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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49028346

 

Probably claimed he was violent, but just playing what the people want

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Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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Fifty years ago today:

The actual landing took 19 minutes from undock to touchdown. and it was quite dramatic because they overshot their landing target and Armstrong had to take manual control and pick a landing site. So Apollo 11 landed with less descent fuel than any other mission. Apollo 14 was close by Sheppard was hot dogging it. This video is the cliff notes version. Just the important two minutes. 

"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

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33 minutes ago, majestic said:

Does that mean Armstrong went off Kubrick's script or what? I mean moon landings were fake, lmao.

 

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Images from the LRO Orbiter thirty years later:

Apollo 11

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Apollo 12

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Apollo 14

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Apollo 15 

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Apollo 16

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Apollo 17

Apollo-17-LRO.jpg?zoom=1.5&fit=640,308

 

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1 hour ago, majestic said:

That's just CGI, really. Space isn't real. 😆

 

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Just kidding, of course.

 

No that's just what they WANT you to think!

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The perspective of things...

 

The Lincoln Assassination is really just wild if you think about it for a moment. The younger brother of one of the most famous actors in the country- himself a famous actor and heartthrob in his own right- killed the President in a theatre and yelled “Sic semper tyrannis,” a line often associated with Brutus, a character that his brother had famously played.

Like, imagine if Liam Hemsworth killed the Prime Minister of Australia at a red carpet movie premiere or something and yelled “I went for the head,” and Chris had to leave the Avengers press tour to tell everyone, “I swear I had nothing to do with this.” Imagine how weird that would be.

"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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https://www.tellerreport.com/business/2019-07-16---a-9000-year-old-village-discovered-near-jerusalem-.H17iDLi-r.html

An ancient 9000 year old village discovered near Jerusalem, really interesting as it has  evidence of these early civilizations being much more advanced than we thought. Archaeologists are ecstatic

Here is another link that discusses more interesting details about what is new about this find

https://infinityexplorers.com/9000-years-old-town-in-jerusalem-discovered-by-archaeologists

 

I wonder if   " white male privilege "  was used back in those days ?  :teehee:

 

 

 

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"Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela

 

 

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Guys if you have an interest in animals and conservation here is a heart warming and true story. The man in this story, Laurence Anthony, is a family friend. We grew up with his kids and he had a business with my dad until they had irreconcilable differences and parted ways but most of my family remained friends with his family and him

He also was the South African who traveled to Iraq in 2003 to help animals in the Baghdad zoo who had been displaced by the Iraq invasion

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9131585/Lawrence-Anthony.html

I didn't know about the Elephant whisperer story  until today when my stepmom sent us the video 🐘

 

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"Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela

 

 

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Just now, Gfted1 said:

Is it true that a rhinoceros will come into a camp to stomp the campfire out, and then leave?

I have no idea, the truth is Im not really an outdoor camping  bush person so I have very limited knowledge of animal behavior . I like mountain camping and beach holidays 

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"Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela

 

 

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6 minutes ago, Gfted1 said:

 

Thats a good video, very interesting, The man in that film belongs to a specific ethnic group in Southern  Africa called the Khoisan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoisan

The Khoisan are often referred to as the " First people "  because they were the original inhabitants of certain  parts of Southern Africa before the black\Bantu  tribes migrated south from central Africa. They are not technically black, they are there own race with there own culture,language  and history .This becomes an interesting historical debate because some Khoisan argue that they should be recognized as the original inhabitants of South Africa and they should have land given to them or rather land reform to include them  as its was stolen by both white Colonists and certain black tribes ....things are never boring in SA o:)

 

"Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela

 

 

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8 minutes ago, Gfted1 said:

Thanks for the genuine reply. I was joking though as its a scene from a 1980 movie called [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy]The Gods Must Be Crazy.[/url] It would be hilarious if rhino's actually did that though. :lol:

I have seen that movie and its very funny for the time it was made, I didnt realize it was from there 🤣

"Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela

 

 

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"We stumble, and when we stumble a lot, we start to look at our feet. We have to make people lift their eyes back to the horizon, and see the line of ancestors ...behind us, saying, "Make my life have meaning." And to our inheritors before us, saying, "Create the world we will live in." I mean, we're not just holding jobs and having dinner. We are in the process of building the future. Only by making people understand that can we hope to create a better world for ourselves and our posterity."

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Web sites ranks by traffic. Congrats to porn for still being king of the internet. Six of the top 25 are all porn! https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/united-states

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/08/summer-camps-turn-facial-recognition-parents-demand-more-smiles-please/

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His phone rings 10 times a day with notifications from the summer camp’s facial-recognition service, which alerts him whenever one of his girls is photographed enjoying their newfound independence, going water-skiing or making a new friend.

His daughters don’t really know about the facial-recognition part, he said. But for him and his wife, it’s quickly become a cherished summer pastime, alerting them instantly when the camp uploads its for-parents haul of more than 1,000 photos a day — many of which they end up looking through, just in case.

 

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