But a lot of assumptions are made that I don’t understand, e.g. how can we be so confident of each asteroid’s composition?
Much better than a rocket launch vid though.
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 21:22, Reply)
There are many ways to combine elements to create the same looking spike on a spectrograph, though I guess some spikes are less vague than others.
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Sausages, Sauvages?
Being really mystical about advertising PVA glue
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 9:45, Reply)
Like the joy of peeling sunburnt skin of. Once did it so much I felt dizzy, I think I was absorbing chemicals through my skin
(, Wed 23 Jun 2021, 2:49, Reply)
Just watched this - a jolly good film.
Cyriak is credited with visuals - I assume that's our Mutated Monty?
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 22:20, Reply)
Ah wanna see this! Listening to the soundtrack, can't fail with Mansell
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 9:44, Reply)
Hope they turned out ok, I havent seen the end result yet
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 11:02, Reply)
that at its climax suddenly descends into Kitty City would absolutely make my year
(, Wed 23 Jun 2021, 7:53, Reply)
Not that he's ever short for acting rolls and seems to be in everything worth watching lately also, a really cool, positive dude in the flesh and his sister is a hard working lovely lady too, get in there Marky!!.
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 21:32, Reply)
worth a return to the cinema for - audio-visual feast though not always pleasant
second the person who said it was like a dark comedy
(, Wed 23 Jun 2021, 11:11, Reply)
One for the old-school computer game pirates...
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 22:18, Reply)
I was a Sinclair Spectrum guy. I'm not sure if you could have hacked those cassettes.
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 8:31, Reply)
but I know that some BBC Micro/Acorn Electron game tapes had custom loaders which I managed to copy to disk by taking a memory dump once they'd loaded...I also remember a couple of games that had a basic form of code encryption that I managed to defeat so I could hack it for infinite lives, put greets to my school friends in the high score table, etc.
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 16:31, Reply)
enjoyed that
I was a sinclair/ C64/ amiga person,
Although I did have the opportunity to join a group through a friend I knew. I thought at the time - sod that, since I'd discovered beer and girls
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 9:58, Reply)
ZX81, vic20, Spectrum48k, BBC B, Amiga, then a string of PCs.
With beer and girls, of course.
(, Wed 23 Jun 2021, 11:52, Reply)
Oh! Thanks for sharing. Nice to read the names of the groups I was a member of. Fond memories
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 12:35, Reply)
I found the article whilst reminiscing about Pompey Pirates' releases...
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 16:24, Reply)
And this is one of them.
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And helps many others to experience the joy of feeling superior
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 5:44, Reply)
discovered Frank had all the talent and more, dancing, singing , acting, comedy. Hell of a bloke!
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 1:35, Reply)
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The Diddler, more like.
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 21:22, Reply)
I genuinely find the tightness of lady jogging pants disturbing now.
Mainly in a good way.
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 8:38, Reply)
I hold him in high regard
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 11:50, Reply)
Although I was hoping he'd spend more time musing on modern developments such as the rise of venture capitalism, Pringles and Grindr.
I lived in a 15 storey tower block in Essex named after him, I like to think his legacy lives on.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 18:16, Reply)
You can find an old BBC interview with him. The next one in the series is Martin Luther King jr. Quite a gold mine.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 18:27, Reply)
Great man, forgoing his poking out of Borges eyes in a heated game of cribbage.
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 8:42, Reply)
Music made on a huge modular synth, an average sized guitar and a tiny dictaphone.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 11:44, Reply)
I was thinking more of the second act of a thriller, perhaps a montage in an espionage flick. It'd drive the action along at a good rate. Has a slightly uneasy/unresolved quality, like a good tangerine dream track
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 23:29, Reply)
I am a longtime fan of TD (up till mid-80s) so that's nice.
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 11:06, Reply)
Did you ever feel that the Project Binky "stuff a massive engine in a tiny car" approach was doing it all backwards?
How about putting a lawn mower engine in a Honda Insight and seeing if you can get it up to 60mph?
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 9:36, Reply)
I present the Bond Minicar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ZKOPmeU7c
Up to the mid sixties, some 25.000 of these were sold.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 13:22, Reply)
Found a really cute, rare little car on this site
germancarsforsaleblog.com/1963-messerschmitt-kr201-roadster/
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 14:09, Reply)
If you want real cuteness and rarity, the Brütsch mopetta is the micro car for you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efjCsccgtoc
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 14:25, Reply)
Invacar
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 15:04, Reply)
If I had the space, I'd love to have one.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:49, Reply)
Invacars were build by AC, the same lunatics that buildt the insanely fast (for its time) Cobra.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:15, Reply)
Which also had a 200cc engine and no reverse gear, so parking had to be done carefully to avoid getting stuck in the car due to the door being the whole front of the car.
