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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1700 on: January 13, 2010, 07:39:04 PM »
A satelite image of the UK on Jan 7th.

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1701 on: January 13, 2010, 08:41:52 PM »
emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1702 on: January 14, 2010, 04:21:42 AM »
I got a winter satellite image too.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1703 on: January 14, 2010, 11:20:48 AM »
Nice satellite images...its almost creepy how snow-ridden current countries are.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1704 on: January 14, 2010, 12:02:28 PM »
Ha. I want more snow.. because plowing snow needs no brain activity unlike putting a birdhouse together, or hauling furniture through doors that are smaller than said furniture..  :P
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1705 on: January 14, 2010, 12:15:38 PM »
Just looked again at the sat image of England...notice how Ireland is completely untouched (as far as we can see)? :P
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1706 on: January 14, 2010, 12:57:46 PM »
on average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity...
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« Reply #1707 on: January 14, 2010, 06:07:58 PM »
that explains why the mic reacts funnily when I speak..  :wtf
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1708 on: January 15, 2010, 10:26:56 AM »


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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1709 on: January 15, 2010, 01:57:14 PM »
A little bath to wash off the vomit sir?
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1710 on: January 16, 2010, 04:27:43 PM »
I am not very sure what this is, but it looks interesting:

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1711 on: January 16, 2010, 05:12:36 PM »
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1712 on: January 16, 2010, 07:46:23 PM »
actually, i wouldn't be suprised if that's a Dodge Millitary transport nose and cab dropped on a shortbed frame.  the hood most likely covered a 500+ ci (9 liter) Straight Eight...or larger.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1713 on: January 16, 2010, 07:50:01 PM »
http://idle.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/01/16/1539255

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1714 on: January 17, 2010, 09:40:56 AM »
The whole "drawing with light on the air" isn't really anything special any more. Now, a stop-by-stop animation with it is slightly more unusual:
http://vimeo.com/8669028
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1715 on: January 17, 2010, 10:39:34 AM »
the U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1716 on: January 17, 2010, 12:25:08 PM »
Quote from: JimmyB76 on January 17, 2010, 10:39:34 AM
the U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers...

Not true anymore. some of the newer ones no longer have the Tabasco
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1717 on: January 17, 2010, 03:51:35 PM »
Quote from: Viper on January 17, 2010, 12:25:08 PM
Quote from: JimmyB76 on January 17, 2010, 10:39:34 AM
the U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers...

Not true anymore. some of the newer ones no longer have the Tabasco

But the british army has recently started putting tabasco in the ration packs. Strange eh?
They're swapping the choccies for flapjacks though. The damn things kept melting in the heat. Go figure.

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1718 on: January 20, 2010, 08:06:02 AM »
at their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1719 on: January 21, 2010, 12:14:50 PM »
Thats probably counted from the island of Big Diomede rather than Alaska, since the Bering Strait is about 85 km across, beach to beach.

That's no reason not to do a bridge though...

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