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Comment Re:Glamdring can do this also (Score 1) 67

If it's a sword from the fall of Gondolin and forged by the elves of that time, it is already several thousand years old and definitely a rarity. Most swords will have gone rusty by that time, so I for one wish to learn the elvish technique for making stainless steel which maintains a cutting edge for thousands of years despite abuse by trolls and everyone else.

Comment It puzzles me (Score 2) 85

How North Korea, a nation with what is one of the worlds most primitive computing/ internet facilities, has the ability to carry out what appears to be a sophisticated attack that walks away with almost every drop of data Sony has in its possession. Even a couple of random sympathisers should not have been able to do the job.

Sony has not got many friends in the world, mainly due to restrictive copyright practices and DRM. It would surprise me less if some groups who were opposed to this had over a long period of time, wormed their way into Sonys network, and after being confident they could see everything, struck at an opportune moment.

Or it could be Adam Sandler, highly pissed at the lukewarm enthusiasm with which Sony release another of his movies...

Comment Re:Is it true... (Score 1) 355

North America, Australia and South America are, lets face it essentially Northern European, Spanish and Portugese populations; they're certainly not the native population who were really wiped out. Asia didn't get totally colonised, but I think you really only have distance and the Japanese to thank for that; the Chinese in the 19th century were crumbling against Western inroads. The Japanese learned how to play the game and by 1905 became a (small) world Power, and I think that saved Asia (albeit not necessarily from the Japanese themselves).

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 275

Lets assume your object sinks - the density of the object is greater than the density of water.

When the object is on the ship, the amount of water displaced will be dependent on the weight of the object.
When the object is under the water, the amount of water displaced will be dependent on the volume of the object.
Since the density of the object is greater than water, the volume of water displaced under the water is less than the volume of water displaced whilst above water

Therefore the water level will rise a teeny tiny amount.
However the water level will fall relative to the side of the ship because the ship will not displace quite so much

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