it was still 1400 tons of high explosive. Monte Cassino was reduced to rubble. The entire monastery was reduced to ruble and had to be rebuild from the ground up. Also, the US did have artillery at the time, which is…
What's often not told of the Battle of Monte Cassino is the destruction of a jewel of the West. To the Germans' credit, they offered not to take the monastery as a position if the Allies wouldn't bomb it. They only took…
tens of kilovolt electrons decelerating in a short distance? There'll be x-rays. However, CRTs used leaded glass to block (most) of it.
It would have been sillier to not have played those numbers and won nothing ;) On a more serious note, if the EV of a lottery is positive, a winning strategy must be to only play unlikely numbers.
Thats quite wrong. Bridges with serious design flaws can stay standing for quite some time and then collapse. Any civil engineering structure can. I mean, the tower of Pisa is a great example. Serious design flaw:…
"That’s not what anybody is saying." Read the comments carefully " Are you offering to pay for the extra millions in lifetime care and need for those children" Where in my comment do I suggest that I wouldn't support…
I find it fascinating how many comments argue that these lives aren't worth living in a forum that just a few days ago had a (albeit unscientific) poll that said that most of you are currently depressed. 55-45 when I…
it was still 1400 tons of high explosive. Monte Cassino was reduced to rubble. The entire monastery was reduced to ruble and had to be rebuild from the ground up. Also, the US did have artillery at the time, which is…
What's often not told of the Battle of Monte Cassino is the destruction of a jewel of the West. To the Germans' credit, they offered not to take the monastery as a position if the Allies wouldn't bomb it. They only took…
tens of kilovolt electrons decelerating in a short distance? There'll be x-rays. However, CRTs used leaded glass to block (most) of it.
It would have been sillier to not have played those numbers and won nothing ;) On a more serious note, if the EV of a lottery is positive, a winning strategy must be to only play unlikely numbers.
Thats quite wrong. Bridges with serious design flaws can stay standing for quite some time and then collapse. Any civil engineering structure can. I mean, the tower of Pisa is a great example. Serious design flaw:…
"That’s not what anybody is saying." Read the comments carefully " Are you offering to pay for the extra millions in lifetime care and need for those children" Where in my comment do I suggest that I wouldn't support…
I find it fascinating how many comments argue that these lives aren't worth living in a forum that just a few days ago had a (albeit unscientific) poll that said that most of you are currently depressed. 55-45 when I…