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"The money was just resting in my account", that line still makes me smile

Nathan45 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 11:11 pm Honestly I wonder if the sentry ability of domesticated wolves might have been the most important trait, at least at times. A consistent reliable warning of being attacked by enemies would be useful. Just speculating out loud

Right it would make surprise attacks and ambushing very difficult

There are a number of theories as to why Neanderthals went extinct as a separate species (though in part live on in us.) The proposal that modern humans effectively conquerered and eradicated them has often been brought up, but there are some problems with that. It’s clear to us now that the Neande...

Schrodinger's missle then

Wasn't there also an anti AWAC air to air version of the AS-17 developed at one time

Happy new year all

Merry Christmas to all, hope you all enjoy the holiday season

The idea of securing the sea lanes to China seems like an argument open to attack. I'm not saying China trade wasn't the reason, but there must have been arguments against it. So I guess what I need to know about is the 1898 Treaty of Paris and the debate leading up to February 6, 1899, when the U....

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Is this sort of thing usual or are they really that hard up

Is there something different about medieval Ireland in Dark Earth in terms of threat or ability, resources etc? It seems to have attracted the personal attention of a number of monarchs and the TL hints at major campaigns and battles, compared to OTL. After Henry II went over to make sure his Lords ...

Caught in a blood temperature(literally) heatwave we decided to escape from the camper-trailer and go to the air-conditioned cinema. So we saw this. Which made me realise how little I knew of Boney's story. As such i can't remark on accuracy. Somehow the music and Phoenix's unapologetic American ac...

Why are there tu22m2 still in service? The soviets were producing 30 tu22m3 a year in otl (a limit they informally agreed to in SALT talks) so that would be 450 additional tu22m3 by 2005

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MFOM wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 11:42 pm

warshipadmin wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 10:32 pm Which film version?

Early 90's I think, with Daniel day Lewis as Hawkeye

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warshipadmin wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 10:32 pm Which film version?

Early 90's I think, with Daniel day Lewis as Hawkeye

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 7:21 am It’s one of the few instances of the movie being superior to the book.

Agreed the soundtrack from the Michael Mann version is fantastic

What did SAC leadership do to disgrace themselves?

Random Hot take theory .A great war in bronze age Europe,with the loosers been driven out to the south becoming the sea peoples? A sudden heavily armed band of refugees overrunning settled empires,wouldn't be the first time it happened(okay it actually would be the first time if it happened,but the ...

The boundaries of human history keep getting pushed back, earlier and earlier, this,Göbekli Tepe might point to something huge, but as yet unkown at came to an end at the last Ice Age( no, not f#@King ancient aliens) Agree! This is very interesting In the last couple of years, I think we have pushe...