Knowledge United

This is an attempt to start a thread for charing interesting knowledge. The idea is inspired by Sandra and Rae who respectively complained about people not knowing about Trojan Horses and the founders of Liberalism.

So for all off you MilanManiacs out there who are still in school or otherwise stumble across interesting facts to enlighten the rest of us with, go ahead and post it here

Rae, can I ask you to share you insights about Liberalism with us?

(I have a feeling this thread will either go on forever or crash and burn within 24 hours... )

Not really, I love your thread and will be a loyal hanger here..!!!!!
Any knowledge, eh ??? Including science ?????
I think I'll come back with sth abt nobel laureath or physics...
he he...
or sth intresting abt worldwide
c'ya !

Since I was small, i got a passion to be an airwoman... somehow, I grew up to be sumone else
I dunno where do I share this, perhap I should put it in Jokers Paradise... but since many of you dunno sth abt world of aviation... I'll put it here......
taken from, Aviation Chorus,Aviation humor
should I and we consider it as knowledge ?????????
SEX And The Pilot
"The only reason to fly is to mate".
BBC TV program on insects. They were talking about mayflies.

The worse thing that ever happened to me? A stuck mike over the metropolitan city of Toronto. The most humorous thing that ever happened to me? A stuck mike over the metropolitan city of Toronto.
It was late at night, around twenty-one hundred local, and we were with Toronto Terminal enroute to Hamilton. The mike got stuck just as we were talking about sex. We were also mentioning a few names that cannot be mentioned here to protect the guilty, but of whom the tower heard their very explicit stories. Those were names of people easily recognizable at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
I lost sleep over that one incident. Talking about sleep, today I read the following passage in the Evening Standard, "There are two pilots on every plane. There are times when a pilot realizes that both have been asleep, but it has not happened often. This is not the sort of safety problem which causes serious concern." I wonder which of the pilot asleep realized that the other was asleep as well.
ATC is working on a system that will enable controllers to clear a blocked frequency. But until then, watch your mike, and above all, what you say and not say.
There was once a fairy kind of girl with whom I enjoyed flying. When I think of her, I get goose bumps. I also had a copilot, whom I will mention his name because he is innocent, and must be protected. Tom was his name, and probably still is. Before a flight out off Bournemouth International, England, he told me that he would take care of the external checks, and I told him that I would take care of the cockpit checks. Suddenly, and unexpectedly, the fairy kind of girl said, "and I'll take care of the c*** [hint: rooster] checks." True story.
Ladies; legal; lights; liquids. The captain, a former airline pilot, explained that these were words the XYZ airline pilots use to remind crew members at 10,000 feet to turn on the seat belts sign, reduce airspeed to less than 250 knots, turn on the lights for recognition, and make sure the hydraulic pumps and fuel boost pumps are turned on (Callback, no. 100, October 1987). It's an easy mnemonic for pilots to remember, for when they are with ladies, there is always the question of whether she is really over the legal age of 18, whether lights should be on or off, and what to do with that leaking liquid.
Some pilots believe that renting airplanes is like renting sex: It's difficult to arrange on short notice on Saturday, the fun things always cost more, and someone's always looking at their watch. The USAF (United States Air Force), on the other hand, equate their aircraft with a woman, their bombs with sperm.
Pilots are just too sexed up. They love dressing up like post World War II pilots even in the bedroom, and they love wearing the costumes of their fellow pilots, such as Batman. I once read an article in the Los Angeles Times about a married couple in Southern California's San Fernando Valley who decided to role-play. The husband tied his wife to the bed, left the room and then returned a minute later dressed in a Batman costume. While bouncing on the bed to show off his flying skills to his wife, he hit his head on the ceiling fan and knocked himself unconscious. The poor tied-up wife started screaming, and neighbors called the police, who broke into the house, untied the wife and revived Batman!
In Manchester, the crew of a British Airways aircraft, waiting at the runway holding point, were watching the landing of an F27 (Fokker Friendship) before they could take off. Unfortunately the aircraft bounced very badly, and a voice from BA flight was heard to transmit, 'Oops, that was a bit of a Fokker!' Almost immediately, came the quick reply from the F27, 'Yes, it was nearly the end of a beautiful friendship!'
