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Another tactic often used (especially in Vietnam) was that of the marker round, whereby a single High Explosive (HE) or White Phosphorous (WP) round was fired on the original calculations, then needed adjustments made to the calculations, followed by a "fire for effect"; firing of all cannons as quickly as possible for a fire mission once the cannons were adjusted on target.

Yes and Battleships were quite the fire for effect because they had a one kilometer + or - range for the marker round. In order to zero in they would actually target something nearby first and then make necessary adjustments. Of course they fire the equivalent of a sedan, so it doesn't matter too much. 

That's all from a first hand recounting I heard so, I may have remembered some wrong.

Remember:

Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and... dodge

I put this in another thread but it's a simple fact.

As a fetus everyone is female, until the Y chromosome kicks in and its decided that it will be a male. It's the same reason men have nipples. But lets be honest it would look weird if we men didn't.

Proof

No i won't, i am already way to paranoid about internet so revealing what sites i visit no way.

 

They could spread the word that i'm a pervert

Everyone is a pervert, just not everyone admits it.

Just curious as to whether or not any out there shares their knowledge of the existence of Lovers Lab with people they know or not.

Not so much a Fact as a truth: Dark Souls will steal your Soul little by little.

As for the fact: In WWII the U.S. Department of Defense, then known as the Department of War (until 1947) built a computer which fit in a small two story house. The purpose of this computer was to calculate target trajectories for artillery. The calculations were so accurate that the same values determined by that computer in WWII are still used in targeting trajectories today. Of course that computer was far inferior than even our desktop computers today.

Sugarcane is burned for a bit before harvesting. The fire burns of a waxy outer coating and any dead leaves. Some Sugarcane crops can yield 120 tons per acre. The US by the way consumes 9 metric tons of sugar annually. China only consumes 30% more than that.

A normal conversation occurs at about 60 decibels (The unit used to measure sound) Which cannot damage hearing. However something such as a bulldozer idling can reach 80 db and can cause hearing damage after only an hour. Ear buds can reach up to 100 db and can damage hearing after only 15 minutes. Would I start worrying about all this hearing damage, no, as it is fairly common to receive hearing damage throughout ones life. To what extent is the question, and you should always be mindful to wear hearing protection because even 20 db can make the difference later on in life.

Oh, the wondrous brain food which has been set before me. I thought long on martyr's, I pondered the mysteries of a black hole at the center of the galaxy, and I marveled at the size of stars. That of course only quenched my brain for a day, and it will surely need more.
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You may enjoy this one: The size of breasts actually determine as to how sensitive or pleasurable a sensation one can feel from nipples. This is because the bigger breasts get the more the nerve tissue is elongated and therefore stretched. This stretching of the nerves causes a lack of sensitivity. Does this however mean that larger breasts can not feel as much pleasure as those less 'gifted.' As it concerns the nipple yes, but there are 'techniques' to derive more pleasure from breasts, most of which concern the lower portion and underside of the breast. 

Our sun will eventually become what is called a Red Giant, growing to a size which will eventually consume the earth. But don't worry the sun isn't running out of hydrogen anytime soon, giving us a good 5 billion years time. Read Giants form when suns (similar to our own) run out of hydrogen, resulting in the outer layers heating up and expanding. And if your thinking humanity will be safe on mars, think again. The current estimates put the Red Giant at just Mars.

If you think that's big, you may want to think again. Betelgeuse (Pronounced Beetle-juice) Is whats known as a red supergiant and can be easily seen in the night sky in the Orion constellation. While I don't have an exact estimate for you, know that it's pretty big (hence the category name). And its not even the biggest, the largest known star doesn't even have a proper name it is known as UY Scuti.
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Id also like to encourage people to post something even if it means looking it up just for the post. As it feels like I'm just posting this stuff for the hell of it some days. As well, don't be discouraged to throw in some brain food with a comment for another post, can't hurt.

Toys for Tots, is actually not the full name of the organization that is known for giving toys to children in need around the united states during the christmas season. It is fully known as The Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and was recognized in 1995 by the secretary of defense as an official activity of the U.S. Marine Corps. Toys for Tots has covered all 50 states since 1996, and in the life span of the program 469 million toys have been distributed to over 216 million children.

When a sun is at the end of its life, it goes super nova, which is basically an explosion on a very large scale. Just before this happens a sun starts to produce iron in its core, which subsequently 'kills' the sun. This is because iron cannot be fused by the fusion reaction taking place within its core, it instead absorbs energy being generated. 

Additional: This results in the collapse of the star to a very small size milliseconds before the supernova. During the supernova the exploding star forms rare elements such as gold and silver, this occurring during a very small time frame of the supernova. This is why these elements are so rare, comparable to others.

