DDE Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 Hippos are an invasive species in Columbia thanks to escaping from the late Pablo Escobar's personal menagerie when his hasienda was sacked by his enemies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 5 hours ago, DDE said: Hippos are an invasive species in Columbia thanks to escaping from the late Pablo Escobar's personal menagerie when his hasienda was sacked by his enemies. It was an 19th century stupid idea to introduce hippos to the Mississippi river. It folded because cost and they could not monetize it also an question if meat would sell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Plane takes off in 2025 and lands in 2024. https://abc7.com/post/cathay-pacific-flight-880-new-years-departs-hong-kong-2025-lands-lax-2024/15736032/?utm_source=sdrn%3Avg%3Aarticle%3AeMXKJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Minoan (Bronze Age) maritime trade generally traveled in a counter clockwise path around the Eastern Mediterranean. From the Island of Crete it was fairly easy to get to Egypt and the southern Levant... But not very easy to go straight back. So trade would go north from Egypt along the Levant to Anatolia and Cyprus before making it's way back to Crete. In other news, Egypt conducted a naval attack on/using the Euphrates River. Talk about commitment! https://seapower.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/semaphore-16-06 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 The Egyptians had to use water ships in absence of desert ships, the camels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 26 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: camels Special Forces Camels secured the far side prior to the operation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boriz Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Fun fact: Star Trek used to be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Interesting fact: while the Bible mentions the camels, the Egyptian furry temples don't depict them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 2 hours ago, kerbiloid said: Interesting fact: while the Bible mentions the camels, the Egyptian furry temples don't depict them. Well of course, why make designs of camels when you can make art about cats. https://egypt-museum.com/cat-eating-fish-under-a-chair/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 The Egyptians weren't aware of camels, living in the desert... The Bible depicts volcanic eruptions, while the nearest volcano is in Italy, and to some extent, in Turkish mountains... Noah has built the ark from wooden planks which require mechanic lumberyard (first built n XIV cent. Germany), exactly like the "Christopher Columbus" / "A Dove, Carrying Christ" project ships from 1492. From that exact 1492 AD = 7000 from World Creation, which was the XV century horror, as the last year of world existence (cuz 1 Day = 1000 humans years), so that even the Easter tables weren't continued until it passed. And what a funny coincidence that a half of the Northern star map consists of parts of the former "Navis" / "Ship" (aka Ship of Argo, Columbus Ship, Noah Ship) constellation, later divided into a ten of minor constellations (Carina / Keel, Vela / Sails, Puppis / Stern, Pyxis, Antlia, Columba), representing the 1492 expedition in search of the New World instead of the doomed to sink Old World, of course performed by a fictional epic hero "Christopher Columbus", rather than the whole Catholic Roman Empire, to transfer chosen people to a new land which had to be over there. King Solomon, using a large transparent glass (technology from XV/XVI) to fool the Sabean Queen. A thing, daily usual for a writer from XVI, but absolutely unknown for a person even from XIV, let alone the "ancient" times. The same Solomon, using a special magic worm to make curved holes in stones. The usual building technology from early XVI concrete building, put a gypsum'ed rope into concrete, let them freeze, them just pull out the rope. The so-called Phoenicians, building wooden plank ships (technology of XV) in the MidEastern desert, providing Solomon with them and various wooden plank lumbery. And almost exactly same biographies of Solomon and Suleiman the Magnificent, who lived exactly in the XVI, when all Solomon's technologies were up-to-date and absolutely usual. All of that really makes to believe in reality of Ancient Egypt and its friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 9 hours ago, kerbiloid said: Noah Is a story the Israelites picked up from the Mesopotamians ... Which is just one part of a bunch of ideas they picked up during the exile. Along with the idea of one God, heaven and hell and the duality of good vs evil they took from the Zoroastrians just before Cyrus II let them leave Babylon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 On 1/5/2025 at 11:49 AM, SunlitZelkova said: Well of course, why make designs of camels when you can make art about cats. https://egypt-museum.com/cat-eating-fish-under-a-chair/ Had an cat eating part of an fish under my chair while I was eating the rest at an outdoor restaurant in Egypt My guess is that camels come to late to be included among the gods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Now this sounds like some cool stuff You know the idea of flying an plane using large wire based ion engines, stupid idea but looks like it works pretty well for small airflow in laptops and similar and its silent. Downside is that it needs 5000 volt so an power ramp up system who takes up more space than the fans so you will not use just one tiny one unless they can scale that down but unlikely an device with one small makes sense. Not sure how well it scales up probably well up to an scale and 120 mm fans moving slowly don't make much sound anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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