The French are known for their liberal sexual activities. Now it has taken to the air! French airline Corse Air International has reserved the registrations F-GSUN, F-GSEA and F-GSEX for its fleet of holiday jets. The FAA should follow the example.
For male pilots too sexed up, and for that matter anyone too sexed up, sex therapists recommend to keep one's mind off one's penis during intercourse. As an example, they say that if all one thought about while running a marathon was one's ankles, they'd probably start aching and knock one out of the race damn quick. Pilots hate to be losers in bed!
A passenger aboard a KLM flight kept going to the toilet with a cigar in his hand, and every time the beautiful Dutch flight attendant politely asked him to extinguish the cigar prior to entering the toilet. After the fourth time, the flight attendant now tired of repeating to him the same thing, said as the passenger was entering the toilet, 'Would you like me to hold it for you?' Flight attendants are the same breed as pilots: Sharp minds, albeit twisted.
It's not only pilots who have sharp minds for thinking dirty. Sometimes the FAA comes up with strange names to intersections. The only requirements for an intersection name are that it be a unique combination of five letters, and that it be pronounceable. Regional FAA air traffic people get to pick the names so long as they are not used elsewhere. Some intersection names honor personalities or attractions. For example, Giper vortac is at South Bend, home of Notre Dame; Mizzu is near Columbia, home of the University of Missouri. The VOR at Chattanooga, Tennessee is officially known as Choo-choo. Close to Little Rock, Arkansas two consecutive airway intersections are named HILLE and BILLI. There is an airways intersection called TULIP close to Amsterdam. Bruno, Nicky, DIK and PAM are all VORs in Benelux. That's not too bad, but how about "Fuzzy" Intersection, which is directly over the famous (or infamous) Chicken Ranch brothel just west of Las Vegas. The first issuance of the STAR based on that intersection was called the "Fuzzy One" arrival. And then there is Spank Intersection, just west of Kansas City, to name only a few.
Sometimes pilots say things without really knowing what they're saying. An attractive female voice contacted the Tower to ask for landing instructions. She asked, "Would you like me on the grass or on the runway?" Personally, I wouldn't mind her on the grass.
Overheard on the tower frequency at a UK international airport as a female pilot taxies for takeoff:
ATC: "Are you taking off from the intersection or do you wish to take the full length?"
Pilot: "I always take the full length."
In a letter to the April 1996 issue of Flying, Marsha Hunt wrote, "Fantastic! I'm so glad to know that it is acceptable once again to assess professional women as sex objects (Bax Seat, February: "...in a few minutes a foxy uniformed junior exec of the airline showed up...") What a refreshing break from all the pretentious respectful nonsense of the last decades. However, since you do have female readers, please include more sexually-oriented description of men in your articles. For example, in "Aviation Academy," you could have said, " 'I can just about place any qualified pilot now,' said the stud-muffin director of airline training..." Or on page 85, in "Doing the Bumps and Grinds: Turbulence" (an invitation to sexual innuendo if I ever saw one, so go for it!), how about this: "I thought he was going to wear the controls out with jerky movements in response to turbulence. You'd think an av-babe like that would know better!" You get the idea. Professional writers will have no trouble adapting their style. As for your male readers, don't worry, guys, you may be uncomfortable at first, but you'll get used to it."
A letter written to Flight Training magazine by Kristelyn Hopkins, in June, 1994, tops the list of my all time favorite letters written to flying magazines. Kristelyn wrote, "What gives? I brought in the mail last week and along with the assorted junk and bills were a couple of magazines, specifically Playboy and Flight Training, addressed to my fiancé. I tossed the mail on the table and told my fiancé that it had arrived. He started going through the mail, and when he saw Flight Training, he snatched it up and disappeared. I found him several minutes later at his desk reading it intently.
"My fiancé has been a pilot for 10 years and has lots of things printed on his license: single, multi, seaplane, flight instructor, and ground instructor, just to name a few. With this in mind, I can understand his interest in aviation magazines, but I know for a fact the other airplane magazines he subscribes to usually rank second to Playboy.
"So how come your magazine rates higher than Miss December? I took a peek at Flight Training today and all I could find were articles about—SURPRISE—flight training. Not one naked woman, no dirty jokes, no celebrity interviews. I just don't get it.
"You can take all this as a compliment, of course. Your magazine must be good if my fiancé finds it more important and interesting than Playboy, but you all will be in BIG trouble if he starts asking me to wear airplane maps and headsets to bed."

