It's not. It's probably based on the idea that the huge difference in pressure makes liquids boild at much lower temperatures. Again, many don't realize that one atmosphere worth of pressure isn't all that much. A diver experiences higher changes in pressure that that.
Explosive decompression is, like exposure to vacuum, something which has been exaggarated by films and television. That said, I always found it a bit iffy how the mothereffin' huge explosion didn't kill her.
I once captured Berlin in 1938 as Poland whilst allied with Checkoslovakia and Romania. With cavalry. Now granted I don't think we could have held that for very long, but we did manage to annex Germany in Marsch 1940 as UK and France.
But, maybe they don't know how to communicate with us? Maybe the idea of a verbal language based on sequences of noises according to grammatical rules is so bizarre to them they've sent us hundreds of message that sound like little more than cosmic background noise to us. Maybe they don't use...
I certainly do not mean to cause any offense or appear elitist in my views or anything, but anyone who expressed any kind of negative comment whatsoever towards Stephen Fry- get the **** out.
QI is brilliant. Stephen Fry is a genius. End of.
Sweden has conscription, too.
Also, the idea that an all-volunteer army is somehow automatically better is... well, a bit wonky. It's like with cops- you don't want to hire people who enjoy the idea of bullying others, ie they want to be cops.
Me and a friend managed to keep the Russians at bay during the Finnish Winter War in Hearts of Iron 2. By September 1941 Moscow had fallen because the computer still thought Finland was the most important front of the war, at which point we decided we'd won.
This is almost as funny as that letter from a Swedish school warning parents about how their kids like to play "Böghög" or "Gaypile", and how it can be dangerous.
I myself prefer to second, but I certainly consider them both very good movies. Nr 3 was... let's be generous and say 'weak', cause let's face it- it still had Ian McKellen and Partick Stewart in it.