When I was very young it was known to carry the whole family of 6!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_Kabine
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 22:59, Reply)
I remember seeing something fairly recently about tiny cars you can drive in France without a full licence, and younger than 17.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:06, Reply)
No, they finally did away with that loophole
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-sex-age-consent-15-b1832457.html
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:23, Reply)
www.aixam.com/
anyone over 14 can drive a "voiture sans permis"
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:25, Reply)
and I see one regularly in the carpark of the Dean Forest Railway - I think it belongs to a volunteer but I've never worked out whose it is.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_Bug
In the case of the bug, I think it was a response to the petrol shortages of the 70s, but the minicar predates those... perhaps prompted by rationing?
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:46, Reply)
But just after the war, everything was in short supply. Cars were considered a rare luxury. Cars were build for export, and the few sold in Britain had an enormous purchase tax levied on them. That, combined with hefty road fund tax and insurance, left even modest cars out of reach of the plebs. Three wheelers however, were classified as motorbikes.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 17:22, Reply)
OTOH I appreciate the 3 decimal places of accuracy.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 18:47, Reply)
that you should accept the Euro delimeter.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 20:06, Reply)
The story of Jeannie Rousseau. Saved a lot of Londoners during WW2.
(, Sun 20 Jun 2021, 23:35, Reply)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/2464806.The_Peenemunde_Raid
This book is a seriously bleak read. According to the auther:
The raids put the V weapons back by a couple of months max (hard to estimate)
The majority of the casualties were Polish prisoners.
The scientists weren't wiped out at all, if I remember correctly, most weren't even there.
Some accounts say the delay was maybe 2 weeks.
Not arguing, what the fuck do I know, just an alternative viewpoint if folks find it interesting. It's a fucking bleak and depressing read, be warned
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 14:13, Reply)
her role in exposing the V2 rockets was overstated, and that her report came after the peenmunde raid rather than instigating it, and was something the war office already had several reports about. either way being an enemy spy in France with the fucking gestapo
torturing people to death for that sort of thing is hero enough in my books
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 14:32, Reply)
The scientists that developed these dreadful, indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction were indeed not killed during raids, or even convicted as war criminals after the war. They were shipped out to the US where they became true American heroes setting up the appollo space programme.
And if you want to build your very own V1, here's the user manual. These things were incredibly advanced for their time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EEZuXQyA-E
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 14:47, Reply)
Of course we squandered ours and had them designing sewage systems and whatnot.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 18:51, Reply)
that those shipped to the UK and the Soviet Union didn't become true American heroes.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 20:01, Reply)
What did the smuggled nazi super scientists ever do for us, eh?
Well they did design the sewage system...
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 20:08, Reply)
Most articles refer to her helping delay by "up to" six months. and yes ...the wikipedia article defo stinks of someone with an axe to grind. You dont get all those medals and awards if theres no meat on the fact bone!
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:43, Reply)
So I wasn't critising that, just wanted to say. I had only recently read that book is all and it really got me down
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 0:07, Reply)
I make choice and go with it. Hopefully people will take it upon themselves to learn more. If people have differing views which make me do more research and learn more, well that's even better. :)
Currently researching fervent Nazi, SS member and concentration camp prisoner user Hugo Boss and how he managed to escape dangling from a rope. Trying to avoid it being a hit piece...with great difficulty!
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 2:09, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 2:51, Reply)
when attributing an intent to target civilians to 'tyrants and terrorists'. hitler and the german high command were proper evil, to be sure, but let's just consider a few rough stats:
uk civilians killed by axis bombing: ~65,000
russian civilian deaths by axis bombing: ~57,000
french civilians killed by allied bombing: ~67,000
german civilians killed by allied bombing: ~400,000
japanese civilians killed by US bombing: ~500,000
japanese civilians killed by 2 US atomic bombs: ~170,000
jussayin'
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 13:10, Reply)
How about 6 million concentration camp deaths.
Its a very touchy subject indeed.
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 21:37, Reply)
rather than having a sapping effect on the targets public support for the war, it had a unifying effect, galvanising the population against a hated foe. In germany it had the effect of consolidating Hitler grip on power just when they were facing disastrous setbacks in the east and starvation at home in the war's final years. Likewise the blitz spirit in Britain. And in hindsight the luftwaffe's decision to switch from military (airfields and radar installations) to civilian targets was a terrible one, but due to both incompetent leadership and ignoring key intelligence they never realised how close they came to achieving the air superiority they sought.
