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Our cook has gathered all jokers for his Caravan hand. Bartender! Roll the save throw, I 'm going to drink this.

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Granted. You disassemble the pen with a spring inside. I wish for a legacy code.

Warthogwarts A dragon name in Hogwarts. Similar to A-10

reminded me of the warthogs to pun.

Olympias. With a steel cable, keeping it from falling apart, as "they didn't find a natural rope". The poor things are trying to not hook each other. Happily, there was no storm, with pits and hills in water, which they would be blindly scratching. ~100 oarsmen, 300 triremes in Athenes. I.e. kinda 30 000 professional oarsmen in a city of natural agriculture epoch... The only available info about the 3remes: No descriptions, no artifacts. Just 2..3 scratches against a schematic human head on some coin/medal. True Ancient Kerbal history. You need ~40 people: to withstand a horse ram (six in a dense raw make the horse stop with their mass, as it's proven by the reconstructors); make a 3-level wall of shield (kneeled, standing, holding above); rotate the fighters in a compact formation, having a half at the perimeter, and a half resting inside (diameter = 6 men, area = pi * 62 / 4 = 28 men2, perimeter = 6 * pi = 19 men) As we can see, the Skuldelev-6 boat for crew of 41 (13 benches x (2 oarsmen + 1 backup in between), 1 on the nose, 1 at the tail) exactly matches the ~40. It's a full-featured team, able to be a moving stronghold, withstanding the attacks. The cargo boats from the same Skuldelev are 5..8..10 men, or a halved crew of Skul-6, would be smashed immediately, once they had reached the coast alone. So, after a sudden storm, as the boats had place only for a week supplies, they didn't have a time to search each other, and any cargo ship would be made to return home as an alternative to an unalnernative death. Of course, when a whole coastline region was permanently captured, so the storm would just make the cargo ship land at another part of allied territory, the cargo ships would be a thing. But then no need in the drakkars was, just more cargo ships with viking infantry. And as there was no standard, straight, thin wooden planks before the blast furnaces, due to the absence of thin, flexible steel sheets for a long two-handed saw with bent teeth which allowed to make first water-powered sawmills and mass-produce the planks, that epoch boats were made of rough, thick, wavy, and heavy hand-made "planks" which were too heavy even to have decks (and an air bubble inside), so according to the Skul-6 description, the cargo capacity minus the armored oarsmen leaves just 10..20 kg of cargo (like a carry-on on a low-coster airline), so just a bag of drink water. As the sea voyage could not be a youngsters' initiation, there should be a reason for a pack of forty adult men to risk without visible profit. It looks like the massacre was the aim on its own. But then it looks like the entire viking(ry/ship/dom) was somebody's else mass murder tool, rather than a romantic oversea robbery. And, say, Jomsborg (especially compared to the Valhalla as a hypothetic description of such order) maybe was a part of this system, belonging to somebody else. Odin is described by "Snorri Sturluson" as a brave and smart man, making various mostly cruel things before becoming a god. His divine initiation included the runes adoption from the unnamed divine entity after the treehanging. The runes are definitely Roman, the settled agriculture was adopted by the Germans from the Romans (same Rhaets?), so we can see that unlikely the classic Odin et. al. could be native German gods, more likely that they were invented for them by the Romans. And we unlikely can know what were the native gods of the illiterate German peasants, rather than the of the German aristocracy, as the runes (and thus the writing) belongs to the Odin believers, i.e. to the (Romanized) German aristocracy. It all looks like a Roman project of the North Europe colonization by hands of local pagan savages, with the "vikings" as a men-only murderer order, and the well-written sagas, written by the experienced Roman poets, rather than by the farmer Snorri between farming, trading, and re-marrying, and his drunken co-villagers. And the same to the East, in the steppe from Dnepr to Altay, with Zaporozhskaya Sech as one of its degraded remains. All such orders look similar. Interesting fact the wet and warm British forests are rich of mushrooms. And what's about the Russian and English names for the mushrooms? So, the Slavs are forest endemics, and expectably they have personal names for a hundred of mushroom species, edible and not. The mushroom gathering is a native, famous, commendable occupation for the Slavs, regardless of wealth, like hunting or fishing. The English language doesn't have any personal names for the local British mushrooms, and afair, the only edible mushroom for the British is