Youtube comments of vk2ig (@vk2ig).

  1. Priest at funeral: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust ... whales to ecosystems.
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  2. Thanks Mark. Anyone wilfully using Nazi-era symbols is asking to kick an "own goal" when it comes to courting public support. I get that the former Waffen-SS symbol may be coincidentally a symbol representing Ukrainian independence; but using the Black Sun and Swastika is just asking for trouble.
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  3. Another Tirpitz fact: one of the Norwegian resistance radio operators who kept tabs on the Tirpitz and reported her position to the British was Torstein Raaby, who was later the radio operator on Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition.
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  4. There is also a sense of superiority held by some who come to places like Africa and the Middle East. The example in modern history which sticks in my mind is just after the Americans took Baghdad. They were cutting down the statue of Saddam Hussein. The locals all looked on with interest and some sense of joy. Finally, the statue hits the ground and ... a US serviceperson covers it with an American flag. You could see the locals' opinion immediately switch from considering the Americans as liberators to occupiers. That's what a sense of superiority can do.
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  5. Quite a few of them captured in the Northern Desert campaign ended up as POWs in Australia, and were "hired out" to the farmers. And some of them returned as post-war immigrants after arriving home and discovering what a mess Europe had become.
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  6. As an example: one of the Italian machine guns used in the desert had quite an interesting operation. It used a rectangular magazine which was "walked" through the firing mechanism. For each firing, the mechanism extracted the round from the magazine, pushed it into the breech, closed the breech and fired the round, then extracted the empty cartridge case from the breech ... and put it back into the magazine! The gunner's mate had to strip hot empty cartridge cases from the magazine and then load fresh rounds into it. Also, the case would expand in the breech upon firing (too much back pressure) which would cause it to jam ... so the designers put in an oiling mechanism to make the cartridges easier to extract. But in the desert, when the oil mixed with the sand it formed something akin to a grinding paste which locked the case in the breech and sometimes would result in the rear of the case being torn off and rendering the weapon useless until an armourer could remove the rest of the case stuck in the breech.
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  7. I knew a German guy once who had a picture of his father (a fighter pilot in the Luftwaffe) with Göring.
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  8. I don't understand why your comment would attract hatred. It's quite a plausible story, and very thought-provoking: "What if ...?" Thanks for posting.
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  9. "Do you think you're fast enough, bartender?"
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  10.  @dleechristy  The enemy of thy enemy is thy friend ...
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  11.  @BigJon410  You might be surprised: "Hallo, ich bin Herr Ed!"
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  12. Some 76 years after he sent it, I'm reading the US armoured vehicle radio operator's traffic at 5:30: IELD PROMOTIONS BUT Then at 5:42 the camera switches to the whole-of-vehicle shot, so I don't know what was sent between when the close-up ended and this shot commenced: BT T <ERROR> (the eight dots ... it's not hard to make mistakes with one of those keys strapped to your thigh) TO S <BREAK> W The last character is a bit rocky as I didn't get to see if it really was W. It could've been J, P or 1 ... or a punctuation mark or prosign. Edits: I thought about the traffic being sent in the clear and watched the video again. Two things were obvious, viz. that vehicle has wheels so it's not a tank, and the second character being sent is an E not a T. So I assume he would've sent "FIELD", as that word fits in the phrase "FIELD PROMOTIONS".
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  13. "Welcome to the Special Camp!" "Special? What's so special about it?" "We don't serve food at this camp."
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  14. Wife: "Video tapes? Yeah, right. This is the 2020s dear, not the 1990s! Now where are you really going? What's her name, and how long has this been going on?"
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  15. Another consideration is the difference in the average level of education of the German vs Russian soldier, and hence the type of training that can be instilled in such troops.
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  16.  @oldsynner  And lets the viewers know where the evidence is missing, too, so that they may choose not to draw uninformed conclusions as well.
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  17.  @comunistubula4424  You beat me to it - I was going to say the same thing regarding Poland. They certainly didn't cooperate with the Nazis, but ended up "hosting Soviet guests" for many years.
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  18. In 200 metres turn left ... TURN LEFT!
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  19.  @dhowe5180  Quite possibly. It could have been that his family had died during the war, so there was no-one back "home" to contact. Plenty of German men were released from non-Soviet prison camps at war's end and headed home, only to find that home was a heap of rubble and their family was dead long ago.
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  20. In a documentary I saw on TV a long time ago, a British soldier was being interviewed. He said they came across a group of four or five British soldiers whose hands had been tied with barbed wire and had been shot. They were the crew of a Crocodile tank ... the inference was that the Germans soldiers didn't like people who used flamethrowers on them.
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  21. I have an honours degree in electrical engineering and agree with the sentiments expressed here. For example, we were taught how to solve mesh current or node voltage circuit analysis problems by hand with up to three variables, but by rote using Cramer's Rule. We knew why the matrix and vector elements were what they were, and how to find the determinant of the 3x3 matrix, etc, but not the deeper understanding behind the mathematics. Now I think of a mesh current problem such as [Z]•[I]=[V] (solved by computing [I]=[Z]^(-1)•[V], where [Z] is a square matrix of order N, and [I] and [V] are vectors of N elements) as being a transformation of [I] to [V] where the columns of [Z] are the transformed basis vectors from the "I" space to the "V" space. Overall, I am looking forward to what insights this brings to the more advanced methods such as multi-port network analysis, etc.
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  22. "I knew Felton before he was a superstar!" (Apologies to Glen Campbell)
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  23.  @nicktecky55  The press in the UK is something to behold, though. When I lived, there, the Tabloids made or broke people. I guess it hasn't changed much, only maybe the news moves more quickly due to the rapid response of the online media?
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  24. That's a very good question about how a US Officer could have concealed themselves in Von Ribbentrop's personal baggage. On the other hand, an entire US Army platoon could have concealed to themselves in Göring's personal baggage.
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  25.  @535tony  The original Shermans weren't so easy to bail out of if you were the loader. There wasn't a loader's hatch - this was added later. The only way the loader could get out was to reverse the process of getting in: raise the gun as high as it would go, climb over the breech, and then exit via the commander's hatch. If the gun couldn't be raised (e.g. after a hit if the trunnion or elevation gear was distorted), or if the commander couldn't move (incapacitated or hatch was jammed) then that was it for the loader. :(
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  26. Indeed. People should realise that it would be like Allied pilots taking a Brewster Buffalo or a Wirraway trainer out to fight Mitsubishi Zeroes.
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  27. The Allies actually had the Germans fooled with some of their radio broadcasts. They had a station called "Atlantic Sender" which the Germans thought was one of theirs. This was part of the Allies Psy Ops. They'd play music, and read announcements (in German) about the hometowns of U-boat sailors, etc, so there would've been a few Germans who were exposed to music from the Allied side. Apart from that, of course, the German population could've tuned into the BBC or the equivalent to the AFRTS. Even though the very affordable radios available to the public, e.g. Volksempfänger, were a bit deaf (purposely, to keep down costs but the government only wanted the people to listen to German stations) they'd still hear further away after dark with an external antenna. However; listening to foreign stations was a crime in Germany after the war started, so one would've had to be very careful about when to listen, with whom to listen, and to whom to speak about it.
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  28. PFC Jones visiting sick bay: Doc: Jones, no wonder you're sick! You've put on 40 pounds since you were here last! Jones: It's all the good food they're feeding me, doc ...
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  29. I did my engineering course (given by the Mathematics department) on DEs a long time ago, and all I remember is the phrase "taking the D operator". Where you take it, I can't remember ... out the front of the equation, I believe. Anyway, it was so unrelated to anything we were doing in the rest of the course that sadly, we never used any of it. In fact, our electrical engineering lecturers effectively taught us what DE solving we needed to know using other methods. This led to strange anachronisms such as in 3rd year we were taking a mathematics class for solving the wave equation in two dimensions - on the first day I asked the lecturer if we would be looking at three dimensions, because we were already solving DEs in those situations for electromagnetic wave propagation in waveguides. Looking back on it all, I think we were being taught certain things just so the university administrators could tick an accreditation box somewhere saying "Yes, we've taught them how to solve DEs", but there was little or no thought towards how to teach the subjects in an integrated way (pardon the pun).
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  30. @Philo Jones A Wehrmacht veteran who emigrated to Australia and wrote a book about his experiences related how his unit surrendered to the US forces thinking they were safe from the Soviets. They were being held with other Germans POWs surrounded by a ring of US military ... that night they heard lots of machinery noises and wondered what was going on - in the morning they found out: the Americans had left ... and ... instead they were being guarded by the Soviets. The next decade was not a very comfortable one for the veteran or his comrades.
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  31.  @genghishank1  Cap is required to warm up their brain so that it can commencing functioning, I think.
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  32.  @SurferJoe1  They'd also claim that the Nazis were to have used Die Glocke to travel back in time to fetch Nostradamus in order for Hitler to meet him, but Nostradamus was unable to make the rendezvous due to unforeseen circumstances.
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  33.  @NicolaW72  That's the captain getting to spend much more time with his wife ...
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  34. I used to catch the BA LHR - NCL flight many years ago. :) I did a bit of flying from Adelaide to Canberra. One night, I and other passengers around me were convinced the flight attendant announced "Melbourne" just after they closed all the cabin doors. Later in the flight this was confirmed when I asked for a coffee (it helped keep me awake when I landed and had to drive home), and the reply was "Oh, sorry, we don't serve coffee on short flights!" Short flight ... it's an hour and a half! Anyway, the next day I emailed the airline and described what happened - their reply was, "Unfortunately we cannot explain why the cabin crew said 'Melbourne' or why they said they couldn't serve coffee on your service to Canberra." Thanks ...
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  35.  @ruinenlust_  Agree. Resetting the aircraft configuration to some pre-determined condition which doesn't match the mode of flight at the time would be disastrous. Also, there's always a need to conduct maintenance (in this case, a pressurisation run to check for cabin leaks), so there will be a switch somewhere which can be set to a mode which may not normally be used in flight. There's a reason why pilots are the highly trained people they are, and not someone recruited off a park bench somewhere last week - because they know what to do with all the switches and indicators. In this case, someone didn't do the right thing with the switch, and didn't heed the indications that the switch wasn't in the correct position.
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  36. Tea. A British colonel can't possibly go looking for the secrets of the T-54 without a cup of tea beforehand!
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  37. Mark will probably need to rest his mouth for an entire week after forcing himself to say that.
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  38. Or he kept calling on the speaker to surrender.
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  39.  @benmac940  I wouldn't waste too much time debating with a conspiracy theorist. 🙂
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  40.  @frankmiller95  I think Dave is merely beside himself with the thought of hearing more about Albert Göring, and the possibility of Dr Felton reading this comment thread.
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  41. Maybe they really were Nazis who'd disembarked from a U-boat which had sailed up from the secret Antarctic base ... :)
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  42. Yes, it is amazing the twists and turns of the aerial dogfight called life can take.
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  43. And here's the script for that video ... [Intro music] Not many people know of an intriguing spy drama which played out in London during World War Two. A German spy parachuted into England - unfortunately for him and The Third Reich, he was captured and executed at The Tower Of London. [Outro music] Thanks for watching, please subscribe and share. Also visit my audio channel War Stories With Mark Felton. You can also support both of my channels on PayPal and Patreon - details in the description box below.
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  44. Excellent job, Mark! Enjoyed watching this while having a lunchtime cuppa. The airlift was very impressive ... but I was very impressed with many of the individual figures, and especially a German team of 12 unloading 10 tons of coal in 5 minutes and 45 seconds, and a French team building Tegel airport in under 90 days! Dropping chocolate bars to the kids was a great idea. :)
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  45. There was a guy living on the outskirts of the small town I grew up in / near, and he had a Bren Gun Carrier and later added a Ferret Armoured Car.
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  46. Great video, thanks! BTW, Japan was also at war with the Netherlands: seizing the Dutch East Indies colony, sinking Dutch ships, capturing and imprisoning (and executing) Dutch service personnel, and destroying Dutch aircraft (a whole lot of seaplanes were caught at anchor when the Japanese bombed Broome on Australia's northern coast). In return, the Dutch submarines operating out of Fremantle, WA, were busy sinking Japanese shipping.
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  47. It sounded like Dr. Felton was saying "Vulcan" (with a "u") to me - it's the British accent ... which isn't surprising given that he's British.
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  48.  Wild West  One has to ask though, does he get that fired up whenever he flies into any Blue state? If so, then that's a lot of opportunities for a non-sterile cockpit.
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  49. "The sun shines just the same afterwards". And to me, that's the thing that's so hard to process sometimes. The sun can be shining in what would be a nice fine day, then terror and death descends on your life, and then afterwards the sun is shining in a nice fine day ... as if nothing had happened.
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  50.  @michaelomalley1856  Imagine the indigestion! And his mother: "Alexander! Don't you DARE devour another book this late in the afternoon! I've been slaving over a hot stove for hours to cook dinner, and I just will not stand hearing you say you're not hungry again tonight!"
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  51.  @tomhannah3825  During a WW2 remembrance in Australia about twenty years ago, some young Japanese tourists were shocked to learn that their country had been at war with Australia.
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  52.  @riograndedosulball248  It has been coming to light in recent years, though. I knew nothing of this until about five years ago.
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  53. Until I read Antony Beevor's book "Stalingrad", I didn't realise the Italians had fought on the Eastern Front. The book also tells the story of Italian POWs in the USSR.
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  54.  @Eagle_the_18th  It's like that German lady who was a Luftwaffe pilot and ended up running sex shops.
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  55.  @skrimper  Always treat your puppy as if it's loaded - point it into the sand box in order to prevent an unauthorised discharge ...
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  56.  @trooperdgb9722  That's what it was designed for.
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  57. During my career I've had people try the "nothing bad has happened therefore there's no reason to change what we're doing" excuse for not doing anything. My response is "Have you conducted a hazard analysis followed by a risk assessment, and identified if the existing controls mitigate the risk So Far As Reasonably Practicable (SFARP)?", which is the law in my country. One particular case comes to mind, where the response was "We have 1,000 of these out in the field for five years and no-one's dead yet", to which I asked "OK, how many were actually operating for the full five years, as opposed to sitting in storage or powered down, being rotated through the maintenance pipeline, etc?" They couldn't answer that, which immediately blew a hole in their "no accidents in 5,000 operating years" statistic underpinning their safety argument.
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  58. The History Channel? I'd be very sceptical of anything on that channel in recent years.
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  59.  @leprechaunbutreallyjustamidget  Yep. If the records show that the N2 tacho generator on #1 engine on one aircraft has another 12 months left before it goes "out of life", then you can replace a tacho generator on another aircraft and know it's still good for another 12 months.
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  60. I wonder if they would've been allowed into the USSR only 20 years after the war?
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  61.  @annoyed707  LOL! "I am sorry, Comrades OberLeutnant and Feldwebel, but your travel permit is out of date - don't you know there's a war on? Where did you say you were from, again?"
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  62. We certainly are fatter than our grandparents and great-great grandparents - this is very hard to deny when one sees people getting around with guts that arrive somewhere 1 minute before they do.
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  63. Sadly there was an incident in the Iraq War where British armoured vehicles of the Blues and Royals were attacked by two US aircraft from the 190th Fighter Squadron whose pilots didn't see or understand the recognition symbols on the top of the vehicles. What I find incredible is that there are Americans on social media who even today still blame the British troops for the incident.
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  64. Hmmm ... I prefer the current situation where Dr Felton has editorial control over his choice of subjects and his content. Once you accept the master's coin, you become their puppet ...
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  65.  Guy Incognito  Indeed. "Gaul to survive" would've been the situation had they overshot Scotland and landed in France.
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  66.  @speedbird9313  Stop the Steel!
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  67.  @roberthudson1959  That was back then. What about from Vietnam onwards?
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  68. Imagine being a fly on the wall during that conference.
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  69.  @joemama.556  My grandfather lied about his age to get enlisted. He didn't like the Army though, and left as soon as they started demobilising at the end of the war. I've seen a letter from his CO asking the authorities if he has deserted or just gone home like a lot of others, LOL.
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  70.  @uio890138  Saying the Nazis were Socialist due to that word being in their party's full name is like saying the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (a.k.a. North Korea) is a democracy because it has the word "Democratic" in it. Don't fall for the old "But it's in the name, so it must be true" trick! PS: don't believe everything your government (including any President, Republican or Democrat) tells you ...
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  71. I've been told that you can't be sloppy with steam by an elderly friend of mine who started out as an apprentice mechanic in the railways. He told me about a particular articulated locomotive type (Beyer-Garratt) which required a fine touch in maintenance. One of these went out of the shop one day after major overhaul, and a few days later it was back - the crews said it "ran like a dog, and even that's insulting to dogs". The mechanics went over it with a fine-tooth comb and found something (can't remember what, but it was some form of duct/pipe associated with the stack) was out of alignment by 1/4". They re-aligned whatever it was and that fixed the problem. Amazing that the equivalent of about 6mm of misalignment could cause a noticeable degradation in performance.
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  72. @topher nolastname There was a bit of whitewashing Soviet deeds and painting the Germans responsible. For example, it was thought for years that the Germans were responsible for the Katyn massacre. I know people of Polish descent who told me that 20 years ago. Since then the truth has become more widely known - it was the USSR all along.
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  73. And the History Channel version will be: "Did Mark Felton use Die Glocke to travel back in time to interview top Nazis?"
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  74.  @wayneantoniazzi2706  That's the same for Hadrian's Wall - after the Romans departed, over the centuries the locals used the wall materials for building stone fences, churches, etc. Historical artefacts can be preserved only if a civilisation has sufficient resources not to need to recycle said artefacts.
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  75.  @thesteelrodent1796  You beat me to it. There's the risk of a place like this becoming a shrine for the neo-nazis - that would be enough to drive some people towards wanting the building levelled.
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  76.  @raymondtonns2521  These people probably never recover mentally from their wartime experiences.
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  77. So called "Secure VPN" will be quite crackable when the quantum computer arrives. Then we'll see The Great Scurrying-For-Cover as people frantically try to hide their digital pasts, LOL!
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  78. You need to keep an eye on the democracy in which you live ... otherwise you get the situation you have now.
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  79.  @danwilson9530  Great story, thanks for posting. Target fixation is a thing.
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  80.  @beebop9808  And he was Queen Elizabeth II's first prime minister.
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  81.  @muskokamike127  🤣 One of my primary school teachers used to read a book to us for 20 minutes each day. This was to get the class interested in reading - it was a tactic that worked. Each book would take a few weeks to get through. One of those books was Heyerdahl's story of the Kon-Tiki, and I found it absolutely fascinating. I read the book many years later and found it even more so, as I could see the story through more experienced eyes.
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  82. ​ @maxmoore2778 That's what I was thinking - it might help explain why the driver didn't see (or did see but ignored) the maximum weight sign.
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  83.  Jason Voorhees  Who on Earth is Hetler? Were they associated with Hummler, Gearing, and Birmann?
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  84.  @RagingBulCorp  WARNING: TROLL FEEDING PROHIBITED. :-)
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  85.  @SnoopReddogg  Banka Island. The Japanese made them march into the sea and then machine-gunned them from the beach. Vivian Bullwinkle was the sole survivor. She was a LtCol by the time she left the Army.
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  86. I wonder if Radar O'Reilly served in the last few months of WW2 in the Burma campaign - maybe that's where he tuned his ears?
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  87. It really surprises me that someone can doubt that this mine existed. The Germans even built plastic mines for the same reason, but they're more difficult to produce because plastic uses oil as a feedstock and Germany was struggling to get every drop of oil it could. What is it with people on YouTube these days? These mines are documented in books written well before our modern, Internet-fuelled "Age Of The Conspiracy Theory"; so they're not something someone has just dreamed up to get "Likes".
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  88.  @FarbrorBaku  That's a fascinating story about your grandfather ... so much more intriguing than just applying for a visa and boarding an aeroplane. Thanks very much for posting!
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  89. A bit off-topic, but I read a fascinating story about shipwrecked mariners once. A guy who grew up in New Zealand at the beginning of the 20th century went to sail training, and one of the jobs of the training ship was to sail to NZ's sub-Antarctic islands once each year. The crew of boys would repaint the beacons, reload the emergency supply caches, and most importantly look for any shipwreck survivors or retrieve any evidence of survivors having made it ashore.
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  90. It's a worthwhile thing for anyone working in the aviation industry to remember.
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  91.  @johnwright291  "I'm not a conspiracy theory nut" 😂😂😂
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  92. Possibly the Matilda tank may have made a difference in that theatre. But I suspect there was a level of incompetence at various levels in the Empire and Commonwealth forces at the beginning of the war, and sadly (for the troops involved) the only way to remedy that was for those people to make mistakes and either get zapped, captured, or sacked. It's likely that if we'd had Matilda tanks they probably would've been used poorly (if at all) and captured intact for use by the Japanese.
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  93. And yet he lost, as his toys had been taken away from him by the time he died.
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  94. Or "Coal Airways flight 51 ... sorry, Southwest 51, you are clear for takeoff."
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  95. They could've applied the same logic as their Marine and Navy brethren were using in the Pacific to (mostly) good effect - bypass the strongpoints and cut their supply lines. There were Japanese forces left stranded on islands who barely had enough physical strength to surrender by August 1945.
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  96.  @Gamble661  Those kids should have been rewarded for their enterprising spirit in getting the tank going again. :)
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  97. German soldiers in WW2 called their version of the Bazooka the "Stovepipe" (the German word for "stovepipe", that is). In my experience in dealing with military equipment, most users don't call the equipment by its proper name or designation. But they all know what's being referred to when someone mentions a piece of equipment's nickname.
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  98.  @glen.simpson  Excuses, excuses. Why can't you make a video on this subject - who is stopping you? If you can disprove what Dr. Felton says, why not enlighten all of us? Scared of it?
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  99.  @peterkerr4019  Torpedoed despite having hospital ship markings and lit up at night. (The Japanese submarine commander responsible was convicted of war crimes for firing on the survivors of another ship.) The wreck of the AHS Centaur was found in 2009.
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  100. It reminds me of that scene in Das Boot where the submarine is cruising on the surface at night and the officers are relaxing in the wardroom. One of the officers makes a comment about their youngest member (who serves as a training cadre to those who'll listen) as their "Hitler Jugend member". The latter goes red in the face, and the captain orders him to play some music, specifically "The Tipperary song, if you please!" The whole crew sing along to that song, much to the disgust of the young officer.
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  101.  @Tuleyne  And then when they were ready to leave they ran into the icecream counter just before the exit. They had no chance!
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  102.  @waleedghayas9031  My friends and I did that in our undergraduate course. The class was given a list of nearly 100 questions, of which 5 would appear on the end-of-year exam. We were told to split up into groups of our choice, divide up the questions, and teach each other about them. It worked - our group all got High Distinctions or Distinctions for the subject.
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  103.  @CocoCrispy_  It looks like the muzzle break unscrewed off the barrel - at least they didn't need to brake it off ...
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  104. Our local conspiracy theorist claims he knows someone whose grandfather was involved in recovering a "Bell" from Germany at the end of the war, and translated German documents indicate it was developed by the Nazis in an attempt to get ahead of everyone else spraying chemtrails into the upper atmosphere. True story!
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  105.  @chitlitlah  The conductor is the person who touches the pantograph ...
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  106.  @nematolvajkergetok5104  In Australia, I remember people saying they didn't hear about the Japanese bombing Darwin and other northern locations until after the war.
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  107. Fascinating video, thanks Mark. Japanese submarines also launched reconnaissance plane missions over Sydney, NSW, on the east coast of Australia, and did a bit of shelling, too. BTW, regarding the mysteries of WW2 - there are people today using PCs to decrypt German Enigma transmissions which were copied by the Allied intercept stations but never decrypted during or after WW2 (probably due to lack of resources, and being from low-level, not-so-important sources). So new information is emerging all the time.
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  108.  @Fair_dinkum  No, it's not the TARDIS. Dr. Felton has access to the real time machine: Die Glocke.
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  109. The Victoria Cross is fairly minimalist in appearance, but not so much in what it represents.
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  110. Those are terrible memories for a young boy or teenager to bear ... and not easily forgotten, either.
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  111.  @XxBloggs  In Australia, one of the airlines hired in someone from the USA who started a practice of thanking veterans for their service at the beginning of each flight. Clearly this person hadn't consulted anyone who had lived in Australia about this beforehand. The veterans didn't like it, their families didn't like it, the other passengers felt embarrassed for the veterans, and the airline cabin crew didn't like doing it. Thankfully the practice was dropped after it was reported in the media. But certain commentators living in the USA have reacted negatively to that decision - obviously they think their way of doing things is the only way of doing things ... and who gives a damn about what the local people think.
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  112. Sounds like life at a Special Camp in the Soviet Union ...
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  113. Watch the video ... Dr. Felton says it was designed to be the Tiger's nemesis - but the war ended before it could be deployed in combat.
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  114. FVM (FLuoro Vest Man) rides it out like a Boss!
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  115. I liked the pub at Stevenage: "Edward The Confessor", locally known as "Ted The Grass" ...
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  116. Well said. The Queen cannot seen to be declaring a political position, so as you say either every PM gets the Order or none of them get the Order.
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  117.  @daddust  There's a sales slogan: "The Only Rates in the Reich!"
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  118. Or they were widowed after their husbands "volunteered" for pioneering and dangerous missions?
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  119. The moustache is strong on this one ...
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  120. kk ss hallucinate? That would've been useful when studying complex numbers in California in the sixties
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  121.  @toracabey93  I fear that not having any reading comprehension ability is a badge of honour in the modern online society.
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  122. Is that The People's Front Of Judea or The Judean People's Front ...
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  123. It amazes me how many Americans (I mean citizens of the USA by that term) hate the government - despite what it does provide - and also hate each other. By the way people talk to each other, anyone from anywhere else could be forgiven for thinking it was the Balkans just after Yugoslavia disintegrated, or the Middle East.
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  124.  @danielabramson2464  One thing that continually amazes me about that region - how much the people there hate each other. I think the Middle East is the only rival for that status. Years ago I was speaking with someone whose parents had emigrated from the former Yugoslavia - his family had come from Slovenia, and he told me how a great grandfather had been killed by one of the opposing forces in that country, and how his family still remembered it. I was surprised at this, and told him how the Germans had killed one of my great uncles in WW2 but we didn't hold any grudges against the German people - to which he replied "It's different for us. It's very hard to forget a death in the family." With elephantine memories like that, it was no wonder they were at each other's throats in the 1990s!
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  125. The prospect of a "Stalin stunt double" is amusing ...
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  126.  @rainbowseeker5930  Well, he wasn't that loonie ... he just put himself above everyone else, e.g. stealing water to have a wash every evening despite water being one of their most precious commodities. (The other precious commodities were manpower to make the alterations to the aircraft, and cartridges for the Coffman starter.)
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  127.  @nickohare7187  I spent a bit of time along the coast of that part of Egypt, and was also warned about the mine fields. I was told that some of them were "fenced", where the fence consisted of a single strand of wire. Western Geophysical. Was that the same company that was conducting geophysical surveys in the Pacific back in the 70s, and had ships named "Western Endeavour", etc? My uncle was on that ship for a few years.
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  128.  Johan Jacobs  Which is why Prime Minister John Curtin ordered the Australian troops back home to fight the Japanese, instead of giving in to Churchill's demands so they could be wasted in India and Burma, just like they wasted the 8th Division in Malaya. The immediately-previous prime minister, Robert Menzies, would have acquiesced ... in which case I would be typing this in Japanese today instead of English.
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  129.  @brianreddeman951  The USGS would have seismograph recordings (on paper, but quite possibly digitised by now), so you might be in luck. I imagine given how active the San Andreas fault is, they'd have a few seismograph stations in the region.
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  130. There's a few already ... the usual types claiming that Nazis were "left wing" because of the word Socialist in their party name. They're operating from the premise that if they say it often enough people will eventually believe it ...
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  131. Then there's the 1960s replay: "No-one will ever want to see these Doctor Who episodes again ... let's wipe them" ...
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  132.  @kdawson020279  The number of AM carriers heard on 10m from SE Asia these days is phenomenal - they're even on top of the IBP segment so it can be hard to hear the beacons at times. Still, when paths open up the amateur radio signals usually drown out these pirates.
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  133.  @b.griffin317  LOL, that sounds about right. It's the same kind of thing with the Japanese "knee mortar". A mistake in translating the Japanese manual, along with a base plate that looked like it was shaped to fit on one's thigh (it was actually shaped that way to easily anchor into the ground) meant there were a few US servicemen admitted to hospital with compound fractures of the thigh before word got around not to fire the mortar resting on one thigh while kneeling with the other leg ...
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  134. A RAF helicopter crew would've had tea and scones before taking off again. :)
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  135.  @metphmet  The solution space included a number of options: - refuse and attempt to remain in place ... which would've resulted in incarceration and possible death, and repercussions for his family. - refuse and escape, e.g. into the forests (like some others did), and possibly join the resistance ... again, with possible repercussions for his family. - comply (which is what he did). - suicide (which the above three courses of action could have amounted to in certain circumstances anyway), but that's a sin in his religion. - possible other courses of action which I may have missed. However; it's all very well for people to say "he should have done <xxx> or <yyy>" but one wonders what these people would have done had they been in the young Master Ratzinger's place. People are very brave and pious from behind a keyboard, but they'd have no idea of how they'd actually react in such circumstances unless they've been in such circumstances previously.
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  136.  @AtheistOrphan  He burns down one village or burns down one hundred ... he crossed the line when he burned down one.
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  137.  @alexhatfield4448  "Your Honour, we have 952,000 expert witnesses who can testify that the voice you're about to hear is that of Dr. Felton."
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  138. Recently (after first reading it many years ago) I re-read Rogge's book Under Ten Flags, which tells the story of the Atlantis - absolutely fascinating! Two items I found particularly intriguing: the capture of the pessimistic British assessment of the defence of the Far East from the SS Automedon, and the Atlantis spending Christmas on Kerguelen Island. Interesting also that after Germany's defeat, Rogge was not indicted for war crimes due to the favourable testimony from his former captives.
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  139. Sounds like the run-up to 1982, when the taskforce heading to the Falklands didn't have a fleet carrier because they'd all been scrapped.
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  140. There's always someone who wants to put down someone else's effort.
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  141.  @Jreb1865  The rules of English grammar are also a great discriminator when screening job applications. We received well over 50 applications for the last recruitment activity I was involved in. One of the job requirements was "effective written and verbal communications skills", and applications with poor spelling and/or grammar were put aside. Even allowing for deficiencies in schooling, applicants still need to take some pride in their work and also pay some attention to detail, e.g. run the spelling / grammar checker over their application before submitting it. (The other attention-to-detail giveaway is proper abbreviations, especially units of physical quantities.) After all, if we employ these people then I don't want to have to spend my time correcting their work before forwarding it up to senior management or to customers or other stakeholders outside the organisation. I'm paying them to get stuff right, otherwise I should get a cut of their salary!
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  142.  @davidb2206  You sound very bitter and triggered.
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  143. Likewise my first introduction to the Vulcan bomber, although I saw the movie some years before the Falklands. And many years later I had the pleasure of sitting in the cockpit of one of the retired Vulcan bombers.
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  144. They could've borrowed the fly to help resupply the 6th Army.
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  145.  @chiefslinginbeef  How do you stand trail? The only explanation I can think of is where you hike through the woods, and a jury of fellow hikers judges your efforts and informs you of the verdict when you reach the end. You can imagine some of the verdicts: We find you guilty of failing to notice the bear scat just before the summit of the second peak ...
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  146. I bet the Ark has a good rumble every now and then when it detects the nearby swastika.
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  147. It always was a source of macabre amusement for places like East Germany, North Korea, etc - if it's the workers' paradise then why do you need a wall to keep them in?
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  148.  @brick6347  You have probably learnt a lot. But the people in charge in Moscow have learned nothing.
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  149. Compare that with Edmund Hilary in 1953, when George Lowe met him and Tenzing Norgay on the descent: "Well George, we knocked the bloody thing off!"
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  150. I remember COCK LOCK AND LOOK too - there was a button on the side of the SLR which locked the breach open ... handy also when the NCO came around to ensure all weapons were clear at the end of a range shoot, IMT with blanks, etc.
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  151. The designers of the 737 were working on the assumption that they could re-use alarm sounds for different phases of flight because the pilots would be trained and smart enough to realise that this sound on the ground means one thing, and this same sound at a cabin altitude above 10,000 feet means a completely different thing. It's sad that the crew appear not to be knowledgeable enough to pick the difference - again, the aircraft designers would've expected a crew response of "We're not at take-off, we're climbing to cruising altitude - this sound must mean low cabin pressure ..."
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  152. One of the guys Robert Mason flew with in Vietnam - as recounted in his book Chickenhawk - was in flight school in the US during WW2 when one day his whole class was shipped out to glider school. There they were ... flying powered trainers one day, and the next day practicing in gliders. The guy flew a glider onto a battle field in the Pacific, and then went on to fly fighters in Korea and helicopters in Vietnam.
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  153. And concluding with "Thanks for watching, and subscribe and share. You can also watch my other channel at ..."
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  154.  @AtheistOrphan  "Welcome to Earth"
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  155.  Lawnmower American  The US forces deemed many of the US operated or loaned aircraft in Australia uneconomical to repatriate, and many were dumped at sea off the Australian coast.
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  156.  @hootsmon4723  FIAT ... Fix It Again Tony?
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  157.  @Lisandro-ym1sc  I have a question regarding the consistency of your views on this matter: Do you will feel the same about the other countries which have "Antarctic Territories"? (A quick look at a map of Antarctica will show these if you don't know about them.) Do you have a similar view of the various countries which also lay claim to the sub-Antarctic islands? And there's another possibility: are you are objecting to only the British Antarctic Territory, and not the "Antarctic Territories" of any other countries?
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  158. An oldie and a goodie. But it's amazing the number of people then and now who misunderstood the intent of that song.
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  159. My grandfather served in North Africa - not exactly sure where though, as his unit (a Workshop in the Ordnance Corps) was split over a number of locations. His brother was an infantryman - one of the "Rats of Tobruk" - and is still there.
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  160. Ernest Borgnine ... I often wondered if there was any coincidence that one of the characters in Star Trek Voyager was a Borg called Seven of Nine ...
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  161.  @nickohare7187  It is a small world, and especially nowadays with social media platforms! There was an edition of the company magazine which my uncle sent back to my grandmother. In it was a picture of my uncle sitting in front of a multi-channel strip chart recorder. Obviously it was hot on that ship, as he wasn't wearing a shirt! Working for Western Geophysical was life changing for him. He joined in his 20's after a very long recovery from a near-fatal motor vehicle accident. He wrote letters from exotic places like Singapore, which was doubly exciting for me as I collected postage stamps as a kid. One night in Fiji the crew went to a dance, where my uncle met his future wife. He settled down back in Australia after that. Sadly he passed away just over two years ago. PS: I forgot to add, this has a vague reference to Mark Felton's video - my uncle was the son of a Western Desert vet who was eventually declared TPI (Totally & Permanently Incapacitated) due to his military service, and the nephew of another soldier who is buried at Tobruk.
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  162. Or the extra 1.619 km in Europe ...
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  163. I was surprised the Americans didn't put each sarcophagus in a big wooden crate and then store them in a huge warehouse full of similarly-sized wooden crates. "We have top people working on this. Top people ..."
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  164.  @James_BAlert  It was the partisans' way of making Il Duce perform a final interpretative dance.
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  165.  @abrahamlevi3556  Rommel's Asparagus, the Belgians called it.
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  166. About 25 years ago I heard a Rommel story from the grandfather of a friend of mine. He was in the Royal Artillery, and they were overrun by the Italians. The Italians were lining them all up to shoot them, when a German convoy arrived. None other than Rommel appeared, who took the British prisoners off the Italians. Later that day, Rommel's element split from the convoy, and by the next morning the part of the convoy with the British prisoners had been captured by the British. This guy was a POW for one day, lived into his 80s, and was deaf as a post due to his time in the RA ... but if Rommel hadn't arrived that morning there's a fair chance he'd never had made it out of Africa.
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  167.  @gingergamer3270  Qantas has had more than two or three since WW2 (Google is your friend here). Also, the airlines that eventually comprised its domestic arm have had a few hull losses, e.g. VH-TFB and VH-TQQ are just two that come to mind.
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  168. My friend had Belgian Shepherds - very nice dogs. As you say, left to their own devices they would regress. There are wild dogs in the mountains near here - they're descended from Malamutes and similar which escaped from farms many decades ago.
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  169.  @smoshfan439  "These aren't the checklists you're looking for ..."
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  170. Or you get it a couple of hours after visiting Taco Bell in Austria.
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  171. War moves a lot more quickly these days. And are people as resilient nowadays as they were back in the late 30's to mid 40's, after living a very comfy life especially in the last few decades?
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  172.  @stevencooke6451  The Cold War is back. There are some new rules. We'll all get used to them - for those of us who lived during the Cold War, it will be deja vu; for those of us who were born after the Cold War, it will be something new.
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  173.  @ColinH1973  Well said, LOL. This'll get the conspiracy theorists going: I'm guessing she looked like herself ... :D
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  174. "X failed to register: Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
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  175.  @dickdastardly5534  You've got to watch out for gods called Allan ...
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  176. Russian airlines will have a spares shortage until Russian industry can start making reverse-engineering parts.
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  177.  @jaybee9269  The military rarely use direct language to describe their actions. An example that sticks in my mind is one described by a British journalist embedded with the Task Force in the Falklands. When it comes to artillery barrages, he said even the ordinary soldiers used euphemisms, e.g. enemy troops were never described as being shelled - instead, they were "malletted", "brassed up", or "banjoed".
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  178.  @BarrieJudeNorth  Good point - the Americans of the 1940s are not the Americans of the 2020s.
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  179. A real narcissist. Not surprising.
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  180. Even if AerCap (or other companies) get their aircraft back from Russia in good order and condition, this puts excess aircraft on the market, thus driving down leasing prices. That's unless AerCap sends off to long-term storage to wait until the return of the "good times" - in other words, it artificially creates a slight scarcity by limiting supply in order not to drive down prices.
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  181. My grandfather and his two brothers served in WW2 - grandfather somewhere in North Africa, his next brother in Malaya and was captured when Singapore fell, and his youngest brother was a "Rat" at Tobruk ... he's still there. I remembered them at the ANZAC Day dawn service in our small country town.
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  182. A lot of WW2 vets were like that. One of my neighbours had fought on the Kokoda Track in PNG. He told me one day about a Japanese attack that they repelled, but didn't go into a lot of detail. That was the only time he spoke of it.
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  183.  @petershen6924  And the former captain of the Atlantis. I have a copy of his co-authored book Under Ten Flags which is a fascinating "read" - especially how Atlantis captured the SS Automedon and its trove of secret documents. The latter were sent to Japan directly, and influenced the Japanese military's decision to enter the war.
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  184. And might've felt a little bit self-conscious or even embarrassed when someone said "Thank you for your service"?
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  185.  @harsep  No idea about what it's like at Quantas ... But at Qantas (without the "U"), 65 for international operations, but that doesn't apply to domestic operations. There was a court case about it this year when Qantas terminated the employment of an A330 captain because he turned 65.
