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Hi everybody, I hope one of you can help. I have a LEC IT6079R fridge/freezer built into a static caravan (so I don't get many opportunities to work on it). Late last year, the fridge section started freezing everything. :shock: :shock: :shock: It just ran on and on, only stopping if the...

To get a current of one amp through a wire, about 6 x 10^18 electrons must enter and leave it each second. That might sound like a lot but a cubic millimetre of copper contains 8.5 X 10^19 free electrons. So lets take a typical wire of 1 sq mm cross section so that each mm of its length...

There may come a point at which each generation spends all of its time and resources passing their accumulated knowledge on to the next. I'd say that's a dead certainty! 8) 8) 8) I don't think we should even try to do that. One intelligent and thoroughly dangerous species on this...

beautiful wrappings may conceal shoddy contents

Tuesday: This utterance ends Sombrero's desperation and yarning

Not quite as 'nice' as Honeybus's effort - which was your typical 60s love song - but not entirely derogatory either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_May

In many ways they were ahead. Much of the knowledge of the ancient world was lost during the Dark Ages - and the Romans didn't help much when they burnt the library at Alexandria. :roll: :roll: :roll: If the history books are correct, it was Muslim scholars who passed on the wisdom of the...

While that's a fair comment, it's not quite why we have an age of consent (which, incidentally, varies quite a bit, even within the EU). That law was introduced because people with no power and even less money were selling their own children for sex just as soon as they thought somebody would...

The Arab summer of love will happen. Maybe not in my lifetime but it will happen. Islamists; you have been warned. Adapt or die! :!: :!: :!:

Update: I've got the motor out and there's no visible signs of damage. The brushes are over 1cm long and the commutator is all intact, if I little grubby. Measuring across the brushes gives a more or less constant 2.8 ohms at all angles and there are no shorts to the frame. There is...

Hi everybody. Hoping one of you can help. This trusty machine has just failed at some point in its cycle and taken out a 32 amp MCB in the process (though not its own plug fuse). There's no RCD in the circuit. The exact point at which it failed is not known, except that the clothes are...

The trick with the last one in your head is not trying to do the whole thing. The first part is relatively easy: 9.02. The answer to the second part is a number bigger than seven, so that's (a) and (b) ruled out. It's also a number that ends in one, and so the only possible answer is (d). :)...

The question is badly posed and indicates ignorance on the part of the questioner as to the meaning of the word 'heavy'. Two such rocks would be required, each so strongly attracted to the other that no (known) force could pull them apart. Could 'God' create these rocks? :?: :?: :?: Well...

We've just come back from our daughter's flat where repeats of Star Trek were playing virtually non-stop. :o :o :o They have Freeview but rarely watch it and I was a bit surprised to discover that they didn't have any kind of hard disc recorder. Their solution is to wait until the live...

The more obvious answer, from a creationist's point of view, is that 'God' put them there for us to find. :idea: :idea: :idea:

In another thread: http://www.diynot.com/forums/general-discussion/barrstards.346145/ And now, in this thread: I should have known that. :oops: :oops: :oops: And so, since that abberation of one's hormonal balance leads to a suspension of rational thought and an experience that...

What! No mermaids? :shock: :shock: :shock: You'll be telling me that there's no such thing as a magnetic monopole next. :lol: :lol: :lol: Serious point: Sooey has it right. A true scientist postulates a theory then sets out to disprove it. I don't see too many religious types...

Hi Susie. Nice to see you're still here. :) :) :) Word games haven't been the same without you. :( :( :( (Apologies for blatant plug.) PS: Great video enyam. :) :) :)

True. It should be noted however that the 'eye for an eye' rule specified a maximum rather than a minimum and its purpose was to prevent minor squabbles turning into all out war. Sadly, it was not applied when some tosspot killed Archduke Ferdinand. :( :( :( Well I'd like to be able to...

You might equally well ask why there's only one animal that really looks like an elephant - and it's an elephant. Ditto the rhinoceros and the hippopotamus. Desmond Morris proposed a plausible explanation thus (if I can remember his exact words): "Competitors would appear to have been...