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16 May 23
1763: Dr Johnson & James Boswell met at a book shop.🤔
1770: Dauphin & Antoinette got married.
1888: Flat Disc.
1919: Liberace was born.
1920: Joan of Arc.
1943: Bouncing Bomb.
1951: Flight between New York & Heathrow.
1956: Jim Laker takes wickets for Surrey against the Aussie's.🏆
1974: Tito gets life.
1988: C Everett Kopp - Nicotine/Heroin.
1991: QE2 & Congress address.
2007: Sarkozy....😒
2023: More bombs🤦♂️
Birthday's
Pierce Brosnan, Janet Jackson, Gagrieela Sabatini🏆🥇🏅
17 May 23
@great-big-stees saidwatch out
Grammar Police?😲
she'll whack you for capitalizing both words in yer rhetorical question
then she'll hunt me down like a lizard for lack of capitalization
and soon enough the whole world will implode from the policing efforts of the guardians of language
and then you know what will happen?
that's right
beware
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17 May 23
@rookie54 saidOK…maybe I’d have been better off using GP.🤔
watch out
she'll whack you for capitalizing both words in yer rhetorical question
then she'll hunt me down like a lizard for lack of capitalization
and soon enough the whole world will implode from the policing efforts of the guardians of language
and then you know what will happen?
that's right
beware
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@chris-guffogg saidIt would be interesting to hear from any physicists here if the bombs actually “bounced” or where they deflected by the water like a stone skipping across water?
1943: Bouncing Bomb.
I.e. if the bomb was dropped vertically onto the water it wouldn’t bounce so did they really “bounce”?
18 May 23
@chris-guffogg saidif a 6 turned out to be 9
@rookie54
Beware of the 6...🚬
i don't mind
apologies, jimi
but you said it so well
19 May 23
@divegeester saidYou of course need the rotation of the bomb to achieve the required effect (as you do if you let "hop" a stone over the surface).
It would be interesting to hear from any physicists here if the bombs actually “bounced” or where they deflected by the water like a stone skipping across water?
I.e. if the bomb was dropped vertically onto the water it wouldn’t bounce so did they really “bounce”?
So no the bomb does not bounce from the water surface as it would from a (sufficiently strong) trampoline.
And of course I am only a lowly chemist, but I am qualified to teach high school physics if need be.
17 Jul 23
@ponderable saidThey should have left it alone.
Today 50 year ago, the Kingdom of Afghanistan was abolished and a republic was founded.
04 Sep 23
@Ponderable
100 years ago a Helium-filled airship took flight as a first of its kind (ZR-1) [in germany still Hydrogen was the gas of choice].