The World's Largest Computer in 1951

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In summary, the ENIAC was a massive machine weighing 30 tons, occupying 1,000 square feet of floor space, and containing over 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 6,000 switches, and 18,000 vacuum tubes. It required 150 kilowatts of power to run, which was enough to light a small town. The final machine was less powerful than a $5 pocket calculator. The Russian Ekranoplan, also known as the Caspian Sea Monster, was a ground effect vehicle that could travel over 400 km/h and weighed 540 tons fully loaded. It was used as a high-speed military transport and could transport over 100 tonnes of cargo. The
  • #351
is it Viagra?
 
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Hey, MK, Huckleberry ... you guys won it.

However, the http://www.deming.org/demingprize/ is 'synonymous with quality' (well, to some folk anyway!)
 
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Bah! Everytime I reload the page there's like 5 new posts!
 
  • #354
Huckleberry said:
is it Viagra?

Yes, but what is its two-word more technical name?
 
  • #355
sildenafil citrate.
 
  • #356
Ah, Huckleberry wins!
 
  • #357
I figured that anything that made a billion dollars had to be intimately tied to our biology. People can be so predictable.

Okay, I got one. Just a minute to check the reference.
 
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Nereid said:
Hey, MK, Huckleberry ... you guys won it.

However, the http://www.deming.org/demingprize/ is 'synonymous with quality' (well, to some folk anyway!)
Looks like you have to be Japanese to win.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Looks like you have to be Japanese to win.
Or from Japan.
 
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Huckleberry said:
I figured that anything that made a billion dollars had to be intimately tied to our biology. People can be so predictable.

Okay, I got one. Just a minute to check the reference.

Darn, I thought you guys were still on the previous question (zooby's question)! This thread is moving to fast! If I knew that new clue was up, I could have beaten all of you to it! :grumpy:
 
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Ok, Its Huckleberry's turn. I like this thread. :biggrin:
 
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Who was the first person in history to have written evidence of an accurate solution for Olbers' Paradox?

I hope I got this right, but there it is. We'll know soon enough.
 
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Einstein?...
 
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Kepler was so disturbed by this paradox that he simply postulated thta the universe was finite, enclosed within a shell, and hence only a finite amount of starlight could reach our eyes.

Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers in 1823 wrote that the starlight is absorbed by dust clouds. "How forunate that the Earth does not receive starlight from every point of the celestial vault! Yet, with such unimaginablee brightness and heat, amounting to 90,000 times more than what we now experience, the Almighty could easily have deisnged organsims capable of adapting to such extreme conditions." Olbers suggested the dust clouds must absorb the intense heat to make life on Earth possible.
 
  • #365
Nope.
How should I know when to give a clue?
 
  • #366
No! I got the answer.
 
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Huckleberry said:
Nope.
How should I know when to give a clue?
Just listen to your sadistic streak. :biggrin:
 
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Mk said:
No! I got the answer.
what year was Kepler's discovery?
 
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In 1848, the first person in history to solve the mystery was Edger Allen Poe, who had a long-term interest in astronomy. Just before he died he published the answer in a philosphical poem entitled Eureka: A Prose Poem.

Were teh succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy - sice there could be absolutely no point, in all that backgroud, at which would not aexist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids whihc our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing that the distance of the invisible background [is] so imense that no ray from it has yet to be able to reach us at all. [This] idea is by far too beautiful not to possesses Truth as its essentiality.
 
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Oh, and Lord Kelvin also discovered it in 1901.
 
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MK has the right answer. Or at least the answer that I was looking for.

Just like Lord Kelvin, to come up with an answer before the question is asked. Poe was the name I had in mind.
 
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I am an autistic savant and child prodigy that was born around 1850, in America. Mark Twain regularly attended my concerts before I started my world tour. Give two of my names. :smile:
 
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Mk said:
I am an autistic savant and child prodigy that was born around 1850, in America. Mark Twain regularly attended my concerts before I started my world tour. Give two of my names. :smile:
Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins
 
  • #374
Correctamundo!
 
  • #375
She drew a blank, intentionally, with this invention in 1951.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
She drew a blank, intentionally, with this invention in 1951.
Etch-a-Sketch?
 
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Liquid Paper was invented by Bette Nesmith in 1951.
 
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Mk said:
Liquid Paper was invented by Bette Nesmith in 1951.
That's it!
 
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This group of people in the 1500s did not eat worms.
 
  • #380
That would be referring to The Diet of Worms, being a meeting of the estates of the holy roman empire in Worms, Germany, to address Luther's theses criticising the catholic church. It was held by holy roman emperor Charles V
 
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Yes. Your turn to formulate a question!
 
  • #382
The centre of the Earth prooved too far, despite their very expensive efforts.
 
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What country? This could be a lot of groups.
 
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Vert true Mk, Very True.
 
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It was America.
 

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