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zagatoes30

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Doesn't look like any one is going to get this.

The Wärtsilä RT-flex96C is a two-stroke turbocharged low-speed diesel engine designed by the Finnish manufacturer Wärtsilä. It is designed for large container ships that run on heavy fuel oil. Its largest 14-cylinder version is 13.5 metres (44 ft) high, 26.59 m (87 ft) long, weighs over 2,300 tons, and produces 80,080 kW (107,390 hp). The engine is the largest reciprocating engine in the world and as far as capacity, each cylinder is 1810 litres making a total of 25,340 litres in all.

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As Chris was the nearest albeit a long way off over to him for the next question
 
CatmanV2

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Those photos look faked! That's MAD

OK, similar theme (not)

World's largest chocolate Easter egg? Weight, please. In KG. First person to within 100kg wins, or closest by the time I post in 'Good Morning' tomorrow.

Go for it :D

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CatmanV2

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CatmanV2 said:
Those photos look faked! That's MAD

OK, similar theme (not)

World's largest chocolate Easter egg? Weight, please. In KG. First person to within 100kg wins, or closest by the time I post in 'Good Morning' tomorrow.

Go for it :D

C
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Missed this: 7,200 kg !

Someone else take a question?

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MarkMas

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CatmanV2 said:
Someone else take a question?
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Give an example of a pair of words that are both anagrams and (near enough) synonyms. First one might get the prize, or maybe the most, or maybe the longest. You cannot compete if you saw this on Pointless recently.
 
MarkMas

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jonny said:
The only one that comes to mind is "angered" and "enraged".
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"...comes to mind....?" TBH, if I had been asked this question I would have had to just write down all the words I knew, made anagrams of all of them, and then checked which were synonyms...
 
jonny

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MarkMas said:
"...comes to mind....?" TBH, if I had been asked this question I would have had to just write down all the words I knew, made anagrams of all of them, and then checked which were synonyms...
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One of my useless talents, anagrams and similar...
 
midlifecrisis

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Just watched University Challenge earlier and answered the question on the Periodic Table in Chinese. What elements are represented by a water symbol... The answer being bromide and mercury... I felt very smart getting that...
 
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midlifecrisis said:
Just watched University Challenge earlier and answered the question on the Periodic Table in Chinese. What elements are represented by a water symbol... The answer being bromide and mercury... I felt very smart getting that...
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When I worked on a Nuclear Power Station many years ago, fixing various physicists/chemists PC's (DEC 486SX25's) the only thing I had to stare at was posters of the Periodic Table on the wall, no Page 3 girls, no tits, nowt.

None of it sunk in.....

We made tritium (just testing if MI6 are here....)..
 
midlifecrisis

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Tritium is in Radar Receiver protectors (TR cells). We had a few of them at Bournemouth and had to account for their location to the Environment Agency. Especially if we bought or sold them as they produce ionising radiation. As you are probably aware the it's an isotope of hydrogen and therefore if released, combined with the oxygen in air produced water. So why they got their knickers so much was beyond my nuclear physics knowledge.
 
Wanderer

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midlifecrisis said:
Tritium is in Radar Receiver protectors (TR cells). We had a few of them at Bournemouth and had to account for their location to the Environment Agency. Especially if we bought or sold them as they produce ionising radiation. As you are probably aware the it's an isotope of hydrogen and therefore if released, combined with the oxygen in air produced water. So why they got their knickers so much was beyond my nuclear physics knowledge.
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I’m no physicist but it was explained to me as a super-plutonium for nuclear warheads, the plant produced plut initially as a by-product but switched to trit as it was more effective and had a much shorter half life so we could charge the MOD more for it more often!

Trit plant was Uber secret, double wire fences, no mans land, armed UKAEA police as per whole site, Alsatian dogs, and no windows.
 
midlifecrisis

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Wanderer said:
I’m no physicist but it was explained to me as a super-plutonium for nuclear warheads, the plant produced plut initially as a by-product but switched to trit as it was more effective and had a much shorter half life so we could charge the MOD more for it more often!

Trit plant was Uber secret, double wire fences, no mans land, armed UKAEA police as per whole site, Alsatian dogs, and no windows.
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If Matt gets a call from MI5, it'll be our fault..
What's the question now?
 
JonW

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MarkMas said:
Give an example of a pair of words that are both anagrams and (near enough) synonyms. First one might get the prize, or maybe the most, or maybe the longest. You cannot compete if you saw this on Pointless recently.
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Veto

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oops, maybe this should be on the Brexit thread?
 
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