Originally posted by Henrik
Rae, can I ask you to share you insights about Liberalism with us?

Henrik....yeah, I can, especilally after the exam however I prefer Edmund Burke to Locke or Hobbes....so ..... what can I say....ask me something more particular and I will try to answer if I could
OK, let's play a game - ask - answer.

Originally posted by rae
Henrik....yeah, I can, especilally after the exam however I prefer Edmund Burke to Locke or Hobbes....so ..... what can I say....ask me something more particular and I will try to answer if I could
OK, let's play a game - ask - answer.

I like Burke too, IMO his finest contribution to political thinking is the introduction of moral values to issues that are/were considered strictly legal.

Question Rae, as you asked for one: What inpact did Burke's publication "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)" have on the King vs Parliment issue?

Does your class cover this?

Heidi, thanks for posting. I guess there was some interesting trivia about aviation in your post. Keep at it! Nothing is too trivial for this thread. If you fell asleep drunk watching a discovery channel documentary on Koala bear mating habits, this is the place to share.

Eyyy look at what we have here

Hahahahahha amazing, now we can start sharing our knowledge with others, i'll start in 3 weeks when i come back home

Did somebody say science, physics?

Originally posted by rezag
Did somebody say science, physics?

Oh Lord have mercy

hahah e=mc2!!!

Originally posted by Sandra
Oh Lord have mercy

hahah e=mc2!!!

E=mc2 is fundamentally a fuction that shows the relationship between energy and mass.

Trivia: The notion that matter and energy are connected is not new. The processes of combustion and digestion turn matter into energy every day. When we say that a hamburger is 500 calories, we really mean that the chemical reactions in our stomach break up the various bonds holding together the hamburger releasing 500 calories of energy for the body to use (or store as fat). We say that the hamburger is “burned up” although we know that there is always some residual matter left over (undigested waste). To say that water has no calories is to say that our stomachs are not powerful enough to break the bonds of water molecules. With a hot enough fire, anything can be burned. E = mc2 takes this idea to the ultimate limit: Eventually you can convert the entire hamburger into pure energy. Assuming we’re considering a 1/4 pound burger, E = mc2 means that over 2 trillion calories, or enough energy to keep you going for 3 million years, is available when all the burger matter is converted to energy. That’s quite a burger!

Using this logic, the solution to dieting is figuring out how to block the body from converting the mass of junk food into usable energy.

Originally posted by Sandra
Oh Lord have mercy

hahah e=mc2!!!

how about more formulas? E(n)=-me4/8h2e2n2 (Bohr's theory)

now I share sth abt UFO...from the same website....
UFOs
...every one to a man replaced his pipe carefully in the corner of his mouth, and maintaining an eye steadily upon the phenomenon, puffed, pused, waddled about, and grunted significantly - then waddled back, grunted, pused, and finally—puffed again.
Edgar Allan Poe, The Unparalleled Adventure of one Hans Pfaall

