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> Coalition members included Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America.[160]

Germany and Japan provided financial assistance and donated military hardware, although they did not send direct military…

Shadow Wizard

6:54 PM

@Tinkeringbell nice!

hmm...

> 145 non-hostile deaths

Tinkeringbell

It has a table on casualties too: 146 military casualties for the US, and the second (I find that surprising) is Senegal at 92

Shadow Wizard

I wonder what does it mean?? ^^

Journeyman Geek

'friendly' fire

Shadow Wizard

ohhh

145?? That's crazy.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard All 92 of Senegals military deaths are marked 'accident'.

35 American troops died by friendly fire

@JourneymanGeek Actually, the table only gives 44 for friendly fire, the rest is just marked 'accident'

Journeyman Geek

6:56 PM

vehicles rolling?

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell well, since Senegal troops probably looks physically like Iraqi troops... it might explain this.

Tinkeringbell

> The largest accident among coalition forces happened on 21 March 1991, a Royal Saudi Air Force C-130H crashed in heavy smoke on approach to Ras Al-Mishab Airport, Saudi Arabia. 92 Senegalese soldiers and six Saudi crew members were killed.

Shadow Wizard

oh.. ouch.

Journeyman Geek

or that

Shadow Wizard

Israel also had some huge accident with air carrier, about 70 soldiers killed.

Journeyman Geek

6:57 PM

heavy smoke might have been from oil field fires

Shadow Wizard

(not during any war though)

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard Oh. I was just about to ask as I didn't see it :P

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell it wasn't during the Gulf War, just said it since it's related. :)

(so you couldn't see it)

Let's see if there's a wiki...

Well, of course there is.

Tinkeringbell

I was reading about the oil field fires ;) They were indeed what crashed the plane, @Journeyman. Also.... did anyone of you see in the news how the Swedes are putting out their forest fires?

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell how?

Tinkeringbell

7:03 PM

@ShadowWizard They dropped a bomb on one. The blast temporarily takes away all oxygen and the fire goes out :)

popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a22550688/…

rene

@shog9 there is something off with the synonym from favorite-tags into tag-watching. It looks like Joe Friend created a synonym on Jul, 5th and a last rename was an hour ago but somehow those 426 questions keep the favorite-tags tag. I've edited one question and that got switched to the right tag instantly. Do you or Joe need to push an extra button? (credits for finding goes to @NogShine)

Dragonrage

@Tinkeringbell takes fight fire with fire to a whole new level

Tinkeringbell

@Dragonrage Yep. I personally must admit I am very fond of this approach :)

Just because well... bombs usually aren't a good thing, but this is amazing :D

(and probably cheaper than firefighters)

Dragonrage

just have to make sure everyone is evacuated from the area

Tinkeringbell

I get the impression this was a forest.... and if there's a fire going, I'm pretty sure people will be gone or ... not be leaving anymore

news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/… has a short video ;)

Somewhat Memorable Name

7:16 PM

ja.so gets a Summer (swag) campaign for those users who 1) ask the most questions, 2) answer the most questions, 3) accumulate the most votes on questions, and 4) accumulate the most votes on answers -- within July 30 to August 10!

Shog9

@rene synonym != merge

Tinkeringbell

@SomewhatMemorableName Hmmm... I'd personally never would've put up 1 and 2 as a goal :P But I guess question and answer bans are still a thing, so it shouldn't get too bad.

Somewhat Memorable Name

actually I wondered about that too, oh well... let the gamification begin...

rene

@Shog9 Oh, the existing questions keep the tag until edited. Ok, make sense then.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

The fluid adaptive design is cool, but it gets annoying when I visit a user profile, or get a 404

The damned horizontal scroll bar, I mean

And TBH, 125% or 150% zoom are the best for the eyes, and for the typography

Somewhat Memorable Name

7:26 PM

Em. won the 3rd ELL election, aaand.... look look, who posted the election result? :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@SomewhatMemorableName Oh, oh! I know this one!

Abraham Lincoln

Somewhat Memorable Name

... ( ﾟдﾟ)

canon

7:42 PM

Wait, SE has paid positions? They don't just crowdsource everything?

Mithrandir

...it's a for-profit company

canon

My bad, I forgot my shouty-case context tags, <JOKING> and </JOKING>.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mithrandir Canon is never serious, even when he says "help call the police some animal is terrorizing the neighborhood"

Shadow Wizard

8:18 PM

@Tinkeringbell huh. Smart!

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ he was serious in the past!

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