The World's Largest Computer in 1951

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The discussion centers around two significant machines: the ENIAC, an early computer that was 10 feet tall, weighed 30 tons, and required 150 kilowatts of power, and the Russian Ekranoplan, a ground effect vehicle that could travel over 400 km/h and weighed 540 tons. The ENIAC utilized a vast number of electronic components but had less processing power than a modern pocket calculator. The Ekranoplan, developed by the Soviet Union, operates just above water using a shock wave principle, allowing it to travel over various terrains. The conversation also touches on trivia and historical facts about these machines, highlighting their unique engineering and capabilities. Overall, the thread showcases a blend of technical details and engaging quiz-like interactions.
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Ah, you're killing me. Yap State? Stone Money?!? Someone cut limestone into coin-shapes pieces with holes in the middle, but they were lost at sea. When the coins were found, they were considered valuable and were used as currency.
Oops, I got the story somewhat messed up, but whatever. Rye stone? Rice tone? I don't know! :cry:
 
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  • #2,052
honestrosewater said:
Ah, you're killing me. Yap State?
Mmm yes. But what about the money?
 
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Eh, I edited.
 
  • #2,054
honestrosewater said:
Ah, you're killing me. Yap State? Stone Money?!? Someone cut limestone into coin-shapes pieces with holes in the middle, but they were lost at sea. When the coins were found, they were considered valuable and were used as currency.
Oops, I got the story somewhat messed up, but whatever. Rye stone? Rice tone? I don't know! :cry:
YES! YOU WIN! MHuah!

Yap stones, Rai in the native language, were huge circular rocks with holes in the middle, and were used as currency and as signs of wealth up to the 1960s. They are the heaviest currency, and the largest has been found with a diameter of 20 ft.

http://www.zeno.ru/showfull.php?photo=13034
 
  • #2,055
honestrosewater said:
Woot! I love it when that happens. But Mk did most of the work, so I want to give him(?) a chance to figure it out.
Its ok, we are nemisi and play dirty. I have many times posted an answer a few seconds before someone else with the same correct answer.
I was confused at first because I thought that The Blue Danube was a popular waltz, but I found out that it was actually a real bomb when it first debuted. :wink: :wink:
A sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus takes advantage of the piece's fame, featuring, in typical Monty Python fashion, "the exploding version of the Blue Danube."
So the Blue Danube can explode...
Ahh, so it can explode!
 
  • #2,056
:biggrin: I imagine they knew that when they wrote the sketch. They're so lovable... and speaking of lovable, is that you in the picture? Are you rich? :!)

I'm exhausted now - that was a good one. Whoever wants to have a go... go.
 
  • #2,057
honestrosewater said:
:biggrin: I imagine they knew that when they wrote the sketch. They're so lovable... and speaking of lovable, is that you in the picture? Are you rich? :!)
No that's not me, that's some guy with a big rock. I think I'll post that on the caption competition thread.

Do you ever sleep? I went to bed last night and when I woke up here you were posting like crazy!

In The Library, who was going for what, what did he have to go through to get there, and what shape was the structure he was on?

E³ 2000.
 
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Mk said:
Do you ever sleep? I went to bed last night and when I woke up here you were posting like crazy!
Yeah, I have a 'special' sleep cycle. I slept the other day. I'm actually trying to get some work done, but you guys just draw me back in... and I may have to go watch the hurricane soon. Did you see that thing?!
 
  • #2,059
Mk said:
No that's not me, that's some guy with a big rock. I think I'll post that on the caption competition thread.

Do you ever sleep? I went to bed last night and when I woke up here you were posting like crazy!

In The Library, who was going for what, what did he have to go through to get there, and what shape was the structure he was on?

E³ 2000.

Is this a clue :confused:
 
  • #2,060
The first is the question, the second is a clue.
 
  • #2,061
I have no idea. Is this a book, movie, etc.? Do you mean The Librarian?
 
  • #2,062
The Library Look up my E3 2000 link.

Another hint:

Noah's Ark went through the same thing.
 
  • #2,063
Ummm yeah, no clue. Is this a video game? OH, I think I've got it. The Library is a level in Halo?
 
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  • #2,064
Yes! Who was shooting through for what, what did he have to go through to get there, and what shape was the structure he was on?
 
  • #2,065
343 Guilt Spark is fighting through Flood to get the Index? He goes through a maze of corridors?
 
  • #2,066
honestrosewater said:
343 Guilt Spark is fighting through Flood to get the Index? He goes through a maze of corridors?
Heh heh, You got the Flood part right, try again. By the structure, I mean the MEGAstructure.
 
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C'mon, what is it? I'll give you another hint. The main charachter is fighting through the flood. The megastructure has the same name as the game.
 
  • #2,068
Isn't anyone else playing? :rolleyes: I'll give it another go in a minute.
 
  • #2,069
Halo! Lol!
 
  • #2,070
Okay, Master Chief is in Halo (the planet-sized ring-like structure built to contain and study the Flood) and fights through the Flood to get I don't know what. Every place says it's the Index.
 
  • #2,071
honestrosewater said:
Isn't anyone else playing? :rolleyes: I'll give it another go in a minute.

I am lost with this one, seems your on your tod rose.
 
  • #2,072
honestrosewater said:
Okay, Master Chief is in Halo (the planet-sized ring-like structure built to contain and study the Flood) and fights through the Flood to get I don't know what. Every place says it's the Index.
YES! You've won! Ask a question, any question. I won't be here today, for I have a lot of work to do.
 
  • #2,073
It may be a while before I come up with a clue. Go ahead, anyone else. :biggrin:
 
  • #2,074
honestrosewater said:
It may be a while before I come up with a clue. Go ahead, anyone else. :biggrin:

Give and take mate cough up :biggrin:
 
  • #2,075
Am I going to have to make another one? (jokingly)

I didn't think that last one would be that difficult!
 
