Knock 'em dead, PC!
You Swiss are pretty keen on your primary school education, aren't you?
After talking with the dude I hope to soon be working for
We are, actually, since there are already 2 or 3 levels of quality (depending on canton, of course) of it. In my canton you have 5 years of primary (which we call "lower level", though that is not a statement of quality), and then there's 4 years of primary called "upper level" which branches into three levels of quality which will already determine your early job opportunities (and you can only pass into our high-school equivalent from the highest level, though there are other opportunities to get that if you want it later in your live).
Job application always gets a lot easier if you have the opportunity of talking to people before sending in your stuff :lol:
I think what Thunder Chicken is referring to is that your example resume there implies that you spend most of a century in elementary school.
"No-one could hear me banging. Black pudding saved my life."
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Oh man, this is epic stuff. Must get the books ASAP
Edit: Can't believe no one tried to make a movie about this. He's basically describing an incredibly advanced , sinister alien master race. And this was written before the whole spaceflight thing began. Forget the wraiths of Stargate, the xenomorphs or the Borgs. These guys are waaay more sinister. Seriously, this is good science-fiction material
A number of Marine Nationale Rafale-M multi-role fighter jets and E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning and control aircraft, along with 350 support personnel and aircrew, will deploy aboard the USS George H.W. Bush this Spring. Not only will the multi-national operation work to give Rafale-M aircrews much needed carrier qualifications—France's only carrier has been undergoing a mid-life refit—but it also aims to expand the two countries' abilities to operate fighter aircraft cooperatively from the sea for prolonged periods of time.
This is aweeeee...some... No, I won't stand beside a burning rocket stage... :leaving:
Chinese villagers captured remarkable footage just after sunrise on Friday showing a Long March 3B rocket booster falling out of the sky, crashing into a mountain and exploding into flames while releasing highly toxic propellants left in its tanks after helping send a pair of Beidou-3 navigation satellites on their way into orbit.
Source: Spaceflight101.com
Just realized I didn't make a launch thread for that. :facepalm: Sorry.
Crazy to go anywhere near that, even if it's not burning you have no idea what kind of toxic stuff is in those things. That sickly orange cloud in that second photo? That looks like hypergolic stuff to me. No thanks, I prefer my lungs to remain in working order, please.
This is aweeeee...some... No, I won't stand beside a burning rocket stage... :leaving:
Chinese villagers captured remarkable footage just after sunrise on Friday showing a Long March 3B rocket booster falling out of the sky, crashing into a mountain and exploding into flames while releasing highly toxic propellants left in its tanks after helping send a pair of Beidou-3 navigation satellites on their way into orbit.
Source: Spaceflight101.com
Just realized I didn't make a launch thread for that. :facepalm: Sorry.
Amazon played Ding-Dong-Ditch-It with me today. Got a package delivered, right street address but wrong name. I called and said that I wasn't the intended recipient, Amazon apologized and said to keep the package.
I am now the proud owner of two (2) copies of Tommy Two Shoes. Colorful, but the plot is a bit thin.
Forget the wraiths of Stargate
The Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage