Question of the day

[spkennyuk]

Oh dear. I thought I had got:

• the film
• the location

with:


And with:


But MLS was indeed much more specific.

Sorry! Should had waited for the QM to be clearer.

A spelling nerd writes: MLC

 

[MarkMas]

Im sure it was your turn to set the question MLC !

Apologies to MLC. (And MLS, whoever that is!)

 

[MarkMas]

Knowing the yanks around 100. It was canned by Carter but restarted by Reagan.

Nope. Fewer than that. Although the original order was for 132. I think the project got started during Carter.

 

[DaveT]

Carter ordered 132?

Not peanuts for that lot then...

 

[midlifecrisis]

I don't mind in the slightest and my answer was confirming Mark's.

Your's

MindLessSociopath

 

[spkennyuk]

20 maybe?

Good shout. 2 billion per aircraft including the development costs i would think is in the ball park.

 

[midlifecrisis]

I think I was wrong with my 'modern' American bombers, the B1 is the Lancer, a swing wing B-52 replacement that Reagan resuscitated. The B2 was later with the F-117.

 

[MarkMas]

Good shout. 2 billion per aircraft including the development costs i would think is in the ball park.

I think I'm going to give it to Zag with 20. The final total was 21, as they built 20, and then Clinton for some reason approved the conversion of a test prototype to operational status, which apparently cost $493 million to do.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...e-fleet/217b25a3-3c5e-411d-86c2-a2baf5f2a69a/

Over to @zagatoes30

 

[zagatoes30]

Gee thx

Ok, who discovered or co-discoved the most chemical elements?

 

[allandwf]

I'll say Davy, as he used electrolysis, and is the only one I really remember from years back.

 

[zagatoes30]

I'll say Davy, as he used electrolysis, and is the only one I really remember from years back.

A good guess and he certainly is up there with 6 elements but not top dog

 

[MarkMas]

For some reason Dalton is in my mind....

 

[zagatoes30]

For some reason Dalton is in my mind....

Not in my list, sure your on the same subject?

 

[CatmanV2]

Not in my list, sure your on the same subject?

I'd have to lob in Curie

C

 

[Vampyrebat]

For some reason Dalton is in my mind....

No no................That would have been, Who was the worst 'James Bond' ever?!!

 

[MarkMas]

And the next name my brain is offering is 'Lavoisier', but maybe he was a Bond villain or a chef.....

 

[MarkMas]

Not in my list, sure your on the same subject?

Yup. Turns out that John Dalton was a key figure in 'atomic theory'. Dalton was, apparently, the first to propose (based on experimentation) that each chemical element is composed of atoms of a single, unique type. But he seems not to have actually discovered any elements!

 

[zagatoes30]

Yup. Turns out that John Dalton was a key figure in 'atomic theory'. Dalton was, apparently, the first to propose (based on experimentation) that each chemical element is composed of atoms of a single, unique type. But he seems not to have actually discovered any elements!

Antoine Lavoisier another good call but sadly not, he named Oxygen & Hydrogen, predicted Silicon and proved that Sulphur was an element but didn't actually first discover any. His main input to chemistry was disproving the theory of phlogiston being the element that was present in fire.

 

[zagatoes30]

Maybe a clue many of the elements he discovered only exist for short periods of time

 

[MarkMas]

Maybe a clue many of the elements he discovered only exist for short periods of time

Rutherford?