ascuttlefish

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Comment · 14 years ago
Essays and aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer

John A. MacDonald: The young politician by Donald Creighton

Comedy of errors by Wm. Shakespeare

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Comment · 14 years ago
It's very well done, too. Great character development and a gripping story arc. From my layperson's perspective, the science of orbital debris collection is taken very seriously.

The opening sequence in the first episode powerfully illustrates the speed and devastation caused by the intersection of the orbits of a simple bolt and a passenger liner.

Comment · 14 years ago
Nauseous has at least two meanings, one of which is causing nausea. The other is being inclined to vomit.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
The photos are darkened for me.
Comment · 15 years ago
Thanks for the reply. I always thought the Russians had been lost more people, materiel, etc. than anyone else and were pretty much done in by the end of the war. (I'm not sure where I got that idea, now that I examine it.)
Comment · 15 years ago
IIRC, the Soviet Union didn't test their first bomb until 1949, well after the war ended. Are you suggesting that the Soviets stopped their advance because of the American bomb?

Edit: Oh, I just noticed the bit in your comment about the 1950s/60s. So your contention is that the war might have reignited had there been no atomic bomb?

Comment · 15 years ago
Did you mean damp squib?
Comment · 15 years ago

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