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Wrong. It's a definition of a median person, not of the average one.

It would evaporate and get ionized. The polished steel of Tesla at least can reflect. ... into others.

Mr. Herobrine, please, log in. They can repeat it once more.

Everything from Hawaii is cheating, even the guitars and shirts.

Your IP is where to find you to ask some very personal questions. When the IP pool gets empty, will the Universe collapse?

Billy Bans

Granted. You are riding the Voyager-1. I wish both Voyagers returned home.

Floor 4707: A quantum butterfly.

The remote Command & Control & Communication tools:

Btw Do these horses on the kinda ancient pictures have anything common with real MidEast donkeys and onagers? They are obviously painted from the modern hippodrome horses. They are too good even for the great artists' epoch. *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhal-Teke Not exactly this kind of horse (see its nose), but close. (Don't look at the 3000 years ago an so on, lol. Every horse had predecessors 3 000 years ago.)

Do you want the ammonia-rich Kerbal snacks? Why should they?

Btw, as Sauron is an IT, this also makes clear the picture with rings in whole. The rings are just personal keycards to connect to the Mordor system. Sau didn't make them magically, he was just an engineer. When somebody was activating the ring, it was sending the ID and geolocation to the server, like any phone is doing. Sau just received a notification in popup window, like "Frodo entered the chat", and took a look on the browser page with the Middle-Earth map and blinking pixel. The dwarfs had lost their rings, kinda in dragons' flame. (Actually tried to reverse engineer them, but broke). The palantirs were made because Sau didn't believe in all that magic crap, and always preferred engineer's solutions. They were spherical, solid, had no controls, no menus, to let even the most brainless user use it without calling the service team with the endless "My-my, I pressed something, and everything got wrong, what me to doing?!111" Saruman was sure that he had hacked his terminal, but it was a part of protection from a random fool, too. The palantir was reacting on the keyphrase "Hack you" and similar sounding ones. It blinked red, showed the message "Attention! Your protection is deactivated! You are using it on your own risk!", to leave the mom's hacker proud and happy. Of course, Sauron was having full access to it, and was watching, what Saruman is doing alone. Because it's easy to stick a paper on the notebook webcam, but hard to cover a whole sphere with it. While Saruman was sure that he is a godlike hacker, actually he was an unpaid webcam model. The Gates of Moria were also automated by Sauron. That's why the password was consisting of 5 letters in one register, without digits or special chars, was hard-coded, and written right on the gates with big, glowing runes. (Btw, it took several hours for Gandalf and others to pass the protection, lol) Otherwise the poetic elves would be always forgetting it and asking to restore, while the backstabbing gnomes would be giving them wrong answers, and changing it in settings. The password was simple, "melon". Because Sauron was eating a melon, and it was the first thing which came into his mind. Also because the dwarves were allergic to melons, while in elvish language it meant "friend". At least, the elves told this to the dwarves, to keep secret the fact, that they are just mocking the stupid gnomes and their allergy, which was enough strong to drive a balrog out of his lair to have a breathe of fresh air. As a real IT, Sauron was fond of trolling, and always send trolls to troll others. Another such jokester was Tom Bombadil. He was a retired Melkor's gardener, living in the Shirewood Forest together with his wife, Goldberry, and guess, which of them was more dangerous? As a former Sauron's colleague, he had Sauron all figured out, and so he equipped the home with a cell phone jammer. That's why The Ring was not working here, indicating "No connection", while the illiterate hobbits were thinking, it's a magic. Like his opponent, Radagast, Bombadil was loving the wild nature. But while Radagast was loving the wild nature passively, by letting it crap on his hat, Bombadil was an active lover of wild nature, trying to make the world better. His second name was Frank, and for his scientific wisdom they called him Einstein. That's why he was also known as Dr. Frank Einstein, or just Dr. Frankenstein. His lab assistant and then-future wife was in turn known as Frankenstein Bride. Better don't ask, how did she get her later nickname, Goldberry. She doesn't like to tell that story, as it was too much even for this couple. In the forest, Bombadil continued his biolab experiments, planting killer trees, mounting some equipment from his former lab in Utumno as Barrow-downs, and so on. The Untold Legends tell us that the hobbits are of Rohan descent. That's true, they are. The hobbits were captured Rohan riders, passed through the Bombadil lab together with their horses, and genetically turned into funny midgets, riding ponies. The very name "hobbit" is given to them by Goldberry, as they were a product of the Bombadil couple biomodding hobby. They founded "Shire" as a contact zoo for their pets, and since then the hobbits are living in it. Tom's personal pet project was a forest apiary in Mirkwood, where he was known as Beorn, and was herding bees and same ponies. There was also Beorn's son. Nobody knows, who was a mom of that son, but what we can say definitely, nobody had seen an alive she-bear in the Goldberry's forest. While Bombadil was using a radio jammer against Sauron's tricks, Sauron was avoiding even to approach to the Bombadil's lair, remembering Bombadil's funny jokes in Utumno, when a living breakfast tried to eat the eater first, or a room plant was producing a sleepy gas in the night, to use the guests as a fertilizer. This is why he knew nothing about the "hobbits" and other Bombadil things. The so-called Eye of Sauron was actually an Optical Observational System, mounted on top of his tower together with radio antennas. It wasn't reading Frodo's thoughts. Just the medium attachment unit of the ring was overclocked, to let the weak signal reach the tower, so Frodo was hallucinating in strong magnetic field.

