lancelongstiff
lancelongstiff t1_jdi6m01 wrote
Reply to comment by garm302 in TIL: A Mambo No. 5 cover by Bob the Builder went to number 1 in the UK on 9th September 2001, but was removed from BBC radio playlists after the 9/11 attacks as it was ‘too frivolous’ by gnomageddon7
Other songs banned by the BBC include "Monster Mash" by Bobby Pickett, "Creep" by Radiohead and "Boris Johnson Is a >!Fucking Cunt!<" by >!The Kunts!<.
Source: Wikipedia
lancelongstiff t1_jaylmdc wrote
Reply to comment by StraightOven4697 in Cosmic rays reveal measurements of a concealed corridor in the Great Pyramid of Giza by marketrent
It's basically like an X-ray machine - the cosmic rays come from space (they're produced by stars, supernovae etc) on one side of the pyramid and you have a detector on the other side.
The rays (to be precise, muons instead of X-rays) almost always pass through everything. But occasionally they interact with matter and that's enough to work out where the matter is, how much of it there is etc.
Here are some pictures from the people who brought us the Large Hadron Collider.
lancelongstiff t1_jadpt12 wrote
Reply to comment by TheFiniteThrowAway in TIL the legendary story about a janitor who came up with Flamin' Hot Cheetos was a lie. by Station_Emotional
...and it's those same fucking fucks who ruined my day yesterday.
lancelongstiff t1_jad662b wrote
Reply to comment by uavmx in Yikes, the U.S. is Now Using Facial Recognition Rigged Drones for Special Ops: If you're on America's shit list, bad news: a flying robot that can recognize your face may soon be coming after you. by Tough_Gadfly
Funny, it seems little more than a year ago that a US drone strike murdered seven innocent children and one adult in an embarassing case of mistaken identity.
lancelongstiff t1_jaaotsw wrote
Nice painting.
lancelongstiff t1_ja9nr2o wrote
Reply to comment by SkiingAway in Anti-war partisans in Belarus claim to have damaged Russian plane | Belarus by Caratteraccio
If Iraqis had been destroying coalition hardware that was being stored in another country - one belonging to our allies - I think we would have called them terrorists.
When we take it upon ourselves to decide who it's right and proper to murder, it becomes a very murky, grey area.
lancelongstiff t1_ja96dar wrote
Reply to comment by Vineyard_ in Anti-war partisans in Belarus claim to have damaged Russian plane | Belarus by Caratteraccio
I fully support what they did and admire the courage it took.
But we both know these Anti-War Advocates would be labelled Terrorists if we were the ones invading another country and they were blowing our shit up.
lancelongstiff t1_ja8drav wrote
Reply to comment by Vineyard_ in Anti-war partisans in Belarus claim to have damaged Russian plane | Belarus by Caratteraccio
By blowing shit up.
lancelongstiff t1_j6fqcae wrote
Reply to comment by Mr_Goat_1111 in Some words of wisdom from Rose of Sharon Cassidy [Fallout New Vegas] by amplyDoff45
I think dick jokes are puerile and just demean us all, frankly.
lancelongstiff t1_j3jbwqb wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in ‘Holy grail’ wheat gene discovery could feed our overheated world by _m3r1u5_
Where can I read more about this? I googled it up it didn't turn up anything.
lancelongstiff t1_jdnrh7t wrote
Reply to comment by Cookielover4k in TIL: A Mambo No. 5 cover by Bob the Builder went to number 1 in the UK on 9th September 2001, but was removed from BBC radio playlists after the 9/11 attacks as it was ‘too frivolous’ by gnomageddon7
"the BBC failed to see the funny side and banned the song for being too morbid"
It was in the early sixties and they were very conservative back in those days.