History, Politics And Current Affairs

Drunknsubmrnr wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2024 5:02 pm

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 4:54 pm Who runs it?



(Don’t let me down)

Top. Men.

Facepalm!!! What the heck is wrong with me? How did I and a few other members of this board totally miss this obvious setup.

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 2:34 pm IMG_9371.jpeg

I prefer an old British friend's version of this. He called July 4th the day we got rid of those smelly tax cheats. laugh.

And another naming convention goes out the window. The only name that has been selected that was lucky was CONSTELLATION. The rest have been fairly undistinguished, if not outright unlucky, which is probably why we haven’t had a LAFAYETTE, CHESAPEAKE or CONGRESS in a long while. Look on the bright ...

Thanks for sharing that. It was nice to read about something positive for a change. I personally am getting sick of the Media almost entirely showing bad news. Or Stories about owning the deplorables\owning the Libtards. If we can occasionally look past the culture wars for a moment I think people m...

Some notes from the post-docking news conference on Starliner: Engineers found a fourth helium leak after capture. The thruster issues were similar to those observed on OFT-2, and are still not fully understood. Did Boeing forget to install fire some bolts dolts? Fix it for you. :lol: :lol:

There's a new rival for the title of most awful portrait. Gina Rinehart has demanded that a portrait of her in Australia's national gallery be removed because it looks awful. I have to agree with her: https://metro.co.uk/2024/05/16/australias-richest-woman-demands-gallery-remove-unflattering-portra...

Ok, good to know. I was hoping there would be an insignia specifically for the use of the King. Whatever rank is maximum and with a spiffy extra crown or something. I think I like that better than the way the US does it. Belushi TD Ok, now I have to know. How does the US do rank badges for Kings?

Successful with propellant transfer, PEZ door opened and closed and Starship made it into it's planned orbit. A lot of big wins today despite the loss of the vehicles during recovery testing. SpaceX was founded 22 - years ago today. 28ju5rxep7d21.jpg #7 Dancing machine, Business magnet. I have to a...

Looks like they lost Starship at almost the very end. Dammit so much. Mike Not wonderful, but unlike the Artemis or the SLS or the Starliner, the purpose of the tests is to fail in new and interesting ways. They'll probably be ready to launch again in 2-3 months, at the most. Another thing is, they...

Does anyone understand the economic motives behind the lurking bot members? I understand the use case for spam bots but IIRC currently we have comparatively few of those. What is the point of having hundreds or even thousands of bot members if they just lurk and don't post or if they do post it is r...

I will add my voice to the others that I really like this version of 'Shogun.


Has anyone here seen the original TV miniseries from 1980? Is it worth seeing or has it aged poorly?

How much of Stuart's work involving Russia is still posted? If there's any of it, it wouldn't surprise me if the bots see russian names, places and so forth and bump it up the logic chain as a good prospect. Belushi TD Everything that wasn't published has been posted. To be fair, that is most of th...

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:38 pm The Fair Melissa has assured me that in the event a woman approaches me wearing a NASA jumpsuit with a nametag that says "Feuchtwanger", I am allowed to at least introduce myself.

There are VERY few things less flattering to a female figure than a Nasa Jumpsuit. Cool yes, flattering NO.

Damn, what level of stupidity does it take to play chicken with another semi-truck? (Let alone in the snow.) I don't think it was a semi truck, was it? I thought it was a snowplow. Distinction without a difference in the situation at hand, I know. No way a car or SUV is going to fare well when offs...

Damn, what level of stupidity does it take to play chicken with another semi-truck? (Let alone in the snow.)

Does this mean it can fire for long enough to 'walk' onto targets ?? Like eg a chain-gun ? That some-what resolves issues of temperature inversions etc that thwarted some of the US' 'pulsed' designs... Umm.. remember the speed of light? There's no benefit to walking in shots with this type of weapo...

Shrug, this is a battery that is powered by radioactive decay. You can't get fallout from it, it isn't going to explode. On the other hand it provides very low levels of power (100 microwatts of power and has a voltage of 3V). You are NOT going to power your cell phone with that. The short version i...

Belushi TD wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 12:53 pm Is it just me, or do most of these summaries read like a precocious high school junior or a standard college freshman wrote them?

Shrug, I have no proof of this but it is certainly possible the article was written by AI.

Why not go the opposite direction with this? Acknowledge the damage to the ship and then use that as an opportunity to talk about how utterly stupid and incompetent the Argentine military must have been if they couldn't stop the British from recovering the Falklands after losing half of their airpow...

If the Waterloo segment is accurate, then I fail to see where his brilliance lies. Attacking an almost equal army, uphill, against prepared positions, seems daft, or I suppose, desperate, since once the Prussians turned up it was game over either way. Shrug, if Napoleon hadn't attacked at Waterloo ...