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The DVDs of Firefly were flown up to the International Space Station by astronaut Steven Swanson on board the shuttle Atlantis during its June 2007 STS-117 mission.
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I have taken feats that give me Damage Resistance vs. Robots/10.No, you weren't there, oh lover of winter....;)Did you use it to CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES?!?!??!?!?!?!God, I love robots.I took a robotics course, once. We even got to program a robotic arm.
That's ok, members of the Horde will get you....eventually. And your little dog!!
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The DVDs of Firefly were flown up to the International Space Station by astronaut Steven Swanson on board the shuttle Atlantis during its June 2007 STS-117 mission.
That makes me so happy!
I like the way you think, lad! I promise, when the zombiepocalypse happens, we'll eat you second to last.The DVDs of Firefly were flown up to the International Space Station by astronaut Steven Swanson on board the shuttle Atlantis during its June 2007 STS-117 mission.That makes me so happy!
Indeed, it was a sad day for me- I attempted to replace the DVDs with something wholesome, like Farscape, but ISS security stopped me.
That's ok, members of the Horde will get you....eventually. And your little dog!!I have taken feats that give me Damage Resistance vs. Robots/10.No, you weren't there, oh lover of winter....;)Did you use it to CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES?!?!??!?!?!?!God, I love robots.I took a robotics course, once. We even got to program a robotic arm.
Will they? I mean come on. I have Cold Resistance/5, you have...DR Slashing/5...we're more alike than not!
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The character of the Lone Ranger is based on Bass Reeves, an escaped slave who lived with native americans of the Oklahoma Indian Territory until the 13th amendment was passed and later became a US Marshal.
(He's also the only character to have existed in reality that has a major part in Elizabeth Bear's most recent novel, Karen Memory, which I'm eagerly waiting for.)
Gregory Hines made his feature film debut in Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part I (1981). He was a last minute replacement for Richard Pryor, who had to cancel his appearance in the movie due to his freebasing accident.
AWESOME!
EDIT: Wrrrrrrrrrrrong thread. Oops.
ROTFL!!!
A woman got her leg stuck in an escalator for more than two hours earlier today.
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A woman got her leg stuck in an escalator for more than two hours earlier today.
In Florida, shoppers are frequently trapped for hours when the escalator they are riding on breaks down.
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And here I thought that only happened in Norway.
You are far more likely to be killed by a cow than a wolf. The solution is obvious.
Wolves are deceptively light. 80-90 pounds is a pretty big wolf. Most of the apparent mass comes from the long legs for running through the snow and copious amounts of fur.
Despite centuries of being very shy around humans, wolves in europe are becoming more tolerant of people. A pack moved in 15 miles south of berlin A similar trend should happen if they stop being shot in the us as well.
Eyeshine of animals at night is caused by a membrane in the eye called tapetum lucidum, which enhances night vision.
Although antivenin exists for rattlesnake poison, its more likely to kill you than the rattlesnake poison. Most people will survive a rattlesnake bite with some iv fluids and waiting it out. antivenom is derived from horses, and will outright kill you if you have a horse allergy.
On that note, poison sucking kits they sell hikers actually make snake bites worse. They suck out very little poison and cause a lot or bruising, which speeds the venom into the bloodstream via the broken vessels.
vaccination is named after the latin word for cow, vaccus, because the technique was greatly improved by using cowpox to inoculate against smallpox.
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And here I thought that only happened in Norway.
To be fair norwegians will be frozen fast to the escalator if they stop moving.
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Erroll Flynn came to blows with the director of The Charge of the Light Brigade because of the ill-treatment of the movie's horses.
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Pont Neuf (New Bridge) is the oldest bridge in Paris (that still stands).
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A very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum family, iridium is generally credited with being the second densest element (after osmium) based on measured density, although calculations involving the space lattices of the elements show that iridium is denser, and is the most corrosion-resistant metal, even at temperatures as high as 2000 °C (3632 °F).
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Spoonful of sugar from Mary Poppins is the same beat as Star wars empire theme. dun duun duun dun da dun dun da dun.
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Spoonful of sugar from Mary Poppins is the same beat as Star wars empire theme. dun duun duun dun da dun dun da dun.
