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Thanks, yes my vague reference to "foul the engine" - you have the specific problem pinpointed. I would guess it would need preheating and then much higher injection pressure to vaporize properly. Carb wouldn't do it. Enjoying a thread where we seem to have a couple members like you who have some pro knowledge in this area. All I have, like @StringJunky , is a grandfather who really knew engines. But that was something.

Really, the best reason for Iran to give up nuke aspirations is Israel's belligerence and hyperreactive posture. The RW coalition throws fits of rage at the sight of its own shadow. Iran showing any sign of building a nuke wouid give them leverage to do God knows what.

Urkh! If so, the heavy end traces would foul the engine.

70, yikes. That would knock like a stormtrooper at normal compression ratio, and I can picture it dieseling for minutes after shutting off. Heck, if the octane were much lower it would be halfway to being diesel. At least in the sense of little resistance to spontaneous combustion.

Ah yes, the symbol designed for CND (based on semaphore flag code), which spread to other countries eventually as the peace symbol. Mercedes was similar. I remember my org chem professor drawing its three point star mounted on a benzene ring, creating the visual pun Mercedes Benzene.

Makes sense, I guess, to go ahead and put in gearing for a hand crank, as a backup. What I am grappling with is that you Brits seem to have named an Austin after breakfast porridge. Perhaps it is just as well we may be withdrawing from NATO. 😎 Several things here I don't grasp. What is a ban-the-bomb Cortina? And how could one put diesel mix in a gas engine and not ruin it? Does the right blend help if there's a weak spark? I am happy to report I figured out a saloon model is what we call a sedan, so I'm now understanding the style isn't quite as fun as it initially landed on American ears. What really capped that video nicely were the end credits - the cranking man is Fat Bloke, played by George Clooney.

Do you mean by hand? I thought the Minors had electric starters from their beginning in the twenties. (Or was there an optional crank attachment for low battery situations?) Don't think I've seen anything besides a Model T be hand-cranked, and that was done as a feat of daring at an antique auto show. I remember them saying "don't wrap your thumb around," as @OldTony mentioned above. This chat takes me back to my earliest automotive memories when our family had a 1958 Renault Dauphine. The 845 cc engine produced a dizzying 0-60 in 30 seconds, and you had to use a tire pressure differential in order to prevent oversteer. I think my Dad grew disenchanted with the steering issue and had traded it in by the time I reached kindergarten. But it was cute as a button. Family joke from this era: I like the Renault, but I Constantinople. (sorry)

They were called Ford Fractures here. America was still largely rural then and most would not have cared for "chauffeur." My grandparents also spoke of "gaslight branding" in evening drives, where you lit the headlamps, and then if you absentmindedly rested your left hand on a headlamp while bracing to crank, the raised company logo could be burned onto your palm.

Emily was shocked to read in the news of a gang of circus workers attacking a killer whale. "Acrobats stab orca." In other equally shocking news, marsupials near Melbourne attacked lawn equipment. As the groundskeeper noted, "Here, wombats stab mower, eh?"

This had to be said. Thanks. Our ship of state is rudderless. I'm getting tired of people trying to rationalize the POTUS actions, as if he's actually cleverly playing four dimensional chess and merely feigning dementia. Turnip is tossing wrenches into the global machinery and giggling insanely. What's the old saying in politics...."Elect a clown, expect a circus."

Excellent (and nicely low tech) feature. Now to check today's tariff report to see if the UK can affordably send one over... 😃

The example I was about to mention. I tried to fix one, had the tape spring burst out into a giant snarl that seemed to cover the entire workshop area. I wound up (haha) just screwing a cleat on the side of the vacuum to wrap the loose cable onto. My general experience with vacs is that auto-rewinds are built to fail within the first year.

Yes. I remember the video - the last years Randy Quaid was still partially sane. That song, and Industrial Disease, were underrated in my neck of the woods, never got enough airplay. Har! Yep, a concept beyond Sgt. Bone Spurs.

I was playing Dire Straits songs on the piano last night, wife walked by and said, "Is that political commentary?" (Hormuz as dire strait, har har) This got me thinking how many of their song titles could apply to current events.... Money for Nothing - what Turnp always is looking for in geopolitics. Walk of Life - as fuel prices soar, more of us will be doing the walk. Sultans of Swing - Turnp is continually swinging from one position to another. So Far Away - Turnip is now so far away from the principles of his party. And cognitively, so far away from reality. Industrial Disease - the military industrial complex grows more diseased, and its products are proving fatal for non combatants. Twisting by the Pool - foreign policy continually twisting by the Persian Gulf pool.

