In the oil industry, 500 tons is a flea bite. Some parts of rigs lifted into place at sea weighed into 5 figures. 153m would require a moderately large ship - nothing incredible to carry it. (View Post)

A picture is sometimes better than many words (View Post)

It’s been a very long running piece of irredentism that any land that was ever part of the Russian Empire is part of the New Russian Empire (of whatever version) The USSR had it as policy. Putin has … (View Post)

Sounds like the keyboard setting on your computer has been changed. Probably from EN-UK to EN-US. The classic cause is that you accidentally hit the two keys that are a short cut. What operating syst… (View Post)

I shall ask the butler to ask the man who does the accounts what he pays the tailors. (View Post)