The role in the two atomic bombs in japan's surrender is more debatable, but the majority view among modern japanese historians is that the soviet declaration of war on Japan between the two bombs had a far greater role than the bombs in the leaderships decision, though the bombs did give the military a way to save face in what was a decision made to conserve home territory after it became clear they would lose manchuria and sakhalin.
(, Wed 23 Jun 2021, 1:46, Reply)
A few Mosquitoes could drop very precise bomb loads smack on target with positive side effects:
- Not overly antagonizing the locals into supporting the Fuhrer.
- Less dead crews per target destroyed.
- Les materials (wood monocoque and 2 Merlins).
- Enraging the German high command
- Etc
(, Wed 23 Jun 2021, 14:26, Reply)
to do a Little History on. Fantastic aircraft in every way.
(, Wed 23 Jun 2021, 17:27, Reply)
but its tonnage of bombs dropped was dwarfed by the mass raids of lancasters and halifaxes which Harris favoured. It was churchill that took the decision in 1940 to start bombing civilian centres of population, with the justification that it would divert enemy resources to defending what in effect amounted to terror raids. And while mosquitos were more precise, the heavies spread their shit everywhere. they were still using bomb sights from the first war. anyway, I'm probably not telling you anything you both didn't know already. had an uncle who was a massive war buff, interesting bloke to chat to, and a bit of that interest in ww2 rubbed off on me, fnar fnar.
(, Wed 23 Jun 2021, 23:31, Reply)
i was interested to try and find out who directly targeted civilians first in WW2. i will go with Britannica on this one - "The Blitz, (September 7, 1940–May 11, 1941), intense bombing campaign undertaken by Nazi Germany against the United Kingdom during World War II. For eight months the Luftwaffe dropped bombs on London and other strategic cities across Britain."
Although not correct if you take into account that Poland got a taste first in 1939 with some cities 100% flattened. Another rabbit hole i wish i hadn't gone down. Grim as f***
(, Thu 24 Jun 2021, 18:09, Reply)
I would have thought that the lack of variation is down to selling the better version of the existing, popular toy and saving money by not re-inventing the wheel, just hiring other cg artists to paint it a different colour. Rather than any active aversion to some change.
(, Sun 20 Jun 2021, 23:07, Reply)
If I become a pro-user will I be able to voice mod Klaus Kinski channelling Hitler?
(, Tue 22 Jun 2021, 8:46, Reply)
Since my normal collaborator has grown up, got a proper job and baby, his little Brother has stepped up. He's pretty fucking good I reckon.
(, Sun 20 Jun 2021, 13:47, Reply)
Not a graphics person so can't comment on viddy.
Professional sounding production. I would like more instrumentation. But, that might distract from the vocal - which does stand well on its own.
It's a good example of its genre.
I like it enough to check out some of your other stuff.
(, Sun 20 Jun 2021, 14:39, Reply)
Cheers.If you know what the genre is called, pray tell, because I haven't got a scooby.
(, Sun 20 Jun 2021, 15:40, Reply)
Pretty sure the genre is called “plonkflump”**
* This is true
** This might not be true
(, Sun 20 Jun 2021, 18:17, Reply)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Downs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldo_Rivera
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donn_B._Parker
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Headley
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Gilchrist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Computer_Techniques
(, Sun 20 Jun 2021, 14:26, Reply)
Oh boy.... “ She later moved to Los Angeles, California where she worked as a teenage prostitute and was a rock 'n' roll groupie, claiming all four former members of the Beatles among her conquests.”
When she was born in 1959, either the maths is very wrong, or something else is very wrong.
(, Sun 20 Jun 2021, 19:22, Reply)
Headley claims...
I reckon she's full of shit.
(, Sun 20 Jun 2021, 19:36, Reply)
She'd have been 21 when Lennon was shot.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 9:00, Reply)
But Paul married Linda in ‘69, and she would have been on tour with him.
Ringo and George, possibly, given infidelity being the reason for their divorces during the ‘70s, but still seems a bit of a stretch.
(, Mon 21 Jun 2021, 9:19, Reply)
I started watching the series in the week. The working on the boat bits are good, but I could live without the "look at my amazing life" bits.
(, Sun 20 Jun 2021, 15:06, Reply)
NSFW if blurred out nudity and fake pissing blows your mind.
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