Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. Another thing most people don't know is that all those cool films of the launch vehicle separating in flight shot from inside the stages were taken from Apollo 6, which was packed with instrumentation and movie cameras. The film cartridges were separated, dropped in the ocean and picked up by sailors for later analysis. There were no compact HD digital cameras back then like there are today on almost every launch. People get confused because whenever you see some video or documentary about Apollo 11 they always edit in footage from Apollo 6, because that's the only in-flight footage of a Saturn V staging that exists.
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  2. Between THG and Drachinifel we aren't wanting for naval history these days.
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  3. "If." Spartans, inventors of the action movie hero one-liners.
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  4. The guy won a river boat in a card game and cheated gangsters, he's like a real life Han Solo.
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  5. This doesn't do much for France's military history joke problem.
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  6. I personally think that the Huey is the quintessential helicopter: totally iconic and, to me anyway, a beautiful design. The US Marines are still using the latest member of the Huey family, the UH-1Y Venom, which has 2 engines and a four-bladed rotor. Cool that the Huey is still around, but it doesn't sound the same without that big 2-bladed thump.
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  7. Never heard of a coal torpedo before, learn something new in every one of these videos!
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  8. USAAF: We will use nuclear weapons to sink you. Nevada: Come at me bro.
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  9. Airships are perhaps the greatest failure of the romantic era of early air travel. Even today they fascinate us and many of us wish there were a way to make them practical, if only so we could treat ourselves to the spectacle of those great vessels gliding over skyscrapers. If only the mooring mast on top of the Empire State Building hadn't proved equally as dangerous to use, we'd be able to take an airship and travel between the tops of buildings in cities. Sometimes reality fails us.
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  10. I once replied by asking, "Well, if the kids in China are starving, why not send them my food, I don't want it." That did not end well for me.
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  11. Attacking a US VP when Marines are just off the shore nearby is not good for one's health.
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  12. I was playing Missile Command on my Atari 2600 in those days...
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  13. Great story. The boxer guy had the drop on the clown and should've pounded his head into hamburger after that first punch. If you're going to bring fists to a gunfight, you have to be prepared to go full savage.
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  14. Hipster Stalin
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  15. "Times can be tough, but good times will come again." Unless you are killed, that is.
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  16.  DR Dan  Almost every ship gets a "not for public consumption" nickname. Ships tend to be dirty nasty things to live in, especially when packed in with a full crew. They require constant maintenance and cleaning to stay fit for humans. The toilets tend to clog, and the unclogging process is hilarious and disgusting, involving a firehose and high pressure followed by a lot of cleaning. The entire ship smells like machine oil and paint and cleaning chemicals and sweat and salt and vomit from seasick, and personal space is more of a theory than an actual thing. It's noisy 24/7, with air handler fans and machinery and the goddamned 1MC speaker right next to your fucking rack waking you up all the time and some asshole who won't shut the fuck up or turn off the TV in the berthing area. Sailors and Marines can love a ship while sometimes hating it at the same time, plus they have a warped sense of humor, thus the funny foul language nicknames they give the ships. And if they're in aviation maintenance, the aircraft often get equally irreverent nicknames too.
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  17. Nearly a hundred thousand deaths in the Battle of the Atlantic, wow, that's more than most whole wars. And this battle was brutal, amazing I've never heard of it before. An old school battle from the days of Nelson.
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  18. "How about a nice game of chess?"
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  19. German sniper: "Check out my nifty sniper rifle!" Texas: "That's real cute."
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  20. But then along came the chainsaw, basically a full auto axe.
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  21. Yeah, we've heard that before, it's called the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. Everywhere communism has been tried it's been a disaster, and evil that results in, at best, a stagnant economy and an oppressive regime, and at worst, megadeaths (and an even more repressive regime). There is absolutely no reason to believe that guys like you will finally "get it right" if we just give you another chance, give up all our liberties and property, and hope for the best. Ill take my freedom with all its flaws and imperfections, thank you very much.
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  22. I love the terrifying idea of being 5 miles away from your spacecraft, out of sight behind the hills, on an alien world with nothing but a spacesuit and an off-road vehicle to keep you alive. Sounds like the ultimate wilderness adventure.
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  23. Awesome. Best I'd be able to do is, "There once was a History Guy from Nantucket..." aaaand I'd better just stop there.
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  24. This reminds me: time to go give James Burke's Connections a rewatch!
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  25.  @jtgd  That's no joke, for those who don't know, Wilson threw people in prison for speaking out against the war to make the world safe for "democracy".
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  26.  @Saitaina  "Ready to jump into" while waiting on "tarmac" implies that the man was a paratrooper with the 101st AB Division. He himself may not have been told why he was being readied for deployment, and even if he did know, not to run his mouth about it, and forbidden from using a phone. Just a guess here.
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  27. The weird thing is that we rarely bother memorizing phone numbers anymore because we store them all on our phones. If you are ever in an emergency where you've lost your phone, it's good to remember at least one friend or family member's phone number so you can dial them up from a desk phone quickly.
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  28. In the Onion book "Our Dumb Century" there was a headline from the early 60s that said, "Soviets ahead of US in dog-killing race" and a story that went on to say how alarming it was that the US was falling behind in the technology of killing dogs in space and had to catch up. I love the Onion.
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  29. I'd rather spend 80 hours at battle stations aboard that ship than 80 seconds on foot disembarking from a landing craft with German machine guns shooting point blank at my face, though.
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  30. Hypergolic fuels in land-based missiles are scary dangerous enough (look up the Titan II silo explosion in Arkansas); putting them in submarines is beyond stupid.
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  31. Unfortunately in all likelihood it would be woke and full of CGI and totally suck. Michael Bay would direct it and every thrown knife would result in a huge explosion.
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  32. "I'm your sonar system. I don't feel like keeping track of that American aircraft carrier you've been stalking for days. Oops, look out {BANG}! [Mayhem laughing hysterically] Better get Allstate, so you can better protect your submarine against Mayhem."
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  33.  @bearcatben4762  "Now I finally have time to read!"
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  34. Look up Agent 355. She was a spy who gave her life for her country and to this day we haven't found what her real name was. So sad we can't even honor her properly.
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  35. YouTube/google is run by assholes who half the time don't know what they're doing and the other half are deliberately trying to sabotage your privacy and steer discussion and speech. Hard to tell which is which sometimes.
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  36. paved with communism
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  37. So Bee Mail complains about the music and now is here to rag on the Brits. Troll.
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  38. I read somewhere that Ho was an admirer of Thomas Jefferson and the idea of the Declaration of Independence before he threw in hard with the communists. Methinks we screwed the pooch on that one. But at the time, it would've meant letting the French down. They'd have gotten over it eventually but nothing is free.
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  39. I remember it also. I really couldn't care less if some Italian or Egyptian politician gets bent out of shape over it; those bastards murdered an American citizen and I'm fine with the Navy and other services hunting them down and bending the rules to do it. We must never forget, and they must have no safe haven.
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  40. As an aside, I spent some time near Lake George a while back and I learned that people from upstate New York tend to hate NY City, which doesn't surprise me.
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  41. Slow clapper.
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  42. He WON the Battle of Saratoga for Gates, while Gates hunkered down in a tent far to the rear, unaware of what was going on at the front. In an era where generals on horseback frequently took bullets next to privates, Gates was a terrible officer and leader, who conspired to replace Washington as leader of the Army before disgracing himself at Camden. Despite his later treachery, Arnold could not be accused of cowardice in combat.
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  43. According to Wikipedia the tailguns were removed from B-52s some time ago, but in Vietnam there were two or three enemy fighters shot down by B-52 tail gunners, depending on whose records you go by (US and NV records differ, as is common in all aerial wars), supposedly the last planes shot down by a bomber. It must be immensely cool to fly around in a strategic bomber that has a MiG kill painted on its side.
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  44. Keep the bowtie. And keep growing "professor hair"!
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  45.  @onlyrick  Yeah, jet fuel and jet exhaust, and the anti-skid coating on the flight deck blasting you in your face if you're in the wrong spot when the jet engines spin up. And, if you're too close to shore to dump trash, you get to smell the rotting garbage near the mess deck for a few days. And then the chow, which is good when you first leave port but after a few days you're drinking powdered milk and eating powdered eggs and so on lol. And when you're in heavy seas and the ship is pitching and rolling, you get to find out which gear wasn't properly secured, while your muscles get fatigued from just trying to sit still for a few minutes, and you have to strap yourself into your rack so you don't fall out. No matter how big the ship is, somewhere out there is a storm that will make it feel like a rowboat.
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  46. Marty, quit copying and pasting your racist nonsense.
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  47. The Fairey Swordfish keeps popping up in history as the best obsolete attack plane ever, always punching way above its weight class.
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  48. WWII ships had pretty sophisticated mechanical fire control computers, machines with gears and cams and so forth. The ones in the Iowa class were still functional during the Gulf War of 1991. Do a search, somewhere on YouTube there is a cool Navy training film from the 1950s showing how these computers worked, maybe on Jeff Quitney's channel. By the middle of the war the US Navy had superior radar and fire control systems, as well as very consistently made gun shells, which made them scary accurate for a moving platform.
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  49. I was thinking the same thing. Something shady went on behind the scenes here, even if the guy probably did murder his wife.
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  50. Beware anyone who wants to ban things. Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, drugs, etc. Free with risk is better than unfree.
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  51. Your video got demonetized because Google/YouTube hates America and her allies, Canada and Great Britain.
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  52. New York still causes problems today. Aside from the New Jersey jokes (hey, let's throw our trash in the ocean, and when it shows up on NJ beaches we'll make fun of them for it!), there is also the fact that guys like their boy Bloomberg have been interfering in elections in places like Virginia for many years, spending wads of NY cash to get people elected in other states. NY just can't mind its own business. What else would you expect from an entity that calls itself the "Empire State"?
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  53. Amazing this guy lived so long before getting his throat cut.
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  54. Shoot a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
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  55. You should watch the film "Strategic Air Command" starring Jimmy Stewart for lots of B-47 footage. Jimmy was a bomber pilot in WWII Europe and stayed in the USAF Reserve throughout much of his acting career.
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  56.  @petersmith4423  In the US Marines, we are told that the seven belt loops in our trousers stand for the Seven Seas. I am guessing maybe the first garment maker to get a uniform contract just happened to make pants that way, but I knew enough to keep my pie hole shut.
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  57.  @waltking9141  Hitting the trailer park meth a little hard today, are we?
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  58. Which of the two young ladies did he prefer? Because obviously, Mary Ann is hotter than Ginger.
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  59. A giant monument to wastefulness. Sad to see all those functional ships, and all the work and money that went into building them, only to be destroyed.
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  60. 10:10 I'd be interested to hear more details about that story. While the US Navy has a lot to be proud of, it also has a lot to be ashamed of when it comes to the way it treats guys like that.
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  61. There was a more recent incident in Iraq where a two-engine civilian cargo jet was hit by a surface to air missile while taking off, and the crew managed to control the aircraft and land it using only engine thrust alone, managing to get it down on the wheels in one piece. Happened in the mid-2000's IIRC.
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  62. The 29th Inf. Div. is called the "Blue Gray Division" because it is made up of National Guard units whose lineage can be traced back to both sides in the Civil War. The 116th Infantry Regiment is known as the "Stonewall Brigade" because it's battalions served under Stonewall Jackson in the Confederate Army.
