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It Was 75 Years Ago Today... http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-06/hindenburg-disaster-anniversary/54788882/1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWKyYRJEcRo

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As I recollect, the Hindenburg disaster would have never happened, if the United States would have shared what it had discovered with the Germans. I may be wrong, but I believe we had discovered an easy and relatively inexpensive way to extract helium from the atmosphere, that we would not share with Germany, because their blimps bombed the British in World War I.

p.s. Yep, hydrogen was easy to get, but it would blow up with a spark. Helium wasn't quite as light as hydrogen, but close enough, and it doesn't explode with a spark.

p.p.s. If anyone knows something different, please tell me. I love it when I'm wrong. Being wrong is how we learn things. We never learn something new, when we are right.

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Helium came from gas wells in Texas. It was supposed to burn, but then it didn't. For years the USA was the only source of helium.

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" Don't look back, The bastards might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige

Frank

You had better take that blimp ride while you can... http://blogs.airspacemag.com/onair/2012 ... ut-helium/

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Thanks Frank, I just learned something from you, and unlearned something that I thought was right, that now I know was wrong. You may be the Tzar of obscure knowledge that will never show up on any NTN trivia games. Isn't it a bitch to know this kind or stuff that you know they will never ask?

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Everyone skipped replying to my shot at the European Union (Economic), and I can't figure out why. If it was total stupidity, I would have been expected to have been taken to task by those smarter than I am, who knew better. If everyone agreed with me, I would have died of a heart attack, but would have thought that I would have heard their comments. Could it be that people are afraid to touch on something that might be considered political? Yeah, it's political, but it isn't American political stuff, so I think until DANTE tells us that European political stuff will not be allowed on the ScaRatings, I would guess it's okay to go there. However, if and when DANTE steps in, and says we can't go there either, I will be the first to drop any subject that might be bandying about.

As long as DANTE allows political discussions for things that have nothing to do with the United States, I wish that someone besides me would comment on what is going on in Europe. What is happening there today, is likely to get a full chapter in your kids' (or grandkids') history books five or ten years from now. (Maybe sooner...?)

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The following is pasted from Dante's new terms of service.

2) Politics discussions will be locked. The person starting them will be suspended. Any person who tries to continually raise them will be banned.

You've been temp-banned before for this, you really think you should push it and get banned for good?

BO

Be it known that stranger things have happened but, I agree (gaaaack... cough...) with BO.

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THE ICEMAN is banned for agreeing wi . . . oh, oops, wrong thread. Sorry about that!

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Why not downgrade Plutonium to a dwarf element?

Okay, everyone can forget what's going on in Europe... Please disregard my previous posts. The good Lord knows, that I never want to feel the pain of DANTE's mighty hammer ever again. So I'm moving on to a more important bit of news in my next post, "The End of the world is Not Near...!"

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The end of the world is NOT near...! Scientists have discovered a Mayan calendar that refutes the doomsday prediction that many feared would have wiped out all of our credit card balances (as well as everything else) on 12-21-2012.

http://www.newsroomamerica.com/story/24 ... _2012.html

"The project scientists say that despite popular belief, there is no sign that the Maya calendar — or the world — was to end in the year 2012, just one of its calendar cycles. “It’s like the odometer of a car, with the Maya calendar rolling over from the 120,000s to 130,000,” said Anthony Aveni, professor of astronomy and anthropology at Colgate University, a coauthor of the Science paper. “The car gets a step closer to the junkyard as the numbers turn over; the Maya just start over.”

When I first read this, I could not believe my eyes. Not because the world now appears to be safe, but because Dr. Anthony Aveni, was my astronomy professor at Colgate probably in 1965 or 1966. He was a great teacher in many ways, not the least of which is when he gave me a "C", when I probably deserved an "F". (I know that I am well known for the bullshit fantasies that I make up, but this time I'm not being silly.)

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All the Mayan Calendar means is it is time to start a new calendar. There are no Mayan Phophersies of the end of the world occurring on 12/21/2012.

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" Don't look back, The bastards might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige

Frank

Yeahbut... The Mayans aren't printing any new calendars.

