The discussion centers on the ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic computer, which stood 10 feet tall, occupied 1,000 square feet, and weighed approximately 30 tons. It utilized over 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 6,000 switches, and 18,000 vacuum tubes, consuming 150 kilowatts of power. Additionally, the conversation shifts to the Russian Ekranoplan, a Ground Effect Vehicle developed by Rostislav Alekseev, which could travel over 400 km/h and weighed 540 tons fully loaded. The Ekranoplan was designed for military transport and could carry over 100 tonnes of cargo.
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He has simply misspelled "accoutrement".rachmaninoff said:
"Accoutrement" is a very commonly used word in the Northeast US. Do you have origins there?TheStatutoryApe said:
The monk would be Gregor Mendel, the new laws; the laws of inheritence, or genetics, but I don't know what the 27,000 refers to. (The Genesis clue didn't help with that, that I can see.)Ivan Seeking said:
But what numbered 27,000?Ivan Seeking said:
Over 27,000 ssssssssssssnakes?Ivan Seeking said:
No. I'm not sure where I picked it up. I also spell colour with a "u" among other things.zoobyshoe said:
In NH you hear someone say "accoutrement" at least once a day in the course of normal conversation. When I left there, I found I had to drop it from my vocabulary. Most people hadn't heard the word, and the ones who had thought I was being pretentious when I threw it so casually around.TheStatutoryApe said:
Gokul43201 said:
Fresnel? 10zoobyshoe said:
Right idea. Wrong person. This man also did some elegant electrical work. Not a well known person, though.Danger said:
Correct!...TheStatutoryApe said:
Correct.Ivan Seeking said: