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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2325 on: May 03, 2011, 04:45:37 PM »
Yup.  :-\

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2326 on: May 03, 2011, 05:50:14 PM »
The USAF lost a thermonuclear bomb off Savannah Ga on Feb. 5, 1958 in a plane crash and have never found it :parts:
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« Reply #2327 on: May 03, 2011, 07:39:07 PM »
The USAF lost a thermonuclear bomb off Savannah Ga on Feb. 5, 1958 in a plane crash and have never found it :parts:

It's actually in my garage  :evillaugh:

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« Reply #2328 on: May 03, 2011, 07:40:59 PM »
i don't have a garage

so it won't be in mine :zoinks:
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« Reply #2329 on: May 03, 2011, 07:44:53 PM »
I've been to Savannah and I have a garage but that's all I'm going to say  :M

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« Reply #2330 on: May 03, 2011, 11:25:13 PM »
Sweden had plans for making its own nuclear weapons but never made reality of them.

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2331 on: May 04, 2011, 12:37:55 AM »
In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field

In Return of the Jedi there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet

And the mothership in Close Encounters of the Third Kind is supposed to have a replica of the Empire State Building with King Kong on top of it. I have tried to look for it but haven't been able to confirm.
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« Reply #2332 on: May 04, 2011, 09:07:50 AM »
Sweden had plans for making its own nuclear weapons but never made reality of them.

This is every country isn't it?

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« Reply #2333 on: May 04, 2011, 09:16:53 AM »
Sweden had plans for making its own nuclear weapons but never made reality of them.

This is every country isn't it?

No, I don't think so. Sweden has all the possiblities though: we have nuclear power and our own uranium sources, so it would be quite possible to do.

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« Reply #2334 on: May 04, 2011, 09:18:59 AM »
Both Brazil and Argentina had nuclear weapons programs at one point :parts:
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« Reply #2335 on: May 04, 2011, 10:53:00 AM »
In Redondo Beach, Calif., a police officer arrested a driver after a short chase and charged him with drunk driving. Officer Joseph Fonteno's suspicions were aroused when he saw the white Mazda MX-7 rolling down Pacific Coast Highway with half of a traffic-light pole, including the lights, lying across its hood. The driver had hit the pole on a median strip and simply kept driving. According to Fonteno, when the driver was asked about the pole, he said, "It came with the car when I bought it."


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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #2336 on: May 04, 2011, 01:08:27 PM »
Sweden had plans for making its own nuclear weapons but never made reality of them.

This is every country isn't it?

No, I don't think so. Sweden has all the possiblities though: we have nuclear power and our own uranium sources, so it would be quite possible to do.

They were more than just plans. Our first nuclear plant was designed with nuclear weapons in mind--they were supposed to produce plutonium at one point, if I remember it correctly. The decision not to go ahead was political; we had both the technology and the know-how.
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« Reply #2337 on: May 04, 2011, 01:10:08 PM »
That was unusually  :viking:

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« Reply #2338 on: May 04, 2011, 03:53:56 PM »
South Africa built at least six nuclear weapons and dismantled all of them when they ended their nuclear program :parts:
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« Reply #2339 on: May 05, 2011, 07:23:35 AM »
The Volvo 850 was the first car in the world with a 5 cylinder transverse engine. Thanks to that it also has a very short transmission.