Facts that shocked you

[WPA]

IanJ9375 said:

Volkswagen make more sausages (currywurst) than they do cars per year

They even have an official part number

[Monkeylegend]

WPA said:

IanJ9375 said:

Volkswagen make more sausages (currywurst) than they do cars per year

They even have an official part number

Only until next year then they are going veggie/vegan so you won't be able to call them a real sausage anymore.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

The most ubiquitous man made object is the humble staple. Usually 5000 in a box. Used all over the world.

The world's biggest tyre manufacturer is......Lego.

[Nova Gyna]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The most ubiquitous man made object is the humble staple. Usually 5000 in a box. Used all over the world.

The world's biggest tyre manufacturer is......Lego.

I haven’t counted them all, but I’d say more bricks have been made than staples. Possibly more nails too. Pieces of paper? Transistors?

Agree about Lego

[otolith]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The world's biggest tyre manufacturer is......Lego.

Possibly also the world's smallest tyre manufacturer.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Nova Gyna said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The most ubiquitous man made object is the humble staple. Usually 5000 in a box. Used all over the world.

The world's biggest tyre manufacturer is......Lego.

I haven’t counted them all, but I’d say more bricks have been made than staples. Possibly more nails too. Pieces of paper? Transistors?

5000 bricks, nails and transistors are a lot. 5000 staples is a single box of staples. How many boxes of staples are made across the globe every day. With 5000 in every box.

[Monkeylegend]

Apparantly 80% of hearing aids languish in bedside cabinets and are never worn.

[hidetheelephants]

Shaoxter said:

hidetheelephants said:

"Drive" is not what Blashford Snell did in Darien. Quite shameful that central america is not yet connected together.

I believe that is for good reason! i.e. to make drug smuggling harder.

The fact the US has not yet had the lightbulb moment about drugs is a stty reason to keep central america dirt poor.

[otolith]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

5000 bricks, nails and transistors are a lot. 5000 staples is a single box of staples. How many boxes of staples are made across the globe every day. With 5000 in every box.

Multiple billions of transistors;

[Ken_Code]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

5000 bricks, nails and transistors are a lot. 5000 staples is a single box of staples. How many boxes of staples are made across the globe every day. With 5000 in every box.

Each Apple M3 chip has 25 billion transistors on it.

[mikey_b]

Ken_Code said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

5000 bricks, nails and transistors are a lot. 5000 staples is a single box of staples. How many boxes of staples are made across the globe every day. With 5000 in every box.

Each Apple M3 chip has 25 billion transistors on it.

And even that is quite low compared to some - high end GPU chips are more like 70 billion per unit - with each unit no bigger than your fingertip. Most of the size of a modern chip, the picture above being a typical example, is packaging for all the pins where it mounts in the socket, and providing a good thermal contact to the heatsink.

There’s absolutely no way there are more staples than transistors made, not by a factor of thousands.

[BigBen]

mikey_b said:

Ken_Code said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

5000 bricks, nails and transistors are a lot. 5000 staples is a single box of staples. How many boxes of staples are made across the globe every day. With 5000 in every box.

Each Apple M3 chip has 25 billion transistors on it.

And even that is quite low compared to some - high end GPU chips are more like 70 billion per unit - with each unit no bigger than your fingertip. Most of the size of a modern chip, the picture above being a typical example, is packaging for all the pins where it mounts in the socket, and providing a good thermal contact to the heatsink.

There’s absolutely no way there are more staples than transistors made, not by a factor of thousands.

But they are on an integrated circuit so don't count as a single item each do they?

Each IC will have multiple accompanying capacitors and resistors so these could be the most ubiquitous.

Or sheets of paper, it stands to reason there are more of them than staples.......

[MBBlat]

BigBen said:

Or sheets of paper, it stands to reason there are more of them than staples.......

Depends on how many tries it takes correctly staple the paper

[98elise]

otolith said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

5000 bricks, nails and transistors are a lot. 5000 staples is a single box of staples. How many boxes of staples are made across the globe every day. With 5000 in every box.

Multiple billions of transistors;

Agreed.

How many in a single device, then multiplied by the number of devices you own over your lifetime.

Just sitting on my sofa I can see about 10 working devices that would be classed as a computer. In the whole house its probably 30-40 if I include all the redundant tech in cupboards etc.

[otolith]

Of course, whether a transistor on a chip is a discrete object or not is another question. If it is, I suspect printed glyphs also outnumber staples!

[James6112]

Catweazle said:

WelshRich said:

It’s not possible to drive from North America to South America.

John Blashford-Snell Would disagree.

His father was a vicar at my local church attached to my CofE school when I was a kid.
I remember John coming in to recall his adventures to us, must have been early 1970s

[IanJ9375]

otolith said:

And their currywurst is famously excellent.

Having heard this, I felt obliged to try it in their staff canteen while visiting VWFS in Germany on business. Maybe you have to be German to appreciate it.

I work for a German multinational I wish we had currywurst on the go here lol

[eldar]

IanJ9375 said:

otolith said:

And their currywurst is famously excellent.

Having heard this, I felt obliged to try it in their staff canteen while visiting VWFS in Germany on business. Maybe you have to be German to appreciate it.

I work for a German multinational I wish we had currywurst on the go here lol

Is VW serving the best of the wurst?

[legless]

Monkeylegend said:

WPA said:

IanJ9375 said:

Volkswagen make more sausages (currywurst) than they do cars per year

They even have an official part number

Only until next year then they are going veggie/vegan so you won't be able to call them a real sausage anymore.

That was a 2021 decision that got reversed last year due to backlash from the factory workers. You'll still be able to get them for the foreseeable.

[Monkeylegend]

legless said:

Monkeylegend said:

WPA said:

IanJ9375 said:

Volkswagen make more sausages (currywurst) than they do cars per year

They even have an official part number

Only until next year then they are going veggie/vegan so you won't be able to call them a real sausage anymore.

That was a 2021 decision that got reversed last year due to backlash from the factory workers. You'll still be able to get them for the foreseeable.

That's good, to much of this veggie/vegan nonsense around.