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  63. It was my understanding that the original mechanical fire control computers were still used during the Gulf War because they are built into the ship and linked directly to the rangefinders, gun turrets, etc. You can put modern electronic computers aboard the ship along with modern radar, but at some point when it comes time to aim the guns you use the old machines. Something I thought I read somewhere. In any case those old fire control systems were the best in the world, and the US had a huge advantage over Japan when it came to radar and fire control in the later part of WWII. At the Battle of the Philippine Sea the only Japanese battleship to have radar fire control was Yamato, IIRC, the others were all using optical rangefinders.
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  64.  @trukr817  Constitution is still a commissioned ship and gets real Navy money. If taking your museum out of the water to save it is what it takes, at least it's better than letting it rust away beyond repair.
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  65. I read your book, Ryan. Your conclusions were all wrong. Halsey acted shtupidly.
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  66.  @rcknbob1  A "bottom" is sometimes used to refer to a low lying area of land, such as a swamp. And swamps are often foggy, especially in the morning.
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  67.  @gregboyington4896  It was a good movie, but the ending is one of the greatest blue ball moments in film history. I REALLY wanted to see the Nimitz's air wing lay hard into the kido butai, they had the whole strike package moving out loaded for bear...
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  68. Shady contractors still do that kind of shit today. Have a house built. Contractor delivers the appliances and leaves them in the garage where they are magically stolen overnight. No prob, insurance buys you new ones. Stolen appliances wind up sold to the next customer.
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  69. There was also a guy my dad told me about who had a houseboat on the Delaware River and used to move back and forth between NJ and PA in order to avoid being a resident of either state and taxes. Dim memory of that.
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  70. Well I been to one World Fair, a picnic, and a rodeo and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones!
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  71. Drinking game: drink whenever History Guy says "banana".
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  72. "Why is the rum always gone?" Captain Jack Sparrow
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  73. My understanding is that the B-52 still has a better availability rate than the B-1B or the B-2, and that it's relatively cheaper to maintain than those newer birds too. It's also been able to find new missions besides just strategic bombing; in more recent years it's been used tactically to support ground troops, since you can load it up with sensors and precision guided munitions and have it loiter over the battlefield waiting for a call for fire. Nobody in the 50s ever imagined what we'd be using it for now, it's truly one of the best acquisitions for the dollar the US military has ever bought.
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  74.  @bobross8786  Cuttings off your nose to spite your face. If you aren't an idiot, credit cards make your life a lot easier and you don't run up dept. I can drink without getting stupid drunk, it's not that hard unless you're an addict.
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  75. There's an old joke in the Navy and Marine Corps: "What's the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story? A fairy tale starts, "Once upon a time...", and a sea story starts, "And this is no shit..."
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  76.  @dragonsword7370  RIP Kirk Douglas great film.
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  77. The weakness of digital medium is the machines and software needed to retrieve it, which may become obsolete at any time in the future, rendering all your jpgs, Word docs, pdfs, etc. unreadable to most future computers. The beauty of film is that all you need to read it is a light and a magnifying glass, and printing it requires some fairly simple chemistry, or it can be scanned into the future tech of the day for digital viewing. This makes film a good long term archival storage option.
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  78. "The world weighs on my shoulders, but what am I to do I know it makes no difference To what you're going through But I see the tip of the iceberg And I worry about you Absalom Absalom Absalom" - Rush Distant Early Warning
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  79.  @thewriteinpresident  Uh, yeah, you tell him buddy! And don't let any of them tell you you have to take your meds, that's just propaganda from the lizard overlords! lol
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  80. In the fictionalized TV series (Baa Baa Black Sheep) version of the story VMF-214 (now VMA-214) was created out of thin air when Boyington scammed the paperwork and stole a shipment of factory new F4U Corsairs from some Navy squadron that was due to get them. That never happened in real life, but it makes for a great sea story. If you've never watched the pilot episode for the show it's worth a look.
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  81.  @johnserrano9689  wtf?
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  82. The opposite is almost just as bad. Some parrots can live more than 60 years or so, which means if you get a young parrot in your 30s he may outlive you and become an old, unwanted bird. The bird rescue organizations have lots of them. It is recommended to leave instructions in your will for pets that may outlive you.
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  83. "Either you're a dead man, or you earn yourself a medal" Or maybe both.
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  84. Sounds great until the ornery goose bites you in the scrotum.
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  85. 8:35 LOL Marines! Even when they aren't anywhere in sight, they still manage to find ways to piss off the Army!
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  86. I often wonder why fans of any particular channel obsess over those who dislike videos.
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  87. On the differences between the USAF and Navy versions of the A-7, there was a sea story* I heard once. A couple of USAF A-7's landed at a Navy base in California, and in addition to fuel, the pilots asked the Navy guys to recharge the pilot oxygen systems. Apparently, Navy A-7's used a higher pressure O2 system than the USAF version, but nobody told the poor young petty officer who was sent out to the flightline with an oxygen cart. He plugged in the cart, cranked up the pressure and opened the valve. The Corsair promptly exploded! I saw a photo: the engine was sitting there surrounded by airplane parts. They sailor was thought to be dead, but they couldn't find his body. A couple of days later he showed up and explained: After the plane blew up, he took off running and hopped the fence to go hide out in town, thinking that for sure he was going to burn for this. I didn't hear what they actually did to the guy, but I'm guessing he didn't get punished as bad as he was expecting lol. *In US Navy/Marine parlance, a "sea story" is a story which may be true or may be complete BS or something in between.
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  88. In prehistoric Soviet Russia, chicken eat you
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  89. "Many of we original Star Wars fans wish that they had stopped there [in 1983]" Hear hear.
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  90.  @marbleman52  Yes, storage is important for any medium. Even stone tablets wear down if left out in the weather.
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  91. If I were one of those passengers, I'd tell the agent to make sure I get aboard whichever plane that particular pilot is flying.
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  92. "Speak softly and carry a big stick." - Teddy Roosevelt
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  93.  @donf3877  ON top of that, if a lengthy invasion had taken place the Soviet Union would've seized all the northern Japanese islands and possibly part of the main island.
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  94.  @hadronoftheseus8829  Ed, "Ha ha ha. Yes."
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  95. The Star Trek version?
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  96.  @Andrew-13579  Plus, like most Russian designs, the Tu-22 is as hideous as an infected zit on the ass of Rosie O'Donnell, while the B-58 is one of the sleekest, most beautiful, badass-looking planes ever built.
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  97. That reminds me of the videos from Lebanon 2 years ago where people were recording the blast with their phones and just stood there watching it through glass windows, not understanding the price they'd pay when the shock wave arrived.
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  98.  @Idahoguy10157  Wrong. The mast is real, and there is even an air passenger terminal built into the top of the building. They tried to moor an airship to it once, but the captain deemed the approach too dangerous because of the vertical gusts. It wasn't well thought out, but it was real.
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  99.  @Dave_Sisson  During the Gulf War in 1991 every bomb I saw had stuff written on it. And it's not like we didn't "have far more important things to do".
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  100. Anyone who was anyone avoided this and went straight for the Chrysler Cordoba, with its rich Corinthian leather!
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  101.  @mskellyrlv  Absolutely. Video used to be scorned as nice to have for newbs but sensor data is for professionals, mainly because getting video from space missions required heavy, bulky equipment and lots of bandwidth. Technology has advanced very far just in the last 15 years. The video camera technology in your phone is something NASA would've loved to get their hands on in the 60s.
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  102. Count me in. From New Jersey to Jersey, all for a good pint.
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  103. AS well they should, Chuck Yeager is a real life badass. Chuck Norris wants to be like Chuck Yeager.
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  104. Under VFR water towers are still great aids.
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  105. I think when you look back on it, the Seven Years War (aka French and Indian War in North America) of the 1750s-60s may have been the first world war. Or one of the first, anyway.
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  106.  @CrackerFL  There are spring-loaded brakes on modern elevators; they do not freefall, power outage or not.
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  107.  Ron Lewenberg  That would be a good topic for Drachinifel.
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  108. Well, if it makes them feel better, the rest of the country, and even the rest of NY state, don't care about the difference between the boroughs and think they are all equally insufferable.
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  109. I've heard this story many times and I find the conventional interpretation of it to be a bit dubious. The Arrow was indeed a very advanced aircraft, but it was likely limited due to its pure interceptor design. In its intended role for continental defense it may have done as well as its later American counterpart, the F-106, which stayed in service until the 1990s, but the Arrow would likely lacked the multirole versatility of the F-4 Phantom, which was used for air-to-ground missions extensively as well as air-to-air. Could the Arrow even handle itself in a dogfight against other fighters? The Phantom certainly could, when flown right, and in tests the F-106 even did well. Then there's the question of how fragile the Canadian aerospace industry was. When one big project cancellation results in the shutdown of your nation's entire industry, it doesn't say much for the resiliency of the business to begin with. A lot of big projects in the US were canceled over the years as well, and while occasionally a company would go out of business or merge, the US aerospace industry was never seriously in trouble. The B-70 comes to mind right off the top of my head. Finally, the idea of Canada pulling off an Apollo-Saturn style moon landing project is a bit much to believe. Where to even start with that? Sounds a lot like the lost golden age myth fantasy. Canadians have played a large role in the US space program, but to imagine the Canadian government shouldering the financial burden of a NASA type moon landing program, with all the public scrutiny that comes with it, is just too much for me. Public perceptions about government spending is what led to the guy who canceled the Arrow, after all.
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  110. The guns on battleships are giant rifles, and they can be used as giant sniper rifles. Just ask Admiral Ching Lee or his opponents on Kirishima, who found out the hard way.
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  111.  @MrMontanaNights  Because the bombs got so big and so numerous that survival of the population became impractical. Also, Mutually Assured Destruction became the policy and making plans to protect your population instead of allowing them to be held hostage to the adversary might be considered as an attempt to fight and win a nuclear war, provoking the other side. So the government decided to say the hell with it, it's pointless and costs money and our fearless leaders want us all to be vulnerable anyway.
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  112. There's a pretty good movie called "At Close Range" starring Christopher Walken and Sean Penn, about an organized crime gang in rural Pennsylvania in the 70s. It's loosely based on Bruce Johnson's gang in the 60s and 70s who stole drugs, farm equipment, etc. around the Lancaster County area.
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  113. Not quite the same, but after the Challenger accident, Rockwell assembled a replacement space shuttle out of structural spares which became Space Shuttle Endeavour. At first NASA considered refitting Enterprise for spaceflight, but that would've required disassembling the airframe and rebuilding major parts to bring her up to spec, so the Endeavor option was deemed cheaper.
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  114. Ah, okay, my memory was dim, I read something about it years ago. But still, he was working with the OSS, so again, a missed opportunity on the part of the US.
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  115. Why do carbon units infest Enterprise?
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  116. I had trouble seeing the video because of all the puns in my eye, but I was able to hear all the jokes and found them rather cornea.
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  117. Great story, and great connection at the end!
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  118. Just like Joe and Hunter making bank off the Chinese, promising to smooth things over with them once he's installed.
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  119. Hindsight is 20/20. Without timely help from the US Navy Wake was doomed to fall, despite the fact that the Marines made the enemy pay dearly for it.
