broadsword
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I find it shocking that, that many are still being killed nearly three decades after the war was over.
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I find it shocking that, that many are still being killed nearly three decades after the war was over.
SteelBird
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First of all please be reminded that the latest civil in Cambodia was fought in the late 90s, so not three decades. Then, I remember I read one report that there are still about 1 million land mines and unexploded munitions in Cambodia. CMAC actually didn't remove much of those mines. They have been established for decades but rarely reported on the news.
Miragedriver
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Area 51 does not house aliens but extraterrestrial life exists: NASA chief
administrator Major Charles Frank Bolden was charged with handling tough questions this week about the existence of , Area 51, and other space-related subjects. The NASA chief was careful and forthright with his answers, as he should be. But in this particular setting, he had to be careful not to lose his audience, a group only too adept at detecting b. s. -- schoolchildren.
June 19 that NASA's spoke with British schoolchildren about space and future missions that would include. And when one 10-year-old asked if he believed in aliens, Bolden said that he did.
"I do believe that we will someday find other forms of life or a form of life, if not in our solar system then in some of the other solar systems - the billions of solar systems in the universe," he said. "Today we know that there are literally thousands, if not millions of other planets, many of which may be very similar to our own earth. So some of us, many of us believe that we're going to find...evidence that there is life elsewhere in the universe."
Of course, Bolden did not go into the various other factors that might determine whether or not extraterrestrial life might exist on worlds unlike Earth (where conditions might be as alien as the biological forms that inhabit them), sticking with the more easily digested idea -- especially for a grade-schooler -- that if life is found, it will be on Earth-like planets. As for finding the evidence, NASA boldly predicted in July last year that within the next two decades.
In answer to a question about the existence of Area 51 and if there were aliens kept there (do you get the feeling that these schoolchildren were coached by conspiracy theorists?), Bolden also answered in the affirmative -- to the existence of Area 51. As for there being aliens there, he said the facility was just "a normal research and development place. I never saw any aliens or alien spacecraft or anything when I was there."
As if he knew he was leaving plenty of room for conspiracy theorists to call his answer a dodge (because he never actually said "no" to aliens being there, just that he had had not experienced them), Charles Bolden went on to explain: “It think because of the secrecy of the aeronautics research that goes on there it’s ripe for people to talk about aliens being there.” (And he still never gave an unequivocal "no".)
Area 51 has been the source of many conspiracy theories that have claimed that it housed not only alien beings (both living and expired) from captured and/or crashed spacecraft, it is also where those aliens have been studied, and it is where secrets learned from those advanced technologies were developed, adapted, and tested for human technological advances., the secrecy surrounding the place -- an actual section of land in Nevada near Groom Lake -- soon got people talking about (and guessing and conspiratorially theorizing) its purpose after it was designated by President Dwight Eisenhower. But after decades of thwarting public scrutiny, the (through a Freedom of Information Act request) admitting that Area 51 was a top secret training facility and was key in developing the U2 spy plane.
So did NASA administrator Bolden win over a few future astronauts or astrobiologists to fill out the ranks of NASA or perhaps the European Space Agency? We'll have to wait another decade or so to get the answer to that. And by that time, maybe the hypothetical near-certainty of alien existence will give way to an actual detection of extraterrestrial life.
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administrator Major Charles Frank Bolden was charged with handling tough questions this week about the existence of , Area 51, and other space-related subjects. The NASA chief was careful and forthright with his answers, as he should be. But in this particular setting, he had to be careful not to lose his audience, a group only too adept at detecting b. s. -- schoolchildren.
June 19 that NASA's spoke with British schoolchildren about space and future missions that would include. And when one 10-year-old asked if he believed in aliens, Bolden said that he did.
"I do believe that we will someday find other forms of life or a form of life, if not in our solar system then in some of the other solar systems - the billions of solar systems in the universe," he said. "Today we know that there are literally thousands, if not millions of other planets, many of which may be very similar to our own earth. So some of us, many of us believe that we're going to find...evidence that there is life elsewhere in the universe."
Of course, Bolden did not go into the various other factors that might determine whether or not extraterrestrial life might exist on worlds unlike Earth (where conditions might be as alien as the biological forms that inhabit them), sticking with the more easily digested idea -- especially for a grade-schooler -- that if life is found, it will be on Earth-like planets. As for finding the evidence, NASA boldly predicted in July last year that within the next two decades.
In answer to a question about the existence of Area 51 and if there were aliens kept there (do you get the feeling that these schoolchildren were coached by conspiracy theorists?), Bolden also answered in the affirmative -- to the existence of Area 51. As for there being aliens there, he said the facility was just "a normal research and development place. I never saw any aliens or alien spacecraft or anything when I was there."
As if he knew he was leaving plenty of room for conspiracy theorists to call his answer a dodge (because he never actually said "no" to aliens being there, just that he had had not experienced them), Charles Bolden went on to explain: “It think because of the secrecy of the aeronautics research that goes on there it’s ripe for people to talk about aliens being there.” (And he still never gave an unequivocal "no".)
Area 51 has been the source of many conspiracy theories that have claimed that it housed not only alien beings (both living and expired) from captured and/or crashed spacecraft, it is also where those aliens have been studied, and it is where secrets learned from those advanced technologies were developed, adapted, and tested for human technological advances., the secrecy surrounding the place -- an actual section of land in Nevada near Groom Lake -- soon got people talking about (and guessing and conspiratorially theorizing) its purpose after it was designated by President Dwight Eisenhower. But after decades of thwarting public scrutiny, the (through a Freedom of Information Act request) admitting that Area 51 was a top secret training facility and was key in developing the U2 spy plane.
So did NASA administrator Bolden win over a few future astronauts or astrobiologists to fill out the ranks of NASA or perhaps the European Space Agency? We'll have to wait another decade or so to get the answer to that. And by that time, maybe the hypothetical near-certainty of alien existence will give way to an actual detection of extraterrestrial life.
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Back to bottling my Grenache
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
After all this time since this story has come out about sexual identity and people are going out of their way to politically correct people on what name to use and use of pronouns, isn't it odd that they're celebrating Father's Day?
To each his own but don't go around making society do dog tricks for your own self-aggrandizement whether it's the people around "Bruce Jenner" or this is a media concoction.
broadsword
Brigadier
There are so many cuts of beef, but to some connoisseurs, the best cut is not the freshest. It has to be aged in the refrigerator for two to three weeks. Aged is like a euphemism for stale, just that in this case the fluid is allowed to drip down and not to cause decomposition. So the next time you buy your big chunk of tenderloin at a sale and stick it in the refrigerator and forget about it, think of it as haute cuisine.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
yeah.... I personally prefer not to eat anything left form the Disco era
Equation
Lieutenant General
broadsword
Brigadier
Cleansing sounds better.
LOL...but it can solve one's constipation problem in a hurry!
Thanks for taking us there. And while we're on topic we really don't need rotten meat to do that, there are plenty of excessively spicy dishes which have the same effect!
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