farmed Chamignon (based on its name, not native). This raises a question, how could it happen that the British forest dwellers ignore such significant source of food as local mushrooms. Are they indeed British endemics, or populated the islands not too long ago, already having enough developed farming to ignore the mushroom gathering. And afair, other Germans are like the English, too, the wild mushroom ignorers. As the Germans ancested their settled farming from the Romans, maybe it's because the Romans had no idea of the suspicious North European mushrooms, and there was not so much pre-German survivors to inform the German invaders about the local nature. Had looked for the Celtic languages in wiki. It looks like the character combinations looking like words are non-Latin names for the mushrooms (but idk, maybe it's just "a small brownish mushroom we don't know", so not sure). So, presumably the Celts were aware of the British mushrooms enough well, and only the German/Roman invasion made them nameless. And what is the word "German"? It's not German, no German tribe was calling themselves Germans. At the same time "Germanus" in Latin is something like "descendant" or "brotherly". Isn't it a Latin nickname for the possessed part of the "German" tribal aristocracy, doing then dirty work for them? What is "Franc"? It's a Latin for "free", "feral". But why would some Germans call themselves with Latin word? And this part of them was in complicated relations with Rome. Isn't it a Latin nickname for the out-of-control "Germanus'es", "Feral Ghouls Germans" And together with the "vikings", "Devastation of North", and "crusades", it raises a question: when in fact all that butchery was happening, and what part of it is historical, while another is a pure fantasy. Otto The Great, the first Holy Roman Emperor and his predecessor Henry the Fowler. Their wiki biographies are like novels, almost when had a breakfast, when visited bathroom. What do we know about their origin? "Looks like a Duke of Saxony, but maybe not, who cares now?" Such predictable lack of details before and such overinfo then looks like a pure belletristics. The origin of the galleys is dark, but probably some oarships of medieval. But at the same time so excited singing of the triremes, which nobody nowhere had a chance to see. Very expectable, if the real ships could appear not earlier than in mid-XIV (the first known sawmill), after the centuries of the rough deckless drakkar-like boats. Btw, the trireme. Up to 50 m long, when the bows can aim at 30 m, the catapults almost so (a 200 m modern 'pulting was a joy), so any combat between them would make both ships burn and sink. And even more funny are the descriptions of the triremes, bombing a coast fortress with catapults. Across a hundreed meter band of reefs and currents, jumping on waves, with limited amount of stones, from beneath to the city walls on the coastal rock. While the technological revolution of XIV provides at once steel for the knight plate armor, cast iron for the cannons and cannonballs, steel for the saws thus planks thus multi-deck sailships and galleys with cannons (200 m range for the buckshot, 500..600 m for the cannonballs, enough for sea combat and the coast bombing). It makes the triremes pure fantasy (or tournament ships), and everything relating to them. Early XVI. The (Catholic) Rome is burnt and devastated by the (Catholic) Carl V of Spain. Palaces, cathedrals, churches, everything had gone. But - a miracle! - everything except the main cathedrals, just rebuilt by the famous Michelangelo, Raphael, etc. What a strange thing: such famous artists, they could draw a cathedral with closed eyes with one hand behind back. But no drawing of what these cathedrals were looking like before the rebuilding. A strange thing: the spiritual art and cathedral decorations of that epoch are full of "Anticity" gods, Old Testament, and Godmother with Son, but lack Christian symbols. And at the same time somebody was building gargoyles and sheela-na-gig around. Isn't that the reason of no drawings of the pre-rebuilt Cathedrals? Were the pre-XVI Christians having same understanding of the "Christian"? The Gnosticism also has a Godmother (Sofia) and Son (in Semithic - Messiah, in Greek - Christ), and the gnostic Cathars were close to that epoch and looking enough significant for some crusades. Btw, exactly that time the Bible reading, owning, and reproducing were prohibited on pain of death. And the Carthago was officially "delenda est", plooughed, and salted. And a century later the Romans forgot about it, and built a colony on the land they salted to let nothing grow. But then the Roman colony was devastated, the stones reused by the barbarians. But then the barbarian colony was devastaed, the stones reused by the Muslims. But the the Muslim village was not once devastated, and to the known time the only source where we know about the Carthago is the "Ancient" Roman belletristics and Salammbo novel, lol.