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  186.  @Idahoguy10157  After yet another unsuccessful patrol where torpedoes went "Thud" against the hull of a Japanese merchantman and they had to surface and sink it with gunfire; USN sub skippers based at Fremantle, Western Australia, test fired a number of torpedoes in a bay using dummy warheads. The torpedomen examined the exploders after the test and found they were deforming and thus not firing. I often wonder about how the BuOrd folks slept at night after learning that ... knowing that their faulty kit, plus inability to act on reports from the field, resulted in so many American lives lost and wasted effort and risks taken. I don't know ... maybe they were busy enjoying their war back in the Lower 48 knowing they were safe, and not having to put their lives on the line using their kit?
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  187. The sun never sets on Dr. Felton's videos - somewhere, someone in the world is watching a Mark Felton video during their day.
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  188. Bob Mason in his book Chickenhawk mentions serving with a UH-1 "slick" pilot who claimed to have flown in the Luftwaffe in WW2. Mason doesn't use real surnames (except his own, and those of famous people) in his book - he called this guy "Gottler". Mason also served with an American who'd flown gliders in the Pacific theatre in WW2, fighters in Korea, and then transitioned to helicopters to fly in Vietnam. That guy's nickname in Chickenhawk was Leese, but I read somewhere his real name was Kees or something similar.
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  189. "I seem to come alive when I am up in the air and looking down at the Earth - I feel like a little god," said Göring. Years later he tried to become a bigger god, both politically and physically.
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  190.  @RCAvhstape  Yes, I have experienced this. I've been to Loch Ness twice and none of my photos turned out!
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  191.  @uingaeoc3905  "The UK has a commonwealth, of which it is now just a single member" - not quite correct. Many of the former British colonies chose to remain in the Commonwealth Of Nations, - typically referred to as The Commonwealth - which consists of 56 member states. The head of The Commonwealth is Queen Elizabeth II. QE II is the head of state of 15 of those member states - the rest are republics or have their own monarch.
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  192. Joe Taylor K1JT won the Nobel Prize for his astrophysics work in co-discovering a new type of pulsar. Unfortunately, much of amateur radio has devolved from a pursuit of scientific and technical knowledge into the mindless espousing of religious mantras. The 5G thing is a case in point: many amateurs who support the claims that 5G has adverse health effects cannot explain how the signals from 5G have enough energy to break covalent bonds and thus trigger cancers. It's up there with the Cross-Field Antenna, the pursuit of the "Holy Grail" perfect "rectangular" filter for SDR, and explanations of how the end-fed half-wave antenna actually works (which ignore a number of fundamental concepts such as conservation of charge, etc). And the amateurs wonder why they're not taken seriously ...
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  193.  @robertwilliamson6121  When it comes to grammar and spelling, social media comments are a race to the bottom ... "I'm too cool for school", and "It's OK being wrong - I went to the 'University Of Life', you know!"
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  194.  @rhysnichols8608  What British air raids in Japan were these? I haven't heard of them - I'd be interested to know.
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  195. Interesting how the working class in post-WWI Germany was the battleground of influence between the Communists and the Nazis.
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  196.  @BeingFireRetardant  Someone sounds a bit triggered LOL.
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  197. Captain: Now that we've sorted out our differences, please read to me the QRH for having been given a black eye by the FO.
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  198. That's as criminal as getting into interpretive dance today.
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  199. Albert, go fourth and multiply ... OK, you can integrate over the entire Gallois field if you really feel you need to ...
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  200.  @monitor1862  It is very interesting to meet such people. I visited the USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor in the early 2000's, and our tour guide had been a Radioman (cannot remember if 1C or 2C) aboard the USS West Virginia on the morning of Dec 7, 1941.
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  201.  @ephektz  Probably no-one hurt him, but it's just a correction of the terminology. Amateur radio operators don't refer to themselves as HAM radio operators, instead Ham Radio Operators (if it needs capitalising) or just ham radio operators. There should be no shame associated with getting something right or pointing out a correction to someone - even if it is increasingly an acceptable (and desirable by some people) societal norm in the West to stuff things up.
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  202. When I was in primary school our year 3 teacher would read a book to us for half an hour each afternoon. (She had it figured out - she did this straight after lunch when we were least able to concentrate on the three R's.) Each book would take a few weeks to get through. One of the books she read to us was The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong. That's when I first heard of The Flying Tigers and how brave they were.
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  203.  @uio890138  The reason why people try to screech this "Nazi = Socialism" line is a poor attempt at demonising anti-"Me! Me! Me!" policies. An example of such policies is subsidised health care. The people who object to a policy like that say it equates to Nazism, but some say it equates to Communism, and some even say that it equates to both (which is hilarious given the differences between the two). But where this argument falls down is an inability to explain why non-Communist and non-Nazi countries have had such a policy in place for years. These are countries in Europe and Scandinavia, and other places like Australia and New Zealand. One has to wonder about the morals and ethics of a person who objects to accessible health care for all people - they clearly are happy to see people suffering unnecessarily, and dying early from preventable diseases.
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  204.  @frankmiller95  As opposed to an otter munster ...
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  205.  @C.Church  You forgot to mention that the "fundies" act as if they failed grade school, e.g. "pillot" instead of pilot.
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  206. If they had any sense when asked, they would claim to have Waldheimer's Disease - named after that famous sufferer, Kurt Waldheim - which is a disease affecting one's memory of what one did between 1939 and 1945.
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  207.  @MarkFeltonProductions  Not as magnificent a name, but RAAF Navigator Don Charlwood recalled in his book No Moon Tonight (about his time with 103 Sqn RAF at Elsham Wolds) how one evening his crew (actually Geoff Madden's crew) shared the transport out to the dispersal bays with a crew led by a pilot with the surname of Burton. Given one of the common phrases at the time for not coming back from an operation was "Gone for a Burton", they quietly joked amongst themselves about how on Earth that crew could survive. Later, Burton's crew told Madden's crew how they'd overheard the latter joking about their potential fate.
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  208. As you suggest, the truth was probably as mundane as stray or feral dogs. During the Italian campaign of WW2, Allied soldiers told how dogs would eat the throats of the dead at night. BTW, nice Known Space reference in your YT user name!
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  209.  @johnepic2422  That's a weird comment. 1951GL said there was a POW camp in the UK, and that camp was used to house the "top" Nazis prisoners (not sure what "top" means, but I guess it might mean the high ranking prisoners). And he said the guards were Polish. Guarding high ranking Nazi prisoners is important - you don't want them escaping.
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  210.  @cockatyusha2359  Someone would've eventually ousted any government led by Chiang Kai-shek and replaced it with a government which redistributed wealth, etc, i.e. Communist.
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  211.  @stevebean1234  It is certainly a bit of a weird debate. I mean, speak to someone from outside the USA and ask how they'd see things, and they'd just go, "The USA did this to us, then did this to us, and finally did this other thing to us." They don't care whether it's Republican or Democrat, they just know it as "American".
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  212.  @ragingrighteously9996  And a really good guidance system that can correct very quickly ... more hamsters running really fast in the wheels that spin the gyros.
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  213. It's sobering that when the USA was facing the prospect of invading the Japanese home islands the American decision makers felt the same: that every Japanese - men, women and children - would fight to the death. So instead of risking 1,000,000 million casualties, the USA chose to use the atomic bomb - twice.
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  214. 4:27 The Tomb Of The Unknown Rapist - quite an apt description given what went on in Berlin and other parts of Germany during and after May 1945.
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  215.  @Nord_Mann  One of those radio operators was Torstein Raaby, who was later the radio operator on Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition.
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  216. Perfect timing ... "What's that ticking noise?"
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  217.  @1pcfred  The Japanese did a pretty good job of bombing Darwin and other places in northern Australia in 1942.
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  218. I used to work in the same building as a lady who looked just like Queen Elizabeth II only 20 years younger. (And it wasn't Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Balmoral, etc ... LOL.)
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  219.  @stevenwiezbicki8894  Same reasons for the Gulf War, etc. Nothing to do with WMDs, because they mysteriously were never found.
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  220.  @archstanton6102  Sledge (or one of his countrymen, possibly Leckie) said it's amazing how an average American teenager can be transformed into a barbarian when faced with the horrors of the Pacific campaign. This is very understandable - those men saw and heard things that for the rest of their lives wished they hadn't.
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  221. The difference between them and you is you can still vote for the government you want, or vote to get rid of the government you don't want. It's up to you to exercise your democratic right.
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  222.  @IvorMektin1701  That would require adhesive hands.
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  223. Dr. Felton has access to Die Glocke and can go anywhere at any time ...
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  224.  @jb6027  Grizzly demise? Is that because someone killed him with their bear hands?
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  225. 30 gallons? These days there would be fuel for an alternate destination, plus reserve, go/no-go decision points, etc, etc. Our grandfathers and great grandfathers were certainly a different breed of people.
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  226.  @moonliteX  Yes, he was claiming that mobile phone transmitters might cause interference to GPS receivers. This is possible if the mobile phone transmitter is spectrally "dirty", or the GPS receiver has poor rejection of out-of-band signals.
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  227. The kernel of truth. (OK, I know it's spelled differently, LOL.)
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  228. My first was a Vickers Wellington bomber. Bit of a complex model for an 11 year old, but I got it built, and a friend showed me how to put the transfers on.
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  229.  @vanstry  I agree with you regarding the potential for interference by a mobile phone transmitter. As a professional radiocommunications engineer with a few decades of experience, it used to surprise me that people don't recognise the potential interference issues of mobile phones in aircraft. Nowadays, noting the lack of experience most people in the electronics industry have with anything related to radio (for example, look at how much radio frequency interference pours out of a typical solar panel inverter or a switch-mode power supply), it doesn't surprise me at all. I've seen plenty of engineers come unstuck, and companies and governments lose lots of money, because people didn't understand the mechanisms by which interference from radio transmitters occurs. Anyway, to further to the points you made: - Just because a receiver is designed to operate at 117, 330, 1500 MHz or some other frequency doesn't mean a nearby transmitter operating at 800 or 1900 MHz won't cause problems. It depends on how susceptible the receiver is to strong out-of-band signals - there are a number of mechanisms by which receivers can suffer interference from non-co-frequency interferers, e.g. poor front-end bandpass filtering, poor IF image rejection, etc. It also depends on how spectrally "dirty" the mobile phone transmitter is - poor output stage filtering can allow appreciable energy on other frequencies to be "unintentionally" emitted by the phone, and increasing the number of phones in the cabin increases the radio frequency noise on a given frequency. - Signals emitted by a mobile phone transmitter can couple into cables within an aircraft. Whether the circuits at each end of the cable can operate properly in the presence of such signals is another issue. That depends on whether EMI/EMC principles were employed when designing the circuit - the designers may have operated on the assumption that there would be no strong radio signals inside the aircraft - put one or more mobile phones in the cabin and that assumption doesn't hold. MIL-STD-461 (in whatever revision it currently is - I used "E" last) is a suitable standard. - Radiation of signals internal to the mobile phone receiver (e.g. heterodyne oscillator, etc) is "a thing". One of the terms for it is "backwave", which comes from the earlier days of radiocommunications. This too can cause problems with radio receivers and other equipment, although arguably often it's not as impactful as the transmitter signal. (This is the principle underlying how the radiofrequency regulator in the UK can track down people who are using TV sets without a licence ... they can even tell whether it's colour or monochrome receiver due to unintentional radiation of the colour-burst signal.) With regard to aircraft accidents, it may be that there have been none due to mobile phones. But airline pilots have reported navigation issues when mobile phones have been used by passengers. I guess those who think mobile phones aren't a problem are willing to tolerate that sort of event ... an event which might just be one of the Swiss cheese holes needing to line up one fateful day.
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  230.  @stevovimy  How do you get to that conclusion, given that Nazism and Social Democrats? American, and Republican voter at that, by any chance? If so, then here's a question: where were you on 1/6?
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  231.  @wuhr2790  Not when they get 199 likes 😂. It's quantity over quality these days ...
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  232. The French were let down by their leaders - who'd never learnt from WWI. I have the impression that French school kids are taught in a similar vein to American school kids when it comes to WW2 history; e.g. Paris was liberated by a French army. What about all the Americans, British, and Canadians that landed on D-Day ... did they have a role in liberating France and enabling the liberation of Paris? French visitors to Australia get quite a shock when they learn Australia was bombed by Japanese forces in WW2 ... often this realisation arises after comments such as "But Australia has never been attacked!" when discussing nuclear tests in French Polynesia and the sinking of Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour. :)
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  233. Saturday night here already ... Australia.
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  234. Or, in Australian speak: "Get off your arse, go downstairs, and have a good perv at the pitot tubes to verify the covers have been removed."
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  235.  @commodoresixfour7478  They wouldn't have been breaking the sound barrier in WW2. 😂
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  236.  @Wollemand  COVID deniers and anti-vaxxers will be on the Endangered Species list soon. In my country, the various state and territory governments say once the vaccination target is reached they'll remove the restrictions. There are predictions of a significant rise in case numbers as the unvaccinated get sick in record numbers. The ICUs in the hospitals won't be able to cope, and the medical staff will have to decide who gets ventilators and who dies - not a nice choice to make. But, the deniers an anti-vaxxers are making their choices right now, and years from now there will be less of them around. I feel sorry for those who want to get vaccinated but cannot due to medical reasons, e.g. allergies, etc.
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  237.  @bob_the_bomb4508  I'm rolling around on the floor laughing at the thought of the Vopos trying to give chase in a Trabant. And I would've loved to have been a passenger in that Porsche 911 ...
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  238. I think there's a transition period. The UK experienced this, when it got rid of the monarchy (The Civil War) and then brought it back (The Restoration). Then over many, many years the country migrated from being a restored monarchy (albeit with an elected house of government, i.e. parliament, or at least The House Of Commons in the UK) to the democracy it is now. The monarchy still plays an important role for many British people, so it will be around for a while. But the average Briton has a say in how their country is run, e.g. deciding on whether to stay or leave the EU is a recent example. So other countries need that transition period too, where they retain their monarchy but they become more and more democratic. The trouble is nowadays some countries are transitioned from monarchy (or dictatorship, or single-party rule as in the case of the USSR) into democracy way too quickly, and the people and the country's institutions aren't ready for it. A country's institutions need time to build governance, i.e. the ability to run the country on behalf of a democratically elected government without engaging in nepotism, fraud and other unethical behaviour. It's a long game, but nowadays not many people (i.e. governments of other, interfering countries) have the patience or farsightedness needed for the long game.
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  239.  @josephpadula2283  Which totally stacks up given what went on near that town a few decades ago.
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  240.  @brianreddeman951  I find those epithets about Poles rather strange - I've not met an allegedly dumb person from Poland yet. Lots of them emigrated to Australia and helped build the country, especially the Snowy Mountains scheme. Some of them had remarkable stories to tell about how they were evicted from their own country because they didn't toe the government line.
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  241. In the second example, the rotated i-hat is in the original j-hat position, so the shear now operates on whatever is in the original j-hat position (i.e. shear operates on the transformed i-hat). The author chose this example to show that, in general, matrix multiplication is not commutative. You could work up another example to show commutativity in a specific case; e.g. scaling by 3 with rotation by +π/2, followed by scaling by 1/3 with rotation by -π/2.
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  242.  @g3monster89  I had that happen in the rain one day on the flight line. Plugged into the side of a DC-9 while we were waiting for the captain to get clearance to start up. The weather meant there were lots of delays, so I was standing there for a while. I said something to my colleague and all of a sudden the cockpit says "Cockpit to Ground - you're on the air!" I wasn't actually going over the air, but the pilot was telling me that the mic switch on my headset was closed - it actually wasn't closed either, but later inspection in the hangar revealed that the waterproof cover over the switch had cracked, and the water shorted the PTT switch contacts. Close call! :D
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  243. That's exactly why the Australian PM, Jack Curtin, refused to allow Churchill to divert the Australian troops returning home from the Middle East to India - he could just see Churchill sacrificing them like he did the Australian 8th Division at Singapore. Instead, those troops went on to fight in New Guinea and helped stopped the Japanese advance there, eventually retaking the island.
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  244.  @SportyMabamba  I have a friend in his 90s who served in the Battle Of The Coral Sea.
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  245. For those wondering why someone from France would join the German army, read The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer. (It's available on-line for free if you can't find a paper copy.) Absolutely fascinating story. After he and his German comrades surrendered to the Allies, during POW processing the British discovered he was from one of the border areas between Germany and France and sent him home. Instead of being imprisoned as a POW, he was forcibly enlisted into the French army for a few years - ironically he even got to participate in the victory parade in Paris, despite fighting on the opposite side.
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  246.  @Zamandu  True. But it's amazing what people will do on a former firing range. I remember one very blatant sign on a range many years ago: "Do Not touch or pick up anything resembling <gave a list of suspicious items, including tin cans> as it may explode and kill you."
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  247. You'd have to be happy with turning away various neo-nazi types who'd come visiting, too.
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  248.  @yesyesyesyes1600  "In Austria (Europe ;) )" - I like! A special hint for our American friends who tend to easily confuse a certain two countries, even tough one is in Europe and the other is in the Pacific ... :)
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  249. "And finally in July, 1947, Błyskawica arrived back in Poland to be used as a training ship ..." No doubt her crew were "sold down the river" by the Allies, and - if "lucky" - spent a number of years as guests of the USSR, just like the other Polish service personnel who returned home after the war.
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  250. ​ @michaeld.williamsiii9026  It's only the USA. Other Western societies aren't doing this.
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  251. ​ @MartineH1  Possibly. But he shouldn't have taken his issues out on someone else.
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  252. In other words: "What goes around comes around ..."
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  253.  @dnomyarnostaw  Agreed. When you read about (or watch) the events at the time and the consequences thereof, you realise these great leaders of the past were just as fallible as the present leaders. Those past leaders did have some masters' tunes to dance to, as do the current leaders. I'm not sure it's Hollywood, as suggested by the conspiracy theorists, but I would say it's the people with the money.
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  254. Said pilot could've helped with the eventual fate of their aircraft: "Here, give me that Very Pistol so I can set fire to my aircraft!"
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  255.  @IrishCarney  The movie was very Hollywood, of course, but it did have the positive result of highlighting one of the important contributions of the USA's indigenous peoples to the war effort. I'd be interested in hearing what Dr. Felton would have to say on this topic.
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  256. The latest album from the Nazi Space Monkees ...
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  257.  @TWCobra  I'm not sure why someone would think Qantas would operate a 737 from Australia to Bangkok - after all, it's a pretty long stretch.
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  258. It happens to a lot of aviators today, too. "Get there-itis" is still very deadly.
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  259. Maybe Heydrich had played the sacrificial pawn in chess against Mueller so often that he decided to try it in real life?
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  260.  @samik83  Or the pilots working for companies that do have 150 page manuals choose to look at them on the ground, instead of allegedly looking at them while they're in the cockpit. The "reading the manual" excuse is pretty funny, given many people have twigged to the most likely reason: they were sleeping.
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  261. Uncle Dolfy: Yes, you are free to do my bidding.
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  262.  @Hectopath2006  I have a thyme machine which lets me get cooking herbs from the future when I run out.
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  263. I visited Pearl Harbor 20 years ago. Before you get on the boat to go to the Memorial, the volunteer guides give a lecture to tell you about the event. Our guide had been a Radioman aboard the USS West Virginia that fateful morning.
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  264.  @ADITADDICTS  Did it go BRRRRRT too?
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  265.  @filanfyretracker  I've only been through Atlanta and DFW a couple of times, but on each occasion the taxiing seemed so long that I wondered if the pilot was just going to drive to our destination instead of flying there.
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  266. Great story, thanks for posting this. And there's always some a***hole in the comments section who posts an "I call BS" response - amazing.
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  267.  @michaelLovesLaw  Adrenalin. It lets you get away from the danger to a safe place so you can lie down and attempt to recover.
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  268.  @AndrewAMartin  Fascinating. I would never had known about this otherwise. Thanks for contributing!
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  269.  @ujiltromm7358  I would also need quite a bit of pressure to blow out a mud wasp nest - the rate at which mud dries in Brisbane is quite phenomenal, especially in summer.
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  270.  @mastergardenerlivingstontr7672  Which son? The one who went to Germany or the one who went to the USSR?
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  271.  @luna_fm  Ants are more legged forces than armed forces - each intact ant has six legs.
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  272.  @Master_Petes_Theater  I think you're arguing with an Orange Man supporter ... :D
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  273. If I looked like Stalin I wouldn't be advertising it after he died, especially given the de-Stalinisation which occurred thereafter.
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  274. I saw 55 gallon drums with German markings on them in Tunisia late in the 1990s.
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  275.  Barry Baz  Agreed. It would be like saying My grandparents lived through two world wars and the response would be You guys ever stop to think perhaps your [sic] giving out too much information?
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  276.  Reza Motori  But he went to the secret Antarctic base on the way there.
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  277.  @BJJISTHEGAYPARTOFMMA  Interesting view. He did start WW2. That sounds fairly "main" in deeds, at least.
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  278.  @oneilluminatus  You jumped on his hand? Why, were you auditioning for the Jabba The Hutt part in a Star Wars sequel?
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  279. Hearsay ... evidence?
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  280. @Advanced Driving Nowhere did I see in the comments from either of those two people you have just criticised any attempt to justify or excuse for what these pilots did. But they both said the pilots didn't deserve to die; which is not the same as saying the pilots don't deserve to be punished. There's a difference ... and written comprehension is a thing.
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  281. Every contract I've ever dealt with in delivering telecommunications infrastructure includes a "force majeure" clause as you describe it. It's up there with the IP clauses, etc, as part of a "standard template" for a contract nowadays.
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  282.  @jamesdellaneve9005  Someone was getting in touch with their inner-bility by not reading the OP's request in full. :)
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  283.  @banditkeef3864  That's an excellent question, and I'd be interested to read an answer which disproves your statement. But I suspect such an answer won't be clear cut. The Korean War and Vietnam War were fought to stop the spread of communism (and thus the influence of China and the USSR) in the Far East. Some argue that this was to protect the USA, but given no ICBMs were installed in North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia it's arguable that there was no real threat to the USA. (The USSR learnt its lesson from the Cuban Missile Crisis that deploying ICBMs outside its territory was a ticket to a lot of trouble.) The Invasion of Iraq was dressed up as protecting freedom ("We have to get those WMDs!") but in reality it was to fought to secure the oil supply for the USA - American presidents know that they don't survive long if the cost of filling a SUV's gas tank rises. Securing the oil supply could be construed as protecting the USA's way of life, and (by a somewhat dubious extension of that) its freedom. Afghanistan was arguably intended to get Osama Bin Laden. But the likelihood of him (and Al Qaeda) being able to launch more attacks on US soil after 9/11 were vanishingly small due to heightened security, awareness, etc. The war achieved the zapping of OBL, but it didn't eliminate Al Qaeda, so that threat - in its post 9/11 context of reduced effectiveness - remains. Finally; it can be easily and successfully argued that maintaining a standing military force is the means of protecting freedom. However; that force doesn't need to go to war to achieve its aims - it just needs to exist and be demonstrably competent.
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  284. The BAT has been around for a long time - it's not news.
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  285.  @rentenfuchs3025  Well it's supposed to be a democracy, and the leading light for peoples around the world: "government of the people, by the people, for the people." If voting out a government that the people don't like doesn't change anything then something is seriously broken.
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  286. A number of them appear on comment sections like this, claiming they're not Nazis and saying that the Nazis are leftists, etc.
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  287.  @cannowuppass8214  Reading your insightful comments brought two sayings to mind: - In democracies, the people get the governments they deserve. - With freedom comes responsibility.
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  288.  @sadigov  There are lots of reasons why parents end up single - it's not always a case of one parent "getting rid of" the other parent.
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  289. I was going to watch it while eating lunch, but after I finished looking for my lunch (someone scrapped my lunch), I found that the computer had been scrapped as well ...
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  290.  @marlejandreau2576  Your second posting - the one describing two instances of empathy juxtaposed with the lack thereof - certainly illustrates why there are people who post on the Internet who clearly don't care about what happens to others, unless it's to one of their family of course. Sadly, I see it a lot coming out of the USA nowadays.
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  291. @Tobbe Häggberg Indeed. Only ever been there once, but I was impressed. Husqvarna, Silva, SKF, ABB, Kockums, Bofors, Saab, Volvo, Ericcson, Scania, Assa Abloy, Electrolux, Hasselblad, Atlas Copco, Sandvik ... just to name some of the manufacturers of gear I've bought or used over the years.
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  292.  @MrShobar  Actually the frequency is determined by the inductance of the coil and the capacitance of the capacitor, i.e.: Fr = 1 / [2π√(LC)] Where Fr = resonant frequency (Hz), L = inductance (H), and C = capacitance (F). Or when using component values typically found in radio circuits: Fr' = 500 / [π√(L'C')] Where Fr' = resonant frequency (MHz), L' = inductance (μH), and C' = capacitance (pF). A reasonable estimate of the inductance of an air-wound coil where the length is much greater than the diameter is given by: L = a²n² / (9a + 10b) Where L = inductance (μH), a = coil radius (inches), and b = coil length (inches).
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  293.  @aksmex2576  I agree. I have no problems with how 2020 affected me, how 2021 is affecting me, or how what I foresee in 2022 will affect me. Things could be a whole lot worse, even if lots of people don't realise that. But I feel for those who are genuinely affected. (The genuinely affected people do not include those whose lifestyles rely on the exploitation of others - those people seem to be the ones complaining the most about the current situation.)
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  294. Or his birth certificate ...
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  295. As was a friend of mine's great uncle. His family too remembers Katyn. Sadly, when he first told me about it, the Soviet involvement hadn't been revealed, so he was blaming the Nazis. At least now he would know the truth.
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  296.  @JoeSmith-cn7ur  Not sure where you're coming from on this one: wi-fi is carried by a radio signal, mobile phones also emit a radio signal. That's how these devices work.
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  297. I've seen plenty of passengers with their devices in "flight mode" and their faces buried 7.5 cm (approximately 3 inches) from the screen while the safety briefing is happening.
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  298.  @aldosigmann419  "And you are, Herr ...?" "Bond. Jakob Bond."
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  299.  @louisavondart9178  Boreham Wood?
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  300. United States Army Air Forces ... which is what Dr Felton called it.
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  301. Saved by the reaction to his fly joke made at the expense of the Luftwaffe ... how ironic.
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  302. Or was it: "But it's a sacrifice that your mother-in-law is willing for me to make." ??
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  303. Congratulations on spelling Ark correctly. The number of people who call it the Arc of the Covenant is just amazing. Maybe they are referring to a storyline in the movie, or the electric discharge that destroyed the lights and generator and went through the nazi soldiers, or the curve of the trajectory taken by the lid before it crashed down again?
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  304.  @raymondtonns2521  As I posted in another comment thread, plenty of POWs were released after the war and headed home, only to find that home was a pile of rubble and their family had died.
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  305. When slowed down it became Chewbacca's dialog?
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  306.  @signat8661  It's quite interesting that England (not the UK) experimented with getting rid of their monarchy as a result of The Civil War, and then brought it back with The Restoration. And over the years, the country (now part of the broader UK) is a healthy democracy with the stabilising presence of the monarch. Australia is a constitutional monarchy. We have a democratically-elected bicameral federal government (and various bicameral and unicameral state and territory governments), but retain the British monarch as ours. We've had a referendum on the subject of becoming a Republic, but that failed. It's said it failed because many Australians are quite fond of Queen Elizabeth II. One wonders what will happen upon the ascent to the throne of King Charles III, but I suspect King William V will be another popular monarch ... so we'll be a constitutional monarchy for a while.
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  307. It's an interesting dynamic between the engineers and technicians. Many technicians believe engineers don't "live in the real world" ... and sadly there are engineers who fit that description. I've worked in both jobs, and as an engineer when I design a procedure one of the first things I do is grab some technicians and have them try it out, redline the procedure, and suggest alternatives to bits they don't like. Sometimes their suggestions are quite valid, other times they're not because there's some deeper physics they don't understand as to why something needs to be the way it's described. But even after trialling a procedure with the technicians, there's very little I can do if other technicians choose not to trust the process and instead decide to short-cut my procedures.
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  308.  @metagen77  We get them here claiming to be from the Tax "Organisation". When I respond "Oh, you mean the Tax Office ... " they hang up. Amazing how they cannot get the name right when they're trying to scam us.
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  309. @Lex Bright Raven I comply with the road rules even though I don't agree with some of them. Should I be despised because of that?
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  310.  @CrazyCannuk804  Actually I wasn't forgetting that at all. I was agreeing with the person who asked what other choices did Master Ratzinger have at the time, the person who in turn was responding to those who said Master Ratzinger should have refused to join up. I and many others are well aware of the tactics used in WW2 vs, say, Operation Desert Storm where precision munitions were used. Perhaps it was be useful for you in future discussions not to forget that fact?
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  311. So that might be "岩だらけの山の高さ...コロラド州" or "Felsiger Berg hoch ... in Colorado".
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  312.  @martijnb5887  You make some interesting points. I believe that it is important for people to remember that a country may remember its past, but it is not its past. The USA of today is not the USA of the 1940s - in many aspects they are chalk and cheese, as the people of today and then act and think differently.
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  313.  @platyhelminthes2877  What happens to the main rotor after these explosive bolts fire? It decouples from the mast, and then what?
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  314.  @TheDaverobinson  The trouble is that the FDR and Stalin were playing the "long game" in WW2, whereas Churchill wasn't. This is understandable, as the British people had been fighting since September 1939 and were totally over the war by the time May 1945 arrived - the last thing anyone on the western side of the English Channel wanted was more war in Europe, and Japan was a long way away so it wasn't going to bomb them ... and in any case the USA was busy smacking seven kinds of crap out of Japan anyway. Still, it's disgusting what happened to all those Polish service personnel. Sometimes I wonder how the people responsible for that decision wanted to be remembered some 70 years after the war - as heroes, villains, or cowards?
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  315. MBGA!!!! Make Balloons Great Again!
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  316. ​ @iprogeny4877  We have some people from the USA who have moved here to Australia. They're also enjoying the safety, the subsidized healthcare, and the ability to own a gun under a licensing scheme that keeps guns out of the hands of the loonies.
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  317. I thought you were going to say something like "The last time I was this early, Sword was the primary personal infantry weapon."
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  318.  @RCAvhstape  Possibly more like Heston tapping out morse code over the net.
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  319. ​ @nickmaguire4914 The practice probably depends on the unit. I suspect that the SAS would break contact because their mission is different to that of the infantry. The infantry were trained to head towards the enemy upon contact, because the enemy were there to be attacked and suppressed, and (theoretically) weren't in the kill zone of the ambush.
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  320. ​ @user-hi5dd5qh9n Port Arthur was the real change. Unsurprisingly the media reported it and people were horrified ... again, unsurprisingly. Likewise with the events at the Lindt cafe and more recently out near Tara. Nowadays it's not so much the media, but also social media - there are plenty of videos coming out of the USA depicting gun violence.
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  321.  @roderickcampbell2105  Punctuation marks can be useful for delineating parenthetical expressions and the like. Use or mis-use of punctuation marks can change the meaning of a piece of text ... poetry or otherwise.
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  322. ​ @TheRoyalNewspaper  Was there a "knee" in the crime rate curve at 9/11? Other things have had a bigger impact, e.g. the GFC saw a lot of people in the USA having their lives turned upside down - that sort of social upheaval would have a bigger detrimental effect on society. If anything, 9/11 brought Americans together and made people more cooperative - it didn't drive them apart. One could argue that the insidious impact of the "War On Terror" may have had an impact, e.g. deaths, injuries (including PTSD), and extended and repeated deployments of service personnel (especially reservists, National Guard) impacting people's lives. But Vietnam (and Korea and WW2 before that) saw similar impacts, but people didn't start shooting each other for trivial reasons afterwards.
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  323. Previously on Nazi Rocket Monkeys ... Fruit fly astronauts: exist Parachute: "Nice flies!"
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  324. Or a small animal or insect.
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  325.  @sk-be8tc  A sniper shooting to 60,000 feet? That's 11.4 miles straight up! And they would need to know about the wind speeds and directions along the bullets trajectory. I know you guys have the 2nd Amendment and all, but that's quite an ask!
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  326.  @erikarneberg11  Interesting how these people are willing to be shills free of charge. I would have thought that if being a shill was a necessity, then it would be better to be a paid shill than an unpaid shill. :D
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  327. @John Cliff And then you need to bury the pizza four times before eating it. I'd hate to think what it would be like straight out of the packet ...
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  328. I'm sure they used rifles, pistols, bayonets, mortars, mountain guns and other weapons as well as bicycles ...
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  329.  @Simon_Nonymous  You've a lot more patience than I would have in trying to convince a "hard over" opinionated poster on social media about a differing point of view. The thing is that the person may be someone who actually holds the beliefs they espouse ... or ... they may be just a troll sitting in the basement at their mother's house, laughing as they lead you on. Either way, engaging with them is a waste of time, IMNSHO. Re Churchill's personal bravery: he demonstrated that during the Boer War.
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  330. Hopefully the organisation wouldn't be that bound by red tape, especially given that the FO was more familiar with the type being flown than the Captain.
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  331.  @TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods  Your comment reminded me about a documentary interview with an American fighter pilot who flew in the Pacific campaign. He recalled attacking a flight of small twin seater Japanese aircraft flying in formation - he shot down all four of them from just below aft of the flight. The last one the gunner (sitting behind the pilot and facing aft) fired at him and wounded him, but shortly after that the American pilot shot the Japanese plane down, but killed the gunner first. The American pilot - some 50 years later - said he still remembers the Japanese gunner's face, and sees him every night just after he falls asleep. Imagine living with that for 50+ years? ☹️
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  332.  @tubbytown6545  A lot of people in the West don't understand how Pahlavi got into power. It was all about oil, of course (how surprising). The British got scared that they were going to lose a massive amount of money because Mossedegh was going to nationalise the oil industry so the average Iranian could share in the benefits of the oil, so the British convinced Eisenhower that this was a problem the USA should help deal with. And the rest, as they say, is history ...
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  333. Especially if it was WW2 paint. And even more so if it was paint on a Nazi secret weapon, or Antarctic base ...
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  334.  @moltderenou  That might explain a lot ... I suspect a lot of people who'd happily marry King Charles III while on overtime pay.
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  335. A chad? Isn't that the little rectangle of cardboard only partially punched out of a voting card in Florida by a retiree, which then allows the Republican Party to go to court to have these accounted for in a disputed election?
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  336. ​ @aaronleverton4221 I remember being told that the life of an SLR barrel was 9 seconds. Everyone was sitting there saying "Rubbish!" and things like that until the corporal said "Think about it!" ... some of us got it and explained it to the others. 😊
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  337. Or "Nicked by the Soviets" even. (Stalin was Georgian.)
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  338.  @TheAllMightyGodofCod  Yep ... certainly not the rotational axis of the Earth. :)
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  339. I've had experience with people like that ... from someone who had 20 years of experience and was telling me at the time that I had only one year of experience. That didn't change the fact that they were wrong in this instance, but they expected immediate compliance ... maybe the captain of this flight was similar?
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  340.  @MrOllimaster  That's the coordinates of one of the bomb craters, thanks.
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  341. Imagine if Hitler hadn't been fixated with Stalingrad and instead just kept part of the 6th Army guarding that flank - the Germans could have succeeded in capturing the Caucasus oilfields and brought the USSR to the negotiating table.
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  342. Agreed. I wouldn't mind it so much if the animals could shoot back.
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  343.  @JD-re3cj  No wonder some people have so much trouble ...
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  344.  @JohnRodriguesPhotographer  "Germans had been killing Americans since 1939." Really? In what way?
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  345. The carriage weighed 60 tons! That's quite a rail loading, even before Goering boarded the train ...
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  346. The envelope was destroyed. The payload wasn't -:you can see it in the video. Sure, the payload would've been damaged upon impacting the water, but that won't stop the intelligence agencies learning a lot about what the balloon was doing and what it can do.
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  347.  @pagodebregaeforro2803  Ryan Michael doesn't sound like what many people would regard a nazi name at all.
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  348. @Ryan Michael Just so that I am clear on your position: is it correct that you would have preferred Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo to have won WW2?
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  349. @Ryan Michael Well at least you are honest about your stance on this issue. There are plenty of your countrymen who take an opposite approach to combatting socialism in the USA by arguing that the word "Nazi" includes "Socialist", and from that they claim that the Nazis were leftists. I suspect that this is an attempt to discredit the Democratic Party and the 46th President of the United States. As for me, I prefer a world not ruled by Nazis or Communists (both systems have succeeded in getting a lot of people killed), noting that I live in one of those so-called "communist" Western World countries that provides subsidised health care to its citizens. The current path of subjugation by China is not really due to the infiltration of communist ideals in Western society. It's more a result of Western greed. Westerners want the latest toys, immediately, and at the cheapest possible price. China saw this desire and stepped up to make itself the world's manufacturing hub to offer all sorts of products quickly and cheaply. The income from this has allowed it to pursue its "Belt and Road Initiative" where it invests in key infrastructure in many Western countries and offers assistance to developing countries. The West got so greedy for "fast and cheap" that it took its eye off the ball after defeating the USSR, and now China - with its much longer term view of world affairs - has the West over a barrel. Edit: correction of grammatical errors.
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  350.  @TheEDFLegacy  Or how the Nazis invented a time machine and went back to assassinate a Pharaoh?
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  351. This globe might be a big wooden crate in a warehouse in Russia somewhere filled with other big wooden crates looking just like it. "We've got top people working on this. Top people."
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  352. Their cover of the Beatles single "Uncle Albert" wasn't bad, either.
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  353. or even associated censors, perhaps?
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  354. The nearest Dr Felton gets to that is the Nazi Space Monkeys :D
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  355. The Luftwaffe's failure to supply the Sixth Army at Stalingrad was the start. Never mind that there was no way the Luftwaffe could've achieved that aim even without the massive logistic stuff-ups, e.g. Luftwaffe personnel directing aircraft loading instead of Wehrmacht personnel, which meant some of the supplies flown into Stalingrad were useless.
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  356. The father of one of my friends at school escaped Hungary as a young man after fighting the Soviet forces. He settled in Australia (for our US colleagues - that's not Austria, LOL). His son gave a talk about it one day at school - it was a fascinating story. Another friend's dad had been a teenager in the Netherlands during the latter part of WW2. They used to play tricks on the German soldiers. The only part he ever spoke about directly was one night he and his friends running across a field with the Germans wildly shooting in all directions trying to hit them.
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  357. The other film to watch is "The War Game". Most people will only want to watch it once ...
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  358. I've had some people tell me that (somehow) the USA knew the Japanese were about to surrender, and therefore dropping the atomic bombs was unnecessary. Whenever I hear this, I ask how did they know? (It's not like Hirohito or Tojo could pick up the phone and discuss it with Truman or Macarthur - there was no "hotline" back in those days.) But none of these people can tell me how the USA were supposed to know - they just repeat the line "It's obvious - they knew!" After I keep asking how the USA would've known at the time (as opposed to after the fact when everyone has 20/20 hindsight), these people resort to the "You wanted A-bombs dropped on them, didn't you!" line ... which is ironic, as I wasn't around at the time (my parents were still young kids and hadn't even met), and all I'm asking for is the proof to back up the assertion these people are making. Clearly they have no evidence to support their claim - it's just what they want to believe.
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  359.  @dawsondetrana5496  High bypass engines are your friend when you live under the flight path. The noisiest thing that used to fly out of the airport I worked on was the BAC 1-11 - we thought the JT8D-powered DC-9s and B-727s at the time were quiet in comparison, LOL.
