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Nanohedron wrote:

dwest wrote:There are not true Scotsmen anyway so it's all moot point.

Sure, just like there are no true Americans, Irish, or trolling popinjays.

The existence of "true Scotsmen" has been a discussion of debate for decades at least.

There are not true Scotsmen anyway so it's all moot point.

This is a fair point. The target audience really isn't the native Scots, is it. It's not like they need to learn their own words and pronunciation and stuff. I guess it's really directed at Scots who migrated to the four corners of the globe during the great Scottish Diasporran? Sure. http://52subu...

Interesting. I immediately saw it as concave and can barely make myself flip it and see it as convex. I agree the almost straight overhead perspective and shadows seem to make it a bit off for viewing it as convex. http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb234/vurd...

Dawn of the hot dish.

eh...the apostrophes make it legible. If that's numptish, so be it. This is a fair point. The target audience really isn't the native Scots, is it. It's not like they need to learn their own words and pronunciation and stuff. I guess it's really directed at Scots who migrated to the four corners of...

I would need something a wee bit larger.

It's Spaceport Pavonis Mons owned by Virgin Galactic.

fearfaoin wrote:

dwest wrote:...after a giant asteroid struck Earth 65 million years ago disrupting the whole planet's ecosystem.

... and that the asteroid was actually a Cyberman
ship crewed by a lone Alzarian named Adric.

I couldn't really vouch for that, but I know we had an Alzarian for president who was a Decider...er.

Well, I'm surprised no one else took the bait on "Prometheus". You're all either far more forgiving than I am (which doesn't take much), or you're as ashamed as I am to admit you spent good money on it. You forgot the third option: that everyone else heard the reviews and didn't deign to ...

Even asteroids have moons.

Need a feather duster job on those photovoltaics. Perhaps another robotic mission?

Nanohedron wrote:

And on Friday the Thirteenth no less. Yikes! http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2 ... -cats.html

(oops) Plenty of that around this thread. Perhaps we should start an equivalent "US Citizenship" thread: 1. Apart from Canada, name 12 other of the "United States" You can start your own thread ya know. Question # 2. Which country terrorized the United States and subjugated Cana...