There are some strange stories in the world of aviation. Many pilots have claimed to have seen UFOs. In his book, First Across The Tasman Sea—Alone, Francis Chichester writes, "Suddenly, ahead and thirty degrees to the left, there were bright flashes in several places, like the dazzle of a heliograph. I saw a dull grey-white airship coming towards me. It seemed impossible, but I could have sworn that it was an airship, nosing towards me like an oblong pearl. Except for a cloud or two, there was nothing else in the sky. I looked around, sometimes catching a flash or a glint, and turning again to look at the airship I found that it had disappeared. I screwed up my eyes, unable to believe them, and twisted the seaplane this way and that, thinking that the airship must be hidden by a blind spot. Dazzling flashes continued in four or five different places, but I still could not pick out any planes. Then, out of some clouds to my right front, I saw another, or the same, airship advancing. I watched it intently, determined not to look away for a fraction of a second: I'd see what happened to this one, if I had to chase it. It drew steadily closer, until perhaps a mile away, when suddenly it vanished. Then it reappeared, close to where it had vanished: I watched with angry intentness. It drew closer, and I could see the dull gleam of light on its nose and back. It came on, but instead of increasing in size, it diminished as it approached. When quite near, it suddenly became its own ghost—one second I could see through it, and the next it had vanished. I decided that it could only be a diminutive cloud, perfectly shaped like an airship and then dissolving, but it was uncanny that it should exactly resume the same shape after it had once vanished. I turned towards the flashes, but those too, had vanished. All this was many years before anyone spoke of flying saucers. Whatever it was I saw, it seems to have been very much like what people have since claimed to be flying saucers."
Not all so-called UFOs turned out to be aliens from out of space. On August 27, 1783, Guy Murchie wrote, " ...peasants near Gonesse saw a strange globe miraculously descend from the clouds and bounce upon a field. Frightened but fascinated, they gathered around the mysterious object. When one jabbed it with his pitchfork it hissed forth a dangerous smell, so the others all joined in killing the evil creature with spades and scythes. When nothing remained but shreds, the corpse was dragged off tied to the tail of a horse."
This was a demonstration by J. A. C. Charles of an unmanned hydrogen balloon thirteen feet in diameter which he set up on the Champ de Mars before a crowd. It landed an hour later near Gonesse.
In 1954, a BOAC 'Monarch' Stratocruiser flying over Canada came into contact with at least seven UFOs. Passengers and crew witnessed a large, cigar shaped metallic object leading six smaller craft. The strange machines accompanied the Stratocruiser for almost eighty miles, making no attempt to close with the aircraft or communicate in any way. The airliner's captain decided to radio for assistance and a fighter was scrambled to intercept the unidentified objects.
As the fighter closed on the UFOs, the UFOs accelerated with blinding speed and disappeared into the upper atmosphere. No rational explanation was ever found.
At 3 am, on July 13th, 1952, the crew of a National Airlines DC-4 bound for Washington saw a circular, brilliant blue-white object hovering just below and to the west of their aircraft. As they continued to view the object, it suddenly started to climb towards them, stopping within a mile of their position at the same altitude. It followed the DC-4 for several miles, changing course only when the captain decided to switch on all the external aircraft lights in an attempt to communicate with it. It shot upwards at an estimated speed of 1,000 mph and disappeared into space.

Originally posted by Henrik
Heidi, thanks for posting. I guess there was some interesting trivia about aviation in your post. Keep at it! Nothing is too trivial for this thread. If you fell asleep drunk watching a discovery channel documentary on Koala bear mating habits, this is the place to share.

Thank you Hendrik...
Like I say before, i'll become loyal visitor to your thread...
Thanx for starting sth new....
And another post abt aviation....

CAPTAINS AND THEIR CREW
"Colombian Airlines. Mail, passenger, & Fright Service."
(From a vintage SCADTA poster.)

