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[houstonscott]

She was quite the lady. But first only in Canada. While most people think of Amelia Earhart, there were actually other female pilots before her. The first woman that we know about to earn a pilot's license was******* ********, back in 1911. And the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license was Bessie Coleman, in 1922. On Night Witch's I should have said in WW2. Hope that helps.

Who cares who the first African-American anything was, not sure why it's mentioned. HS

 

[turnkey4099]

check this out.

Aviation - The Night Witches

Thanks for that. Very interesting read.

Harry K

 

[k0ua]

Thanks for that. Very interesting read.

Harry K

I always learn stuff when we go off on these tangents. I had never heard of the Night Witches.. but sure seems like a brave bunch of women.

 

[crash325]

What makes the "Hope Diamond" blue???????

 

[k0ua]

What makes the "Hope Diamond" blue???????

I will take a guess.. small amounts of cobalt in the diamond matrix?

 

[2LaneCruzer]

What makes the "Hope Diamond" blue???????

Being too long in the proximity of an Aretha Franklin album? :laughing: I'll have to go along with the previous poster, that it must contain some impurities that impart a blue hue to the stone. Another possibility is that the cut of the diamond refracts the light in a specific manner that emphasizes the blue.

 

[k0ua]

OK it is not cobalt.

 

[crash325]

Yep it is NOT Cobalt. Though sometimes called cobalt blue.

Hint Atlantic Richfield at one time added it to their gasoline

What are the earliest eating utensils???????

 

[Jstpssng]

Yep it is NOT Cobalt. Though sometimes called cobalt blue.

Hint Atlantic Richfield at one time added it to their gasoline

What are the earliest eating utensils???????

I could give you the answer to the first question... But I had to Google it and that make's me rather borong.

My guess for the second is chop sticks, since you used the plural tense.

 

[k0ua]

Yep it is NOT Cobalt. Though sometimes called cobalt blue.

Hint Atlantic Richfield at one time added it to their gasoline

What are the earliest eating utensils???????

I looked up the diamond. I would think the first eating hardware would be a knife.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I looked up the diamond. I would think the first eating hardware would be a knife.

As my Dad would say, "Fingers were made before forks". I would suspect, that the first manufactured eating utensils were pointed sticks. That doesn't include hunting and butchering tools, like throwing sticks, stone hand axes, scrapers and stone knives. It's hard to conceive early man eating cooked meat without a stick and a stone knife.

 

[k0ua]

It's hard to conceive early man eating cooked meat without a stick and a stone knife.

 

[k0ua]

It's hard to conceive early man eating cooked meat without a stick and a stone knife.

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Hey! Look what Zog do!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

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Hey! Look what Zog do!

Hah. The Far Side strikes again!

 

[k0ua]

Hah. The Far Side strikes again!

That one of the cavemen roasting their meat with their bare hands was always one of my favorites.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

That one of the cavemen roasting their meat with their bare hands was always one of my favorites.

I wish I could find the one about the caveman on trial, and asked by the prosecutor if "this was his Atlatl". Larson, Waterson, Al Capp and Walt Kelly are my favorites.

 

[RSKY]

I apologize for posting a question and not giving an answer. Been very busy and though I have checked TBN several times on my Iphone I hate typing on it.

The question was how much more land, people, and oil would it take to produce the amount of food we need if chemicals were not used. As several people said, there are several estimations on this but the low guess is twice the land, three times the people, and four times the oil.

I grew up on a farm in the sixties and I think these numbers are very low. My guess, for what it is worth, is three times the land and people, and four times the oil.

Now I'm gonna take a shower and go to bed. Retirement can sometimes be hard work.

RSKY

 

[Redneck in training]

What NOMEX stands for?

 

[2LaneCruzer]

During WWII, the Germans developed a high-tech weapon dubbed "Fritz-X" by the Allies. What was this weapon and what was its Achilles heel?

 

[k0ua]

During WWII, the Germans developed a high-tech weapon dubbed "Fritz-X" by the Allies. What was this weapon and what was its Achilles heel?

As I remember Fritz-x was a remote piloted "cruise missile" more or less. I believe it used a TV camera in the nose to help the remote pilot get it on target. I am guessing here, but its' control link was probably easily jammed?