ANZAC day

[Dynamite_cow]

Cool, how much do I need to destroy the world then?

 

[Kobrag]

it ewill take me all night to do the proper calcs but im guessing 1 couple of tons

 

[Raz]

ive been learning its power, niether observing it, because a small amount if improperly contained can sink the british isles

Hahahaha. Somebody's been reading Angels & Demons. That would be due to particle acceleration & splitting. (sp?)

The joke was actually quite good, Arch. Oh, Kobrag; You can't contain it. It defies the physics laws as we know it.

Edit:

it ewill take me all night to do the oroper calcs but im guessing 1 couple of tons

Hahaha! A few grams of the aforementioned stuff would be enough, actually. Please stop this ****. Dark matter can't be weighed with our current system. It has no 'collision mesh' 

 

[Dynamite_cow]

A few grams? Sounds good, shame there ain't any availabe on eBay right now. Anyone got any spare dark matter for sale?

 

[Kobrag]

go on the site of the company mentioned in the book annd it conferms work on the legendary dark matter

 

[morgoth2005]

Sorry for being a nitpicking git, but what the hell is

1 couple of tons

?????????

 

[Raz]

go on the site of the company mentioned in the book annd it conferms work on the legendary dark matter

On a second thought, I doubt you've read that book. It seems you just googled it. First of all, CERN works with particle accelerators (they almost reached light's speed!!). Collide those accelerated neutrons and you get a highly instable form of quarks. Put this together in a tube, and there you have it. NOT the dark matter. It can't possibly be observed let alone contained with the current technology we possess. Furtherly, it's existance is 'mere' speculation, though very feasible.

edit: If you're a science student, how come you don't defend your statements? Or even explain them more thoroughly? It seems to me you just google/wiki some random subject, read the intro and claim to be observing and studying it. "A whole night to do calculations?" Lol.

 

[Kobrag]

im not thinking clearly...dehydrated see pissed off thread to find out why

 

[Raz]

Ah right, the fact that you're dehydrated now ensured your disability to back up your posts with reason weeks ago. By the way, how come you could show a full night of concentration and dedication purely to determinating how much dark matter it would take to blow up the British isles, while you can't even be bothered with putting 1 minute of concentration into 1 post of (mostly) 1 sentence?

 

[Kobrag]

i was at col at the time

 

[Raz]

Okay, I'll just leave you alone now.

Anyway, anybody care to explain what significance the battle for Gallipoli had?

 

[morgoth2005]

Well it destroyed Churchill's career for 10 or so years.

 

[Swordmaster]

Okay, I'll just leave you alone now.

Anyway, anybody care to explain what significance the battle for Gallipoli had?

It provided Mutafa Kemal Pasha to be known as the leader of the Independence War.

 

[Merentha]

Anyway, anybody care to explain what significance the battle for Gallipoli had?

Well, for the ANZACs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZAC_Day

it is considered that the battle marked the birth of the collective national identities of both those nations, replacing that of the collective identity of the British Empire.

For the Turks:

In Turkey, the battle is seen as one of the finest and bravest moments in the history of the Turkish people - a final surge in the defense of the motherland as the centuries-old Ottoman Empire was crumbling; which laid the grounds for the Turkish War of Independence and the foundation of the new Turkish Republic eight years later, led by Atatürk, a commander in Gallipoli himself.

 

[Swordmaster]

For the Turks:

In Turkey, the battle is seen as one of the finest and bravest moments in the history of the Turkish people - a final surge in the defense of the motherland as the centuries-old Ottoman Empire was crumbling; which laid the grounds for the Turkish War of Independence and the foundation of the new Turkish Republic eight years later, led by Atatürk, a commander in Gallipoli himself.

That's right and it's one of the important results with what I have written.

 

[okiN]

Hilarius. 

?????

 

[Ingolifs]

NZers celebrate anzac day because it commemorates how we wasted the turks at gallipoli.

 

[thesneakster]

Anyway, anybody care to explain what significance the battle for Gallipoli had?

Besides the most obvious 'first real battle for AIF troops', it also commemorates the ferocity of fighting and unimaginable losses and conditions of the battle. It was like D-day, but without the careful planning. The troops were landed in completely the wrong place, on a beach with no cover, and Turks dug in all the way up the cliffs. As soon as the boats were landed, they came under immediate machiene gun fire. To continue on to the cliffs from the beach, where the odds were, really, over 50% or more that you'd be hit just going that far, with people all around you getting shot, would have taken courage that i imagine noone who wasn't there will ever be able to properly grasp.

The reason i hadn't posted about this yet? I felt that quietly remembering would be a more respectful way of celebrateing the ANZACs, and to anyone who didn't know what they are/what they did, just reading about it on a forum/wikipedia would not convey the true sense of the day to them.

 

[bobstar_24]

ANZAC day is not just a commemoration of the battle of gallipoli but a commemoration to the Australian and NZ soldiers who were killed in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam and recent wars like in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's a time to commemorate the men who sacrificed themselves so that others may live.

 

[Ingolifs]

To be honest, i'm getting a little tired of Anzac day and the sudden upsurge of rememberance and appreciation of all these soldiers that comes with it. I have tremendous respect for those who served in both ww1 and ww2, but I don't see what's so particularly great about what the ANZACs did.