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Thanks for this tip. I was just searching for recommended motherboards to upgrade my parent's broken PC and came across your post. Changing the BIOS battery fixed the problem. I was always under the impression a flat battery would cause an error at POST complaining about lost settings. Instead...

It never occurred to me people might game their results but that makes perfect sense. Doing it for my own curiosity and benefit I can pick the most appropriate times for reliable results. I've noticed in the past my blood sugar level is higher when getting up than later in the morning...

This is really interesting to me. I thought the measure of diabetes was having elevated blood sugar levels. As measured with a pin ***** test you are (roughly speaking) under 6mmol/L before meals and under 8 an hour and a half after you are normal. In this thread it seems people can have normal...

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That one picture with a bar of white at the bottom? That looks to me like rolling shutter. All pixels in an image are not recorded at the exact same moment. The image is scanned line by line top to bottom. If the explosion took place part way through scanning a frame this is exactly what you...

The major damage is caused by the chemical energy stored in the explosive not the kinetic energy of the missile. Kinetic energy is mostly useful for penetrating a structure in order to detonate the warhead inside. It's not really relevant to a bridge like this.

Can you link me to this video? I've stepped through the security cam footage on youtube frame by frame but can't see what you mention. Also why do you think an explosive delivered by a missile is somehow so different from an explosive delivered by a truck? If you took a missile and a missile...

That certainly sounds plausible too. The burning debris could be whatever the explosives were hidden among.

The wave certainly looks odd but without more footage it's impossible to determine whether it is normal. What you can however see is that the wave is not in the section of the bridge where explosion takes place. When the smoke clears you can see the guard rail intact on the span where the wave...

I would argue against the prevailing view on here that it was EFP explosives, a precision missile strike, thermobaric bomb, special forces rigging the bridge, drone boats or similar high tech operation. The first reason is the explosion itself. All of the above produce "clean" explosions where...

I had been thinking about a Pixel 6a but this Pixel 6 deal at carphone makes it a no brainer assuming I can get on with the fingerprint reader. Traded in my worthless Nexus 5x to get the £349 price.

It's crazy. Last Friday I paid 168.9 for unleaded at my local Tesco. Passed by today and had to do a double take when I saw 184.9.

Have you got any links to that? Ukraine seems extremely limited in the scale of warfare compared to previous conflicts.

Google says ~7500 rounds. Times that by 90 and you get 675,000 rounds or roughly 3 times the pledged quantity of ammo. Of course if the poo hits the fan and a particular howitzer is called upon to provide fire support at an elevated frequency it will run hotter and wear out much faster. On an...

Absolutely. I was purely commenting on the scale of warfare not the effectiveness. The British bombardment was largely ineffective. For a start a significant number of shells were anti-personnel shrapnel which were useless against the German bunkers where all the soldiers were hiding.

Not really. The US is providing 90 155mm howitzers. The British had more than 3 times the quantity in that size and much larger. For the Somme the British had ~1000 field artillery pieces 85mm & 115mm equivalent. (3.3" & 4.5") In heavy artillery ~130 127mm equivalent. (5") ~300 152mm - 380mm...

The 200,000 shells sounds like a lot but really puts WW1 in context. In the seven days leading up to the Somme offensive the UK fired 1.5 million shells at the German lines along 25 miles of front. That comes out with the mind boggling statistic that on average each metre slice of front was hit...

In a full scale nuclear war the lucky will be those who die instantly. I hope I would be one them. The following is based on a war between US/West and Russia/China involving 4,400 warheads, equivalent to roughly half the current inventories.

Austria also has a vested interest in maintaining relations due to sourcing 80% of its gas from Russia. Less likely for events to run away from you if you are in the diplomatic driving seat. “We are very much dependent on the Russian gas, and I think all sanctions that hit us more than the...

The most powerful bomb detonated by the USA was the Castle Bravo test which yielded the equivalent of 15 millions tons (Mt) of high explosive. The USSR exploded 4 bombs more powerful than this. The most powerful of which was the Tsar Bomb yielding 50Mt. "Strength" as you call it is a bit of a...