More info about both crossings over at Jalopnik, who also have this vid on the crossing from Airbus:

Duval flew a plane that was launched from atop another plane. That hardly counts. You could fly an unpowered glider across the English channel launched from a tow plane.

If it wasn't for the freaky Japanese Pooh Bear lifeboat, I'd have excepted that to be an English Channel rescue.

The weather on this is a long way from what we get advertised as cruises.

Well it's lucky that, like David Mitchell says, a name is just a label and everyone will get used to it. My kids know a girl named "Mustang", which surely would be worse

You're right that sid-knee would be correct.

The masters of spelling a name one way and pronouncing it another are our cousins across the English channel from you. Have you heard of an English TV show called "Keeping up appearances"? The main character is named Hyacinth Bucket, but insists it's pronounced "Bouquet".
>> ^DerHasisttot:

>> I'm not good at transcribing into phonetic language, I admit it :-)

The first syllable sounds like the french "Zut" as in "Zut alors!", the second syllable sounds like the word "neigh". As opposed to a (hopefully) correct pronunciation "Sid-knee".

As Max S. Power (an analyst who worked on nuclear cleanup issues for two decades ), points out, “...in the 1980s, (U.S.) Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment concluded ‘reprocessing’ which generates additional radioactive waste streams and involves operational risks of its own, does not offer advantages that are sufficient to justify its use for waste management reasons alone.’”

According to the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, “Reprocessing is the fundamental link between a nuclear reactor and a plutonium bomb.” The Union of Concerned Scientists has noted that “reprocessing would increase the ease of nuclear proliferation.”

Reprocessing is also responsible for considerable radioactive land and water pollution; for example from the British and French reprocessing operations at Sellafield and La Hague respectively. Originating from Sellafield sources, the Irish sea merits the dubious distinction of being called the most radioactive body of water in the world. The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability says that “France's reprocessing plant at La Hague routinely discharges into the English Channel so-called low-level liquid radioactive waste which has contaminated seas as far away as the Arctic Circle.”

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Looks like that whole "reprocessing" thing you talked about does nothing but create even more waste.

You're honest-to-god equating the "dangers" of solar cell production with nuclear waste.

Why am I not surprised?

Since it's called "Channel Sneakers" I thought it was Celtic too, by way of the English Channel

>> ^EndAll:
Ireland ≠ England


You're correct that Ireland is neither in, nor part of, England. However it's still part of the British Isles.

It can get a little confusing, but breaking it down as follows helps:

Great Britain consists of England, Scotland and Wales. (But neither Northern nor Southern Ireland.)

The United Kingdom includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. (Southern Ireland being an independent country called the Republic of Ireland, also known as Eire.)

The British Isles, however, are made up of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and the several surrounding smaller islands.

So although Ireland is not part of Great Britain it is still part of the British Isles and therefore "British".

I'm not privileged and can't re-add this back into the * British channel, (Not to be confused with the English Channel with the tunnel going under it), so hopefully someone else will.

Sure, the assembly line day laborer may lose his job to the robotic arm, but other jobs will be created to manufacture those arms, write the software for them, service them, etc.

One factory for industrial robots is enough to supply a vast number of regular factories. The whole chain is done in this area, from software development to robot design to robot construction and naturally, it takes less manhours than it saves through increased productivity, or else it wouldn't be done in the first place.

Let's take a look at Volkswagen. Last I heard, they need an increase of 7% in sales just to keep up with rising productivity. 7% more sales or 7% less workers or 7% less wages ... every year. To see the consequences of this, one only needs to take a look at Bremerhaven or any train station along the railroad line from the factories in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig and Hannover (not to mention the ones in southern Germany) to the northern harbours, where the vehicles are brought to be shipped out. Enough bloody cars to fill the English Channel, everywhere you look. That's not sustainable, not in the least. And yet they still want to keep a dying automobile manufacturer (Opel) alive ...

Just a few days, two key railroad switches at Wunstorf were shut down for maintenance, now there are countless car trains stuck at the classification yards, enough to mobilize the whole bloody state. And they are not even back to pre-crisis production levels.

What I'm saying is this: they produce more cars than ever, more than any current market can take, and even though it takes vastly more work to build a modern car than it did 50 years ago, they still need considerably less manhours per car. That includes all the suppliers as well. And they should be damn proud of it, because that's what previous generations worked for. However, it is basically kept alive artificially and has to collapse eventually. That'll be fun. Opel will be the first, 2011 at the latest.

Only completely new areas have the ability to create enough jobs to remotely compensate for the loss caused by increased productivity and saturated markets. Telecommunications was the last one, renewable energy will most likely be the next one.

That said, there will always be endless work that needs to be done, just not jobs that create an income. For instance, the national railroad could use at least the 100k people back they let go over the last 2 decades. Though to get everything done according to regulations, 200k should be a closer bet. But since it's more profitable to cut maintenance personal by another 10%, the status of the infrastructure can only be described as desolate in large parts of the country.

Edit: damn, that's 3/4 just rambling ... sorry.

I love the story of how on the first day of photography with this pig they had a marksman on hand to shoot it down in case it broke free of its moorings. In the end they decided to do a second day of photos but forgot to call the marksman back; the pig broke free and floated into commercial flight paths and all the flights out of Heathrow had to be cancelled.

The pig drifted out over the English Channel but was eventually recovered for another day of photos, eventually leading to the cover of the 'Animals' album, which includes 'Pigs (Three Different Ones)'.

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This video is retarded. The third word of the title is where it started to go wrong.

Tony Blair was as strong an ally as you could hope for. The "liberal" BBC somehow failed to report huge anti war protests.

Russia saved us all from the nazis, with more blood than you can imagine, retard. check the colour of the flag on the Reichstag in 1945. If it wasn't for the english channel and polish pilots we'd also be fucked. You gonna show some respect to Poland? Nah, you don't even know where it is, or what I am talking about, you weren't really in the war at that point right? Oh wait, NONE OF US WERE EVEN FREAKING BORN YET.

and the french don't like other people speaking french, regardless of nationality. deal with it. they are just like that. Napoleon fucked up and they never got over it. Even my best french friends never reply to me in french, and my accent is damn good. i am not american. "europe" is not a country. kthxbye retards.