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Hal Holbrook was just 29 when he began touring his one-man show of the elderly Mark Twain, even performing for President Dwight D. Eisenhower at one point. In June 2005, he returned his "Mark Twain Tonight" to Broadway for a sold out, month-long run, receiving rave reviews from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
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On May 2015, Dungeons and Dragons 3rd and 3.5 edition will have been out of print longer than it was in print.
Apologies for those who feel old. I feel your pain, brothers and sisters...
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On this day in 1979, Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
The original start of the Reign of Winter Adventure Path?
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Lee Marvin served as a marine in the Pacific theater during WW2. In total, he took part in the invasions of 21 islands, and was wounded and nearly died as a result during the Battle of Saipan. He was a sniper, and would be sent in during the night in a small rubber boat, prior to the rest of his platoon. His wartime experiences deeply affected him for the remainder of his life.
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On this day in 1884, more than sixty tornadoes struck the southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
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The oldest surviving copy of the Iliad, The Venetus A manuscript, is around 1100 years old, and was still created closer in time to the present than to the assumed creation of the original text.
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The oldest surviving parts of the Gilgamesh epic, however, are from the 18th century BC. So if you want something you've written to last, insist on a clay tablet edition.
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In 1963 Sidney Poitier became the first black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role for his role as Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field (1963). The first black man to win an Academy Award was James Baskett (although an Honorary Award) for his role in Song of the South (1946).
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Today is my daughter's first birthday. That went by fast.
It just goes by faster...
In 1963 Sidney Poitier became the first black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role for his role as Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field (1963). The first black man to win an Academy Award was James Baskett (although an Honorary Award) for his role in Song of the South (1946).
hrmm...
Which was James Baskett's last film before his death.
Which was James Baskett's last film before his death.
hrmm x 2
Life is like a roll of toilet paper. the closer you get to the end the faster it goes.
AT one point, about a third of the communist party of the united states consisted of FBI informants spying on the communist party of the united states.
If you're in Gothenburg today you can watch the Numénera movie Strand at Science Fiction-bokhandeln.
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Not long after Alan Rickman started to play Severus Snape in the first Harry Potter movie (released in 2001), J.K. Rowling told Rickman some character secrets about Snape that would not be otherwise revealed until the last book. Most significantly, for over seven years, Rickman was one of the very few people other than Rowling to know that Snape had been in love with Lily Evans (later Potter) when they were students at Hogwarts, and both Snape's protection of and antagonism toward Harry came from that. Rowling said that she shared this information with Rickman because "he needed to understand, I think, and does completely understand and did completely understand where this bitterness towards this boy, who's living proof of [Lily's] preference for another man, came from." When the directors of the films would ask him why he was playing a scene a certain way, or delivering a line in a particular manner, Rickman would simply reply that he knew something they didn't.
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Kangaroo Rats can go their entire lives (5 years) without drinking any water.
Dolphins can 'stay awake' for 15 days at a time. They do this through sleeping half a brain at a time, where the eye on the opposite side remains shut. This allows them to surface for air, stay alert for predators, and watch over young calves.
Rats can smell ionizing radiation.
Koala's fingerprints look exactly like a human's.
Mt. Thor, located in Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, is the greatest natural vertical drop on Earth, with a drop of 1,250m (4,101ft).
Cancer got its name during Ancient Greece, as the physician observing the visible growths noted that they resembled a crab. (Large body, small 'legs' spreading from the sides.)
Percivall Pott was the first person to identify a carcinogenic, as he noted the prevalence of cancerous growths on the scrotums of chimney sweeps.
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is well noted for showing a snowy Christmas, even though it doesn't snow all that often in London. This is because when Dickens was a child, there was an unusually white Christmas growing up, which left its mark on Charles.
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Life is like a roll of toilet paper. the closer you get to the end the faster it goes.
{bats roll of toilet paper to watch it unspool on the floor} Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that "owning" (HA!) a cat shortens your life.
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Jeri Ryan turned down the role of Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager four times; she only accepted the part after repeated lobbying by executive producer Jeri Taylor.
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Nathan Fillion was BioWare's first pick to be the voice of Alistair in Dragon Age: Origins, but the role was ultimately given to Steve Valentine due to the writing team wanting a British actor for the part.
Nathan Fillion was BioWare's first pick to be the voice of Alistair in Dragon Age: Origins, but the role was ultimately given to Steve Valentine due to the writing team wanting a British actor for the part.
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Sean Bean has been killed in a movie by cows, but never by wolves.