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Chuck Norris is the only person Death has spoken to in lower case letters.

A friend’s dad, when a member of the Welsh Rocket Society, managed to blow up a Sea Slug launcher at Aberporth… Deliberately or by accident? :D By accident. It was a Rocket Society job; they’d tried to launch from a golf course, except the Heddlu (police) turned up and after asking, “Ello Ello Ello...

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:22 pm

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:17 pm Thank you. I have seen pics of gun mounts on shore pointing out to sea, but can’t find them now.

A friend’s dad, when a member of the Welsh Rocket Society, managed to blow up a Sea Slug launcher at Aberporth…

To be fair, a launch from a Sea Slug did look like it was blowing itself up.

Given trumps previous 'Poor Little Marco' comment, I think we can tell what he thinks of him. Probably revenge for his comments on trump previosusly, such as For years to come, there are many people on the right... that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of su...

I think you all have been scammed by a satire I think you are pretending it's satire rather than admit that the President of the United States is actually that ridiculous. And his cabinet are so spineless they won't even tell him the shoes are too big. Actually that's not fair, it's just Rubio so f...

Doesn't that depend on how you write the date?

Its not quote the same in the DD/MM format.....

Presumably there are some wearing shoes that are too small as well.... Amusingly it seems trump's chosen shoe company is one that has been hit by import tarrifs........ Anyway News Thump had a good take on it US President Donald Trump has gifted White House staffers and cabinet members dress shoes w...

Interesting, a bit I had not noticed before or had forgotten. When Lyta is scanning Kosh to see who the bad guy is, Kosh calls Sinclair Valen when they first meet.....bit of a giveaway... Yeah I reacted to that as well, I guess before you’re introduced to the concept of Valen later on it’s not some...

It seems something that trump has a fixation on is people's shoes, according to reports he looks at people's shoes and if he doesn't like them, assesses their shoe size and gifts them a pair made by the company of his choice.....if photos of rubio are correct, shoes size assessing is something else ...

Just finished Season 3....mostly poor with an occasional good episode / scene.

and some more https://cleantechnica.com/2026/03/04/donut-lab-survives-100o-c-test-is-that-good-enough/ The furor over the claims made by Donut Lab for its “solid state/not so solid state” battery continues unabated. This week, it released new testing data for its breakthrough battery that purports t...

More news https://cleantechnica.com/2026/03/05/donut-lab-battery-works-at-100-celsius/ Speculation that the Donut Lab battery is not real are diminishing as independent lab data shows 100° Celsius performance. Speculation that the battery may be lithium run into difficulty explaining how a battery c...

That it had to be an EFB was a given since the car is forced to have that annoying start-stop function on it. But I suspect that some of you here know more about these things than I do, is 49 Ah on the low side for a car with a start-stop function and the modern electronics suite? Could that be why...

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/02/23/donut-lab-meant-what-they-said-about-that-new-solid-state-ev-battery/ The Finnish technology startup Donut Lab launched a new solid-state EV battery at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, billing it as “the world’s first solid-state battery that is ready fo...

Quite a long article https://cleantechnica.com/2026/02/23/donut-labs-responds-to-critics/ There has been a frenzy of response to Donut Labs’ announcement of the world’s first solid-state battery. Donut Labs produced a response video to critics. The video says everyone jumped the gun, and independent...

Looks like he thinks he was there and played in the team, I would ordinarily say this has been posted in fun but given how delusional he has got I think he does think he was in the team.

France’s planned atomic and fusion powered revolution

Atomic and Fusion?????

Is the Atomic legacy?

M.Becker wrote: ↑Sat Feb 14, 2026 9:18 pm Tanks crews need handguns, so do boarding parties and who'd argue with the design that set all standards of a locked automatic pistol?

Cutlass....its the only way to be sure.

A bit later of course but....