History, Politics And Current Affairs

Lordroel wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 2:23 pm

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 2:20 pm Well, that would be spoilers!

Well then finish World War III so we can get the answer, unless you go with Book 2, The Second Last War.

Can we just lock him in a room with a computer and keep him there until he finishes this?

Actually it was discovered in 1976 by sonar during a search for an F-4 Phantom that crashed. A DSRV went down for a look and took some photos. https://www.silentservicechallengecoins.com/ss-coin-f1.html The following excerpt is from "Submarine History Archive: On 17 December 1917, USS F-1 (SS-2...

I got the impressions they were acting like it was a betrayal of NHS to ask for help from the private side. Its not just this series but also other things that give me the impression that the needs of NHS might at times come before the needs of the patient.

On a slightly related note, I'm wondering how many Starlink satellites have a national security addon. There was a report that SpaceX was developing a recon satellite that looked like a normal Starlink one. You could insert them with a regular deployment and it would communicate via the standard pr...

The documentary series is available on Amazon Prime and its very good. It shows the good that NHS does. One episode showed surgery for babies that were born normal but with misshapen skulls that as the brain grows it won't fit correctly and will cause damage. How they use computer models to redesign...

I do know of an PC with Windows 2000 that the motherboard fried and they hand built the new PC and cloned the drive. I guess they did it not so much about replacing a $8 million instrument it was attached to the cost and trouble to dig the machine out of the bunker it was built it, replacing it, and...

Weirdly enough I've been world building a large island off Land's End for the past week and I knew there was an alt-fic of one but couldn't remember the name.

Thank you!

jemhouston wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 10:04 pm Someone made the suggestion that it should fly off the JS Kaga. Landing would be a problem due to the lack of arresting gear.


I'm hoping they can do a formation with it, ME-109, FW-190, P-51, and a Spitfire with anything else from WW2 they can get.

A Yak-9?

I'd agree with this if the funding was shifted to maintenance for the Navy, get those ships out of the ditch they're in, but the USAF would do everything in their power to prevent that. I think we need to realize that we can't be the best in everything anymore. The rate of "inflation" for...

Eyes more wonky than usual tonight... I read that as... "They could add more lawyers depending on the need." :roll: :roll: :roll: If you use them as armor, is that bad? Adding them to protest the cancelation is bad. They could also file injunctions to forbid antitank rounds/missiles from ...

I believe the basic armor version of the M8 was airdroppable. They could add more layers depending on the need.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eLOZ15VvI0 Words fail me. :( :x :evil: :evil: :evil: And it looks like they're doing the right thing. Treating the ship correctly. Too big and expensive and complicated to even contemplate as a museum. Stop promoting any delusions about that. Thus it needs disposing...

Oerlikon 35mm can take an incoming AS-4? Nifty!

When is 382 going to be ready?

Most excellent!

BTW... Did anyone hear a bunch of horses whinnying?

https://youtu.be/nx8LjVmoSZk?feature=shared

Just watched it last night. Highly recommended.

Poohbah wrote: ↑Thu Apr 24, 2025 2:46 am I've got a perfect decoy. It weighs the same as an RV, has the same ballistic coefficient, and it generates nuclear yield at end of flight.

I think you could swing that past congress and they would approve it.

Pity there is no will to build a modernized version of Sentinel today.

PAR = Long Range Discrimination Radar
MSR = Aegis Ashore/SPY-7
Spartan = GMD
Sprint = SM-3

Why do some of the PARS have 1 or 2 faces when others, even in the interior have 4?

It would be sweet if one of these passed close to Jupiter and then the sun to get pulled into the system. I think the science people would have gun fights over who go to analyze the first samples. If they have been drifting through the galaxy for a billion years who knows where they've been and what...

Regarding how Capt. Tennant maneuvered HMS Repulse a read that one of the survivors from the range finder, the highest point on the ship, said that the captain was handling her like a destroyer. At some points if they look out to port of starboard they didn't see the horizon, just water.