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by ilovecurl 3y ago
There is a list of Blackbirds on display over at https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/locations.php
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
There is a non-lethal version of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
> baggage getting lost One way to make the airlines care more about your luggage and make it highly unlikely for them to lose it is to check a firearm as described in Deviant Ollam's famous talk on the subject: https://w
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
I hear the sound effect of the tripods from the most recent film version of War of the Worlds when looking at these photos.
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by ilovecurl 3y ago
A good long form vid on Protaxites and fungi in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH9JVy-u5DQ
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
"They show the equation ∞ + 1 = ∞, which is true if ∞ is an infinite cardinal, then proceed to subtract ∞ from both sides, giving 0=1, a howling contradiction. And that’s where they leave it." This reminds me of Terrance Howard&#x
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
Somewhat important detail to note: The City of London's (AKA "The Square Mile") geographical area is 1.12 square miles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London This is great news.
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
I love curl. It's become one of my favorite pieces of software partly due to the fact that I use it so often but mostly because when I do run into problems, the documentation is so good. Thanks for making useful stuff!
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
Photographer Edward Burtynski has taken astounding photos of this stuff: https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/shipbre...
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
> The bane of every criminal. You only have to make one mistake to get caught and there are many chances to make that mistake. There's a great scene from The Wire where this is discussed: https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
Obligatory Ze Frank vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJM The Oatmeal claims that, "the mantis shrimp sees a thermonuclear bomb of light and beauty." This piece contradicts that claim: "Mantis sh
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
I hate that I laughed at this. Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. See also: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
The Brick Immortar channel is one of those gems.
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
"Cut to Cameron, at the wheel of a white junker, his long, rubbery face cast in a morbid posture." Cameron's car was a 1982 Alfa Romeo Alfetta which is far from a junker.
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
I love curl.
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
"Saltpeter" AKA potassium nitrate was indeed harvested from latrines and other places where animal dung was collected/deposited. It was a valuable commodity as a key component of gun powder. Although gun powder would not co
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
I would hazard a guess that many of the victims died from hydrogen sulfide poisoning.
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
'Why was cold steel a “unique terror” for troops in combat?' The most terrifying part of Saving Private Ryan is private Mellish's death after hand to hand combat with a knife.
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by ilovecurl 4y ago
To get an idea of just how insane it was for the crew of Samuel B Roberts and the other destroyers who charged the IJN fleet, here's a visual comparison of USN/IJN forces involved in the Battle off Samar: https://i.imgu