mzungu wrote: » The Blackbird was capable of speeds reaching 2,200mph (3,540kph) while its futuristic shape and black paint full of radar-absorbing iron made it virtually undetectable.
New Home wrote: » Prince wrote "Manic Monday", too, which was one of The Bangles' greatest successes.
Ten of Swords wrote: » The technology behind the Blackbird was a partial spin-off if the U2 spy plane which was developed and tested under great secrecy at Groom Lake Airforce Base - also known as Area 51 The Russians have their own area 51 though it is far less well known, it is called Kapustin Yar and became operational in 1946. It housed many german rocket scientists captured during WW2. The base is still in active use today.
Nixonbot wrote: » Similarly, New Zealand was uninhabited until about 1350.
Big Nasty wrote: » I remember reading something in a book years ago (could have been fictional) about an enormous Russian training ground for spies that was basically a number of entire towns, I.e. American, English, French towns with everything authentic and only the designated language spoken. Amazing if true.
Chancer3001 wrote: » surely we cant know that about NEw Zealand tho. Maybe we just havent found the fossils/bones yet
DrumSteve wrote: » He only wrote it for them so he could get jiggy with Suzannah Hoffs.
Ten of Swords wrote: » It is true, nobody knows how many such towns were purpose built but the most well known one was Vinnytsia in what is now Ukraine. In 1959 a spy school was established there and a mock up American town was constructed, the CIA learned of it's existence in 1960.
mzungu wrote: » Our bones are unbelievably strong. In fact, bounce for bounce, our bones are stronger than steel. If you had a bar of steel a comparable size it would weigh nearly five times as much!
Nixonbot wrote: » The stealth bit isn't really true, while it did have a reduced radar cross-section of about 10 square meters, Soviet radar technology was easily able to detect it. The problem for the Soviets was actually doing something about it, if a missile was launched, the Blackbird would accelerate to the aforemented speed and simply outrun the threat.
liamoreilly wrote: » ...Did you know, 0f the previous 8240 posts up until mine, only 341 have been repeated, and only 73 of these have been repeated 3 or more times...There have been just under 1100 different posters to this thread, and now one poster more thanks to me...
Capt'n Midnight wrote: » Giant insects filling the niche of mice ? Top predators and herbivores are large birds ? Lots of species wiped out when mammals arrived. Of course like Madagascar all the big birds were killed off around the time humans arrived. Just like lots of large terrestrial animals died when humans arrived elsewhere.
gozunda wrote: » Abraham Lincoln (16th President of the United States) at the age if 21 was the wrestling champion of his county in 1830. He was also an accomplished wrestler and is honored in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater. There is only one recorded instance of him losing in during his wrestling years which spaned 12 years, according to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame (NWHOF)
mikhail wrote: » Greco-roman wrestling, rather than the flying circus of WWE, I presume?
py2006 wrote: » The cast of Friends make $20 million a year from syndication revenue. The show finished in 2004.
Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: » Large animals who just didn’t have time to adapt evolutionary strategy to fear humans or defend against them. It generally took about a millennium in Australia and the Americas for humans to elimate the large beasts. Mammoths survived with human populations far longer, in fact the juries out on what caused the extinction. Of course mammoths were hunted by Neanderthal and even homo erectus so they probably developed a fear of humans in general over millions of years.