A Fallout Fatman nuke, based on the Mk3 Fatman nuke. *** The human history is just a short episode of the endless shark drama.

Funding or not the Russian station segment... again... just hypothetically. Originally, it meant to be a joke, but it's indeed a very dark story, why the Mir program was actually funded by NASA in 1990s. Several explanations, but all of them incomplete, and the strange things about the Priroda module, "Banner of Peace" twice visited it, and a sequence of cargo delivery: Raduga - Priroda/Shuttle - Soyuz - Dragon- Soyuz/Dragon.

The lunar seas can provide energy for the tidal powerplants.

In particular "Previous Page" / "Next Page", to navigate through a multi-page thread without moving a mouse?

The colosses "were", the "Sphynx" "was", the temples "were". And it would be interesting to find at least one real ancient ship, like the "triremes", or "phoenician" ships, as the beginning of the really existed galleys looks strangely misty. Of course, a sunk Mothership Zeta or Atlantis would be even better.

joining, not had been joined I don't insist that Guyana isn't French, I just find the selectivity of the quoted poster not completely sincere. In press, yes. But there were much more specialists staying unemployed and not covered with NASA money, the technologies were widely known since 1950s, and some known cases of missile proliferation (say, the NK ones) were based on the missile technologies from Dnepropetrovsk, lol, not from big Russia. So, it looks like it was something else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_of_Peace

Only Mary Sue.

Granted. It can produce "hydrogenized" water as well. You buy it and start producing hydrogen for your car. I wish the "acidic" and "basic" water from it were useful for energetics, too.

Floor 5035: A microfisher is fishing the microfishes.

The Rhaets were populating modern Swiss (the Rhaeto-Roman language is from them) and to the Benelux. But this doesn't matter. What matters, is that the Roman world was affecting the German peoples so much, that actually had constructed their pre-Christian religion and epic. The sagas unlikely could be written by the farmer Snorri. This raises a question: were the so-called "vikings" just local robbers on boats, or were they another military order of the medieval Rome, like various "knight orders" of the very same technological culture. And what was their real objective. If compare the famous Jomsborg, Zaporozhskaya Sech (and various "cossaks", "mongols", "cherkas" in medieval sense, not as modern ethnicities), and descriptions of Valhalla, these man-only organizations look very similar, and all of them match the times and places of mass massacres. It looks like the real medieval was so unpleasant and inappropriate, that the cartoonish knights and vikings are a placeholder for it. Let alone the "lazy" Dagoberts 1,2,3,4 and other long-numbered king, looking like placeholders themselves.

Can't recall it joining France. What about Sweden and Norway? Nobody makes you choose the ladder.

