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January 07 2009
So, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to build a chain of
lighthouses to guide ships finding their way in the dark polar night
across uninhabited shores of the Soviet Russian Empire. So it has been
done and a series of such lighthouses has been erected. They had to be
fully autonomous, because they were situated hundreds and hundreds
miles aways from any populated areas. After reviewing different ideas
on how to make them work for a years without service and any external
power supply, Soviet engineers decided to implement atomic energy to
power up those structures. So, special lightweight small atomic
reactors were produced in limited series to be delivered to the Polar
Circle lands and to be installed on the lighthouses. Those small
reactors could work in the independent mode for years and didn’t
require any human interference, so it was very handy in the situation
like this. It was a kind of robot-lighthouse which counted itself the
time of the year and the length of the daylight, turned on its lights
when it was needed and sent radio signals to near by ships to warn them
on their journey. It all looks like ran out the sci-fi book pages, but
so they were.
via English Russia » Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses
via English Russia » Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses
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And so it begins...
Heute sind von der Umzugsspedition 20 Faltkartons angeliefert worden, immerhin 3 davon sind schon mit Büchern, DVDs und CDs vollgeräumt. Seit 8:30 bin ich schon auf, und hab zudem auch noch abgewaschen und gebügelt; jetzt geht's dann einkaufen, und am Nachmittag wird dann noch so einiges ausgemistet.
My favorite unusual death is this one:
1599: Nanda Bayin, a Burman king, reportedly laughed to death when informed, by a visiting Italian merchant, that "Venice was a free state without a king."
1599: Nanda Bayin, a Burman king, reportedly laughed to death when informed, by a visiting Italian merchant, that "Venice was a free state without a king."
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C: Ich will so ein Heimkino zum Geburtstag.
A: Geht auch eine CD?
<kurze Pause>
C: Nein. Ich hab darueber nachgedacht und ich will lieber das Heimkino haben.
A: *lacht* .. Kannst du das bitte soupen?
C: Ok.
A: Geht auch eine CD?
<kurze Pause>
C: Nein. Ich hab darueber nachgedacht und ich will lieber das Heimkino haben.
A: *lacht* .. Kannst du das bitte soupen?
C: Ok.
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