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The First Time I Went Over 120mph (193kph) I Was In A ____________ ,

by Sea Breeze in

honda vfr 750.

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'71 Chevelle with an LS-7 454 and a 4 speed Muncie.

--Would love to have that one back. I see these Chevelles completely wrecked in movies like Jack Reacher and John Wick and want to weep....

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JW Science Quote Of The Day 8-27

by TD in

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in the 1979 movie, "the china syndrome" there is a scene right after swat team members have retaken the control room from jack godell.

(jack lemon) kimberly wells (jane fonda) nervously whispers to richard adams, (michael douglas) "the reactor is the biggest bomb in there!

this reflected a belief, common in the 1970's that commercial nuclear reactors were capable of going up in a mushroom cloud like an atomic bomb.. although no one can deny that accidents and malfunctions at nuclear power plants can potentially be catastrophic, these reactors are not capable of a bomb-like reaction.

TD

Diogenesister (From another thread)

TD what is a control rod please? And what does the acronym SCRAM stand for?

Reactor control rods act as a sort of throttle in the sense that they moderate the reaction. Here's an easy way to visualize what's happening using Uranium 235 as an example:

A neutron (Small grey circle on the left) strikes a U-235 atom causing it change into U-236 momentarily and then split into two smaller atoms. (Barium and Krypton in this example.) These smaller atoms require a lot less energy to hold them together, so the excess energy is released as heat. The split also releases two or more extra neutrons, which may strike other U-235 atoms resulting in more heat and more neutrons. This doubling is called neutron multiplication and it can quickly get out of control.

In commercial reactors, the control rod mechanism is a bundle of about 20 rods composed of materials which absorb these extra neutrons, which prevents them from traveling into adjacent fuel pellets and rods. This in turn lessens the thermal output of the reactor.

In English, a SCRAM is an emergency shutdown of a reactor. The control rods are completely inserted and water based solutions laced with the same sort of materials as the control rods themselves are injected into the reactor coolant.

There isn't any real agreement today over the etymology of the word. In the very early days of nuclear research, scientists would experiment on table tops (I kid you not) and if something went wrong, the best thing to do was to run, which is one possible explanation for the term. Other explanations are possible acronyms the word could have stood for, like Safety Control Rod Activation Mechanism, but again, there's no real consensus on this.

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What made you walk out on the "Truth"?

by Overrated in

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i had a legal divorce from my ex wife( law of the land).

i was told not to expect to get remarried because my divorce was not legal to watchtower.. my divorce and situation seem to be a talk of gossip and even a many local needs talks.

i wanted to take some more schooling to get a better job, there was a local needs talk on higher education and it's dangers.

TD

I was not actually "in" but lost all respect for/interest in the religion my parents were studying when I realized the writers did not possess even a middle school child's knowledge of the physical world.

It was so bad that I started a series here on this forum in direct response to the idea that "celebrated scholars" exist anywhere in the JW world

Here's an example:

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/140936/jw-science-quote-day-8-27

And another:

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/141006/jw-science-quote-day-8-28

And another:

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/187518/jw-science-quote-1-15

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Do you have any good movie mistakes or bloopers?

by LoveUniHateExams in

hey folks!.

just wondering if any of you jwn posters have favorite movie mistakes or bloopers?.

i think jackie brown (1997) is an excellent film, and the scene featuring ordell robbie (samuel l. jackson) and beaumont livingston (chris tucker) is perfect … well, almost.. samuel l. jackson almost bursts out laughing at 4 mins 52 secs, because of chris tucker's improvised line ('you catch a n*gga off guard with this sh1t!').

TD

In Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) in the scene right after Anakin, Amidala and the two Jedi land on Coruscant, Palpatine's costume bounces back and forth in mid-conversation between a green and a blue color scheme. The most noticeable thing is the color of his collar.

Apologies for the potato quality video below. It's all I could find

At 4:12, the collar and trim are clearly green.

Palapatine paces back and forth and then turns at 4:33 and bang, the collar is as blue as blue can be.

There are several good clear views of the blue collar and then at 5:18, right the middle of the conversation, the collar is suddenly green again.