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  120. And the one at Lakehurst, NJ too, which was where the Shenandoah was built, and where the Hindenburg was headed when she wrecked. That one is 100 years old now.
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  121. Kudos to the Navy for rewarding Hudner despite his violating standing orders. That's how things work in a real fighting force. You support the man on the spot for making tough decisions and choosing courage over ass-covering, and you show the rest of your troops that being brave is the right thing to do.
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  122.  @badhat3051  The locations and destinations of naval flotillas are concealed as best as possible. I'm guessing the Venezuelans did not have high tech maritime surveillance in 1958; it's likely that they knew about the carrier and the Marines off shore only when Ike wanted them to know what was coming if they didn't protect the VP. A Marine landing is not considered "stealthy"; it's an old joke: Navy SEALS sneak up and kill you in your sleep, Marines call you on the phone and tell you they're coming to kick your ass in a few hours, and then they proceed to do exactly that. But in reality you never quite know where they're going to land if they can help it.
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  123. I love that the VW Beetle is a unit of mass. I remember when the Iowa class battleships were in service in the 80s and 90s and people would say "each main gun shell is like a VW Beetle being thrown 20 miles."
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  124. The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum has the restored Enola Gay B-29 and a model of the Little Boy bomb on display. About 10 or 15 years ago some wackjob protestors threw blood or red paint on the airplane, right after they had spent hundreds of man hours restoring it.
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  125. That part about the shoe shine box reminds me of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.
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  126.  @cmdraftbrn  I read the book. It's a good read but it's also grim. HIs time in Japanese POW camps was not pleasant. He also had serious alcohol problem later in life that probably led to an earlier than expected death.
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  127.  @ronfullerton3162  Now we have unsecure wi fi networks instead.
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  128. So Marty, how many times are you going to copy and paste that hogwash and crap all over History Guy's videos?
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  129. Communists are pieces of shit, and Stalin was among the greatest piece of shit in communist history, topped perhaps only by Mao. I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would embrace that wretched, foul ideology after the enormous piles of dead bodies it leaves in its wake, and the monsters that always rise to the top. Doesn't surprise me to learn this asshole started off as a violent bank robber; the Communist Party is a natural place for him to wind up.
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  130. It helps that he was a smart general, as opposed to some of the blithering idiots commanding the troops.
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  131. Actually, many parts of that Goldsboro bomb were recovered; the part still buried in the mud is no longer a functional bomb. It may contaminate the water supply or cause some other pollution problem, but it is physically impossible for it to function as an explosive.
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  132. You better stand, there's no turning back!
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  133.  @jerrymiller276  Far easier to indoctrinate children in ideological nonsense than to teach them reading, writing, math, and science.
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  134.  @billbolton  Cigarette smuggling is common in the US, since some states have high taxes on what is a legal product.
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  135. Anytime troops are told "You'll be home by Christmas" it's almost invariably a lie.
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  136. Also that jackass running the pizzeria down the street from me. I don't like his cheesy bread and he doesn't give me enough free napkins. Break him up!
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  137. 11:55 Nelson, "If it makes you feel any better, you've had your ass kicked by the very best who's ever sailed the Seven Seas and you put up a decent fight."
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  138.  @winstonchurchill3597  Honestly I had buddies in college who had to do that to get through school. I was in a technical program, so not so much for me, but there were still a few liberal arts classes where telling the truth was bad for your grade if it didn't match the professor's ideology.
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  139. No internet and no cable TV, nothing else to do.
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  140.  @johnmorris7209  If you've ever pulled buttes at a rifle range you know what it sounds like when rifle rounds pass close overhead. They are loud with a supersonic crack that over time damages your hearing if you don't wear earplugs. Now imagine a much bigger round going just as fast or faster passing even closer. Yikes.
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  141. And Drachinifel.
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  142.  @BeachsideHank  That's a great rant and all, but in this case the Navy was right.
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  143. I was in Japan in the early 90s and the Japanese navy was flying large 4-engine turboprop flying boats out of Iwakuni, a joint US Marine Corps and Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (ie navy) base. They used them for antisubmarine patrols and search and rescue, and they were very impressive, landing in the water and then taxiing up the seaplane ramp to get the salt water hosed off. They had a bunch of pitot tubes and weathervane-looking instrument probes sticking up from the forward deck area as I remember. Don't know if they still use them today.
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  144.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  I wonder why he rode it into the ground. It must've been before zero-zero ejection seats, when those old seats couldn't save you if you were too low and too slow.
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  145. Exactly, by making a stand he never got to use all the awful stuff he had in his car on her.
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  146. @Silently Sceptical you are just a troll
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  147.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  I'm sorry, but I don't think she believes it is YOUR mail. It belongs to her now.
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  148.  @corneliuscrewe677 Yes, but it's a 5 mile walk, in an environment with no air, and your suit must not fail. So it's still pretty edgy.
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  149. The rocket booster in that story refers to the space shuttle solid rocket booster segments, which were built or refurbished and fueled at the factory and shipped by rail to Florida where they were assembled into complete boosters. An alternate plan offered by a competing company was to build a manufacturing plant in Florida near the launch site which would build larger, fatter booster rockets which would be all one long casing. The bigger one-piece boosters would've been more powerful and also would've avoided the engineering problem of the O-ring joints that doomed the Challenger.
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  150. I was there once, many years ago, doing the same thing. Keep the faith, brother, and come home safe.
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  151.  @Idahoguy10157  Well, you'd be right to say it has no function today, except to remind us of what almost was. That air terminal has been documented in photos and videos; I don't think they let tourists into it often, but it's a beautiful piece of art deco work, functional or not. Passengers boarding an airship from up there would've had to walk across a swaying catwalk at dizzying heights, so even if it had worked it was not for the faint of heart.
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  152. That's one of my favorite movies, they don't make movies like that anymore.
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  153.  @briankoski2532  Did he live in a van down by the river?
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  154. Especially when blended with the meth.
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  155. Even though he's super famous, I feel like Ben Franklin doesn't get enough credit. As ambassador to France he basically saved the Cause by getting the French to back it and recruiting all these talented foreign officers to cross the Atlantic and join the Continental Army.
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  156. When I was taking pilot lessons they referred to small private planes as "lawyer and doctor killers". Be safe, dude.
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  157. If I was in charge, I'd troll everyone by naming the floors 13A, 13B, 13C, and so on. No escaping it.
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  158. I visited the Philly mint once in the 90s and got a tour. The guys who work there doing bill destruction are all bonded and background checked, and when they show up for work they had to change into coveralls with the pockets sewn shut.
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  159. Amazing how many people go to funerals for dirtbags like this. It's one thing to make a movie about them, because they make for good stories, but it's another to act like they're some kind of hero. I talked to an Italian guy from New York once and he told me that when he was growing up the mob would help out families in the neighborhood with stuff, especially the first or second generation immigrants, which was how they managed to have some level of popular support.
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  160. Well said.
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  161. Sadly, the commercial failure of the L-1011 knocked Lockheed out of the airliner business for good. Every once in a while Lockheed Martin floats on idea for a futuristic jetliner again, the latest usually being some sort of quiet supersonic tech, but concepts only, no serious plans to reenter the market. But the L-1011 is certainly a beautiful bird. Not too many left flying these days.
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  162. I am astonished to think that my parents made me mow the lawn and trusted me with a gasoline-powered foot-chopping machine unsupervised. I hated cutting grass but I liked operating the Briggs and Stratton motor, maintaining it, oiling it, and so on. I hit a golf ball with it once, as well as a few crab apples and even a rock or two. Damned dangerous thing but I survived and now I know how to handle power tools and work on engines.
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  163.  @juniorloaf12  It would be cool if NASA were to obtain a few B-1B bomber when the USAF retires them in the years to come; they have great speed and payload capacity anyway.
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  164. Or they're communists.
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  165. This was supposed to be light-hearted. Don't get all butthurt over it.
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  166. Then there was the USS "Forest Fire" (aka Forrestal), who earned her nickname from a horrible flight deck accident in 1967 that killed like 30 dudes. Camera footage of the accident and firefighting efforts was used for a training film that I'm pretty sure every American sailor and even some Marines were made to watch. If ever there was an example of how a ship can get scary dangerous in the blink of an eye, that episode is it.
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  167.  @bruce2357  Ah yes, TWA Flight 847. Time finally caught up with some of those SOBs, too, quite recently in fact. I also remember as a kid the whole Iran Hostage Crisis, and the good men who died trying to rescue them at Desert 1. I'm not above keeping score when it comes to that stuff.
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  168. saint denis I'm going to tell my Zionist conspiracy buddies to save a special place in the FEMA camp for you when we take over your flat Earth. Get ready, we're comin' for ya!
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  169. His flagship, the cruiser Olympia, is a museum ship in Philadelphia. There are a pair of brass footprints on the bridge where he stood when he (Dewey) gave that command.
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  170. As long as the ruling elite doesn't find some reason to cancel Jones before the pandemic is over.
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  171. His work is probably responsible for those brace things that come down over your shoulders to hold you in place on many roller coasters. The lap bar on old wooden coasters is far less effective.
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  172.  @QuantumRift  I was so waiting for that joke to come up.
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  173. Everyone who watched "Rome" knows Titus Pollo is the real father of Ceasar's kid. ;-)
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  174. Like Josey Wales said, "Hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat too."
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  175. When I was little my dad had a series of Time Life history books, and the one on pirates I read over and over, and used to stare at the illustrations. I was surprised when, about 20 years ago, piracy started becoming a real life issue again in the far east and off the east coast of Africa.
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  176. He was stupid for agreeing to be their representative. But since he previously got kicked out of the navy for something so stupid as refusing to fold his hammock, I am guessing he wasn't exactly a rocket scientist to begin with. Poor discipline and stupidity go hand in hand, as most who've served in the military know.
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  177. I used to work in a welding shop. Whenever we would weld, cut, or grind galvanized steel pipe the fumes from the galvanizing compound would make you sick if you inhaled too much, and all the welders carried hard candy in their pockets because the shit would make your teeth taste weird, so sucking on a Jolly Rancher every so often would counter it. I'm pretty sure that wasn't doing me any good.
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  178. I knew there'd be a good Halloween ep!
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  179. tipperstefi1, tell the truth, did any pilots ever smuggle a Stetson hat into the cockpit, for, you know, just in case?
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  180. Japan wasn't hurting for carriers. Japan's problem was pilots. The training pipeline was very slow, and veteran pilots were sent into combat over and over until they were killed, instead of rotating back as instructors like the USN did. At Leyte Gulf the IJN actually had carriers sent in with almost no planes just to act as decoys. The Yamato class battleships had problems of their own, being technically inferior and slower than the latest US designs, which had better fire control systems and could keep up speed with nuclear carriers into the 1990s, proving to be adaptable to modern systems upgrades.
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  181. *Kodak. With a K.
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  182.  @kevinoverbeck4250  There was no middle class.
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  183. LOL at the part where the colonel sends in female soldiers to try and see if his guys would spill the plans!
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  184. I didn't know they were still building sidewheelers as late as 1891, would figure they'd all be propeller driven by that time.
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  185. I don't know, I think the part of history that contains Jar Jar Binks deserves to be forgotten.
