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Quentin Tarantino and his foot fetish: a complete list of all his films featuring scenes with feet and legs - photos and videos

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Fans of Quentin Tarantino know that he has a foot fetish. For those unfamiliar with the term: it's when a man has a particular fascination with women's legs, and even more so with their feet. It's safe to say that Quentin Tarantino is the most famous foot fetishist in the world.

Let's start with Quentin Tarantino's first real film - Reservoir Dogs (1992). I'm skipping "My Best Friend's Birthday", as it was never officially released.

There's nothing related to foot fetishism in Reservoir Dogs: the film features only tough men. Women appear only briefly in a few background scenes. I found just one scene where a woman is shown in the foreground - the carjacking moment.

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The real altitude of spaceflight

connected2u

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Humans have been flying to space since 1961 - that's over 60 years now. These days, we even have tourist spaceflights. In sci-fi movies, people travel between planets, stars, and even galaxies.

But what is space from the perspective of aviation and astronautics? Technically, it starts somewhere between 100 and 122 kilometers above Earth's surface. The range exists because different organizations define the boundary of space slightly differently.

Is 120 kilometers really that high? The average diameter of our planet is 12,742 kilometers - quite a lot. Below, I drew a simple picture to show what a spaceflight looks like to scale:

See that tiny red dot? That’s our trip to "outer space". Not exactly impressive, right? For comparison, the International Space Station orbits at an altitude of about 418.2 km - on this scale, its point would only be a couple of pixels higher.

Human technology is still in its infancy. Legally, we can say we fly to space - but in reality, it looks more like what you see above. As for interplanetary travel, so far, only our robots have made the journey.

How wind turbine power depends on blade length: looking at real data

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Wind turbines keep getting bigger every year. There's one main reason for that: the longer the blades, the more powerful the turbine. But couldn't you just install two smaller turbines instead of one large one? To answer this, let's take a look at real-world data.

Goldwind is a Chinese wind turbine manufacturer. Here are photos of their operating turbines from the company website:

Goldwind GW 82 / 1500 - output: 1500 kW (1.5 MW). Rotor length: 82.3 meters, meaning a blade diameter of roughly 41.15 meters.

Goldwind GW 171 / 6000 - output: 6000 kW (6.0 MW). Rotor length: 171 meters, giving a blade diameter of about 85.5 meters.

Even here you can already see that the relationship between blade length and output is nonlinear. The second turbine's blade is 2.07x longer, but the power is 4x higher!

Vestas is a wind turbine manufacturer from Denmark (their turbines are shown in the next photo):

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The foreman at the dock from The Naked Gun made it into the third film (actor Joe Grifasi)

dima

1 г. назад

Remember that memorable interrogation scene on Pier 32 from The Naked Gun?

The actor who played the sleazy dock foreman is named Joe Grifasi.

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A dried-up future New York in The Fifth Element

dima

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In The Fifth Element, there's a brief and easily overlooked scene in the middle of the movie where a spaceship takes off toward Fhloston Paradise. It only lasts a couple of seconds, but if you pause and take a closer look, you'll notice an interesting detail from the director.

I've numbered the key spots in the screenshot.

What we see is New York of the future. The ocean level has dropped dramatically, making the city look almost unrecognizable. The only question is - where could all the water have gone for sea levels to fall that much?

1 - The Statue of Liberty. It looks taller because of the extended base underneath.
2 - This marks the future ocean level. Somehow the ice caps didn't melt to add more water to the seas. Did humanity ship the water off to other planets?

3 - Manhattan, 4 - Brooklyn, 5 - The Brooklyn Bridge connecting them. With the water gone, the bridge is now spanning a canyon instead of a river.

And on what used to be the ocean floor, they've built a spaceport.

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An argument against moon landing conspiracy theorists

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I have a friend who believes in the moon landing conspiracy - you know, one of those people who think the Americans never actually went to the Moon.

He's convinced the whole thing was staged, masterfully filmed by movie directors. Arguing with him is almost pointless - he says every photo is fake. The fact that even Soviet scientists never questioned the authenticity of the American Moon landing doesn't matter to him.

But there's one argument that made him stop and think. No, I didn't manage to change his mind, but at least I got him to shut up for a while - confused him, so to speak.

The argument went like this: "So what, they faked all their Moon landings?"
Funny thing is, he didn't even know that the Americans went to the Moon not once, but several times.

Here's the list of all Moon missions:
Apollo 11 - July 16, 1969
Apollo 12 - November 14, 1969
Apollo 14 - January 31, 1971
Apollo 15 - July 26, 1971
Apollo 16 - April 16, 1972
Apollo 17 - December 7, 1972

So according to the "logic" of Moon landing deniers, the Americans didn't fake it just once - they supposedly faked it six times, along with all the photos, videos, and even the Moon rocks they brought back.

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Copenhagen - the city without lamp posts

parohod

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Did you know that there are almost no lamp posts in Copenhagen? Open Google Maps and see for yourself.

Instead of posts, the city uses lamps suspended over the middle of the road.

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The Same Typeface in Woody Allen's Films

parohod

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In his films, Woody Allen consistently uses the same typeface in the opening and closing credits. Midnight in Paris (2011):

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Sometimes restrictions create beauty in architecture

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Restrictions don't always lead to something bad. Let's look at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul - it is adorned with stunning patterns, yet there are no images of people or other living beings, because this is prohibited by Islamic norms. The restriction influenced the architecture, resulting in interiors like these:

Or take Amsterdam as an example. At one time, taxes in the city depended on the width of a building's façade, so future homeowners constructed rather narrow but tall houses. As a result, a distinctive Amsterdam architectural style emerged.

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Minus 60 or Plus 50: One of the Coldest and One of the Hottest Places on Earth

Vectorize

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There are places on Earth where nature truly tests human endurance. The village of Oymyakon in Yakutia is one of the coldest inhabited places on the planet, where winter temperatures drop below -50°C, with a record low of -67.7°C. On the other side of the world, the Danakil Depression near the Dallol volcano in Ethiopia is one of the hottest places on Earth, with an average annual temperature of around 34-35°C, while daytime temperatures can often exceed 50°C.

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