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Topic: So, Ballpit, what did we learn today?  (Read 104972 times)

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So, Ballpit, what did we learn today? #225
There's a building in the City of London affectionately called the Walkie Talkie, which melted someone's brand new Jaguar.
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So, Ballpit, what did we learn today? #226
There's a building in the City of London affectionately called the Walkie Talkie, which melted someone's brand new Jaguar.
Great Joe, August 28, 2024, 04:28:14 am

I see you also watch Plainly Difficult
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So, Ballpit, what did we learn today? #227
There's a building in the City of London affectionately called the Walkie Talkie, which melted someone's brand new Jaguar.
Great Joe, August 28, 2024, 04:28:14 am

I see you also watch Plainly Difficult
CozyJosie, August 28, 2024, 05:09:04 pm
No, I listen to TRASHFUTURE

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So, Ballpit, what did we learn today? #228
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So, Ballpit, what did we learn today? #229
There's different kinds of wave-dissipating concrete blocks, they're not all tetrapods

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So, Ballpit, what did we learn today? #230
Crank That by Soulja Boy made it to Rwanda, and got played in high school parties there.
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So, Ballpit, what did we learn today? #231
Tarmac is actually tarmacadam which is tar + macadam, which is a kind of road only without the tar part of the tarmac. This is how they used to insure the quality of macadam:

Size of stones was central to McAdam's road building theory. The lower 8 in (20 cm) road thickness was restricted to stones no larger than 3 inches (7.5 cm). The upper 2-inch-thick (5 cm) layer of stones was limited to stones 2 centimetres (3⁄4 in) in diameter; these were checked by supervisors who carried scales. A workman could check the stone size himself by seeing if the stone would fit into his mouth.
Also macam roads are named like that because McAdam invented them.
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So, Ballpit, what did we learn today? #232
Tarmac is actually tarmacadam which is tar + macadam, which is a kind of road only without the tar part of the tarmac. This is how they used to insure the quality of macadam:

Size of stones was central to McAdam's road building theory. The lower 8 in (20 cm) road thickness was restricted to stones no larger than 3 inches (7.5 cm). The upper 2-inch-thick (5 cm) layer of stones was limited to stones 2 centimetres (3⁄4 in) in diameter; these were checked by supervisors who carried scales. A workman could check the stone size himself by seeing if the stone would fit into his mouth.
Also macam roads are named like that because McAdam invented them.
xX_sp00ks_Xx, October 21, 2024, 09:05:49 am

The naming of Macadamia nuts have nothing to do with this, but were named after John Macadam, an Australian chemist.
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So, Ballpit, what did we learn today? #233
There was a guy called Wilhelm Killing who was an important mathematician who did stuff related to Lie groups so there's a bunch of stuff named after him like the Killing form, Killing field and Killing horizon
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