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  • Dr Mordrid
    Moderator
    • Apr 2001
    • 26592

    #1

    What am I?



    Hint: France
    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 18 July 2011, 00:28.
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  • Evildead666
    Super MURCer
    • Mar 2002
    • 3116

    #2
    Looks like something from the CERN laboratory.
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    • UtwigMU
      Super MURCer
      • Jul 2002
      • 5651

      #3
      Dark matter?

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      • Brian Ellis
        Super MURCer
        • Sep 1999
        • 9623

        #4
        Antimatter?
        Brian (the devil incarnate)

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        • Umfriend
          Crabby Smurf
          • Mar 2001
          • 7308

          #5
          What's the matter?
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          • VJ
            Moderator
            • Mar 2001
            • 9733

            #6
            Evildead: would be my first guess, but CERN is in Switersland, the hint is France...

            Cheese under a microscope?
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            • Brian Ellis
              Super MURCer
              • Sep 1999
              • 9623

              #7
              For many Americans, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Vatican City are all the same!!!!

              Actually the Hadron tunnel IS half in France and half in Switzerland!
              Brian (the devil incarnate)

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              • cjolley
                Super MURCer
                • Aug 1999
                • 7672

                #8
                Looks too old for CERN to me.
                I doubt there's too much writing on film by hand going on there.

                Radium perhaps?
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                • Evildead666
                  Super MURCer
                  • Mar 2002
                  • 3116

                  #9
                  Originally posted by cjolley View Post
                  Looks too old for CERN to me.
                  I doubt there's too much writing on film by hand going on there.

                  Radium perhaps?
                  SOmething to do with the Curies ?



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                  • Jammrock
                    The Berserker
                    • Aug 1999
                    • 8661

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Brian Ellis View Post
                    For many Americans, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Vatican City are all the same!!!!
                    You mean, there is more than one country in Europe? Since when!?!?!?!?
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                    • degrub
                      MURCer
                      • Jan 2004
                      • 882

                      #11
                      bosun's mate ?
                      Mr. Higgs?

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                      • Dr Mordrid
                        Moderator
                        • Apr 2001
                        • 26592

                        #12
                        Anti-aircraft fire Jan. 31, 1941 over Brest, France during WW-II.

                        Taken from an RAF bombers belly camera. The fine lines are tracer shells, and the broader lines are those of heavier anti-aircraft artillery. Factories and other buildings can be seen below.

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                        • degrub
                          MURCer
                          • Jan 2004
                          • 882

                          #13
                          and a sense of duty before self...

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                          • UtwigMU
                            Super MURCer
                            • Jul 2002
                            • 5651

                            #14
                            Isn't it kind of ironic if you look at some of the reasons WW2 was fought for:
                            - To maintain British empire which in 1938 encompassed 23% of World population and largest land of any empire in history. (Wasn't the Hitler the one who wanted to conquer the World?) Not much left, except for rugby and cricket league.
                            - To prevent German hegemony in Europe - Merkel now has a lot of say in EU and Germans own a lot banks and factories. If it could pass through public opinion, she would probably send military to Greece again. Rolls Royce who used to make engines for RAF is owned by BMW who used to make engines for Luftwaffe.
                            - To prevent fall of Soviet union and to prevent eastern Europe escaping from Soviet influence - no longer the case.
                            - To put USA in number one World super power spot. This is still the case but World has become multipolar again.
                            Last edited by UtwigMU; 19 July 2011, 07:21.

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                            • degrub
                              MURCer
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 882

                              #15
                              i disagree
                              "
                              Isn't it kind of ironic if you look at some of the reasons WW2 was fought for:
                              - To maintain British empire which in 1938 encompassed 23% of World population and largest land of any empire in history. (Wasn't the Hitler the one who wanted to conquer the World?) Not much left, except for rugby and cricket league.
                              "
                              The British empire was already in long decline, from about the Great War time, if not before. The British weren't the aggressers in this one. Germany was. Britain and France drew a line with Poland.
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                              - To prevent German hegemony in Europe - Merkel now has a lot of say in EU and Germans own a lot banks and factories. If it could pass through public opinion, she would probably send military to Greece again. Rolls Royce who used to make engines for RAF is owned by BMW who used to make engines for Luftwaffe.
                              "
                              Economic hegemony is one thing. Physical aggression and war is on a different level.
                              "
                              - To prevent fall of Soviet union and to prevent eastern Europe escaping from Soviet influence - no longer the case.
                              "
                              Beg you pardon, but no. Britain and others feared what the Soviet regime was up to. Stalin wasn't that different from Hitler. No one had the military resources to compete with the Soviet regime during that time. We had to wait for economic hegemony.
                              "
                              - To put USA in number one World super power spot. This is still the case but World has become multipolar again.
                              "
                              Sorry, no one else but the Soviets and the US had enough resources to compete at the time. Europe and other parts of the world were a wasteland at the end. If the US had not stepped in and provided economic assistance and other means it would have taken a lot longer for recovery.

                              So where is Italy and Japan in this analysis ?

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