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FrankC and ICEMAN, I am now in Rome, NY, about 30 miles from Colgate University. My lady friend up here thinks we should waste some gasoline and drive on down to Hamilton, NY, so I can talk to my old astronomy professor, Anthony Aveni, after 46 years of skipping his 8:00 am class, into giving me a break. My lady friend thinks that if I'm very polite with him, he might raise my grade in his astronomy class to a "B-", in which case Yale might finally accept me into their doctorate program.

p.s. Hell, why waste the gas? Yale's football team sucks.

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Another duplicate post that couldn't be deleted, but why waste the space...?

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....... Selected as the most beautiful college campus in the United States by the "Princeton Review" in 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgate_University

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ICEMAN you have done it to me again. It was so late tonight, that I thought nobody would be monitoring my posts as I submitted them, and then edited them. I was still entering and deleting things when you picked up on my post that I changed several times after you first saw it, and several more times after you responded to it.

Even though I deleted much of the post that you are questioning me about, I will say this much. Colgate men are men. Yalies are sissies, with the one exception of my grandfather, who received his doctorate from Yale, after risking his life as a missionary in the Chinese/Tibetan wars in Batang in the 1920's.

That's it for me...



........... "Goodnight, I'm going to bed"

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Did you know the Colgate LaCrosse team pulled an upset yesterday???

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Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

No, please tell me about it. When I left Colgate 44 years ago they didn't have a LaCrosse team. I am ashamed to admit that I don't follow LaCrosse, but I have found that even my old high school, Rome Free Academy, now has both men's and women's LaCrosse teams. It seems to be the up and coming sport in the northeast.

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............ "That's the game...! Army is headed back to West Point, and we've got some beer that needs drinking...! Go Gate...!

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Sadly, the hour has become late, and I must say goodnight.



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p.s. Happy Mother's Day to those of you, who qualify.

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The Mayans are printing Gregorian calendars now. Archeologists have discovered proof that the Mayan calendar srarts over.

See: http://www.history.com/news/2012/05/10/ ... 05102012_1

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Frank

Cool....no need to plan the end of the world.....AT ALL

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

You mean I've been running up my credit cards for nothing?

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I'm a solipsistic conspiracy theorist. I'm sure I must be up to something, and I won't stop until I find out what
Why not downgrade Plutonium to a dwarf element?

There is an alternative way out from under huge credit card balances that doesn't require the world to end. Just file for bankruptcy. I think they might let you keep some of your stuff. It's easy to hide things from them that you really want to keep. I know, I've done it three times. (Yep, another CLOUDY joke.)

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What ever happened to "Chip the Bartender"...? It was a thread carried over from the old "Buzztime Players" site. (It had over 300 pages when Buzztime died, as I recall.) It was a place where people put up all sorts of posts. Some were silly and some were somewhat serious, but they all had one thing in common. That would be that very few of them had anything in common. There was no theme to the thread other than it had no theme. It went anywhere anyone wanted to take it.

The nice thing about it was it gave people a place to toss something up on the site, whithout having to start a new thread, which they knew would have short lived interest. I can see no reason for someone to start a new thread on a topic that they know is unlikely to ever go beyond a page, if that . The "ScaRatings" now has so many of these dead short lived threads, which nobody is still interested in, that is becoming difficult to find ones that do have a topic of continuing interest.

I might suggest that before someone creates a new thread, that they consider these words.

p.s. "Chip the Bartender" is waiting for you to contribute to its anywhere you want to go zaniness, or profound words of wisdom. You can never be off topic, because there is no topic, other than what you want it to be.

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Can birds walk backwards...? I don't think so. I've never seen one that could. When they need to go to something behind them, they just turn around, or fly back to it, instead of walking backwards.

Does anyone know differently...?

This pigeon only walked forward, and I never saw a backward step.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_yJYz11yYY

(PENGWN, if you're listening, I think the same is probaly true of penguins as well.)

p.s. If I'm right, what a great trivia question it could be.

p.p.s. I'm worried about ostriches, emus, and cassowaries.

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