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  186. I agree, sort of. The loss of SAC meant the loss of the most hardcore, squared-away part of the USAF, the guys who most took warfighting seriously in my opinion. Strategic nuclear warfare (and prevention of) is grim, deadly serious business. You fuck it up and everyone dies. The US could afford to lose a Vietnam War now and then without ceasing to exist, but the Soviet Union could never be allowed to believe they had a snowball's chance in hell of surviving a fight with the US, and SAC was a major part of that equation. SAC's professionalism set an example for the rest of the USAF and it was a well-known public trademark of America's strategic readiness. When you said "SAC" to somebody on the street, chances are they knew what you were talking about. Ask somebody today what "AFGSC" means, and they probably won't have a clue.
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  187. The kind where they tell you everything is racist, getting worse, and America sucks, so you should hate yourself and just accept socialism. Any part of your history to be proud of is to be minimized and ultimately forgotten in favor of the new narrative.
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  188. Lesson learned: tell the teachers exactly what they want to hear so you can get your grade and move on.
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  189.  @cmdraftbrn  No, it's because being a soldier is physically demanding and younger bodies are better able to handle it.
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  190. The nautical term for using an anchor to move a ship like that is called "kedging" if I recall correctly. During the war of 1812 USS Constitution got into a fight with a British squadron and due to complete calm lack of wind the ships got into a kedging race, with the Royal Navy chasing the Constitution, all ships using boats to carry their anchors forward and drop them, haul them in, and then repeat the exhausting process.
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  191. THG you didn't mention the fact that NASA put up a website where you could type in your name in the early 2000s, so that when New Horizons was launched they would put all the names on a CD stashed aboard the spacecraft. Somewhere out there in the far reaches of the solar system is a CD with my name stored on it now.
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  192.  @oncesedated4849  It was neither. The Germans forfeited any right to expect rescue when their U-boats were ordered to attack enemy chips engaged in rescue operations. They were known for torpedoing ships laden with survivors from other sinkings, even rescued German sailors. For you to defend them is shameful.
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  193. You see how aggressive adult chimpanzees are? We humans are talking chimps, with nuclear weapons.
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  194. LOL have you ever even heard of the 1970s?
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  195. What you said about how the forest has changed so radically in the last 100 years made me think. When we think about what makes our time different from the past we always think about things like technology, clothing fashion, hairstyles, etc., but it's important to remember that even the very land itself was different, something movies never rally seem to convey. I was in Virginia at the Bull Run battlefield and besides the obvious incursion of sprawl in the area, I couldn't understand the sight lines as described in history, and then someone explained to me that in the 1860s there were a lot fewer trees than there are today, because it was all clear cut for farming. Look at a map of Boston today and compare it with a map of the same city in the 1770s; not only are there obviously more buildings, but the landscape itself is completely different, rivers and shorelines all changed.
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  196. I used to watch Speed Racer religiously when I was about 4 or 5 years old. Later, when I was in my early teens, I watched it again with my brother, and we were surprised at all the grizzly deaths. Fiery car crashes with no survivors, and bad guys gunning people down. By comparison the later cartoons of the 80s were so sanitized that they made no sense anymore. I used to hate GI Joe because here we have an elite group of soldiers with advanced weapons fighting an elite terrorist force and nobody ever got shot, hurt, or killed, ever, despite them all shooting at each other constantly. Speed Racer was silly but it was good memories and it didn't pander to the socially conscious busybodies who never fail to ruin everything they touch.
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  197. The makers of War Games did not know about this, but the fear that an electronic glitch could accidentally do us all in was pretty common at the time. Coincidentally, around 1983 there was a real life incident at NORAD where somebody mistakenly loaded some tapes from a simulation, leading NORAD to believe for a moment that North America may be under attack, much like the first incident in the film.
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  198. I knew Marines who served aboard Wasp when she was brand new.
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  199. Sammy Hagar managed to get some pretty good mileage out of that one.
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  200.  @wendychavez5348  Oh. Seems complicated. I was thinking you were using the bottle as a magnifying glass or something lol.
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  201.  @korbell1089  What's fun is the tell the new guy to go up to HQ and ask for a "PRC-E7". Hilarity ensues.
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  202.  @drivenc3  As an American I always get confused by the whole England/Britain/Great Britain/UK/British Isles thing. I think I've got it mostly down but I still get confused sometimes. Funny thing is I am friends with a Canadian woman and when I told her one day that Elizabeth II was officially the queen of Canada she acted as if it were the first time she'd ever heard that.
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  203. "Our connection to history is sometimes tenuous..." Something to think about. There is a lot of concern about digital photography because people are worried that format changes and technological advances could make many of the digital photos we take for granted today unreadable in the future. For example, will anyone be able to open a .jpeg file in 100 or 150 years from now? I have files on floppy disks from 20 years ago that I already can't read because my computer no longer has a floppy drive. Stuff like that. One advantage of older technologies like paper and negative film (not the nitrate kind) is that as long as you store them properly they will last a long time, and you can always convert them to whatever the current digital form is in the future. Some people prefer physical formats for archival purposes. I guess that makes sense, just don't let your library burn down before you make copies.
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  204.  @philgiglio9656 That's fine if that's what you chose to believe. 2010s Venezuela or 1980s US? I'd choose the latter. Your mileage may vary.
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  205.  @JiveDadson  Yeah, no kidding? Every time that line comes up 2 or 3 guys like you bring up the Dallas story. The guy right before you in this thread, for example.
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  206.  @jamesbehrje4279  Friend of mine was in the Air Force and served aboard those planes. You wishing him to die over your politics is sickening.
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  207.  @karney6583  Flag. Inappropriate use of meme. 5 yard penalty, repeat first down.
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  208. I was in the Keys in the early 90s and there were a couple of old DC-3 airplanes painted bright yellow with the words "MOSQUITO CONTROL" painted in big letters under the wings. They would fly low overhead every morning, spraying the swamps, and their engines would shake our house. I don't know how well they worked on mosquitos, but it was very cool to see a DC-3 still earning its living and being well taken care of.
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  209.  @evensgrey  True, but a new aircraft would be marked up so high it wouldn't be economical. Just take the old airframe design, make a few small material improvements, add modern engines and avionics. You're probably right about Russia too.
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  210.  @Marcg-b4n  *ship. And that fire killed a lot of guys.
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  211. The Joker speaking to his driver: "Look at the city. What do you see out there?" Driver: "I see lights, boss." Joker: "I see holes in the darkness."
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  212. The horse noped out.
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  213. Large quantities of swiftly moving water hurtling over a cliff is something that terrifies me at a primitive level. I love standing next to the top of a waterfall, but not too close. Under no circumstances would I have walked out over that dry riverbed knowing that somewhere upstream millions of tons of water was just waiting for its chance to rush back and sweep me away. It's kind of like that phenomenon before a tsunami hits where the water recedes from the shore. That part of your lizard brain that tells you, "Something ain't right here, RUN!"
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  214. I was thinking the Klingon D7 battlecruisers from the original TV show and the first movie, not the Bird of Prey thing which doesn't appear until ST 3.
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  215. 5:00 Expecting the US Navy to retreat is usually a poor strategy; it is known as a very aggressive institution. I talked to a historian once about the attack on Pearl Harbor and he told me that the fact the Navy didn't know the attack was coming was probably a good thing, for had they been alerted the United States Navy would've sortied those battleships and gone out to fight the IJN carriers without any air support, and likely would've wound up with several battleships sunk in deep water instead of in the shallow water of the Harbor where they could be salvaged. The US Navy has a history of aggressive behavior going back to the War of 1812 or even earlier.
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  216. The British version of Texas Towers
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  217. Suggestion for a future video: The 1975 Corinthos disaster near Philadelphia. Two ships collided on the Delaware River resulting a tremendous explosion and fire which killed several sailors. Strangely forgotten today, it's hard to even find any info on it, but I remember it as a very young boy.
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  218. I was in an Irish bar once and the guitarist/singer stopped in the middle of his song as two woman came out of the ladies room, one of them helping the other, who was clearly smashed and had obviously been puking. After they walked out the door, the singer looked at the crowd and said, "Let that be a lesson to you, folks: If you're going to drink, you have to practice!" And thus he went back to singing and we went back to drinking.
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  219. What I want to know though, is did this guy get into a fistfight with a huge German airplane mechanic underneath a powered-up flying wing aircraft?
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  220.  DrakeIsSix  Interesting info. I like the sound of older Hueys and Jet Rangers.
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  221.  @rabbi120348  I watched some of Tyson's fights. His signature move was a vicious uppercut to the jaw early in the fight, snapping the head back, immediately knocking out his opponent. Most boxers could take hits from him elsewhere, but that shot almost always took them out. So whatever plan they had was rendered moot as soon as Tyson landed that hit. Later, some guys got wise to that and refused to let Tyson get the opportunity, and that's when it was Tyson whose plan started falling apart. Even still, though, Tyson is a scary man, even as he ages.
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  222. The United States Marine Corps is also known for it. See Victor Krulak's book First to Fight. Also an old joke is that that is the reason the Marines have it rough compared to others is that when the Air Force goes to build a base, they spend all the money on quarters and chow hall, then go back to Congress and ask for more money to finish the runways and hangars. The Marines do it backwards, spending the money on stuff for warfighting first, and then when they ask for money for a decent place to sleep, Congress says, "Fuck you. Live in tents."
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  223. One exception is when on a flight deck or flight line; loose covers are considered FOD hazards and can cause a lot of damage if sucked into a jet engine.
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  224.  Michael Powell  Seen on a modern t-shirt: "I have a liberal arts degree. Would you like fries with that?"
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  225.  @area609joe2  There was no "middle class" until the Renaissance. Marxist class theory is all BS anyway.
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  226. I remember how disappointed I was when I visited England from the US and found out that London Bridge is just a boring plane old modern concrete highway bridge. For a bridge that is so famous and embedded in children's songs and so on you'd think they'd have spent a little extra coin on some architecture and make it look cool.
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  227. Sounds like Celebrity Death Match. "Chairman Mao vs. Chuck Norris"
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  228. Robert Capa shot a bunch of photos on Omaha known as "The Magnificent Eleven". He said he shot well over a hundred photos but most were lost in a lab accident. Some have disputed that story, and his famous photo of a guy getting shot in the Spanish Civil War was also accused of being staged. But those 11 black and white photos are the real thing and they are quite moving. As for color footage, there was some color footage released back in the 90s, probably when Saving Private Ryan was out, and I saw some on the evening news. There was a shot looking down into a landing craft where wounded men were being treated and evacuated. There was blood and torn clothing but it was a very short clip. The news announcer said there was more and it was very graphic; that's all I remember.
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  229.  @privatepilot4064  Oh yeah. Sea lawyers, lollygoggers, pogues, various types of shitbird, you name it.
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  230.  @mike30534  I like the lobbying local government idea. My neighbor liked to play his Michael Bolton records really loud, so I lobbied to have his house declared "blighted", so they could bulldoze it and build some McMansions to bring in more tax money. Just let any of those new bastards try that Bolton shit with me.
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  231.  @matthewsermons7247  Dihydrogen monoxide is a leading source of drownings and corrosion and should be banned!
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  232. A 50k year old tool that is still usable?! Wow, they don't make 'em like they used to.
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  233.  @simonpeter5032  THIRTEEN!!!!!
