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It's worse near the ground. Also, where did I say anything about "one" - or "propellor"?

I believe they used to call the effect "Blue Balls".

It's not going to be that simple - ever tried landing a light aircraft in a serious crosswind?

There's a good reason it's called the 'Human Race', and that's because all humans are in it.

Your brain, being massless, could travel at the speed of light.

Maybe because their brains were 25% bigger than ours?

US - Mexico Border. US is on the left - Mexico on the right.

And they never, ever think of how it's going to handle side winds.

Never understood how anyone can survive in the modern world at all without a basic knowledge of physics.

You might find this interesting. 'Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation.' Frank J.Tipler Available as PDF from: http://theophysics.host56.com/pdf/tipler-rotating-cylinders.pdf

I haven't seen the sort of toilet that has a seat for years. What a filthy, unhygienic contraption.

Never heard that one before - I was thinking in terms of Jughead in the Archie comics.

Shouldn't it be spelled 'Jarhead'.

I learned to read enough French in a couple of months to pass my pilot's exam first time. I couldn't really speak it at all until about 2 years later.

As a pilot, I have to say 'Roger' to that.

I would think that anywhere there is machinery is going to need a compressor for one reason or another.

Is this the kind of thing you're looking for? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Lights

Exactly like everything else from MacroShaft then

I was pretty sure it wasn't English.

Don't know if it's still true, but Micro$oft Publisher used to think the plural of rhinoceros was 'rhinoceroses'. Found that out when one of my students was searching for flower clipart for a Valentines Day card.

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Pressure testing the De Havilland Comet - from: http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/sme/Interactive_Resources/tutorials/FailureCases/sf2.html "Water was used for this pressurisation because calculations had indicated that the energy release under cabin rupture with air as the pressurisation medium was equivalent to the explosion of a 500 lbf bomb in the cabin."

Shape is also critical - spherical will always be strongest.

And where are you going to put the material that is removed?

I played around with the MENSA tests many years ago - unless they've improved them considerably, the last few sections were very much aimed at finding whether you "went to the right kind of school, old boy." (to be said in a phony upper crust English accent).