I think it's just not really in the spirit of the event. It's not meant to be a completely serious athletic endeavour, it's a bit of fun and fundraising. They're getting 2,000 people of all ages on to a tiny island with a population of 61 to chuck some stones across a pond. There doesn't seem to be a big cash prize or anything. There was a raffle to win a wheelbarrow described as doing "0-3 mph in 1 second"
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I think I can skim a stone farther than I can throw one, given a good stone and flat water... and a few attempts. I'm definitely not getting remotely near 60m though, that's wild
Aside from that this article only comes to the conclusion of broad implications and the author himself says he used both interchangeably in his book, this is an American source and the headline for this post is British. I don't know about American Engkish, but there is no expectation of a stone being worked by humans in British English. In common usage here a rock is generally bigger than a stone - I'd say whether you can throw it one-handed is roughly where the extremely fuzzy line is - but you could absolutely just pick up any small piece of stone from the ground in nature and call it "a stone" without anyone questioning it
Grit (both CAMI amd FEPA) is based on the size of the grains that pass through a series of increasingly fine mesh sieves, with the numbers representing how many holes per a given area there are in the sieve. However, the size of those holes depends on both the density of the wires and the thickness of the wires (thicker wires = smaller holes if you have the same density of holes), so I would imagine that the two standards diverge because of that. I don't know for sure though, and those standards are expensive to buy
I don't think you could use SI prefixes with the grit systems, but ultra-fine sandpaper often abandons the grit systems and just gives you an average size of grain in micrometres
It's not cheap or particularly easy to get, but it's out there. Seems like it's basically only used for particularly rough hardwood flooring and sometimes shaping drywall
4% of the troops in the one before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
They need a convenient victim so they're antagonising one of the most powerful militaries in NATO and the EU?
He was in for a bit, got out at the end of May. Seems to have remained every bit as nauseating as he was before
China isn't even taking over BEV sales in the EU, German manufacturers (especially Volkswagen) are the clear leaders. They make up three of the top four for new BEV registrations in the EU for this year up to April, and third place is Skoda which is still part of the VW Group. The Germa manufacturers absolutely do have the market and for some reason are still mad about it
Yeah, the last one wanted to marry an American divorcee and that just won't do
Ehh... Fuck the royal family and abolish the monarchy, but for so long as they're around I'd rather they did something worthwhile with the power like this. Much better that the revenue of his portfolio goes to helping these people than on some luxury frivolities
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Could probably make it serrated with that stuff