If you're on land and the water level rises dangerously, which group would drown first, ordinary people or Calamita Cosmica people, who are around 28 meters in height? I implied no gender with the term supermodel. Knowing virtually nothing about supermodels, I assume there can be male supermodels and that they too are long legged. My present operating hypothesis is that the supermodels are likely descended from the race of giants which partially survived the great flood, as well as a horrific string of gardening accidents. Their thinness is actually owing to the inadequate portion sizes of all the catered food at fashion shoots. Prove me wrong!!!

It's a cautionary exhibit for the Milan Fashion Week, reminding models what happens when they diet too strenuously. Look how long those legs are: clearly an ex supermodel.

TIL that today is World Quantum Day. https://worldquantumday.org/ Our cats, Eliza "do little" Vat and Louisa May Allcat, may or not be attending the nearby events.

Won senile dismissal, class - I'm sidelines now. 😜

I don't think it would be waving a white flag in the conventional sense. As @exchemist said, they can weather some of this. And have a theocracy (so far) which can muster a fair amount of stoicism for a longer siege. Where my knowledge of Iran is lacking is what percent of citizens would, under the rigors of a blockade (everything or just oil?), come together to end theocracy and set up something more willing to take vows of nuclear chastity. The problem with all this MAGA fantasizing is it makes it hard to tell what's real and what's delusional. And does Iran have workarounds we don't know about? Would Russia help them out? Send a convoy of tanker trucks through Turkmenistan to pick up some of the oil, then resell it elsewhere? What sort of intelligence reports is the Turnip administration getting these days? Is it all filtered through maga lackeys who turn it into baby talk, or do they just throw it in a wastebasket because it's all really about the circus?

A game variant of Hanlons razor might apply here. (In other Turnipstan policies, both malice and stupidity are key, e.g. immigration policy) The only tiny shred of competence in the new blockade is that it will finally do what should have been done from the start if the goal was actually Iranian capitulation. If Iran can't ship oil, then its economy will collapse.

This doesn't provide clean data, as there are other factors not accounted for. E.g. extraneous behaviors, the tendency of people to fidget and just turn around from time to time, ordinary environmental cues, participant expectation bias, etc. Something like this experiment is one of Rupert Sheldrake's "morphic resonance" experiments, which has crashed on the rocky shores of poor methodology. You may want to look up Michael Shermer's analysis of the "Sense of being stared at," exp. methodology.

From Arwa Mahdawi's weekly summary in The Guardian: Is it illegal to call Trump a dick-tator while wearing a penis costume? I guess we’re going to find out if this is pun-ishable or not. Sixty-two-year-old Renea Gamble was recently arrested after sporting the dick-tator sign and phallic costume at a No Kings Rally in Alabama. She’s now been charged with disturbing the peace.

Reported for OT digression from the serious topic of measuring flatulence. Unless of course The Guardian writer's description of the novel as "atmospheric" is referring to methane, hydrogen and various organosulfur compounds. 😉 It also occurs to me that Jekyll could have experienced alterations of his gut biome and chemistry from drinking the transformative serum which turned him into Hyde.

Yes, I should have pointed out it's a thiol, the simplest one, so an organosulfur compound. Thiols are the sulfur analog of alcohols, and they all tend to smell nasty. Thiols are also what utilities add to natural gas to make leaks detectable. Some readers here might better know methanethiol as methyl mercaptan. And more complex mercaptans are the key ingredients of what skunks spray, no real surprise there. IIRC, skunks being competent chemists, use butyl mercaptan which is less volatile and so better suited to stay on the spray victim for a long while. And I'm realizing now that methanethiol has to come from the breakdown of sulfur-containing amino acids like methionine or, in the cabbage example I gave it would likely be glucosinolates--so no idea why I mentioned raffinose except my org chem is rusty. Ignore what I said about raffinose, which mos def does not have sulfur - it's just a humble trisaccharide and would only generate H and CH4 which are the non-stinky parts of farts. ETA: To clarify, raffinose in cabbage is like the main propellant (producing most of the gas volume) while glucosinolates in cabbage have breakdown products that include methyl mercaptan, the main pungent odorant.

Traveling this week, so missed the replies. Apparently most beholding noses wrinkle at indoles, skatoles, and sulfides. I guess the neurological end of it is a hardwired revulsion for odors of putrefaction and other sorts of rot. Telling us in effect, "not edible, probably has bad microbes for you!" (Someone should get a memo to Billie, a neighbor's dog who is constantly eating turds. I'll see him from the kitchen window, as I'm contemplating breakfast, and he will run out into their yard and start snarfing them down like Belgian chocolate....and then I'm no longer contemplating breakfast. And whatever time zone you, Gentle Reader, dwell in, possibly now you can put off your next repast!) Methanethiol is another culprit especially in those with a heavy vegetable diet. Dine on a cabbage-based soup with plenty of onions and you can clear a room. But you'll have to wait at least 18 hours for it to reach the colon, where the raffinose does its gassy magic.