Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link • Hacker News Board

Re: Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link

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Post by SheepSlapper » Sat, May 17, 2014, 1:32 AM UTC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbir_Rahman

I got both the smallest Wikipedia page I've ever seen, and the one with worst "words I understand" to "words that make me go 'huh?'" ratio I've come across.

Re: Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link

#42

Post by elwell » Sat, May 17, 2014, 1:41 AM UTC

CamperBob2 wrote: post #39

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._11_1/4_Dozen_P...

> a mixture of antimony and potassium tartrate

Antimony was someone else's random article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7758751

Re: Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link

#43

Post by growlix » Sat, May 17, 2014, 1:46 AM UTC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_Theatre

Re: Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link

#44

Post by mappum » Sat, May 17, 2014, 1:47 AM UTC

CamperBob2 wrote: post #39

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._11_1/4_Dozen_P...

This makes me wonder what the longest Wikipedia article title is...

Re: Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link

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Post by balor123 » Sat, May 17, 2014, 1:49 AM UTC

jkdearden wrote: post #40

dxbydt wrote: post #20

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony Reportedly we are going to run out as early as 2020, definitely before 2030.

That reminds me of this timeline on when we're going to exhaust certain natural resources (which has antimony running out at 2020): http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120618-global-resources-st... A bit of a downer, but interesting to think about.

Why all the hubbub about rain forests then?? Running out of phosphorus would be scary!

Re: Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link

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Post by adnanh » Sat, May 17, 2014, 1:51 AM UTC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_of_vernal_equinox

Re: Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link

#47

Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 17, 2014, 1:53 AM UTC

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Re: Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link

#48

Post by shortenda » Sat, May 17, 2014, 1:56 AM UTC

zxexz wrote: post #33

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringhals_Nuclear_Power_Plant Huh, apparently this plant generates 1/5 of the power of Sweden. I wonder what happens when such an important plant gets shut down temporarily? What would happen to the power infrastructure of the country if this plant melted down, is there some sort of redundancy? I know nothing about Sweden's electricity infrastructure, but would love to read more about it.…

I believe that Europe has a fairly interconnected grid, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continental... Also, although the plant is 20% of the energy generated in Switzerland, it is not necessarily 20% of the power generation capacity, and is most likely much less than 20% of the generation capacity of Switzerland. Generation Capacity being the amount of KW that can be generated at a time.