rohirwine
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In fact, birds are most likely to be of Dinosaur descent then lizards. The closest reptile to the dinosaur is in fact crocodile. But birds, in my own opinion, are closer
You're correct. Birds descend more closely from dinosaurs than reptiles. IIrc from my comparate anathomy course.
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Well, it is D-Day tomorrow, not Soviet-Day
But anyway, it is true that the Soviets "freed" some countries ... although a dictatorship for another one is not really what I call liberation ...
Let's say those countries were freed from Nazi dictatorship ...
Well, even if Soviets only substituted dictatorships for another authoritarian govern, we must recognize that many of them (the common soldier, for istance) fought believing they were ridding the world from a vicious peril. Russian armies freed many (the majority) concentration Lagers. But most of all, if the soviets hadn't withstanded Nazis offensives (pinning and then destroying on the eastern front the most of Germany's ground and air forces), no D-Day would have freed Western Europe, maybe nazism and fascism wouldn't have crumbled and been defeated. It is hard to admit, but we owe a big debt to the soviet soldiers.
@gaRdi: Telemark. Noone forgets them, but the Third Reich would have never reached the H-bomb in time to counter allies efforts. What has been destroyed in Telemark was nothing but a "heavy water" producing plant. Germany had the theorical knowledge to begin the study of nuclear reaction warfare application, but their method was not workable for the technology of the time (they chose the long way to the H-bomb, in short words). Anyway, i respect all those who fought, struggled and suffered to free us europeans from our own faults (wich nation did not have his Quislings and/or fascist parties, apart Denmark)? Wich nation did not help nazis to gather and send to extermination european jews? Hence those who struggled for a better and more free world deserve all our respect: hats off!
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Harondor
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Hapy birthday Rober!
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As for Pamela Anderson: lol, Curu!
As for joining SETI: we could organize a SETI Group of people downloading packets and lending idle time to SETI. This would be a nice advertising for WFG!
Matteo
P.S. I made a mistake before: our radio signals have travelled roughly eighty years so far (i edited the post anyway)...Oups...
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Your descriptions have made me want to go to Europe. Ha, I should move there when I get older
Well, i think living in America has his pros too. If we have so many entertaining places and the rest is only because we live very crowded, in the medium to small cities as well (in Italy, at least). This has his cons, of course. Generally speaking we enjoy much less nature than the medium US citizen does (not talking of those New Yorkers, or people from other big metropolis, of course). Even in the most untouched place you have to share the panorame with antropic settlements.
It can be fascinating, i admit, but it can be also depressing... ...but you'd be welcome if you care to pay us a visit!
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@Matteo
Do you happen to live in Trieste? (Balkan, James Joyce, regional parliament made me think of it).
You read my profile, confess it!
Yes, i live there...
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@Curu
Well NASA has been sending / receiving radio signals for over two decades they said. I don't know why they think it's worth it, but if they're doing it there must be a reason
As stated by Black Op, it's the SETI project (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence). It's based on a shared number cruncing program (to cut costs). The data are collected from Arecibo radiotelescope. The ipothesys is that an advanced civilization should discover radio waves as a communication media. Since radio waves travel at light speed (much or less), they are a good mean to understand if a precise radio source could be a candidate for searching a intelligent lifeform or not (it is based on a spectrum study, but if you want to know more go and look for infos on the SETI site quoted by Randy). I joined the project lending idle CPU time to them. It consumes few computer resources and it is a nice screensaver (with colourfulk graphs mooving up and down the screen).
Hignly recommended!
As for sending signals: it's almost eighty years we are sending radio signals out there (from Marconi's first transmission). This means that our broadcasts have reached a distance of roughly eighty light years away from us (a big volume of space, i bet, wich includes many solar systems). The problem is that even if a distant civilization could recieve us and send us a reply, this would come to us in 4-52, 82 (?) years, depending on that star distance from Sol (this assuming they share the same tech level of us, of course).
If i think of our TV programs mean quality, i shiver wondering what an alien civilization could think of us...
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My town has some good features.
First of all, even if a bit in decadence, it is still a much important city, hosting the regional parliament and other important business, research and commerce activities. We have some 5 or 6 theaters, some dozen cinemas, many good pubs and clubs for all tastes (chess, role play games, sport? Name one and you'll find it!). Best of all, even if the city is medium sized (200.000 inhabitants, more or less) it's sourroundings comprehend different natural sites. The sea and the seaside (no sandy beaches, but nonetheless nice), the countryside, and it's near the mountains too (one hour, one hour and half from them). It's inhabitants keep alive a strong sporting tradition (sailing, hiking, rowing, bycicle, athletics, soccer, hockey, volleyball...) and it's always easy to find some clubs to join if you like to practice some sport. Culturally, we have some nice museums (modern art, train museum, navy museum, natural history, the castle arms collection, a big "War museum for peace" and some more. Traditional folk festivals abund (the "Cherry festival", the "May tree festival", the "Sci-Fi Cinema festival" and the international "Alpe Adria Cinema" festival). Many films have been shot here, as a whole or partially (the scenes of Tobruk from the "English patient" were shot in the XIX cent. docks)... ...but most of all, since the city lies on the brink of the balkan area, here you can find people from every corner of Europe and beyond. James Joyce lived here for a long time, and many other writers followed his example. We have a multiethnic community: armenians, greeks, serbs, croats, slovenes, germans, english, americans, indians, chineese, turks, lebaneese, tunisians, iranians, argentins, brazilians, camerunians and some more. Even if those communities could be a bit more interrelating, the city managed to make them a quite integrated part of it's life, things are improoving with time: it's difficult to get bored if you are curious enough to find some occasions to meet different people.
