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Hypothetically, someone could have left a guest (like say an engineer from the shipyard doing sea acceptance testing) fire a rifle and an unlucky wave reflection might have bounced a round back towards the bow.
Wow what an incredibly unfortunate hypothetical situation. 1 in a million ricochet that one.
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Boiling water in a microwave does not make the microwave dirtier.
True. The mess comes from a son reheating food, often tomato sauce based, without a lid.
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> Not just UK, the whole world except North America and Japan. Brazil is also an exception. The standard socket is only 10A (with a 20A alternative for things like air conditioners), and the voltages vary depending on the city (and the building, and location within the building); you might have 110V, 115V, 127V, 220V, 230V, and perhaps others I have missed (I went in more detail about it at https://news.ycombinator.c…
So it's pretty normal for a "230v" plug to actually be anything between 220v and 240v. Voltages fluctuated pretty wide depending on location. It's all down to the loca transformers. But mixing 100s of volts with 200s of volts sounds mad. I presume you had the special plug for your 200 range outlets? Does Brazil also have split phase AC like the US?
The same type of socket is used for "110V" (usually 127V) and "220V", sometimes in the same building, sometimes right next to each other. The "220V" socket might be colored red, or might have a sticker saying "220V" glued next to it, but don't count on it. The only difference is between the 10A and the 20A, the pins on the 20A plug are slightly thicker and don't fit in the 10A socket (the opposite works fine).
But at least, it's better than a couple of decades ago: on top of all that, back then we didn't even have a plug and socket standard. It was a mix of several types, including a "universal" socket which looked like the common USA socket but could also accept plugs with round pins, and all of them (including the USA standard sockets) could be used for both "110V" and "220V". The new plug and socket standard is great; it's better than the USA standard, since a partially pushed plug won't expose live pins (and it's also slightly smaller, allowing for denser power strips). It's unfortunate that they didn't also modify the European standard they used as a base to add keying for the different voltages (while allowing a universal plug for things which can work on both voltages), but I understand that trying to do too much could make it politically unfeasible to mandate the new standard.
> Does Brazil also have split phase AC like the US?
It's more common to have three-phase AC (that is, between phase and neutral is 127V and between a pair of phases is 220V), but we also have some places with split phase (for instance, 110V between phase and neutral and 220V between a pair of phases).
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This seemed like a wild claim (2500 watts for a tea kettle!? As much as a microwave oven in full blast?) so I looked it up. Wow.
Interesting what power do microwaves in US deliver. In EU the regular micros are about 900W range give or take 200W (that is 1500W from wall because microwaves are not efficient machines) but kettles have usually range 2200..3000. So it is obvious why everyone uses kettles. I myselft have 3kW one and it heats 0.35 litres to boiling in 51 seconds. To have similar microwave it would have to be 3000W micro that is 4500W…
Wh? It’s definitely less hassle, and maybe faster, to fill a cup/mug and stick that in the microwave
Than it is to fill a cup, pour that into the kettle, boil it, then pour it back in the cup. Or you have to put more water into the kettle than you need, because you can’t measure it accurateLet, and then it takes longer to boil
I have had lasers in my life a long time and have always appreciated the risks, but I have taken a couple of very brief hits to the eye. Fortunately, my eye doctor has never seen anything that looks like damage, and aside from extreme nearsightedness totally unrelated to lasers, my eyes work fine. These ultra-powerful lasers that will toast your retinas instantly scare the shit out of me. The fact that you can buy a…
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> I thought the whole point of the Marines was to cause maximal amounts of damage. I thought their point was to expose themselves to maximal amounts of damage.
> I thought their point was to expose themselves to maximal amounts of damage. I hate to be pedantic, but technically the whole point is to expose the enemy to maximal amounts of damage. Whoever that is. Anything else is incidental.
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A water kettle lets you consistently heat water to the same temperature (not just boiling, high-end kettles have additional temperature options), regardless of: - Amount of water - Initial temperature of water - Position of water container They also prevent superheated water accidents.
Yes and: Kettles are much easier to clean than microwave (interiors).