The World's Largest Computer in 1951

[zoobyshoe]

Well if you get the temperature wrong in this process, the produce from this apparatus, "the thing i want", will make your mind cloudy.

Sounds like distilling the water out of some kind of alcoholic brew, instead of distilling the alcohol out.

 

[wolram]

Sounds like distilling the water out of some kind of alcoholic brew, instead of distilling the alcohol out.

Close.
and the "thing i whant is" ?

 

[zoobyshoe]

and the "thing i whant is" ?

Scotch whiskey? Guiness stout? Champagne?

 

[wolram]

Think about temperature, one gives water, one gives a headache, i want the
apparatus.

 

[zoobyshoe]

A still...?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I think Moonbear still has a question due.

 

[Andy]

I can't believe there was one that i knew and i wasnt online to get it!

 

[brewnog]

Sorry about the insult. You're naturally the first Brit that comes to mind, and that 'wanker' gag just wouldn't have sounded right in reference to a Yank.

No worries, I'm still happy that we are allowed to say "wanker" in here without Evo telling us off!

 

[zoobyshoe]

No worries, I'm still happy that we are allowed to say "wanker" in here without Evo telling us off!

She may not know what it means. It's not used here, in the US. It took me a while to work out a translation.

 

[Andy]

silly tossars.

 

[zoobyshoe]

silly tossars.

Don't start! Could take me months to figure out what "tossars" are!

 

[zoobyshoe]

The results of this experiment were so conclusive that the last doubters of atomic theory were forced to surrender. What was the experiment?

 

[wolram]

A still...?

correct.

 

[Danger]

No worries, I'm still happy that we are allowed to say "wanker" in here without Evo telling us off!

That's nuthin'; I seem to remember you getting away with 'twat'.

The results of this experiment were so conclusive that the last doubters of atomic theory were forced to surrender. What was the experiment?

Hiroshima?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Hiroshima?

Negatory..

 

[brewnog]

Rutherford and his gold foil?

I'm just saying that because I had an exam in his lecture hall the other day.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Rutherford and his gold foil?

I'm just saying that because I had an exam in his lecture hall the other day.

Good reason. Wrong experiment.

 

[Danger]

Curie's radium salts and film discovery?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Curie's radium salts and film discovery?

No. But I'd say everyone's in the right, very general, ballpark.

 

[wolram]

!911 Rutherford used alpha particle beam to test for atomic structure
he termed the center of the atom, nucleus.

 

[zoobyshoe]

!911 Rutherford used alpha particle beam to test for atomic structure
he termed the center of the atom, nucleus.

Brewnog already guessed Rutherford.

You guys are thinking too positively. Think negative.

 

[brewnog]

Thomson and his CRT?

 

[wolram]

You guys are thinking too positively. Think negative.

Ok, there is no way i can crack this one.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Thomson and his CRT?

Nope. Still right ball park.

 

[brewnog]

Chadwick and his cloud chambers?

 

[wolram]

Ions were first theorized by Michael Faraday around 1830, to describe the portions of molecules that travel either to an anode or to a cathode.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Chadwick and his cloud chambers?

No.

Ions were first theorized by Michael Faraday around 1830, to describe the portions of molecules that travel either to an anode or to a cathode.

Also no.

 

[zoobyshoe]

The experiment involved a short focus telescope.

 

[brewnog]

William Crooke's vacuum tubes?

 

[zoobyshoe]

William Crooke's vacuum tubes?

No. The experiment also involved an electric field.

 

[brewnog]

Millikan's Oil Drop!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Millikan's Oil Drop!

Indeed!

 

[brewnog]

Woo! Throw enough cack around and some of it's bound to stick!


Ok, I've almost got a good clue coming up...

 

[Danger]

Woo! Throw enough cack around and some of it's bound to stick!


Ok, I've almost got a good clue coming up...

I thought that was your clue.

 

[brewnog]

I thought that was your clue.

Nah, that would have been too easy. (Artman's bedroom again, I believe).

Ok.

What is shown in the picture?

http://personalpages.umist.ac.uk/student/E.Smith-2/whatisthis.jpg

 

[zoobyshoe]

Freshly harvested cauliflowers

 

[brewnog]

Freshly harvested cauliflowers

No.

But I was hoping you'd say that.

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

A fun intermediary question to pass the time

This is a rehash of an older question

When I first stated I was 18436572 then I went to 18726543, my cousin started at 15426378 then went to 13726548, and a third cousin of mine has stayed at 18436572. What am I and who are my cousins?

enjoy

 

[zoobyshoe]

Freshly sheered wool

 

[brewnog]

Freshly sheered wool

Nope.

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

snow-ball bush flowers

 

[brewnog]

snow-ball bush flowers

What?! No.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Fungal/bacterial colony thingies grown in a lab?

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

harvested cotton?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Lint bundles from a towel washing service?

 

[zoobyshoe]

A failed early attempt at microwave popcorn?

 

[JamesU]

it looks like a bunch of starfish...

 

[zoobyshoe]

Some kind of food/dumpling dough ready to be cooked.

 

[JamesU]

young zoobies...

 

[brewnog]

harvested cotton?

Yes!

Very good.

To put it in context, here's the full picture.

http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/label_france/ENGLISH/ART/aerienne/pics/01.jpg

Copyright belongs to Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a French aerial photographer. I highly recommend his book, - "The Earth from the Air"