And it's not just the rotten quality of this video. The goof is much more noticeable at Blu-Ray quality or above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ZhdKW6gJo

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Do you have any good movie mistakes or bloopers?

by LoveUniHateExams in

hey folks!.

just wondering if any of you jwn posters have favorite movie mistakes or bloopers?.

i think jackie brown (1997) is an excellent film, and the scene featuring ordell robbie (samuel l. jackson) and beaumont livingston (chris tucker) is perfect … well, almost.. samuel l. jackson almost bursts out laughing at 4 mins 52 secs, because of chris tucker's improvised line ('you catch a n*gga off guard with this sh1t!').

TD

Good God, I'm a nerd, lol.

I don't think so. Having a nose for this sort of stuff is completely incompatible with being a JW, so even if it were true, there's still a bright side.

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Do you have any good movie mistakes or bloopers?

by LoveUniHateExams in

hey folks!.

just wondering if any of you jwn posters have favorite movie mistakes or bloopers?.

i think jackie brown (1997) is an excellent film, and the scene featuring ordell robbie (samuel l. jackson) and beaumont livingston (chris tucker) is perfect … well, almost.. samuel l. jackson almost bursts out laughing at 4 mins 52 secs, because of chris tucker's improvised line ('you catch a n*gga off guard with this sh1t!').

TD

In the original Back to the Future (1985) in the mall chase scene, there ae several extreme closeups of the speedometer as Marty almost, but not quite gets up to the magic 88 a couple times.

Problem is the odometer reading is all over the place and at one point goes backwards by more than 60 miles as you can see in the clip below:

33064.2 at 3:46

33061.7 at 3:49

32994.2 at 3:53

33062.7 at 4:22 - 4:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AChCcVIJaCE

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Do you have any good movie mistakes or bloopers?

by LoveUniHateExams in

hey folks!.

just wondering if any of you jwn posters have favorite movie mistakes or bloopers?.

i think jackie brown (1997) is an excellent film, and the scene featuring ordell robbie (samuel l. jackson) and beaumont livingston (chris tucker) is perfect … well, almost.. samuel l. jackson almost bursts out laughing at 4 mins 52 secs, because of chris tucker's improvised line ('you catch a n*gga off guard with this sh1t!').

TD

In the original Terminator (1984) in the Tech Noir scene, Arnold pushes past a female dancer with shoulder length blond hair and an orange top (2:03 in the clip below)

The camera switches to the terminator's point of view as he approaches Sarah Connor's table and you can see the exact same woman chatting with two other people at a table behind Sarah (2:11 in the clip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3hGMgd2X14

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Interesting Find with Chronology

by Kelley959 in

i hope this is in the right area.

i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.

TD

I wasn't questioning whether the Neo-Babylonian Empire existed. Of course it did

I'm pointing out that the idea of ALL nations being subject to Babylon can't be taken literally.

Babylon and Egypt struggled for control of the Levant throughout the entire period with both of them winning and losing battles. The kings of Babylon managed to stop Egypt's Eastern expansion, but they certainly never conquered Egypt.

To the North were the Kingdoms of Media and Lydia and farther to the Northwest was Greece. That's a whole lot of real estate that was not under Babylonian control, so the idea of Babylon being one in a series of world powers must be restricted to some sort of figurative or prophetic sense (Which I believe the JW's actually do)

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Interesting Find with Chronology

by Kelley959 in

i hope this is in the right area.

i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.

TD

The Assyrian Empire encompassed modern Egypt, Libya, Iran, Armenia and the Arabian peninsula and included many fortified cities.

The Achaemenid Empire was even bigger, holding Ethiopia and most of Modern Greece, including Athens as well. This was arguably the first true world empire.

The Babylonian sphere of influence during the time period you're talking about was small and short-lived in comparison because again, we're talking about a city state and not an entire kingdom. They did not conquer their more powerful neighbors. Not even Egypt. Quite the opposite, they were assimilated into the Persian Empire, just like the powerful city states of Greece were eventually united under one ruler

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Interesting Find with Chronology

by Kelley959 in

i hope this is in the right area.

i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.

TD

Babylon was a powerful city state that dominated big chunks of Mesopotamia during two periods of history, but it was never a world power in a military sense.

Surely you know this (?)