Some captains don't like to see their first officers do better landings than they do. Just as the first officer is flaring, the captain sneakily reaches for the spoiler handle and moves it slightly, just enough to force the airplane onto the runway with a thump. Those are also the captains who like to say, "We'll be diplomatic in our cockpit drills. I'll let you have my way."
The most paranoid captains are those who ride as passengers. Rod Machado recounts a story told to him by a flight attendant. According to her, the captain of the Starship Enterprise, John Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) was on an airliner that was being landed by the first officer. Winds were gusty as the Boeing 767 serpentined along the final approach. Suddenly, Slam! The airplane touched down hard—real hard. Passengers gasped. Without a moment's hesitation, Patrick Stewart raised his arms and yelled, "Shields up!" (Flight Training, April 1994, p. 61)
Want to get rid of your captain? Give him sleeping pills, and pretend they are sweets. He'd doze off and the flight would be yours. An airliner captain on a foreign airliner was advised by a doctor on board the aircraft to take three pills for his diarrhea. On the doctor's insistence, the doctor took the pills, which turned out to be sleeping pills. OOPS, the doctor gave him the wrong pills. It was impossible to wake up the captain afterwards. The copilot safely landed the aircraft at destination. True story!
There is nothing like the captains of the 1930s and '40s. They were known to turn back because their favorite brand of milk was not on board, and some refused to leave the ramp until the smoked salmon sandwiches were brought on board. When an airline in Scotland introduced a new aircraft with a retractable undercarriage, one captain refused to select the wheels up, remarking that he had never retracted an undercarriage in his career and certainly wasn't going to start now.
Pilots are lucky when they work in an environment with beautiful flight attendants. However, new laws have recently appeared to prevent pilots from having all the fun. The Greeks started it! The Greek Professional Employment Council cited that Olympic Airways (founded by Aristotle Onassis) flight attendant recruitment policy is unlawful. It accused Olympic for having stewardesses who were "all of above-average pulchritude," and accused Olympic of using beauty as the criterion for hiring. Olympic countered that its flight attendants had to be tall to be able to reach overhead baggage bins, slim so they could move easily along airplanes' aisles, and pretty so as to create an "agreeable ambiance" in the cabin. Greece's octogenarian Prime Minister has done his bit to help the PC lobby. He removed one of the airline's most glamorous and attractive young stewardesses... by marrying her.
Pilots sometimes eye the flight attendants of their competing airline. Do you know the universally accepted corny line captains use to meet flight attendants working for the competition? They simply say, "It's never easy meeting a complete stranger, especially one as beautiful as you, without being properly introduced. But shall we try anyway?" Try this line next time. The captain says it always works!
At the beginning, airlines resisted having women as cabin staff. Once accepted, there was resistance for them becoming pilots, let alone captains. It was not until February 1990 that the RAF accepted them. And then the first two women officers to undergo jet training at Linton-on-Ouse were nicknamed 'Jim' and 'Syd'.
It's usually very easy to catch a woman who's cheating with a pilot. There was this guy who suspected his wife of having an affair with a pilot but she kept denying it until finally the husband just knew when his wife said: "Honey, I've told you once, I've told you twice, I've told you niner thousand times, negative on the affair ..." Divorce followed.
Flight dispatchers have their bad moments too, and are not immune from aviation humor. The following segment is from an ASRS report: "Taxing out, we got an ACARS [message] from the company asking us to reseat some passengers from the back to the front of the cabin in order to stay within CG limits. We never get requests like that, so it immediately got our attention. We reseated the passengers and departed.
"Enroute to our destination, we communicated with the company over ACARS about the loading situation, and it became apparent that the station agents had mistakenly loaded the aft cargo bin so heavy that we not only had to reseat passengers, but also had to unload the aft cargo at destination before any passengers could be allowed to deplane! If we let the passengers off first, the plane would go on its tail!..."
Flight attendants can sometimes be too witty. A lady passenger asked the flight attendant if he had anything for a soar throat. He replied that he didn't. She got upset and started screaming at him that he better go and get something for her throat. He returned a couple of minutes later with a silver tray and a knife on it.
"You expect to cure my soar throat by having me cut my throat. Is this your idea of a joke. I will be formally complaining about this as soon as we land," the passenger said. But the flight attendant removed the knife, and underneath it lay two aspirin pills. He took the knife and chopped the pills into a powdery form, which he then placed in her water.
"I don't know what you are talking about," he said. "But I think this should help your soar throat." He then proceeded towards the galley with a big smirk on his face. (Bob Price, Life on the Airliners)
Here are the top 10 ways to spot a really bad landing:

