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Mostly against primitive fighters particularly on the Russian front. Assuming similar exaggeration of successes by each sides publicity offices you can probably divide the figures …

Similar to the famous Boston cemetery study. It shows the age at death of people in a cemetery drops linear as you approach the current date. whereas people 100years ago all died i…

Places I have lived where more people cycle the drivers have a better attitude. Cambridge, Amsterdam and Vancouver are great to cycle in, London reasonable, smaller industrial citi…

For bombers thats the main cause of aircraft losses, fighters of WWII were pretty ineffective, especially at night. It's difficult to believe a WWII era fighter diving into a strea…

Can't remember the name but an experiment by a prof from UCL showed that cars approached him more closely when he was wearing a helmet - but they gave him more space when he was we…

The astronomer Freeman Dyson was doing similar work for the RAF (I had heard this story attributed to him) Two of his calculations weren't acted on because of illogical users. Very…

Same thing with bicycle helmets and seatbelts in cars.

Unfortunately the enemy are rarely cooperative in allowing your aircrash investigators to visit the site and examine crashed aircraft. You could examine enemy bombers that you had …

Might not be possible, it's not the format or algorithm thats patented - in many cases it's the concept. A patent on compressing an image by only storing some spatial frequencies g…

The point of English is that when they become common enough they become correct.

I think they are now "seeing other people" after Denmark made some comment about expanding glaciers that Greenland took personally !

2:30-3:00 Return to their desks and start looking for new jobs?

Greenland's GDP is You could turn the entire country into a passively cooled data center!

The country has a population of 50,000 I don't know how good their connectivity is but I'm guessing Google has quite a few more users than that. Hopefully the ISP's DNS caches goo.…

It can also be used by good (or at least inquisitive) people. The back door isn't going to be built into super encrypted military stuff, but a lot of government traffic travels ove…

" You also know that when you click a goo.gl shortened URL, you’re protected against malware, phishing and spam" So if I send you a goo.gl link to goat.cx does Google stop that? Wh…

Just out of interest - do the top level DNSs look at the entire address or is Greenland's main internet supplier going to melt under the load of redirecting everything to Google?