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  360.  @Eternal_Tech  Or did the investigators figure out the pilots had fallen asleep and the laptop story was a furphy so there was no point looking at the operating system logs ... they got their licences torn up anyway.
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  361.  @cageordie  I live in a rural area under the flight path between two major cities - about 200 km from one of them. We see a procession of jets flying over in any one day (including night time), but only rarely hear them. The ones we hear are those which take off from another city about 35 km away but they're under 10,000 feet when they fly over here.
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  362.  @miguelselemane6233  Kirchdorf is certainly closer to Lewisham than it is to the South Pole ...
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  363. There reason why people want to assume Glenn Miller was wiped out deliberately is because people like to believe in something mysterious. Recently I read an article in which researchers claimed that humans are wired to believe in the mysterious, which is why we're inclined to be religious. Religions are great mysteries. For an example, look no further than Christianity's book, The Bible. In the earlier part there's a great flood, a burning bush, a pillar of fire, an ark which gets carried around and from which the "Power" or "Voice" of God emanates, a sea that parts and lets people cross to safety, an entire city razed and a woman turned into a pillar of salt, a guy called Ezekiel who describes something akin to an aircraft - "I'll have some of whatever he was having, thanks!" - just to name a few instances. In the latter part it's just as good: there's walking on water, turning water into wine, raising people from the dead, feeding thousands with a few loaves and fishes, driving out demons, transfiguring into three entities, disappearing from a tomb, appearing on the road to Emmaus, tongues of fire, and ascending upstairs. We're so wired for believing the mysterious we can't help ourselves. In this modern age, we're only just starting to eclipse our ancestors as the biggest conspiracy theorists to have ever walked the Earth.
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  364.  @ephektz  Well he did say please in his request. I don't see many references by amateur radio operators to themselves as HAM operators, but instead Ham operators - people not familiar with the term might be wondering what HAM stands for, but it's not an acronym for anything. As I said, it doesn't cost much to be correct, and I think that was the intent of the original post. BTW, referring to someone via pejorative terms such as snowflake and goofy does imply some form of disrespect and intention to hurt.
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  365. It's a different euphemism to "Those who slow the march" ...
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  366.  @notmenotme614  "Edward! How DARE you bring that into the house! Take it outside into the yard this very instant!"
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  367. A Study In Scarlet, I think that was the one where Holmes first met Watson?
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  368.  @Dushmann_  You need to look at how socialist societies around the world function, and compare them with the Nazis. And why are you latching onto a simple Yes or No statement about the Nazis resorting to trickery with their name to get people to vote for them? They could've called themselves Liberals or something else and the end result would've been the same due to the combination of what was happening in Germany at the time, and the rise of a leader who told the people what they wanted to hear. (If you want a modern example of this phenomenon, go look at the USA about four years ago.)
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  369. @Maze Maze I thought Al Gore ran YouTube?
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  370.  @jeudieleslavavelasquez8410  Or maybe by the time everyone drank the beer they looked like Hermann?
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  371. Moral of the story: when you bring really nice icecream with you, you get to say a lot longer.
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  372. Increasingly the general public has no idea what shortwave is. About three decades ago many people still knew about it.
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  373.  @simonmcnicholas  My grand uncle (grandfather's brother) was a POW in Changi, also captured when Singapore fell. I only met him once. My father told me that when he came back home in 1945 he was very thin. My grandfather served in North Africa, and my only other grand uncle was KIA at Tobruk.
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  374.  @halibut1249  The look on Göring's face as he hands over his sidearm says it all.
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  375.  @idontcareanymore2754  Add to that the depth at which the plane would've sank, compared to the depth at which the RMS Titanic sank - very difference environments when it comes to corrosion. Also, any fisherman bringing up a war wreck would need to be very wary: how would they know whether the plane they're dredging up has ammunition still onboard, and how stable would that ammunition be?
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  376.  @catprog  True, but many people commenting on the Qantas hull loss reputation choose not to make this important distinction. Whenever I read a statement saying Qantas has never lost a hull, it immediately sews doubt in my mind regarding the commentator's post due to this inaccuracy, i.e. "If they've got this bit wrong that I know about, then what other bits that I don't know about have they got wrong?"
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  377.  @Anmeteor9663  Interesting. Is anyone allowed to possess a handgun in the UK for competition purposes? Here in Australia the gun laws tightened up at the national level after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. Previously the laws were different between states and territories, which made for complications when crossing borders, i.e. what was legal in one place was illegal just over the border. People here can own handguns for competition purposes. They can also own rifles and shotguns for various purposes, ranging from competition through to livelihood (e.g. pest control, farming). All that is needed is a "Valid Reason" and no history of violent offences, etc. The Australian population agreed to the unified gun laws introduced in 1996. We've had 10 federal elections since then and no party seeking to relax the gun laws has gained government or been able to influence the government of the day. The "Shooters Fishers and Farmers" party is probably the main proponent of relaxed gun laws. But its arguments for that are often eroded on a routine basis by headlines from the USA, e.g. what happened in Texas this month.
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  378. He did well not to get shot as a spy.
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  379. Reports say that the 000 Operators did a great job given that the poor 15- year old was very distressed and wasn't quite sure where they were (which is understandable). So glad to hear that things have improved since 2006, when they effectively "hung up" on David Iredale when he got lost out there.
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  380.  @rovercoupe7104  GnawedVPN could be his sponsor?
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  381. It's like a German guy I knew about 40 years ago. He was about 15 years older than me. He admitted once that his father had served in the SS, but was "only a clerk". Another German guy I knew about the same time didn't have anything to hide. His father was a fighter pilot, and had a picture of his father speaking with Göring. His father was killed one night (when this guy was less than a year old) when his sabotaged aircraft exploded not long after take-off. Then you get people like Kurt Waldheim, who famously gave his name to Waldheimer's Disease: that's a forgetfulness disease which renders the sufferer unable to remember what they did between 1939 and 1945 ...
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  382. Thanks for the very interesting video! Could you please do a video on "The Battle Of The Pips", a US Naval engagement in waters off the Aleutian Islands chain during WW2? It wouldn't need to be a very long video. :)
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  383.  @bb5242  The problem within democracies is the attack on self-determination ("government of the people, by the people, for the people") is insidious, e.g. it's like the "boiling frog". You mention the USA and Canada. I can't say much about Canada, but the results of the insidious changes in the USA are now noticeable: 99% of the people effectively live to serve the whims of the top 1%. As for Russia (including its history as a major part of the USSR), there is something about the place which I cannot grasp. Over more than the last 100 years they've had despots or tyrants in charge, whether it be their monarchy, the communists, or the oligarchy. I think the only leader they had who was anywhere near decent was Boris Yeltsin. There are (and have been) plenty of tyrants and despots in Africa - some are/were non-aligned (Mugabe), but ironically others are there to serve their "colonial" masters - whether that master be Russia, USA, or China.
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  384.  @jamesnell1999  Good call. That's the second person I have seen in the comments who has tried blaming a Democrat president and not even gone near the 45th, Mr. Money-Is-Everything-And-If-You-Haven't-Got-It-You're-Worthless himself. Strange ...
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  385. You might be interested in the phenomena of "black reef" where algae react to iron introduced by shipwrecks, etc. An example was Kingman Reef in the Pacific which had a two or three wrecks that were causing black reef. The US government removed the wrecks in an attempt to rehabilitate the reef, and now mariners cannot approach or land on the reef (it's a pile of rocks awash at low tide) without prior permission.
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  386. For us, there is no land beyond the Volga ...
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  387. Not an aircraft story but an example of how small changes have big effects: in a one fleet of steam locomotives in an Australian state government railway (Queensland or NSW, I think), one particular engine was known to be a dog. No-one knew why until someone discovered that the stack was 1/4" out of alignment ...
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  388. We had a Hungarian lecturer at university. He looked like a younger version of Lech Walesa, so we nicknamed him that. He taught statics (an engineering subject) and when he got to the subject of "polar moment of inertia", we jokingly asked if that was like the "Siberian moment of inertia". What we didn't know at that time was these questions were annoying him, and he must've asked the department head what to do about this, who must've replied "Tell the students about your life". So in the next lecture, when he mentioned polar moment of inertia and we asked the same question about Siberia, he wrote "Siberian moment of inertia" on the board in Cyrillic. We asked him about this, and he proceeded to tell us all about his father and grandfather who spent time in the gulag as a guest of the Soviets, how he grew up learning Hungarian and Russian in school, his experiences as a young man studying at university, and how eventually he was booted out of the country. We were absolutely spellbound about this guy's life story. At the end of this fascinating lecture, he said "Now I've told you about the Siberian moment of inertia, we will never need to discuss it ever again, will we!" And we - his students - never, ever mentioned it or asked about it in future lectures.
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  389. Affluent? He's rich?
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  390.  @terraflow__bryanburdo4547  I remember that series ... and I could never understand what the aircrew were saying to each other. When I saw the movie, I could never watch the series again.
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  391.  @skydiverclassc2031  "Hans, I have the parts - now please assemble this Panther tank ..."
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  392. Whenever this story comes up, I wonder how certain people in the USN's BuOrd could look themselves in the mirror of a morning after the US sub skippers based at Fremantle, Western Australia, did their own test firing of torpedoes and recovered the dud exploders to determine why their torpedoes were just going "bonk!" into the side of the Japanese ships instead of exploding.
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  393. For a very long time, too.
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  394. It was Kitchener's policy during the Boer Wars that gave the world the term Concentration Camp.
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  395.  @jacquesmertens3369  You haven't heard of the book and subsequent movie, Bridget Hitler's Diary ?
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  396. The IGM strikes back! "I find your lack of knowledge of history ... disturbing."
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  397.  @Hecatonicosachoron  Hmmm ... oscillating reactions or osculating reactions? 😁
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  398. Thankfully free-to-air TV is an outdated media format, and soon will go the way of the dodo. The owners will have no-one to blame but themselves - they could've improved the quality of how and what they broadcast years ago, but were too rusted on to the idea of telling us viewers what to watch and when. Well, they can cry into their beers nowadays, and if they have a problem with that then they should hunt down their former program directors and discuss it with them. Good riddance, I say.
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  399. 11:52 Kubala [...] questioned Potthast, but it was clear she didn't have any of Himmler's medals worth liberating. She was allowed to go free [...]
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  400. How about the short-lived "Mounted Mice"?
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  401.  @AtheistOrphan  One thing about the Cider Sea - it was easy to drain. They built a dike to isolate it, and then everyone came down to the shore with their pint glasses and helped themselves. I've heard that it took them only one weekend ...
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  402. They needed every bit of firepower they could get at the objective, and leaving that with injured men doesn't achieve that. Also, the likelihood of Argentinian forces patrolling in that area was very low. Instead of projecting power forward to the British beachhead at San Carlos, the Argentinian commanders chose to pull back into defensive positions in the high ground before Stanley - effectively they surrendered the initiative and unwittingly commenced the process of losing the war.
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  403. Ah yes, the infamous "electrical discharge of the covenant" ... subject of the famous Diana Jones movie ...
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  404. The "Keyser Söze" of artefacts.
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  405. Hmmm ... The Great Patriotic Waugh ...
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  406.  @jussim.konttinen4981  It is very smart policy to exploit the divisions maintained in an adversary's society. Hence the support of black liberation movements in places like South Africa, USA, etc, because there were powerful forces within those countries which wanted to maintain the status quo. It's why WASP males get a bit upset with equal opportunity nowadays.
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  407.  @phillarnach9484  Well done on qualifying that comment. Qantas has had plenty of hull losses, just not a jet hull to date.
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  408. @Albert Strauss Not quite true. Many Americans volunteered - they weren't all drafted. (BTW, I'm not from the USA, but I do know this, having talked with US WW2 veterans.) You're shooting yourself in the foot (or in the hand in this case) when you make statements like that.
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  409. This is a Soviet Union "Special Camp" - you shouldn't be eating anyway!
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  410. Not to go "Ka-boom" thankfully ...
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  411. It eventually led to WW2.
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  412.  @daleburrell6273  Do y'all have to holler like that each time y'all answer?
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  413.  @MarkFeltonProductions  I've never seen the film, but I remember first reading the book as a "Reader's Digest Condensed Books" edition. A great read, and at the age I was at the time it had me completely fooled until the author's note at the very end ... a story so well constructed that it seemed very, very plausible. :)
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  414. Or the milkman at Wapping, or something like that.
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  415. That's interesting. It's generally recognised that the Fokker company invented the interrupter gear, although there were patents on other devices invented by others from years before. The story that Fokker himself thought of the invention one evening - and he was so worried that he'd forget the idea overnight that he spent all night at the drawing board putting it down on paper - is just that: a story. The British copied the interrupter gear after recovering samples from shot-down German aircraft.
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  416. That's what I was thinking. The forces would have been much greater than those normally experienced in even a bad landing, and those forces were acting for much longer than they would during a bad landing. Amazing that the nose gear stayed on the aircraft!
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  417. One of them even won the Medal Of Honour at Guadalcanal.
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  418. Yep ... nowadays most folks' guts arrive before they do ... unless they're walking backwards.
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  419.  @marlejandreau2576   Recently I discussed this very phenomenon with an American pilot in the comments section of another aviation video. He didn't want to go into specifics, but he indicated the lack of empathy was encouraged over the last five years by a well known public figure. Your comment also indicates an understanding of a fundamental concept underpinning the virtue of freedom: with freedom comes responsibility.
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  420.  @marlejandreau2576  As you say, your story is still very real in your memory. Trolling your story online is the same as trivialising or dismissing it in real life - I wonder if these people would do that in person? The question of empathy doesn't have a simple answer, I believe. At one end of the spectrum are the super-empathetic, even from a very young age. Then at the opposite end are the people exhibiting evidence of a pathological condition, e.g. psychopaths or sociopaths, and you may well be dealing with such people here, noting that those are extreme cases. Somewhere in between those extreme limits of the empathy spectrum is everyone else, and some of those people migrate along the spectrum with time. There are societal / cultural influences such as the size of the community one lives in (look how a small town reacts to a car accident compared to a suburb in a city somewhere); and desensitisation due to media from movies and the 24 hour news cycle (e.g. a disaster anywhere in the world is reported to everyone nowadays). Migration in the more empathetic direction may come from learned experience, sometimes firsthand, as people mature in their outlook and come to understand the negative impacts of certain events on other people. Thus an event which may have triggered an unempathetic response in their earlier years may trigger the very opposite in their later years.
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  421.  @Immopimmo  "Deer Dr. Felton, please make a video about ..."
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  422.  @morningstar9233  Yep, agreed he needs a rest. Maybe he could produce only every second or third video.
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  423.  @PABeaulieu  Yes, crystal radios will work on shortwave frequencies. My first one I built as a kid worked really well - I could hear five or so medium wave stations during the day, and lots more during the night. Then I tried experimenting with the coil, and wound a version with a set of taps. Using the taps with fewer windings on the coil converted the crystal set from a medium wave receiver to a shortwave receiver - I could hear Voice Of America, BBC, Radio Moscow, Radio Australia, etc, during the day and the night.
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  424. It certainly was a leader in its field back in the day ... but ideology blinded them to the realities of the CCD and hence the digital camera.
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  425. Add to that: -A key to an officer's stateroom. As held by the father of YouTube user "Spike's Pa" - see relevant comments somewhere here.
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  426. Band on the run ...
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  427.  @TyTwoFly  Yes, we are living through history. We're also making it, each in our own way. But compared to the people living in the times Mark Felton tells us about, we've got it very easy. Things could be a lot worse in 2021 than many people realise.
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  428.  @jameschenard7691  2021 is a disaster for some people. You know, they can't go on their overseas holiday, or go to the beach, or go to the nightclub, etc. But at least they're not being rounded up, shipped via railway cattle cars to a camp somewhere, and then gassed. There are some people who are genuinely adversely affected by 2021. Those I feel sorry for. But not the whingers who are just whining about not being able to "do their normal thing".
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  429.  Jerrod Butali  2021 is still a better present than that faced by many people during 1939 - 1945. People nowadays really don't have too much to complain about ... ok, people today do think they have something to complain about, but it's nowhere near as serious as the reasons prevailing during WW2.
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  430.  @freedomisnotnegotiable  Why do you say that? You might be on the way to a much darker time, but not everyone is. Some of us are better prepared, have a better "parachute", than others.
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  431.  @axelpatrickb.pingol3228  Any cipher system that has such a major flaw (in this case, in a single run through a plaintext message, Enigma cannot encipher a plaintext element as itself, i.e. "A" will never be enciphered as "A") will be exploitable, and hence breakable.
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  432.  @77thTrombone  Diffused is what happens after they're "defused" by blowing them up, LOL, as the remnants of the mine are scattered far and wide in the explosion.
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  433.  @harryshuman9637  I am having trouble understanding your comment. No-one in this comment section said they have written a book. Some have said they've read some autobiographies, i.e. life stories written by the people who've lived those lives ... as opposed to biographies, which are life stories written about other people.
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  434.  @johnbondza  Is the name of the person leading the singing Hugh Moore?
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  435. When I worked in the industry it was Pakistan International Airlines having all sorts of accidents on the ground - people being ingested by engines, people being squashed by landing gear during checks, people being cut in half by thrust reversers during servicing, etc. :(
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  436.  @TCArcticWolves  Thank you. That's just what I needed to round out the "Change of basis" episode and this one.
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  437.  @popeyethepirate5473  And the remains of the people who were trapped within it.
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  438.  @SpaceTravel1776  People wouldn't do that nowadays ... too busy watching TikTok videos.
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  439. I'd seriously consider saying "Hey, I need only $5k each week to live in luxury and pay the mortgage - I'll buy war bonds with the remaining $295k and fund another B29 bomber or part of a warship or something."
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  440.  @adammann2246  That's an interesting viewpoint on the modern USA. Plenty of Americans volunteered to serve after 9/11.
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  441.  @thomasdillon7761  And that's why they cannot let just anyone maintain aircraft. Organisations have tried that before - having a few highly skilled people supervising lots of people brought in from other industries (e.g. auto mechanics), and found the quality dropped while the safety risks rose. The comments from certain people in this thread attest to that fact - you cannot have rule-breakers maintaining aircraft if you don't want it to fall out of the sky.
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  442. Things were changing very quickly, and what was left of the German command and control system couldn't provide up-to-date information quickly enough. We have the benefit of looking at things in hindsight, which is not available to those on the ground at the time.
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  443. Imagine putting loudspeakers and voice-modulated lights on 131 and driving around Bovington saying "Exterminate!"
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  444.  @Amaya_  Hyphenated? The OP's grandfather's name was Martin O'Gorman.
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  445.  @barriereid9244  There are still plenty of British and German mines around the El Alamein front line, too. The visitor guidebooks for Egypt warn readers not to entire fenced areas, and to note that the "fence" may consist of a single strand of wire.
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  446. Maus O'Leum?
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  447. Which witch was that?
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  448. Pain ... in both cases.
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  449. Or casting the highest award for bravery from the metal of captured artillery.
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  450.  @davidrenton  The Boar War ... also known as the infamous "Battle Of The Pigs" fought during the Boer War.
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  451. It's really interesting to hear the personal histories of these people. Likewise, around the same time, I was taking a class taught by a Hungarian. One day he stopped lecturing and instead told us the story of his family, how his father and grandfather spent a number of years as guests of the Soviet Union, how they were forced to learn Russian at school as well as Hungarian, and what you had to do to get a good job (i.e. be a member of the Party). He only ever spoke about it once, and I found it absolutely fascinating.
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  452.  @SirAntoniousBlock  Enigma. Mine Detector. Flying in the Battle Of Britain. Just to name some of the contributions. They certainly did their bit!
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  453.  @cerealspiller  "Now, let's drink a toast to the memory of your dearest, late husband ... Oh, I say, he's still here. Harrumph!"
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  454. Probably the same person who did likewise for the Red Baron ... dug him up four times, according to a video by Dr. Felton.
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  455. Depends on where the movie would be made ... there's a risk that it would be depicted as an American ship ...
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  456. ​ @sammalone7881  But at least a severe punishment would keep him off the streets, and law-abiding folks wouldn't get hurt next time this guy doesn't get his way.
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  457.  @gruanger  I'd like to know more about what you're proposing, as @Thomas Mortimore raises some valid points. A cover needs to be out of the way of the pitot tube when the tube is in use. So the cover mechanism needs to survive the highest speed the aircraft is designed to survive. The cover needs to be sufficiently far enough away from the pitot tube to not adversely affect the measurement of dynamic pressure under any angle of attack of the pitot tube with respect to the forward motion of the aircraft within the flight operating envelope. Further, the cover mechanism itself cannot become a hazard giving rise to risk, i.e. it shouldn't ice up, become jammed (possibly due to mud wasp attack), etc. Can you please provide further details about how your proposed design will meet these requirements? (And they're just the requirements I can think of in the time it took to write this comment.) (I don't know about @Thomas Mortimore, but I am an engineer with experience in designing equipment to meet technical integrity requirements, viz. it needs to perform the function it's designed for, it needs to be safe, and it needs to be environmentally compliant.)
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  458. Don't you love data compression techniques these days?
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  459.  @ColinH1973  It's rumoured that after his escape from Berlin, Hitler promoted Johnson (known as Johanssohn or Johanßohn after her disappearance) to the role of chief test pilot of Die Glocke, but further development halted when it was found that Die Glocke was in fact merely a passenger capsule for navigating an interstellar wormhole transport network, and there was no way for the pilot to steer it. This rumour actually inspired the movie Contact, where Jodie Foster's character is based on Johanßohn's body double. Hitler demanded that a body double was used in the actual tests, as he felt Johanßohn was too valuable to lose - especially if the scientists' worst fears were realised where Die Glocke crashed and was stranded forever in hyperspace because it encountered a worm coming the other way.
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  460.  @dash_riprock4227  That's when I remember seeing them too, but on the other side of the Pacific (Australia). They flew black-and-white painted cargo 747s that had the nose hinge upwards for loading/unloading. ISTR one flight each week.
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  461. IIRC, Dr. Felton has produced at least one video on that question.
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  462.  @nizam8674  Yes, indelibly etched in the memory of many people who've not been anywhere near Crotia - massed artillery shelling civilians, snipers picking off unarmed people ... and those were some of the "less horrendous" things we heard about. Some things were so horrendous that they just couldn't be reported in the papers. Terrible events.
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  463. One needs some intelligence to watch a channel like this - it would make too many people's brains hurt ... :)
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  464.  @lambertlum1087  Herod.
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  465. Like what? For people with the attitude that "the umpire / teacher / etc is always wrong and my kid is always right" , it may have been as simple as the umpire making a decision that the guy didn't like.
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  466.  Eamonn Wright  That's amazing - I had not heard of that. I wonder if the British knew they had the information but it wasn't easily accessible due to the impact of the war on the Patents Office, or if they didn't even know they had that information at the time?
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  467.  @ericstapleton9577  I am happy to stand by what I have put on the Internet. Others may not be so happy to own their opinions in years to come, especially, when global opinion changes on certain issues. For example; employers are already looking at the digital pasts of new hires, and increasingly they are implementing social media policies which limit (to some degree) what employees can say online in their own time. There have been cases where employees have been let go because what they've posted online doesn't accord with their employer's publicly stated views on certain matters, or the expected behaviours. We can expect to see cases where people are refused employment with certain organisations based on what they said many years ago. And people won't succeed by trying to use these companies who claim to be able to erase one's digital past - employers will be able to afford to pay investigative organisations who can negate the effects of such erasure attempts.
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  468. It's great that Mark makes that point.
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  469. No no! As someone else posted, it's just leftover furniture that some frustrated IKEA customer couldn't assemble properly.
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  470. Carried via TCP/IP - The Carrier Pigeon / In-flight Protocol.
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  471.  @thejudgmentalcat  And add to that potentially a partner ... they take up a lot of time, too. :)
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  472.  @michaspringphul  Japan wasn't colonised. They also modernised after a couple of centuries of self-imposed isolation when the Americans visited (knock knock, "Hi, we're coming in!") in the mid-1800s.
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  473.  @ls200076  Which really translates to being occupied or being defeated ... and then occupied anyway with even worse consequences. Because there were only two ways out if you couldn't defeat the Japanese: fighting to the death, or surrendering. And surrendering meant being treated worse than dogs because the Japanese felt that surrender was unforgivable. Accordingly, an alliance with Japan was the best of a bad set of alternatives for Thailand. Thailand wasn't presented with a banquet of choices in WW2. ☹️
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  474. I doubt the British people would stand for Carpet-Bowls as their queen. It would be either the beginning of the end of the monarchy, or Charles III would abdicate in no time flat so that Richard IV could ascend the throne.
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  475. That logistics didn't have the timeliness component that mail did. If you're holding two months worth of ink, envelopes, paper, film, etc, and the monthly supply ship gets in three weeks late then that's OK. But if the ship carrying the snail mail arrives three weeks late then that's not OK ... V-mail fixed the timeliness side of it - allowing all those "letters" to be carried very quickly by air; while probably increasing the amount of non-time-critical materiel required to be shipped by surface freight.
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  476. Well ahead of his time in the fashion stakes ...
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  477. I agree that engine icing or being hit with a jettisoned bomb are the simplest and most likely explanations of this mystery. There was a Psy Ops activity - not sure if Miller was involved at all - where music (among other things) was broadcast: a medium wave station in the UK called Soldatensender Calais.
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  478.  @MarkFeltonProductions  Perhaps disable the comments for that one, Mark? Your video will still be well and truly worth watching, that's the main thing.
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  479.  @g8ymw  I had the pleasure of knowing two gentlemen who served in the RAAF on Beaufighters in the Pacific theatre. Sadly both of them have passed - one only this year. There is some debate about the "Whispering Death" name for the Beaufighter - it was said that the Japanese called it that, but there's a suspicion that was made up by a war correspondent.
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  480.  @jeffduncan9140  I was going to say the same thing ... as well as being long videos, there would be many of them. And I shudder to think of the "wars" which would break out in the comments on each video ... it's bad enough now without stirring the pot!
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  481. Wasn't it destroyed in a Luftwaffe bombing raid?
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  482.  @enriqueestebanantoniosuare6414  People were using 10 million mark notes to line their jackets to keep out the cold.
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  483. Please correct me if I have got this wrong, but wasn't a new CO appointed to 2 Para soon after Goose Green - LTCOL David Chaundler?
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  484. Indeed. MacArthur recognised that he needed the Emperor alive and in place in order to pacify Japan - a small tactical trade-off for a great strategic victory.
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  485.  @ruedigerschwarz  A line of that nature features in the movie Battle Of Britain where Göring has been chastising his squadron commanders for not beating the RAF, and then in an attempt to make up to them he asks what they need. Göring goes red in the face and storms off when he hears the answer.
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  486. My great uncle is still at Tobruk. Unfortunately none of my relatives every told me what he was like. He died aged 20.
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  487. @C De Per the words of the commander of the Albigensian Crusade, prior to the massacre at Béziers in 1209, when asked about how to spare the Christians among the inhabitants: "Kill them all - the Lord knows those that are his own."
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  488.  @rovercoupe7104  That documentary "Bloody Foreigners" tells the story of a Polish squadron in the RAF during the Battle Of Britain - talk about over-achievers!
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  489. It seems like everyone back then knew how much work went into producing something, therefore considered everything more valuable than people do now. It's why a lot of stuff was built to be repaired, and was repaired. Nowadays, repairing something seems to be the furtherest thing from anyone's mind.
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  490.  @robinderoos1166  The lesser (choice) of many evils (other, worse outcomes) at the time.
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  491. And no-one has gone to Cuba yet.
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  492. That's quite a story! I wonder what stroke of luck caused him to miss his ship?
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  493.  @madensmith7014  Per another response in this thread, very little top-of-the-line materiel could be spared by Britain for the Pacific theatre. Part of this was the idea that "White Guns" of Singapore would stop a Japanese sea-borne invasion of British Malaya. The Japanese of course did the "judo thing" and came by land down the Peninsula instead. Their decision to do so, as well as attack Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, etc, within hours of each other, was greatly informed by the British assessment of defences in the region! This was more evidence of incompetence: this assessment was inadequately secured for transit aboard the SS Automedon which was captured by the German raider Atlantis. Kapitan-Zur-See Rogge, commanding Atlantis, immediately recognised the value of what he had found, and dispatched this via one of his prize vessels to Japan - his officer trusted with this task also discreetly copied the document and accompanied it across Russia (during the time of the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact) to Berlin. Needless to say the Japanese were astonished at the information in this assessment, and initially wondered if it was true.
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  494.  @tpl608  Yep. The generation who always demanded their parents drop them off or pick them up from school or anywhere else ... instead of catching public transport, riding a bike, or even walking.
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  495.  @wtxrailfan  I have a question for people like that: where were they on 1/6? Were they at the Capitol attempting to save their country, or did they chicken out and expect someone else to do the heavy lifting? These people call themselves patriots ... but it's a good thing that much braver people stood at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.
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  496. Excellent. I'm writing well after you did ...
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  497.  @michaelesposito2629  Interesting. I heard the same thing from an English teacher who was quite an etymologist, having studied Latin, French, and Ancient Greek - if I recall correctly, they also said that the plural of hippopotamus is hippopotami because the word has a Latin root, even though it in turn derived from a Greek word meaning "river horse".
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  498. @Stay EZ My Friends Indeed. Belittling rarely achieves the desired result of educating people and swaying them to one's cause; instead, it runs a high risk of alienating potential allies. In the current times, anyone using the term "I'm woke" in a discussion is a prime example of someone taking the wrong approach.
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  499.  @mdcclxxxi8509  I knew quiet kids like that. Mostly they never said a bad word about anyone, and only said anything if it was worth saying - an admirable trait. And they did well at school, too.
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  500. ​ @Walker-ow7vj  Not to this level it doesn't, at least not in Western societies. Seriously, you need to get out more and see what's happening in the rest of the world.
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  501.  @THIS---GUY  And then a British computer scientist by the name of Tim Berners-Lee working at CERN in the late 80's / early 90's invented HTTP. This, with TCP/IP underpinning it, provides the modern Internet experienced by most people today. It's laughable that people think Al Gore invented the Internet. The only association he has with the Internet would be his namesake, the infamous YouTube Al Gore Rhythm ...
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  502. There's no RAM fitted to the aircraft, so that aspect of stealth is missing.
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  503. Could you please fill in the rest of the story so that some of us readers don't leap to incorrect conclusions?
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  504.  @unlocated7448  Thanks for clarifying that. The number of people who perpetuate this myth that Qantas has never had a hull loss (as opposed to a jet hull loss) is amazing ... it's not like the information is hidden anywhere, they could just Google it - if they wanted to get it right, that is.
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  505.  @teleguy5699  I agree, we (many in the West) have a history of letting go quickly after wars. It always makes me wonder when I hear about peoples who hate each other today, and happily inflict violence on each other, because of a dispute which occurred hundreds of years ago - I have better things to do with my time than hate someone endlessly.
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  506.  @mikesmith-po8nd  Good suggestion. Dr. Felton may not know the answer or have the time, but he might be able to vector the OP to someone else who can help.
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  507.  @peterthayer6238  China read the Western world's greed like a book, and the West is now dancing to its tune. We have no-one to blame but ourselves.
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  508.  @amadeokomnenus1414  That was speer vandalism, I believe.
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  509.  @hermannhoth6518  Cue Raiders Of The Lost Ark theme: That thing belongs in a museum! You belong in a museum!
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  510. Unless the conspiracy theorists are correct and he was taken by the aliens that the Nazis were allegedly in contact with, and travelled at a significant percentage of light speed around the galaxy ... in which case he may be only 65 or so now.
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  511. This video reminded me of the movie Cross Of Iron, in particular the scene where Zoll tries it on with a captured Russian female soldier but loses something very important to him ...
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  512. While such an ending would be well deserved, it would be superfluous.
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  513.  @nineball039  You're setting a very high bar for the person to whom your comment is addressed, LOL!
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  514.  @dazza9326  "You see, son. If she's not good enough for her own family then she's not good enough for you!"
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  515.  @commanderkeen6839  Emperor Qin Shi Huang is the winner though, with his Terracotta Army! 😁
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  516. It was also known as a WALT: Wide Area Levelling Tool.
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  517. Yep, like don't even bother turning up anymore. Anyone who ever abused an official and wonders why amateur sporting leagues cannot get enough officials anymore just needs to look in the mirror for the answer.
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  518.  @lepermunna  Sadly there are 2316 comments as I type. Hopefully I'll find the other parts of this person's multi-part comment and get to read the whole story. As you said, replying to yourself to keep all the parts together and in order is the best way to do it.
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  519. @Robert Stallard Himmler The Holdout?
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  520. I suspect those who survived after the return spent a number of years as guests of the USSR. After all, one can't have people spreading these decadent Western ideals around the place.
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  521. Very interesting. Were you stationed on Fair Isle, or sent out there every now and then to do the maintenance?
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  522. German bombers getting lost at night?
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  523. He was the German commander-in-chief in WW2 ... his poor decisions contributed to Germany's eventual military defeat.
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  524. That's one of the saddest aspects of it, isn't it: someone survives a war - which is one of the most dangerous environments known to man - and then dies back home through no fault of their own, all due to the irresponsibility of someone doing something stupid like drink-driving.
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  525.  @Jermster_91  Yep, zaps the germs before they zap you.
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  526. I'm sure Elvis has been seen in Paraguay, too!
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  527. The Berchtesgaden Wives
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  528. I cannot see Dr. Felton selling out like that. Can you even begin to imagine him letting someone else dictate the editorial content of his videos?
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  529.  @IronGolem2009  We haven't owned a TV since all the stations went digital here in Australia. Everyone watches stuff on their device these days. Not watching TV - and thus denying their advertisers' access to my family's disposable income - feels like a great "up yours" to all the TV station program directors of the past who used to dictate what we could and couldn't watch. Absolute power corrupts, and those program directors used to drink their own bathwater.
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  530.  @peterlyons8793  Unfortunately that campaign has resulted in deaths of non-combatants. But I was wondering why your post suggested the country should be bombed further? Why not just leave them alone?
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  531. That's a shame that Captain Francki ended up that way. I wonder if he could've served in the RAN if he was offered the opportunity?
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  532. Niven starred in some wartime films. The Way Ahead was one.
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  533.  @windbreaker57  And especially if they get married on overtime pay!
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  534.  @ehombane  It was 60,000 feet up. The electronics will be fine - they'll be recovered within a few days, cleaned off and dried (it's a lot more involved than I am saying here), and it's not hard to restore that if it's just to be powered up to see what it did.
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  535. Some young blokes staying in a hotel I was at had a "cracking evening" - one of them woke up to find a No Parking sign, including pole and concrete base, lying outside his room. Unfortunately for them, the hotelier didn't see the funny side of it and they were all kicked out the next day.
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  536.  @timsytanker  Or the Banka Island massacre where they made the shipwrecked Australian nurses march into the sea and then machine gunned them?
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  537. It was being controlled by AI, thus it could change altitude to take advantage of favourable winds.
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  538.  @BenKlassen1  Now there's a pretty impressive back pedal, LOL!
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  539.  @jansix4287  That reminds me of a British tabloid press headline in the mid-90s when they were agitating for the UK to leave the EU. "The last time Britain went into Europe successfully was 6th June 1944." :D
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  540.  @TheAllMightyGodofCod  Yes, I know that, and have done for years. But I suspect you have only discovered this fact a few days ago.
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  541.  @johnnyreb3542  You're missing the point of the OP's comment: why would the holders of that sword send it to the Smithsonian when they can sell it?
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  542. What you say makes sense. But this is YouTube - the domain of confusion between we're / where / were, your / you're, its / it's, and possessive and plural forms.
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  543. The Pacific is like that. There are places there which were pivotal in that campaign in WW2, but nowadays are forgotten. With the island hopping nature of the campaign, today's bloody battle field would become a backwater in a few months time, and not even warrant visits by ships or aircraft because the campaign had moved on.
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  544. ​ @happity  If a large mocha frappe isn't the answer then they're done for.
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  545.  @whiddenm  A very British sense of humour, too. :)
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  546.  @paultapner1896  Last time we were texted due to an emergency (chemical fire causing toxic smoke and fumes over the city), the spelling and grammar was so bad that many people thought it was a prank and ignored the message - it looked like some backwards-cap-wearing, "Boyz In Da Hood", Gangsta Rappa wrote it. The government said they took that criticism on board ... but we've not had any events since warranting text messages, so there's no telling if they'll get it right or not next time.
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  547.  @David-yo5ws  The shadow on the footpath portrays The Final Selfie ...
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  548. It might help them realise what a huge responsibility the Presidency really is.
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  549.  @julianrenardy4398  Thyme machine
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  550.  @GruntTV1776  LOL yes! He needs to turn out a whole series of videos about Die Glocke, and do a few more about secret Nazi bases on the Moon. And of course the Nazi space monkeys ...
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  551.  @MisterMister5893  UFO = Uninformed Flakey Observer.
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  552. My grandmother was the wife of a soldier who returned from North Africa as a TPI; and the sister-in-law of two others: one who was imprisoned by the Japanese in Malaya, and another who never returned from Tobruk. The only thing she ever said about the war was this: "You would dread the telegram boy turning into the top of the street ... and a damn lot of people in our street got telegrams!" She died only a week or so before Hirohito.
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  553.  @TheLurker1647  The other advantage of our leaders having experienced war is they won't be so quick to engage in it without seriously considering the consequences first. Someone who hasn't served and hasn't fought won't have the same reservations as someone who has ... after all, they're sending someone else to die, not themselves or their kids.
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  554. Given the previous posts detailing the military experiences of the WW2 leaders (FDR being a natural exclusion of course for very real and obvious reasons), your comment isn't correct about that particular cohort. But you're right about many leaders in recent years, after all the ex-WW2 service personnel leaders died off - I can think of a few in the Western world other than the obvious example of JFK. Most of the "political class" in the West nowadays haven't served in the military let alone experienced a deployment let alone experienced combat. It is those people who should be forced to "lead" the troops from the very front - of course, that's highly unlikely, but I wonder how they'd feel if their own son or daughter was in uniform and in harm's way? But the likelihood of their own relatives being adversely affected is very low, because none of them serve either ...
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  555.  @Dave_Sisson  I heard that Japanese submarines also laid mines around the Australian coast.
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  556. Some commentators are saying it's a '34.
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  557.  @Ndlanding  Australia, like other parts of the British Empire (as it was at the time), were major suppliers of men and materiel to Great Britain in its fight against the Axis powers, Germany in particular. Much of this aid flowed via ship, and the commerce raider Pinguin not only sank ships by gunfire but also by laying mines.
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  558. Lots.
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  559.  @apoorhorseabusedbycenk  The top people in the USSR would have had no choice if the Germans cut the oil supply from the Caucasus. The lack of oil would have meant that the USSR would not have been able to withstand the German military, and would be forced to either surrender or negotiate. As you say, the top people would not give up their power, so they would have negotiated so as not to be forced to surrender.
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  560.  @bipolatelly9806  Yep ... flying a UFO without any identification markings, or lights at night, etc, etc.
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  561.  @mephisto5856  Somewhat off topic: your name is painted on the German WW1 tank captured by the Australians in France. It's on show at the Queensland Museum, in Brisbane, Australia.
