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Gayot Fow

1:20 AM

@phoog so if you add up the whole shebang, it's about 75,000 kph, right?

leaving off the microwave gobbledegook. and the relativity gobbledegook.

I appreciate the SO link @Berwyn I should have looked there.

Gayot Fow

2:55 AM

@JoErNanO should I wiki this answer because it uses other people's comments? Or wait for a while and wiki it? Or just forget it?

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A: UK standard visa inquiry

Interesting question and some very astute comments. I will merge in some of the comments and weave them together to present an answer. You wrote... My girlfriend told me that she will write me a letter to provide in the application that she will be depressed and it would affect her work ...

Gayot Fow

3:12 AM

@phoog @pnuts so if the whole shebang stopped, we would get burned to ashes by microwaves, right?

pnuts

Don't see why. At anything under around 300k km/s we are not escaping what travels at the speed of light.

Gayot Fow

4:11 AM

So our internal body clocks are adapted to travelling at 75k kph so we think it's normal, right?

hippietrail

5:03 AM

@pnuts because nobody thought to check for the one when creating the other and since they contain different words the existing one was not auto suggested. Time to request the mods to synonimize them

pnuts

Will you handle that? I think I would suggest [grands-prix] as a synonym for [formula-one] - though that then might risk confusion with F-1 visas.

pnuts

5:17 AM

When synonymising, is it automatic to add the singular version (eg [grand-prix] as well as [grands-prix] if [formula-one] is to be the master)?

phoog

5:41 AM

@GayotFow internal body clocks are not affected by our speed.

pnuts

@phoog Pedantically (very!) - except for space travellers? (Oh dear, is this the prelude to another batch of weird Qs on TSE.)

phoog

@pnuts Gayot Fow asked us to ignore relativistic effects.

pnuts

What a spoilsport!

phoog

Besides, relativistic effects only come into play when you're comparing two clocks.

@GayotFow you haven't specified a frame of reference Relative to the galactic center, our speed is around 800k km/h.

But the galaxy is also moving relative to other galaxies. Which one do you care about most?

pnuts

5:58 AM

Pure (idle) curiosity but you seem to know something about the topic. Given a belief in Big Bang, is it possible to point towards where that happened?

phoog

6:10 AM

@GayotFow Your answer is an excellent synthesis of everyone's comments, and I think you deserve all the reputation it earns for you.

@pnuts No.

Or rather, it happened everywhere.

pnuts

TQ!

phoog

TQ?

pnuts

Sorry. Thank You. (The link calls it internet slang, which sounds horrible, but I think it was just standard in the days of telex - bit like 'Roger' or ETA).

Gayot Fow

6:25 AM

@phoog That puts me out by a factor of about 10 fold. And yeah, ignore all the goobledegok about relative this and that. It means our body clocks are acclimated, because a human is supposed to go unconscious at 4 - 5 g's. and 800k kph is a lot faster than 4 - 5 g's!

Anybody who has been on The Cyclone at Coney Island will know the meaning of sheer TERROR. And that is only 3.75 g's!

pnuts

During an F1 race a driver will experience up to 5G under braking and cornering

But g is acceleration and 800k kph is speed - creep up to that speed over a long enough time and acceleration need not be 4g or more.

phoog

7:39 AM

@GayotFow @pnuts are you guys pulling my leg?

Body clock has nothing to do with g's.

No matter what your speed, if the velocity doesn't change, there are NO g's.

Gayot Fow

8:27 AM

@phoog ok, not body clock in the sense of jet lag, but whatever it is that makes travelling at 800k kpm feasible. Some other term would fit better.

I need to get to NYC by 31 Dec to be the last customer in history to have a pastrami sandwich at the Carnegie Deli

Willeke

10:27 AM

This is one to keep an eye on. I am not willing to flag for spam right away but will when they post a second link to the same site.

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Q: IS VIZAG A HONEYMOON DESTINATION

I'm planning for second honeymoon vacation in South India, We have already visited Alleppey, Kerala and looking for best location for good time. After reading many articles related best places to visit Oct/Nov/Dec and found Vizag is most visited place in November for honeymoon. Kindly me know i...

