"...No, you can't go back to Constantinople..."

Platinum is, so far, the best available catalyst for fuel cells.

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It originally was called "duck tape" !

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Platinum stocks are depleted enough today that it is now economically viable to harvest it from car exhaust.

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

Duck/duct tape is not useful for ducts that transmit heated air because the plastic in the tape melts easily.

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Todd (Bowie, MD, US, North America, Earth, Sol System, Vega region, Local Bubble, Orion arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo A Cluster, Virgo supercluster, the universe in which spock is clean shaven)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

A person on the cleaning staff here is named "James T. Kirk." He dislikes his name and the ribbing he gets for it, but he is about 40, an age consistent with the hypothesis that it is a result of his parents being Trekkies.

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Todd (Bowie, MD, US, North America, Earth, Sol System, Vega region, Local Bubble, Orion arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo A Cluster, Virgo supercluster, the universe in which spock is clean shaven)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

I once encountered a poor soul named "John Jacobs". He gets flashbacks every time he hears that song.

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

Iraq currently exports 2.11 million barrels of oil per day.

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The Earth is covered with more than 30,000 tons of particles from space every year.

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The world’s biggest ship is the supertanker Knock Nevis.

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I haven't stopped crying today;

We Will Remember You "Maksutov"

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Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. Admiral Hyman Rickover.USN.

"Make the most of every day like it could be your last and enjoy each others company as this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

*A rock is for life not just for throwing*

Here's something for ya, hon:

Telescopes: The Maksutov design was invented in 1941 and perfected in 1947.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

Thats my boy. Did you know he actually made a lens and shaped it into perfection when he was young? now thats a fact.

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Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. Admiral Hyman Rickover.USN.

"Make the most of every day like it could be your last and enjoy each others company as this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

*A rock is for life not just for throwing*

Yeah, we talked about it some. We were both glass-pushers back in the day. I think my mirror was bigger than his, but he made more of them.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

He was a man of many talents, even bringing up a son on his own, now that is special. I have done the same but with two, so we had that kinship too!

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Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. Admiral Hyman Rickover.USN.

"Make the most of every day like it could be your last and enjoy each others company as this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

*A rock is for life not just for throwing*

Maksutov was great at editing, great at inspiring, great at giving to others what he could never seem to find for himself.

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"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."

Here's an interesting random fact: The number of people who thought of Mak as a friend, especially through long-running private conversations, is mind-boggling. The man carried on a correspondance of a volume and complexity closer to the writers of the 18th century than the 21st.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

An elephant's trunk contains more muscles than the entire human body.

William the Conqueror died after being thrown from his horse, which had trod on the hot embers of a town William had just burned to the ground.

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

In 1980, Paul Spangler erected a new genus and species for a torridinicolid beetle from Brazil. The genus name Ytu was chosen because in the local dialect it means waterfall, signifying the habitat of the beetle. The specific epithet brutus was chosen for another reason entirely.

The summit rock of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

A new species of insect was discovered last month in central London- in the garden of the Natural History Museum

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.