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W-K 666  Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19308 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 
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Comics can use any imaginary words they want. It doesn't make them real. |
 ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20930 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Cambodia and Darfur, Sudan Add ongoing: Syria... See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19308 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Cambodia and Darfur, Sudan And the Yemen |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20930 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Cambodia and Darfur, Sudan And on a different angle: 'If the others go I'll go': Inside China's scheme to transfer Uighurs... wrote: China's policy of transferring hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang to new jobs often far from home is leading to a thinning out of their populations... ... As is being done with the Tibetans... Is there a word for the deliberate obliteration of a culture? See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Admiral Gloval  Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21070 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 
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Comics can use any imaginary words they want. It doesn't make them real. Well. At least it was one word instead of two.  
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Wiggo  Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36300 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 
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Dark side is two words, and that the moon has one is a misnomer.Pink Floyd album. ;-) Cheers. |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36300 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489
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You can also add Myanmar to that list. ;-)And the YemenBosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Cambodia and Darfur, SudanAdd ongoing: Syria... Cheers |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19308 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Dark side is two words, and that the moon has one is a misnomer.Pink Floyd album. ;-) Anyone with a modicum of culture knows where it came from ;-) I have these pedant moments, that have to be expressed. |
Carlos  Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 30436 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157
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Dark side is two words, and that the moon has one is a misnomer.Pink Floyd album. ;-) Hey I didn't know until I started playing guitar in the 60's. Not 1960's, My 60's. |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19308 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Dark side is two words, and that the moon has one is a misnomer.Pink Floyd album. ;-) You probably have the excuse of too much sand and surf and think Pipeline is the pinnacle of guitar culture or a child of the hippies and flew 8 miles high |
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21070 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0
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I like the Ventures theme for Hawaii 5-0.
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rob smith    Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22436 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380
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A reminder: Take care when using hyphens, the resultant double word must be in common usage. And in the same vein, abbreviations - great care is needed with them, particularly when used as part of an extended word, the rules state that the abbreviation must be a word in its own right, a great many commonly used fail on this count. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19308 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Half my life's in books, written pages PMJ - Aerosmith cover and Dream On, you will never look or sound this good. |
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Graham Middleton Send message Joined: 1 Sep 00 Posts: 1520 Credit: 86,815,638 RAC: 0
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Sorry for Kong, but I couldn't resist it. Happy Crunching, Graham 
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Graham Middleton Send message Joined: 1 Sep 00 Posts: 1520 Credit: 86,815,638 RAC: 0
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De vice = clamp Sorry, not sorry Happy Crunching, Graham
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rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22436 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380
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That's a pretty terrible pun Old Boy ;-) Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20930 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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Message 2070299: With the clever trick of always missing! ;-) See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19308 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Message 2070299: With the clever trick of always missing! ;-) Are you sure. Newton's laws of motion say without an outside influence bodies in motion will always travel in a straight line. So without gravity there would be no satellites, and they would not only miss, they would just depart further and further into the universe. |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20930 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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Exactly. So for example, our various artificial satellites are always falling back towards earth... Except... They have enough orbital velocity that by the time they have fallen down to earth, they are another quarter away round their merry freefall... Cue Douglas Adams quote! See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19308 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Exactly. No, the forward momentum of the satellite is the stronger force, with gravity as the weaker force causing it to drop slightly. If gravity becomes the dominant force then the satellites path will now turn towards the large object and there will be a Crunch, unless it is small and the large object has an atmosphere, in which case it will burn up, maybe explosively. |
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