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When I was a kid we had this guy Newton somewhere in our school, and he made a bunch of laws.
As I recall something about something continuing in the same direction unless a force acted upon it. So, this "author" expects me to believe that a huge mass of spinning stuff can reverse direction in just a handful of years?
Ever played with an out of balance basketball? That's our earth! Literally like a basketball. Same color too. -
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Also the more I learn about franchise models the more they seem really predatory.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Hong Kong 1920
Hong Kong 2020
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The only (or one of the only) ground photographs of the Hiroshima bomb explosion.
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@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:
The only (or one of the only) ground photographs of the Hiroshima bomb explosion.
I assume the, lucky, photographer was probably looking away from the explosion when the flash occurred. It seems like most people in that area would be, at least temporarily, blinded.
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@Copper said in Mildly interesting:
@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:
The only (or one of the only) ground photographs of the Hiroshima bomb explosion.
I assume the, lucky, photographer was probably looking away from the explosion when the flash occurred. It seems like most people in that area would be, at least temporarily, blinded.
If i remember the story correctly, the photo (or the negative) was found in a school from where the photo was taken. Dont know what happened to the photographer.
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I was going to say, there’s no reason to necessarily believe that the photographer survived, let alone remained sighted.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I want to be on the committee that decides these words of venery.
My first nomination would be “a haggard of milfs”.
DON’T let them eat cake.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
My first nomination would be “a haggard of milfs”.
(that almost deserves its own thread)
My nomination for that would be "sere." It's obscure enough of a word to make people take pause and think..."What?"
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Details from La Wik:
Spearfish holds the world record for the fastest recorded temperature change. On January 22, 1943, at about 7:30 a.m. MST, the temperature in Spearfish was −4 °F (−20 °C). The Chinook wind picked up speed rapidly, and two minutes later (7:32 a.m.) the temperature was +45 °F (7 °C). The 49 °F or 27 °C rise in two minutes set a world record that still holds. By 9:00 a.m., the temperature had risen to 54 °F (12 °C). Suddenly, the Chinook died down and the temperature tumbled back to −4 °F or −20 °C. The 58 °F or 32.2 °C drop took only 27 minutes.[18][19][20] The sudden change in temperatures caused glass windows to crack and windshields to instantly frost over.[21][20]
