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Post by kerouac2 on May 4, 2021 17:00:05 GMT
But they stay up there six months at a time now. Even the launch vehicle no longer uses diapers. And they drink their own recycled urine, so you are probably not astronaut material.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 5, 2021 8:22:09 GMT
Voyager 1, the deep space probe, was launched in September 1977 and is now 14.2 billion miles from earth now yet still receives instructions and sends back data although it takes 20 hours to receive. It is expected to carry on transmitting until 2025 when the power to its last instrument ceases.
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Post by onlyMark on May 5, 2021 10:43:42 GMT
Takes a little over 21 hours to be accurate from that distance. I worked it out.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 6, 2021 4:00:48 GMT
20% of Americans who bought electric cars want to get rid of them because they take too long to charge. This is because the country has remained on a 110v power grid instead of 220v.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 7, 2021 17:56:36 GMT
Do you know why uniform jackets (and other dress jackets) have useless buttons on the sleeves? Napoléon was disgusted by the fact that his army officers used their sleeves to wipe their snotty noses. So he had buttons added to uniform sleeves to make it unpleasant to do this.
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Post by whatagain on May 7, 2021 19:08:32 GMT
Do you know why uniform jackets (and other dress jackets) have useless buttons on the sleeves? Napoléon was disgusted by the fact that his army officers used their sleeves to wipe their snotty noses. So he had buttons added to uniform sleeves to make it unpleasant to do this. Yup i did. But not that it came because of the nabot Leon.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 7, 2021 21:16:43 GMT
Nabot Leon seems to be a popular rock climb. Don’t get your reference...
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Post by questa on May 8, 2021 0:06:28 GMT
Oh, come on, Mick! I knew the first part but the WHO is not hard.
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Post by patricklondon on May 8, 2021 10:48:30 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 8, 2021 15:52:54 GMT
That's some elaborate grudge-holding you have there, Patrick!
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Post by kerouac2 on May 8, 2021 16:11:45 GMT
The other day they were mentioning that the Russians, the Polish, the Belgians and the Americans continue to admire Napoleon. The British and the French hate him, although the French have to cut him some slack on quite a few points. But there are practically no statues of him in France and just one small street in Paris is called "rue Bonaparte."
And yet he had more military victories than Julius Caesar, Hannibal and Alexander the Great combined. Probably something to think about.
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Post by whatagain on May 8, 2021 17:37:28 GMT
Nabot Leon seems to be a popular rock climb. Don’t get your reference... Nabot means dwarf. But with added scorn. Leon is a first name, nothing there. It would be interesting to know if all Belgians live him. I think Walloons love him massively because we were french for 10 or 20 years thanks to him. Not sure the Flemish love him so much. Here is a family of no fans of Boney.
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Post by mossie on May 9, 2021 8:09:02 GMT
Note some of our cartoonists depict the current president as Napoleon, perhaps he should be called Minnie Napoleon?
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Post by kerouac2 on May 9, 2021 8:39:34 GMT
Note some of our cartoonists depict the current president as Napoleon, perhaps he should be called Minnie Napoleon? As you know, the right of caricature is considered sacred in France, and we have paid a very high price for it.
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Post by tod2 on May 9, 2021 8:43:13 GMT
I've met a Napoleon. Yes, in Paris. I saw him everyday for a week when he arrived around lunchtime and strutted hither and thither in the little restaurant situated beneath my hotel in Montmartre. Short, balding and cocky. He was the manager?/owner? Definitely never picked up an empty plate or spoke to any guests. Mostly came in to organize the booze for the nightclub/bar down another flight of steps.
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Post by Questa2 on May 12, 2021 12:33:27 GMT
Note some of our cartoonists depict the current president as Napoleon, perhaps he should be called Minnie Napoleon? linko Mossie, is that Minnie Bannister? min, min, mjn.
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Post by Questa2 on May 12, 2021 12:35:14 GMT
Note some of our cartoonists depict the current president as Napoleon, perhaps he should be called Minnie Napoleon? linko Mossie, is that Minnie Bannister? min, min, mjn.