In the MidEast they had donkeys and so-called "semi-donkeys" like onagers. Can't recall if I ever had heard of using them as battle animals from anything but drawings. The Mongolian horse is same small as onagers (300 kg or less, 120..140 cm in height), but is perfect for both riding and drafting (my grandfather was using them in pre-WWII as an artillery charriot driver in Caucasus mountains). Can run up through a narrow passage at the rock edge, without looking at ground, but deliver the cannon and the deadly-frightened crew safe.

The wheel should have an origin. And the most probable origin of the wheel are a potter's wheel and a handmill. You don't need a wheel when all your agricultural tools are a sharpened stick and a microlithic sickle. You will be tired of sticking and sickling much more than of carrying. But you need pots. While shaping the pot from the clay, you have to rotate it either on the table, or together with the table. The first way is inaccurate, the second way requires rotating the table by foot. So, you add a pusher plate (lol!) below, and then the construction quickly becomes a rotating round thing. You mill the grain with two millstones, rotating the upper one with an excentric handle. You cut a hole in the middle. The millstone gets bigger, and you put it vertical, stick a wooden log inside and start rolling it around the bigger lower millstone. You move the heavy millstones by hands, so to prevent them from falling aside, you stick two millstones on one log, and roll this wheel pair. Then you start making it from wood only to roll. They say, that the wheel is originated from several logs, onto which you had put some stone for pyramids or so. It's interesting, what such heavy, that it requires several logs, could be manufactured and lifted to put it on, before the much lighter things like the potter's wheel and the millstones were in use. According to wiki, the American Indians didn't have potter's wheels. Did they have handmills? I can see only mortars, which is natural for low grain production rate, when you have not so much to need a mill. Tutankhamen didn't fight on it. They also buried winged bulls with human heads. This doesn't mean, it's not anything more than a fantasy. Any known practically working reconstruction? If semi-naked guys with primitive tools were making them in thousands, it would not take much time to make such charriot with the famous tale-sounding blades on wheels, put three guys with a shield and a bow, and defeat several tens of mannequins made of straw, which are usual training targets for cavalry, without flying out of the chariot or sticking in. Look at the famous Olympias trireme (afaik, the only known full-sized reconstruction). It barely can run, let alone fighting. While the Skuldelev boats reconstruction is well documented, but they are things of much lower technical level than the trireme. Let them first hit something with arrow from the jumping cart without wheel springs. Then they should either turn back on the 30 m braking distance (a horse can do it right on place, in two jumps), while the enemy is joyfully throwing things in their backs and horses' sides. Or they should turn 90 deg and run along the infantry first line, shaving it with wheel blades, while the infantry is standing and waiting, the cart driver keeps 0.5 m accuracy, and the light charriot has not stuck in the first two or three bodies on the blades. (Notice also, that the blades are of poor bad bronze, thus not very sharp). A picture for Conan The Barbarian. While a horse with rider can hit with lance and rotate back in a second, without getting into the infatry mass, or even touching the spear tips. But it needs stirrups to hold in saddle on turning back, so the only option for the primitive nomad cavalry is a carousel with bows. ~30 m standing. ~150 m without aiming. And this for a trained bowman stuck into horse, on a stadium. A springless charriot on random ground would be sending arrows somewhere in that hemisphere. And as its inertia (and a pair of horses) needs those 30 m to turn before ramming the human mass and getting stuck, they have only one chance for an accurate shot from 30 m distance.

The historical legend tells that the American Indians were shocked by the horse-human centaur whih can disassemble into two beings, and then reassemble back into one. That's because the Spaniards didn't visit Australia first. If they brought the kangaroo, they would need no weapon.

We all know and love this poem But pay attention to the last line. agh burzum-ishi krimpatul and in the darkness bind them What's "binding"? It's connecting into a chain, into a network. Where do they connect the wires? Under tables, in cases, in other dark places. And finally... What is used to connect the wires into a network? Upd. And this is "gimbatul" from the second line. "-tuluk" from the lines 1 and 3 probably means "toolkit". I hope, it helps to understand better the unhappy inner world of Sau.

It's not that bad if we live in a simulation. What's really bad, this can be a limited demo-version. Or a shareware. Or even worse, GPL.

The charriot is almost the worst idea of using horses in the battle. Have any reconstructors made a replica of it not just to ride, but to attack a team of mannequins? Bronze or obsidian?

Your ticket to Minmus, sir. Bartender! Ask me something.

Calling 911 because it's next to 800.

What do you mean, "if"?

Granted. After seeing that, the human race is not human anymore. By ramming the iceberg, Titanic deflected it from the whole continent.

Sumpylot Nuom

The only thing never shown in countless Musketeers movies is the musket.

Mrs. Pollybanna bans'em all.