10. Passengers appear shorter than before takeoff
9. Big skid marks left on pavement and in pilot's clothing.
8. You're cleared to land three different times without going around.
7. That scraping sound was the trailing edge of the flaps.
6. You're congratulated on a perfect four-point landing when you have only three wheels.
5. Laughter overwhelms the tower frequency for hours.
4. Rescue workers greet you to ask for an injury report.
3. Prop has that zooty new Q-tip look.
2. Enormous amount of power needed to taxi off the runway.
1. The lineboy fuels your Skyhawk without a stepladder.
(ACE OFTHEBASE, as appeared in Flying Magazine, Flying Mail, January 1996)

Interesting phenomenon.....ENJOY !
STRANGE WEATHER PHENOMENON

Clouds are signposts in the sky


Scientists have been disregarding reports of momentary flashes that observers claimed to have seen above the tops of thunderstorms. They usually just classified these as optical illusions. However, in 1993, nineteen huge flashes of light extending from above storm clouds through the ozone layer and into the upper atmosphere were captured by a video camera on board a NASA DC-8 research aircraft flying at 40,000 feet above lowa, Nebraska and Kansas. The videotape shows that these flashes (which occur about once for every 300 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes) are predominantly red in color, about 25 miles tall and six miles wide. Similar flashes have since been identified on videotapes that have been recorded during space-shuttle flights. NASA scientists have given these mysterious phenomena the name of 'Red Sprites', and a search for more information about them has already included a NASA co-operative mission with the Peruvian Air Force which confirmed the existence of Red Sprites in South America.
Pilots and other observers have also reported blue or greenish columns that propagate upwards at great speed from the tops of cumulonimbus clouds, and these have been entitled 'Blue Jets'. Previously unknown, they appear to emerge directly from the CB tops and shoot upwards through the atmosphere as narrow cones. Their upward speed has been measured to be about 100 kilometers per second. Blue Jets are difficult to spot by the naked eye.
Scientists suspect that, since they are associated with thunderstorm activity, these flashes may be a form of electrical discharge which could be a danger to aircraft.
Red Sprites are usually seen only in peripheral vision like a flash out of the corner of the eye, and their duration (only a few milliseconds) is too short to let you shift your gaze to get a visual fix.
You have the best chance of seeing Red Sprites when you are about 100 to 200 miles away from a thunderstorm lying on the horizon with clear night sky above.

Oh please someone stop me from chainposting !!!!!!

HOW COMEDIANS VIEW PILOTS
Flying is a great life for men who want to feel like boys, but not for those who still are.

The sad part now! Yep, tears must be shed. Aviation is not immune from Mr. David Letterman.

Top 10 List
From the office in Sioux City, Iowa
David Letterman's Top 10 Signs you have a bad airline pilot

10. You overhear him say on the intercom, "Hey Pedro What's this gizmo do?"
9. For the past two hours, you've been going straight up.
8. He says, "We're cruising at an altitude of 40 feet."
7. Copilot is sitting on his lap.
6. When you take off he yells, "Weeeeeeeee!"
5. At some Point he announces, "Screw Chicago, lets go find that Mars Observer!"
4. He's wearing a Domino Pizza uniform.
3. Over P.A. you hear, "Heh, heh, heh, this plane sucks, heh, heh, heh."
2. As you get on the plane you recognize the pilot as the same guy who drove your cab to the airport.
1. Keeps referring to the control tower as "Mommy."