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  562.  @samik83  Pretty simple solution - stop working for that company, and work for one which let's them have a personal schedule which doesn't adversely impact their ability to fly the aircraft like they're supposed to.
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  563. And Michael Caine himself had a body double who was killed in that same film ...
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  564. Ah, but as a species we so love to believe in conspiracies ... "Hey, I've got a secret!"
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  565.  @JohnDoe-bd5sz  The solution of keeping the pitot tubes constantly heated requires power on the aircraft. If it's sitting on the ground for a while then it won't necessarily be powered up, even from a ground power unit.
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  566.  @wilsjane  What's the solution at some of the bases where I worked where ground power wasn't available at each parking spot, or the compass swing bay was used to park aircraft? How are the pitot tubes kept heated to, say, 40°C under such conditions?
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  567. Many kids nowadays are not taught to write in cursive. It looks like some sort of code when they see it. :)
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  568. 600 ft ascent out of San Carlos. The British didn't land at Port Stanley - they landed on the western side of East Falkland.
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  569.  @Torgo1001  The crowds would have to be content with hanging the urn containing his ashes upside down instead.
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  570.  @daddyshrek2295  Actually there was a bit if dyslexia creeping in. It was actually an unclear program. Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac? He lies awake at night wondering if there is a dog ...
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  571. ​ @NovusRex1788 In 96 it was said that the hardware stores ran out of 4" and 6" PVC conduit and end caps ...
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  572.  @bush1701  Yep, the race to the atomic bomb ...
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  573.  @xiaoka  I'm looking forward to the Halloween video: "Hitler's Nazi Vampire Bats" ...
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  574. Sadly, I can imagine school kids taunting each other: give me that or I'll tell the teacher that your mother's real name is Rebecca!
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  575. You will have upset many people with this video, Dr. Felton.
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  576. The Forgotten Soldier is one hell of a book, to say the least. After I read it, I couldn't help but wonder what ever happened to ... The young German replacement who was left to his own devices wandering across the snow-covered Russian steppe looking for the unit he was supposed to join. Sajer says he, at least one other soldier joining Sajer's unit, and this replacement were behind German lines walking eastwards in the middle of nowhere trying to find their respective units. As dusk approached, some transport arrived that was heading towards Sajer's unit, so all but the replacement jumped on the vehicle and drove away. Sajer says he remembered seeing this young, lone soldier, looking very scared, trudging off into the dusk into the featureless terrain. One can only wonder if he ever did find his unit - Sajer and the others had difficulty finding his own unit as it had moved many times while he was away from it, and kept being given conflicting information regarding its whereabouts. Paula, the girl Sajer spent leave with in Berlin. The other young (Soviet?) soldier that Sajer saw through the window. Sajer's unit was moving inside a row of houses, and he looked through a window and saw across the way another young face looking through a window at him. They just looked at each other for a while, and might've even waved. The girl in the cellar with whom Sajer made love. Sajer's comrades - they (with Sajer) surrendered to the British and were being held in a POW camp. When Sajer was questioned, the British discovered he was from Alsace so they took him away to another part of the camp. He was treated more as an unfortunate French "draftee" than a former German combatant, so he wasn't able to see his comrades after the interview. (Sajer was repatriated to Alsace, and to "atone" for his crimes had to serve in the French Army for a period, and even had the ironic experience of marching in the victory parade in Paris!) I wonder if Sajer ever reconnected with any of his former comrades?
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  577. Another Reich! She was the 4th, maybe?
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  578. The fact that they bothered to fight is why they're called "The Greatest Generation". That generation is almost gone (the last of its members are in their 90s), and we won't see another like it any time soon.
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  579.  @whygodwhy1388  And possibly the first shots fired at a ship by the Allies in WW2 were from the guns at Fort Nepean, on Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, when an unidentified ship tried to leave harbour in the very early hours of 4 September 1939.
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  580.  @lautoka63  The Japanese mini-submarine hit the wrong ship, too. They were trying to sink the USS Chicago which as anchored in the harbour, but the torpedo missed and hit the sea wall adjacent to the training ship HMAS Kuttabul, sinking her and killing many sailors onboard. Three submarines got past the anti-submarine nets into Sydney Harbour that night. None of the crews survived. Two submarines were destroyed in the harbour. The fate of the third was unknown until its wreck was discovered near Lion Island in the early 2000's, outside the harbour and off Sydney's Northern Beaches.
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  581.  @StevenKeery  Well, either his comment got deleted by the channel owner / moderator, or he chickened out in the face of such criticism.
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  582. They would probably weld them shut nowadays due to being a confined space hazard.
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  583. And get ingested into an engine ...
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  584. And they used the equivalent of the Holy Hand Grenade to get him, too.
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  585. ​ @Noodlepunk  So how come these sorts of killings aren't happening in my country then? I live in a Western society where people can own guns but we're not shooting each other over leaf blowers, basketballs, or door knocking.
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  586.  @hristohristov6118  Agree that the conflict - if it runs long enough - will likely restart the revival of the Russian aircraft manufacturing sector. It's not something which would start up overnight from its current state; but they do have a bit of a headstart - they can reverse-engineer any impounded Western aircraft or parts thereof and thumb their noses at international protests just like the USSR used to do. And a reverse-engineered aircraft still stays at the level of technology at which it was originally manufactured unless it is upgraded - how many of the USSR's top designers or their proteges are still around to design new or improved models? Russia has a good network of spies worldwide who can purloin industrial secrets, so they will have a steady flow of information coming in from the rest of the world - information which will allow them to build those items that they cannot buy legally due to sanctions. It's like winding the clock back to the days before Perestroika.
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  587. Imagine if Glenn Miller had've survived WW2 and become one of the fathers of Rock ... "And now, ladies and gentleman, please welcome ... Glenn Miller and the Norsemen!" <Applause>
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  588. That reminded me of the story a friend of Greek descent told of how his father came to Australia. His father was a young soldier in the Greek Army in the 50's during a tense time with neighbouring Albania. One night on R&R from his barracks near the border he spent too much time in the pub and got lost on the way home, accidentally crossing into Albania. Having had quite a bit to drink, he stopped to relieve himself and then had a smoke. Upon finishing, he threw the s cigarette butt away, which started a fire that set off an ammunition dump ... a dump that wasn't supposed to be there, according to the Albanians. This resulted in an international incident which the Greek government had to hose down, so they gave this young soldier an ultimatum: military prison, or "voluntary" immigration. 😁
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  589. SINS = Ship's Inertial Navigation System. The only people it drives insane is the Navigating Officer when it doesn't work.
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  590. Yep. Neumann became Newman, Müller became Miller, Schmidt became Smith, etc, etc.
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  591. They need to do another movie on similar people who helped thousands of Nazis flee the Allied control commission after the war.
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  592.  @Joesolo13  Yes, my point was that in the earlier Shermans which didn't have a loader's hatch, there was a problem with the loader escaping from the tank. That was the only point I made.
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  593.  @m4nu507  Could that be because the MAX spends so much time on the ground? :D
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  594.  @SJF15  If you're talking about cockpit noise, I would've thought it would be from aerodynamic effects around the nose of the aircraft.
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  595.  @polskanuddin2.04  That's an example of having to get it wrong to get it right. Teacher gets it wrong, you have to get it wrong in the exam to pass. But at least you know the right answer.
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  596.  @senakaweeraratna741  Arguably that's true. And after the war when the Allies tried handing those "colonies" back to the previous colonial powers, the colonies revolted in one way or another and one by one achieved independence.
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  597.  @JohnRodriguesPhotographer  The Battle Of Stalingrad is a case in point ... when the logistics tail fails, soldiers go hungry and run out of munitions.
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  598. That's what he said: ell zeds.
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  599. Alternatively: "These aren't the locked metal boxes you're looking for."
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  600.  @caseyholland7860  Jedi knight of history Felton is my friend.
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  601.  @mickd6942  I suspect that Dr Felton's video on the Reichsmarschall's dresses will contain a shocking reveal: they were actually manufactured from recycled parachutes.
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  602.  @petethewrist  Braking and entry? Is that where you try to ram-raid but chicken out at the last moment, stand on the brakes, but smash a hole in the wall anyway so you can commit the robbery?
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  603. Indeed. It's amazing the number of people who don't know that. The attacks on the British, European and US bases in the Far East occurred on the 8th within hours of the Pearl Harbor attack - it's the same day as the 7th in Hawaii due to the International Date Line.
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  604. They used to make them for shaving back then, too.
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  605.  @dragosstanciu9866  Agreed. We have enough trouble dealing with those now who are still attracted to the ideology, without having grand symbols which may attract even more people.
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  606. As someone said about a certain battle in Vietnam: mates award medals to mates.
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  607.  @dongilleo9743  Some time ago this was mentioned (in the comments section of another Mark Felton video, I think), and someone referred to another video clip of the end of the Omaha beach scene where the subtitles are shown, and those two American soldiers have bailed up two "Germans", and one of the Americans is saying "I can't understand you!" and the two "Germans" are speaking but the subtitles say "Speaking in Czech". Someone who spoke Czech translated it as "We didn't shoot anyone" or similar. When I read that comment, it turned what was an already disturbing scene into a scene which was both disturbing and ... well, "sad" doesn't quite cut it.
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  608. Blanks were the worst ... especially cleaning burnt plastic residue out of the gas system. The gas plug was a so-and-so to clean after firing live rounds let alone after blanks.
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  609. It is if you consider what went on near there a few decades ago.
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  610. If you think this is WW3 then you're in for an almighty shock when WW3 really starts.
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  611. There are advantages to maintaining a channel like this and rejecting the advances of the established media: it's called editorial control. Once the established media get their claws into you, you're theirs - regardless of what you think or know - because they're in it to make money.
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  612.  @AccessDenied20078  The people living in Carnarvon, Western Australia, during WW2 would've thought similarly on the day HMAS Sydney fought HSK Kormoran. They reported seeing an S-shaped column of smoke, but the source of it was way over the horizon, somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
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  613. Used to hear Duga quite often in the mid-late 70s and the 80s. Now everyone and their dog are running OTHR, so you hear them often.
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  614. Not in a mere 14m depth of water it won't.
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  615. You could petition King Charles III.
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  616. Unfortunately any such witnesses would've suffered a tragic bout of lead poisoning ...
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  617. Thanks very much for this video, Petter. I can say we had mud wasp problems for many years in Brisbane - when I worked on the airport there we fitted pitot covers for almost anything except the standard 40 minute turn-around. Per your graphic early in the video, on this occasion all the Swiss cheese holes lined up.
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  618.  @CFarnwide  The amount of materiel the Allies - especially the USA - moved around the Pacific theatre is amazing. Second to that is the amazing amount of materiel they left behind, because it was too expensive to return it to the country of origin. Alby Mangels visited Palmyra Island during his Pacific trip in the 70s/80s and filmed driving around in a truck he and the crew got going, and explored the supply dump left behind from WW2. I have a photo of my grandfather in uniform assisting a civilian auctioneer when preparing to sell off a warehouse full of truck engines from the USA. And there's the stories of numbers of US aircraft dumped from aircraft carriers off Sydney.
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  619.  @obelic71  And keeping the aircraft exterior clean. We had one aircraft come out of heavy maintenance for its test flight, and afterwards the pilots and flight engineer said it wasn't up to scratch. The pilot-in-command told the ground crew to give the aircraft a good wash and then they'd fly it again. It performed better the second time around.
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  620.  @paulgibbons2320  I remember when Tony Blair said he was going to end Rip-off Britain. It was back when the media was telling how it was cheaper to rent a van for the day, take the vehicular ferry to Calais, and do at least a fortnight's grocery shopping ... than going shopping at The Big Four at home. Or buy two suitcases so one fits inside the other, pack your overnight things in the smaller one, fly to New York, do the Xmas shopping and fill the larger suitcase, stay overnight, then fly back to UK ... and still save money compared to buying the same items on the High Street. Then the people who really control the UK had a word with Blair and he quietly reeled his neck in. Supporting the Oil War in Iraq also helped distract everyone from his promise.
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  621.  @ilaser4064  Yes, server rooms need aircon, but the poster's point was the over-the-top prices being charged by these big contractors.
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  622. These people may well have been handed over to the Soviets when the Americans left Czechoslovakia. A fair bit of that occurred when the American forces retreated back to the lines agreed with Stalin at the Yalta Conference.
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  623. Dear John, your John Deere tractor broke down so I've left it for a Ford. Yours, Nancy.
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  624.  @stormythelowcountrykitty7147  How did we learn that? Or are you about to state yet another conspiracy theory?
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  625. And then to the secret base on the far side of the moon.
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  626. The girth of such leaders would make them hard to miss, too.
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  627. Good question. Previously in comments on other Dr. Felton videos, people have suggested that if the war in Europe dragged into late 1945 or 1946 then an atomic bomb or two may have been used. But others suggest that this wouldn't have happened because: a) the Western Allies may have let the war stalemate in the West so as to let it drag on in the East at the USSR's expense, and b) when the German senior military officers saw Japan "go dark" they would've realised the inevitable was about to happen, and accordingly done something about the leadership.
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  628. It was their own fault - make life difficult for your best and brightest and they will find somewhere else that better appreciates their abilities and talents.
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  629.  @jerryjeromehawkins1712  He clearly had a taste for food.
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  630. That was a mark used on a lot of Australian military materiel.
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  631.  @kevindavis5966  HMS Belfast still survives.
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  632. It's amazing what you can achieve when other people egg you on ...
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  633.  @jimtaylor294  I was about to make a similar comment. Perfect opportunity to make a realistic war movie featuring tanks but someone decided to "Pearl Harbor-ize" it ...
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  634.  @Jonathanbegg  Germany alone could be his bride? Til death do us part ...
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  635. Sadly, a film of the same ilk as "Pearl Harbor".
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  636.  @lautoka63  The father of one of my friends was in the RAAF in the SW Pacific. He didn't talk much about his wartime experience to his son or I, except some general comments like "I'm glad I never had to fire that gun in anger" and things like that. But he did tell me a few stories when I went to visit him in the retirement home, only a year before he passed.
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  637.  @theghost6412  My great uncle was a Tobruk Rat. Unfortunately I never got to meet him, as he's still there.
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  638.  @hotsoup1001  The Judge running the virtual courtroom took it quite well, too. They interviewed the attorney later - he seemed like a nice guy.
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  639. 14:00 CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation) is pronounced like "Sy-row", not "Sis-row". :)
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  640.  @Ob1sdarkside  It's why I find it difficult to have anything to do with them nowadays.
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  641.  @rararnanan7244  Little Johnny doesn't like Professor Felton. He has made identical comments in a number of comment threads trying to cast doubt on this video.
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  642.  @ProjectEkerTest33  "Belt and Road Initiative" - works every time. It's happening in parts of the Pacific right now.
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  643. Kim Un-Alive?
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  644.  @ShadowTheBasementCat  You mean Kliment Yefremovich fell on his own sword?
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  645. I wonder if Stalin accidentally dropped all the chocolates out of the box ...
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  646. Ha-Go ... is that what the crew say when they finally get it started?
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  647.  @vitameat  And that single would've been best released in 1955 or 1956 ...
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  648.  @CMDRSweeper  Or B-707s ... and BAC 1-11s ...
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  649. Snared the Kuril Islands, too. That's still a sore point between Japan and Russia.
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  650. That would've been SKS (or HMK) Jemals Gegeben ... unfortunately it went aground elsewhere on the way to Egypt, thus ruining Rommel's plans of severing the Suez Canal route for the Allies.
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  651.  @Dee-nonamnamrson8718  That's what happens when people want stuff for lower prices - manufacturing industry gets offshored to places like China.
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  652.  @Dee-nonamnamrson8718  Yes, people have always wanted stuff at cheaper prices. But they also have a choice as a buyer, as a Customer (purposeful emphasis as the US economy is built on customer service). People can choose: do I want lower prices at the expense of lost sovereign manufacturing capability and all the issues that come with that, or do I want to pay a bit more while keeping the manufacturing onshore? People aren't as powerless as they like to make out when they're trying to evade their personal responsibility.
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  653.  @mj_aussie_coaster_travels8310  The government should have paid you for the house and land. Certainly in government acquisitions in NSW for projects such as motorways, etc, they pay.
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  654.  @mastermindd  My job paid me to live in the UK for a few years. Got to tour lots of historic monuments in what small amount of time I had to myself.
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  655. He did one on the alleged secret Antarctic base at the opposite end of the planet.
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  656. He has started that - there's a video about governing Germany immediately after WW2, and he describes some early elements of de-Nazification.
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  657.  @ilililililililli2531  "[...] are pushing it in European countries trying to bread us out [...]" What kind of bread? Multigrain, white, wholemeal, sourdough, dark rye?
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  658. Australian here. The SLR I trained on had a bolt-locking button on the side. Its use was drilled into us: Weapon fires, weapon stops! Carry out the IA: COCK, LOCK AND LOOK The LOCK bit was pressing the lock button to hold the bolt in the open position so you could see if there was anything up the spout. (Most times it was a gas stoppage; so just turn the gas plug a click or two, pull the cocking handle back a tad - this released the lock - let the action fly forward, and resume firing.)
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  659. A person would become a whole ecosystem as well if they were buried at sea. The lifeforms at the bottom of the ocean are not choosy with regard to whether it's human, whale, or something else.
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  660.  @lookingforsomething  It certainly appears that winning a presidential election in the US just comes down to money. Money means a candidate can get their message out better - regardless of what the message actually is. In Australia we are sick of our two party system, and are electing more independents - especially in the Senate. In fact, independents in the Senate have held the balance of power for quite a while, but in recent years they're starting to be more noticeable in the House Of Representatives as well.
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  661. Schlurfs dancing to Amerikanische Musik ... In the latter part of the war there was fierce punishment for listening to foreign radio broadcasts or music - including being sent to a concentration camp.
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  662. Sea water is reasonably conductive, and would short active to earth once it entered the outlet. This would blow the fuse protecting that circuit, or (more likely for Europe) trip the ELCB protecting that circuit. (ELCBs installed to minimise the likelihood of electrocution are rated to trip at no more than 30mA leakage current, but typically trip between 15 and 30 mA.)
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  663.  @wulf659  Yep. The Hoarse Whisperer.
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  664. Every time I fly with an airline I see them doing that - if it's at a major airport, I see the ground engineer and the pilot doing it, at separate times.
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  665.  @stevem7945  It is doing the same in Australia. The Census results from last year show that. It's arising from a combination of mainstream churches' inability to reconcile itself with the life of the average 21st century person, and the revelations from the Royal Commission into institutional child abuse. However, recent events show it's enjoying a resurgence in the USA, especially given the conservative nature of the Supreme Court, and the high likelihood that the next POTUS will be a Republican.
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  666. I think your comment "take over loads of blank paper and envelopes in a lull in deliveries" is the key. One very important aspect of mail to/from home is timeliness. V-mail not only assisted with reducing the amount of paper carried on aircraft, it also assisted with speeding up delivery. However; a shipload of paper and envelopes for printing V-mail can arrive every so often to replenish the supplies without as big an emphasis on timely arrival; i.e. if you have 2 months worth of stock on-hand, and the ship is scheduled to arrive every month, then it arriving late by a couple of weeks won't cause a problem.
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  667.  @nix123ism  60,000 feet altitude is still within a country's airspace. Space doesn't start until the Karman Limit which is about 5 times that height.
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  668.  @tedf1471  The man he gets his info from is younger than 133 years at the times when Dr Felton visits him using Die Glocke ...
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  669.  @scottlewisparsons9551  Mentour Pilot's channel is great. It doesn't surprise me that he has an editor. Other 1+ million subscriber channels do likewise because the channel owners do not have enough time in the day to do the editing and conduct all of the research, present on camera, etc, as well as hold down whatever day job they have.
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  670. Able to win friends and influence people, and able to read the public mood and leverage that at the right time? A bit like something that happened four years ago.
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  671.  @davidjackson4613  In the UK (of which England is part), the PM is the head of government, but the monarch is head of state.
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  672. That would make sense - after all, Dr Felton has access to Die Glocke.
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  673.  @nostalgyea5280  The One-Sixers would have like to do that. A number of them are currently very busy explaining their actions to the authorities (claiming things like gullibility as a defence, LOL ... really?), but I still find it strange how their Man didn't pardon them before he bugged out to Florida, though.
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  674. ​ @johnwitte551 I heard that from Australians who were in Vietnam too. They referred to the M16 as the "placcy gun" (plastic gun).
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  675. Remarkable story. Thanks for uploading!
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  676.  @yuusachiibochii6398  Yep, midship is a horizontally-referenced term, not vertically-referenced. It means go the spot on the deck midway between port and starboard sides - they wouldn't want people crowding to windows, etc, looking to see what's outside.
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  677. Very carefully?
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  678. That's certainly a superior comment ... I'm wondering what are hu-on?
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  679.  @JoeMtMan  And it's always those pesky people who don't want to be taken over who put up a struggle ...
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  680. Some comments: 1. Very good of you to mention the coordinated attacks on the Far East on 8th December and the attack on Pearl Harbor [US spelling] on the 7th. Many people think the East Indies attacks occurred the day after Pearl Harbor, but they don't realise that the International Date Line separates these two regions - the 8th West of that line and the 7th East of that line are the same day. 2. Singapore was doomed because SS Automedon was captured by the German commerce raider Atlantis (a.k.a HSK 2, Schiff 16, and Raider-C. ) The boarding party of Atlantis were able to get into the Automedon's strong room, and unfortunately for the British the Automedon's crew hadn't destroyed the highly classified material there. This provided incredibly valuable information regarding the disposition of British forces in the Far East - information of which Japan was unaware. Captain Bernhard Rogge, master of Atlantis, recognised the value of this information and sent one of his prizes (captured ship) to Japan with the documents. The Japanese were so surprised by this information that initially they suspected it to be forged. 3. Some years ago the Wikipedia entry on the loss of Repulse and Prince Of Wales carried a quote from a British admiral in London, who upon hearing of the loss, expostulated something akin to "I knew [admiral's name] would make a balls-up of it, and he has!" However; the entry has been edited since then, and there's no mention of this outburst. Unfortunately, I cannot recall which admiral allegedly said this, or to which admiral he referred. 4. I had a great uncle who served with 8th Division 2nd AIF in Malaya and ended up being a "guest" of the Japanese for effectively the duration of the Pacific war. Not much was said about it in my family, but my father did say once that Uncle Bob was awfully thin when he finally returned home. Edit: grammar and clarity.
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  681.  @ryanpeck3377  Amazing how people can't get this ... the lack of reading comprehension ability is astounding.
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  682. And the ground handlers who are probably working for a contract organisation which handles the airline at that port.
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  683.  @DieNibelungenliad  In hindsight it wasn't that big a feat to take Singapore. Documents detailing a pessimistic British assessment of their ability to defend their Far East possessions had been captured by the German Raider Atlantis from the British ship SS Automedon. Realising the importance of these documents, KZS Bernhardt Rogge, Captain of the Atlantis immediately sent them with one of his prize crews on a captured ship to Tokyo. The Japanese were so surprised by these documents that they initially suspected them to be fake. These documents helped inform Japanese plans for entering WW2. There were other factors which didn't help the British defence in the Far East. One was the British idea that somehow the "White Guns" of Singapore would defeat the IJN. What they didn't count on was the IJN landing IJN and IJA forces on the Malaya Peninsula, and marching down the coast to capture Singapore. Another was the British inability to provide a level of defence to the colonies which equalled that provided to the British Isles. There was no Chain Home radar system, there were no front line fighters: there wasn't a Spitfire or a Hurricane in the theatre, only outdated fighters like the Brewster Buffalo (the crews called it "The Flying Coffin"), and there weren't flotillas of destroyers. At the time, the British lacked an adequate appreciation of modern warfare, including the propensity of the Japanese land forces to engage in flanking manoeuvres (hence the march down the Peninsula), and the ability of aircraft to destroy capital ships (hence the loss of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince Of Wales in the space of hours).
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  684. Or they use alien technology in the form of the power generator recovered from a crashed UFO in Area 51 ... Seriously, this was an excellent debunking video.
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  685. Britain: We still hold a grudge against the Germans. Denmark: We don't hold grudges but we never forget ... The Balkans and the Middle East: hold our collective beers ...
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  686. Many years ago I visited the wreck of a RAAF Lincoln which crashed into Mt. Superbus in the Main Range, Queensland, back in the 1950s. Sadly it was on a mercy mission taking a sick baby and its mother to hospital in Brisbane - lost in cloud and not really knowing where they were, the crew descended resulting in CFIT and the loss of all on board.
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  687. Yes, Isis, named after the Egyptian goddess Isis. HMS Isis was commissioned more than 70 years before the other ISIS came into being ...
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  688.  @TalutellenduUle  Your statement regarding how the RAF would have adapted if Luftwaffe fighters were operating separately from the bombers is a good point. Radar was the force multiplier which allowed the RAF to concentrate its hitting power where and when needed. If the fighters had been allowed to "boom and zoom" then the RAF could've concentrated on the fighters, zapped a lot of them, and then gone after the bombers after the fighter numbers had been depleted. Another good point is a downed German pilot is lost to the Luftwaffe, as they're either dead or a POW. A downed RAF pilot was either dead, injured (and hopefully recuperable) or returned to duty.
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  689.  @AnthonyHandcock  Maybe the OP would like Montana to be The Mouse That Roared, so when it's defeated the rest of the USA can pump trillions of dollars into it ... resulting in an economic miracle?
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  690.  @Svalbaz  Obviously it's important to you ... you capitalised "Bowel", LOL.
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  691.  @andyrob3259  There are "flag of convenience" nations for ships. Years ago it was popular to register ships in Liberia and Panama because of tax and regulatory advantages. Accordingly; when the was an oil tanker wreck invariably it would be a "Liberian registered tanker" or "Panamanian registered tanker". Aircraft are no different in that respect.
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  692. I remember being told in the early 80s that the ARES had to improve security after a cadet armoury was burgled and some the weapons were eventually found by British troops in Northern Ireland.
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  693. Good stories. BTW, the B-29 Superfortress was the WW2 aircraft copied by the USSR. The Stratofortress is the B-52 which entered service with the USAF in 1955.
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  694.  @chimchim2_  Anyone saying Dr. Felton isn't qualified to speak on modern topics is running scared and doesn't understand history. They're running scared because they fear that someone will see through their scammy reasons for their cause, and they don't understand history because the aim of history is to understand the present better by learning about the past.
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  695. Dr Felton produced a video about a year ago examining that very topic. It featured Gudrun Himmler, etc.
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  696.  @josephvandyck5469  Maybe he meant a metal statue of Admiral Yamamoto?
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  697. Imagine if they'd sent a fighter escort ...
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  698. "The Army Pilots [...] rely on following roads." LOL! That reminded me of the alternative meanings of the terms VFR and IFR: "visually follow roads" and "I follow roads".
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  699. Dr. Felton has a video about the governing of Germany immediately post-war which touches on the start of that process.
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  700. Or the lack thereof ...
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  701.  @amadeokomnenus1414  It's a small flying insect that infests one's hairpiece.
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  702. One has to wonder about the efficacy of the justice system imposed immediately after the war. Here's a guy who had command responsibility for the Buchenwald camp, and is sentenced to life imprisonment, which is quickly commuted to 20 years. But, three years after being sentenced he is walking free. One wonders what the Jewish people thought of that.
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  703.  @juanzamarripa3778  Correct, but it's not going to be sitting in the ocean for months let alone weeks. It landed in water only 14m deep - it's not exactly irrecoverable.
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  704. The Salvation Army were very good that way, providing the materials for free.
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  705. Wars are caused by greed. Someone wants something someone else has. Oil is a classic modern cause.
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  706. So that's what was really chasing him out of the temple in the beginning of The Raiders Of The Lost Ark ...
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  707. Similar things happened in the war in the Pacific. The Allies just bypassed certain islands while taking key strategic island; knowing that the Japanese forces on the bypassed islands would be cut off from supplies so they couldn't do anything - and it wasn't worth to cost of men, materiel, and time to take them by force. The island of Rabaul was an example.
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  708. You can't really say that he's not from "here" - plenty of Americans have surnames like that.
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  709. Lennongrad? "Imagine there's no heaven ..."
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  710.  @axelpatrickb.pingol3228  Or the wives found that war had changed their husbands so much that the men who returned home weren't the men they married. That's a common problem with veterans returning today: their spouses are thinking "Whatever happened to the person I married?" (I know it's only a movie, but ... that line by Tom Hanks's character in "Saving Private Ryan", where he says that every man he kills takes him further away from his wife, and will she even recognise him if he ever gets home again, is very telling.)
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  711.  @Mikeb-NH  No, there isn't. Too many people are running around feeling triggered and/or excessively butt-hurt, yelling into their echo chamber, LOL.
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  712. The people of Russia have been sold Putin's equivalent of "WMDs in Iraq". And because there isn't a free media which can dispense a counter view of Putin's propaganda, the people of Russia only know of Nazism in the Ukraine and a US-backed biological weapons laboratory. It's just like the USSR during the Cold War - there is no free speech, and the only way of finding out the truth is to listen to the news from foreign sources.
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  713. Yes.
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  714.  @45auto82  Likewise, we never hear of 8 of 9 or 9 of 9 - what happened to them. BTW, was your last sentence a Dirty Harry reference: "Well, do you, punk?"
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  715.  @CivilizedWasteland  "Tee hee, Brutus"
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  716.  @MaxRank  Geography teaching in the USA has always been a joke. Otherwise, why would Americans have the following views of Australia: - it's next door to Germany (instead of being in the Southwest Pacific region) - its capital is Vienna (instead of Canberra) - it's small enough that you can set out from Sydney in the morning, drive to the Great Barrier Reef and Uluru for the day, and be back in Sydney in time for dinner (just try driving those distances and see how they go) The number of times we've sent US-made equipment back to USA for deeper-level repair and then it has got lost on the way back ... and the freight companies say the delay was because it was sent via Germany ... and they're prioritising the shipment for re-routing through Singapore then to Sydney. I've met some American families visiting Australia who said how wonderful it is, and it's a pity they didn't come five years ago - they were planning to but they'd gone to Hawaii the year before and the kids didn't want to have another holiday on an island, LOL! And then there's the time I was visiting Manchester (England) and this American couple were travelling to the airport. She wasn't too happy, and he was trying to cheer her up by saying "In a couple of hours we'll be in Austria and you'll see all the kangaroos and koalas and things they have there." Sometimes I wonder about that couple, and how their relationship went after they landed in Vienna ...
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  717. French Frigate Shoals was occupied by the US military for many years after the war. It was a USCG station for quite a while, with a LORAN station and a missile tracking station run by Bendix Corporation. Now it is a wildlife refuge.
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  718. Probably sold sometime between 20 January 2017 and 20 January 2021.
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  719.  @andybazz3694  How does poisoning a SS Officer at a banquet in 1933 prove that a Rothschild was Hitler's grandfather? One could connect any two unrelated events to prove anything one wants, it seems. E.g. it's like saying that a Soviet General shot by firing squad in 1941 proves that Stalin had an illegitimate daughter who was Hitler's secret lover.
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  720. Read some of the accounts in Above All, Courage by Max Arthur - you will get some of that perspective.
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  721. But the sky in Berlin would've been full of smoke. It was a war zone. Visibility at night, regardless of the moon, wouldn't have been good.
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  722.  @lithostheory  Yep ... project this video on to a screen greater than 1.1m wide and the progress bar will move faster than a geomagnetic pole.
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  723. Which means ... after he captures 007, instead of disposing of him immediately and getting on with his business, he explains all the ins and outs of what he's doing to 007 so the latter can come up with a plan to zap him. I've never, ever, understood Bond villains ... except as a plot device for a movie. :D
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  724.  @louismartinez7040  Yep, they don't allow anyone call Ruth to visit the DMZ whatsoever.
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  725.  @carr16k  The only video tapes these days are from Uruguay ... the Monte Video tapes.
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  726.  @DoctorCreepy  Or the infamously mistranslated "knee mortar", but that would've been a compound fracture of the femur and the guy wouldn't have made it.
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  727. I'd never before seen this allegedly iconic film of the American troops blowing up the marble swastika. And in parts of my country right now we have a mouse plague happening - in those regions they might be safe online using Gnawed VPN ...
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  728. That might be why it was an "off limit" area, LOL!
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  729. It's called an Administrative Control. It's 5th down on the hierarchy of controls, being Elimination, Substitution, Isolation, Engineering, Administrative, and PPE - in that order.
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  730.  @Dave_Sisson  When I was at uni there was a band called "Pineapples From The Dawn Of Time".
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  731. "And now, here's Nazi Rocket Monkeys, and their latest Beatles cover!" <Applause, whistles, etc> "We're so sorry, Uncle Albert ..."
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  732.  @pineapplepenumbra  I cannot say much about undergraduate engineering education nowadays, but post-graduate engineering education appears to be very much focused on "soft skills" such as engineering management, project management, etc. (That doesn't apply to research higher degrees, of course.) If a qualified engineer wants to learn more "hard" stuff these days, they're better off grabbing an older textbook book and watching YouTube videos, or accessing free online course material via portals such as MIT's Online Course Ware (OCW), etc ... it's self-paced study and cheaper than paying fees.
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  733.  @pineapplepenumbra  Sounds like a recently installed "feature" in Firefox 😁. One could be forgiven for thinking it's a conspiracy, given that YouTube is a Google subsidiary, Chromium is a Google product ... I use the YouTube app on a Pixel phone - another Google product.
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  734.  @Markle2k  I'm surprised that Texas has a law like that. I'm not from or in the USA; but from what I've seen, heard and read of Texas in the last two years, I would've thought there be a law there against not rolling coal!
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  735.  @Evandarlingisdaddy  And don't invade Russia during the summer preceding the next winter ...
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  736.  @daleburrell6273  Why? Is the CapsLock key busted, or you don't know where it is, or you just like hollering? Or maybe you're Ayott-holler Khomeini?
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  737. Imagine fleshing out Göring's early life ...
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  738.  @jussim.konttinen4981  I don't know why Finlandia isn't Finland's national anthem.
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  739. Same. I just finished watching and commenting on a Mark Felton video and then another one turns up in my feed!!!!
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  740.  @Bogeyatyour6YT  I like your user name ... it immediately triggered a thought that I'd want to be aware of Humphrey Bogart behind me ... :D
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  741.  @erikstolzenberger1517  They mainly dump fuel to get below the safe landing weight. Jet fuel (kerosine) isn't anywhere near as flammable as Avgas (petrol). I remember one time on the flight line when we refuelled a 727 and the VTO (Volumetric Top-Off) failed to work (which was typical) and the wing tip vent tank overflowed - jet fuel all over the tarmac. Passengers were loaded onto the plane, and it was allowed to taxi out of the parking bay (this was on the old airport before aerobridges, and wasn't a pushback bay) with just the foam tender from the fire station standing by.
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  742. And the Korean War was never a declared war - instead it was described as a "police action". I guess it's somewhat similar to calling another war happening right now a "special military operation".
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  743. Thanks Dr Mark ... cow I'm in the moo'ed! Norse man: single-engined, high-wing, fixed-undercarriage aircraft in which Glenn Miller disappeared during WW2. Morse nan: someone's grandmother who, as a young lady during WW2, trained as a wireless telegraphist.
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  744.  @awesomebrawel4050  Amazing, isn't it - but there was an incredible number of men mobilised on both sides.
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  745.  @genericdave8420  Indeed. I would bet that anyone trying to invade IKEA wouldn't get more than 10 metres past the revolving door.
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  746. And it could be performed by a new band, the Nazi Space Monkeys.
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  747.  @Joshua-fi4ji  Allowing for a bit of misunderstanding of the Roman numbering system; I understand WW11 was after WW1 and will highly likely precede WW111 ... which might have already started for all we know. I wouldn't get too upset about the Roman numerals ... it's a bit like getting tied up over "it's vs its", "they're vs there vs their", etc, on social media - in the end it's like ploughing the sea, and is highly unlikely to change the habits of people.
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  748.  @JayM409  It's amazing looking back how the "ordinary people" around the little town I grew up in did extraordinary jobs in the the war. For example, the kindly gentleman in the shoe shop turned out to be a fighter pilot - never flew after the war.
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  749. The US had drones back in 76? What kind were they?
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  750.  @SirAntoniousBlock  Himmler looks genuinely Japanese in some videos.
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  751. Yes, they do ... or at least the ones I used did when I worked in the industry at that very airport. And I always looked at the pitot tubes to verify there were no covers on them.
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  752. He might well have had reason not to tell it how it exactly was. There were plenty of people in power in Germany at that time who'd been in positions of power during WW2, and Bratge could've suffered repercussions for not doing what he was ordered to do at Remagen.
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  753.  @dondon-wg9ft  But they for an even stranger reason they couldn't capitalise on the digital camera taking over from the film camera. It's almost like they couldn't appreciate the viewpoint of the average consumer (their customer) - would they rather have instant pictures which could be easily shared and stored, or would they rather wait until 36 pictures have been taken, and then pay extra to produce hardcopies?
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  754.  @roscoewhite3793  It might be "Sir Dr", based on the order of precedence?
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  755. How about a Hollywood movie depicting him as the military attache at the US embassy? :D
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  756.  @bloodybones63  The perceived need to state that a post has been edited, and why, depends on the context of the discussion in which the post forms a part. For example, I may state a position and then edit the post - sometimes to clarify the position, or sometimes just to correct a grammatical or spelling error. YouTube will indicate that the post has been edited, and I prefer to advise any readers about what I changed. It can also help when arguing against the somewhat-irrational types who tend to claim that editing was done after an adverse comment to change or reverse my position. For me, it's just a point of transparency, and I suspect that the same may apply to the person who you commented about. AFAIK there's no law for or against it, and there are more important things in life to get worked up about than whether or not someone in the YouTube comments section states that they edit their posts.
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  757.  @rifekimler3309  How about a fanatical skeptic?
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  758. Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, riding through the land ...
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  759.  @hughmungus1767  Especially if the letters contained classified information ... can't let that stuff fall into enemy hands!
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  760. Firing the first Allied shots of WW1 and WW2!
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  761.  @williamsstephens  Nowadays there seem to be conspiracy theorists in the comments section of almost every video on YouTube; whether they be Flat Earth, Moon Landings, ex-Nazi party leaders living in Antarctica, Stop The Steal, ChemTrails, COVID-19, ... and now, sadly, we can add Helios Airways Flight 522 to that list as well. These people must have an extraordinarily large amount of time on their hands to be able to come up with all this stuff, as well as the arguments for defending their pet conspiracy of the week ... I wish I had that much time to spare!
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  762.  @dougerrohmer  Or something a bit more educational? How about spank them and make them stand in the corner while reciting their "thirteen times" table? This has shades of the Castle Anthrax scene in Monty Python And The Holy Grail ...
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  763. While the neighbour collects the evidence required for you to sue them out of their house. It's obvious that this whole thing was managed for international political gain. It's amazing how people don't get that.
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  764. I suspect that if Eisenhower was involved in approving this operation then it would've been quietly "removed" from history.
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  765.  @freedomisnotnegotiable  The unvaccinated will face a bigger problem than yelling crowds. This COVID-19 (which many still deny exists, even as it kills them) will mutate again. The Delta variant is fairly virulent, but a future, more virulent mutation will race through the unvaccinated population like wildfire. I feel for those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons - I hope they survive this.
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  766.  @CorgiDudeReacts  Just the bit between 1945 and 1991.