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Post by htmb on May 13, 2021 0:19:42 GMT
Today I learned police arrested a suspect in the weekend shooting of two women and a little girl in NYC’s Times Square. He was at the McDonalds about 30 minutes up the road from me. He says he was innocent, but police say he was trying to shoot his brother when he accidentally injured the three innocent bystanders. All the best people just love Florida.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 13, 2021 2:51:17 GMT
Well, that must have jangled your day real good! Kind of impressive that the police traced him all the way to your town & managed to arrest him without drama, at least.
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Post by htmb on May 13, 2021 3:26:16 GMT
Our local TV station interviewed the “innocent” man-child inside the county jail. He says it’s all a mistake. His girlfriend, who was also arrested, says they were driving to her parents’ home to hide out. So, it sounds like she totally ratted on him. The town is actually in a different county and town from me, but a short drive up the road. The main employers in the area are the two or three large prisons and a military training base. The fugitives picked a great location to pick up some dinner.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 13, 2021 3:50:37 GMT
Our local TV station interviewed the “innocent” man-child inside the county jail. That is legal?! The fugitives picked a great location to pick up some dinner. Oh, that's priceless!
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Post by htmb on May 13, 2021 4:01:59 GMT
Beats me. Just about anything goes out in these rural counties. I’ll keep looking for the local news link (I’d originally seen it on Facebook).
Of course, this was a really serious situation that caused trauma to many and injured three innocent people.
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Post by htmb on May 13, 2021 4:05:31 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 13, 2021 4:28:59 GMT
I swear Marilyn Parker is all botoxed. Wonder what it does to you if you start that young.
But back to the story that once again proves that maybe, just maybe gun control might be a good idea. I see what you mean about man-child. He doesn't seem completely checked in with reality.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 14, 2021 15:13:07 GMT
The Mississippi River temporatily reversed direction in 1812 after a series of earthquakes. Tell me more!
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Post by onlyMark on May 29, 2021 4:17:42 GMT
Radovan Karadzic, the man responsible for the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 and eventually caught in Belgrade in 2008, has been transferred to a jail in the UK to serve out his sentence. He tried to block the transfer saying it was a death sentence for him as he would be killed by Muslim extremists there.
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Post by questa on May 29, 2021 23:48:07 GMT
SO ?
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Post by Kimby on May 30, 2021 1:47:50 GMT
I learned something new about Warfarin, the blood thinner developed at the University of Wisconsin by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation or WARF.
Mr. Kimby’s doctors want him on blood thinners because of a heart arrhythmia he’s developed, to keep the blood that pools in his heart when he misses a beat from forming a clot that could cause a stroke. He was researching the drug online and found that its origin story is about as good as the discovery of penicillin.
Wisconsin is (or was) America’s Dairyland, and in the 1920’s dairy farmers found that their cows were bleeding to death after minor surgeries. WARF researchers traced the cause to hay that had been stored in silos. Clover in the hay had decomposed or fermented, producing the compound that researchers called Warfarin.
Its first use was as rat poison - rats and mice eat warfarin-laced bait, and start bleeding internally, which makes them thirsty so they leave your house or barn to get a drink and die outside. No muss no fuss. (Unless you’re a predator that eats too many warfarin-flavored mice.)
Fast forward to someone making the connection to its use as a blood thinner in humans. Warfarin is also called Coumadin.
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Post by questa on May 30, 2021 4:39:52 GMT
I wonder if anyone else has a "discovered by accident" story. My pair are naturally motoring stories.
1)Thick fog was swirling around their car as the young couple were trying to get to their friend's house. It was night time and they were crawling along with no street lights. They knew they were on a road that ran along a cliff road so were very apprehensive. Suddenly a cat ran across the road, the car stopped and in the glow from its eyes the couple saw they had lost their bearings and were heading for the cliff. The couple lobbied governments etc and at last had almost 100% of roads studded with Cat's Eyes along the middle of the road.)
2)The Monte Carlo Rally is very tough on drivers and cars. Mid 60s the cars to beat were the Minis. The high-powered driving lights were giving difficulties as the light bounced back from the fog and the drivers were dazzled. At a pit stop one of the Mini drivers grabbed a newspaper and tore pages from it to cover the too bright lights. The newspaper was a French one with yellow pages and they found that the yellow light filtered the fog much better than ordinary clear light. And that is why the fog lights on your car are yellow.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 30, 2021 4:49:06 GMT
All headlights in France were yellow from 1936 to 1993.
I suppose "cat's eyes" are what the rest of us call reflectors.
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