I’ve often wondered exactly how much ended up in coffins after an air crash, where there might be collosal forces involved, through impact, explosion, and fire. Relatives of mine, who used to live near RAF Dallachy during the war, told me that bricks were often used to add some weight to the coffins.
Anyone who has visited a wreck site will appreciate that the human body is so much more frangible than the many thousands of small pieces of alloy, steel, perspex etc, which are left lying around.
I remember reading years ago of the recovery of a WW2 German aircraft (maybe a Me110?), which had crashed vertically from many thousands of feet, and even the ammunition boxes well outboard on the wings were stuffed full of human remains…

Al – you are living in a dream world. 70% of the oil is off Shetland and the last time I was there the last thing the islanders wanted was an autonomous government in Edinburgh. And the majority of Scots know that they are far better off milking London for cash.

Last time I looked at the map, Shetland was in Scottish territorial waters – or is the tectonic drift stronger than I thought?
One thing is for sure – we couldn’t make a worse job of it than Westminster has, and even then, most of their top politicians have been Scots!

1) Scottish independence will never happen, EVER!!
What’s to stop it, if a referendum votes in favour?

2) If you know how Britain negotiates, it does so in a very self interested way, territorial waters will be redrawn from international systems to make most of the oil reserves in British waters.

I’m quite sure all the dirty tricks would come into play from Westminster – governments will do anything they can to protect their vital interests, and I wouldn’t rule out any form of subterfuge. Just look at what happened to poor old Dr Kelly!
But to be forewarned is forearmed…

How come you don’t trust the evidence of past civilizations making pictographs, drawings, cave paintings, and other things representing dinosaur-like creatures, in addition to their “dragon” legends?

Fossilised dinosaur bones have been around throughout man’s history – if they had found the remains of a plesiosaur or pterodactyl, for instance, they might well think it was some kind of dragon.
The ancient Greeks used to dig up mastodon and mammoth bones, and thought they were from human giants, which might have some part in their mythical stories…

I assume you live in that northern region. In that case you may well have the SNP on your ballot paper.

Blimey! I didn’t realise there were any political persuasions on my ballot papers apart from the SNP!

Only 10% of British people will have that choice, when only 10% of voters can vote for a party, they are very insignificant.

We’ll see how insignificant the SNP are after independance, when 92% of past, present and future oil reserves around the UK are actually in Scottish Territorial Waters!

I often wonder if that magnificent generation would have been so eager to fight Nazism in WW2 if they could have forseen how the UK has turned out…

I have cherished memories of many wonderful flights on Nimrods as a passenger, including two long stays in Keflavik. While one crew were away on a mission, I was given the task of visiting the local PX to stock up with food for the Nimrod’s galley for the next day’s ops!