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  767.  @ajjukevicius4710  Good point. It won't be long before Russian industry produces reverse-engineered parts.
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  768. 9:47 Eduard Roschmann ... one of the Nazi characters in Frederick Forsyth's novel The Odessa File.
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  769. One has to wonder if one of the students is an ex-Army NCO who has some far right-leaning political aspirations ...
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  770.  @jobengals86  "I have a feeling that the next generation of war heroes has already been born, but I hope I'm wrong." Truer words have not been spoken. I join with you in that hope. But, there are still some very power-hungry people out there who are either in leadership positions in their countries, or are aspiring to such positions. It doesn't matter whether they seek to secure resources or impose an ideology - the end result is the same.
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  771.  @ditzydoo4378  Not on board ... the glider OR the marriage.
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  772. The Nessun Dorma of the history set.
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  773. Well said, both your original comment and your edit. The fact that people could somehow misconstrue your original comment indicates that they're part of the problem - they support someone who came after these girls long after they ceased being a threat. If those people who misconstrued your comment want to know what the problem is in the USA today, they need do nothing more than look in the mirror - the problem will be staring straight back at them!
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  774. ​ @Creative_Melly  Merely an observation that this sort of thing isn't happening in other Western societies where there's a form of gun licensing. If the situation continues in the USA then there will be a hell of a lot more mourning to come. ☹️
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  775. ​ @byunniq9060  It's just an observation that it's not happening in other Western societies with some form of gun licensing in place. I am sorry for you if this observation offends you. I guess one becomes normalised to this sort of violence after a while?
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  776.  @emgriffiths1861  Here in Australia during WW2 there were probably similar accident rates - there were many air training sites established around the country. Some of the guys who trained there (sadly no longer with us) said the worst time was that period after solo-ing where trainee pilots get a bit too confident and start augering in. Flying too slow and too low was a common cause.
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  777.  @robertwilliamson6121  Thank you. Your initial post in response to my original post said something along the lines of "the enemy of your enemy is your enemy" which is a completely different concept. I couldn't figure out how you got from my version to that version, hence my long response.
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  778.  @zorktxandnand3774  Or once he took off and stabilised, given him a number to call when he got to his destination. You know, the good old "SWA51, possible pilot deviation, please call XXX-XXX-XXXX on arrival. Have a good day."
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  779. All teh ohrers wree tkaen form Erath
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  780. Teh pcitures wree tkaen yb a staellite ...
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  781.  @centralperk8712  What are they bagging?
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  782.  @stranger_danger1900  Depends on the electric and magnetic field strengths induced at the specific location on the Earth's surface, the length and orientation of conductor, and the breakdown voltage of the electronic device to which the conductor is connected.
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  783. My great grandfather didn't really - was an alcoholic after returning from The Great War, and about a decade later died after an altercation outside a pub.
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  784. One thing about it - his ample girth meant there was plenty of room on his jacket for all the medals.
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  785.  @bigblue6917  There were Nazi Space Monkeys, though.
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  786.  @nematolvajkergetok5104  Moral of the story: Don't step on something which violently disagrees with you.
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  787. This video is brought to you by - KABOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM ...
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  788.  @cg8442  Or in Antarctica ... or on the Moon.
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  789. Schlurfs dancing to Amerikanische Musik ...
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  790. 9:57 Himmler meeting the head of the World Jewish Conference ... Unbelievable! That just goes to show how mentally unhinged these Nazis were - seeking legitimacy by meeting with the head of a people who they had tried to wipe from the face of the Earth. Hypocrisy at its peak.
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  791.  @mrbisshie  Their pyramids are reasonably intact ...
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  792.  @amg863  One could argue that's analogous to the shell of the Panther tank being preserved, but all the interior fittings have disappeared. From my observations, the pyramids have fared better than the Colliseum or Hadrian's Wall.
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  793. Stalin would've looked at that globe each day, ruminating over what its previous owner might've thought when he looked at it. Malenkov wasn't there long enough to get to know it and subsequently desire it. Khrushchev would've considered it his globe, but then Brezhnev coveted it. Finally, Andropov would've decided it really was his, and probably kept it when he left. Being the former head of the KGB, he had the means of removing it without anyone else being the wiser - there one evening, gone the next morning ... Chernenko wasn't there long enough to wonder about the bare spot in the room - the carpet would've been different in that corner - and Gorbachev wasn't the type to want a globe. Putin probably watched this video, hoping Mark might provide clues of its whereabouts after Yuri absconded with it.
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  794. So that's where Die Glocke ended up - in Dr. Felton's basement!
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  795.  @adammann2246  Agree that the numbers volunteering were different. I wonder if the "Vietnam effect" was still there? In 2001, it was just over 25 years after the USA pulled out of South Vietnam. Over the years, many vets would've related their stories of what they witnessed over there, how they were treated when they came home, and how they felt for years afterwards. There may have been comments in the years immediately after the Vietnam War along the lines of, "Why would you want to join up, son? Look what happened to me!" Someone hearing that even just a decade before 9/11 may have thought twice about joining the military. Maybe that 25+ years worth of sentiment put a dampener on the numbers?
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  796. 5-0 loss? What, the Heinrich Himmlers beat the Sister Pias five to nil! Was it a straight out flogging, or did it go into overtime with a penalty shoot-out?
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  797.  @15-Peter-20  What is Fort VII? Please tell us about it.
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  798. Well, there's the answer then. If it's shown in Downfall then that's how it happened ...
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  799. ​ @deathftmelancholy  The woman didn't make it either. She was critically injured by her boyfriend (not the VP of Citibank guy), and appears to have died 3 years later.
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  800. That's insulting to wolves.
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  801. What kind of aerial was superior: vertical monopole, log periodic dipole array, lindenblad, etc?
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  802. What does it matter? A number of you people have made this comment. Maybe you need Vladimir to move in next door and give you something to really worry about?
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  803.  @Psittac20  I think the likelihood of changing a conspiracy theorist's mind on this issue is vanishingly small - these people are what they are, so to speak. What the channel owner is achieving, though - which is vastly more important - is that people who might've bought into this particular conspiracy theory have been shown an alternative, science-based explanation of what HAARP does. This gives such people the opportunity to judge for themselves which explanation to believe: that based in science, or that based in quasi-religious dogma; and that is the real achievement of channels like this one.
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  804. I fought the LAW and the LAW won ...
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  805.  @OldNavyAirdale  Same thing happened with my grandfather - the medals were issued to him. He didn't need to purchase any of them.
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  806. In which case the PRC doesn't know how early the USA could have zapped this balloon. So that aspect of the mission would have failed. If the PRC's mission was to increase the amount of invective and hate the American people launch at each other nowadays, then the mission succeeded admirably.
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  807. Are there copies of the British intelligence records in Australia? What would Australia want with those?
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  808. Prior to fingerprints, there was French detective who used certain body measurements and features as identifying marks. I've forgotten his name, but ears was one of those features.
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  809. The trouble with defecting for many people is the repercussions enacted on their families who are left behind. These regimes really know how to convince people to keep doing what they're being ordered to do.
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  810. See my other reply linking a video showing how to get another extension which will allow this.
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  811.  @mirkotorca1950  They don't. But that has never stopped agents of a foreign power before today if they feel justified in taking action.
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  812.  @blurglide  Hah, beat me to it. I was going to say he is the Jon Snow of our times.
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  813.  @seafodder6129  Obviously has way too much time on his hands?
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  814. Make them doubles, thanks!
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  815. Erin Rommel was Erwin Rommel's sister. Two very different people with different allegiances.
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  816. ​ @jordanferguson2254  He is alive and well and working on a less ambitious project.
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  817. Himmler's body part may still exist in a McCarb medical collection? What would it be doing in a Scottish medical laboratory?
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  818. You would need sufficient pressure to dislodge a dried mud wasp nest.
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  819. It's Shannon Island, which is off the east coast of Greenland.
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  820.  @JelMain  Definitely a SMH response to the OP's statement "fundamentally changed the behavior that caused the issue". For most males, their fundamental character is formed by the age of seven, and brain finishes changing by 25 years of age. Mr Jacobs is what he is - given his age at which the incident occurred, he won't ever be anything else, especially so given his narcissistic behaviour.
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  821.  @manynumeritos  It has been a volcano for a long time. It might've been a dormant or "sleeping" volcano, but it was still a volcano.
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  822. Someone asked about the timeline regarding the Japanese forces attacking Pearl Harbor and Clark Field (in the Philippines). I did post a reply but it got "zapped" - here it is again: According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_campaign_(1941%E2%80%931942), news reached the Philippines that an attack on Pearl Harbor was in progress at 2:20 am local time on 8 December 1941. The first Japanese bombers reached Clark Field at 12:40 pm that day, i.e. 10 hours and 20 minutes after the American commanders in the Philippines first learnt of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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  823. But the man at the bar with the turned head was doing a great job punching back from October 1942 to early 1945.
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  824. Dunno, but from pictures I've seen of him it was more a Hermann Goering Multiplication ...
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  825. Radio amateurs were on the forefront of a lot of radio experimentation early o, but their involvement has dropped off steadily since then. Since WW2 they've had some influence in helping popularise communications modes; e.g. Art Collins making SSB accessible which in turn convinced the Curtis LeMay of the USAF to use it, probably resulting in many military forces adopting it; narrowband, low power digital modes such as PSK31, etc. But unfortunately amateur radio in the last couple of decades has become afflicted with a religious fervour instead of scientific and technical debate. Evidence for this can be found in people devoting a lot of time and energy into projects such as the Cross-Field Antenna, or trying to build the perfect "rectangular" filter for SDR. Ask the average radio amateur how an end-fed half-wave antenna works, or what is the real meaning of voltage standing wave ratio, and you'll understand what I'm saying.
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  826. Even the Swedes don't like being nude under pressure.
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  827.  @peterrhodes5663  I have heard similar. I was warned when I was in Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain not to visit Poland without a native speaker who I could trust. I was told that bars, restaurants, taxis, hotels, etc, would see me as a walking source of money and I'd get charged double what any of the locals would be charged.
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  828.  @harttsteen9128  I haven't seen much evidence of that at all in my time in the UK. Yes, I have seen men urinating against a wall while on their way home after the 11pm closing time for the pub, but that was it. And, being an English speaker with some familiarity with the cost of living and the price of goods and services in the UK, I didn't need a guide when I was there.
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  829.  @peterrhodes5663  I know a few Poles who left. They're all great people. One told me his story of how he got involved in Solidarity, and was arrested, imprisoned and tortured as a result. Eventually he and his wife were effectively booted out of their own country. When he landed in Australia he made contact with the union movement thinking it would be like the movement he was familiar with back home ... and was quite shocked to find they were quite the opposite. Re NZ, I not sure the PM is the threat there. If I lived in NZ I would be a lot more worried about its dependence on China for its standard of living, which means the country's foreign policy is effectively dictated (passively) by Beijing. As a result, the NZ government cannot tear up a "Belt and Road Initiative" like Australia just did. This has been the result of the work of many governments, not just Ardern's.
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  830. The UK and Commonwealth have a somewhat different view towards certain aspects of military service. They don't have a "wound" medal like the Purple Heart, but also the general public don't say things like "Thank you for your service". An airline in Australia tried doing the latter publicly just after boarding each flight (probably the idea of some US executive posted there who hadn't had much time "in country" yet), but after unintentionally embarrassing some former serving members - as well as the rest of the passengers - on a few flights, and subsequently copping a rocket from organisations like the Returned Services League, they wisely decided to desist with that practice.
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  831. There is a source which says Indian troops were in action fighting the Japanese before the attach on Pearl Harbor. According to the Second World War Official Histories published by the Australian War Memorial, "Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 1 – Army", "Volume IV – The Japanese Thrust (1st edition, 1957)", pages 125 & 126 of "Part II - South-East Asia Conquered" (which can be viewed at https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1070100/document/5519429.PDF), at about 12.30 a.m. Malaya time on 8th December 1941, Japanese troops landed at a small river-mouth between the Sabak and Badang beaches held by the 3/17th Dogras of the 8th Indian Brigade, and fierce fighting followed. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor at about 7.55 a.m. on 7th December 1941 Hawaiian time, which was 1.45 a.m. on 8th December 1941 in Malaya. PS: pages 129 & 130 of the same source state the following: On this first day of the Japanese onslaught a minor attack was made on a Pacific outpost manned by a small Australian garrison. At 11.30 a.m. on the 8th [or 2330 UTC on the 7th, which was also 1.30 pm in Hawaii on the 7th] a flying-boat appeared over Ocean Island, circled it and dropped five bombs, which caused no damage . Soon after 1 p.m. that day a flying-boat (believed to be the same) appeared over Nauru, also garrisoned by Australians, circled the island at about 6,000 feet, and disappeared in a north-easterly direction about half an hour later.
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  832. Tunnel diode, anyone ... 🙂
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  833.  Top Turf  I wonder how well the parachutes would've worked if they'd been "volunteered" as the first Americans in space?
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  834. Canowindra
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  835. The weather radar isn't designed for measuring speed.
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  836.  @ottovonbismarck2443  War Without Hate: The Desert Campaign of 1940-43 by John Bierman and Colin Smith.
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  837. Who released first, though?
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  838. As long as the pitot tube cover didn't get ingested into an engine, or somehow impact a control surface ...
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  839. Which Austrian would that be?
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  840.  @bobjohnson8970  That's the form of unarmed combat where they're issued with a pair of bear front feet?
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  841. I live in a Western society where we can own guns. Ownership is regulated - among others, people with "priors" cannot have them. We went through the same COVID -19 issues: lockdowns, economic impacts, isolation, separation from loved ones, etc. But nobody here is shooting anyone over leaf blowers, basketballs, or door knockings. Go figure, as the Americans say.
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  842.  @daraboy1973  It certainly will be an interesting study, and not just for the British. For example, with gas (the actual gas, not what the Americans call petrol) in Europe costing eight times more than it did 12 months ago, the energy experts are saying just turning down the heating by 2°C and wearing warmer clothing will greatly help reduce energy usage. Let's see if people can do that!
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  843.  @christophermiller2133  He used Die Glocke to make the departure date?
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  844.  @forkborking7  Yes, it does go wherever the wind blows it. But plenty of media reports are citing experts saying this thing is controlled by AI so that it changes altitude to capture favourable winds. That way it can increase its loiter time over areas of interest.
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  845.  @blizzunt420e  Biden should have ordered it to be shot down when it crossed into Alaska, and if not then when it crossed into Montana - after all, they're both Red states, so it's not like he would be endangering his supporters at all.
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  846. Really? Who were they?
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  847. There are a few commentators here who are supporters of the old USSR and its actions - they would've hit "dislike" right away.
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  848. Or the one in the attack on Sydney Harbour which wasn't found until 2006.
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  849. History science? What is that, and who teaches it? And what is it that the West missed?
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  850. If his driver was still in Hungary at the time of the OBE award, identifying him would've been a death sentence.
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  851. What about their legs? They don't need those ...
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  852.  @sslaytor  Inciteful may have been apt, given recent events ...
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  853. Probably worked differently once they left the Earth's atmosphere.
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  854. That's like the "Stock Crossing" signs ... what, they're practicing Christians?
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  855. ​ @Aceburn5  But what about other Western societies - it's not happening there.
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  856. I hope your de-Stalinisation is going well.
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  857. Alien couple ...
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  858.  @fortawesome1974  If often wonder if people who make these sorts of comments are serious, or it's just their way of making a joke. I hope it's the latter - because if it's the former, then the human race is in more serious trouble than I thought.
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  859. Probably one of the few episodes of The Waltons I ever saw depicted some British evacuee children in the USA - a plane flew over and the kids automatically got into a ditch by the road, to the shock of Mrs Walton.
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  860.  @theprofiler8531  Sounds like some of these people will be defecting to their own version of North Korea: the History Channel.
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  861.  @RandomUser2401  Why isn't there any reception? It's not hard to get reception from a cell mobile base station up to aircraft cruising altitude.
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  862.  @bigbaddms  A friend of mine's father, who was a wireless operator in the war (but not in the European theatre) told me that the radios weren't even fitted with the correct crystals so the various units supposed to link up couldn't even talk to each other. If that's the case, then that would be up there with the USN BuOrd's torpedoes ...
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  863. ​​ @davidharvey8179 With less access to firearms, the mass murderers are using other means but they're not killing 35 or more people at a time. All the gun enthusiasts had to do in 1996 and afterwards was convince the Australian public that they would self-regulate so that another Port Arthur wouldn't occur. It's that simple. If they had succeeded - or could succeed in the future - then they can the American-style gun ownership that they're wanting. They might face a bit of an uphill battle though, as people don't want to be shot dead in a cafe, or have to identify their children at a morgue at the end of a school day, or discover that their sister or daughter has been shot dead by her violent partner ... Another problem mentioned so far is the increased amount of gun violence in the USA has been attributed to increased mental health problems ... It's worth noting that a similar increase in mental health issues has been seen in Australia.
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  864. ​ @thekaxmax Or they watch videos posted by Nose-Ring-Man, who recently featured in the news in connection with the tragic events near Tara a year ago.
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  865. How many photographs of letters on 16mm film can you get into an ounce?
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  866. Like nowadays when steam excursion trains are running, they have an "insurance locomotive" (usually a diesel electric) immediately behind the steam locomotive just in case of break-down.
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  867.  @dgoddard  Excellent reply! Clearly you read the instructor's mind. :D
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  868. Skydivers at 60,000 feet altitude ... really?
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  869. Occam's Razor!
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  870.  @jannerkev  Can you imagine that: "Off caps!" ... "Three weeks in detention, bread and dripping for rations. Dismissed!"
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  871. What channels are those videos on?
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  872.  @madisntit6547  I'm an Antipodean, not a Brit, and I got the "Granada" bit. :)
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  873.  @0xf7c8  The Israelis have been pretty good at reverse engineering.
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  874.  @JoinMeInDeathBaby  The enemy of your enemy is your friend ... until your enemy is defeated, at which time they become your new enemy.
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  875. What sort of aerial? Yagi, log periodic, quarter-wave monopole, discone, dipole ... ?
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  876. More like taking the "law" into one's own hands like that suggests a participant in 1/6.
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  877. The USA was a different country back then. The only similarity nowadays is the name.
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  878. There were some other navies other than the USN who didn't use small submersibles.
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  879. Isn't that a deep hole where you throw short, thick nails?
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  880.  @justinlance4174  And then there's the economic impact of reunification. Look at Germany: the people in the east wanted the same lifestyle as those in the west, but couldn't afford it immediately after reunification, and the overall German economy was impacted for years by the reunification efforts. Between the two Koreas it would be an even worse economic impact.
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  881. First world problem?
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  882. ​ @carewser  Laughter is probably the only way people can stay sane in this situation. It's an emotional release, not an indication that they find anything funny.
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  883. It has got to the point where you cannot afford to make any mistakes - it could be the last thing you and those with you ever do.
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  884.  @dhowe5180  While I agree that the American military industrial complex knows how to profit from war, I'm not so sure it's not powerful enough to dictate military or political strategy to furnish its own ends. The military industrial complex has a lot of money, and money has a way of talking.
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  885. They wouldn't need to worry about opening or closing the windows.
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  886. Possibly The Quest Of The Great Patriotic Waugh ...
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  887. I am sorry that you feel emborissed about this.
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  888.  @sadams12345678  Some of the parts catalogs, etc, at work are JPEGs of 35mm microfilm. :D
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  889.  llewellyn evans  Agree - what happened to the Polish service personnel sent home after the war ended was downright terrible.
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  890.  @ericstapleton9577  NSA doesn't already have a quantum computer. In any case, NSA wouldn't have the resources to monitor worldwide Internet traffic - some people might not realise, but there is a whole other world outside the USA which uses the Internet, and there are encryption systems to which the NSA doesn't have access.
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  891.  @t16205  Have you cracked it yet? Or don't you want it enough?
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  892. Wow Mark, Hunting Clash ... really aiming at the US market!
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  893. Maybe. Learning is a two-way street. Yes, you need good teachers, but the student also needs to want to learn. Many kids don't see the need to learn, or don't have the impetus or self-discipline to keep learning even when they'd prefer not to. And now we see the results in everyday life - you reap what you sow.
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  894.  @ngheanchoong  spy plain? Is that like a spy mountain, or spy self-raising?
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  895.  Andrew Chen  I think it would be better and safer if everyone returned to the trade position of the Cold War - no trade between the West and the Communist Bloc. That way no-one gets upset over trade.
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  896. It was not German to the region it was found in?
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  897. Or at least make a Hollywood movie about how they made it ...
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  898. There are plenty of guns legally owned in Australia. Plenty of the farmers in my district have them. Just go to any Australian state or territory government website and read about what is required for a firearms licence (long arms in this case). It's not hard to get a licence: don't have a police record, and do the training with an accredited trainer (e.g. at the gun club). My nearest big town with a sports shop is 45 minutes away - If I wanted to, I could drive over there now, present my firearms licence, and buy a rifle.
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  899. You might find it's the United Kingdom keeping the documents sealed off. There's a difference.
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  900.  @humanafterallTF2  Agreed. A Nazi Germany with unfettered access to Europe's resources (including those of European USSR) would've been a formidable opponent.
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  901.  @redram5150  He also used "ad-hominem fallacy" ... the moment I hear / read that I think "oooohhh ... Arts student" and carefully back away ...
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  902. I saw her at the grounds of the future QE2 stadium at Nathan (?). It was raining, and the train trip across Brisbane to get there took a long time. Glad to have been there and seen her, though.
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  903. The RAF scrapping Himmler's Condor is up there with the BBC taping over episodes of Doctor Who ... too busy looking only one inch in front of their collective noses (or even looking backwards).
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  904. When I was a kid, growing up in a small rural town, there was a guy who had a WW2 grenade in his living room. Somehow it came to the notice of the police, who called in the Army who took it away and detonated it. The Army guys said the guy and his family were lucky to be alive - the only thing stopping this thing from going off was the extremely rusty pin.
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  905. That's why the towline is like bungy cord - designed to convert some of the tow plane's kinetic energy into potential energy which in turn then imparts kinetic energy to the glider. Otherwise, the impulse force when the towline tensioned up would likely destroy one or more of the following: the towline attachment point on the tow plane, the towline itself, or the towline attachment point on the glider.
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  906. The problem is that most of the American audience would not have understood why, and would've said the film was wrong.
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  907. I remember reading about that story many years ago - the Sunday paper at the time had colour pictures (!!!) of the wrecks. The nose sections were damaged when the military "safed" the ammunition stored there. Amazing to hear they're still there.
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  908.  @julianraiders1112  For them it would've been a good investment ... and a way of keeping the money flowing to support their lifestyles. And, in another way, a means of getting back at the countries that defeated them.
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  909. Nice question regarding remotely disabling aircraft - obviously asked by a MH370 conspiracy theorist.
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  910. The transition from mein kampf to mine sweeper.
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  911.  @quintrankid8045  Fulfilling your request could be difficult, as these things were well hidden back then. Look at the accusations about J. Edgar Hoover (and the subsequent allegations of KGB blackmail) - who can positively identify one of his alleged same-sex partners?
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  912. Why do you Capitalise every second Or third word in Your comments?
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  913. It reminds me of a couple of the kids at school - they were always telling tall tales to impress or scare the rest of us ... still remember "Patrick R" telling us about how a particular sort of lightning bolt would crack the world in two, LOL! And one of the others saying the concrete structure in the middle of the school ground was a WW2 bunker (there used to be a bunker there, but that wasn't it). LOL. As I was saying in an earlier comment; recently I read an article in which researchers claimed we humans are wired to believe in the mysterious, which is why we're inclined to be religious. Religions are great mysteries. For an example, look no further than Christianity's book, The Bible. In the earlier part there's a great flood, a burning bush, a pillar of fire, an ark which gets carried around and from which the "Power" or "Voice" of God emanates, a sea that parts and lets people cross to safety, an entire city razed and a woman turned into a pillar of salt, a guy called Ezekiel who describes something akin to an aircraft - "I'll have some of whatever he was having, thanks!" - just to name a few instances. In the latter part it's just as good: there's walking on water, turning water into wine, raising people from the dead, feeding thousands with a few loaves and fishes, driving out demons, transfiguring into three entities (again, "I'll have some of whatever they're having, thanks!"), disappearing from a tomb, appearing on the road to Emmaus, tongues of fire, and ascending upstairs. We're so wired for believing the mysterious we can't help ourselves! In this modern age, we're only just starting to eclipse our ancestors as the biggest conspiracy theorists to have ever walked the Earth. What are the latest ones/ Virus escaped from a lab ... or engineered by a rich American philanthropist and a financial speculator to kill most of us off, a vaccine engineered to kill the rest of us off, stolen election and "Fed posting", chemtrails, child-molesting blood-drinking lizard men in human disguise ... they get better and better each day, LOL!
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  914. Hmmmm ... V2 rockets and scientists ...
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  915.  @davidlynch9049  As opposed to true propaganda?
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  916.  @johnwright291  If they did what you claim they did, then you might as well extend that to claim that they used Die Glocke to get Bormann past all of the Red Army troops surrounding Berlin. They also used Die Glocke to get everyone else out, which implies that Bormann's boss and boss's mistress also left via the same means and lived happily ever after elsewhere. 😂
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  917. It has always struck me as weird: why won't dictators let those who don't want to stay to just go? I've heard it's quite often the more educated / skilled who want to leave, and the dictators decide their skills are needed so they keep them inside the country. As for people in capitalist countries leaving, it still takes money to leave to go to what they consider to be a better country. I know of people who've left the USA to come here, and it took them years of saving to buy the air tickets let alone pay for the visa application and processing fees, etc.
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  918.  @UnpepperedAngus  Look at young Chinese people living in the PRC today. They firmly believe that the Party is correct, and will obey the Party's directions. But they've never been anywhere else to see the rest of the world, and what information they have available to them regarding the outside is very limited and carefully shaped.
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  919. Not a pilot, then?
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  920. That's an amazing story, thanks for sharing! I wonder how many other couples got together due to a random letter from some girl back home?
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  921.  @Regis1995  Just like 60 Hz vs 50 Hz ...
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  922. You could collect bits of it and sell them.
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  923.  @donjones4719  Or the 737 MAX ...
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  924.  @SuperEdge67  From his response to other comments on this video, it seems he gets very triggered by the British designing anything useful ... and especially if anyone has the sheer hide to allege that it was better than something designed in the USA.
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  925. L'Hopital's rule would fail for a function f(x)/g(x) if g(x) and its derivative g'(x), when evaluated at x=a, obey g(a)=g'(a)=0.
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  926.  @kimwit1307  They must've been hallucinating during the English classes, too.
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  927.  @jeffclark7888  It might distinguish the reaction from "virtually" laughing out loud?
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  928. Next up for your viewing enjoyment: "The Return Of The Mark Felton" ...
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  929. Wart Hunder?
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  930. It was the Austro-Hungarian empire ... :-)
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  931. I was talking with an old gentleman who served in the Allied armies in North Africa. He and his unit were captured by Axis forces during the 2nd Battle Of El Alamein, but were POWs for only one day. He said he and his friends very nearly didn't make it. They were captured by the Italians, who were lining them up to shoot them ... until Rommel himself arrived with his column and relieved the Italians of their prisoners. The German column then split up, with Rommel and entourage going elsewhere. The next day, the German unit (with its Allied prisoners) were captured by the British.
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  932. 2:34 "Hitler's large personal staff" - what an interesting way to refer to his personal physician featured at 5:46 ...
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  933.  @TheWilferch  Nah, I reckon people who say that need to keep on saying it. That way we all know there's a nob involved ...
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  934. That's a classic. I'll be no-one in the graduating class would ever forget that moment. I can't remember what was said in the speeches at my graduation ... but I do remember being there.
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  935. And somewhere on the Japanese language YouTube site there is a マーク・フェルトン channel showing captured Zeros, Betties, and Nates being flow in Allied markings ... :)
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  936. When the border eventually falls, unification is going to take a lot of work - much, much more than when Germany re-unified in the 1990s. It's also going to take external funding if the north is not to fall into complete poverty after re-unification.
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  937. In the mid-80s I remember seeing a documentary which stated the "duck and cover" drill wouldn't have worked, and it was likely promoted as a means of instilling some degree of hope in the general population.
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  938. And some whacko things went on near Waco a few decades ago, too.
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  939.  @pebo8306  Which guys in Afghanistan are you talking about? Guessing the wrong nationality again, by any chance? And the guy's name is "Peiper".
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  940.  @SaturatedCat  Usually the latter, and if the people try escaping then they were shot. ☹️
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  941.  @pebo8306  Lack of attention to detail, e.g. not bothering to get an historical figure's name correct, often indicates a lot about a person's mindset. This is often seen in the writings of conspiracy theorists, people with extreme political views, etc. And it's not the result of poor schooling - it results from the underlying personality aspects of the person making the errors. Edit: PS. Getting someone's name right is not a grammar issue, regardless of the language being used.
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  942. It gets quite cold there at night, though.
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  943.  @arnesaknussemm2427  Back from the centre of the Earth?
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  944.  @EnigmaEnginseer  It is that, yes.
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  945.  @iffracem  It's quite possible that most of Eastern Europe would have been "glowing", but it would've been due to Allied bombs being used on Soviet formations. The USSR would've sued for peace soon enough after a few of its top fighting formations had been reduced to burnt crisps.
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  946.  @johnjephcote7636  With that sort of hat-doffing to Stalin, Neil Kinnock might as well have been Prime Minister.
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  947. Did the witness ever state what became of this limbless survivor?
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  948. The other aspect is the adverse affect on the morale of the wounded soldier's comrades. A small wound is "man up, you'll be OK", being killed is "well, at least it was quick", having a leg mangled is "that's a lot of pain, and he'll never walk properly ever again".
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  949. LOL. Read Jack Higgins's author's note at the end of the book!
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  950.  @smr32061  The edition I read just after it came out had the note at the end. It's still just a story invented by a very creative mind.
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  951. There's a fund raiser for someone of the same name who died of domestic violence injuries three years later.
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  952.  @andypozuelos1204  And Dr. Felton said those jerrycans were only allowed there during transportation, and not in combat.
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  953. No-one is who they appear to be in this day and age. We all have body doubles, it seems. If you eat too much and don't exercise enough then you end of with double body.
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  954. It should have been changed to NonPersonGrad instead.
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  955.  @jeffreyval9665  Personanongrada sounds like the surname of Mr. Personanongrad's Russian wife or daughter.
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  956.  @jamesgoss1860  And "the coal is always rolling" for this pilot ...
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  957.  @dungeonseeker3087  That was one of the reasons why we stopped using our Google Home Mini. Another reason is that it just didn't do anything useful for us ...
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  958.  @justayoutuber1906  Haha ... I had a reporter say that to me once - they rang my workplace and somehow the call got put through to me. It went something like this ... still chuckle when I think of it. Reporter: "I'd like to have an off-the-record chat about this new project your company is working on." Me "Really? Off-the-record?" Reporter: "Yes. Is that OK?" Me: "You realise that means you won't be part of the conversation, don't you?"
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  959. "Unfortunately, it was written off in a landing accident shortly afterwards ... and SCRAPPED!" I just knew they'd find a way of scrapping it eventually!!!
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  960. They also mention "the propeller" ... on a rotor craft that isn't an autogyro?
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  961.  @frankieli98  14m deep and just off the Carolinas - not-so-big water.
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  962.  @sandragambrel9721  What kind of aerial was it: quarter-wave vertical monopole, half-wave horizontal dipole, 3-element Yagi array, etc?
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  963. Lots of replies ... watch more carefully next time, LOL!
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  964.  @zemetrius  The US and British forces handed over German POWs to the Soviets (not the Russians - the country was known as the USSR at the time), as those forces pulled back to the lines agreed at the Yalta Conference. So it's highly likely that any German POWs still in what's now known as the Czech Republic at the time of the US withdrawal would've been handed over to Soviet forces. I read about one instance of this in a book written by a former Wehrmacht soldier whose unit had surrendered to the Americans. They were hemmed into a big circle by American troops. That night they heard lots of noise on the perimeter, and awoke in the morning to find themselves surrounded by a ring of T34 tanks - during the night the Americans had handed over to the Soviets. The Germans were marched / cattle-wagoned to the USSR, and spent years in POW camps there. This particular soldier was released in the 1950s, and emigrated to Australia, which is where he published his book.
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  965. America didn't win the spelling bee, though ...
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  966. Bletchley Park broke the Weather Code, with the help of intact codes and machines taken from captured German weather trawlers stationed in the North Atlantic. That then provided the cribs to decipher the 4-wheel enigma code used by the U-boats.
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  967.  @endutubecensorship  I was at a course where one of the lecturers had worked at the Skunk Works. What he could tell us was fascinating, but what he hinted at and couldn't tell us more about was even more intriguing. The funniest part was when he told how his wife thought he worked at the Lockheed facility at a nearby airport, because that's where he went every workday morning and came home from in the evening. When he got to the airport of a morning, he and his colleagues boarded a passenger jet owned by Lockheed that flew them to where they really worked.
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  968. Hands tied behind hands? "Hey, Marty, lend me a hand here will you?" "And now everyone, let's hear a big hand for Marty!"
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  969.  @zobblewobble1770  MacArthur nearly got zapped during his nighttime escape from the Philippines. He and his wife were escaping by PT boat, and when they landed they would board an aircraft which would fly them (eventually) to Australia. One of the escorting PT boats lost visual contact with the boat the MacArthurs were on, but hadn't realised this. Then they noticed this other boat following them in the distance. Thinking it was Japanese, they were about to open fire on it when they realised it was a PT boat. A close call in the fog of war!
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  970. I don't have VS Community 2022, but I also had trouble with VS Community 2019. See my other reply linking a video showing how to get another extension which will allow this ... hopefully that works in VS Community 2022 too.
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  971. It may be that "Conscription" is more of a British term when referring to men who in US parlance are "drafted". Conscription was certainly the term used in Australia (then part of the British Empire) - incidentally where the people voted against conscription during WW2, so it didn't happen.
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  972. Related to Mrs Norris?
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  973. Evidence?
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  974. There's a YouTube video about that.
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  975. What kind of aerial were they using for this superiority? Yagi-Uda array borrowed from the Japanese?
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  976. The problem is that most of the American audience would not have understood why, and would've said the film was wrong.
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  977.  @garrygemmell5676  It's not only British people. Trolls exist in every country. You could be forgiven for feeling sorry for them, experiencing life in such a way that they derive pleasure from trying to tear down others.
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  978. Some of the BA and Whitworth fastener clearance diameters are very close to metric.
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  979. It's not happening in other Western societies, it's just the USA.
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  980.  @Martinko_Pcik  Good observation. It stands to reason that the partisans would use that flag, and the official flag of the region at the time was that of The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a German construct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia.
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  981. My humble congratulations, Comrade Award Winner.
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  982. :D I thought the same thing when he said that.
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  983. Maybe a thAI?
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  984. There are skull collectors out there? I never knew that. What are they called ... Yorickers?
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  985.  @michaelcollins8330  There is no "U" in Qantas. Having said that; Qantas allegedly repairing the aircraft to maintain their record doesn't quite stack up. Qantas (or at least its component parts) have lost aircraft- aside from various hull losses in the Qantas international fleet, VH-TFM and VH-TQQ were part of the fleet which is nowadays the domestic arm of Qantas.
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  986. There was a manual bolt hold - a button for holding it open when carrying out the stoppage IA.
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  987. Thanks for talking about the origins of these symbols. It might help debunk some arguments put up by those who really don't know what they're talking about.
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  988. Remarkable! I really like these videos highlighting the technology of the time. Thanks for posting this one.
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  989. That would be a sword from The Great Patriotic Waugh ...
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  990. Was that the "Wonder Kid"?
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  991.  @AtheAetheling  Thanks very much for your reasoned response. Certainly the "Mother Country" was overstretched and unable to defend its territory in the Far East. Occasionally I encounter people who are amazed that the first frontline fighter flown by the RAAF which could deal with the Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" in the Southwest Pacific theatre was not a Spitfire or a Hurricane - it was a Kittyhawk. And the first air defence radars operating in the area were not from the UK - they were US-manufactured radars which had been tropicalised locally. And we never had "Chain Home" or something similar sweeping the skies around Darwin, Broome, Townsville, etc, at the start of hostilities in the Pacific. One thing I have been intrigued about was some alleged commentary immediately after the loss of HMS Prince Of Wales and HMS Repulse when a British admiral in London said "I feared <commander's name> would balls this up, and he has!" I read this online a few years ago, but I have never been able to find this statement again since then. I had a great uncle who served in 8th Division 2nd AIF - he like most of his colleagues was captured in Malaya and spent quite some time as a guest of the Japanese. I recall only ever meeting him once when I was very young, and never got the opportunity to speak with him other than saying hello.
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  992. Yep, the Pot War ... an oft-forgotten conflict.
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  993.  @zxbzxbzxb1  Hopefully he's inferring that geographically it's part of North America.
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  994. That's a weird introduction regarding soft landings, and an even weirder video title! As you state later in your video, NASA sent unmanned Surveyor spacecraft which soft-landed prior to Apollo. Yes, the USSR did it first, but the USA was not far behind with soft landings prior to Apollo. Surveyor 3 remains the only space probe on another world which has been visited by humans when the crew of the Apollo 12 LEM visited the spacecraft, removed some parts, and returned them to Earth.
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  995. I had the pleasure of meeting an elderly English gentleman who had been a gunner in the Western Desert campaign. Rommel and the Kasta saved his life and the lives of his colleagues. The British gunners had been overrun and captured by the Italians, who were going to shoot them out of hand. But Rommel arrived, and relieved the Italians of their prisoners. Later, the Kasta rendezvoused with another German unit and transferred the prisoners. The next day that German unit was captured by the British, thus ending the short period of captivity for these British gunners.
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  996. Scotland, Wales, and Northern Island also copped a lot of ordnance as well as England. The whole of the UK did.
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  997.  @catmarrco7863  Yep, apparently ThotSlayer was a really nice person until 1/6, and on the very next school day they were immediately indoctrinated. That's how quick those Democrats infiltrate the school system. But don't worry too much about it - in 3 years and 2 months (who's counting?), Orange Roughy will be back in the White House and ThotSlayer will be immediately deprogrammed and turned straight back into being a really nice person.
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  998.  @barrykevin7658  "Books? Y'all ain't got no dang need for them darn books! Books are for those communists who'd ruin this here great, God-given country! Y'all just listen to me - I'll tell y'all's what needs to be known!"
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  999. Not sure what explosive is used on them, but imagine that casing being full of Torpex!
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  1000.  @AndyM...  And we elect those politicians. But this month gives us an opportunity to change that ...
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  1001. True. But you can go and see and touch a Concorde - this is proof of their existence regardless of other attempts at developing a SST. (And those attempts exist in a physical form, too.) Currently a member of the general public cannot go and see and touch a saucer-shaped craft that actually flew, so for the vast majority of us the jury is still out as to whether or not flying versions existed or still exist.
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  1002.  @tomjustis7237  Well said indeed. A voice of reason.
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  1003.  @alvaro701  Agree. He made the old "secretly I care but I am going to say no-one cares - just saying" fake-I-don't-care response. 😂
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  1004. It would have done most of the deploying over the Red states ... go figure.
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  1005. Can't wait for the next installment on what's fake! What will it be? COVID-19, 5G, 9/11, Area 51, the Moon landings, JFK, secret Nazi bases in Antarctica (or even on the Moon) ... just can't wait!