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  234. 00:52 Wow, look at that air terminal! Beautiful and classy art deco style, with that awesome globe in the middle. They sure don't make airports like that anymore. And notice there are no passengers dressed like hobos in sweatpants or being crotch-grabbed by fat, luggage-stealing high school dropouts in blue shirts.
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  235. "His political leanings aren't what matters." Yeah, right. If you think you can be in show business and no one will care about your politics...
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  236. To be fair, before they knew it was carcinogenic, asbestos was pretty useful in fire retardants and probably saved a lot of lives without anyone even knowing it. Likewise, mercury is useful for lots of stuff but is unfortunately stupidly toxic. The real problem is when people find out a substance is dangerous and don't change how they use or handle it, like the guys who ran these radium clock factories.
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  237.  @carlcushmanhybels8159  The L1011 is awesome, but it put Lockheed out of the airliner business unfortunately. Delta used to operate lots of them and they were great.
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  238. Everything I know about trolling and sarcasm I learned from Bugs Bunny.
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  239.  @zeitgeistx5239  6-Falkland Islands: CATOBAR aircraft carriers are expensive, but you miss them when you don't have them. Same goes for anti-ship missile defenses.
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  240. A kickass movie that one is.
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  241.  @juniorloaf12  The V bombers are all subsonic, as far as I know.
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  242.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Mark Felton just did a great video on that .
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  243. We are seeing the logical outcome of allowing google to accumulate so much market share: they feel themselves to be so powerful as to be invincible and can now start imposing their own worldview on society and censoring people arbitrarily. The builders of youtube certainly made some cash when they sold out to google, but ultimately they sabotaged their own once brilliant platform. Google has taken youtube and cynically turned It into both a money-making machine and a laboratory for their own snowflake social experiments. Sadly, so long as youtube remains private property, you're only real way to fight back is to hope another video platform rises to challenge it. So far it hasn't happened yet.
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  244. Well, lots of them, pretty much anyone who was old enough to serve in the F&I War who later served in the Continental forces. Washington himself is an example, served under British Gen. Braddock. Ben Franklin didn't serve in both wars but one of his sons was royal governor of New Jersey and the two never reconciled after the war.
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  245. Most nations were founded by violence. Families don't get to be "royal" families by selling girl scout cookies and Avon.
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  246. I love your channel, History Guy, I find myself clicking on one after the other, and I especially love these ones about significant events that should be remember but have faded in memory for some reason. I have a suggestion for you: The collision, fire, and explosion of the Queeny and Corinthos on the Delaware River near Philadelphia on January 31st, 1975. I was very little at the time living nearby and I remember the explosion and then my dad watching the fire on the local news, it was a huge event, giant column of smoke, the river was on fire, and several sailors were killed, but the weird thing about it is that many people living in the area today, even those old enough to remember it, don't remember it or only dimly remember it. Funny how the internet makes it seem as if things that took place before we could upload video didn't really happen.
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  247. They weren't in action when they were killed.
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  248.  @johnmartlew5897  Sorry, but no. "Killed in action" means they were killed in combat with the enemy, which they were not. The idea that anybody participating in supporting the war effort is "in action" is as stupid and exaggerated as the modern notion that anyone in a uniform is a "hero" who deserves to be "thanked for their service". This sort of exaggeration does real heroes no favors, as anyone who has served knows there are more than a few shitbirds who are not heroes at all. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if the guy who touched off this explosion was a shitbird who was blowing off safety rules.
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  249. Let's be honest here: what you call a "flight cap" in this vid is actually referred to by US troops as a "piss cover".
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  250. I'm sorry, could you write that again? I couldn't see it on my computer screen the first time.
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  251.  @wendychavez5348  Wait, what's the spray bottle of water for?
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  252. Good to have as an ally. As with the US Marines, "no greater friend, no worse enemy".
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  253.  Tucsoncoyote 2019  Can't let it go, can you?
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  254. One riot, one Ranger.
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  255. Good timing on this video; I just started binge-watching Boardwalk Empire on Prime and 1920s bootlegging is a major subject.
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  256.  @robertdurham7039  USS Nassau LHA-4 in a wild winter storm above the Arctic Circle. Waves over the flight deck 70 ft above the waterline, airplanes and vehicles straining at their tiedown chains, weather decks secured to keep idiots from washing overboard, ship rolling to scary angles, propellers cavitating and shaking the ship every time the ship pitched. Watching destroyers dive almost completely underwater and then bob up so you can see their keel. Crazy times. Can't imagine being on one of those destroyers.
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  257. A toilet specialist? What was his navy rating, Toilet's Mate Third Class?
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  258.  @LuvBorderCollies  How would you know? Were you on the Mount Hood when she blew up? Fact is, whatever happened, it happened because of something someone on the ship did.
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  259. Don't forget the epic Baba Booey prank played on Peter Jennings live on national TV.
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  260. This actually makes me a bit nostalgic for the cars of that era. My mom drove a 79 Chevy Impala and that car was nice and comfortable, her dad drove a 78, almost identical. Both were decent cars. The weird thing about remembering cars from years ago is that I can still vividly remember the smell of the upholstery in every vehicle me or my parents ever owned, odd.
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  261. We can track you from your brainwaves as long as you don't wear your tinfoil hat. We NWO types are smart like that.
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  262. "Buffers? Yeah, buffers, Senator, we got lots of buffers."
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  263.  @laserkitty3820  And Fort Mercer across the river from Philly, where the Hessians got to eat a loser sandwich good and hard with ketchup and hot sauce.
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  264.  @joeo.4546  If he was crossing the other way he would've been able to afford the toll.
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  265.  @markfryer9880  If they were smart Boeing (who owns Douglas now) would restart production.
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  266. Every Polish joke I ever heard came from the Polish half of my family. My grandfather knew a million of them, my uncle still does.
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  267. 2:00 an ad for an electric car. Take that, Tesla.
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  268.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Get ready for the flood of junk you're gonna get sent now that you've posted that address lol!
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  269. Mr. Ed. Who she ate.
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  270. For anyone who wants to see a B-47 on screen, look up the movie Strategic Air Command starring Jimmy Stewart.
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  271. Or Amtrak.
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  272. There are no gloves. They strut around with their knuckles and fangs visible to all, fearless.
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  273. It is, but I doubt any stories from people claiming to bring back pictures of Hitler. For starters, the Navy went through it pretty thoroughly decades ago when the wreck was discovered, mainly to remove as many munitions as possible (some are still there, inaccessible, including at least one live torpedo warhead). Since then, the wreck has been dived on by thousands of people. Getting inside the sub is dangerous and stupid, as the hatch openings are very narrow and the wreck is deep for a sport dive, at 110 feet, so going inside means removing your dive rig and pulling it in behind you, while only having about 8-10 minutes of bottom time. Also, not sure, but I think it may be illegal to remove anything from inside the wreck, could be wrong about that.
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  274. That's a good question, would have to look that up. I know the Navy removed whatever human remains they found inside and repatriated them to Germany, and after removing as many munitions as they could access, cleared it for sport diving. Like I said before, I'm sure about the legal stuff, and I have no interest in going inside a dark, tiny space at such a depth anyway, so I've never worried about it. You can swim along the entire length of the boat outside, it's a pretty neat thing to see.
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  275.  @Marcg-b4n  I am former Marine. My dad was Navy. Out of respect for my dad and my Navy buddies I say ship.
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  276. The plus side of being in his position is that the assassins who killed three presidents never bothered targeting Hay.
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  277. They were stealing bandwidth. Using communications service without paying for it. Similar to phone phreaking in recent decades, where people figured out how to go to a pay phone booth and get free long distance calls in the 1970s.
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  278. Thanks. It's a great photo, considering the photographer is in front of the advancing troops. There is a painting, possibly by Charles Waterhouse, of US Marines making a rare modern bayonet assault to retake a position outside of Khe Sanh in 1968 which looks very similar, even the viewpoint is from approximately the same angle.
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  279. Why not? No Mexican War means Mexico isn't resentful, and no secession means no Civil War, no dead 750,000 Americans, and slavery ends peacefully like in every other Western nation.
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  280. I remember reading Ambrose's history of the Normandy invasion. He said the biggest fear of Piper Cub pilots flying over the beech on spotter missions was that they'd get shot in the testicles since the aircraft has zero armor protection. German troops were taking pot shots at them with rifles and machine guns and sooner or later they'd get a lucky hit, the aircrews reasoned. The solution was to put a small steel plate under the seat cushion, not enough to really protect the crew from anything, but just enough to get the pilot over his fear, however irrational, of getting his balls blown off.
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  281. A little bit of fallout from a low-yield high-altitude air burst, probably over sparsely populated areas, vs. megaton sized bombs going off over your population centers, it's no contest. The study of nuclear war strategy is the study of extremes.
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  282. As his mom was giving birth, the doctor was like, "It's a....it's a.....it's a.....it's a boy!" But seriously, it's a sad story and another great video, complete with bonus cat cameo!
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  283. In the American deep south the revolution was often used as a way to justify settling scores in family feuds and got pretty ugly.
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  284. I thought he was a lance corporal at the time? He was a major sea story in the Air Wing for years.
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  285. That posed photo of Marines at11:25 is pretty cool.
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  286. Was going to say something about how tough the times and people were in Kit's day, but now just sad about the History Cat.
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  287. Now if you don't vote the way the mob wants you get defriended from facebook or banned on twitter and labeled a racist.
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  288.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Ask anyone who travels along the Northeast Corridor. Trains make a lot of sense there. A train ride from DC to NY takes less time than a plane ride, once you factor in the time to get through security, travel to and from the airports, etc. And being dropped off in downtown instead of an airport 30 miles away means a short taxi ride to your meeting.
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  289. 1:55 random blimp sighting!
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  290.  @johnnypopper-pc3ss  "Blockbuster bombs...ya gotta hit 'em juuust right."
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  291. I was in the Corps in the early 90s and I remember hearing some sea stories about a Lance Corporal who stole an A-4, I always assumed it was BS like most sea stories and there was no internet to look it up on. Kind of shocked to find out it's actually true.
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  292. It's been a while but I think I was there, once.
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  293. Please tell me the sailor who threw that knife carried it in his teeth while swinging down on a rope from the yard arm. Maybe he even had an eyepatch and a pet parrot.
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  294.  @silentotto5099  They would demolish the tree the sniper was hiding in, and the sniper along with it.
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  295. Never piss into the wind.
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  296.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  You need to surreptitiously introduce some cat purring in the background. Some stealth ASMR.
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  297. My family didn't have a wagon but our friends down the street had a 70s Country Squire with the fake wood paneling. The whole lot of us would pile in and head out to the movies or to cross the river to see a Phillies game at the Vet. The rear-facing back seat with the tailgate window rolled down was a blast going over the Ben Franklin Bridge.
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  298.  @hshs5756  But even with that threat, it's tough to stay on the edge for an entire shift without getting fatigued.
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  299. @orionh3000 He'll still kick your ass into next week.
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  300. I used to work in a building with a framed photo hanging on the wall of a formation of US Navy destroyers steaming in line ahead, colors flying. These were modern Arleigh Burke class destroyers, not WWI ships, mind you, but destroyers nonetheless, and the photo was amazing. When people think of the US Navy they tend to think of aircraft carriers, planes, and other big ships, but those destroyers just conveyed power and might like no other. The old school Navy, the surface fleet with its guns and missiles and masts and yard arms, radar antennas, and flags flying, plowing through the waves into harm's way. Hats off to the destroyer crews on patrol around the world.
