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Tracker
01-19-2009, 05:39 PM
I just thought this was really interesting...
Gas Warfare (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7837826.stm)

Weird Fact 2: Ancient Batteries (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2804257.stm)
KenH
01-19-2009, 10:27 PM
They had capacitors, too. Instead of wires, they used flat strips of gold, silver, and copper for conductors, insulated with a shellac-like substance.
Sleepy Weasel
01-20-2009, 06:36 AM
I just thought this was really interesting...
Gas Warfare (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7837826.stm)

So? I just gassed one of my coworkers yesterday. I'm no chemist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express.
Shaggy
01-21-2009, 10:09 AM
So? I just gassed one of my coworkers yesterday. I'm no chemist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express.

Me too, but unfortunately it backfired and I had to flee my own cube.
DaveC
01-21-2009, 01:54 PM
I think they used the batteries to power their laptops.
Grover
01-21-2009, 02:26 PM
"For the Persians to kill 20 men in a space less than 2m high or wide, and about 11m long, required superhuman combat powers - or something more insidious," said Dr James.

http://www.student.chula.ac.th/~50458356/image/sparta003.jpg
DaveC
01-21-2009, 02:56 PM
Well fancy that! Two thousand years ago they where waging a war over a piece of desert that no one remembers or cares about, forgotten by history and the civilizations that fought it.
DaveC
01-21-2009, 02:56 PM
"For the Persians to kill 20 men in a space less than 2m high or wide, and about 11m long, required superhuman combat powers - or something more insidious," said Dr James.

http://www.student.chula.ac.th/~50458356/image/sparta003.jpg

CGI?

:lol2:
Shaggy
01-21-2009, 03:01 PM
More like

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080602/Meet-the-Spartans_l.jpg
JustJ
01-21-2009, 04:26 PM
The ancients used biological warfare too.
The didn't really have any issues with "weapons of mass destruction".
KenH
01-23-2009, 01:52 AM
The ancients used biological warfare too.
The didn't really have any issues with "weapons of mass destruction".

That's because they weren't liberals that believed in kissing and making up.
Shaggy
01-23-2009, 08:00 AM
Oh and does anyone know what Persia became......
KenH
01-23-2009, 11:50 AM
Oh and does anyone know what Persia became......

Iran, sort of. The Persian sphere of influence was quite variable over the centuries.
Shaggy
01-23-2009, 11:53 AM
Right, but its pretty much all been around the same region.....
KenH
01-23-2009, 06:59 PM
Pretty much, but for the past, oh, 5000 years or so the Persian influence would come and go, kind of like intestinal gas. Don't worry, it will pass.