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HairyManling posted:Serious question: Why did they even need to cap the borehole? It’s not very wide, right? It’s not like someone was going to fall down it.  Yes, but as evidenced by the above discourse, who what might come up? better safe than sorry
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HairyManling posted:Serious question: Why did they even need to cap the borehole? It’s not very wide, right? It’s not like someone was going to fall down it. To prevent decadent capitalist tourist from taking a poo poo into it and possibly beating longstanding, glorious record set by Alexei "Long Bomber" Kuznetsov in 1990.
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tribbledirigible posted:To prevent decadent capitalist tourist from taking a poo poo into it and possibly beating longstanding, glorious record set by Alexei "Long Bomber" Kuznetsov in 1990. The only way to beat this record would be to expose your butt to the vacuum and poop out the ISS. Some say it could years for the poo poo to reenter the atmosphere.
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Sep 29, 2018 02:46
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HairyManling posted:Serious question: Why did they even need to cap the borehole? It’s not very wide, right? It’s not like someone was going to fall down it. To keep the demons in, obviously
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Sep 29, 2018 02:48
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Someone tried to gently caress the borehole, didn’t they? That has to be the real reason.
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Sep 29, 2018 03:11
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Buddy they don't even let me gently caress the borehole
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Sep 29, 2018 03:16
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HairyManling posted:Someone tried to gently caress the borehole, didn’t they? That has to be the real reason. I he wants to gently caress the earth, he just dump untreated coal plant runoff into freshwater streams like everyone else.
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Sep 29, 2018 03:17
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BlockChainNetflix posted:The only way to beat this record would be to expose your butt to the vacuum and poop out the ISS. Some say it could years for the poo poo to reenter the atmosphere. Nah, you’d just have to position a tall enough ladder above the borehole.
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BlockChainNetflix posted:The only way to beat this record would be to expose your butt to the vacuum and poop out the ISS. Some say it could years for the poo poo to reenter the atmosphere. with the right preparation and the right angle, you could fire a burning frozen turd straight through whatever person you might choose, and at terminal velocity no less! Which brings me to the actual historical content of this post: Peter Freuchen was one of the early polar explorers. Once, he got lost in the night or his crew was lost, I don't know. Point being he woke up inside his tent and it was covered with snow that was frozen over, so basically inside an iceberg. Man of action, he pooped a turd and shaped it on the floor and then used it as a chisel to dig himself out. Another time he cut his own frostbitten/gangrenous leg off with a pocket knife. Not sure if he knew the poop-trick at that time. cf. historical photos thread for a photo
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Sep 29, 2018 04:23
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Not as hardass as the soviet antarctic researcher who did his own appendectomy.
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Sep 29, 2018 16:37
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HairyManling posted:Someone tried to gently caress the borehole, didn’t they? That has to be the real reason. But enough about your mother.
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Sep 29, 2018 17:56
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When Caesar defeated the celts he looted so much treasure that the price of gold dropped by 25% in Rome.
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Sep 30, 2018 08:06
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One weird trick....
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Sep 30, 2018 10:32
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cf also Musa I who depressed the price of gold for decades just by spending so much of it lol
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Sep 30, 2018 12:10
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Krankenstyle posted:cf also Musa I who depressed the price of gold for decades just by spending so much of it lol Was he the one who abdicated his throne then vanished on his pilgrimage to Mecca or am I confusing him with someone else?
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Sep 30, 2018 12:28
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Yeah it was his pilgrimage. The numbers are absolutely nuts.
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Sep 30, 2018 12:33
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Wheat Loaf posted:Was he the one who abdicated his throne then vanished on his pilgrimage to Mecca or am I confusing him with someone else? No, Mansa Musa didn't abdicate or vanish on a pilgrimage. That was his predecessor Abu Bakr II who resigned to the throne and disappeared - though not to go on a pilgrimage, but to explore the limits of the ocean after a survivor of a previous expedition had reported land to the west of Africa.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Was he the one who abdicated his throne then vanished on his pilgrimage to Mecca or am I confusing him with someone else? He didn't abdicate, it was his predecessor Abu Bakr II who abdicated in order to explore the ocean. One day he set out to reach the end of the Atlantic Ocean and was never seen again. And while he spent an enormous amount of gold in Egypt when he traveled to Mecca he actually had to borrow gold from money-lenders in Egypt to be able to travel back.