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  301.  @johnw2026  Funny thing is the Pinkertons are still around today, as a security company, basically rent-a-cops for corporate facilities. I did a college internship at one place that was guarded by Pinkertons in the mid-2000s and they were basically fat, lazy, and slept on the job at night. Not like the Pinkertons of old.
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  302.  @dirus3142  The seeds for what looms ahead were sown at least as far back as the 1960s.
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  303.  @peteranderson037  It's not that hard to figure out, honestly.
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  304.  @markschippel7974  There's an apocryphal quote by a German officer who said it's impossible to predict what the Americans will do next because the Americans don't even know half the time and make it up as they go along. Looks like the same could be said for British Paras.
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  305. Awesome story. "Helping the Red Cross girls make donuts." Oh, is that what they called it? ;-)
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  306. The captain of Speedbird 9 made the most British announcement ever.
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  307. You are descended from Dr. Joseph Warren? Didn't he fight at Bunker Hill?
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  308. Wow, I'm surprised to see how many people have been killed by big cats, I always figured it was just ones and twos here and there. Can you imagine how scary it would be to have a whole pride of lions basically training their young how to stalk human villages and avoid armed men? I always noticed how smart my house cat was, she watched us open doors and later she would reach up with her paws and try to turn the doorknob herself, foiled by lack of thumbs. We loved her and she tolerated us but always suspected that if she were bigger she might decide to kill us lol.
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  309. Great book. Harrison did eventually get his prize money for inventing the seaworthy clock, but it took him something like 40 years.
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  310. THG really laying on thick the apocalyptic themed history lately.
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  311. Cavalla's skipper was characteristically aggressive. Takes guts to attack knowing you'll be immediately depth charged. Also, it's easy to forget that despite being a very technological form of warfare, naval combat results in terrifying death and destruction. Reading about what happens to ships fatally struck by bombs, torpedoes, or missiles is awful.
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  312.  @kenthawley5990 slow clap, sir. Slow clap.
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  313. This event was a part of the plot in the alternate history novel "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson, IIRC.
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  314. Hydrogen is an important element of water. Who doesn't like water?
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  315. Strange hairless apes which somehow managed to break quarantine and reach their planet's moon. Somebody must watch that species; eventually they will cause trouble across the galaxy.
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  316. I know about bestiaries from playing Advanced D&D back in the 90s.
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  317. She fed the ammo to the commies.
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  318. I recommend the book "The Dead Hand" by David Hoffman. Tells the story of the Soviet/Russian biological and nuclear weapons systems and what happened to them after the breakup of the USSR, including the Dead Hand doomsday machine. Russia was so backwards that they couldn't keep track of everything in the early 90s and yet they had these world-killing systems in place. Truly scary stuff.
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  319. I actually have heard of rocket mail before. An ICBM, configured to carry mail instead of a nuclear warhead, could get mail anywhere in the world in less than an hour; unfortunately to foreign observers it's hard to tell it apart from a weapon. If suborbital long distance flight ever becomes a reality it's possible that mail will be carried aboard the spaceplane. I don't think the Regulus missile counts, though, since the Regulus' main propulsion system is not a rocket but a jet engine; rockets only being used for the initial boost.
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  320. When the wokesters and their cancel culture show up to ruin THG they'll be too busy to pay one-off comments much attention.
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  321.  @MJ-vq3ws  It certainly sounds cooler than most alternatives.
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  322. Clowns? Toronto? Anarchy? I'm thinking of the song "Carnies" from the Rush album Clockwork Angels...
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  323. Being stationed in Memphis was a blast in those days. Intense training by day, intense partying by Friday night on Beale St. You ever went to the Antenna Club? All gone now. If you look at google maps on satellite view the A-5 that was displayed outside the chow hall is still there, but the rest of the base is basically gone and the airfield is now a civilian airport or something.
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  324.  @navyskaterdude  Ah yes, the "Skanchor", aka the "Shanker", many an 18-year-old blew his money there on questionable short term pleasure lol. I don't know what's still there other than what I see on google maps, haven't been there in decades. I was a Marine in avionics training there and I remember cleaning the ever living shit out of those barracks and being made to paint all the railings and shit, and from google maps it looks like they are all gone. We used to dream of getting out to the fleet and once we got there we didn't realize how much fun Memphis was. I saw a few now-famous bands at the Antenna Club but I was usually too blitzed to remember much. A bunch of my roommate's Navy buddies threw a graduation party at a local hotel and when I got there they were trashing the place, everybody was stupid drunk, wrecking the room, and when they started jumping off the third floor catwalk into the swimming pool that's when the cops got called and we had to bolt ass out of there.
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  325. Or a bro-down, where two bros circle each other in a parking lot posturing and talking trash but never actually coming to blows.
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  326.  @_Thoughtful_Aquarius_  Fine, Don't want to get vaccinated? Stay in quarantine until you change your mind.
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  327.  @_Thoughtful_Aquarius_  And you sound like a faith healing, science rejecting, conspiracy theorist nutjob who puts your kids and others kids into danger, and I also am not at all surprised.
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  328.  @brachiator1  Depends: what is the purpose of the sin tax? To raise revenue or reduce the sin? If the latter, reduced revenue means it is working. If the former, than it was all a bullshit money extraction scheme to begin with.
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  329.  @QuantumRift  BOY!
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  330. I knew a Marine once who moonlighted as a bouncer in a rough joint. You knew it was time to leave when he said it was time to leave. One night he told a guy to leave, and the guy says "Imma finish my drink first." Bouncer dropped his cigarette in the guy's drink. "Your drink's finished. Get the fuck out."
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  331. Like Tom Hanks playing the role of a man that would've been half his age in Saving Private Ryan, for example.
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  332.  wargent99  Okay, millennial....
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  333.  @thomasb1889  But that over the top thing kills me. The trailer alone had me cringing.
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  334.  @HootOwl513  Truman stated that Marines were nothing more than the Navy's police force, and that's all they'd ever be if he had his way. And that was after the Pacific campaign. Truman was old school Army from WWI and the Corps was in a transitional period then, acting as a second land force in Europe and moving away from its maritime roots, while encroaching on the Army's "turf". Thanks to Lejeune, the Corps found its current role the nation's amphibious power projection force, getting back in touch with the sea, and this paid off in the war with Japan, which Lejeune correctly saw coming. After the war, though, guys like Truman and others tried very hard to break up the Corps and divide its assets and troops amongst the other services. Various excuses were made, such as "no amphibious warfare in the atomic age" and so on, but the Corps' proponents lobbied hard and Congress codified the mission and strength of the Corps in law as a result. Even in modern times, there are still people who don't understand why we have a Marine Corps, or why Marines aren't part of the Army instead of the Navy Department. David Hackworth was one of the latter; despite respect for the Corps he thought it should be merged with the Army. I lost a bit of respect for him when I read that. The Corps derives its strength from its partnership with the Navy and its ability to develop and manage itself apart from Army leadership (and importantly, Army budget controls), while being able to operate alongside the Army when called on.
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  335. Sounds like a good idea, but Hollywood would turn it into a preachy crapfest.
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  336. Witchcraft was used in a similar manner to explain the odd behavior of the girls accused at Salem.
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  337. The strange thing is that the DC-8 and DC-9 were fine aircraft. As a boy I remember flying on many DC-8s and always loved them. They were very flexible, with wings flapping and engine nacelles swinging back and forth in turbulent air, which made for a fairly comfortable ride, even if it alarmed some of the passengers. Delta had tons of them, and later UPS used them for cargo well into the 90s at least. And Boeing 717 was still in production as late as 2006; the last member of the DC-9 family.
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  338. The other thing about the DC-8's flexibility I remember is that if you sat at the very back of the longer version, the "Stretch 8" they called it, and looked up the aisle during turbulent flight you could see the cabin bending as the fuselage flexed. Funny thing, I remember the seats, the armrests with the little ashtray lids, the windows, and even the smell.
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  339.  @carlcushmanhybels8159  Agree about the boring modern jetliners. My dad worked for Delta Airlines back in the day and told me stories about the Convair 880 and how fast it was. The pilots loved flying it. The 747 is a 60s design and it's got a pretty high cruise speed as well as being the ultimate in smooth ride.
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  340. His spare shirt doubled as a tent.
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  341. The correct term is "Regiment of Foot", meaning foot soldiers.
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  342. A lot of Americans lost our minds after 9/11 and got real stupid real fast. The phenomenon of normally smart people suddenly turning into chauvinistic warmongering idiots after a terrorist attack is an amazing and scary aspect of human nature that should be studied by someone who was not stuck in the middle of it all someday.
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  343. Great video, but the Space Shuttle is not a lifting body, it's a conventional fuselage with a cranked delta wing. Some of the alternate designs for STS were lifting bodies, though.
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  344. I'm so sick of these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-Friday plane!
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  345. I have watched many of your videos, aaaaaand…...subscribed.
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  346. It's called the "anthropic theory"
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  347. The Watt is a unit of power equal to 1 Joule per second, so a watt per second would be the first time derivative of power, meaning that the power level is increasing at a steady rate. So that number quoted at 12:19 doesn't quite make sense.
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  348. I like Ford and Chevy trucks from the mid 80s. My family had a diesel K5 Blazer that was awesome, and I worked for a small company who used an F-150 and an F-250 as work trucks. We beat those trucks, but a little maintenance and regular oil changes and those things would never die, they could take anything. When it comes time to get another truck I might just look to see if I can find a decent mid-80s Ford or Chevy.
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  349. More proof that a ship designed to sink itself on purpose is a damn dangerous thing, even when you're just trying to use the head.
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  350. Over the years there was always talk of replacing the 8 engines with 4 big turbofans, but for various reasons that never happened. Practical considerations aside, I'm glad they are sticking with 8 engines in the refit. A B-52 with 4 engines just doesn't seem right.
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  351.  @rbeard7580  I've also read that the Air Force did the math and found that for the cost of buying and changing all the engines in the fleet, they could just keep burning fuel for years on end, making it easy to put off the project.
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  352. The Continental Navy was formed by the rebellious Congress after the revolution started. Also, many of the states had their own navies, in particular Pennsylvania had a navy which saw fierce combat on the Delaware River near Philadelphia.
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  353. I've heard of the Tower, but not this incident. Great vid.
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  354. Great story. I knew about the German POWs, there was a camp not far from where I live. NPR did a story about the gentle treatment of Germans in US camps, and how sometimes Americans got resentful of it, especially after finding out about the concentration camps, and when lots of Americans came home in caskets. It's interesting to note that German POWs were also put to work on farms during the American Revolution when many captured Hessians were sent to farms in German-speaking Pennsylvania, many of them electing to stay there after the war, from what I've heard.
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  355. 3:38 You have a photo of the locomotive General Haupt, and standing on top of the embankment to the right is the man for whom the locomotive is named, General Herman Haupt of the US Army, a civil engineer famous for organizing and operating railroads for the Union army during the Civil War. He's worth an episode maybe.
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  356. Wow, bombardier almost pulled a real life Major Kong, all he needed was a cowboy hat!
