Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
4th June 2020, 04:43 AM
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Replies: 37
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
20th May 2020, 01:55 AM
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Replies: 78
Views: 6,936
That's an 8,8 cm gun on your "uboot". Germans...
That's an 8,8 cm gun on your "uboot". Germans measured only rifle calibres in millimetres. If you can't be bothered to get even the correct nomenclature right then I just don't know... :rolleyes:
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2020, 08:16 AM
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Replies: 2,119
Views: 118,246
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
22nd March 2020, 05:14 AM
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Replies: 2,119
Views: 118,246
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
18th March 2020, 07:33 AM
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Replies: 2,119
Views: 118,246
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
6th December 2019, 07:57 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 4,437
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th November 2019, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 165
Views: 7,953
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
16th October 2019, 01:17 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 4,978
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
23rd September 2019, 06:26 PM
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Replies: 165
Views: 18,822
Don't know if that one's true but a similar...
Don't know if that one's true but a similar incident did happen in Afghanistan in 2001. A JTAC attached to a group of US special forces and Afghan security forces inadvertently called down a 2000lb...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
20th August 2019, 10:35 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 5,537
Samuel Pepys' diary for 20 October 1660: This...
Samuel Pepys' diary for 20 October 1660: This morning one came to me to advise with me where to make me a window into my cellar… and going down my cellar to look, I put my foot into a heap of turds,...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
24th July 2019, 10:29 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 2,792
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
20th July 2019, 09:43 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 4,933
As for "iron chariots", if it has any...
As for "iron chariots", if it has any significance at all, I reckon it's just poetic license for "their chariots are sturdy and well balanced. Their horses are fast and well trained and brave and...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
19th July 2019, 09:52 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,341
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th July 2019, 03:47 AM
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Replies: 188
Views: 8,772
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
16th June 2019, 03:14 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 3,027
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
13th June 2019, 11:29 AM
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Replies: 61
Views: 6,125
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
9th June 2019, 12:30 PM
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Replies: 304
Views: 18,436
You people on here can be such snarky buggers...
You people on here can be such snarky buggers sometimes. Where did I even imply that it "must be exactly the same"? Anyway, the wing form is in fact identical to the lightweight experimental XP-51...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
9th June 2019, 06:30 AM
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Replies: 304
Views: 18,436
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
9th June 2019, 05:58 AM
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Replies: 304
Views: 18,436
Yes, I can't count how many times I've seen...
Yes, I can't count how many times I've seen Focke-Wulf 190s (the same one every time, in fact) being shot down in the "Battle of Britain" or Churchill tanks "abandoned on the beach" at "Dunkirk". ...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
9th June 2019, 04:48 AM
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Replies: 304
Views: 18,436
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
9th June 2019, 04:36 AM
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Replies: 304
Views: 18,436
Winkle Brown's very favourite aeroplane.
I'm...
Winkle Brown's very favourite aeroplane.
I'm trying to recall the name of the 1920s Russian aeroplane that had its skin made of transparent acetate to make it "stealthy". :confused:
ETA:...
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
6th June 2019, 12:35 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,587
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd June 2019, 05:52 AM
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Replies: 249
Views: 25,696
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd June 2019, 05:27 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 2,266
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
1st June 2019, 07:11 AM
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Replies: 49
Views: 2,488
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
1st June 2019, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 49
Views: 2,488
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
11th May 2019, 04:24 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 5,080
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
6th May 2019, 04:36 AM
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Replies: 693
Views: 75,391
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
6th May 2019, 04:02 AM
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Replies: 212
Views: 15,763
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
6th May 2019, 03:59 AM
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Replies: 212
Views: 15,763
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
5th May 2019, 09:11 AM
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Replies: 204
Views: 9,834
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
19th April 2019, 11:29 AM
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Replies: 355
Views: 13,378
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
17th March 2019, 06:10 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 1,677
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th January 2019, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,330
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd January 2019, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 2,635
The American Veterinary Medicine Association...
The American Veterinary Medicine Association doesn't agree with you. This is from their latest (2013) guidelines on euthanising animals:
"Suggestions that finfish responses to pain merely...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd January 2019, 06:49 AM
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Replies: 182
Views: 8,973
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
1st January 2019, 02:15 PM
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Replies: 3,547
Views: 290,540
When I worked in tech support (ugh! <shudder>...
When I worked in tech support (ugh! <shudder> :boggled:) we used to have to use the English (NATO), the German, the Dutch and the French phonetic alphabets. Doesn't do at all to mix up your Charlies,...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
1st January 2019, 01:53 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 3,377
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
30th December 2018, 08:37 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,478
The Russians first thought up military...
The Russians first thought up military parachuting (or at least the idea of air dropping troops) in the 1930s. One of their first ideas was to roll the guys up in thick bundles of straw and canvas...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
30th December 2018, 08:08 AM
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Replies: 231
Views: 13,465
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
28th November 2018, 11:47 AM
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Replies: 267
Views: 10,162
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
9th November 2018, 03:42 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,001
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
6th November 2018, 07:21 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,474
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
2nd November 2018, 07:26 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,474
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
2nd November 2018, 05:41 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,896
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
18th October 2018, 05:54 AM
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Replies: 90
Views: 4,929
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
12th October 2018, 01:10 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,849
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
12th October 2018, 01:07 PM
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Replies: 100
Views: 6,014
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
20th September 2018, 08:48 AM
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Replies: 133
Views: 9,034
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
18th September 2018, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 63
Views: 2,533
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