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  1006. Maybe the RAF were looking at what it could do. Remember, at that time the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm were still flying a very successful biplane torpedo bomber.
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  1007. The chairs got sick and tired of being sat on by drunk people, so they decided so leave ...
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  1008.  @tango6nf477  I would've given a "like" for the OP only they ballsed up the England vs UK bit ... and actually it was the whole Empire, not just the UK.
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  1009. Others are saying they've seen them in museums since 96.
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  1010. But that book is about someone else, not Martin Bormann.
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  1011. 12:03 ... Eastlund disassociated himself ... Is that like disassociative recombination which is one of the free electron loss mechanisms the ionosphere? On a more serious note: it's amazing what radio communications and/or research facilities are labelled as HAARP stations on Google Maps, despite these facilities not being in Alaska, and not being associated with HAARP. For example, this one in Townsville, QLD, Australia, -19.237768, 146.722246, which has nothing whatsoever to do with HAARP, but some conspiracy theorist has labelled it as such, LOL.
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  1012.  @QuilinImperator  They were busy concentrating on their plans for a Greater Co-prosperity Sphere in SE Asia.
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  1013.  @robertdevito5001  Actually, I think that was the position of the tank in front of Carius's tank, or the position of the pilot making the frontal attack on Carius's tank.
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  1014.  @liquidocelot5976  It took quite a while to tidy up the Suez Canal and re-open it back then. I remember reading in the newspaper (back when they had papers) about the mine clearing operations.
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  1015. I wouldn't rely on the film too much for factual information. It's a dramatisation designed to sell the movie and make a profit. The NTSB hearing sequences in the film were dramatised.
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  1016.  @JohnnyAngel8  For all of two weeks ...
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  1017.  @HighlandLaddie  As in =/= means ≠
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  1018. ​ @MayYourGodGoWithYou  Must have run foul of someone in the IRA? But they probably would've used an Armalite to brass up the car.
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  1019. Mark Felton stars in The Horde Of The Rings ...
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  1020.  @markmitin7397  A Serb, viz. Gavrilo Princip, killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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  1021. There have been a lot of mass executions in that part of the world over the years. You could see it on the TV news in the mid-90s. I remember a line from a novel set in that part of the world, where a brothel madam is retelling her younger years around WW1. "That winter was the coldest winter ever. And the famine - people in the eastern provinces were dying of hunger and cold faster than you could machine-gun them ... and I've seen people machine-gunned!"
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  1022. In contrast, the comments sections of YouTube videos let people fly their true colours. Some of those people will have an interesting time defending their actions in about a decade when there's sufficient computing power to link a "fake" YouTube subscriber name to a real person. Anonymity is great to hide behind until technology comes up with a new equivalent of an x-ray machine.
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  1023. "... supported by Brewster Buffalo aircraft." Now there's a euphemism and a half!
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  1024. If you're talking about that terrible film dating to around 2001 or thereabouts, that was (very) loosely set during the battle for Stalingrad.
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  1025. This gives a new meaning to the term "LZ Dog". One can only wonder how the dogs would've reacted to that first zero G experience, and the subsequent laundry bill.
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  1026.  @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music  Yep. There are reports of a balloon transiting the northern parts of South America yesterday.
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  1027. "Next time that ball comes into my yard you're not getting it back! Do y'all hear?!?!"
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  1028.  @hshs5756  Other commentators are saying it was the "Put Put", which is called an APU. The APU in the B-29 resides in the rear of the aircraft, just forward of the tail gun position. It is started on the ground prior to engine start by the tail gunner. Once the engineer has started all the engines, the tail gunner shuts the APU down before take-off. This is all described in at least one WW2 era training film for B-29 flight engineers on YouTube.
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  1029.  @kylebritt1225  The Bien Hoa?
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  1030. But that's not how the conspiracy theorist works. Their mind works more like that of a cult leader than that of someone seeking knowledge or the truth. There is a power kick that comes from being able to convince many people to follow one's ideas, and to hang on one's every word. In the time before (and during, somewhat) the Renaissance, the equivalent was the archbishop of a church - they had the ear of the rulers of the time, and guarded that jealously. Look at how many who sought the truth in science were deemed as heretics. In one case of a particularly well-known scientific investigator in the 16th and 17th century who dared to say that the Earth revolved around the Sun and not the other way around, the sentence for their alleged heresy was not revoked until late in the 20th century - after all, the religious institution concerned couldn't have someone making accurate predictions of certain phenomena, because otherwise the rulers of the time may start listening to that person instead of listening to the religious leaders.
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  1031. They also did stuff like not using toothpaste (used charcoal instead) because of the distinct scent in the jungle. One of them told me that the best way to blend into the jungle is to smell like it.
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  1032. That's because people use Die Glocke (which they borrowed from Martin Bormann) to go back in time and watch it.
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  1033. Ah, I remember Autobahn when it was first played on the radio here (Australia). Nothing else like it.
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  1034.  @tomhenry897  OP reckons it was a Landrover Defender ...
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  1035. Yes @jguerr562 you are correct: the announcement from Tokyo would've come out on their 8th December because Tokyo is west of the International Date Line. The Pearl Harbor attack and other surprise attacks on interests in the Far East (Philippines, etc) occurred within hours of each other, but the former occurred on the 7th in Hawaii and the latter occurred on the 8th in the Far East - all on the same day. (If anyone doubts this, then here's an experiment to try: go to Pearl Harbor, and make a call to Tokyo. Ask them what time and date it is, and compare it with your local time in Hawaii.) Sadly, Hollywood couldn't put the 8th in the movie because a vast majority of the American audience wouldn't have understood why it would be the 8th in Tokyo where the radio broadcast was originating from but it would be the 7th in Hawaii - everyone knows Pearl Harbor was attacked on the 7th, so Hollywood had to make it also the 7th in Tokyo even though it was really the 8th.
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  1036. Moral of the story for a rhesus monkey seeking longevity in the late 40s: don't be named Albert.
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  1037. Sooner or later we'll be hearing accusations that anyone believing in a spherical Earth is a Nazi ...
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  1038. Sadly, this could've resulted in an even worse outcome for Germany. Fighting into the second half of 1945, or even into 1946, would've forced the US government's hand. By early in the latter half of 1945, the people of the US saw what it took to end the war in the Pacific quickly. They would've watched the mounting casualty lists from the European theatre, and demanded a similar "quick fix" to that problem so their sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, and uncles could come home safely and soonest. The very thought of what might have happened is fearful, and thankfully it didn't.
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  1039. Sadly, this could've resulted in an even worse outcome for Germany. Fighting into the second half of 1945, or even into 1946, would've forced the US government's hand. By early in the latter half of 1945, the people of the US saw what it took to end the war in the Pacific quickly. They would've watched the mounting casualty lists from the European theatre, and demanded a similar "quick fix" to that problem so their sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, and uncles could come home safely and soonest. The very thought of what might have happened is fearful, and thankfully it didn't.
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  1040. Sadly, this could've resulted in an even worse outcome for Germany. Fighting into the second half of 1945, or even into 1946, would've forced the US government's hand. By early in the latter half of 1945, the people of the US saw what it took to end the war in the Pacific quickly. They would've watched the mounting casualty lists from the European theatre, and demanded a similar "quick fix" to that problem so their sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, and uncles could come home safely and soonest. The very thought of what might have happened is fearful, and thankfully it didn't.
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  1041. The other problem with cellphones in the military is when the soldiers, etc, leave the position reporting systems enabled ... you can see on social media where they go and when. :)
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  1042.  @a.bastianwiik5592  The South Africans and Israelis could have worked together on that. They're known / rumoured to have worked together on other matters, e.g. nuclear weapons.
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  1043.  @edwardschmitt5710  You could understand Oberleutnant Ohmsen eventually abandoning the guns and leading his men to safety ... they probably couldn't have hit anything anymore, given how worn out the barrel linings would've been.
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  1044. Indeed. Firebombs don't just grow in one's attic or somehow miraculously appear - there's always a human agency involved. :)
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  1045.  @MrKakibuy  Yep, and if anyone really, really wants a swastika these days I'm sure they can make one ... or pay someone who has a 3D printer to make one for them.
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  1046. The aircraft was trying to tell them about the problem - see around 17:53 or thereabouts.
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  1047. That's why they couldn't take a radio - the mass of the balls!
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  1048. "Is that an order, Mr Macmillan?" "No Ma'am, it's my recommendation."
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  1049. Thanks very much Dr. Felton for your efforts in putting out videos even though you were not feeling well - that's dedication to your work! Glad to hear you're recovering, and soon will no longer be "The Hoarse Whisperer".
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  1050. If you consider an identity matrix [I] of order 2, then the first column is the transformed i-hat vector, which is identical to i-hat. Likewise, the second column of [I] is the transformed j-hat vector, which is identical to j-hat. Hence the identity matrix "transforms" each basis vector into itself ... in other words, it doesn't change any of the basis vectors, hence it can be considered as an identity transformation. Edit: [I] looks like [ 1 0 ] [ 0 1 ] i-hat is [ 1 ] [ 0 ] and j-hat is [ 0 ] [ 1 ]
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  1051.  @collinsoconnor5843  Did McDonald's exist in WW2?
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  1052.  @WhatIsYourMalfunction  And depending on who they listen to, they'll believe the US government did it or some terrorists did it. Amazing that the USA has come to this ... it's certainly not the same country as they one us non-Americans used to look up to decades ago.
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  1053. The best laid VPNs of mice and men ... gnawed VPN!
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  1054.  @STScott-qo4pw  Around El Alamein and along the coast road there are still WW2 minefields. The guide books warn travellers not to enter fenced areas ... and sometimes the "fence" is just a single strand of wire.
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  1055. Where did you read that? Another commentator said similar, but didn't post any source(s).
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  1056.  @donjones4719  Increase the transmitter power and shorten the wavelength ...
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  1057. The Royal Australian Navy named the Bay-class landing ship HMAS Choules after CPO Claude Choules.
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  1058. Is that Mayotte, etc?
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  1059. Brilliant, well done!
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  1060. Which part don't you believe?
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  1061. ROWF! <wag wag wag>
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  1062. That Merlin engine sounds great!
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  1063.  @1maico1  Even an unarmed bomb falling from altitude would kick up a lot of water. Lots of unarmed bombs falling from altitude would be quite something to weave through, especially at low altitude due to weather. Then there's the possibility of merely being impacted by a bomb, armed or otherwise. As I wrote in a comment earlier on where someone claimed that a plane being hit by a bomb was highly unlikely, it happened. There are stories of larger bombing raids where various flights bombed at different altitudes to avoid collisions, but also were supposed to bomb at slightly different times to avoid hitting each other, but one fight or the other would arrive out of sync, resulting the lower flight flying through a rain of bombs - and planes did get hit.
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  1064.  @cmanlovespancakes  They pushed stacks of them over the side just off Sydney, NSW. It cost too much to take them back to the USA.
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  1065. And his driver is wearing German uniform. Soviet troops would've had the flag of the USSR at the time. But maybe it was a means of indicating safe passage? There appear to be Soviets in the crowd at 3:28.
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  1066.  @tomat6362  As is the nice icecream and meatballs ...
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  1067. It would've been pronounced "Yustin". Maybe it's a log entry indicating that the pilot is almost able to close the hatch on their mini-submarine, or that they've just entered the submarine: "Just in Bieber"?
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  1068. See my other reply linking a video showing how to get another extension which will allow this.
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  1069. No doubt hiding out in the secret Antarctic base ... Or maybe it really was Captain von Schonbeck in U-517 operating from his secret base on Corbie Island ... Biggles and his crew didn't get von Schonbeck on Kerguelen after all!
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  1070.  @stefanschutz5166  "Rabbit, wild, deceased, quantity 1 off, for the cooking thereof." These days it would probably be designated with a NSN ... but you'd need to be careful when ordering one - get one digit wrong and instead they send you a fire engine, or a crate of 200 arctic sleeping bags.
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  1071.  @ahmadfarrall2097  Dr. Felton produced a video about a year or so ago on the "Nazi princesses" and IIRC Martin Bormann's children are mentioned there.
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  1072.  @SuicideNeil  1990s: Hey, let's go burn down the school library tonight! 2020s: Hey, let's go trolling on some YouTube channels!
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  1073. @Carlton B Cyclotrons? Remarkable.
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  1074. The name of this mine due to translation error or similarity of words between two languages reminded me of the infamous "Knee Mortar" used by the Japanese. A very light mortar with a shovel-like base plate built into it, an error in translating Japanese documents resulted in the name the allied forces gave it. Some GIs and Marines figured it must be called that because you put one knee on the ground and support the mortar with your thigh while firing it. Apparently after a few people suffered compound fractures of the thigh, word got around ...
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  1075. It made me realise how many US presidents (or presidential hopefuls) have been zapped since 1776; and how lucky I am to live in a democracy where no-one has resorted to using a gun to change the country's leadership.
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  1076.  @uingaeoc3905  I guess we can let the readers judge ... some others have had the same misunderstanding as mine, LOL.
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  1077. I dunno ... the film would show it to be a T-54A driven to the American embassy ...
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  1078. OK, I was wondering what a "wound" (as in "wownd") badge was, now I know it's a "wound" (as in "woond") badge. Thanks!
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  1079.  @johnburns4017  They're known as "45ers" or "6/1ers" ...
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  1080. It was a rebreather ... you can Google it to learn more.
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  1081. The fruit flies ... from outer space! Look to the skies!
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  1082.  @maquettemusic1623  "British culture is at least partly built around the mythos of being the underdog and of doing the right thing in the wrong times." Even in peacetime this is the case, e.g. Robert Falcon Scott. As kids, we were told how heroic his party was, e.g. Titus Oates: "I'm going outside. I may be some time." But looking at that whole expedition critically, it's hard to see how it could've been planned and executed any worse than it was. Here in Australia, our major underdog moment was the ANZAC landing on the Gallipoli peninsula on 25 April 1915. A complete cock-up, and often blamed on the British (landed on the wrong beaches, incorrectly synchronised watches so coordinated attacks didn't happen, etc, etc). But basically it was a stuff-up of incredible magnitude ... yet we celebrate it. However, we rarely hear of the brilliance of General Monash who was one of the first to use a combined arms attack (aircraft, artillery, tanks and infantry) against the Germans in France during the same war. It seems that the underdogs get remembered the most, especially when they fail for obvious and preventable reasons.
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  1083. Which sources are they?
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  1084. You'd never want the history class to finish, that's for sure!
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  1085. Did they ever declare war on each other?
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  1086. Sounds like a certifiable case of "Small Man Syndrome" ...
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  1087. The warnings at 17:53 are for.
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  1088. I suspect your edit comments are on the money. It wouldn't have been worth his while to say he decided to surrender at Remagen, as his life wouldn't have been worth living in Germany at that time after the war.
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  1089. "One copy was given to the Americans ... and was recently put up for sale." The tone in which Dr. Felton uttered these words said volumes.
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  1090.  @anthony7489  Die Glocke ...
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  1091.  @bigfoot163  Miss information? I guess if the conservatives owned the media it would be Mister information?
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  1092. VVW and VVWH? 😂😂😂
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  1093. The Australians and Americans defending Milne Bay, PNG, knocked out a few Japanese tanks during the Japanese forces' first ever land defeat. Pictures of knocked out tanks taken in the aftermath of the fighting can be found on the Australian War Memorial website.
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  1094. I've read that book.
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  1095.  @peterlyons8793  Why bomb them? The USA got Osama Bin Laden. Why not leave the country to the Afghans, and just stay out of it?
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  1096. I knew an old aircraft mechanic who serviced those during the war. He said the Napier Sabre engine was a challenge to maintain.
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  1097. No, I don't. But both of my dogs do.
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  1098. It's easier and cheaper to test your "prototype" as a computer model than build it and test it in the wind tunnel. Once you weed out the various failures you can proceed with building prototypes of those which passed, and test those in the wind tunnel. This principle of "test in software before testing in real life" goes for many other engineering endeavours.
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  1099. OK, the story is starting to come together, I think.
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  1100.  @silvermasktraveler1788  The Marshall Plan. Google it.
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  1101. And the Japanese actually succeeded in doing so during WW2.
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  1102. And the hours that Stalin would sat and stared at it, wondering what its previous owner would've thought as he sat and started at it.
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  1103. British
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  1104.  @letsburn00  Raiders Of The Lost Arc?
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  1105.  @davidmoser3535  And a copper bar - this was the conductor. Later on the boat was used for mysterious sailing trips around the Bermuda Triangle.
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  1106.  @warrenmilford1329  Now also known as "Calling for Ruth on the Great White Telephone" ...
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  1107. Resistors, eh?
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  1108. They've certainly had their fair share of fruit cakes over at least the last century, from despotic monarchs to despotic tyrants. Boris Yeltzin was probably the only decent one they've ever had.
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  1109.  @Harmuthkuthanapalithi  But she wasn't on overtime pay at that time.
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  1110. It's not the world. I live in a Western society where we can own guns and we're not killing each other like this.
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  1111.  @tomstravels520  Yep, agree. I've read this suggested "solution" in a few comments so far - it's a typical "Here's a control to mitigate this risk, but I forgot to realise that it'll give rise to another risk" solution, LOL.
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  1112. You need to factor the dislike of the USA into one of the prime reasons why certain people continue to argue against the position stated in Dr. Felton's video.
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  1113.  @scottbrown7073  It surprised me about 25 years ago how many English people (as opposed to British people not from England) didn't think Australia was an independent country. They still thought that Australia bowed to Westminster, and Westminster could overrule Australian laws. I was even asked questions like "If Australia decided to rebel against England, what side of the barricades would I be on?" 😂 It was like these people had never heard of the Westminster Act and Australia Act, let alone understood the significance of 1901.
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  1114. How lucky was that teenage girl?!? If her mother hadn't looked up the markings when she did, or the girl got a bit inventive on how to unscrew the cap ... gives me the shudders just thinking about it.
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  1115.  @hwoods01  Sadly, you are correct. That happened with a friend of mine's father's stuff - when he passed away, my friend's family got to it before he did, and it all went to the tip. I don't think the family knew just what they were getting rid of.
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  1116.  @cmanlovespancakes  Not too many years ago a crew landed a cargo Dreamliner at the wrong field in the USA.
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  1117. I was wondering if it was the flag of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia, but the colours are in the wrong order. Would the Russian flag have been flown anywhere in WW2, as the entire country was known as the USSR and had a very different flag? Perhaps the flag was a means of indicating safe passage, and there appear to be Soviet troops in the crowd at 3:28.
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  1118.  @MrHws5mp  I guess the problem is that you don't have supporters of the previous heinous occupants turning up at castles trying to use them as shrines. Many people would see a former Nazi ring-leader's house as a potential shrine for the neo-Nazis.
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  1119. Not really strange at all, when you look at why the US were there. The US was the occupying power in that part of Germany. That's what happens to countries that lose a "total" war - they get occupied and the winner gets to say what happens and what doesn't happen.
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  1120.  @dough9512  I was wondering about the same thing.
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  1121. Pretty good actually. It lets the USA understand what it was doing and how it flew (it must be using AI given the way it behaved), it let them bring it down in shallow water inside their territorial waters so they can recover the pieces and study it, and it let the USA milk the international political scene for all it's worth. Not a bad effort at all - sounds like a strategic victory.
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  1122. "The Thing (from Outer Space)" ... loved the original black and white movie. It was based on the short story "Who goes there?" written by John W. Campbell, Jr. (who used the pen name Don A. Stuart).
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  1123.  @gingernutpreacher  Your comment reminded me of a discussion in a comments section on one of those Hollywood movies depicting the US forces doing something that actually the Commonwealth forces did. (It might've been retrieving the first four-wheel Enigma machine and codebooks from a U-boat.) Some of the American commentators were saying "Well, if you want your story told then you can make your own movies", which was an interesting way of saying, "We support our movie industry not telling the truth - if you want people to know the truth, then you'll need to tell it yourself."
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  1124. How about a time share scheme for Nazi leaders at a secret Antarctic base?
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  1125. I'm itching to know what the ordinary people in the north really know of the outside world. Is it like the people of the Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany) who had quite some knowledge of the "The West", or is it worse?
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  1126. Ah, that often-whispered-about but little-known Soviet location, Merkiy Surkumztanzhes - it seems a lot of strange things happen to people in that place ...
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  1127.  @possiblepilotdeviation5791  ... or should that be @Impossible Pilot Deviation? :) The middle option could have been a scenario where a hunter was about to shoot some wildlife and Mr. Jacobs' aircraft lands on top of the hunter just as they're about to squeeze the trigger?
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  1128.  @DJ-sn2xj  Reminded me of the Garfield cartoon when Jon takes Garfield to have his picture taken by the professional pet photographer: "Hey, Harry! Break out the wide angle lens!"
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  1129. Definitely not an area weapon then, as most artillery is designed to be.
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  1130. The trouble is that he would just need a working aircraft that hadn't been destroyed on the ground by Soviet air attack, with fuel, and the means of getting to it from the Fuhrer bunker.
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  1131.  @saltymonke3682  Was it or was it not a routine front inspection by Yamamoto? The status of the inspection would have nothing to do with when or how the USN cracked the code.
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  1132.  @BloxEzio3  Your last sentence: the land version of the Americans' island-hopping strategy.
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  1133.  @somaa5778  But not all within a day or so.
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  1134.  @cgi2002  New Zealand is a signatory to the ANZUS Treaty ...
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  1135. BIt hard to talk between two continents without telephone or radio, though. So letters were important, too.
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  1136. I used to love reading the "Reader's Digest" in the 70s!
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  1137. Probably unsung right now, to keep their deeds secret. We'll hear about them in about 20 or 30 years from now.
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  1138. Yep, they are. Kodak was certainly multinational, and produced film used worldwide.
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  1139. He did mention it.
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  1140. Rudolph Hoss Wasn't he in Bonanza ...?
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  1141.  @pedroarochasilva7714  /whoosh/ 😂
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  1142. Was that Iwo Jima after most of the marines and their weapons had been loaded back onto the ships and taken away? The Americans thought all the Japanese were dead, but quite a few were still hiding in caves and tunnels, and came out after dark to attack the relatively lightly armed Americans.
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  1143. Have you ever tried removing a mud wasp nest from a hole? You'd need a fair bit of liquid over quite a bit of time to do it.
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  1144.  @johnmulligan7609  Actually not all Americans think that way, but the Americans that do are usually Republican supporters trying to link the Democrats to Nazism. The bit these people don't get is they've taken Eugenics from the Nazi's playbook and modified it by adding money to the equation, i.e. if you are poor, or have underlying conditions, then you're not going to make it. This has been brought to light by their Dear Leader's response to COVID-19 - when queried on this, some of his supporters said genetic diseases, etc, are just a case of "mind over matter", so anyone with an underlying condition must take responsibility for that condition.
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  1145. Very Poe-tical ...
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  1146. How reliable is the GI's account, and how did he conduct this corroboration in order to check the woman's claim? Plenty of GIs wrote or talked about stuff and got it wrong - you can hear it in oral histories, videos on YouTube, etc, where during the time they were in Europe they claim one thing is happening when something else was actually happening.
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  1147.  @jon112785   Sounds like this French woman who has been telling this story from the beginning told it to yet another person, who in this case turned out to be a British soldier from the Royal Engineers. There's no telling that the story wasn't embellished or even made up from the very first time she told it. This sort of thing reminds me of a state politician in my country who was sprung for falsely claiming he was a former Olympic athlete. It all started when he was asked during an interview by a reporter (who had got her stories mixed up) - she thought he had made the Olympic squad but he had only tried out for it, and never actually competed. For some reason that he himself couldn't later explain, he said "Yes" when she asked if he had competed at the Olympics. And then he kept telling that story whenever he was asked about the Olympics. He was eventually found out when someone did some checking, which was very embarrassing for all concerned.
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  1148.  @coling3957  Yep, don't send royals to New Guinea ... although I vaguely recall years ago the Queen went to one of the island once because one of the banyan vine jumpers had a mishap and augered into the ground just in front of the Queen.
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  1149. He already did ... he mentioned "[...] fly to Spain, Sweden, Antarctica, or the Moon." :D
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  1150. If you're out of the country having a conference with FDR and Stalin at Yalta and you don't want the Germans to know, then it will help if you "appear" to give a radio speech on the BBC at the time.
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  1151. It's a pity you ended up with the unfortunate end of the rabbit. I've heard that the other end is better eating ...
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  1152. Stupidity waddles deep ...
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  1153. Hitler sent plenty of V "mail" to Churchill during the war.
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  1154.  @aceeastwood2871  Thanks, you got it close enough. Google Maps shows a place marker labelled "Lancastern, Easy Elsie" [sic] ("Lancastern" is the name shown on the road sign) close to that position, and street view shows aircraft parts. People have taken some good photos of the wreck and loaded then into Google Maps. Someone has very thoughtfully installed boardwalks around the site so people can easily look at it. And various people's dogs appear in the pic's. 😁
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  1155. Maybe it didn't have the right money, and no change?
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  1156.  Guss Ruffee  You've hit the nail on the head there. Mounted police are very effective at crowd control, and they're also good for PR when things are peaceful.
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  1157. That might have changed after the Christchurch mosque shootings?
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  1158. What do you mean?
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  1159. @John Brower Many Americans (i.e. USA citizens) don't actually know where their country starts and ends. Many of them believe that the US Constitution has worldwide jurisdiction, and are shocked to learn that US laws don't apply everywhere.
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  1160.  @turtle2720  Werewolf? He should've stayed behind in Germany after the surrender and conducting harassing raids on the occupying forces.
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  1161. Is that correct, given Princip's nationality? While not occupying the same position in the name, look a the "ic" suffix applied to many names from that region (I was told once by a Slovenian friend that it means "son"), and it is pronounced by English speakers like "itch".
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  1162. Great explanation of partial derivatives - thanks! Nice how you generated the temperature vs length profile using an odd function summed with a constant (50 degrees C). :)
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  1163. The song "I was only 19", a.k.a "A Walk In The Light Green" by Redgum has some lines "Four week operation, when each step could be your last one on two legs. It was a war within yourself."
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  1164. Assuming the electronic ignition in the car still works ...
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  1165.  @LeverPhile  I wonder about the morals and ethics of someone who orders the Braille signs removed from the lifts in his building. I guess he just really didn't want vision-impaired people in his building.
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  1166.  @esharpeh  I wonder what the equivalent chess move to that would be?
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  1167.  @veronicabalaga7008  HMAS Perth as well.
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  1168. Here in Australia it's either Grammarly (which is used by Americans, so the spelling is different to that used here), or a locally-bred Trump-like politician who is busy trying to convince people to vote for him at the next federal election. The trouble is that he's fighting yesterday's battles and raving on about issues which are no longer issues for most people in this country. I'm not interested in a grammar / spelling corrector or someone who isn't addressing today's and tomorrow's issues.
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  1169. Torpedo explosions are not small ... and the hydrostatic forces released by one could easily damage the hulls of 11 mini-submarines moored together, especially in relatively shallow water and against a dock.
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  1170. So basically Ludendorff was rolled for his role in the Putsch?
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  1171. 2:53 - I remember when he said this on the morning of Diana's death. Even more memorable was the looks of anger on the faces of the TV news presenters as they commented on what Earl Spencer said.
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  1172. Well they were fighting the Germans on their own after the fall of France and before Operation Barbarossa - that covers the period of 10 May 1940 to 22 June 1941, which is longer than three months.
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  1173. Many mines are still in the ground. E.g. in Egypt at El Alamein and other places along the Coast Road.
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  1174. Or it was hushed up by the US government so the public wouldn't be spooked into petitioning their representatives in Congress to pull US troops out of South Korea?
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  1175. And maybe call the third person Cueben?
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  1176. Well, it's more like what's going on in the USA. Elsewhere in Western societies we're not shooting each other over leaf blowers, basketballs, knocking on doors, or other trivial matters.
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  1177.  @rogerstone3068  And even more so 1982! 😁
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  1178. And after that ending, they'd say "Go figure!"
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  1179. Or White City even, back before 7th December 1941.
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  1180. He'd be just a second piece in his time ...
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  1181. Thank you for a most informative video, Dr Felton. And your last question is one which many in this ongoing debate seem unable to answer.
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  1182.  @TemmieContingenC  But before you can do that, you have to wait for the lead (playing the role of the interpreter).
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  1183.  @Brecconable   Given the way you have obviously misread my comment, you should try sharpening up your reading comprehension skills - there are online courses which can help with that. Or just re-enroll at junior high school. Firstly, nowhere did I claim that Communists had not infiltrated Western society - there are obviously plenty of Communists at work in Western society. But what I did state is Western greed as a primary reason for China's meteoric rise as an economic and political power. Secondly, my comment states why China can flex its influence via the Belt and Road Initiative, and nothing in my comment defends the BRI. The negative impacts are why some countries (those who can afford to do so) are either tearing up BRI agreements or declining to enter into them in the first place. As for the Nazis and at which end of the political spectrum they reside, consider the following: a) intelligence agencies keep a watch on them as far-Right extremists, not far-Left extremists; and b) the Nazis are actively recruiting Trump followers who are disillusioned after their leader's failure on 6-1 ... why would the Nazis do that if they were leftists? "Go figure", as the Americans say ...
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  1184. Unless I am thinking of something else, there was a button which would hold the bolt open. We always used it during the stoppage IA: "cock, lock and look" to check if anything was up the spout.
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  1185. It was in WW2, i.e. before 1953.
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  1186. You can visit the WW2 battlefields and still see fenced off areas where there are mines. Sometimes the fences aren't what we in the West would call fences - just a strand of wire supported by posts. Then there's the mines from the various wars with Israel.
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  1187. Now it's "A new neighbour! Hey everybody, put the wagons in a circle and break out the guns!" The wagon is still involved, just differently that's all.
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  1188. "Imagine ..."
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  1189. Did the government put the sword up for sale on eBay? Can you please post a link for this information?
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  1190.  @PeterOkeefe54  I did pay attention. You indicated that the present US government put the sword up for sale on eBay. I asked for your sources. What's the joke reference regarding eBay? After all that's where people sell stuff.
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  1191.  @NovusRex1788  Weapons certainly went missing and were written off. An example of one that was written off, then found and "unwritten off", then scrapped (and hence written off again, finally) was a very rusted SLR that one of my colleagues told me he found out in the "bush" while on jungle training at Cunungra.
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  1192.  @thesteelrodent1796  Agreed. For example, items are constantly being added to the Australian War Memorial's and National Archives of Australia's online collections. I have had a small hand in this when researching family history and discovered something which hadn't been accessed since just after WW2 and asked the NAA to scan it and make it available online. Included in this is documentary evidence explaining the "disappearance" of a great uncle - there was no trace of him from the beginning of WW2 onwards - it turned out he enlisted under another surname and was killed at Tobruk ... he is still there, too.
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  1193.  @wayneantoniazzi2706  True, but in some cases the weapons system goes the way of the battleship.
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  1194. Casings fall out the bottom of the weapon? There must be some reason - maybe it is the lying prone thing - otherwise they wouldn't have done it. The post-WW2 Australian infantry F1 sub-machinegun had the mag on top too. 32 round curved mag but only ever load it to 30 unless you want it to jam; and never, ever whack the end of the mag after attaching it to the weapon.
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  1195. "I'm happy to be corrected." Excellent. Talk to someone who really understands electronics and radio propagation. For starters, ask how the wavelength of the mobile phone signals (both intentional and unintentional) mobile phone compares to the circumference of an aircraft window (actually, you don't need to talk to an expert on this one ... after all, if the mobile phone signal from the tower on the ground can get in, then it's highly likely that the signal from the mobile phone in the aircraft can also get out!) Ask about receiver performance in the presence of strong out-of-band signals. Ask about out-of-band spectral components in the mobile phone output signal. Ask about effectiveness of radiofrequency decoupling and bypassing in non-radio frequency aircraft electronics inside the cabin. Ask about how the signals produced by a number of uncorrelated transmitters combine to increase power spectral density in a given frequency band. Ask about local oscillator radiation in receivers. Ask about why a laptop computer and power supply that comply with FCC regulations (at the consumer level) can cause interference to a radio receiver that also complies with its applicable FCC regulations. Ask about the radiofrequency shielding effectiveness of a modern airframe made of composite materials. Ask about intermodulation in the power amplifier stage of a transmitter due to mixing of external radio signals picked up by the antenna. And they're just some of the issues you could ask about.
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  1196.  @BlackEpyon  Sounds like you've had some interesting experience with radio frequency devices for networking, and your tale of investigations does credit - it appears that you've looked into it more than the average IT person would have. A few points in response to your post: 1. Interference to out-of-line-of-sight antennas. Whenever an electromagnetic wave at radio frequencies encounters a conductor (whether it be a good or poor conductor), it will induce currents in the surface of that conductor. (The currents flow just under the surface too, and the depth to which they will flow below the surface is called "skin depth", and is inversely proportional to frequency.) These currents will flow along the surfaces of the conductor, and they will themselves radiate electromagnetic waves. This is what happened when you saw reflection of WiFi signals from metal lockers: the electromagnetic wave induced currents in the surface of the locker door, and those currents caused another electromagnetic wave to be radiated from the surface of the door. (Incidentally, it so happens that for good conductors the electric field component of the radiated wave is anti-phase to that of the incident wave, as the tangential electric field value at the conductor must be zero, so this gives rise to a 180 degree phase shift between the incident and reflected waves.) If the conductor is curved, e.g. like the outer metal skin of an aircraft, those currents will flow along the surface around the curve. The currents will flow in every direction possible along the surface, radiating as they go. (Obviously the current density drops off as the distance from the incident wave increases.) So it's possible for electromagnetic waves to be radiated by a surface current and affect an antenna which is not line-of-sight to the antenna which gave rise to the incident electromagnetic wave. A classic example of this effect is a conical horn antenna used at microwave frequencies (and by that I don't mean "microwave oven" frequencies): make the bicone angle too acute and currents will flow on the outside surface of the horn (and electromagnetic waves will be radiated from the outside surface of the horn), even though there is no external electromagnetic wave arriving from elsewhere to excite those currents. (Incidentally, that's not how you want a horn antenna to operate - you want to restrict the currents to the inside surface of the horn so that it launches a plane wave along the axis of the horn.) 2. Frequencies used by mobile phones. These aren't restricted to the 2.5 GHz ISM (or "hash") band where WiFi often operates. Google "LTE frequency bands" and look at all the frequencies! 3. Non-linear effects. With regard to surface currents; to compound matters, if the surface is not continuous, but is made of overlapping sheets (quite typical of aluminium-skinned aircraft), then the thin oxide layer between the sheets acts as an insulator, implementing a form of diode through which these currents will flow. This will give rise to some form of rectification. A basic rule is whenever a waveform is changed non-linearly (e.g. by rectification), then the frequency spectrum of that waveform will also change. So, you can get frequency multiplication, e.g. doubling, tripling, etc; and also intermodulation where two currents at different signals give rise to currents at sum and difference frequencies, or three frequencies give to even more complex sum and difference frequencies, and so on. Some of these spurious frequencies (as they're referred to) could be at the input frequency ranges of certain aircraft radio systems. Consider this in terms of all the LTE frequencies in 2 above, and a number of phones operating on different frequencies inside an aircraft cabin. 4. Is a short circuit always a short circuit? Aircraft metal structures are electrically bonded together, but this is not necessarily effective at radio frequencies. The bonding is mainly for static dissipation. The aircraft accumulates static charge as it moves through the air, and this shouldn't be allowed to build up differentially on separate parts of the aircraft and then discharge suddenly in the form or an arc, causing possible damage or disruption to electrical and electronic systems. Also, bonding helps ensure that lightning currents are passed around sensitive components such as bearings supporting moveable flight surfaces, etc. But the bonding straps have a finite length, and these will not look like electrical short circuits at radio frequencies. Consider a transmission line consisting of two parallel conductors which are not connected to anything at one end and connected to a radio frequency source at the other - if this is an odd multiple of 1/4 wavelength long, then the radio frequency source will see a short circuit, whereas if it is any multiple of 1/2 wavelength long then it will see an open circuit. So similarly with a single wire - the electrical length (in wavelengths) of a bonding wire can make a direct current or low frequency short circuit look like an open circuit at certain radio frequencies. Thus two pieces of metal bonded by a wire strap might actually act as two separate conductors at radio frequencies, i.e one piece of aluminium acts like a patch antenna even though it's part of the aircraft skin. 5. Out of band response of radio receivers. Yes, aircraft electronics are not designed to receive energy from mobile devices (operating at any of the LTE frequencies discussed in 2 above). But how good is the front-end filtering of the receivers based on the designer's assumptions of the proximity of nearby transmitters operating on other frequencies? Here are some examples I've seen: - 14 GHz transmitter completely "flattening" a 12 GHz receiver. This was due out-of-band emissions from the transmitter being high enough in level to swamp the input circuits of the receiver. Solution: install a bandpass filter on the transmitter output which limited the signals at 12 GHz. - A receiver designed for 7 GHz kept failing when a nearby 8 GHz transmitter was operated. The receiver had a very good lowpass filter at its front end designed to reject the 8 GHz signal. The problem was that the 8 GHz transmitter generated some broadband, very low level, spurious emissions all the way down to below 6 GHz. And the receiver designers hadn't counted on energy at that level down to 6 GHz and below coupling into the receiver - their lowpass filter was completely ineffective at 6 GHz. Solution: install bandpass filters (for the respective operating frequencies) on both transmitter output and receiver inputs. - Transmitter on an orbiting satellite caused surface currents to flow in one of the metal panels forming the skin of the satellite body. The joint in the panel caused frequency multiplication which overloaded a receiver operating at a frequency five times higher than the transmitter output frequency! That's a very expensive mistake to make ... None of these transmitters were bad transmitters - all transmitters generate some form of out-of-band spurious emissions, and often the transmitter designer has no control over the nearby environment (e.g. metal structures featuring joints). And the filters on consumer grade electronics are designed to be just good enough to meet the specification ... if the filters are over-designed, then that costs more money, increases the required transmitter power or level of the minimum received signal (all filters exhibit loss, and tighter filters are lossier), etc. In summary, getting into trouble with radio frequency interference is pretty easy to do if all factors aren't considered - especially in multi-transmitter and multi-receiver environments.
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  1197.  @BlackEpyon  And actually that's my main point, there are a lot of factors to consider that the average person does not know about. But, we are living in an age where the opinion of the person who cleans the floor at the local supermarket has just as much weight as the opinion of the person who has worked in a specialist field for all of their career over a number of decades. We see this almost daily nowadays - it's becoming a matter of not who actually knows most about a given subject, but who can shout loudest. As the old saying goes, "We live in interesting times" ...
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  1198. ​ @ClarkKent-tg6ls  Just an excuse for those who need to carry a gun to prove they're a "man" ...
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  1199. In 1982 (and now), the "commandos" were the Royal Marines (the Royal Navy's amphibious light infantry), while SAS and SBS were Special Forces. There's a difference.
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  1200.  @chriskortan1530  You're probably trying to convert one of Vladimir's fan boys ... no chance of success there.
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  1201. It's quite possible that 131's commander may have reassured his boss that he and his crew destroyed the tank. So there would be nothing unusual in the German records.
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  1202. The only way you can truly protect yourself is with an encrypted link to a trusted proxy / mirror.
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  1203. Apparently if you say that in China then you disappear for re-educating for quite a long time.