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  357. Thanks to your post there will certainly be more.
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  358. It was a safe place and quite civilized. It's not like he left them in Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan; it was jolly old England.
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  359. The Navy and Marine Corps have safety magazines and training films that show gruesome accidents, the results of not following safety rules. There was a magazine article that showed what happened when a Marine didn't duck down as he walked away from a helicopter with drooping blades. The blade swiped the top of his head, scalping him. His cranial helmet probably saved his life, but there was a photo of the scar on his head and what is probably a permanent bald spot. Another incident was a Marine who improperly disassembled the nose landing gear of an A-4 Skyhawk, resulting in him laying on the hangar floor with the nose of the jet on his chest. Marines came out and lifted the jet off of him by sheer muscle power, but he didn't live long. A Navy mechanic was trying to get up to the cockpit of an A-6 Intruder, so he thought he would just back his plane tractor up to the side of the jet and stand on top of the tractor. He failed to notice he was approaching the engine intake, which hit his back and forced his body forward onto the steering wheel and jamming his foot on the accelerator. He was crushed to death by his tractor. There is a famous video on youtube of a sailor on a carrier flight deck being sucked into the engine of an A-6. He was fortunate that his body was jammed against an inlet vane before he reached the spinning engine blades. His cranial helmet got sucked through and damaged the engine, while he had nasty injuries. Flight decks are particularly dangerous places, because with all these engines running all around you you cannot rely on your hearing to protect you. My dad served on a carrier in the 1960s and witnessed a man walk into a propeller, killed instantly.
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  360. You should do a segment on Pithole, Pennsylvania. A ghost town of the oil rush.
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  361. I always thought ectoplasm was something they made up for Ghostbusters.
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  362. And the corollary: if someone is trying to take away your arms, you're next on the oppressed list.
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  363. 12:35 Technology Connections where are you!
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  364. Plus, it was a simple formation flight, so possibly they figured it was an excuse to log some extra flying time and didn't consider it to be particularly dangerous. It's not like GE was asking them to fly through Soviet flak fire supersonic at treetop level or something.
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  365. This sounds a lot like the SapceShip2 accident that happened a few years ago when Scaled Composites was testing their new rocket plane out. The plane was supersonic with the rocket engine lit up when the tail section unlocked and started to deploy as it would for reentry, tearing the plane apart, and the pilot suddenly found himself flying supersonic without an airplane. He managed to survive, but the co-pilot was killed.
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  366. Hard to figure out who the good guys are? Not to me. Rescuing children from an abusive communist dictatorship that would've targeted them for their racial background is pretty cut and dried to me.
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  367. Interesting side note: There existed for a time an unshielded nuclear reactor called the "Lady Godiva Device" which was used by US nuclear scientists in nuclear weapons research. Basically, it had two fuel elements, one was suspended above the other, and when released it ran down a rail through a hole in the second element, and for a brief moment as it passed through criticality was achieved a burst of neutrons and other radiation was produced for testing. As the element fell through the hole the reaction stopped. The device was operated remotely, of course, being near it when this happened would be bad for your health to say the least. If you search on it there are photos out there.
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  368. Replacing the coal fired boilers with nuclear reactors to produce steam does the trick.
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  369. Why is that indecent? Did the ship not cover herself properly?
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  370. 7:49 Carrie Fisher's dad
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  371. The Amazon thing was always stupid. Lots of large drones buzzing around the airspace sharing the sly with airplanes and helicopters is a major hazard, and of course it's also a huge privacy breech to have drones equipped with cameras and other sensors buzzing around your house, even if it's the neighbor's delivery. (Not that Amazon gives a damn about privacy)
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  372. I really think it's rude when people constantly harp on this. Lots of people don't speak English, either, but you don't expect him to translate, too, do you? The strongest economy in the world uses English units, so maybe it's in your best interest to learn a bit about them. They are historical units, used in old literature, so it's worth the time. And for the record, Americans do use metric, maybe more so than even they realize. Beverages are sold in liters, some foods are sold in kilograms, the US military uses kilometers, and any American who receives science or engineering education has to learn metric to the point where it's second nature. Rough conversions in your head are not difficult, if you just take a few minutes to learn and memorize them.
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  373. You need to get a bow tie for the History Cat.
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  374. Cut me off in traffic, eh? Wrong answer buddy.
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  375.  @lawrencelewis8105  LOL I don't know. Maybe the metric guys can tell you how many soccer fields it is.
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  376. 6:10 that's a hell of a way to mount a horse. Lots of ways to screw that up.
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  377.  @cindycraig3164  Fiestaware! I was trying to remember the name of it. I heard about it in a photography class once, when we were looking at a magazine article featuring photographs made from uranium salts (as opposed to the usual silver salts in ordinary black and white photo prints). Which is another thing: you can use uranium, among other heavy metals, to make photographic prints with, also it's not the best idea, since it is toxic and there are other metals like platinum and palladium which are easier to work with and not radioactive.
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  378. Wow, British generals just seemed for a long time to be forever stupid and so nonchalant with the lives of their troops.
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  379. The Tech Lords are today's elitist robber baron types. Will be interesting to see what kind of awful stuff they are up to behind the scenes some day.
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  380. 2:38 how is that guy sitting comfortably on top of conical steel objects?
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  381.  @rcmedia9516 Bless your little heart.
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  382. Cool story if true, but of course without GPS the captain of the Warrimoo wasn't really able to say where the ship was enough precision to actually do this. He probably just got as close as he could and declared it to be so in order to entertain his passengers and crew.
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  383. Way to make your kids hate the History Guy.
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  384.  @neilpuckett359  Chester Nimitz grounded a ship when he was a young officer. Could've ended his career, but the Navy gave him another chance and now look at him. Leads the Navy in victory against the Japanese Empire, has a nuclear carrier named after him, winner of life.
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  385.  @BeachsideHank  I guess I just need guys like you to cheer me on. Thanks.
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  386.  @ronfullerton3162  SW radios are easy to find. Just go to Amazon and search. I have two of them, cheapos. I wanted to get one of those really nice big Grundig units you used to see at Radio Shack years ago but couldn't find what I was looking for. One of mine is a smaller Grundig with an analog tuner and the other is a Chinese make and has a digital tuner. The analog Grundig gets better reception.
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  387.  @bruce2357  Yeah, me too, though I was younger. I also remember the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia when one of the clowns in the parade flashed a "Fuck Iran" button to the news camera on live TV lol.
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  388. Weird story, and weirder still that I may have seen this very airship on TV as a kid in the 70s on Wide World of Sports or the Indie 500 or something. This reminds me of an article on Wikipedia I read once about "mystery airships". In the late 1800s and early 1900s, before fixed wing aircraft were common and long before the concept of alien spacecraft was in the public consciousness, there were several reports of unidentified flying objects, which many believed were airships or balloons flown by eccentric mad scientist types or the like.
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  389.  @skyden24195  There were a handful of sizeable boat battles on Vietnamese rivers between the US Navy and North Vietnam, IIRC. Bosuns Mate First Class Willie Williams was awarded the Medal of Honor for a battle in which he led two patrol boats into battle on the Mekong Delta.
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  390. 8:12 I'm always struck by that photo of Wyatt Earp; it's amazing how much Kurt Russel nailed the look of that character in the film Tombstone. That could be a photo of Russel in costume.
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  391. You know what doesn't kill viruses? Toilet paper.
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  392.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  That makes it even sadder.
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  393. This story further cements my dislike for George A, Custer. The more I hear or read about Custer the more he comes across as an ass.
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  394. Aaaand Mercy has been attacked in LA by an idiot locomotive engineer who ran his locomotive off the tracks and tried to ram the ship because "it looked suspicious". SMDH
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  395. Makes me thinks of the Kraftwerk song Neon Lights.
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  396. IIRC it was conceived to be able to bomb Germany in case Britain got overrun but spent too much time in development to enter service in the war.
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  397.  Jennifer Temple  If what happened? A big project got canceled? Happened all the time, still does. Look up the YB-49 bomber, or the A-12 Avenger attack plane. Or, as I stated, the B-70 Valkyrie bomber. Boeing is currently going through convulsions over the lost sales of the 737 Max.
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  398.  Jennifer Temple  Well, if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon.
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  399.  Jennifer Temple  What was your point?
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  400. 10:19 lol need some help there, buddy?
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  401. Was Uncle Jesse Duke one of his drivers?
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  402. The 172 isn't a dedicated trainer; it's a general aviation airplane that happens to be good for training. And tons of fun to fly just for the hell of it, too.
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  403. I was once in an area in North Carolina where there were signs warning people that the woods still may contain unexploded ordnance from the Civil War. War is messy.
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  404.  @hagamapama And Ben was already an old man by then, too, but still had game.
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  405. Nobody named Crowe has ever been Commandant of the Marine Corps.
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  406. More evidence that the Internet was created for, and still run by, cats.
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  407. Back when I first discovered youtube I never pictured myself being excited to hear about a hat collection. Strange world.
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  408. 14:40 Can you say where that photo of charging infantry came from? Are those Marines? Where are they? At least one of them has a fixed bayonet, it's a very dramatic photo.
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  409. When I was growing up a lady down the street had two dogs, one was a great dane named Sandy whom she let run around in her fenced in back yard. Me and the other kids from the neighborhood would hop the fence and play with her. We were about 9-12 years old and Sandy was bigger than all of us. She would get excited and plow into us knocking us all over the place, just a big happy dog. Her owner would let us come inside sometimes to play with her dogs.
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  410. I'm an American who has been to Europe a couple of times and I couldn't care less how you use your fork. Never noticed. Is this really something people worry about?
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  411. Stupid, dull-headed person here. Can confirm, we all have mullets.
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  412. I served in the military for five years and never heard of such a thing. First time I saw one was later after I went to work for a company that did some defense contracting. If anyone had told me I owe them drinks for not having a coin I would've laughed and told them to get bent.
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  413.  @ZenZaBill  I looked into the Star Trek version. Turns out that version was made up for the show and no rules when they filmed it, the move were made up for dramatic purposes. Later on when fan literature was written the rules were retroactively invented for the game so it can actually be played. I want one of those chess sets but they are expensive.
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  414. Does anyone else remember the jingle in the Citation commercial? "Chevy Citaaaaaaaaaation!" Just thinking of it still annoys me today. And yes, it's on youtube if you look it up and want an annoying early 80s earworm in your head. Many American cars of that era were indeed junk, but some of the larger GM cars like the Impala and Delta 88 were still nice and I wish I had one right now.
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  415. You called this "Joint Base". I think that term didn't come about until the 1990s drawdown. Prior to that (I think), McGuire AFB, Ft. Dix, and Lakehurst NAS were all separate bases located in the Pine Barrens next to each other. I remember flying in a small plane over South Jersey in the 90s and if you looked north over the Pine Barrens you could plainly see the Navy's airfield, with the mockup of a carrier flight deck and the old gigantic airship hangars which had serviced Navy airships as well as civilian airliners such as the Hindenburg.
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  416. Problem with hats is that I want to wear one in the hot sun, but they just make my head sweat even more and get disgusting after a while.