This very year (2014) a 13 boy named Jamie Edwards built a nuclear fusion reactor as an after school project. He was given a $3,350 budget after a proposal made to the school. Imagine what they must have thought when a canister of deuterium (Heavy Hydrogen) showed up via special delivery.

Polaris (the north star) has been estimated to be 323 light years from the sun. One light year is about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion Kilometers), which brings Polaris to 1938 trillion miles (3230 kilometers) away. Why does this matter you ask? Well Polaris is the closest of a family of stars known as a Cepheid variable, and this as you may have noticed, can be used to calculate distance. Allowing scientists to determine just how big our universe is, and extrapolate distances between solar systems. Making Polaris still a valuable means of navigation even in modern times.

Henry Ford, often credited for the assembly line, in fact did not invent the assembly line. Instead it was Ransom E. Olds (Oldsmobile / Olds Motor Vehicle Company) who developed the first assembly line which enabled his company to produce 20 cars per day. Though Henry Ford certainly capitalized on the assembly line, improving it to great extents.

Camels store water in their bloodstream, with the ability to down a whopping 30 gallons in just 13 minutes. While the fatty hump is for nourishment when food is scarce.

The United States has roughly 9 firearms for every 10 citizens, which is roughly 270 million of the 875 million estimated firearms in the world. India tops second with an estimated 46 million firearms in civilian hands. China comes up third with about 40 million. With these staggering numbers its no wonder that the miss attributed (to Isoroku Yamamoto) quote "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass," is so popular among internet forums.

Source.

Subconscious behavior also known as best guessing determines what you will do ahead of time. It does so long before you ever come to the conclusion to do it. Like when your deciding whether or not to pass the guy in front of you on the high way. Guess what you already made that decision moments before you acted on it. In other words the little voice in your head is only referring to what you have previously decided to do. So much so that if electrodes were hooked up to your brain, they could tell with 100% efficiency what you were going to do before you did it. This of course within a small time frame.

Source.

Parasites Ewww.....

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Remember that musical made movie "The King and I"

Well, the king of Siam really did send letters to Lincoln offering elephants to aid in the war effort during the American Civil War. Lincoln graciously declined stating it's lack of practicality for use in America.

Source.

Sucks to die from having to eat food, only to receive lead poisoning
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Your skin is composed of roughly 1.6 trillion skin cells, this of course varies by size. Of those billions of skin cells, between 30,000 and 40,000 fall off every hour, over a 24 hour period you lose almost a million skin cells.

I.E. that's a lot of dust.

Don't believe me? Fine.

So this is sort of like a Today I Learned thing, except for just any old fact you know or have learned. Its not really a competition, just good old brain food for when one of you get on jeopardy. Oh, and if its something that may seem 'far fetched' I suggest you provide source material so that we don't have a war of words on our hands.

And to start this off, this is something I actually did learn today, but is interesting none the less.

In 1795 the history of can's began when the French Government, Led by Napoleon, offered a prize of 12,000 francs to anyone who could invent a method of preserving food for its army and navy.
Come 1809 Nicolas Appert, "father of canning," recieved the 12,000 franc prize from the French government for preserving food by sterilization.
August 25, 1810, Peter Durand, received the first patent for the idea of preserving food using tin cans. The patent was granted by King George III

Where you can learn more on this: (Here)

I'll be following this looking for some daily brain food myself, that is if there is any.

This is great news!

 

Horse riding doesnt seem to trigger the plugs, or?

And how about kill moves?

 

I haven't played in awhile but if I recall it displays a message in the corner as to whats going on when riding a horse, but no it doesn't trigger plug related animations.

The same song I have sung in the shower every morning for the last month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdM9HDI33AY
And yes I sing the Dean martin version, and yes there are other versions.

I don't know if I hate EA so much as wish that their upper management would be drawn a quartered. Though to give them credit of all the bad things they do. they also publish some fun games along with it.

So, I stumbled upon this and thougth what the hell ill try out the little demo he has. I gotta say, it was better than i expected, and if the quality that you put into your environmental work is any sort of foreshadowing of the quality of your eventual game. It should be pretty good. Now I don't normally seed torrents but I think I'll leave this one up for other people to have a go at. 

I did read back a few posts and saw that you were working on making the rain vary a bit, and I felt that when I was in that thunderstorm in the demo that it was much more severe than it seemed, sound wise that is. Like I saw the rain coming down heavy, but not heavy enough for the sound that I was hearing. But other than that miniature gripe, I think its coming along well. I don't know if there was any other demo content after that because I fell off the platform and didn't feel like going back through the motions.

Oh yea, and since its set in the far future, I was wondering, well... As far as character customization is concerned do you plan to have multiple races (not necessarily aliens) and along those lines do you plan to have robots as npc's and or playable race.

Anyways... best of luck on your programming and what nots, hope you don't run in to too many of dem der pesky bugs along the way.