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On 10/19/2022 at 10:14 PM, Nuke said:

lol, people doing minecraft things irl. 

Stuff like this was much more common earlier before tractors and trucks. Using water to move logs is old, even water slides for moving them was an thing. 

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12 800 years ago "we" survived not just Global Ice Melting but also a mass bombardment.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/695703

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The Great Pyramid Builders' World War, I guess.

Interesting, were they angry at humans, or it's  just collateral damage and casualties.

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Idk, what's the connection between Canada and Belize, but 800 000 years ago both of them had attracted a trouble, too.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703716300059

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17 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

12 800 years ago "we" survived not just Global Ice Melting but also a mass bombardment.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/695703

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The Great Pyramid Builders' World War, I guess.

Interesting, were they angry at humans, or it's  just collateral damage and casualties.

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Idk, what's the connection between Canada and Belize, but 800 000 years ago both of them had attracted a trouble, too.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703716300059

The beginning of "Fear God" 

 

...okay, 'the gods'... whatever.  Appease them!  Find a volcano and a virgin, whatever it takes.  Yes, Priest, you can have political power, just make it stop!

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52 minutes ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

..okay, 'the gods'... whatever.  Appease them!  Find a volcano and a virgin, whatever it takes.  Yes, Priest, you can have political power, just make it stop!

If it was that simple...

They probably have captured enough pet humans to populate every inhabitable planet in the Milky Way.

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Years ago I told my kids that zombies lived in the sewers (we had a large drain on the street we used to live on).  Purpose was to keep them from messing around and falling in - and it was way before Pennywise. 

My son (who was 4) asked if the zombies could ever get out.  I told him that they came out after midnight on Halloween (misperceptions of Dia de los Muertos played into this) and would grab kids who were out too late. 

My kids are teens now.  They joke about how mean I was. 

However... Every Halloween... They're both inside before midnight! 

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Last in this series: Sitting together and drinking coffee while eating purloined chocolate goodness... I realized I'm mildly disturbed by my spouse's complete lack of interest in SpaceX's side by side booster landing this morning.  I showed her the video, and she was like, 'huh... cool.'

Of course that's the exact reaction I give her when she shows me a 15 second video of a chinchilla in a hat holding a sign.

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjBrrvGyo37AhU-jIkEHd3OCI0QxfQBKAB6BAgOEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencenews.org%2Farticle%2Fmom-voice-kid-brain-teen-neuroscience&usg=AOvVaw3-o-SY8-68x-D65xA2Wscw

...and somewhat related science news: appropriately 'fun' fact: In these same brain regions in teens, unfamiliar voices elicited greater responses than the voices of their own dear mothers. The shift from mother to other seems to happen between ages 13 and 14.

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6 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjBrrvGyo37AhU-jIkEHd3OCI0QxfQBKAB6BAgOEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencenews.org%2Farticle%2Fmom-voice-kid-brain-teen-neuroscience&usg=AOvVaw3-o-SY8-68x-D65xA2Wscw

...and somewhat related science news: appropriately 'fun' fact: In these same brain regions in teens, unfamiliar voices elicited greater responses than the voices of their own dear mothers. The shift from mother to other seems to happen between ages 13 and 14.

Notice my complete lack of surprise at this revelation...

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36 minutes ago, steve9728 said:

 

From my experience of studying in the UK and thinking carefully about my travels in France and Central and Eastern Europe, there doesn't seem to be anyway to argue with that.

That's London you've painted!

Tampere is mostly like that, except that the body of water going through it is a rapid, and its name, Tammerkoski, has four syllables.

And also, there are a lot more museums. Like A LOT.

And one final thing, half of Tampere is actually forest. Yes, legit. It's in Finland, what did you except?

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Kamov-1.jpg

Nikolai Kamov (fifth from right) and Michail Mil (third from right) in front of the humble beginnings of the Soviet rotary-fight combat aviation, one of five Kamov A-7 observation autogyros, some time in 1941.

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The Objective Individual Combat Weapon was a semi-auto grenade launcher with a regular rifle bolted to it; when the launchers proved troublesome, H&K offered the rifle as a separate system that would become the XM-8.

According to Ian McCollum, the official feedback for the first iteration was, I kid you not, "Can you make it more Starship Troopers?"

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This lead to this iteration:

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By the way, the Starship Troopers movie is 25 today.

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On 11/6/2022 at 5:32 PM, DDE said:

Kamov-1.jpg

Nikolai Kamov (fifth from right) and Michail Mil (third from right) in front of the humble beginnings of the Soviet rotary-fight combat aviation, one of five Kamov A-7 observation autogyros, some time in 1941

Kamov and Mil? Dang, humble beginnings indeed.

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