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[grumbler]

On the 48th anniversary of the launch of this mission, I present Apollo 15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=VOOFtYvfRPc

How does one embed a video that can be played from the post?

[Syt]

I don't think the forum software allows it.

[Syt]

Meanwhile, in Austria ....


https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/austrian-athlete-freed-by-kidnapper-after-complimenting-his-orchids-2076339

Austrian Athlete Freed By Kidnapper After Complimenting His Orchids

VIENNA: A young Austrian triathlete kidnapped while riding her bike talked her way to freedom by complimenting her captor's orchids, a police source said Saturday, confirming press reports.

Professional triathlete Nathalie Birli, 27, was struck by a car Tuesday and broke her arm while falling to the ground near Graz in southeastern Austria, the press reports said.

The driver then knocked her out with a piece of wood and took her to his isolated home.

"When I regained consciousness, I was naked and tied up in an armchair in an old house," Birli told the Kronen Zeitung newspaper.

The man forced her to drink alcohol and tried to suffocate her and drown her in a bathtub filled with cold water, Birli said.

However she managed to placate the man by complimenting him on the many orchids growing in his home.

Though he was initially "filled with hate," the man suddenly became "nice to me" and confided that gardening was his passion before opening up about his troubled childhood, she said.

Finally, he agreed to let her go and even took her home, along with her bicycle, which had a GPS system installed in it.

Police used the GPS record to track down the man and arrest him at his house, they said.

The police are now trying to determine if the 33-year-old man, who suffers from psychiatric problems, was involved in any previous kidnappings.

[The Brain]

Did he have Laura's diary?

[Josquius]

The word junta.
Is this pronounced with an English j or a Spanish h-esque j?

[Iormlund]

In Spanish it is hard-j, like the sound you make when you want to spit phlegm.

[ulmont]

The word junta.
Is this pronounced with an English j or a Spanish h-esque j?

Both are accepted in US English but the Spanish j is more common.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junta

[Duque de Bragança]

The word junta.
Is this pronounced with an English j or a Spanish h-esque j?

Zhunta if it's a Portuguese junta.  Otherwise, [ˈxunta] as per IPA rules, i.e Spanish h-esque.

[Admiral Yi]

I just learned today that YouTube has voice activation.

[Tamas]

It feels to me like Austria has a disproportionate number of creeps.

[Eddie Teach]

Is that why you broke up with them?

[frunk]

Quote from an article about a city killing asteroid:

"It's not a Hollywood movie. It is a clear and present danger."

[derspiess]

Why would the Brits have Reagan's Secretary of the Interior on any of their money?

See, I was thinking it was the BrewDog guy

[The Brain]

Quote from an article about a city killing asteroid:

"It's not a Hollywood movie. It is a clear and present danger."

[Tamas]

Quote from an article about a city killing asteroid:

"It's not a Hollywood movie. It is a clear and present danger."