The Science Behind the Bubbly
isabotage3 writes "Here is
everything you need to know about champagne in time for New Year's — From how to maximize your bubbles to why bubbles follow certain patterns and then suddenly change to when the time is right to stop studying your bubbly and drink up."
We British invented Time
You (and the Spanish) invaded countless sovereign nations around the world. Nations where people not only understood the concept of time (perhaps not down to the minute, or by "hours") but in some cases had been tracking celestial bodies for millenniums. And then you told them that they needed to keep time relative to some place they'd never heard of, using your methodology, calendar, etc.
Arrogance is the basic reason your country spent the last 300 years losing most of its "empire" :-)
Please help metamoderate.