysler returned to Australia, before that I think there were only a few antique Willys Jeeps (actually Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia says they were still making them until the 1980s, but I don't ever remember seeing a new one and can't confirm it).

Our consumer protection laws are generally stronger than in the U.S., but I do see the point of a lemon law, particularly since cars are so much more expensive here.

According to the entry in Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia, there's a second turbine that drives the wheels (and an electric motor for reverse).

Yes, that's right. The 16mm projector shown here has mono sound and a single audio track. The 35mm cinema films had two tracks for stereo or dolby encoded surround sound.

Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia has a quite good overview here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound-on-film

See also http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-sound.htm for lots more detail.

Jalopnik claimed http://hooniverse.com/2015/06/15/monday-video-kawasaki-catches-fire-at-247-mph/ as the original source, and it was their claim of 247mph... maybe it was really 247kph? They didn't post sources, and it didn't come from the original yt vid. Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia claims the bike has an electronically restricted top speed of 299km/h.

Well every plane has a takeoff weight restriction... but according to Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia the B1-B was strengthened fairly early in development so it could take off with a full fuel load, and they even managed that change without adding much weight.

The SR-71 on the other hand used to take off with just enough fuel in the tanks to get airborne, and then refuel in the air.

It's Keen's Mustard (try a google image search on that exact phrase) after Thomas Keen, founder of the company (born in 1801, quite a while after Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia has him founding the company). See http://mccormick.com.au/keens/history/mustard-history.aspx

McCormick have bought the Australian rights to the name.
>> ^jqpublick:

Definition 1 c) is where it comes from.
Definition of KEEN - Merriam-Webster online
1 a : having a fine edge or point : sharp
b : affecting one as if by cutting <keen sarcasm>
c : pungent to the sense
But maybe Keane just exploited the coincidence, I don't know.


>> ^CrushBug:
>> ^Boise_Lib:
"Keen as mustard"
That's a new one to me.

I think there is a brand of mustard in England by the name of Keane, so that might be where the phrase comes from.

The Wikipedia entry is wrong:

"Parmi nos articles de quincaillerie par essence paresseuse, nous recommandons le robinet qui s'arrête de couler quand on ne l'écoute pas."

Frame at 5:30 states paresseuse, meaning lazy, not par essence.

which translates loosely to:

Among our articles of lazy kitchenware, we recommend the faucet that stops leaking when nobody listens to it.



>> ^oritteropo:

From Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia, the text is:

• "Bains de gros thé pour grains de beauté sans trop de bengué."
  
• "L'enfant qui tète est un souffleur de chair chaude et n'aime pas le chou-fleur de serre-chaude."
  
• "Si je te donne un sou, me donneras-tu une paire de ciseaux?"
  
• "On demande des moustiques domestiques (demi-stock) pour la cure d'azote sur la côte d'azur."
  
• "Inceste ou passion de famille, à coups trop tirés."
  
• "Esquivons les ecchymoses des Esquimaux aux mots exquis."
  
• "Avez-vous déjà mis la moëlle de l'épée dans le poêle de l'aimée?"
  
• "Parmi nos articles de quincaillerie par essence, nous recommandons le robinet qui s'arrête de couler quand on ne l'écoute pas."
  
• "L'aspirant habite Javel et moi j'avais l'habite en spirale."
  

According to Steve Salemo's book Sham (ISBN 978-1400054091), a good read btw, he has described himself as the world's worst marriage counsellor (which was his job prior to becoming Oprah's guru, although the Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia article doesn't mention that at all).
>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
(Not Really A) Dr. Phil is a pompous asshole.
Thanks a lot, Oprah.

He's not a Dr?? Well what the fuck is he then?

If you have a look at the Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia page for Folic Acid, under sources of folate, quite a lot of foods contain folic acid and deficiency is unusual with a western diet.

The point is though that taking a supplement to make sure is a really easy and simple thing to do to significantly reduce the risk of a rare but nasty problem. There's a nice graph here from the CDC showing the rates of Spina Bifida and how folate advice has changed that rate in the U.S.
>> ^notarobot:

So how did women successfully give birth to normal healthy babies before the invention of folic acid supplements?

A little bit light on either the theory, expected outcome, or details of the original battery. He doesn't seem to have a terribly good grasp either of chemistry or electrical theory.

According to Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia, the original Daniell cell produced approx 1.1v. This should have been enough to get at the very least a dim glow in the 1.5v lamp.