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| Salvo | Date: Monday, 18.11.2013, 15:26 | Message # 1921 |
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| Quote HarbingerDawn (  ) English
How do you guys pronounce Anti? For example, saying Anti-Matter, because I'm a little confused 
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 18.11.2013, 15:43 | Message # 1922 |
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| Quote Salvo ( ) (also, does it sounds like "Hentai"?)
Depends on who you ask. There are two ways of pronouncing the I - as a long I, or as a long E. The former is more common in the UK, while the latter is more common in the USA. So yes and no is the answer to your question.
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| Joey_Penguin | Date: Tuesday, 19.11.2013, 00:13 | Message # 1923 |
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| Quote Salvo ( ) (also, does it sounds like "Hentai"?)
I would make a joke about that, but I would most likely get banned.
So have some Batman:
Careful. The PLATT Collective has spurs.
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| Disasterpiece | Date: Tuesday, 19.11.2013, 00:53 | Message # 1924 |
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| Quote Joey_Penguin ( ) I would make a joke about that, but I would most likely get banned.
Yell at me if this is too much, but my friend has like 40 gigs of "anti"-matter (*cough) on his pc. Thankfully, he isn't big on sharing.
I play teh spase engien
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| Watsisname | Date: Tuesday, 19.11.2013, 01:01 | Message # 1925 |
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| lol nothanks
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Tuesday, 19.11.2013, 10:15 | Message # 1926 |
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| werdnaforever | Date: Tuesday, 19.11.2013, 14:11 | Message # 1927 |
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| Quote DoctorOfSpace ( )
Just read this before getting here. Honestly, I think I've seen more depressing C&H comics than this. It's okay- maybe a 6 out of 10 IMO. The theme is a bit cliché.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Wednesday, 20.11.2013, 02:44 | Message # 1928 |
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| Saw the ORS-3 launch. Was... underwhelming, to say the least. Minotaur I is nowhere near as impressive as Minotaur IV/V.
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| Watsisname | Date: Wednesday, 20.11.2013, 08:54 | Message # 1929 |
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| When I read that it was a Minotaur I and not a V like with LADEE I wiki'd the specs. It's a much smaller rocket and with less thrust, which makes sense since it's just taking a small payload to LEO. Even so, I didn't expect it to be that much fainter.
Size really matters with rockets. What I would give to have seen a Space Shuttle launch. Or a Saturn V!
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| neutronium76 | Date: Wednesday, 20.11.2013, 15:51 | Message # 1930 |
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| Just watched this:
I must say I was shocked 
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| anonymousgamer | Date: Wednesday, 20.11.2013, 17:11 | Message # 1931 |
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| Quote Watsisname ( ) What I would give to have seen a Space Shuttle launch.
I've seen a Space Shuttle launch. It was during sunset. When the boosters fired, it looked like there were 2 sunsets in different directions. A minute later there was the most powerful bass-y rumble I've ever felt. If only I had a better camera at the time...
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| midtskogen | Date: Wednesday, 20.11.2013, 18:01 | Message # 1932 |
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| Quote neutronium76 ( ) I must say I was shocked
Haha. Not even anyone in eastern Europe during the coldest war would think of something like this. If she wasn't on a lucky list, she surely is now. All it takes is one grumpy officer.
Thanks for the reminder that travel to the US must be avoided if possible. Travel used to be smooth for me, relatively smooth even after 9-11, but then I ran into a grumpy immigration officer. Usually a visa waiver suffices to enter the US for us, but I once had to travel to the US on a one-way ticket and therefore I had to apply for a visa. They gave me a 10 year visa (even though I only needed it for a few weeks), which they glued into my passport. So the visa was valid for longer than my passport. When the passport expired and I got a new one, the police destroyed of course the old in order to prevent abuse of it. But I didn't need the visa anymore, so no problem. And it was no problem for years even after 9-11 until that officer, who insisted that I had to present the visa since it was still valid, not the visa waiver, even after I explained the situation. Eventually he let me through, but ever since I and my family have been "randomly picked by the computer" for a manual inspection of all luggage when travelling to the US. It never happened before.
NIL DIFFICILE VOLENTI
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| neutronium76 | Date: Wednesday, 20.11.2013, 18:54 | Message # 1933 |
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| Quote midtskogen ( ) Haha. Not even anyone in eastern Europe during the coldest war would think of something like this. If she wasn't on a lucky list, she surely is now. All it takes is one grumpy officer.
Thanks for the reminder that travel to the US must be avoided if possible...
This can happen in post 9/11 europe as well. It has happened to me twice.
1st story: I was travelling form Greece to UK via Amsterdam to visit friends during Easter 2008. The outward journey was smooth - no issues. But I had trouble returning home from U.K. You see although I live in Greece, I have Turkish passport because of my father (Imigrant forced to leave Turkey because of Greek-Turkish pogroms in the 50s-60s) so I had to issue a visa for the U.K. In Greece I have permanetnt Residence Permit ID Card. When I was returning from the U.K., the Dutch officials didn't recognise my residence permit when I arrived at Amsterdam from Newcastle. So they treated me as an alien trying to enter EU Schengen country from a non-Schengen EU member state (U.K.) I tried to explain to them that this is an official document issued by the authorities in my country but no, no they wanted to play it boss. So I missed my connection flight whilst they sent a photocopy of my ID to their superiors who told them after many hours that it is a legal EU document and they let me through. They apologised and offered me replacement ticket for the next available flight. For 12 hours I felt like Tom Hanks at ''The Terminal''.
2nd story: I was travelling from Athens to Stockholm, again via Amsterdam. I had a bottle of shampoo in my hand-luggage and at the security in Athens they rightfully told me that liquids are not permitted in the cabin as per security regulations. So I asked them to take it and put it in my checked-in luggage. They said that they can not do that. So I asked them to give it to a cabin crue member to keep it and give it back to me at the end of the flight. Again they refused. The only option they gave me was to leave it there so my shampoo was confiscated. I really don't understand this lack of flexibility in these regulations 
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Edited by neutronium76 - Wednesday, 20.11.2013, 18:59 |
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| midtskogen | Date: Wednesday, 20.11.2013, 22:56 | Message # 1934 |
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| Well, your first story is rather about Schengen being utterly broken. The second, though the rules are nonsense and hysterical, you made a mistake, and it only cost you a few euros. I've made a mistake like that once as well. When travelling with a rifle in my baggage I've always made sure to remove the breech and put it in a separate bag, as the rules dictate, but I've left the ammunition with the rifle. Until I was once called up over the speakers to report myself. It turned out that the rules demanded that the ammunition and the rifle had to be packed separately, which is pretty pointless if the breech has been removed (I think it's ok to pack the breech and the ammunition together, so it's not about splitting the weapon in three rather than two parts either). And in order to catch my flight I had to leave the ammunition behind. Yes, pointless rule, but I also have myself to blame for not reading the fine print.
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| neutronium76 | Date: Wednesday, 20.11.2013, 23:49 | Message # 1935 |
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| Ehhm I was only carrying a bloody shampoo bottle. You were carrying a weapon. I think there is a small difference in level of danger between the two. I am actually surprised they let you carry riffles with or without ammunition, anyway (unless you possess a special licence that alows you to carry weapons ). Plus I offered them two alternative solutions so that their fine printed rules were not broken. And they still refused. Point is these rules are sometimes (if not mosto of the times) completely inordinate and pointless - a result of reinforced policies that pretend to offer an illusion of security. Fact is that the goverments, agencies and organisations that set these rules, fail to distinguish the forest from the tree...
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