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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Things that make you chuck...

Last post by hermes2015 - Today at 07:38:16 AM

[Icarus]

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Science / Re: Ichthyosaur in Asmo territ...

Last post by Recusant - Today at 04:16:46 AM

Really cool story, and an intriguing mystery. Thank you very much for posting it, Icarus. Despite the seemingly solid age of the find, one comment in the article seemed to throw a bit of doubt--

[Paleontologist Jun Liu would] like to see additional fossils found from new excavations at the site to confirm its age. "The authors did excellent geochemical analysis," says Liu, but, due to the eroding, shifting landscape of slumping shale, the material was not found in its original location.

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Petrol head thread!!!

Last post by jumbojak - March 24, 2023, 09:13:35 PM

They got a new motorcycle mechanic at work. I haven't met him yet but damn near took him out on the main road when he was going for a test ride. That joker needs to slow down through there. Popped around a corner on a narrow road.

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Science / Ichthyosaur in Asmo territory

Last post by Icarus - March 24, 2023, 06:59:42 PM

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/earliest-ichthyosaur-fossil-arctic?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d8ac43bf34-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_03_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-d8ac43bf34-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=d8ac43bf34&mc_eid=3b6a429c72

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Petrol head thread!!!

Last post by billy rubin - March 24, 2023, 03:14:26 PM

i like the mechanical accessibility and simplicity of an earlier era of machinery. sometimes its a simple matter of taste, at others its pragmatism.

i can work on an old british machine using a level of skill that i have already acquired. even machines i have nevrr had apart. i understand the designer's mind. not so a ducati, or an aprilia, or anything from japan since the 70s.

 but change is inevitable. not always thought through. i may have mentioned this before, but electric cars will kill the used car market.

a tesla battery is supposed to last 300,000 miles. they cost US$25,000 to $35,000. how much will i pay for a used tesla that will soon leave me with a dead battery? and thats assuming elon is correct at 300,000 miles.

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Music / Re: What are you listening to?

Last post by Asmodean - March 24, 2023, 02:50:19 PM

The Asmo is all exotic and almost-feel-goody today... Though in a grumpy, potentially smity way, of course.

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: God Says

Last post by Old Seer - March 24, 2023, 12:46:53 PM

My dog would be a better god than God!

That's quite true. Almost anyone I know would be a better God than ---- God.

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: God Says

Last post by No one - March 24, 2023, 12:29:59 PM

god just told me,all this animosity and mocking, has hurt her wittle fewwings, and requests you cease and desist immediately.


Also, god says i need a swimming pool in my swimming pool.

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Game: The Next Person... (...

Last post by No one - March 24, 2023, 12:25:49 PM

The following poster now has a sinking feeling.

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Game: The Next Person... (...

Last post by Tank - March 24, 2023, 11:02:42 AM

I never did the Yamoto. Hmmm I might right that wrong.