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Submission + - Man behind Darth Vader swordfights dies (abc.net.au)

An anonymous reader writes: Bob Anderson, an Olympic swordsman who staged fights for films including the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings trilogy, has died at the age of 89.

Anderson donned Darth Vader's black helmet and fought light-sabre battles in two of the three original Star Wars films, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but his role was not initially publicised.

Comment Re:Beer differences are mostly nonexistent. (Score 5, Informative) 840

A research project for you - go to a bottle shop, buy a dozen different small bottles of beer. (330mL or so) Try to get as broad a cross section (styles, colours, country of origin) as your budget allows. Sit down with a few friends and a large supply of small glasses and split each bottle between you. Start with the Pilseners, lagers, wheat beers, etc, progress through pale ales, browns, and end up with the IPAs, stouts, etc. If you have any Belgian beers in there (eg trappist) have them before you're too hammered, and savour them. Try to figure out what you like about each and what you hate about each. Come back and tell us whether all beers are still the same to you.

Comment Re:Not so bad to have different systems. (Score 1) 2288

Common in Australia: gypsum wall sheets (commonly called "gyprock" - a brand name) are 1200 wide, which is close enough to 4 feet.
Most building measurements are expressed in millimetres (without "mm" appended). However, since we have only been metric for 45 years, everything is still a multiple of inches and feet rounded to a nice number of mm, which usually means 1 foot = 300mm. So standard truss and stud spacings are 450 or 600, 4x2 timber dressed is 90x45, etc, sheets of board (ply, etc) are usually 2400x1200, and so on.

Comment correlation is not causation (Score 1) 473

Seems like there's a long list of benefits in education. Not only will you be less religulous, but you will also not fear death as much and hopefully get a more fullfilling job.

An equally valid conclusion is that absence of fear is good, as it enables people to succeed in education.
This conclusion is preferable to that most people are talking about here, as there is a plausible mechanism for it - education usually involves prolonged suffering.

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