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  1204. Can you imagine the density altitude issues in that terrain in the tropics? And to think that more advanced and powerful helicopters used in Vietnam often had to make running take-offs because the couldn't hover because the density altitude was too high.
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  1205.  @TRHART_Books  Being a conductor on an electric train could be a bit interesting ...
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  1206. Service persons deployed in Vietnam could access the MARS station if there was one on their base. This was the Military Auxiliary Radio System where amateur radio operators in the USA would connect their radios to the telephone system and set up "phone patch" calls from the overseas MARS station to the people being called in The States. It wasn't completely private (the call goes over HF radio and the radio operators in the stations at both ends can hear it), but it was a means of talking to people back home.
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  1207. Level completed ...
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  1208. Quite possibly because the war was never "declared".
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  1209. No-one was onboard it.
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  1210. Where did you hear / read that?
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  1211.  @MaxwellAerialPhotography  Television channel / network program directors have a lot to answer for ... and at the top of the list is taking the viewers (the actual Customers, as opposed to the advertisers) for granted and trying to ram any old rubbish down their collective throats when and how it suits them.
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  1212. Here we come Fallin' back to Earth Those failing parachutes Ain't any worth Hey hey we're the monkies ... PS: I posted this twice earlier in the main part of the comments, and it was deleted within seconds! I didn't think it was that offensive ...
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  1213. Getting there ...
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  1214.  @MarkFeltonProductions  YouTube comments would suggest to me that reading and listening comprehension aren't taught in schools nowadays.
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  1215.  @netiturtle  Correct. Just one gram of Hitler's body could be converted to 90TJ of energy!
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  1216. And technically it was a "police action" and not a declared war.
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  1217. LOL
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  1218. It's also about making a political statement - "Rolling Coal" is also known as the "Swedish Smoke Signal".
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  1219. It's the USA. Other Western societies aren't seeing these problems.
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  1220. Dang ... I thought it was Gnawed VPN ...
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  1221. No more ridiculous than the Cold War. Too many people have gone soft since the dissolution of the USSR.
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  1222. Maybe he just wanted to see the architecture in Moscow?
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  1223.  @coryfice1881  You forgot the moon bases, LOL!
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  1224. Good question. East Germany was a well-behaved puppet state, not like Hungary or Czechoslovakia, so they could've shipped them to Moscow straight away.
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  1225. ​ @just-a-cupcake  It's not happening in the Western society I live in. No-one in my country - a country where we can own guns - is shooting anyone over leaf blowers, basketballs, or door knockings.
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  1226.  @TheZod00  Tabasco, thanks.
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  1227. While 131 wasn't a mock-up, the storyline certainly was a very unrealistic mock-up.
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  1228. Was that the one which stalled due to ice build-up but the pilots - who are trained not to lose a certain maximum altitude during recovery - exacerbated the stall?
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  1229. Both sides did it in WW2.
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  1230. Necessity is the Mother of Invention ... maybe there's not enough "necessity" nowadays?
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  1231. It ended when the bell rang. "What do you have next? I've got English." "Meh, mine's science. See you tomorrow!"
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  1232.  AKUJIRULE  And your claim to know more about this is based on what qualifications held by you? ROFL laughing indeed ...
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  1233. Triggered much?
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  1234. An aerostat observed the Iraqis moving on Kuwait in 1990 - the American advisors figured out what was happening and wisely bugged out. Apparently the aerostat stayed aloft of its own accord for a quite while after everyone had left.
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  1235. It goes to show just how out of touch he was.
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  1236.  Nitro Martini  That's what the Internet was invented for! :D I don't find it worrying. But I do find it a bit mystifying. Some of these people say, "But no-one will teach me about this stuff that you know about"; to which I reply, "You were raised in, and live in, the most information-rich age ever known to our species. Anything you want to know about can be found on the Internet. You could try not playing COD and try Googling what you want to know about instead."
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  1237.  @freedomordeath89  The England got rid of the monarchy and then returned to it. Google "English Civil War" and then "The Restoration".
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  1238. I'd be interested in seeing a video about that, too. The Glasshouse Mountains are impressive. I'd also like to hear about the Granite Belt - used to live up that way and the amount of granite, basalt and even pumice lying around the place was incredible.
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  1239. One problem with re-using OTPs is that even though an adversary may not be able to read the contents of, say, two such transmissions, they can use the two to form a "book cipher" and attack the cipher that way.
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  1240.  @the_morf  "He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy."
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  1241.  @carllee9571  Very good point. With freedom comes responsibility. Many over-zealous advocates of free speech don't realise that.
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  1242.  @iwishtobetexan6060  It's the cops NOT arresting the right people beforehand that didn't stop the massacres. How are the police supposed to determine whether or not this kid's threats are serious? They cannot, and it's not their job to make that determination - it's the job of the court to determine that.
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  1243. Here's Part 1!
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  1244. In particular, the landings on the Treasury Islands by the US Marines and the New Zealand Army would be of interest. Seabee Ray Tassone was later awarded the Silver Star for destroying a Japanese gun emplacement by attacking it with his Caterpillar bulldozer.
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  1245. Who knows - maybe it's "like father like son"?
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  1246. @suspicionofdeceit The skipper wanted the troops to disembark, but there were delays in getting them off the ships.
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  1247. And nowadays it's E-mail ...
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  1248. But it hasn't been shut down. It's still being operated by UoA. Watch the video!
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  1249. Someone in another comment asked Dr. Felton if he'd do a video on the theory that somehow Hitler and Bormann survived the war ... I think that statement by Dr. Felton illustrated quite succinctly what he feels about such a theory.
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  1250.  @scotland638  It's entertaining, and it gives people something to wonder about. It's just like UFOs - people like to have something mysterious to believe in. BTW, humans are hard-wired for this sort of thinking. Evidence is the fact that our forebears designed religions - they couldn't explain or predict all of the events in their world, so they invented mysterious and powerful supreme beings to fill the explanatory gap.
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  1251. I met a WW1 signals veteran at the Albert Park depot (Melbourne) during an Anzac Day get-together in the early 80s. I suspect he was the only WW1 veteran I ever got to meet.
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  1252.  @kmr9347  You perceived wrong then, didn't you. Did you ever stop to perceive beforehand what others would perceive of you when they read your comments?
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  1253. Monty did have a soft spot for the Australian 9th Division after El Alamein.
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  1254. Sit down at the back!
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  1255.  @cactuslietuva  Pretty ridiculous movie. Not even faithful to the novel that it was extremely loosely based on.
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  1256. @Peter A. "Hollywood garbage": a definite tautology when used with the words "historical perspective".
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  1257. I speak from experience - those wasps don't mess around.
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  1258. Or someone creates a MarkBot, and we don't even notice ...
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  1259.  @ephektz  You got it right that time. It's a pity people don't just say that right up front instead of saying "no disrespect intended" while actually intending disrespect. It's like one of the great euphemisms of our time: just saying, e.g. "I'm not being critical but <blah, blah, blah, insert critical comment here>, just saying." The moment I hear or read that, a big sign comes up saying "Warning: dishonest person ahead!"
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  1260.  @mrbisshie  Re-use them like they're doing now?
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  1261. During WW2, my grandparents lived near an airport which was used by USAAF aircraft. One day an aircraft lost a wheel which demolished the laundry. The Americans visited, apologised profusely, and built a new laundry using this new material called "fibro" (asbestos cement sheet). By the time they finished, the laundry was worth more than the house! :D
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  1262. I read once about executions conducted in the SS Headquarters in Paris - people were guillotined facing upwards.
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  1263.  @archstanton6102  That explanation doesn't work for people who think the universe is only 6,000 years old.
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  1264. Grand Moff Tarkin
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  1265. It's quite interesting when you put it like that. Imagine if somehow Al Capone had run for President and won?
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  1266.  @zvast  A small hole in that sort of balloon material rapidly becomes a big hole. That's the problem with balloons - they're quite strong while air-tight integrity is maintained, but once the envelope is breached it's game over.
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  1267. Yep, gotta love good ol' thoughts and prayers. Been very effective so far ...
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  1268. Mark is British ... I suspect he would have a straightfaced look that might be betrayed by his eyes ... 😁
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  1269.  @samspianos  He ain't watching no double negatives!
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  1270.  @KarlDMarx  Donald Trump took his kid to work ...
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  1271. Were the F-111s used in Vietnam?
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  1272. It's a bit hard if the highly sensitive person lives next door, or is driving in the car next to yours, or is behind you in the line in the supermarket, etc.
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  1273. If Hollywood made the picture, then only the Americans would be looking for him ... no-one else.
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  1274.  @quintrankid8045  Just made himself look older ... always easier than making oneself look younger.
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  1275.  @pingun96  And not many pictures of him existed anyway, as he avoided the spotlight.
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  1276.  @vehiclesofpeace  And what about it? It's a normal practice during wartime. What are you going to do about it - sue the people involved? :D
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  1277. It's why they don't call them "Yours".
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  1278. Ignominy seriously sounds like the name of a small town outside Moscow.
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  1279.  @jussim.konttinen4981  Sorry, I am not sure how this contributes to the discussion I was having. My argument seeks to debunk the Nazism = "left wing" myth pushed by some who support right wing policies. I note that many Western governments classify Nazism as ultra right wing, and those countries' internal security forces monitor the activities of Nazi sympathisers. In some countries the Nazi movement is banned from forming associations due to concerns of promoting racism and conducting terrorist activities.
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  1280.  @uio890138  If anyone wishes to compare the events in the USA with the Nazi Party's rise to power (as opposed to the phraseology of is it's raise to power [sic] which means is it is raise to power ... that's not even English), then 1-6 would be the equivalent to the Beer Hall Putsch when supporters of a certain unelected ultra-right wing leader called Adolf Hitler tried to topple the elected government of the day.
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  1281. Your comment about the diving community and the ongoing desecration of wrecks - I loved Billy Connolly's statement about being underwater, being something along the lines of, "The only person who should be allowed go in there is Jacques Cousteau, and he can tell the rest of us what it's like. Everyone else can just stay out of it. Because the things that live in there have told us - in no uncertain terms and many, many times - that we're not welcome."
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  1282. That's one of the symptoms of not being able to fix one's longitude during one's travels.
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  1283. It was the USSR, not Russia. Before the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR, Russia was just one of many Soviet Socialist Republics. Even the leader of the USSR during WW2 wasn't Russian - he was from Georgia (not the state of the USA).
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  1284. Dr Felton has forgotten more about D-Day that the rest of us collectively know ...
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  1285. It's strapped to his wrist. He had more important things to do than unstrap it and stow it somewhere ... like getting them free of the aircraft.
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  1286. How so?
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  1287. Remember the big Hawaiian eruption not many years ago? There were fruitloops in the YouTube comment sections suggesting that houses could be built on stilts so the lava goes underneath ... I wonder what they'd think after seeing this video?
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  1288.  @FireAngelOfLondon  Germany did have some allies whose troops also fought in the USSR campaign, e.g. Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Independent State of Croatia. They were generally looked down upon by the Germans, regardless of if they fought well.
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  1289.  @chrisburns143  Maned by non-Germans? Those must've been the horses everyone is talking about?
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  1290.  @MusMasi  And that purge by Stalin was a brilliant coup of disinformation by the Germans - they got Stalin to the point that he was so fearful he eliminated many of his most capable people, and replaced them with people who were barely qualified to lead a section let alone an army.
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  1291.  @r0ky_M  They were facing somewhat mechanised Soviets. It's not the distance alone that matters, it's the opposition encountered on the way.
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  1292.  @michaeldunne338  Using your figures, Germany before the invasion of Poland was 66% larger than Montana. That's one Montana and another 2/3rds of a Montana ... "a bit larger" doesn't quite do it justice.
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  1293.  @TheSpritz0  Robert Mason in his book Chicken Hawk tells of at least three; viz. ROKs defending a US base, zapping the VC, but in turn being attacked by helicopter gunships; the Hong Kong Hill incident on New Year's Eve; and one where The Cav zapped a platoon after a yellow smoke grenade was accidentally tripped.
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  1294. Maybe there's a clue - the 79 year old perceived leaf blower neighbour as a threat and went outside looking for blood? Ironic, isn't it!
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  1295.  @alexmarshall4331  Or "Duck and Cover" which still would've resulted in severe burns anyway, but I guess the authorities wanted to give us some hope of surviving.
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  1296.  @patriotenfield3276  Or maybe the VC curly's or larry's down your patrol instead?
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  1297. Pour Roam, always cops a flogging ...
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  1298.  @reicherosterreicher3486  Worst still, they might have lost, as well as loosed.
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  1299.  @mumiemonstret  The risk is that the covers get ingested into an engine - maybe not on all aircraft types, but certainly something like a B-717, etc.
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  1300. That's a different person, so you might have better luck finding them!
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  1301. Absolutely riveting tale, Mark - a ripping yarn!
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  1302. That was the sword awarded for Stalingrad's fight during The Great Patriotic Waugh ...
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  1303. I don't know about 1954, but plenty of people in the West knew about 1956 - it was in all the news.
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  1304.  @wbbartlett  North Korea is struggling to feed its people. The additional food required would've been crippling ...
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  1305. I don't recall the name for the cannon itself, but the system where four of them were installed in a radar-equipped ME-110, pointing upwards at an angle, was called Schrage Muzik.
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  1306. Apocalypse Now
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  1307. 2:00 "Reich proper-gander minister Josef Goebbels" ... you got that right!
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  1308. Did we just watch the same video? The veteran was the guy who was punched.
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  1309.  @glbwoodsbum2567  So the newspaper reports are saying it landed in water with depth of 14m. And that the USN had ships in the area ready to recover the payload before the F-22 shot down the balloon. Are you saying this isn't the case! If so, would you like to tell everyone where you think it landed?
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  1310. "Sir, I'm not sure I want you to read this message, as it means you won't be able to sit down for a month."
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  1311. An empire book-ended by Elizabeths.
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  1312. My father learned to drive the Centurion at Pucka during his national service days. He spoke fondly of it.
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  1313. Same thing happens in Egypt. But they don't seem to have many accidents - everyone happily cooperates on the roads.
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  1314. One can only wonder at what that's-not-in-the-book types of "tweaks" were made to the turbines. :-)
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  1315.  @justinbieberlake5635  There are a lot of companies with BAE in their name, e.g. in Australia and the USA. But it's funny that they go to some lengths to say they're not a British company when the media queries them about where taxpayers' money is going, LOL.
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  1316. Yes, they're the people who aren't commissioned officers.
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  1317. Qantas wouldn't operate a 737 from Australia to Thailand ... that's quite a long flight.
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  1318. You'll learn more from the videos!
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  1319. Yes, some Victoria Crosses have been sold at auction. Thankfully some have been bought by war memorials etc instead of private collectors so that the general public can see them.
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  1320.  @richardc-ex7rt  I know of only two still alive in my area - one ex-Air Force and the other ex-Navy.
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  1321. And when he looked like running out of lives, he just swapped cats ...
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  1322. Dye a wolf ... What colour?
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  1323.  @Psychol-Snooper  The Pillar Of Fire is difficult to follow under water ...
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  1324. And if she had the word "obey" in her marriage vows?
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  1325.  @ethan6322  Lots of people nowadays are looking at what those people commemorated with statues really did. Some things they did don't stand the decency test of today (e.g. promoted slavery), so the statues are being pulled down. But it's not limited to the USA. The Iraqis - with US help - pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. But then a US serviceperson undid all that work by covering it with a US flag - you could see the mood of the crowd change the moment that happened. ☹️
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  1326. Antony Beevor's books are good.
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  1327.  @wayneantoniazzi2706  Yep, it's just movie. Another classic (among many) was towards the end - the German stick grenade / potato masher with a fuse of about 1-½ minutes ...
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  1328. And technically it was never declared, either.
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  1329.  @Lupinthe3rd.  Possibly such opposition arises from the same sentiment where the military members / veterans aren't "thanked for their service" by the pubic, and don't expect people to say that to them.
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  1330.  @artrandy  or Blacksubtractor in this case, seeing he lost his left lower leg and right hand.
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  1331. There are incidences where bombs (inert or otherwise) struck planes below them. There's evidence here and there, e.g. famous picture of a B17 on mission over Europe - still flying with half its horizontal stabiliser (tail) missing, the war memoirs of bomber command navigator whose colleague returned some months after escaping as a POW in Germany: "What happened?" "Bombs were dropped on us, only two of us got out and the other bloke is still a POW." It happened.
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  1332. Many commentators say there are some in regimental museums or the Lithgow Small Arms Factory museum.
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  1333. Or a levitating bell ...
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  1334.  @johnjinglehimmerschmitt9802  Unknown by whom? The account of Bangka Island has been known publicly for decades.
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  1335. There's no proof that he did actually say those words. But he did understand the industrial strength of the USA; and warned his superiors that after a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor he would be able to wreak havoc for six to twelve months, but after that all bets were off because the USA would've mobilised itself for total war.
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  1336.  @Max-hw7xl  That happened to many Germans captured by the US forces in Germany when the Americans pulled back to the agreed dividing line between the Western Allies and the USSR. The USSR insisted that the Americans hand over any German prisoners being held in the Soviet zone. Sadly, many Germans who were relieved to have been captured by the Americans woke up a few days later to find the Americans had pulled out overnight and they were now being guarded by the Soviets.
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  1337. "Sorry, what did you say your name was?" "Ummm ... Reilth, spelled R-E-I-L-T-H ... it's German."
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  1338. The Chinese government gets very upset when it's suggested that Winnie the Pooh is their leader's body double.
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  1339.  @rogersmith7396  What is your source for your statement? There was conscription into the Citizens Military Force (CMF), but it couldn't fight outside Australian territory; whereas the 2nd AIF which fought further afield was all volunteers. In early 1943, the CMF was authorised to fight further afield but in limited area, i.e. the Dutch East Indies and neighbouring areas up to the equator.
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  1340. Effective range we were taught was 300m single shot, 600m section fire.
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  1341.  @capusvacans  I agree, and it's best that Benedict stood down instead of riding the job into the grave - being the traditional means of exiting the Papacy. I think Pope Francis is to Pope Benedict as Pope John Paul II was to Pope Paul VI. Even though Pope Paul VI's reign saw events such as the 2nd Vatican Council, etc, he was still a fossil.
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  1342.  @capusvacans  "[Religious adherents] are free to think whatever you want, as long as it doesn't diminish the freedom of others." And herein lies the danger to many in society from those who claim the moral high ground based on their religion. Look at what's happening in the USA nowadays as an example. I have trod a similar path to yours. And I cannot reconcile the professed faith of many members of a Church whose daily actions appear not to reflect the worldly actions of the deity they worship (as recorded some 2,000 years ago). My observations over the years have led me to two conclusions: 1. If Jesus Christ came to Earth today, many Christians wouldn't recognise him - and would reject him outright as a false prophet. Why? Because many Christians - especially in the West - live privileged lives and don't mix with the sort of people Mr. J. Christ would mix with. Christ mixed with the sinners and outcasts of his day, viz. prostitutes, tax collectors, etc - not the privileged, the Romans, Pharisees and Sadducees, etc. 2. The only differences between Western Christians and other theocrats such as the Taliban are their God, their Book, their language, and dress code. (And the weaponry I guess - M4 Carbine vs AK-47.) Otherwise, they share the common goal of a burning desire (no pun intended) to tell other people what to do based on their "enlightened", guided-by-God interpretations of the readings from their particular Book. And both groups seem quite happy with subjugating women, minorities, and adherents of other religions.
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  1343.  @ProjectEkerTest33  That's effectively what Ho Chi Minh did in the Vietnam War which ended in 1975 with the fall of Saigon. He held out long enough and his enemy lost its will to fight. I'd have thought that the lesson learned in the 1960s and 1970s would've been remembered before going into Afghanistan, but apparently not.
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  1344.  @ProjectEkerTest33  I figured the comparison with France was drawing a long bow - as you say, when the US forces left it didn't then fall to the Nazis. When the US forces left Vietnam it took a few years before it fell, but it still fell to the enemy of the USA. The strategic method by which the Taliban won was the same means by which the North Vietnamese won in the run-up to 1975. As I've said elsewhere, it's surprising that the lessons from the 1960s and 1970s weren't considered this time around.
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  1345. Or what went on near Waco a few decades ago.
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  1346.  @alexmarshall4331  Especially after the goings-on in that area a few decades ago.
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  1347. This is almost a "One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing" but the crew didn't do the "escape and evasion" bit to return home.
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  1348. "Dancing" Hitler? Really. That would be a sight to see.
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  1349.  @odonovan  The USA is nowhere near as socialist as most Western European (including Scandinavian) countries, or countries like Australia and New Zealand.
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  1350.  @tomsmith5088  The USA of today is not the USA of the 1940s - they are two countries, and in many respects they're chalk and cheese. Why? Because a country is its people, and how those people think and act. A country may remember its past, but it is not its past. The vast majority of the American people of the 1940s are dead, and the Americans of today are different from the Americans of 75 years ago.
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  1351. It was referred to officially as the L1A1, and the diggers called it the SLR (pronounced "sler" like slur).
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  1352. Or a plague virus, e.g. anthrax, bubonic plague, etc.
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  1353. That's Hollywood for you. 😁
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  1354. Gee whiz, Mark ... I'm impressed by the "usual" obscure items you dig up, but this one really takes the cake. Well done!
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  1355. 5:15 "to be Renault-vated for museum display ..."
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  1356.  @savage7992  Maybe not a traitor, but does it make you a Nazi space monkey called Albert instead?
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  1357. Apart from the face-to-face meetings with many WW2 vets during my younger years (as Dr. Felton said, they were everywhere at that time), I met many on-the-air during my early days on amateur radio. Many of them were elderly gentlemen in the USA who would answer my CQ calls on morse code during my evenings ... and typically explain that they woke up in the night, couldn't sleep, didn't want to wake the wife, so they went to the radio "shack", plugged in the headphones, and tuned around to see who was about. These people had some fascinating stories. One was in the Marines and his LST spent a few days tied up alongside in my home city, but they weren't allowed to disembark before they were sent north to Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea ... and he never got to visit my city again. Another had built radio installations for airfields across the Pacific, and he told how they built one in record time but it never got used because the war moved on as the Allies captured island after island ... I still remember that conversation: I had my map spread out over the table and we were chatting back and forth across the Pacific via morse code. Those guys aren't there anymore, and it's quite noticeable in the discussions one has on-the-air these days. It's not better, and it's not worse - it's just different. I'm glad I got to meet those men, even if it was "virtually".
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  1358. It would drive your shoe into your hip. :(
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  1359. Indeed. A just dangerous course is the bearing set on the compass ring which will take you towards the enemy airfield.
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  1360.  @andrewboychurch  Not preying hard enough can be fatal ... ask any predator.
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  1361. Another part. I should copy them all and figure out which ones go where to stitch together the whole story!
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  1362.  @campervanman5340  If it didn't actually crash, lots of people would like to see where it is today and if it still flies.
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  1363.  @gianfranconicola8645  Why is it the bad guys have names which sound like a synonym for "chamber pot"? E.g. Schettino, Putin, ...
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  1364. It wouldn't have been helped by the supply situation ... you know, where some supply clerk gets one digit wrong and instead of being sent 100 winter sleeping bags you get a fire truck instead.
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  1365. Ah yes, the generation who watched episodes of Dr. Who from behind the sofa ... 😂
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  1366. Next you're going to tell us all about COVID-19, 9/11, Area 51, the moon landing, JFK, and secret Nazi bases in Antarctica or even the Moon ...
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  1367.  @daviddoran3673  Although a number of his very vocal sworn enemies decided that price was too high on 1/6.
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  1368. Baron Felton.
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  1369. Another bit ... gradually finding them all. :)
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  1370.  @maggot274  Weapon fires. Weapon stops - carry out the IA! Cock, lock and look ...
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  1371.  @stoopingfalcon891  That's why I didn't take up history in senior secondary school (Year 11 & 12) despite doing OK in it in junior secondary school. The senior history teacher was quite disappointed that I didn't take his subject.
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  1372. Do you realise [Flaming Lips] ... that YouTube is a Google mouthpiece? :D
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  1373.  @aiem  That's pretty insensitive of the people laughing about that. As you say, wait until it happens to them or someone they care about - they won't find it very funny then.
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  1374. And umpteen hundred comments ...
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  1375. Trust the Soviets to design a back-up starting system into their tank ...
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  1376. That would be a very interesting plane to achieve an altitude of 45 miles.
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  1377.  @kazuhiramiller1983  Yep, a sigma. Definitely not an alpha, or a beta.
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  1378.  @HebrewsElevenTwentyFive  I remember hearing that in an episode of "The World At War" on TV in the 70s, when they interviewed someone who was at the extermination camps.
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  1379.  @Xpistos510  Only the British Tories are slightly left of the US Republicans. For example, the Tories would not abolish the NHS. Actually, I see more similarity between the BNP and some elements of the GOP.
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  1380. Finest what?
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  1381. Please do a video on The Battle Of The Pips, a naval action off the Aleutians in WW2. 😁
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  1382. And the morrell of the story is ...
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  1383.  @ВаняВетров-м2у  "For us, there was no land beyond the Volga."
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  1384.  @MrFunkia  Donald Trump would've "lost" the place only he wasn't able to sit in the White House for his second term. (Note I didn't say "lose" with regard to the election, as that's a touchy subject for certain people in the USA.) In summary: Donald started the process, and Joe finished it.
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  1385. I take it your uncle isn't a Doctor then if the V-tail hasn't got him yet?
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  1386. Beware the NSMs ...
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  1387. I had no problem with the ending of Game Of Thrones: Mike Whean and Yorg Race got the chop, no problem there whatsoever!
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  1388.  @fazole  And the USA is a democracy where people get to vote for the government. So the American people must have been happy with that or they would have elected another government which reversed the decision. I guess people are happier with the cheaper prices?
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  1389. I don't blame them! :) "We're about to fly into some of the most difficult terrain in the world. I think I might have a cup of coffee before I go ... who knows, it might be my last."
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  1390.  @hshs5756  The Pucara did shoot down a Scout helicopter between Goose Green and San Carlos.
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  1391. That's like recent reflections on to whom medals were awarded for an action during the Vietnam war. As someone said, "Mates award medals to mates."
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  1392. It has an interesting impact on the logistic tail, and it's a real balancing act between transport and cost. On one hand, replacement items must be transported to the AO, and failed items transported from the AO for repair, as there are no forward repair bases containing sufficiently skilled, uniformed personnel. On the other hand, if the military was able to fix its own kit like it used to, then one would need a field workshop and all spare parts plus skilled personnel transported to the AO or a forward repair base not far from the AO. Regardless, I can see some manufacturers definitely profiting by locking down the software and repair activities. And it looks good for any high-level commanders and a Defence Minister / Secretary for Defence who are under pressure to downsize the services if they can say "We 'market tested' (that's the current euphemism) that function, and found it's best performed by industry as it releases uniformed personnel for front line duty and also reduces the training burden." Win-win ...
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  1393. A matchstick was all that was needed. This was NEVER taught in training on the weapon, and if you mentioned it in the terminal you failed. 😊
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  1394. Seized Russian assets will probably be used to help pay for this. The West cannot allow their aircraft manufacturers to fail.
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  1395. Did anyone come to the aid's aide?
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  1396. Sadly that's a typical outcome of inertial damper failure.
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  1397. Great video. I read about this station a decade ago and was quite intrigued by it ... to the point of running some ionospheric predictions for that time to see how well the station would've been received in Germany. The Germans had (and still have) some outstanding designers.
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  1398.  @skwalka6372  Mar-a-Lago? But that's the home of one of Russia's allies ...
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  1399.  @williamwilliam5066  I'm going to Graceyards, Graceyards Memphis, Tennessee I'm going to Graceyards Poor boys and pilgrims with families And we are going to Graceyards
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  1400. The phrase "rolling coal" is also known as "the Swedish smoke signal", which is intended as a rebuke to Greta Thunberg and all those who subscribe to the anthropomorphic global warming view. You'll hear "Swedish smoke signals" mentioned on certain videos from the USA, especially those in the conservative rural regions of the country ... there's a particular farming videographer - who planted one of their fields to read "Trump 2020" from the air - who makes reference to these sorts of smoke signals.
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  1401. A very different one. Possibly one where I wouldn't be typing this stuff right now ...
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  1402.  @BJJISTHEGAYPARTOFMMA  My mistake - I thought we were discussing Hitler from a viewpoint of his impact on real life - an ongoing impact to this day, even though the vast majority of those alive at the time are now dead. What movie was being discussed? I didn't see anyone mention a movie ... reviewing the comments just now shows that. Who mentioned a movie and what movie was it?
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  1403. I wonder how that went ... "I have one other question: do you want to get married?"
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  1404.  @clvrswine  It takes two toucans to make a toucan, too ...
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  1405.  @SirAntoniousBlock  And being buried four times ... and having a line of frozen pizzas named after you.
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  1406. En-tro-py I'm twice as messy as I used to be (Apologies to a certain P. McCartney of the UK.)
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  1407. Because if it wasn't circular then the conspiracy theorists couldn't talk about flying saucers, Admiral Byrd, Nazi Antarctic and Moon bases, Area 51, etc, etc - what else would they do with their time if they couldn't talk about that?
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  1408. He's British, LOL.
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  1409. Juliane Koepcke (who at 17 survived the mid-air disintegration of LANSA Flight 508 over the Peruvian jungle, stated in her book that her father did the same, and ended up in South America.
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  1410.  @stevemumbling7720  Except in the case of ionospheric "tilts", where the radio signal will deviate from the great circle path. However; knowing the state of the ionosphere at the reflection points, and modelling that using suitable ray tracing software, will mitigate that to some extent.
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  1411. Many years ago one of my old neighbours was a digger who fought on the Kakoda Track in New Guinea.
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  1412. Göring misheard the waitress's question "Excuse me Herr Reichsmarschall, would like a piece of pie?"
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  1413. It's the old adage: the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Plenty of people in Southeast Asia were friendly with the Japanese in WW2, because Japan made overtures about granting a form of independence to the European colonies it conquered in its Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere. It's one of the reasons why there were plenty of revolts after the war when the previously-defeated colonial powers (e.g. France, Holland) were handed their colonies back, and the local people found themselves back under colonial rule.
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  1414.  @charlesm7589  While I agree with you, it's not too hard to know how many weather balloons are released by civilian authorities every day. The National Weather Service can tell you that. This Chinese balloon is much, much bigger than the typical weather balloon carrying a radiosonde, though.
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  1415. Nothing like getting a pound cake, pudding, or some other delicacy via mail ... :D
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  1416.  @Player_Review Lots of people confuse the epidemiological effects of non-ionising and ionising radiation. There are plenty of conspiracy theories about this - and they make as much sense as Flat Earth, Faked Moon Landings, the world's politicians all being lizard creatures from outer space ... just to name a few. Photons (energy packets) of electromagnetic waves at radio frequencies don't carry enough energy to break covalent bonds, i.e. they cannot knock electrons off atoms or molecules and create ions. Damage from radio waves is somewhat frequency-dependent, and includes body heating, deep tissue burns and surface burns. But higher frequency radiation such as ultraviolet, extreme UV, x-rays, etc, is ionising, and that's a different matter altogether.
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  1417. It's also in Zimbabwe, Africa. Not much variation in temperatures year round in the tropics.
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  1418. 6:29 "These medals were retained with his extensive baggage ..." No surprises there.
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  1419. He should be in all schools across the USA, but it will be a cold day in Hell before that happens.
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  1420. Sadly, it was "Pearl Harbor-ized".
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  1421.  @apu_apustaja  As in "He's a really brickler for accuracy"?
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  1422.  @tomhenry897  It's "shelves", not "shelf's". Poor education standard - sounds like Communism to me! Good grief, why on Earth can't you Republican supporters spell and understand the use of punctuation at grade school level? Too cool for school, or you're from where they filmed "Deliverance", or what? :D (I'm not American BTW, so I didn't vote for either candidate in the presidential election, but it's mighty funny watching y'all's arguments on social media (notice the apostrophes?) ... and I can pick a supporter of one or the other from a mile away just by looking at their spelling, grammar and punctuation without even reading their comment in detail. Amazingly consistent ...)
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  1423. Is that the scene where the Germans occupy a rise to the east of the British, and are about to open fire on the British eating breakfast when the young officer suggests that they wait a few minutes until the sun rises a little more so that the British won't be able to see the Germans? The whole scene was quite chilling, from that piece of ruthless efficiency to shooting the blinded survivor who is stumbling around helpless.
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  1424. The dog, or the painting?
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  1425. And recordings of Doctor Who episodes ...
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  1426.  @AdamAdamHDL  In this particular case it refers to the actions of USSR military personnel in Germany in 1945 and thereafter.
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  1427. Not sure which part this is ...
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  1428. Ah, 60 Minutes ... that paragon of truth, investigative journalism, and non-sensationalist coverage ... 🤣
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  1429. The Australian general Blamey was somewhat divisive in Australia due to him being seen as cosying up to MacArthur, and through that costing the lives of Australian soldiers.
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  1430. The same can be said of big rallies anywhere ... e.g. presidential election rallies.
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  1431. And allegedly Josef Mengele lived longer?
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  1432. That's why they used a bungee cord to convert some of the tow plane's kinetic energy to potential energy without pulling it out of the sky. Then that (stored) potential energy would assist with launching the glider. Physics works ...
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  1433.  @floridmonkey2723  I suspect the reason why some may consider it to be clickbait is due to hearing the views of the conspiracy theorists and doomsday preppers who keep going on about how the magnetic field reversal is going to kill us all, etc, etc, etc.
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  1434. "You're wondering why I brought you all here. After all, since when does old Walder have two feasts in a single fortnight? [...] Stand Together!"
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  1435. "Blessed are the Downtrodden, for they shall be trodden upon."
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  1436. Good video - the effects of another Carrington-like event should be highlighted to people, as it would quite disruptive if not catastrophic per your description. One point: at 6:40 and shortly after, the Aurora Borealis occurs only in the northern hemisphere (Borealis means "Northern") - in the southern hemisphere, it's called Aurora Australis.
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  1437.  @bloodybones63  "Werewolf?" "There wolf."
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  1438. I share your goal. Unfortunately during my previous times in the UK, I have been too busy, or too far away, or had spare time at the wrong time of the year (many of these places close over the winter months) to visit. But I did get to see plenty of other historical sites, especially Roman ruins.
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  1439.  @shaolinowl4777  Thank you for your surface?
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  1440. Years ago I worked with a guy in his early 30's who'd emigrated from Germany. He held a private pilot's licence, and I went flying with him one day. Afterwards when he was logging his hours, I noticed a photo in his logbook ... featuring none other than Hermann Goering inspecting some pilots. I asked about it - the pilot pictured speaking with Goering was this guy's father! Sadly, he was killed towards the end of the war one night when they took off in a Fieseler Storch and it crashed soon after - the investigation strongly indicated that the aircraft had been sabotaged.
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  1441. Or cigarette paper? That would've been in short supply, too.
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  1442. How often do you brack you bicycle?
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  1443. Please tell us more.
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  1444.  @dpt6849  "Trigger", as in "BANG!"?
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  1445. When did he do this? Before the fall of the Third Reich or after it? Which airfield did he fly from, and where did he land? Just curious ...
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  1446. It Happened Here
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  1447.  @pigmanobvious  Likewise, but it was my grandmother - who'd lived through WW1 and WW2 - who couldn't stand M*A*S*H.
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  1448.  @JTA1961  I wish I could remember the name of the author, but it was a history book written about the USA from after the Civil War to just after WW2. One question asked at the end of the book was "How do people feel about wearing the uniform with pride when there are programs like M*A*S*H, McHale's Navy, Rollout, and Hogan's Heroes on TV?"
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  1449.  @jimyoung9262  I think the issue with M*A*S*H is it appears to have taken until halfway through its run before it found its moral compass and hence strengthen the message. Its writers and actors claim the show to be anti-war. But, in the earlier series it just seemed to be comedy. It wasn't until around the introduction of characters like Colonel Potter and Major Winchester that it really started to show the stupidity and waste of war.
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  1450. Wrong. It crossed into US territory in Alaska, then crossed into Canada (which ISN'T part of the USA), then re-entered US territory in Montana. Please stop texting and try to keep up at the back!
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  1451.  @StratMan9009  The war is painted as "good v evil" to justify it to those signing up, and their families. Wars are fought over resources - to acquire the resources, or to prevent loss of the resources. Oil is one resource: Japan entered WW2 because it wanted the oil that was being denied to it, and later the USA went to war in the Middle East to secure the oil reserves (thus preventing oil prices from going through the roof like they did after the Iranian Revolution). The USA and its allies went to war in Korea and Vietnam because an increasing communist sphere of influence would eventually deny resources to the West. One can argue that Germany went to war in WW2 because it had been stripped of resources (The Treaty Of Versailles), and it wanted Lebensraum (more resources).
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  1452. Were you the umpire?
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  1453. Sadly, she may not have survived the war. Instead, she would be someone's dearly beloved and desperately missed daughter or sister, remembered every year by her immediate family until the march of time gently erased her from living memory.
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  1454. Daring Mark Felton on history is a bit like a history version of "Do you think you're fast enough, bartender?"
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  1455. Weapon fires, weapon stops! Carry out the IA: cock, lock and look. 😊
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  1456. And a wormhole to another universe opens ...
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  1457.  @faithlesshound5621  KGB money and CCP money would be backing QAnon and Proud Boys. And possibly some other groups as well ... whoever is seen to be furthering those country's aims of destabilising the West even further than it already is.
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  1458.  @MoveAhead101  About 10 years ago I heard a many-re-recorded audio track originally recorded on a "wire line recorder" (i.e. recorder used by US newspaper reporters) which is allegedly the only existing recording of a US submarine attacking Japanese ships in the Pacific.
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  1459. Typically, history is written by the victors, and rarely by the vanquished. Although in this day and age, as least in the Western world, the vanquished can also write their history without fear of reprisal.
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  1460.  @Markle2k  It's also known as the "Swedish Smoke Signal" for similar political reasons.
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  1461.  @steventhacker350  Really? This latest balloon at 60,000 feet cannot take more detailed photographs than a low Earth orbit satellite at more than 180 miles orbital height? That's the same as saying a camera 32 feet distant from an object can take as detailed pictures as one only 2 feet from the object.
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  1462. And be scared of snakes.
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  1463. A remarkable story. There are a couple of other books of similar genre, but not as long, written by German soldiers who ended up in Soviet prison camps, eventually released, and emigrated to Australia.
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  1464. It's not happening in other Western societies, just the USA.
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  1465. OK, here's one of your multi-part comment. Hopefully I can find the others.
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  1466. I have a friend with a similar story. His father passed away some years ago, and then his mother about a decade later. Sometime not long after the funeral (when the lawyers were sorting out the estate) they discovered that his parents were never married - apparently back in the day his mother already had a family, but one day got up and left to set up house with my friend's father and start a new family.
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  1467. I guess that's what happens when you let otters plan and manage a major offensive campaign. As the old saying goes, if you pay peanuts then you'll get monkeys.
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  1468.  @NicolaW72  We shouldn't make any Ilyushins about this?
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  1469. Are we watching the same video? This video certainly seems to be about Tiger 131.
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  1470. The intelligence presented to Stalin by the Cambridge Five was an even more useful gift ...
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  1471. Having intercourse in a light bulb would be challenging ...
