Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you

shirley_basso

Also mix primary colours of light and you get white.

Do it with paint and you get brown.

rjsterry

Shirley Basso wrote:

Also mix primary colours of light and you get white.

Do it with paint and you get brown.

This has now been explained twice

shirley_basso

rjsterry wrote:

Shirley Basso wrote:

Also mix primary colours of light and you get white.

Do it with paint and you get brown.

This has now been explained twice

Did you know that when you mix....

rjsterry

Shirley Basso wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Shirley Basso wrote:

Also mix primary colours of light and you get white.

Do it with paint and you get brown.

This has now been explained twice

Did you know that when you mix....

Why, I oughtta...

morstar

Why mixing primary colours makes white light and mixing paints makes brown.
Always wondered about that.

pinno

Apparently, if you mix primary colours it makes white light and mixing paints makes brown.

rjsterry

Why we seem to be stuck in a three to four year time loop.

pinno

rjsterry wrote:

Why we seem to be stuck in a three to four year time loop.

'We'. Ha ha. My time loop is about 30 seconds.

awavey

puddles & streams of water on the road full of foam that look like the roads had just been shampooed...they hadn't obviously, but what causes that?

Is there really that much rubbish caked on the roads ?

FocusZing

Alex Honnold the solo free climber. The guts and how someone gets to the point they have the confidence in their ability to do that.

ben@31

FocusZing wrote:

Alex Honnold the solo free climber. The guts and how someone gets to the point they have the confidence in their ability to do that.

I used to do a bit of climbing in my youth. I only lead climbed using trad gear on what I knew was within in my comfort zone and routes that I knew I could do without much risk of falling. I'd leave the risk for bolted routes.

I imagine what this guy is solo climbing a grade that he knows is well within his ability

mrfpb

ben@31 wrote:

FocusZing wrote:

Alex Honnold the solo free climber. The guts and how someone gets to the point they have the confidence in their ability to do that.

I used to do a bit of climbing in my youth. I only lead climbed using trad gear on what I knew was within in my comfort zone and routes that I knew I could do without much risk of falling. I'd leave the risk for bolted routes.

I imagine what this guy is solo climbing a grade that he knows is well within his ability

Which misses the point. The fact that this photo might represent someone's "comfort zone" is what FocusZing is referring to.

pinno

awavey wrote:

puddles & streams of water on the road full of foam that look like the roads had just been shampooed...they hadn't obviously, but what causes that?

Is there really that much rubbish caked on the roads ?

There's this:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/top ... 3&t=279195

Wayne Plunger

How the "man with no arms" manages to spend all that money.

FocusZing

ben@31 wrote:

FocusZing wrote:

Alex Honnold the solo free climber. The guts and how someone gets to the point they have the confidence in their ability to do that.

I used to do a bit of climbing in my youth. I only lead climbed using trad gear on what I knew was within in my comfort zone and routes that I knew I could do without much risk of falling. I'd leave the risk for bolted routes.

I imagine what this guy is solo climbing a grade that he knows is well within his ability

Yeah, watching the film documentary he repeat climbs difficult sections and has the route locked down. I still find it incredible and is something with all the training a prep in the world I couldn't get my head around.

FocusZing

mrfpb wrote:

ben@31 wrote:

FocusZing wrote:

Alex Honnold the solo free climber. The guts and how someone gets to the point they have the confidence in their ability to do that.

I used to do a bit of climbing in my youth. I only lead climbed using trad gear on what I knew was within in my comfort zone and routes that I knew I could do without much risk of falling. I'd leave the risk for bolted routes.

I imagine what this guy is solo climbing a grade that he knows is well within his ability

Which misses the point. The fact that this photo might represent someone's "comfort zone" is what FocusZing is referring to.

Yep, it would certainly be right out my comfort zone.

awavey

Pinno wrote:

awavey wrote:

puddles & streams of water on the road full of foam that look like the roads had just been shampooed...they hadn't obviously, but what causes that?

Is there really that much rubbish caked on the roads ?

There's this:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/top ... 3&t=279195

they seem to be blaming anything from detergent in fuel, to oils in the tarmac, which Im not disagreeing with necessarily as reasons, its just it was literally every metre of every road, every puddle or bit of water was foamy, it seemed really odd, and I didnt even think it had rained that much,just persistent drizzle for an hour or so

pblakeney

awavey wrote:

Pinno wrote:

awavey wrote:

puddles & streams of water on the road full of foam that look like the roads had just been shampooed...they hadn't obviously, but what causes that?

Is there really that much rubbish caked on the roads ?

There's this:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/top ... 3&t=279195

they seem to be blaming anything from detergent in fuel, to oils in the tarmac, which Im not disagreeing with necessarily as reasons, its just it was literally every metre of every road, every puddle or bit of water was foamy, it seemed really odd, and I didnt even think it had rained that much,just persistent drizzle for an hour or so

Did you happen to see four horsemen?
Wouldn't surprise me the way things are going.... but that's OT and not trivial. :oops:

robert88

FocusZing wrote:

Alex Honnold the solo free climber. The guts and how someone gets to the point they have the confidence in their ability to do that.

