My understanding is that you need a bigger ante to open an account with the Swiss operation. Also they are particular about documentation and proving identity. The 'Europe' operation seems to use credit card for validating your identity and also ...

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I have to get ready to go out to a grandchild's birthday meal. You all have a great weekend! url

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There are road-safety arguments for making the speedo read fast, mainly people's poor judge of stopping distance or safety margin.

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I had to go back and watch it again. I think the pilot was just being diplomatic when faced with a customer. The nose-up attitude is a function of maintaining altitude, it is controlled by the auto-pilot and any small adjustments are so gradual that ...

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I always check my speedo accuracy, and I use the 100m posts on the roadside with a stopwatch. Recently I discovered some interesting things.... The company Astra I used to drive in the last Century said 90 when you were doing 81 66 when you were ...

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For folks like us Concorde was the only thing that went high enough to be able to see the curvature of the earth. Any of the USAF stealth jockeys will have seen it.

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Geostationary: I knew it was a long way up, but I thought I had better look it up rather than demonstrate to myself that I have forgotten how to do the maths. url Van Allen: Two belts with different compositions. Things like the International ...

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Human nature is learned. To achieve change everyone must have a mental shift. So it is not going to change.

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Another attempt at raising the white birth-rate?

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We waited until he was looking the other way... There is no market for the cheese. Elon Musk hadn't been born then. But seriously, all the geostationary satellites that give you <insert favourite TV broadcaster> sit way above the Van Allen belts, ...

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I wonder whether she rejoins her husband, or gets her own supply of 'virgins'.....

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The greater question is .... who retrieved the footage from the module blastoff? url

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....they had assistance from local residents

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I watched the '69 moon landing, it was screened in the UK on good 'ole B&W TV. They did not have the technology in those days to pitch a convincing fake. There is a possibility that the conversation between POTUS and the returning module was fudged.

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Well ... I started out not intending to watch it all ... and now I am speechless

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...he was just making sure that he was not proven wrong!

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We can hope, but like a number of predecessors once they see 'the whole picture' the clear course of action becomes less achievable.

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There are always those who don't yet know that they are libtards.....

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