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  1472.  @matthewd759  He is a bit of a figurehead of a religion now ... there's plenty of people around who honour the swastika and give each other Hitler salutes.
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  1473.  @JohnnyAngel8  Well, it explains their version of the history ...
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  1474. They were thinking short-term ...
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  1475. They were thinking short-term ...
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  1476. Or wonder if they were ever built ...
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  1477. How would you do that at 60,000 feet altitude?
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  1478. Maybe after a year of the quiet life he changed his name to Boredmann?
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  1479. Maybe after a year of the quiet life he changed his name to Boredmann?
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  1480. Yes, it came from the UK after D-Day.
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  1481. ​ @mark26714  Maybe that will be his punishment - they'll make him clean the prison yard with a leaf blower and no earplugs?
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  1482. Carrie Nation will be along any time now to explain ...
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  1483.  @thejamaicanpolak3988  "Is that a cigarette in your pocket, Capt. Speirs, or are you just glad to see me?"
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  1484.  @mesolithicman164  Dick Winters reckoned he spoke with Speirs when Stephen Ambrose was about to publish - apparently Ambrose was a bit worried about law suits, in particular Speirs regarding the German POW issue. Winters claimed that Speirs admitted that he did it.
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  1485. And there's still the risk that wasps just build a nest attached to the mesh instead. Those wasps build nests in holes and on surfaces.
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  1486. Ka-boom tish
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  1487.  @mtwata  Or "We gotta get those WMDs!" ... which really means "Psssst - we gotta get the oil!"
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  1488. Anthrax, Bubonic Plague. I wonder what the "Let's go, Brandon!" types would have said if the balloon had been shot down over Alaska or Montana - after all, they're Red states and it wouldn't have damaged Biden's voter support base.
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  1489. Killed by a "reverse" friendly fire incident. :(
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  1490. Better than "OHHH the Aluminiumy" ... given what aircraft are mainly made from.
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  1491.  @MarkFeltonProductions  Me too. It was part of my childhood as well.
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  1492. A pantomime Göring uniform ... it comes in two pieces: "You can be the back this time, I'll be the front." PS (edit): in Göring's case, it would be a double body ...
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  1493. That's easy ... plenty of books cover that story. Also, it's a "main stream", well-known story; whereas Dr Felton's videos tend to cover the lesser-known stories.
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  1494. We did that in commercial aviation in the 80's, too - go on the test flight after a major overhaul. :)
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  1495.  @kenbrown2808  That's why the other term for "Rolling Coal" is "Swedish Smoke Signal" and a thumbs-down to a particular Swedish woman in her early 20's.
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  1496. There was a button on the side which would lock the bolt in the open position on the standard issue Australian SLR. It was used during the stoppage IA for checking if anything was up the spout.
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  1497. Sounds like a great start to a conspiracy theory!
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  1498. Rusty Shackleford? Was his WW2 codename "Corroded Cadillachitch"?
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  1499. They were all related ...
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  1500. That's too bad about the ionospheric F2 layer then, which can be as high as 400 km ... duh ...
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  1501.  @mountainhobo  Not all the women in the USA have to work. In the less liberal, less "woke" parts where they have the word "obey" in their marriage vows, they become housewives the moment they get married. (And they only get married after their husband-to-be has obtained the woman's father's permission to do so.) In some places it's still the 1930's.
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  1502.  @Svalbaz  It is. There are probably a number of YouTube channels dedicated to that ...
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  1503. It was called the German American Bund.
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  1504. Have you tried to remove a mud wasp nest from a hole? It would take quite a bit of air pressure.
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  1505.  @timturple7880  It's rather fitting that a globe is being used by globalists. It's like a certain school of painting: a cube being used by cubists.
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  1506. Mark's last video was "Hitler in Paris" https://youtu.be/YyKyuYq6l7c. Comments have not been disabled for that video.
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  1507. My great uncle got to come home because of Truman's actions - he had been captured in Malaya and was a guest of the Japanese for the remainder of the war.
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  1508.  @olliefoxx7165  The problem is that a lot of people don't realise that these wars are waged to support their way of life. Any US president knows not to let the price of oil rise so that it's more costly to fill up the SUV for the weekend trip away ... and that's why they went to Iraq - not to get the WMDs which were never found, but to control the oil. But it was dressed up as "keeping us safe" so that people would go along with it. So the wars may not be supported openly or overtly, but there would be anger at home with the alternative result of not going to war.
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  1509.  @rubes3927  Or if one leapt up and bit him on the behind ...
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  1510. We often accuse Hollywood of "Americanising" history, but in this instance the British film industry "Britonised" history in the 1969 film The Battle Of Britain, where two Luftwaffe officers are visiting Berlin and bombs are dropped at night - one remarks to the other "You can call me Meier". The raid is depicted as being conducted by the RAF.
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  1511.  @RouGeZH  Despite the RAF raid occurring on that date, the film makers could have done better with the Luftwaffe officers' reactions - "You can call me Meier" would've been passé by then.
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  1512.  @1maico1  Did the RAF drop small bombloads during the leaflet operations in 1939?
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  1513. Or Navy Seal-ants ...
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  1514.  @duellingscarguevara  I heard that some warning systems broadcast AM on the 455 kHz IF and FM on the 10.7 MHz IF used in many radios - given the IF rejection of the average consumer-grade radio is fairly "average", it allows everyone to hear the message on their car radio, etc, regardless of what station / frequency they're tuned to.
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  1515.  @nzs316  If you pick the right frequency bands you'll also hear worldwide broadcasts during the day. When I was a kid building my first radios, someone had told me that shortwave worked only during the night, and that correlated with my experience at the time because that's when I heard the overseas stations on my home-built radio. I put a tap on the coil at the suggestion of a learned friend (he didn't say why) which pushed the frequency higher, but I didn't hear anything on it ... until one day when I was home from school, sick, and woke up during the middle of the day and listened to the radio - switching to the higher frequency tap on the coil suddenly brought in VOA, BBC, etc, during the day!!! Well, that experience blew that myth out of the water ... :)
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  1516. It's Magic if it hits the target?
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  1517. One must pent first before one can repent ... It's like visiting: you cannot revisit before you visit!
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  1518. Why should they not have won that battle?
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  1519.  @agentmueller  A rabbit hole of thought, or a nuclear bunker of thought?
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  1520. Remarkable video, thank-you.
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  1521. My great uncle was in the 2/13th at Tobruk. He's still there.
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  1522. ​ @soulwarrior7721  This wasn't "split second". Young woman opens door, realises mistake, goes to correct car while apologizing - guy gets out of car and starts shooting. If I was the guy I would've locked the passenger door, and when she apologized would've said "It's ok, but be careful next time!" I wouldn't then have pulled some hardware and started brassing up her and those with her.
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  1523. ​ @Vendemiair  The Founding Fathers needed a readily accessible army (the militia) to defend the country (to prevent Britain from reneging on the treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War), so the original intent is understandable. However, since then the USA has developed a military capability including the regular forces, the reserves, and national guards. In the eyes of those who feel the need to own weapons, this isn't sufficient to ensure the USA's safety. And those people have the backing of the courts who interpret the Constitution, and if course organisations like the NRA who can destroy a politician's career.
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  1524. In the small town I grew up in, an old air raid siren was used as the fire siren. It was tested every day at midday. If it went off some other time, the whole town knew there was a fire somewhere.
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  1525. People checking aircraft at night just need to do their job properly. I used a normal "flashlight" (torch, we call them) on zillions of night-time turn-arounds and didn't manage to miss a pitot tube cover or anything else.
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  1526.  @willzimjohn  Maybe they're "metal strip on the runway deniers" conspiracy theorists?
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  1527.  @lichub  LOL. I think he was just sharing his chips with everyone else onboard.
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  1528. But he could probably move like a knight ...
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  1529. Missing brain? Well that's an idea which certainly caught on, didn't it? I mean, look at all the brainless people running around today!
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  1530. 22 books ... You have some reading to do LOL!
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  1531.  @xiaoka  The B-25 did have a fairly tall tail, from the tales I have heard from those who flew it.
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  1532. BOING ... Boing ... boing ... :D
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  1533. What is the past tense of the word ring ? Rong
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  1534. I remember hearing that one of the war loans (from Canada?) was repaid in the mid-90s.
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  1535. Grand Moff Tarkin?
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  1536.  @jamesm568  Do you work in intelligence gathering, or are you merely an armchair quarterback on this issue? If the latter, then why is your opinion more valid than that of others?
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  1537. Anglo Saxon?
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  1538. Just unkey or switch off the transmitter to end the carrier! 🤣🤣🤣
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  1539. Probably also due to the Concorde vs TU-144 debate ... and possibly people who compare the Lightning with longer-endurance fighters while not realising the Lightning didn't need to be designed for endurance.
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  1540. The fruit flies probably never knew how lucky they were not to be monkeys.
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  1541. Mark did a video on a Me110 (?) fitted with/for Schräge Musik whose pilot defected to the Allies.
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  1542. And that siren's a hoot!
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  1543.  @kentuckyace1068  Just after the dissolution of the USSR, a guy who wanted to become the Russian president wanted to claim back Alaska from the USA. This is despite the fact that the USA bought Alaska from Imperial Russia. The guy didn't get the job. But given the territorial ambitions of the current incumbent, one wonders if the question will arise again?
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  1544.  @whoami7721  Someone posted in the comments here that all the crew were lined up and shot. It would be interesting to know what really happened.
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  1545.  @Superior1995Rex  😂😂😂😂
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  1546. That's how they could've captured a Tiger much earlier - send in the Ukrainian farmers!
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  1547. What! He gets partially punched out of a voting card by some retiree in Florida, and then the Republican Party goes to court over him when they dispute the result? Who'd want to be a chad?
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  1548. That's the problem - Americans cannot laugh at themselves, otherwise Richard Dixon would've had an upturn in success.
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  1549. Shock, horror! A crashed Axis aircraft which was repaired and flown in RAF service WASN'T SCRAPPED!!! Amazing ...
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  1550.  @nedludd7622  "Dialectical approach" is up there with "strawman" and "ad hominem" - terms thrown about by people who read a bit of philosophy.
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  1551.  @Earhairy  But Putin did do that. If Putin can hang on until the next US presidential election then he has it made. Donald Trump thinks the sun shines out of Vladimir's posterior, and when he gets re-elected he will reverse any sanctions the USA has imposed against Russia. After that, the sanctions imposed by the remainder of the West will collapse.
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  1552. Yep. And when they complain that there aren't enough officials to run games anymore, they just need to look in the mirror for the answer.
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  1553. It's a WW1 Iron Cross.
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  1554. Dear Mrs Ko, I regret to inform you that your dear son died of instantaneous lead poisoning after failing to do his duty to a satisfactory level. Yours faithfully, Dear Leader.
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  1555. Or maybe the pilot flying was watching Dang Rider's channel Probable Course instead?
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  1556. I heard he has a double take.
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  1557. ​ @shaynegadsden I talk about it with my mates and we've never been arrested yet.
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  1558. Another reason is people can smell the whiff of corruption which drives countries to war. As some commenters have said already, it's hard to get motivated to fight for an oil company.
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  1559. Orders. And an assurance of what would happen to their families back home if they didn't attack.
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  1560. The NVA were pretty big on collecting their dead and wounded as well. It meant the US BDAs could be quite inaccurate as the only evidence they'd have of casualties was blood trails where someone had been dragged.
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  1561.  @petersmith4202  What work did he do for the CIA? Go undercover somewhere in Iran as an Ayatollah?
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  1562.  @squaaaaak3178  I'm not so sure that Dr. Felton was promoting the notion that everyone did it. He did say that it was required by law, but as you say not everyone complied with the law.
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  1563. Austrians? 😂 How's Vienna?
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  1564. But that's like thinking "What happens if the sun doesn't rise in the East tomorrow morning?" 😂
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  1565.  @jimmywrangles  The difference is that you're allowed to stand on the deck of the USS Missouri.
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  1566. Or, "Look mum, no hands!"
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  1567. But not the sort of peace the south wants to live under. Reunification occurring soon after the USA pulled out would certainly benefit Dear Leader and his immediate circle, but that's about it.
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  1568. There are mud wasps in many places, not just Brisbane. If you left an aircraft standing at my local airport during summer you'd have mud wasps building holes in the pitot tubes if they weren't covered ... and we're about 900 km from Brisbane.
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  1569. 7:15 Sergeant Wolfgang Wichmann sent SGÜ IA0WBC 03CH ... which is probably not what he really sent during the raid - it's just what was provided in the overdub of the propaganda film.
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  1570. Or people just need to be mindful of each other and the right to enjoy the amenity of their own home.
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  1571.  @sesenmaister  Do you really believe Biden provoked the war between Russia and Ukraine? Wasn't the war started by Russia invading the Ukraine? The only "provoking" would be Biden supplying arms to the Ukraine so that they could defend themselves more effectively. But some Republican supporters do blame Biden's actions for prolonging the war, because without those weapons Russia would have won and oil prices would be back to normal and inflation would be on the way to being controlled and brought back down - which says a lot about certain people if they're saying "We're ok with you being invaded and conquered because then it's cheaper for me to fill the gas tank in the SUV." But I guess that's why the USA went into Iraq in the first place, right?
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  1572. That's one of the reasons why I couldn't easily go back into aircraft maintenance - all my training was on steam gauges, and it would take me a while to learn my way around the glass cockpit.
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  1573.  @frankv8891  What if God was one of us? Just a stranger on a bus.
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  1574. The Battle Of The Pips is quite an intriguing naval engagement that occurred off the Aleutians. I would love to see a video on that ... by necessity it would be only a few minutes long, though. 😁
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  1575. How long has that been there?
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  1576.  @Jreb1865  And that wouldn't be hard to do ... as your later comment states, there are plenty of Elvis impersonators around, so being seen in London with one wouldn't be very notable.
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  1577. Someone of the same name did die due to domestic violence injuries about three years later - there's an online fundraiser.
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  1578.  @NicolaW72  I recommend that you don't fly on anything anywhere, as there are plenty of "single switches that would kill everyone" on every modern airliner. That's why there's pilot training, checklists, an annunciator that indicates the pressurisation system is operating in manual mode, and then a warning sound that operates when the cabin altitude exceeds the danger level. Let's say you redesigned the aircraft and took this switch away ... how would you have the maintenance personnel conduct pressurisation runs on the ground to check for leaks? Note that these are done after maintenance work on any door (including cargo doors) and emergency exit, and whenever faults are reported, e.g. cabin leaks - so these activities cannot be eliminated if you want the aircraft to be maintained. There would need to be some other "manual" intervention required which allows the outflow valve(s) to be manually operated on the ground ... a different "single switch that would kill everyone" somewhere in the aircraft, maybe this time in the E&E bay where it can't be accessed in flight, so the crew know the switch is there but can't do anything with it during an emergency - that emergency might be failure of the pressurisation controller (i.e. the controller fails, or the sensors feeding it fail, or the wiring connected to the controller fails, etc), which means the aircraft lands pressurised and no-one can open the doors. On one occasion I remember that happening, the crew conducted an emergency landing due to a fire, but the rescue teams couldn't open the doors - the "single switch that would kill everyone" could have been moved to the alleged "kill everyone" position which would've dumped the cabin air back to ambient and - ironically - saved lives. I'd really be interested to know how you would design the aircraft to operate differently so that it can be flown - with and without pressurisation controller faults (faults which can occur while in the air) - as well as maintained on the ground.
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  1579.  @Gambit771  What happened on 7/7?
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  1580. Reasonably low loss, too!
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  1581. Have you checked the basement as well? You can never be too sure ...
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  1582. "We have allowed our political classes to destroy not only our military ability, but also our domestic industrial capability [...]" True, but who votes these governments in (or out)? And what was driving the desire to offshore the domestic industrial capability? Simple - Western greed. The average Joe in the street wanted to buy their packet of screws at B&Q cheaper than what they were priced if made in the UK, so the obvious answer was to shift the manufacturing to China, and shut down the UK factory. The added side-benefit was people could then say how "green" they were, because there weren't as many polluting factories around the country. It's a no-brainer as to why Western countries are in the situation they're in today.
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  1583.  Chaz  Barken Allot ...
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  1584. It was known as "The Flying Coffin" - the Mitsubishi Zero could fly faster in level flight than the Buffalo could in a dive. The RAAF also used it ... until they got their hands on some Kittyhawks and used them in the defence of Port Moresby.
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  1585.  @jackgammon4084  The proud moral hard-working Russians won't "see sense and sweep away Putin into the trash". Why? Because Putin controls the narrative. He has sold his people the "fascist Ukraine" and "US biological weapons lab" story and they've sucked it up ... just like the US president did to the Americans after 9-11 with the "WMDs in Iraq" story. The difference between Russia and the USA is in Russia there isn't a free press any more, there isn't access to other information sources. Don't expect the Russian people to solve the problem any time soon - the only problem they see is the Ukrainians and their Western allies.
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  1586.  @ChairmanPaulieD  I note in the news today there are stories about Republicans who are backing Putin. Donald reckoned he was a good guy, and thought his move of declaring parts of the Ukraine as autonomous regions was a great idea. So once Donald gets back into the White House you can expect him to reverse any sanctions the USA has imposed on Russia over the Ukraine incursion.
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  1587.  @ZER0ZER0SE7EN  China has eclipsed the USA as the world superpower. The USA cannot deploy its military for more than two weeks nowadays because China will just turn off the supply tap and all the USA's ships, tanks and planes will just stop. Westerners' greed for goods at ever cheaper prices has sold the USA's superpower status to China!
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  1588.  @andypozuelos1204  It appears to be also the accuracy of the history being taught that Max Rank was concerned about. It's impossible to teach all of history, even the couple of thousand years of well-documented history. But whatever sample of history is taught should be accurate, at least. Given that the USA consists of 50 states, and the political views across those states range across the US political spectrum (compare and contrast California with Texas, for example), it's not surprising if there is a massive disparity in the history taught in schools across the USA.
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  1589.  @andypozuelos1204  You make an interesting point where you cite the bias in history education in Japan, and state that it's inaccurate, at least to those in the West. This sort of bias exists in other school systems, e.g. ask anyone from France about what they're taught relating to the liberation of France in WW2. I think we agree that biases exist in history taught in schools in the USA, and the biases will vary between states. But per the Japanese and French situations - just to name two countries as an example, and noting that all history teaching is biased - this implies that there must be inaccuracies in American history teaching.
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  1590. But think of the advantages - we'd get double the amount of videos!
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  1591. I wonder what was written in it for 30 April 1945?
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  1592.  @derekjohnston2780  ROFL!
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  1593. It also trades timeliness of mail for non-critical timeliness of the supplies needed to keep the V-mail going. As I've suggested elsewhere in comments; a base may hold two weeks of V-mail supplies (ink, paper, film) but if the weekly ship arrives a few days late that's OK; but it result in the troops' mail arriving late, which is very important.
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  1594. As opposed to gnawed VPN ...
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  1595.  @chunkymilk  "based" on what?
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  1596.  @michaelevans205  The Way Ahead ...
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  1597. Certainly one could say that parts of him arrived at a destination before the rest of him.
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  1598. Sharks, blue-ringed octopus, cone shells, box jellyfish ... just to name some more.
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  1599. He was a Lieutenant Colonel at the time, commonly referred to as "Colonel".
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  1600. ... deployable dog, they all said ...
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  1601. Operation Cerberus was a complete cock-up on the part of the British. My parents had a book about it, and I remember when first reading it thinking "Why on Earth are they making all these mistakes?"
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  1602. The Americans: "Y'all let me lookit that sword, much obliged!"
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  1603.  @wumingkkk  I find it funny that the Republicans wanted Biden to shoot it down earlier. Biden should have done that - after all, Alaska and Montana are Red states, so it's not like he would have damaged his voter support base if it had landed on anyone.
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  1604.  @RCAvhstape  I was shocked at how uninterested BuOrd seemed in fixing the torpedo problem ... one could be forgiven for thinking they were thinking "Hey, you're the dumb bunnies putting your lives on the line, not us - we're happy living the high life back in the States ... not our problem, fella!" After yet another patrol where the torpedoes failed to detonate and they had to sink Japanese shipping with the deckgun, a US submarine commander arranged to testfire some torpedoes near Fremantle, Western Australia (where many US submarines were based). That testfiring helped identify why the exploder wasn't working properly.
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  1605.  @andrewgillis3073  That's probably why the Commonwealth nations have never struck such a medal. Here in Australia it wouldn't cut much ice, so to speak, due to the connotations you mentioned.
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  1606. He is exercising his freedom, his right to wreck his own eardrums if he wants. No-one is going to make him wear earplugs if he doesn't want to ...
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  1607. Amazing ... something that wasn't scrapped out of existence for once!
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  1608.  @andybazz3694  I think you might have meant "Work will set you free" ...
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  1609. "Mark Felton Predictions"? 😁 "The situation is serious - I must commit Kamikoto at once!"
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  1610. The Soviet Union's relationship with the West wasn't so great after the end of WW2. The current relationship issues may look somewhat dire, but they're no worse than the issues during the Cold War.
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  1611. 23:04 here on the eastern side of Australia ... 52 minutes after Russ Cole posted that it was 22:12 in NZ. Enjoying a cup of tea, a chocolate-coated muesli bar, and watching a Mark Felton video while sitting in front of a nice warm fire on this rainy and cold night.
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  1612. Mussolini had his own version: Il Globo ...
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  1613. Never seen a wind farm in Casula ...
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  1614. "Hold the phone around here!"
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  1615. Or maybe he was D.B. Cooper ... ran short of money and got desperate.
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  1616.  @seriouscat2231  I think @I dance for pennies might've left-off that bit.
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  1617.  @LoneWolf-wu6yn  Or the other question could be: "Does this person hold such anger that every time he flies into a state which voted a particular way, he acts like this?"
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  1618. Great video, thanks for uploading! The entire crew on this aircraft did a great job.
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  1619.  @faithlesshound5621  The USSR no longer exists. It was temporarily replaced by the CIS. Do you mean Russia in your statement?
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  1620. They are masters of the intrigue, that's for sure. Even nowadays they haven't forgotten how to obfuscate.
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  1621. I guess this incident did occur in the USA, hence the colloquialism?
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  1622. 5:25 The psychic impact? You meant the psychological impact.
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  1623. Or it's in a large wooden crate in a warehouse full of other large wooden crates, and the guys who knew about it are long dead? I've seen warehouses like that - no-one wants to touch these old places because they're too busy and they don't want to have to make a decision on what to do with the stuff, so it just sits there ... and if anyone needs more storage they build a new warehouse nearby, because clearing out the old one will reveal how much structural repair is required - so just lock it up and tell people not to go in there because it doesn't meet modern working conditions and is therefore unsafe.
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  1624. And that's why it's worth reading history ... Henry VIII of England is a classic case in that regard.
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  1625.  @stanleyrogouski  I never heard of MacArthur doing that. Wasn't that Patton?
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  1626.  @stanleyrogouski  It probably didn't matter to Patton what he was. To Patton, anyone suffering from PTSD was a shirker.
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  1627.  @FaustoTheBoozehound  They also rely on exploiting other people so they can live their lifestyles ...
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  1628. Mark, while you're looking in the vicinity of the Aleutians, can you please make a video on "The Battle Of The Pips" - a nighttime naval action off the Aleutians. The video would not be very long, LOL.
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  1629. And that was after he finished his game of bowls and boarded The Golden Posterior to go fight ...
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  1630. Under the Treaty of Versailles the Germans weren't allowed to build up significant military forces. However; once the economic collapse occurred (hyper-inflation in Germany) and eventually Hitler came to power, the rest of the world was too busy dealing with The Great Depression to have time to deal with Germany's rising military.
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  1631.  @pineapplepenumbra  I also wish I had more time and space for learning. Ok re my comment not appearing yet - that happens more and more with YouTube lately.
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  1632.  @beneficent2557  Why the interventionist wars? Money, and maintaining a lifestyle. For example, if you think the price of fuel in the USA is high now, imagine how much higher it would've been and from a much earlier date if Bush Jnr hadn't gone into Iraq. Any US president knows that one of the fastest ways to lose office is to let the cost of filling the SUV's tank go up too much. This is why I am predicting that Biden won't survive the next election.
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  1633.  @alastairward2774  Are you lot still butt-hurt over 11 Nov 1975? That's just as bad as Queensland LNP members still being butt-hurt over Acting Premier Bill Gunn instituting the Fitzgerald Inquiry which eventually led to the fall of the National Party government in 1988. But, back to The Dismissal: what about the fact that the Australian electorate went to the polls shortly afterwards? If the voters had disagreed with the Governor General's decision then they would've voted Labor back in. But they didn't, did they ... maybe "It Was Time" for Gough and his team?
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  1634.  @neilturner6749  I think he is just propping himself up ...
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  1635. The aircraft's registration suggests it's on the Zimbabwean register.
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  1636.  @Avarua59  The story I heard was the expert wrote to Ian Fleming, who in turn used a version of the expert's name for the character "Major Boothroyd", the armourer who assesses Bond's Beretta and holster in the beginning of Doctor No.
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  1637. Nessun Dorma ...
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  1638. It's probably the only globe he managed to conquer.
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  1639. The engineers and scientists probably got Goodrun Himmler to draw on paper while her father was visiting, and then included them in the files, thinking "When we eventually lose the war, this will give the Allies something to think about for years!"
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  1640. Hi Petter, Thanks for this video - very interesting. I'll repeat here a comment I've made below about the long term impact if this conflict and accompanying sanctions run long enough, and this the revival of the Russian aircraft manufacturing sector. It's not something which would start up overnight from its current state; but they do have a bit of a headstart - they can reverse-engineer any impounded Western aircraft or parts thereof and thumb their noses at international protests ... just like the USSR used to do. However; a reverse-engineered aircraft stays at the level of technology at which it was originally manufactured unless it is upgraded. Does Russia possess the same calibre of aircraft designers as the USSR did, or how many of the USSR's top designers of large aircraft (or their proteges) are still around to design new or improved models? Russia has a good network of spies worldwide who can purloin industrial secrets, so they will have a steady flow of information coming in from the rest of the world - information which will allow them to build those items that they cannot buy legally due to sanctions. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this.
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  1641.  @Marin3r101  Or Sibtraction ...
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  1642.  @alexh4436  You need a Leonard Nimoy (RIP) voice to effectively narrate a program about ancient aliens.
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  1643. Less parts required?
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  1644. Apparently the Vatican helped a lot of people to escape. Maybe they didn't care who it was at the time?
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  1645.  @cameronrichardson1576  Raiders Of The Missing Circular Segment.
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  1646.  @memofromessex  There have been recent examples of putting a flag (in the West) or a religious book (in the ME) in people's hands to get them to fight. And it especially helps if the real reason for the conflict is dressed up or disguised.
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  1647. ​ @rupertboleyn3885 The other advantage of that tactic is the enemy aren't in the kill zone, so charging towards them is one way of getting out of it.
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  1648.  @quillmaurer6563  Hollywood would have a field day with that concept ...
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  1649.  @Sanguinarius9999  The Bass Strait got in the way? It's a good question though - why is Tasmania where it is?
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  1650.  @reboot5598  Yep, he has a thyme machine!
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  1651. I've never heard that one before - would've thought it be very well known if David Niven said it.
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  1652. "Bad Orb" ... they have some great place names in Germany.
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  1653.  @j.b.2263  English Armada? I haven't heard of it - do tell, please!
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  1654. You're missing the point that Dr. Felton made right up front regarding why V-mail was created. It's the timeliness issue that mattered. Deployed servicepersons wanted timely mail. V-mail solved that problem by reducing the weight of mail to be carried on aircraft, thus allowing more mail to be carried on the fastest transport means available. The supplies needed to make V-mail work had to be provided, but that could be sent by ship / train / truck (i.e. the surface transport distribution system). For example, a given base might a month of stock of V-mail supplies. If the fortnightly ship carrying (among other things) V-mail supplies arrived a week late then that wasn't a disaster. And considering there was film stock involved as well, the weight of supplies needed increased ... but again, that wasn't time-critical, whereas mail to/from home was time critical to maintain morale.
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  1655. Especially with an almost lossless compression system like that. And if they'd had the bandwidth, they could've sent them as faxes, too.
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  1656. I've never understood it either. But regardless of the explanation (or lack of it), it gives me one more good reason why I don't bother going to church on Sundays any more.
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  1657.  @georgedistel1203  That's a one-way dive ...
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  1658.  @michaelfoye1135  Perhaps Herr Doktor Feldman will make a video about this situations someday ...
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  1659.  @bloodybones63  Explaining an edit is just a means of "fessing up" that an original post has been revised. There's no crime in it, or no shame.
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  1660. Well I did see the shooter load his weapon before firing, so it's reasonable to assume it was loaded first. It doesn't matter whether the weapon was in his pocket or not - it was concealed then used.
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  1661.  @jceepf  That certainly helps explain why one of the RSL Branches in the 1980s voted to continue the ban on any Japanese or Koreans from entering the building. At the time I could understand their sentiment about the Japanese, but including Koreans had me surprised at the time, given how Australian forces had participated in the Korean War.
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  1662. While the USSR finished him from the East. They would've been the real winners of The Great Patriotic War.
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  1663. I knew a German guy who claimed to be a DJ at Radio Free Europe for a while - not sure if it was true or not. But What was true is he was the son of a WW2 fighter pilot who was killed one night when the Fiesler Storch he was ferrying blew up due to sabotage. I learned this after going flying with this German guy one day, and when he was completing his log after the flight I saw a picture of Herman Goering speaking with a Luftwaffe pilot. I asked why the picture was in his pilot's log, and the story came out. Years later (with the advent of the Internet) I was able to verify the story.
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  1664. I think Dr Felton was referring to the "enemy" Soviet positions from the German viewpoint, as would someone refer to "enemy" German positions from a Soviet viewpoint.
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  1665. Sir David's brother appeared in that iconic film "In Which We Serve".
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  1666. Well, it's the USA. It's not happening in other Western societies.
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  1667.  @bigblue6917  The vast majority of submarines have electric boats one way or the other, whether nuclear-powered or conventionally-powered.
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  1668.  @ianmacfarlane1241  The battery technology existed at the time. The larger submarines all ran off batteries when submerged (+), the difference being that they surfaced and recharged the batteries using generators driven by diesel engines. The diesel engines could also be used to drive the boat on the surface. (+ Some boats, especially later German U-boats, were equipped with snorkels which allowed them to use the diesels at periscope depth.) Battery bank dimensioning for a given boat size/type depends on the required submerged boat speed (dependent on power plant, drag, etc) and the required endurance (dependent on time submerged and operating speed, etc).
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  1669. It'll be in a tiny little flat-pack, complete with a miniature allen key for assembly ...
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  1670. It's probably the only time a monkey would ever wish it was a fruit fly instead.
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  1671. Many years ago I worked with a guy whose grandfather literally "hosed" bomber gun turrets clean after they came back from raids.
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  1672.  @crewleaderprods  Hmmm, clearly Elrond means if your name is Moran then education is for you.
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  1673.  @Elrond_Hubbard_1  I don't recall any of my teachers having the surname Moran. But I guess some teachers would have that surname.
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  1674.  @timothyhouse1622  His mother Anne's nickname at school was MORibund ANne?
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  1675. Was that in German Africa?
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  1676.  @neliz8  Many people over the years have foretold doom and disaster via a variety of means. Now is no different. You and people like you can hide under the bed in fear if you want, claiming that your freedom has been taken away from you, or that everything is already lost. In the meantime, the rest of us will just get on with living.
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  1677.  @freedomisnotnegotiable  From what you say it sounds like your family's history will repeat itself. But that doesn't necessarily apply to everyone else. Maybe that's an issue you need to look at - what is it in your family that causes that history to recur?
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  1678.  @freedomisnotnegotiable  A new machine, huh? Are you an expert in virology? How come people haven't heard about this allegedly wonderful invention - are the Main Stream Media ganging up on you to silence you? Are you a millionaire yet, given how many of the other machine you have sold? Are your customers still alive as a result of relying on your machine to do its job? What's your next project: a perpetual motion machine, time machine, or something else? 😂😂😂
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  1679. Maybe Dr. Felton wants to try to balance the books for the friendly fire incidents that went the other way?
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  1680.  @Foolish188  They're not that unimportant. As the largest and most influential SSR in the former USSR, they managed to help shape world history between 1917 and 1991. Can the West get along without Russia? Yes, it has done so before and it will do so again. Can the West ignore Russia? No, not unless it wants to invite trouble. None of that means the West should bow to Russia's demands, but it cannot simply ignore Russia's place in the world.
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  1681.  @Foolish188  Which SSR was the most influential in the USSR if it wasn't Russia?
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  1682.  @DavidM2002  That's a good example of why I think this proposed scarcity of parts for Western aircraft won't happen.
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  1683.  @Foolish188  You appear to be confusing two entities: the USSR and the "SovBloc". The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) consisted of a number of Soviet Socialist Republics, of which Russia was just one, and albeit the largest geographically. I contend that Russia was the most influential of the SSRs - you've stated otherwise, and I have asked you which SSR was the most influential in the USSR if it wasn't Russia. I am still waiting for your answer. The SovBloc consisted of Warsaw Pact countries such as the USSR (of which Russia was still just one SSR, in case you missed it earlier), Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.
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  1684.  @Foolish188  Well I am no adherent of communism in any of the realised forms, but like many I was an involuntary observer during the Cold War. You say the Soviet Union was an empire, but it was not influenced by a SSR called Russia. So I will re-ask my original question: if Russia wasn't the most influential SSR in the Soviet Union, then which SSR was? Who was really calling the shots if it wasn't the Russian SSR? Or do you have trouble with the idea that the Soviet Union was a Union of SSRs because you call it an empire? It's interesting that the Soviet Union never referred to itself as an empire, just as the United States Of America (a union of states) doesn't refer to itself as an empire. Many people around the world think the USSR acted - and the still USA acts - like an empire: the only difference between the two is one has already disappeared due to decay from within, while the other is still decaying from within.
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  1685. A WW2 vet once told me that the radios used for Operation Market Garden were fitted with crystals for the wrong channels so units meant to link up couldn't talk to each other. Some people on the Allied side must have had a very enjoyable war: being paid to make mistakes while knowing their lives wouldn't be on the line. The people who were responsible for the USN's torpedoes were another group enjoying themselves ... until a submarine skipper based in Western Australia did a test firing of inert torpedoes and sent the results back to the States ...
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  1686. Yep. The air data computer subtracts the static pressure from the total pressure to arrive at the dynamic pressure. In a conventional IAS instrument, it's done mechanically in the instrument.
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  1687.  @NesconProductions  You'd need to be in the Top 1% to afford the sword.
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  1688. It's a brave or foolish person who chooses to run the gauntlet of The Official Secrets Act ...
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  1689. When I worked for an airline, that's exactly what happened - people signed for stuff. The ground engineer doing the pre-flight signed the page in the aircraft technical log, and then the pilot signed.
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  1690. Some wacko things happened near Waco a few decades ago. :)
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  1691.  @capriracer351  Yep ... soldier would've disappeared, followed by the family after getting the infamous nighttime doorknock.
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  1692.  @johnjohnson4628  At the beginning of the video the narrator draws out the last syllable of each sentence. Quite irritating. But as the video proceeds this isn't so noticeable.
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  1693. Why? At least he gets free health care courtesy of the NHS in Britain.
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  1694. What, no "Last time I was this early ..." statement?
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  1695. Understandably difficult, thought. The aircraft would need to survive the flight into Berlin. Then it would need hangaring in a hardened facility to avoid being destroyed on the ground by Soviet air attack. Then it would need fuel. And then the pilot (senior Nazi leader) would need to get to it from the Fuhrer bunker ... and without the Fuhrer or other fanatic noticing their escape.
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  1696. ​ @grimmo74 Interesting. The SLR I trained on had a button on the side which was pressed to hold the bolt in the open position. This was used when carrying out the IA for a stoppage.
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  1697.  @wayneantoniazzi2706  You might be amazed at how many people don't know it's fiction, despite the author's note at the end. I've never seen the movie, but I read the book and thought it was great.
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  1698.  @dubya85  I had never heard about it until a friend told me. He's Polish.
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  1699. Just watch the news these days - you'll see plenty of video about the current Afghan army, i.e the one that's the Afghan army as of the date of this video, i.e. the Taliban. It's reminiscent of 1975 when we saw lots of video about the then-current North Vietnamese Army.
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  1700.  @Ozymandias1  Some of them put up a fight. Plenty others were seen dumping their weapons and changing into civilian clothes. I remember seeing it in the TV news at the time.
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  1701. Can't watch it - the video is completely scrambled. The sound is OK. The ads are OK too, but there's something seriously wrong with the encoding on this video. Suggest you re-upload it?
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  1702.  @theprofiler8531  "What do I need another watch for? I've already got one on my arm! And the refrigerator is waiting for me back home, too!"
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  1703. Two tautologies ... Mark could've said "Met with indifference" or "High handed" ... or used just the other adjective instead - we'd all get the meaning anyway. :D
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  1704. Stop it, you're debunking the conspiracy theories and upsetting the conspiracy theorists! :D Seriously, great video and great explanation, thanks!
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  1705.  @nightjarflying  And I would love to know what this "Iron Dome" was in WW2 that the OP rattled on about.
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  1706.  @robertwilliamson6121  Read it again. My post hasn't been edited: The enemy of thy (your) enemy is thy (your) friend. It would make sense to many people if I told them that "the enemy of your enemy is your friend". Of course, YMMV ... Edit PS: no need for the comma in the expression either, as it's not before a coordinating conjunction, separating two clauses, delimiting an introductory or parenthetical expression, separating elements of a list, etc.
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  1707.  @ottodidakt3069  It made sense that the French swung to the south - that way they clean up the Axis forces in Austria, which borders France to the southeast.
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  1708. A war which was never declared?
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  1709. Tienanmen Square? Hong Kong?
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  1710. Lots of interesting comments. I know something of the views of many Ukrainians towards the Soviets, and Russians in particular, especially during WW2 (a.k.a The Great Patriotic War), having heard some first hand experiences related to me years ago by Ukrainians in exile. But perhaps the Ukraine nationalists (as opposed to those who want to be part of Russia) don't understand the view of Nazism by many in the West. Anywhere in the formerly Occupied Europe or the British Commonwealth won't look on Nazi symbolism favourably. Likewise the USA, especially where the Republicans paint the Nazis as Leftists (unbelievable, but that's what they're saying) in an attempt to link the Democratic Party with Nazism; and are saying they more closely align with Putin's purported Christian beliefs, thus questioning why the West isn't supporting the Russians instead of sanctioning them. Zelensky is busy running around the world (albeit virtually) trying to drum up support for his cause. He runs the very real risk of the US Democrats not holding the presidency in 2024, and the future US President reversing the USA's position on Russia (especially if the Orange Man returns to become the 47th president of the USA), and thus worldwide support crumbling. It will be an uphill battle retaining US and Western support if Nazi symbology is being used, even if there is no Nazism intended ... but I suspect it's too late, and this particular public relations battle may have already been lost.
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  1711. "Do you know, I've been Queen nearly 10 years. And in that time I've had three prime ministers, all of them brilliant men, ambitious men. Not one has lasted the course - they were either too old, too weak, or too ill. A confederacy of elected quitters."
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  1712. then there's ... betting on a dead horse.
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  1713.  @darcgibson5099  A bit salty?
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