Stalins Organ

My oldest son was diagnosed with Asperger's when he was 5....which was then "upgraded" to autism when he was 6 - yesterday he started a BE in Software Engineering - my retirement is assured!! However in the process of all the rigmarole that went with this "we" (his mom, my mom, me) figured that both my father an I exhibit aspergers/autistic traits - me moreso than dad. When I asked a visiting "expert" at a public meeting whether there was a genetic link his answer was "there seems to be in about 50% of cases". So what does it mean? Not much - except like you it does make understanding myself a bit easier, and helps with figuring out what is happening sometimes. That generally makes life a little easier.

Humans are the most advanced version of the species available, and y'all are at the cutting edge of evolution. Except for Michael Emrys of course. Anything else is science fiction.

Never used to

shame about the bunch of morons commenting on it tho!

Try these - http://www.eaa.org/news/2010/2010-11-24_mosquito.asp http://www.warbirdrestoration.co.nz/current.html#ka114

It is definitely CGI - there are no flying Mosquitos at the moment! but there are some being built!

OTOH if you want to hear multiple Merlins and watch some classy CGI - I give you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNJ8rIEPLOo Well it's not really me giving it to yo, but thank you whoever did!

Sadly the twist at the end was pure fantasy - the 109 had a short range only as far as London - it would never reach Ireland in the time of hte movie, and since the air battle was clearly in the BoB with all those German bombers, the cannon armed Spitfire can only have been the experimental Mk 1's that 19 Sqn flew for a short time, and their squadron markings were "QV", not the ones on the a/c. I'll leave the 109 identifications to someone else Plus of course losing 1/2 a wing at <250 feet agl is NOT going to result in a nice upright and smooth crash landing for anyone!!

I'm assured that will continue once you start getting further from 60 too.....:cool:

Xenocide is the one I was thinking of - I think I played ver 2.* for a while - it was pretty faithful even back then & is a lot slicker now! Well done them!

Could be interesting - there are a few private re-imaginings out there - one in particular I played a couple of years ago was pretty good as a replica. I hope they do more with it than just make a sci-fi version of Civ like Alpha Centauri....which wasn't bad as far as sci-fi versions of Civ go! Mind you I haven't seen any civ since I I think.....so maybe the later ones are worth emulating??

There wasn't much building damage - all hte dodgy ones were written off from February last year! And only 40 or so known minor injuries. Retailers suffered the most - having to close all the malls the day before Christmas! My sons are down there visiting both their sets of Grandparents, and are a bit nervous about it all - having been woken up on Christmas day by an aftershock as well. There seems to be an interesting progression for the source of the quakes - the September 2010 ones were inland from Christchurch, the February killer was more or less under the city, these ones were out in Pegasus Bay - so the epicentres have moved fairly significantly. Dunno if the movement itself is significant or not - hopefully it is, it continues, and hte quakes keep moving further away!

One copy of the book was available on Abe Books until a minute ago... if no-one else answers I'll let you know in a couple of weeks

Mother nature doesn't bet. And also doesn't actually know or care that humanity exists. Just so's you know

For the Honest John you probably wouldn't have thought twice if you were actually in a unit when it was deployed. It is only with all the information we now have at our fingertips that we make such assessments in hindsight.

Dunno - but it seems the question is being asked - eg see this paper - you an make a free account to get it I think. I notice that charging for S&R is included.

It seems prize money might have been abolished in the RN in 1946, and Salvage payments substituted (see 1946) - RN ships could apparently involved in salvage operations at least as late as 1964 and earn salvage for their crews. An article about Prize Money "Customs and Traditions of the Royal Navy" about 80% down this page says the decision to no longer award prize money after WW2 was supported by the dominions there is a question on this page which reads: - but no answer is given that I can see!! Some RAAF crew applied to get prize money at the end of WW2, but the Govt decided that the amount given by the Brits to cover the whole Australian Armed forces would only give a paltry amount per person, so decided to keep it for: - RAAF prize money article According to wiki the RAF was added in 1945 for any action where it took part in the capture of a ship too. India had a "Naval and Aircraft prize Act 1971", New Zealand had the "Prize Act 1939" - no idea if they are still in force. The NZ one was jsut a copy of the British/Imperial one

Indeed it is - the serial WK275 can be found on this site of all UK military serial numbers

The other 2/3rds of NZ would like you to release it too.......why not try to be original??

This photo was taken in 1989 - compare it to the above - 22 years of crud!!:eek:

BTW for the nerds among us, I think this must be an F Mk 3 - the extended tailpipe was only fitted to the M3 onwards for the reheated engine (afterburner), and this photo appears to show 2 cannon ports under the intake which was the armament of the a/c from the F Mk 2 onwards, and not fitted to the recce version: Dunno what the probe-thingie is at the front of the nose tho - nothing like it appears in any photos or pictures I've seen.

Why bother - you guys are provide us with more airpower than we could ever afford anyway.

think of it as an antique (easy to do!), and a unique piece of history......Spitfires & Mustangs are older & slower & much more common but go for a lot more ...maybe partly because they are actually airworthy...http://community.battlefront.com/uploads/emoticons/default_wink.png' alt=';)'> ...non-airworthy Starfighters are newer and faster and go for less!!

Wow - I didn't realise the financial system was screwed ......

I was a Air Training Corps cadet in the early 1970's - from age 12-15 - dunno what the US equivalent would be - but 2-3 times a year we were shown films on how to "survive" nuclear explosions - what sort of cover was best, why overhad cover was required (against backscatter & fallout), distances buildings would survive various size bombs (as if that was going to be useful....) - like the films I've seen of US school kids being taught to "hide" under desks, etc.....