Willeke

10:42 AM

On re-reading and seeing (thanks Henning Makholm) that the OP also wrote the text in the link, I did flag for spam.

Willeke

12:21 PM

Is the word 'Quran' in this answer acceptable?

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A: Minimum connecting time

Re-book your trip, because with this itinerary you will be refused entry to Saudi Arabia As stated in Timatic, the Quran of airlines, passengers arriving for Umrah cannot enter Saudi Arabia at Dammam or Riyadh. You will only be admitted at Jeddah, Medinah or Yanbu

pnuts

12:59 PM

IMO definitely acceptable. Others say for Glasses Guide "the bible for car salesmen" etc.

Willeke

There is a big difference in how people use the word Bible and Quran and the people who read the Quran for their religion do not usually accept uses other than the proper ones, but I am not sure about the word Quran itself.

You can not always replace the name of one religious book for an other.

pnuts

1:13 PM

Having seen the context now, I prefer to keep it (ie I like the pun) but if it starts kicking up a stir would be happy enough to change then - despite my disinclination to pander to blinkered bigots.

Willeke

The answer is in the low quality review queue, where it does not belong in my view.

It is either right or wrong, with one word that either needs replacing or is acceptable. It is not the whole answer that is low quality.

pnuts

1:32 PM

does not belong - I agree, but perhaps was automatically sent there due to brevity? I'm convinced A is correct. (Though not sure whether PAX might 'get away with it' regardless.)

chx

2:24 PM

wtf is a " tier 1 consultancy company "

pnuts

I interpreted tier 1 there as "big/highly reputable/well known".

chx

yeah, so that's where these people get in trouble , they are so disconnected from reality they think matters at all

chx

2:43 PM

and then they file for a visa and jabber at the interview or the border and get denied.

Andrew Lazarus

3:19 PM

What point are you trying to make on the airport fee?

pnuts

OP: I always get a price, but when I go to the counter, the bill is almost twice IMO is not so much "That’s double!" as "That's not what I expected!". I agree could be otherwise but then I think what is unambiguous is: I want to know if there is a website where I can pay the car rental without surprises or added fees when picking up the car, just the price shown in the website.

Also for I want to know if is possible to avoid some of the additional fees a simple solution is to have them not be additional (ie by inclusion within the expected price). I agree, where relevant, "Airport Fee/s" inescapable.

Willeke

4:08 PM

15000 rep, finally.

chx

8:48 PM

so how does this site work

this guy travel.stackexchange.com/a/79941/4188 wrote the exact same answer as I did except different words plus one link yes

and it's upvoted more than mine

wtf

Willeke

Has happened to me as well, and that answer got accepted. (While I think it was a pretty much straight copy of my answer, without the extra link, just more fancy language.)

chx

well, i flagged for moderation

Willeke

I evened the votes for you. (Had forgotten to vote when I wrote the comment on the Q.)

chx

thx

Willeke

As far as I know, unless you can proof he copied yours, (hard as it is not the same) it is allowed. Some long time users even encouraged me to make a simplified copy of the answers to a Q and post it. To earn rep. I did not approve of that.

chx

9:01 PM

aerlingus.com/travel-information/check-in-options/airport nothing here. But there's an evening before option so I strongly suspect I won't be turned away if I show up at 1pm for a 5pm flight...

Willeke

If you fly with the home airline, it is very likely they accept your luggage, but if you fly with an airline which only has one flight that part of the day, they might not have staff around.

I am mostly using main airlines for the lines, these days, and have always been able to hand in luggage early. But I prefer to fly without if at all possible.

I would like to ask my boyfriend a few questions about the London libraries, having been a resident in Twickenham (later merged with Richmond) several periods, the last till just over a year ago.

But he is not in this weekend, will not see his mail at all.

chx

Yeah, that's what I hope, it's Ireland and it's Aer Lingus not Ryanair

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