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drat my bad, I missed the abdication
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Alhazred posted:He didn't abdicate, it was his predecessor Abu Bakr II who abdicated in order to explore the ocean. One day he set out to reach the end of the Atlantic Ocean and was never seen again. Wasn't that an attempt to fix the damage he'd done? To draw out some of the gold he'd injected into the local economies (according to Wiki, that'd have been some 30 metric tons  ), and eventually pay it back with other goods?
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Perestroika posted:Wasn't that an attempt to fix the damage he'd done? To draw out some of the gold he'd injected into the local economies (according to Wiki, that'd have been some 30 metric tons I've read that he became lost from his caravan, had no gold left and had to lend gold in order to get enough slaves and proviant to return.
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steinrokkan posted:No, Mansa Musa didn't abdicate or vanish on a pilgrimage. That was his predecessor Abu Bakr II who resigned to the throne and disappeared - though not to go on a pilgrimage, but to explore the limits of the ocean after a survivor of a previous expedition had reported land to the west of Africa. Alhazred posted:He didn't abdicate, it was his predecessor Abu Bakr II who abdicated in order to explore the ocean. One day he set out to reach the end of the Atlantic Ocean and was never seen again. I see - my mistake. Sounds a bit like that Genoese or Portuguese (?) expedition that went missing off the West African coast so its leader's brother set out on a rescue expedition... and also vanished. Alhazred posted:And while he spent an enormous amount of gold in Egypt when he traveled to Mecca he actually had to borrow gold from money-lenders in Egypt to be able to travel back. There's a comedy road movie to be had out of this premise. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:There's a comedy road movie to be had out of this premise. "The Sultan of Egypt demands that Mansa Musa kiss the ground before him but Mansa Musa refuses. How will he get out of this pickle?"
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Wheat Loaf posted:I see - my mistake. Sounds a bit like that Genoese or Portuguese (?) expedition that went missing off the West African coast so its leader's brother set out on a rescue expedition... and also vanished. Unironically would be down for it, people need more exposure to African history, and it would be a laugh. Mansa Musa has been estimated as the richest person ever to exist, including the modern age.
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Alhazred posted:"The Sultan of Egypt demands that Mansa Musa kiss the ground before him but Mansa Musa refuses. How will he get out of this pickle?" I love state leader pickles but even more so, consort pickles
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Wheat Loaf posted:There's a comedy road movie to be had out of this premise. Agreed, but we'd have to time travel and abduct Richard Pryor to star.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Unironically would be down for it, people need more exposure to African history, and it would be a laugh. Agreed, and why do we not have a ton of high budget Hindu epics? I feel like their stories would make fantastic films in western cinema. I'm assuming Bollywood already makes these and I just don't know about them being an ignorant american.
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Ommin posted:Agreed, and why do we not have a ton of high budget Hindu epics? I feel like their stories would make fantastic films in western cinema. I'm assuming Bollywood already makes these and I just don't know about them being an ignorant american. Greek myth is a bedrock of Western civilization and they can't manage to make a move about it without loving it up with poo poo like "hey let's get the Rock to play Hercules and then not have him do the labors! nobody wants to see the Rock lifting Atlas' burden or going to the underworld and wrassling Cerberus!"
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Someone needs to just pitch the studios all the different pantheons as "shared universes" and start making some kickass mythology poo poo! I am way to optimistic with that idea. As soon as I typed it I realized the mistake I was making, but I stand by the sentiment.
