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    English is such a strange and inconsistent language...

    in The Neil Hill Memorial Lounge

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    19 hours ago, gumbypickett said:

    I have to agree, they seem to drop letters from words

    and a lot, I can't understand what they are saying. They

    seem to talk like they have colds. But I'm not picking, even some of

    us Aussies sound like we are outback yahoo drongos.

    Plz take no offence.🤬

    cheers

    Gumby

    Just some recent experience:

    I was in Englang (Nottingham) over Easter, and could not understand some of the guys there (neither could my co-travellers).

    I was in Oz two weeks before and could understand them well.

    How comes? Has the Brexit made the English to leave common language as well?

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    This Week's Meaningless Topic (#188)(April 10)

    in The Neil Hill Memorial Lounge

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    On 4/15/2024 at 1:13 AM, W2DR said:

    You should be aware of the Beer Goggles Effect John.

     

    The "Beer Goggles" Effect:

    In 2002, researchers at St. Andrews University and Glasgow University in Scotland took 80 college students and had half of them drink a "moderate" amount of alcohol -- between one and four servings, depending on gender and body weight. The other half, the control group, remained sober. Scientists showed each subject pictures of people of the opposite sex. In all cases -- male and female alike -- the experimental (tipsy) group rated each picture an average of 25 percent more attractive than the sober group did.

    The effect can reportedly be traced to the nucleus accumbens. When you're looking at another human being, the nucleus accumbens is the area of the brain that decides how attractive that human being's face is. If you look at, say, George Clooney or Angelina Jolie, this area of your brain probably experiences increased neural firing. In other words, it's stimulated. As it turns out, alcohol, all by itself, stimulates the nucleus accumbens. So when you've have a few drinks, and you look at a face you may have judged as unattractive when you were sober, your brain, under the influence of alcohol, tells you that this face is in fact somewhat attractive. And the increase in perceived attractive seems to be directly proportional to the amount of alcohol consumed.

    In a more recent study, this one conducted by researchers at England's Manchester University in 2005, scientists actually came up with a mathematical formula to calculate the extent of the "beer goggle" effect on a given individual in a given situation. Their reasoning for creating this formula is that alcohol is not really the only factor affecting the drunken perception of beauty. Other factors, according to their research, include:

    How brightly lit the area is
    The observer's eye-sight quality
    The amount of smoke in the air
    The distance of the observer from the observed
    The formula goes like this:

                  (An)2xd(S+1)
           g=      -----------
                   L x (Vo)2


    where:

    An is the number of servings of alcohol
    S is the smokiness of the area on a scale of 0 - 10
    L is the lighting level of the area, measured in candelas per square meter, in which 150 is normal room lightning
    Vo is Snellen visual acuity, in which 6/6 is normal and 6/12 is the lower limit at which someone is able to drive
    d is the distance between the observer and the observed, measured in meters

    The formula works out a "beer goggle" score ranging from 1 to 100+. When g = 1, the observer is perceiving the same degree of beauty he or she would perceive in a sober state. At 100+, everybody in the room is a perfect 10.
     

    There is a song in German "Geh mal Bier holen, Du wirst schon wieder hässlich" - Go get beer, you´re becoming ugly again.

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    Orbx airports visited in real life - a rolling story

    in General Discussion

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    3 hours ago, boetie said:

    Yes Paul. Well done mate. Off to bed. Good night, too easy for you global  travellers. 

    Cheers 

    Graeme

    Sorry I am off to a sports training weekend, so I couldn’t check it. But one fine day I am back, and with the suggestion to widen the surrounding of the airport we will have plenty to do here. 
    I would say the photos should still be in the range of the respective scenery pack. Think of all the details Jarrad or Ken had put in!

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    Mountain flying

    in General Discussion

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    Take the alps and fly from, say Salzburg to Grenoble with as many burger stops as you can digest.

    There are even a lot of airfields where you can land small jets, at least F-18s...

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    Orbx airports visited in real life - a rolling story

    in General Discussion

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    13 minutes ago, paulk said:

    Great another photo competition.

     

    So not got a clue but looking at the small propellor aircraft I’m going to guess Tasmania, Launceston???

    Paul, you were fast. Too fast. Lonnie is correct! I would have to take another continent to make it more challenging, once it would be my turn again.

    But now it´s yours, do you have one?

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    This Week's Meaningless Topic (#187)(April 3)

    in The Neil Hill Memorial Lounge

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    P3D scenery: I rarely used freeware scenery, with one BIG exception: OZx. What a glorious time this was.

    P3D planes: No freeware for me, except Manfred Jahn´s DC-3.

    That drives the pay / freeware relation in that sim to approx. 90/10.

     

    MSFS scenery: I find the default mostly good enough (we are flying, not walking!), only for places I currently visit in real I may spend money. And then there is flightsim.to...

    MSFS planes: Not enough interesting ones on the market, so I have only bought a few.

    Makes a pay- / freeware relation of approx. 10/90.

     

    Maybe this is the reason why JV (and so many famous Orbx designers) left the scene?

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    This Week's Meaningless Topic (#186)(March 27)

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    On 3/27/2024 at 10:57 PM, John Burgess said:

    For me the most satisfying aspect is flying approaches using navaids and charts. Simulating not gaming ;)

     

    Especially when the weather is lousy. Nothing beats that moment on short final when the runway lights finally appear out of the murk :)

     

    When testing a new airport the ILS's (if present) tend to be the first thing I try out!

    I'm sure that puts me down as having some sort of obsessive disorder :lol:

     

    All the best,

     

    John

    Can´t say it better. And I have to add: P3D is much more rewarding than MSFS, with my hangar.

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