10 Short Videos #6206

10 Short Videos #6206

1. What’s the only country in all four hemispheres??
2. My Boss Fired Me - Use an analog watch as a mouse jiggler
3. Do you want one? - Pettichat seems to be a real thing
4. The Hockney–Falco Thesis - Camera Lucida
5. Rudolph Hass got $4000 for inventing the avocado
6. The Most Valuable Lesson From Farm Life 🌾
7. 1-inch too long? - Hydraulic cylinder mod
8. T51R Mod can’t Compete with POWERSTROKE
9. The Submarine Disaster That Makes No Sense
10. POP THE BALLOONS CHALLENGE - Chemistry in action

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Holman Projector

They Laughed At His "Impossible" Tube — Then It Killed Every German Bomber Over The Convoys !
Darkest Docs and war docs

I don't know how much trouble German airplanes caused Allied cargo ships, the I suspect the main threat was from the German submarines. However, it would nice to have something if you had a German airplane bearing down on you. I wonder that pilots would even be able to see something as small as a gernade, but evidently the thing did least stave off a few attacks.

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10 Short Videos #6205

10 Short Videos #6205

1. Rooster doesn’t do the wake up call
2. The forbidden equestrian bunny hop 🐴
3. Smart Measuring Tape
4. Gravity is the universe's greatest illusion
5. Twelve Barrel 10,000 RPM Soviet Naval Beast
6. Cutting through one of the hardest rocks on Earth.
7. Can a Forklift Thread a Nut? Watch This. 🤯
8. “Shokeepani”- 2003 27.5’ Breen Gentleman’s Racer fires up with 500 hp.
9. The Potter Wasp is a MENACE
10. Smooth skills

SS Lagos Palm

Lagos Palm - Robert G. Lloyd

The is the 1961 version of the Lagos Palm. It was the second ship of that name working for the Palm Line:

The Palm Line was a UK-owned shipping line that was engaged in the West African trade from 1949, primarily servicing the ports along 5,000 miles of coastline from Morocco in the north to Angola in the far south. It ceased trading in 1986.

Navigating the Niger Delta required certain accommodations:

It is notable that all Palm Line ships, with the exception of Kano Palm and Katsina Palm, built before 1970, had to be less than 500 feet long in order to navigate the creeks of Nigeria. Draught is another important feature. The coast of West Africa is extremely flat, and the slow-moving rivers and tidal currents have combined to build up long sand bars a mile or two off the coast. To enter most of the rivers, ships must pass over these bars; 27 feet being the maximum draught to serve all ports. Even so, to enter many rivers, - for example the Escravos River which leads to Sapele - ships cannot carry more than 4,000 tons since the maximum draught to successfully make it over the Escravos Bar is limited to 17 feet (5.2 m), so vessels would often cross over the bar at the entrance to the adjacent Forcados River, then take the connecting creek to the Escravos River. 

Here are some maps of the Niger Delta. I'm not real happy with any of them:

• the space shot doesn't have a scale, 
• the one labeled estuaries doesn't name any of the rivers,
• the admiralty chart is too zoomed in, so much so that I don't know what I am looking at,
• the last one is pretty good, it has a scale anyway, it has a bunch of names but leaves out the names of the big rivers.

Oh well, they're free, I should be happy with what I've got. It's not like I'm going on a voyage to Nigeria any time soon.

View of the Niger Delta from space (north/land at top).

Map showing Escravos and Qua Iboe Estuaries

ADMIRALTY Chart - 3321 Entrances to Escravos and Forcados Rivers

The Niger Delta with the Forcados (middle left)

Just for completeness, here's a link to Google Maps map of the Niger Delta.

1923 Ford vs 2023 Tesla

1923 Ford vs 2023 Tesla
SuperfastMatt

100 years seems like a perfect time to compare the old and new, even if I am three years late. I'm slowly getting adjusted to the idea of an electric car, but I'm still gonna wait until they come up with a better battery, one that doesn't weigh a thousand pounds and catch fire when it's unhappy.