  • #2,076
An easy one to time fill.

It is 7 meters high weighs 6 tonnes, built in the Mauyan dynasty.
 
  • #2,078
Sorry, I can't help but guess! :cry:
 
  • #2,079
honestrosewater said:
Sorry, I can't help but guess! :cry:

Keep guessing, and anti up missy :biggrin:
 
  • #2,080
wolram said:
Keep guessing, and anti up missy :biggrin:
Is it cylindrical?

Okay, I have a clue.
When it went up for auction, it was expected to keep going and going and going...
 
  • #2,081
wolram said:
An easy one to time fill.

It is 7 meters high weighs 6 tonnes, built in the Mauyan dynasty.
This one's tough, I know what I'm looking for but can't find it...
 
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  • #2,082
Good job wolram, this was the hardest one yet for me.

Situated near Bombay temples were built in the 6th century by the Mauryan dynasty's expert stone carvers. The most philosophical aspect of mighty Shiva is seen in the Shiva temple in Elephanta Cave.

The central attraction here is a twenty-foot (7 meters is about 22 feet) high bust of the deity in three-headed form. The Maheshamurti is built deep into a recess and looms up from the darkness to fill the full height of the cave. This image symbolizes the fierce, feminine and meditative aspects of the great ascetic and the three heads represent Shiva as Aghori, Ardhanarishvara and Mahayogi. Aghori is a terrifying form of Shiva where he is intent on destruction. Ardhanarishvara depicts Shiva as half-man/half-woman signifying the essential unity of the sexes. The Mahayogi posture symbolizes the meditative aspect of the God and here Shiva is shown in his most quiet and serene form.

It weighs six tons.

Honestrosewater's is WAYYY to vague to get.
 
  • #2,083
honestrosewater said:
Is it cylindrical?

Okay, I have a clue.
When it went up for auction, it was expected to keep going and going and going...
In 2004 there was no talk that I remember of it being the 125th anniversary of the making of the incandescent light bulb... which is still on now, because the filament is so thick.
 
  • #2,084
honestrosewater said:
Is it cylindrical?

Okay, I have a clue.
When it went up for auction, it was expected to keep going and going and going...

Trotsky :biggrin:
 
  • #2,085
Oh, no, when you hear the answer, it will seem SO obvious. You will actually kick yourselves, I do prognosticate.

It's part of an ad for things that are usually not included.
 
  • #2,086
A picaso painting $104 million ??
 
  • #2,087
Nope. It beats and twirls...
 
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  • #2,088
honestrosewater said:
Oh, no, when you hear the answer, it will seem SO obvious. You will actually kick yourselves, I do prognosticate.

It's part of an ad for things that are usually not included.

Batteries ?
 
  • #2,089
wolram said:
Batteries ?
Correctomundo - that's part of it. Now, the thing that went up for auction was what?

When it went up for auction, it was expected to keep going and going and going...
It's part of an ad for things that are usually not included. (batteries)
It beats and twirls... energetically...
 
  • #2,090
honestrosewater said:
Correctomundo - that's part of it. Now, the thing that went up for auction was what?

When it went up for auction, it was expected to keep going and going and going...
It's part of an ad for things that are usually not included. (batteries)
It beats and twirls... energetically...

The only thing i can think of is that stupid rabbit thing beating a drum
but that did not twirl.
 
  • #2,091
It did so twirl! :-p It twirled the drum stick and spun around. And kept going and going and going...

Also for auction, and the most valuable listed lot, is one of the two original Energizer bunnies.

The rabbits were used to advertise batteries on television and have become one of the most potent advertising symbols of the 20th century.

The rabbit is expected to fetch up to $60,000 (£42,000).
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/988176.stm
Way to win it, woolie. Europe. :biggrin:
 
  • #2,092
honestrosewater said:
It did so twirl! :-p It twirled the drum stick and spun around. And kept going and going and going...

Way to win it, woolie. Europe. :biggrin:

Well smack me in the face with a wet kipper, i am completely gob smacked,
crazy people or what :smile:
 
  • #2,093
Quote.

it is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle.

What was it.
 
  • #2,094
I passed my 11th grade History exam.
 
  • #2,095
So, how are we going to campagin to get more people in this thread? Its not as fun with only three people! :cry:

I remember back in the day when there was about a hundred people.
 
  • #2,096
Mk said:
So, how are we going to campagin to get more people in this thread? Its not as fun with only three people! :cry:

I remember back in the day when there was about a hundred people.

To many voyeurs MK, it is like watching a quiz show on tv, every one shouts
the answers but would not dare go on the show
:smile:

Any way up i am all out of ideas so if you have some ammo !
 
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  • #2,097
Whose turn is it? Was that the answer? Is that a clue? I'm lost.

How to attract people? Sex sells! We need some sexier clues.
 
  • #2,098
honestrosewater said:
Whose turn is it? Was that the answer? Is that a clue? I'm lost.

How to attract people? Sex sells! We need some sexier clues.

EEk, MKs answer fit the clues, so i have to say he wins, well done MK,
the alternate answer is the iron pillar here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutb_complex#Iron_pillar

Hmm, i am no good at sexy stuff, i wonder who could start it off :rolleyes:
 
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  • #2,099
That iron pillar is pretty sexy. :!)
 
  • #2,100
honestrosewater said:
That iron pillar is pretty sexy. :!)

Well if no one minds,

First mentioed in 1617, diminutive of the personal name Matilda.

If you or MK have a better one please carry on, but this one should have
people itching to have a go. :smile:
 

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