As weejee points out above, they didn't want anybody to find out how much they were spending on quill pens and gallic acid,
"Gallic acid is an important component of iron gall ink, the standard European writing and drawing ink from the 12th to 19th century with a history extending to the Roman empire and the Dead Sea Scrolls."
I happened upon an old Exxon street map of Baltimore that has been passed down from glove box to glove box, complete with a cartoon tiger on it. The toll for the Harbor Tunnel is listed as less than $1, and did you know they're working on building a bridge over the Patapsco to the south?
ADC doesn't even publish latitude and longitude in their street atlases any more. Their latest grids aren't even necessarily lined up to true north! Luckily I stumbled across a 30-year old edition of my area of interest.
The county GIS guy was depressingly happy to hear that someone, anyone was actually using his products.
Gee, the bottom structure- you hydrolyze the two methoxys on the left to hydroxyls, and reduce the methoxy on the bottom to H, and you'd have dopamine.
That seems more like concentrating sulfuric acid than making it. One of my BFFs from high school, back when he was about 10, bought flowers of sulfur from the local pharmacy, burned it over a platinum catalyst at low temp to make SO3, then bubbled that into water to make H2SO4. Now that's making sulfuric acid at home. He also got a visit from a detective from the town police, after the pharmacist thought about it. The detective, after seeing my friend's setup and talking with his dad (dad said "what's the problem? He knows what he's doing and is following proper safety precautions") said "Sir, in the future, we'd prefer it if you purchased materials for your son rather than him buying them directly"
Do the Russians know about this?!!
Cool stuff on a couple of those.
Neat too to think back to the time when the map above had to be drafted entirely by hand.
…and then classified
As weejee points out above, they didn't want anybody to find out how much they were spending on quill pens and gallic acid,
"Gallic acid is an important component of iron gall ink, the standard European writing and drawing ink from the 12th to 19th century with a history extending to the Roman empire and the Dead Sea Scrolls."
They were trying to suppress the fact that they were close to getting the | Rambaldi Device | operational.
Those French always had a lot of gaul.
…by hand?
Yep. That's how I learned cartography too.
Hand Classifying: Talk to the Hand.
"Secure Compartmented Information — Hands Only"
No no, the cheerleader creeper story is further down.
That Russian Front map will come in handy.
Well, you wouldn't have had much fun in Stalingrad, would you?
"we buried them in our bodies, we drowned them in our blood"
The map of the Korean DMZ s kind of dated, though. Things have changed so much!
Nothing a fresh coat of paint and some new drapes can't fix.
um, check me if I'm wrong, scotty, but I didn't see a map of Korea in that set.
Whoops! It must still be classified. Forget I said anything!
Ha ha, at Camp David, CIA Director George Tenant explains to White House chief of staff Andrew Card that the case for WMDs Iraq is a "slam-dunk."
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George: "Got any eights?"
Condi: "Go fish"
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"mistakes were made"
Things were a lot harder before the secret weather control satellites made maps, if they existed.
These are safe for public release now that Castro is dead.
or
They'd still be classified if they weren't leaked through Hillary's emails!
I think you need to end that second statement with "Sad!"
Shee-it, back in the day, when I wanted to know my lat and long the best, fucking Esso road maps gave me the best answer!
I happened upon an old Exxon street map of Baltimore that has been passed down from glove box to glove box, complete with a cartoon tiger on it. The toll for the Harbor Tunnel is listed as less than $1, and did you know they're working on building a bridge over the Patapsco to the south?
ADC doesn't even publish latitude and longitude in their street atlases any more. Their latest grids aren't even necessarily lined up to true north! Luckily I stumbled across a 30-year old edition of my area of interest.
The county GIS guy was depressingly happy to hear that someone, anyone was actually using his products.
"It makes my miserable life a little more bearable! God bless you, sir!"
Plenty creative adaptation of existing sources, yes, but you also had to learn to use one of these monsters:
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I think I saw one of those in my dentist's office.
What you and the missus do in private is your own business.
Real chemistry doesn't have any of those collectivist covalent bonds in it.
Gee, the bottom structure- you hydrolyze the two methoxys on the left to hydroxyls, and reduce the methoxy on the bottom to H, and you'd have dopamine.
Ionic, Doric, or Corinthian bonds only!
I guess all that time I spent in d-block really toughened me up, what with hanging out with the transition metals.
[This ] looks like a fun home experiment!
That seems more like concentrating sulfuric acid than making it. One of my BFFs from high school, back when he was about 10, bought flowers of sulfur from the local pharmacy, burned it over a platinum catalyst at low temp to make SO3, then bubbled that into water to make H2SO4. Now that's making sulfuric acid at home. He also got a visit from a detective from the town police, after the pharmacist thought about it. The detective, after seeing my friend's setup and talking with his dad (dad said "what's the problem? He knows what he's doing and is following proper safety precautions") said "Sir, in the future, we'd prefer it if you purchased materials for your son rather than him buying them directly"