rasec-wizzlbang:

cocobutterbella:

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frog-and-toad-are-friends:

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severalowls:

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sindilex:

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jesus-lizard-journal:

rasec-wizzlbang:

rasec-wizzlbang:

Can someone calculate for me the volume of loch ness in liters so I can figure out how many humans you’d need to drink it

Ok I had to search a bit, but it’s apparently 7,448,160,000,000 liters?
this is a problem, the upper limit of the average human stomach is just four liters, and even then that’s a very uncomfortable amount of water to have in there. Which means there aren’t enough humans on this planet to drink all of loch ness

what if they drank their fill and then peed it out somewhere where the liquid wouldn’t just run back into loch ness? Then they could go back and drink more the next morning. How many days would that take? Would we end up with a new loch made entirely of pee? Loch piss? 

possibly, but thats not taking rainfall into account and the amount of water fed into it every day by the River Oich

The upper limit for the human stomach is about 4 liters. It takes the human body about 45 to 60 minutes to absorb/expel 1 liter of water (for the sake of this math problem just go with 60 (1 hour).
An average person sleeps 8 hours.
An average person spends about 3 hours eating (1 hour for each meal of the day)
A day is 24 hours.

1 person alone: 572 billion days or all 7.3 billion people just 78.5 days, roughly. Assuming no one died of e coli or something.

this is good, but again, this doesn’t take rainfall or the river oich into account. It would have to be done during a dryer season in scottland and the river would need to be dammed.

There is no dryer season in Scotland though. It hasn’t stopped raining since Roman times.

You might need a second team of people to hold umbrellas over the drinking people.

the rain would still drip off the umbrellas and into the loch, this is gonna be a problem…
someone calculate the annual rainfall over Scotland, can 7 billion people outdrink it?

The western Highlands, where Loch Ness is located, is one of the rainiest places in Europe, with a yearly average rainfall of 4,577 millimeters (12.54 millimeters a day).  Loch Ness’ surface area is 56 square kilometers.  If it rains 12.54 millimeters every day, then Loch Ness will gain 702,240 cubic meters (over 700 million liters) of water per day.  Everyone will have to drink 0.1 extra liters of water to keep up.

that sounds doable!
our goal is now clear

ok but why tho?

if you can think of a better way to find Nessie I’d love to hear it

kalany:

You know what would be a useful quasi-reality show?

Get a bunch of disabled people with various mobility devices, particularly wheeled ones, and send them out into community, to venues and offices and stores. Have them record their struggles with steps into stores, aisles that are too small, items that are too high, clerks who blow them off when they ask for help. Bathrooms that can’t actually be used in a wheelchair. Dispensers placed out of reach. Counters with point of sale devices you can’t reach, never mind see.

And of course they should contact the owners and give them a certain time to improve. Then they go back and see if they did. And they name (and shame, if necessary) the places in question.

It could be called Accessibility Warriors.

msmori:

copperbadge:

persian-slipper:

alexielthegreat:

@copperbadge, I feel like there’s a story about Steve promoting safe sex in this…

Oh but see now I’m picturing a whole series of cheesy Avengers safe sex PSAs.

Tony: I may be a playboy, but I know when to wear armor.

Natasha: There’s a time and place for stealth. The bedroom isn’t it. (Alternately: “Safety is easy. If he won’t wear a condom, kill him.”) 

Clint: Protection is important, on and off the range. 

Thor: It’s what a god would do. 

Bruce: Do it for science. Wear it for safety.

Sam: Your best wingman is the one in your pocket.

THESE. Great.

Helpful Traveling Phrases from Mme. de Genlis

dingelchen:

pilferingapples:

From a French-German/ German-French travel phrasebook published in 1799:

Postilion, stop, the brakes must be attached. 
The descent is quite steep, I wish the brakes to be attached. 

The suspension has snapped.
The coach has overturned. 
The horses have just collapsed. 
The horse is badly wounded. It is dead. 

Gently remove the postilion from beneath the horses. 
 
I believe that the wheels are on fire. Look and see. 

( all translations from Graham Robb’s Discovery of France

#oh my god#I almost spit water all over the table at ‘I believe the wheels are on fire.’#I’m just imagining these all said perfectly calmly and with exquisite poise#by some very elegant lady sitting perfectly upright in the middle of dying horses and fire and screaming#i need a better history tag#why aren’t more travel guides/phrasebooks written like this#the horse is badly wounded. it is dead. (via beradan)

#amazing #‘i believe the wheels are on fire.  look and see.’ #HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN #is it the same thing that killed the horse?? #was it cannon fire? #i have so many questions #this reads like an assassination attempt on the most composed and well-bred lady in existance #i would read that novel (via)

same xD (via muigiel)