Between Aisling’s twisted ideas and Alan’s singular phrasing is sublime comedy. That phrase is epithet worthy in obscure incongruent humor. Or in layman’s terms; feckin hysterical!
"All of the birds died in 1986 due to Reagan killing them and replacing them with spies. The birds work for the bourgeoise. Don't..." I'm sorry, it immediately came into my head and I can't get rid of it!
Need a Best of Alan upsetting the Germans again with his French, Spanish, board European accent that always ends up sounding German and killing everything.
Alan was talking about planes having a sun roof. They did actually do that to 1 of the Corcordes for a 1 off flight. Not really a sun roof, more of a couple of portholes in the roof. It was for a once in a lifetime event where the only airliner in the world at the time could keep up with the earths rotation, during the longest total solar eclipse ever in 1973 across Africa. It literally flew directly under the path of the Solar eclipse as it crossed North Africa. All sorts of special permissions were required for the flight and they miraculously got granted and it was allowed to take place. This gave them over 70 minutes of observation time apposed to the 7 minutes us ground dwellers had. I mean what a thing to be a part of and to have been on that flight!
I didn’t know who Corey Taylor or Slipknot/Stone Sour were; what does this olde hag know of heavy metal?!! As a panelist, Corey was a delightful booking; he’s intelligent, erudite, and has a lovely sense of humor. He should be asked back more often. I had to re-think my opinions of metal/grunge musicians and had to take back some of my less-than-flattering past comments.
Ukie Hag Amazing that you were able to rethink and change your mind!! I’m a music nerd so I go to a lot of concerts to see pop/rock/metal/rap artists and metal fans have definitely been the most kind and inviting community. Metal artists are also very considerate of their fans but get a bad rep probably due to the ‘aggressiveness’ of the music.
To fly farther, the goal is to reduce drag. One of the biggest components of drag in aircraft is called vortex drag, and is caused by high pressure below the wing spilling around the wingtip and onto the low pressure side on top of the wing. When the wing is a round cylinder shape like that shown here, there is literally no wingtip, and so the design does not suffer from vortex drag.
You can see what it was if you stop the video, then advance it frame by frame using the fullstop/period key. The 'comma' key runs the video backwards frame by frame.
Would have got further if they had just scrunched the paper into a ball and chucked it. Edit: I paused and typed my comment about 2 secs before DM said exactly the same thing.
Indeed it was. I had to google him , as i had no idea who he was. No i am not making fun of him / you / anyone. No i do not live under a rock / anyones basement. Yes, i do know who he is.......NOW:)
I just want to say that you are my new internet hero for the day. I've heard this song a million times, and again yesterday watching a rerun of Big Fat Quiz. Like an obsession, I spent two hours trying to find it because I couldn't remember the name...utterly fruitless. Drove me to distraction. Then today I hear it on this video and pop into the comments, hoping against hope that someone might have made mention of it and that I might find a clue as to its name. Lo, and behold!!!!! Thanks!!
The whistle has always baffled/confused me - Most, if not all rescues on land and at sea are performed by helicopters. The crew of helicopters wear ear defenders, plus headphones. So why provide something that no rescuer is ever going to hear.
I'm assuming it's for if an individual is in trouble/got separated from the rest of the group. If someone is struggling with their life jacket and needs immediate attention, or if they're obscured by a wave or being pulled away by a current, other passengers may be able to help or point them out to the rescuers.
About the brace position, straight from Wikipedia: _There have been myths surrounding the use of the brace procedure. One is that adopting the brace posture is only useful for preserving dental integrity for identification after a crash; another myth is that the position is designed to increase the chance of death to reduce insurance-paid medical cost. These myths have been debunked with evidence that the brace position "does indeed work to preserve lives in an air disaster."_
Also, the brace position was developed from the results of the Kegworth Air Disaster (where the plane crashed into the M1), so really as Brits we should know best about this myth!
The thing about the piston effect is that the redesign of the front of the Shinkansen was only a small part. Another of the innovations made was the inclusion of a canopy with slits cut into it at the front and rear of railway tunnels. This effectively disperses the wall of air that the train produces when it enters a tunnel.
They made a few round paper æroplanes when I was at the RCA Dome (inflated roof) in Indianapolis. From the upper deck you just held it up and let the air currents take it down.
Another reason you have to keep window blinds up during takeoff and landing is because thats when emergencey issues are most common so in the case of a bird strike/ Debris hitting the wing The pilots can't see much of the wijg from the cockpit so therefore window bl8nds are kept open during takeoff and landing so in the case of a bird strike or debris strike flight attendants can easily see out into the engines or onto the wings
I’m fairly sure the tunnel/train part is at least partially wrong. The boom when entering/exiting a tunnel was also a problem in Germany (an ICE2 unit is shown) but the ICE3 units, which go faster, don’t have Shinkansen-esque noses. Instead, tunnel entrances (at least in Europe) have been modified along high speed routes to have openings that allow the air to disperse without making a boom.
Switzerland has some ICEs with the pointy noses, but most with fairly flat noses. Never heard a boom, they're generally very quiet so I suppose we use a similar vent system. The reason the ICE to Milano has such a pointy nose, now that I think about it, might be because Italy's tunnels don't have those vents.
I'm marathoning these videos, with the sole desire to make the last bit play out longer, so Sandi has to sit there and drink coffee ALL DAY. She's gonna be shittin' a river by the time I'm done! BWAHAHAHA!!!
3:15 Yeah sex is good but have you ever experienced the buzz of excitement you get from knowing something that Sandi or Steven asks on QI that none of the contestants do
In the brace position, you aren't really supposed to put your head between your legs but against the seat in front of you (or whatever your head is about to crash into), so it hits it at the minimum speed.
2:15 I don't know if it's just Alan being a prodigy, but the only entertaining thing during that entire segment was him and sandy. The other guests seem a bit bored like
I just got back from Canada where I wanted to play top trumps with a 5 year old. But couldn't find a pack anywhere. How can countries claim to be real countries if they don't have top trumps? I was appalled.
If they want the blinds up on the way down, then why when I was flying with Cathay Pacific did they want them down while we were cruising mid flight at night?
Just guessing that the flight would eventually be entering daylight and they didn't want to wake all the sleeping passengers - not at all once, anyway.
I don't understand how they hadn't figured out a pointed train would be better than a flat one by the time the shinkansen was introduced. First, it's just common sense, and second, hadn't they already been making other vehicles with the same principle for years?
There's another equally impressive true 'water landing' in 1963 of an Aeroflot Tupolev in the USSR caused by fuel starvation/nose gear failing to deploy. The pilots managed to land on the Neva river right next to a late-1800s tug boat, who, apon noticing the commotion, broke the cockpit windsheild & towed the plane to shore, a short distance away. All aboard survived, didnt even need to evacuate & were able to depart with luggage in tow. Quite the feat, esp given the time & country!
Yes must have meant Bill Bailey, Dara O’Brien, Jo Brand, Ross Noble and Rhod Gilbert were all busy that week or he just needed the money as that’s the only reason anyone does QI
95% of people survive plane crashes. Now, this is largely because most crashes do not make the news... 85% of crashes have zero casualties but likely the only one you can name off the top of your head is the Miracle on Hudson. It's also worth noting that even ones with casualties can frequently have insanely good survival rates. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 which crashed in San Fransisco in 2014, broke into multiple pieces (including four flight attendants going for a ride in a detached tail section) and had a fire - survival rate of: 99%. 309 souls on board, 3 fatalities.
