I used to live there, and I can honestly say, unless you are a fan of fountains and cool looking but poorly constructed buildings like these while the rest of the city and country have no water or electricity and still live in mud houses, there isn't much reason to be there. Turkmenbashi was bad, and the new guy isn't…

There's an aerospace guy, runs up-ship.com, that makes really nice blue prints of NASA stuff, including the Saturn 5,

The router is Sol, and then each of the computers on the network is named after a planetary body in our solar system based on their size, with then my mobile devices are named after the moons of those planets, also in accordance with size.

Tuz means salt, so it makes sense

Their ships aren't supposed to be organic. If you read the Enderverse literature, from the earliest generation of their ships they are described as sensible spacecraft. The first ones, pre-energy type shields, were mushroom shaped, with big old physical barriers of stone and metal up front, and everything else…

It's Turkmen, not Turkmeni

Yeah, cause in the books it talked about how in larger barracks the curvature would prevent you from seeing the end racks from the door.

My most common tag is tehllama, or variations thereof, which was spawned when I was a young teen that had just been introduced to the internet and Monty Pythons Flying Circus at the same time. My favorite skit was the one about the dangers of llamas, and when typing I commonly would spell the as teh, this as tihs,…