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Kimi Raikkonen wins the F1 world title … or has he?
Yes!! Looks like he has.
Un-frickin-believable, from seventeen points behind just two races ago …
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 10 21 at 08:54 PM • permalink
And me with no Finlandia in the house with which to celebrate in appropriate fashion.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 10 21 at 09:01 PM • permalink
Then there’s the plant-based villain from The Tick. El Seed.
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 10 21 at 09:31 PM • permalink
#18 El Cid: You’ll never, ever hear from the guy. He’s probably some pedophile posting from Thailand, or some professional college student in his fifth undergraduate year of “general studies”, getting DNA all over his keyboard. One of those nobodies who goes from dust to dust without ever being anything more important than dust in between.
What a bizarre rule: The fuel and ambient temperature can’t differ by more than ten degrees? I’m trying to process that, and imagining cheaters employing fuel coolers… it’s just too weird, but I’m sure there must be a reason for it. Is cooler fuel denser and more efficient? I mean, I understand turbos and intercoolers, but that’s to cool the AIR going into the engine.
#25: I suppose it could be Finnish skulduggery, but if he’s disqualified, I’m sure Kimi has other consolations.
Hucbald, some people just enjoy annoying others online. They rarely try it in real life for fear of being beaten up.
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 10 21 at 10:04 PM • permalink
Dammmit! Not over yet … McLaren are appealing the decision. The chutzpah of those cheating bastards, to protest this decision after what they did this year, is unfathomable.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 10 21 at 10:05 PM • permalink
At this point, I’m almost afraid to click on Paco’s link. Nah it’s safe. Out of curiosity, is there some symbolism behind his choice of flower color in that photo?
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 10 21 at 10:06 PM • permalink
#35: What flower? Oh, was Kimi in that photo, too? Yeah, a blue carnation. Not sure what’s up with that.
His bride is a lovely girl, a former Miss Scandinavia.
Now, I’m not a big cat fan. My attitude toward cats is rather like Voltaire’s toward God: “When we encounter one another, we tip our hats but do not speak”. Nonetheless, this is pretty low; but in a small way, very revealing about the Clintons’ Grade-A phoniness.
OK, I’ve got it now: Fuel is far lighter and less dense than water, which means fuel reduces it’s volume significantly when cooled (Water does not reduce its volume hardly at all throughout the temperature range of its liquid state). This means with cold fuel you can cram a whole lot more BTU’s in the car’s tank and so stay out on the track longer. The logical cheating tactic would therefore be to cool the fuel in the pits. Interesting.
I give up on trying to figure out El Amoeba, though, realizing that I really just don’t want to know.
I can’t belive Hamilton didn’t win. He was looking invincible earlier.
To be honest I’ve stopped watching since Schumacher retired. I can’t get as excited about anyone else.
I used to love how after Schumacher won a race he would spend the post race interview talking about how perfect he was and how no one else had a chance. hahahahahaha.
Posted by llllloooooo on 2007 10 21 at 10:38 PM • permalink
Hillary is a consummate politician. Everything and everyone has a political value. Once they have expended that value, they are no longer important.
That being said, I’m not much of a cat person, and believe what Terry Pratchett said, “If cats looked like frogs, we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are”.
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 10 21 at 10:47 PM • permalink
#45 – The effect is similar to any kind of charge-cooler, except on a smaller scale. The cooler fuel means your air-fuel mixture is cooler as well, which means you can cram more of it into the cylinder, which means more power. I believe what you’ve described WAS used as a tactic in the turbo era, when re-fueling was not allowed, so they tried to cram as much fuel as possible into the car at the beginning of the race so they could run full-out for longer. Nowadays I suppose cooler fuel could also shorten up pit-stops slightly, but I believe the main concern is with a power advantage due to the cooling.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 10 21 at 10:57 PM • permalink
#43 & #49: At least Socks didn’t face the same mysterious fate as a cat belonging to one of Bill Clinton’s most famous enemies.
Past my bedtime, but wanted to leave you all with some great gift ideas from Pacosan, Paco Enterprises’ Japanese subsidiary.
- #52
NPH Studios are staffed by ABC technical staff, Nine’s FTA competition.
The initial report was that it was the ABC who complained about Nine’s worm broadcast, per Glenn Milne, on behalf of the NPC: ‘ask the ABC’.
Was the feed cut at its source (highly doubtful) or at the destination (Nine) to comply with Auntie’s wishes?Studio feeds often have their source ident set in the VITS (~ teletext) part of the signal.
- Assailant #1: Where’d she go?
Assailant #2: I don’t know? Maybe she is behind the wrinkled soda machine that is wearing sneakers?Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 10 21 at 11:34 PM • permalink
- #63 kae
Saw that.
I’m discussing the related story on that page.The ‘audience’ could have been anywhere, with a monitor of the feed, not necessarily in the auditorium.
Point is: Nine’s/Auntie’s finger poking at the Libs/NPC for allegedly cutting the feed (bollocks), when according to Nine’s Westacott* (per NPC’s Glenn Milne, chasing (Seven for) ratings) … said he did not know who had made the decision to cut the network’s feed (Nine itself, hmmm?)Ray Martin on Brekkie with Franbat said it was Auntie (the FTA competitor and tech staffer of NPHS) who was complaining about the worm feed – prolly closer to the truth, again Glenn Milne of the NPC concurs.
*Article recently deleted from Ninemsn
- SMH:
Nine enlisted 90 uncommitted voters to rate the debate from the network’s Willoughby studios.Ahem.
It’s extremely doubtful that the TCNS split of the NPHS feed would have been cut, as the News & other depts (as with the other Networks’) would have been recording/monitoring it … not juz good ole 60 Minutes …
- #64
I thought #52 was an amusing thing to post.
Had they not been in Canberra I would have said “Were these the worm controllers?”.I didn’t mention anything about the transmission cut or otherwise of 9’s feed. Face it, we all know that it’s cooked like hell!If all runs true to form on the worm result JWH will win. Yay! I shudder to think what Kev and his, hmmmmm minions? I was going to call them minions, but they don’t actually work for him, do they? Kev and his, er, advisors ministers will only take a year to screw things up/over, and have two more years to cock up completely.
- #67
Nah, reckon Nine bowed to Auntie’s wishes & just took a local split from ‘SNEW’ instead.
Meeja f-wit politics – they compete aggressively for ratings yet often share technical resources.Martin blames Auntie.
Milne blames Auntie.
Westacott blames NPC/Libs.Common denominator = ?
But guess who’s getting the bad press over it?
- #24 Hucbald, this may be of interest although not necessarily applicable to racing cars.
All fuel-planning on jet airliners is based on the mass (not volume) of the fuel. This is because the amount of energy available in the fuel relates to the kilograms of fuel that are on board, not the litres.
The fuel contents gauges and fuel flow gauges all read kilograms (or pounds in Seppoland).
The temperature of the fuel when it is uplifted, is only significant if you want maximum range and you are taking full tanks, a very rare occurrence. With full tanks, colder fuel would allow you to pack more mass and therefore more energy into the tanks.
Fuel temperature at the time it enters the jet engine is not a performance planning factor, and in any case it will be different from the temperature at the time of uplift.
Jet engines will happily burn gasoline, but kerosene is the preferred jet fuel because it holds more energy per kilogram than gasoline.
Gore happy.