Not worse than the "ancient" ruins in the MidEast, Greece, America, or Asia, made of bricks, concrete, and cast iron beams, standing for millenia, but suffering from rains, like Machu Pikchu or Ankgor Vat, lol. Or the "ancient" Babylon and Ninevia, "hidden in the hills" next to Mosul, and never seen by the locals until the Europeans were doing there something with no photographers to make a photo. Or the "ancient" Egyptian pyramids and colosses, buried under sand right across the road from the big city residentials, happily staying unburied, with stamps of the builders' names on the wet concrete, they are made from, in German, French, etc. With same steel and cast iron rebars. Or the "ancient" Parthenon, built out of bricks, and with columns, shaped by the tied iron bars, having "ancient" naked statues of pagan gods, right next to the Muslim mosque, on the photos of mid-XIX. In Athenes, absent on the known Italian map of XVI, where the Pompeii and Herculanum are still normal existing towns. Or Aachen, the "Carl The Great"'s imperial capital, lacking any traces of the palaces and temples, described in the chronicles, but having a 30-m-diameter Cathedral, while even much smaller cupola at the same places had appeared two centuries later. Or the "viking epoch", with its Skuldelev-like drakkars, whose cargo capacity barely allows the crew even to bring a week supplies, let alone some prize on the way back, but with Odin, bringing the divine runes looking exactly the like Rhaetic one (kind of Latin). So, who were those "vikings", what was their actual aim, who knows... But they look very similar to their counterparts in Asia. The only clear thing is that "95%" of the Scandinavians weren't "vikings", but peasants, present in the sagas only as "and Hrabanbjorn the Mighty took a rest at the peasant's home aside the road". Or Guillaume Le B(wordfilter)tard aka William The Conqueror, who was kinda the "legal king" of England, but the first thing he did after returning his legal kingdom, was the devastation of its North, with total massacre and cannibalism. Or the "Great Plague" of XIV, looking like anything but real plague (i.e. pestis), and spreading exactly like specially trained people were passing from town to town, and infecting/poisoning the wells with something first attacking the throat and the near-by lymphatic vessels, rather than legs bitten by fleas. A strange thing, the 160 thousand of dismembered corpses of the "plague victims" buried on the Venice islet in trenches, when the whole Venice could not have comparable population. Btw, the "ancient" Venice. Several bare rocky flat islets, 2 to 5 km2 in total, and a mighty wooden fleet? Seriously? Before the "East Roman Empire" had captured it and founded a naval base? Btw, what "fleet" and what "knights" before the XIV industrial revolution allowed to create the first steel saws and build a mechanical sawmill, allowing to produce thing and straight wooden planks to build anything but a Skuldelev-like boat, and make steel wire rather than thick and fragile raw iron sticks? Any "trireme", "bireme", "quinquireme", or "Phoenician ship" ever found except on the schematic medal stamps? (Btw, probably the "Phoenicans" had cut the last trees in the endless Lebanese taiga to build a ship, which takes up to several hundreds of the trees). Crusades of the XIII, before any fleet and knights could exist, and while the Venice with Enrico Dandolo could be just a grim monastery/castle of some onknown but definitely bad purpose and a population of several hundred? (Btw, there is no fresh water source but rain in Venice.) And "Cathars", "gnostics" and others of that exact time. Were they what is officially described, when the "crusaders" could be only of the same technological epoch as "vikings", with rude tools from raw iron, and could have only wooden boats rather than ships. Botticelli's painting of pre-1480 and post-1480, lol. Any traces of crucifixion on the paintings, Sistine Chapel, popes' tombs (including the Vatican Cathedrals), between the Pagan gods and Old Testament before the late XV? So, the sea dragging looks as realistic as any other study in the ancient history.

The Russia had lost some territories, but it wasn't "becoming" a country, it was a centuries-old country in trouble. And even then, it had something to deal with very much. Tell it to France with her Kourou. And why would NASA care of that? But they were funding the competing space program for years. US had performed three flights to its own Skylab long before that, a ten or so flights of Spacelab, and their mast construction experiment was more advanced than the two masts on Mir (bigger in size and using replaceable sticks with locks). So, mostly they had ancested the docking port from Buran, and the very practice of the Shuttle docking. Still, more Americans had visited Mir than Soviets/Russians, while unlikely they were taking much from the very specific TKS-based design, or from using the Soviet scientific equipment. The semi-close environment and the bath was what they already had been having on Skylab. Having Shuttle, they were funding the Soyuz upgrade to TMA to let it carry the American beanpoles of 1.9 m height, instead of just selecting crew of normal size, 1.7..1.8 m, so for some reasons they were seriously going to use Soyuz a rhyme, it is more than a decade before the Shuttle cancellation, just several years after the Shuttle starting flying at all. The creative funding in the Congress lobby or so, of course, also was a thing, but it's a somewhat strange application area. Why not fund the NK missile program now for funds now? Why not help the European projects then? So, actually it's very unclear why indeed NASA was funding Mir and Soyuz. But if you pay your attention to the history of the spaceflights, there is some specific sequence of the returnable spacecraft generations. Indeed, who needs that fire ladder outside, when you have several lifts. What can go wrong with them at once?

Banned for unwillingly recruiting the cat for bans.

Banned for declaring the new page before the new page.

Banned for using a minus between the second name and the surname.

Hufflepuff Asylum

Banned by Chi and Zeta.

Too hot. Marshmallow Sun