Photoshop job. The green bits in the lower part of the picture have been added to replace the wooden floor of the indoor climbing centre. The safety ropes have been carefully edited out.

That sort of thing has become a lot easier since they faked the moon landings.

surfercyclist

Robert88 wrote:

FocusZing wrote:

Alex Honnold the solo free climber. The guts and how someone gets to the point they have the confidence in their ability to do that.

Photoshop job. The green bits in the lower part of the picture have been added to replace the wooden floor of the indoor climbing centre. The safety ropes have been carefully edited out.

That sort of thing has become a lot easier since they faked the moon landings.

Yes, he's actually lying down there. The photo has just been rotated through 90degrees.

capt_slog

awavey wrote:

Pinno wrote:

awavey wrote:

puddles & streams of water on the road full of foam that look like the roads had just been shampooed...they hadn't obviously, but what causes that?

Is there really that much rubbish caked on the roads ?

There's this:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/top ... 3&t=279195

they seem to be blaming anything from detergent in fuel, to oils in the tarmac, which Im not disagreeing with necessarily as reasons, its just it was literally every metre of every road, every puddle or bit of water was foamy, it seemed really odd, and I didnt even think it had rained that much,just persistent drizzle for an hour or so

The above implies built up areas and well used roads, but I've seen the same thing out on country roads and put it down to natural saponins in the roadside plants.

FocusZing

SurferCyclist wrote:

Robert88 wrote:

FocusZing wrote:

Alex Honnold the solo free climber. The guts and how someone gets to the point they have the confidence in their ability to do that.

Photoshop job. The green bits in the lower part of the picture have been added to replace the wooden floor of the indoor climbing centre. The safety ropes have been carefully edited out.

That sort of thing has become a lot easier since they faked the moon landings.

Yes, he's actually lying down there. The photo has just been rotated through 90degrees.

Well that's a fair point. Also there is no way anybody in their right mind would go without wearing a helmet just in case they slipped and things.

pinno

Robert88 wrote:

FocusZing wrote:

Alex Honnold the solo free climber. The guts and how someone gets to the point they have the confidence in their ability to do that.

Photoshop job. The green bits in the lower part of the picture have been added to replace the wooden floor of the indoor climbing centre. The safety ropes have been carefully edited out.

That sort of thing has become a lot easier since they faked the moon landings.

They have also tried to convince us that 9/11 wasn't an inside job.

haydenm

Lots of dead looking trees on that Honnold picture. Drought and spruce bark beetle I suspect

pinno

HaydenM wrote:

Lots of dead looking trees on that Honnold picture. Drought and spruce bark beetle I suspect

Dawn Redwood, European Larch or Bald Cypress perhaps?

webboo

Robert88 wrote:

FocusZing wrote:

Alex Honnold the solo free climber. The guts and how someone gets to the point they have the confidence in their ability to do that.

Photoshop job. The green bits in the lower part of the picture have been added to replace the wooden floor of the indoor climbing centre. The safety ropes have been carefully edited out.

That sort of thing has become a lot easier since they faked the moon landings.

It would be a rather big indoor climbing centre given the floor is at least a thousand feet below him what ever the flooring is.

pblakeney

I do believe that a WOOSH! is in order.

pblakeney

People who think that because they saw it, it must be real*.
Conversely, those who cannot accept that something exists because they can’t see it.

*My sister in law is a prime example. She believes everything on the internet is true. :shock:

awavey

Capt Slog wrote:

awavey wrote:

Pinno wrote:

awavey wrote:

puddles & streams of water on the road full of foam that look like the roads had just been shampooed...they hadn't obviously, but what causes that?

Is there really that much rubbish caked on the roads ?

There's this:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/top ... 3&t=279195

they seem to be blaming anything from detergent in fuel, to oils in the tarmac, which Im not disagreeing with necessarily as reasons, its just it was literally every metre of every road, every puddle or bit of water was foamy, it seemed really odd, and I didnt even think it had rained that much,just persistent drizzle for an hour or so

The above implies built up areas and well used roads, but I've seen the same thing out on country roads and put it down to natural saponins in the roadside plants.

yes tbf it was very much in the wilds of East Anglia on countryside roads, at first I thought it might be some kind of run off from the fields be that herbicide or manure based, which did concern me a bit as the front wheel was busy chucking it all over my water bottle, but even passing through the villages and bits of habitation it was the same.

Stevo_666

FocusZing wrote:

Alex Honnold the solo free climber. The guts and how someone gets to the point they have the confidence in their ability to do that.

I watched the documentary on his free solo ascent of El Capitan. Massively impressive stuff.

Given the level of skill and balls required it's hard to classify as trivial IMO, although I do find it intriguing how he got to that level given that we normally tend to learn from our mistakes...