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sunny0_0 t1_j2c2vdm wrote
Reply to The nut that defeated its nemesis by tchuruck
Stop breaking things for upvotes. It's sad.
sunny0_0 t1_ir57f4f wrote
Reply to comment by Ypnos666 in Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER
Let me know when your report on everything in the BM is ready.
sunny0_0 t1_ir3va4x wrote
Reply to comment by BernzSed in Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER
They were not taken to teach the public, they were trophies. For context you'd have to read about them and put the pieces together yourself.
sunny0_0 t1_ir3b3tz wrote
Reply to comment by something_facetious in Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER
I saw it the other day but learned about it long ago. The BM likely did save some of the marbles taken from Greece, but it's no longer the case.
sunny0_0 t1_ir34lvs wrote
Reply to Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER
And... The British Museum has mysteriously already acquired half of it.
sunny0_0 t1_jaady4s wrote
Reply to This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin
Probably benzene plus impurities. Plastic is basically a bunch of C and H chains that burns well but reacts with whatever is in the mix.