Posts by George Nacht

A bit off topic

but how they were planning to clean the bones, once the knifework is done? I mean, do they have a vat big enough to boil the bones? Or are they going to use REALLY MANY hide beetles to eat away the remaining flesh? Both ways, it would be almost as interesting to watch as explosion itself!

The CO2 problem interests me

Chazmon touched a interesting question up there. I always wondered, how the life support works on habitats, isolated for longer terms, like space stations and nuclear submarines. I mean, I know how to maintain breathable atmosphere for a few hours, like in minisub or bathyscafe, using common chemicals,but I doubt you can do it for months.

I searched the Internet, but to no avail. Do they have some closed system up there, using plants or algae? Or is there some really smart device, into which you pump electricity and it dismantles CO2 into oxygen and ...carbon, I guess? Can anybody give me a link?

Many thanks in advance.

I wonder...

I wonder if creators of Thief II: The Metal Age will get at least some credits.

C´mon, Garrett fans, raise your voices!

Blame here, blame there...

Whichever mechanism causes such changes, they all can be put under the same label: The planet is pretty fed up with us.

Makes one stop and think, is what I say.

Well, I would likely pay a good money

to see Large Hardon Collider explained in interpretative dance...

Am I the only one...

..who read the title as "edit a thong" and was seriously disappointed?

If that joke does not disqualify me from commenting, I´d like to say, that this problem, if indeed it is a problem, seems to be a complex one. If the time needed for my sideburns to go gray taught me anything, then a complex problems do not have simple solutions. And this seems to be an attempt on simple solution.

I misread it again

Again I read it as "heaviest bosom".

I must scrape together enough courage to ask my mom, how did she fed me....

Now I feel really old

I still remember times, when a company would do anything to blame any troubles on "hackers".

Now the situation reverts itself, and company rather claims their own mistake than admits software vulnerability.

Or, of course, it was really their technical mishap and they are simply honest people...

Anything´s possible, I guess.

Sorry, just thinking aloud

Ships sunk, sinks and will sunk in the future, collision with each other or with anything solid that does not get pushed aside fast enough being the major cause. In my opinion, year 1912 ship, steaming at 22-24 knots and hitting a large iceberg, is entitled to sinking, technology and materials be damned.

Tragedy of Titanic was never a loss of large steel box with propellers at one end, it was staggering death count. Said tragedy more or less ignited a process which gave us a modern safety standards on ships. And here I always thought:

If the captain really commanded the ship in the last 2 hours, instead giving up and letting the officers without clear orders...

If the officers filled each lifeboat with 85 men, women and children, which was perfectly safe, especially on calm sea, instead of measly 25+...

If the rest of the crew grabbed tools and built a few rafts from whatever wood and barrels were on board...

Maybe the death count would have been much lower at the end. And maybe, the safety enhancing process would be slowed and we got a safe ships much later, after some even worse tragedy....

I really do not know how to finish the note, sorry.

Congrats to the happy couple.

Really.

My ex-girlfriend gave me elaborate instruction on how, where and WHEN am I to propose her.

All the way down to type of flowers and how big tip should I give to the waiter to bring them to table at exactly the right moment.

Sad thing is, we broke up for completely different reasons....

Tree lobster...

...and everyone here resisted temptation to make some reference to tree octopus.

I am proud of my fellow commenters.

On another note, it is refreshing to hear about saved species for once. No chance of finding a pair of Queensland wolves somewhere? After all, they are pronounced extincs only since 1937.

Looking for conflict where there is none?

No point in arguing who was the best/only true Bond. The character of Bond was molded over generations by several actors, of which each one added something to the final image.

Connery created the new, unusual kind of hero, and would he done nothing else in his career, I would love him still.

George Lazenby contributed a fact, that even Bond must be played by real actor. Also, kilt.

Roger Moore gave Bond something invaluable: A humor.

Timothy Dalton turned the spy into action hero.

Pierce Brosnan actually made him more believable, by openly admiting how he enjoys being a bit of an asshole. Also, he is a good actor, his accent or whatever be damned.

And Daniel Craig gave us, so far, a perfect presentation of the origin story. He is a very good Bond, standing on shoulders of several previous good Bonds. I am lookng forward Skyfall, I really do. And stupid gadgets and mood-killing oneliners can be unplugged from life suport, as they should be twenty years ago, thank you very much.