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Gondolin
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I feel that beauty is a mix of physical appearence, behaivour, and demeanor. These three make us feel a person is "beautiful" or not.
You can find someone very attractive, but when you exchange two or three word be horrified by what she/he said...
And yes, sexuality is often involved.
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puella
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You should explain a bit better the background of his friendships, his relationship with his parents and sister, and introduce a bit better the secondary carachters.
BTW: i didn't realize it was you that wrote it! Amazing! Greeat! Astounding!
Moderators: i can't remember if i can raise rep two times a day to the same person...
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As i'm munching and deleting my enormous ham-sandwich, i thought about a thread where anyone could post their tastes regarding sandwiches. If you want you can even send us your personal recipies, taking care of explaining what the ingredients are, please: since we all come from different countries we need to clarify this side of the matter.
Here is one of my preferred, it's good when you go out on the sea (it helps preventing seasick):
The mariner snack®
Recipe:
One slice of bread (the dryer, the better: a slice of french bread is in order for a moderate version)
A good slice of butter (or a few drops of oil, if you have extra virgin olive oil avaible)
Two or three anchovises (sp?) (the best one being those salted, second choice those under oil)
Clarification:
Extra virgin oil: it's the best quality of olive oil, it is obtained fron the first milling of olives, without heating.
Virgin oil is obtained by a second "cold milling" of the pressed olives.
Olive oil is usually the product of a third session of milling with heat applied to extract the most from the fruits (it's the worst kind of oil though).
I know that you are all Hobbits at heart: give us your preferences, tastes and recipies (yummm!)
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Oups, Woad studious, :shun:
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Thanks, Klaas, at least we now have some elements to work upon: Dire Wolf was among the founders, and Toad Studios and Tsunami Studios are somewhat like our cousins.
Anyone knows why some people left for other groups?
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It would be better to compare Chzech-Slowakia to Belgium
I agree with you that Belgium is not like the Balkans, but if i were you i'd stay away from Chekoslovakia example: the Slovaks got the short side of the rope from their indipendence. It was not a good affair. Moreover, i agree that you need a better representative system, but take in account that the EU will count much more as time passes, maybe we should focus our efforts to be sure that the European parialment does not seem a bigger clone of our national ones (i.e. lobbies, servilism towards the international companies, obscure power games between bigger parties and so on...).
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They call us peasants and fascists if we come up with such changes. The Flemish Movement had a few black sheeps during the second world war that collaborated (two politcal nationalist parties: VNV and VLAG), and they're stil using it against us :/
Well, this is a point of how the contemporary flemish parties behave, moreover i think that if you have a good political project, you should not give up because others try to cage you with historical reasons. History must be known and aknowledged, but must also be left in it's proper place: the past.
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I'm gonna praise Yiuel for his effort! The story is good (even if sometimes skips some needed explanations) and the translating effor is a huge work! Nice job!
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Valinor
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Hmm, i don't see any Adam post here, what about him?
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If it were up to me, I'd close every spam topic but Word Association and 3 Word Story (even "Whoever gets last post wins", which IMHO degenerated into a mere "I'm here" thread). However, I probably would be very hated if I do so. If only my other comrades all thought as I......
I agree with you, at least...
Pat, pat...
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In Italy we had a pure proportional system till 1994. Them we adopted the majoritarian one, because people said governments were too unstable. I cannot say thet the change fixed italian problems. We now have more stable govermnents, but we are also experiencing the less democratic governments of the whole republican life (toworrow will be the 48rd adniversary of our constitution): they have a so overhelming majority that they can do whatever they want, even if people are not happy with it. I'm a strong supporter of pure proportional systems too.
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Hmm, i'll check, maybe you're right on spelling Adam. Anyway he's the one of Kon-Tiki (and i must admit that maybe he touched Easterisland with it, i'm not sure: one more check to do!)
As for the two "populations" of the island, lemme do the first check (now, three checks, ouch, sounds like homework....
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Are we alone...
in Hall of Intellectuals
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Sidenote to the Silicon alternative to carbonium based lifeforms.
I talked with a physicist friend of mine, and he assured me that silice based lifeforms, even if possible, are higly unlikely to develope.
Siclice is heavyer than carbonium, this means that it is (statistically) less frequent, and that needs much more energy to react and form compounds.
Hence it is possible that silice based lifeforms develope, but very unlikely (he then started to explain me the relation with star generations and elements "creation" by the stars, but i'll avoid such issue, since it would lead us OT as fast as light
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Cheers