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Byzantine posted:Greek myth is a bedrock of Western civilization and they can't manage to make a move about it without loving it up with poo poo like "hey let's get the Rock to play Hercules and then not have him do the labors! nobody wants to see the Rock lifting Atlas' burden or going to the underworld and wrassling Cerberus!" Wait really? That’s stupid. I just to watch Rock do Rock poo poo 
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Byzantine posted:Greek myth is a bedrock of Western civilization and they can't manage to make a move about it without loving it up with poo poo like "hey let's get the Rock to play Hercules and then not have him do the labors! nobody wants to see the Rock lifting Atlas' burden or going to the underworld and wrassling Cerberus!" Misplaced ideas of realism, crippling both D&D campaigns and Hollywood epics. We've had so many 'the REAL story' takes on fantasy that strip out all the fantastic elements while forgetting to actually make what's left interesting (not to mention leaving in things like Lancelot and Galahad in King Arthur and Maid Marian and Friar Tuck in Robin Hood, which were additions centuries after the original tales) that I think they've forgotten how to make actual mythological fantasy not based on 20th century novels. (and whatever the gently caress was going on with Clash of the Titans) Ghost Leviathan has a new favorite as of 06:30 on Oct 1, 2018 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:(not to mention leaving in things like Lancelot and Galahad in King Arthur and Maid Marian and Friar Tuck in Robin Hood, which were additions centuries after the original tales)
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Alhazred posted:One cool thing that Prince of Thieves did was to ensure that people believe that Robin having a black friend is a part of the legend. I'm pretty sure Sir Palomides predates Lancelot.
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I think Prince of Thieves itself was following Robin of Sherwood, which had a Saracen assassin called Nazir who joined the Merry Men after accompanying a crusader knight back to England. No doubt there are even earlier examples. (Prince of Thieves was a really big movie, of course.) In the BBC series from around 10 years ago, Friar Tuck was played by David Harewood, except because the position of friar wouldn't have been historically accurate (or so I understand) he is referred to as "Brother Tuck" and usually the other Merry Men address him as "Brother". So you end up with an odd situation where the only black man in England is addressed as "brother" by everybody. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:I think Prince of Thieves itself was following Robin of Sherwood, which had a Saracen assassin called Nazir who joined the Merry Men after accompanying a crusader knight back to England. No doubt there are even earlier examples. (Prince of Thieves was a really big movie, of course.) That sounds like an idea for a kickass Assassin's Creed game.
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I genuinely liked the Rock Hercules movie. But far, far less than I'd have liked one played straight where he actually does Hercules poo poo. Hell, it'd require less suspension of disbelief than Fast and Furious. I know how real cars work, I know jack poo poo about killing lions, and I figure that's true for most moviegoing audiences.
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Ommin posted:Agreed, and why do we not have a ton of high budget Hindu epics? I feel like their stories would make fantastic films in western cinema. I'm assuming Bollywood already makes these and I just don't know about them being an ignorant american. There's a 6~ hour For TV theatre adapation of Peter Brooks "The Mahabharata"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhqkRGISQr8 It can be pretty 'hope you loving love theatre' though.
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We release doves at the olympic games because the ancient romans released them to spread news of the event results.
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ChocNitty posted:We release doves at the olympic games because the ancient romans released them to spread news of the event results. And we have the olympic torch because Hitler thought it would be cool.
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 This is the Ipswich Man whose skeleton was discovered in an archeological dig in a cemetery in Ipswich, about 75 miles north east of London. He was born between 1190 and 1300 in Tunis in North Africa and died between 1258 and 1300. Scientists estimate he would have lived in Britain (or somewhere with a similar climate at least) for approx 10 years before his death. His most likely cause of death was a spinal abcess which would have left him essentially invalid. The fact that he appeared to have had this condition for several years before his death suggests he was cared for, and his graves position in the cemetery strongly suggests he wasn't a poor man or a slave (the fact that he was buried in the cemetery at all almost certainly shows he was a Christian). Nine skeletons of sub-Saharan origin were also found during the digs but there isn't as much information about them. duckmaster has a new favorite as of 18:25 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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