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  417. Marines figured out how to deal with counter battery fire in the 1991 Gulf War. Marine artillery batteries would move forward, fire a salvo, and then quickly hitch up and get out of dodge before the enemy counter battery fire returned. Meanwhile, circling above, a brace of Marine Harrier jets would watch for the enemy muzzle flashes and roll in on them with bombs and 25mm cannon shells. The benefits of the Marine Corps having its own jets dedicated to supporting its ground troops.
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  418. 4:08 that guy in the hard hat seems awfully close to the huge engine gimballing around. Wouldn't want to get caught in that machinery while it's moving.
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  419. Maybe, but it was huge. Shook our house, and I remember my dad watching it on TV, the deck of the one ship had been flung upward like a blanket and was draped over the side of the hull as the ship burned. Somewhere a few years ago I found the Coast Guard report on it, the investigation. Wish I had saved it; it went into depth about the whole sequence of events, the people involved, the tidal and weather conditions, the age and mechanical state of the ships, the poor decisions made by the river pilot and so on, fascinating story. But because it happened years before youtube or even the internet it's almost like it never happened.
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  420. Kind of like "to Pearl Harbor" became a verb meaning to launch a sneak attack.
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  421.  @badlaamaurukehu  It's the real world construction business.
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  422.  @letsburn00 Well, the acting nuts part might explain a few things about me lol.
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  423. Wow, his last wife new how to turn the screws lol.
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  424. In 1968 a guy name Glenn Woods, in a CIA (Air America) UH-1 Huey helicopter shot down a North Vietnamese Air Force AN-2 plane by shooting at it with an AK-47 rifle out the side door of the helicopter. I think that's the only time that's ever happened.
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  425. 14:50 that machine slicing through all that paper is terrifying
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  426. And the poor SS United States sits rotting on the Delaware River at Philadelphia, waiting for someone to save her from the scrapper's torch...
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  427. Whenever you dig deep enough, there is always shady stuff going on leading up to war, even the "good" wars.
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  428.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Yes, but were a Roger's Ranger!
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  429. Just last night I watched a rail fan video about the CSX Tropicana Orange Juice train that runs from Florida up to North Jersey. Sometimes I feel like the internet is reading my mind.
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  430. 8:05 the US rep to the UN is doing an epic facepalm.
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  431. Probably not.
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  432. I have a bunch of old phone books. I knew hoarding would pay off someday!
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  433. History Guy, you should invite a guest. Bruce Gordon is a youtuber who flew F-102's and F-106's during the Cold War and also F-100's in Vietnam. His channel is a great stuff for air history fans. In particular, the F-106 and F-102 were important parts of NORAD's defense of the continent, but because they saw no action Vietnam they get overlooked often. And the F-106, developed in the 50s, was ahead of its time, with its speed, range, and according to Gordon, even its maneuverability was surprisingly good for an interceptor never meant to dogfight. It also had a digital datalink to the SAGE system which was a system of radars and computers that coordinated air defense for the US and Canada. SAGE itself would be worth a video.
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  434. 10:56 is that an American naval officer walking behind the ceremonial guard in Moscow? The emblem on the front of his cover looks like an eagle with anchors.
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  435. American car companies in the 70s and early 80s made a lot of junk when it came to economy cars. The Vega, the Pinto, the Maverick, The Pacer, the Gremlin, the Chevette. We like to look back at them fondly sometimes but they were truly garbage. The trucks and larger cars weren't so bad. My mom had a 79 Chevy Impala that I remember liking a lot. It was really comfortable on long drives, had lots of power stuff (which is almost all standard today) and was pretty reliable. I even remember what it smelled like and how awesome the heater worked when getting picked up from school or somewhere on a freezing winter day.
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  436. So basically he was Sasha Baron Cohen's mentor...
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  437. I've heard that since the 9/11 attacks CAP volunteers have flown light aircraft as practice intercept targets for the Air Force in the DC area, so the Air Force can learn how best to counter the threat of light aircraft terrorist attacks. Don't know if there's any truth to that.
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  438. Hipsters ate dandelions after they were cool.
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  439. 8:30 Pichegru didn't kill himself
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  440. That photograph at 7:45 is what you see in a dictionary when you look up the word "awesome". The Tomcat is legend.
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  441. They beheaded men over 50? So it was like Logan's Run?
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  442. Semper Fidelis, brothers.
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  443. You mean they don't shit in the streets in Paris?
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  444.  @jetsons101  communism'l do that
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  445. The Russian Captain Sully. And ya gotta love the Russians, actually flying that thing out of that cow patch and then returning it to service! I'd bet that in the UK or US a jetliner that'd been through that abuse would've been retired and parted out.
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  446. So does anyone know where that estate was in Point Breeze, NJ? Google maps shows a neighborhood in Philadelphia called Point Breeze but nothing on the Delaware River. I am guessing it's a geographical feature. Would be interesting to see the site today. Probably built over with houses or something.
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  447. I'm guessing that when we build colonies on Luna or Mars, the farm animal most likely to go with the colonists will be chickens.
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  448.  @jafinch78  If you shoot a duck, I will fear toasters!
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  449. I went to high school in the 80s. I just figured we were all gonna get vaporized sooner or later, so in the meantime, enjoy listening to my Rush records (RIP Neil Peart)
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  450. We do not go to the bathroom, we use the head. Walls are bulkheads. Ceilings are overheads. Floors are decks. Doors are hatches, windows are portholes, and stairways are ladderwells. Left is port, right is starboard, and the foreword end of the room where the entry hatch is located is called the quarterdeck. Service rifles are rifles, never guns. "Guns" refer to machine guns or shotguns. It's weird to talk to civilians after a being indoctrinated with naval terminology for months on end.
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  451. Take that, flerfers! lol
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  452.  @annebradley6086  Piss off with your political propaganda.
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  453.  @annebradley6086  Internet. Serious business.
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  454. 8:44 another reason why Prohibition is stupid.
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  455. Search around youtube for a BBC documentary about Able Archer 83, it's really good, really scary, and has a kickin' soundtrack.
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  456. The Spanish Inquisition was in New Mexico? Unexpected!
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  457.  @truthsRsung  Attention to detail is important. So is being able to take criticism. Good luck.
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  458. And with government oversight, the gauge switch would've taken 36 years instead of 36 hours. Let the capitalists keep their money. They earned it.
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  459. It was Jan 10, 1984, reported in the LA Times in 1987. The USAF was getting ready to do some maintenance on a MM III missile when they got weird signals indicating it was going through some parts of the launch sequence. To be safe, they parked an armored car on top of the silo door, so that if the door blew open the truck would fall into the silo on top of the missile and wreck it before it could go anywhere.
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  460. Orzel is still out there, hunting for Nazis under the sea, keeping the faith.
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  461. If that's true it's a great story. "American bomber crew angers the gods!"
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  462. Nice Star Trek shirt.
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  463. The modern laws of warfare are an outgrowth of the concept of chivalry. Concepts like treatment of POWs, accepting surrendering enemies, and so on, as well as refraining from using certain weapons deemed to be too uncivilized. There is a practicality to it, in that you don't want your own troops to be abused if they get captured, and maybe more importantly, you don't want to cede the moral high ground representing your own society by stooping to the level of barbarity. As with the old codes of chivalry, modern laws of warfare can be conflicting or irrational, get broken pretty much all the time, and get enforced more often against the losers, but we need them as a ideal to strive for.
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  464. Glad to hear these filthy creeps got the chair.
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  465.  @DT-sb9sv  There is no Tower Bridge in the childrens' song.
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  466.  @DT-sb9sv  Tower Bridge is not in the children's song. What part of that do you not understand.
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  467. Man. The 70s! Cartoons on UHF channels and cheap baseball tickets in the nosebleed seats of crappy stadiums.
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  468. I'm for bringing back rods as a common unit of length.
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  469. Any paragraph in this video should end with, "She is...the most interesting woman in the world. Stay thirsty my friends."
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  470. Olympia could use some help too.
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  471. It's a Star Trek phaser pistol, and next to it is a C-3PO figure.
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  472. THG you should do an episode on the Pennsylvania Dutch and the dialect of German spoken there.
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  473. Busses are still filthy and full of creeps, don't know what government control has to do with it.
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  474. So does anyone know who the German airman was whose parachute got caught on Artie's wing and whether he lived or not?
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  475. Not quite yet.
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  476. I prefer Ben Franklin's "moderation in all things" to wack job religious extremists with huge egos who like to set things on fire.
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  477. When I was little, I saw that 60 Minutes episode and it scared me and made me try to avoid walking near Pintos on the street.
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  478.  @brucelytle1144  Exactly!
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  479.  @donaldjones3580  Yeah, obviously some sort of procedure was not properly followed. I think I saw this in a safety film or something long ago. Wish I could confirm the incident.
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  480. 10:24 That footage of the helo pilot tracking a passing Phantom is interesting.
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  481. 6:48 She has two guns, one for each of ya!
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  482. 8:50 I remember as a little kid seeing commercials for toy credit card machines like that.
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  483. The thing about this is that most people would not think of molasses as dangerous. If it were a giant tank of gasoline or something, you'd be a bit more apprehensive about it, but this is just an edible liquid, no big deal, right? Goes to show you you can't take anything for granted. For my part, any large tank full of any liquid creeps me out a little bit to be standing near, know the force that's being held back so close in front of me.
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  484. You could build them safer today but as Owen notes, it's more economical to move large loads of freight or passengers with a 747 than an airship. Airships would make money only as a luxury cruise ship for wealthy customers, or for very specialized applications where a helicopter or fixed wing craft just can't get the job done. They could never be as common as jetliners. Too bad, because looking at photos and footage of airships flying over NY harbor as the tug boats blow their horns it seems a grand way to travel.
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  485. Jesse, there are several projects today attempting to use airships for things like heavy lifting, surveillance, and skyborne radio relay or cell towers. Most of these vehicles are unmanned, removing the safety concerns and making them much more long duration. I don't think any of them are true rigid manned airships like a Zeppelin, though. Interestingly, though, the Zeppelin company which built the Hindenburg is still around and they partnered with Goodyear to build the new Goodyear "blimps" which are actually not blimps, but semi-rigid airships.
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  486. Question: Around 12:10 you mention a "2nd Raider Battalion". To my knowledge that was a USMC unit and was not present at Normandy. Can you clarify that?
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  487. Today the all purpose pill is called "Motrin", dispensed by quack military docs in all the services.
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  488. The affair was settled briefly in 2018 when the Eagles vanquished the Patriots in the Superbowl.
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  489. You think the History Guy is funny? Funny how? Funny like a clown, like he's here to amuse you?
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  490. @Broken Broke Bloke This is among the most retarded posts ever written. Unless you are trying to be sarcastic, in which case you also fail.
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  491.  @-oneretrospective1960  Whatever, wack job. Don't you have a church to burn somewhere?
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  492. This episode seems to typify Japanese decision making through the war: despite winning the engagement, they act with brutality towards the enemy survivors, and then foolishly withdraw without finishing the job. The IJN was a very powerful force but it was plagued by flawed, strangely timid tactical thinking, and hobbled by the brutality of the militarist regime that it served. Japan is a great country and deserved better than to do that to itself. Here's hoping they can be a force for freedom and enlightened civilization in the years to come.
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  493. Atari Video Chess early 1980s
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  494. Jude Law wore one as Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes films, and rocked it pretty well too.
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  495.  @tractionownersclub4827  "Moronic interrogative" never heard it called that before, love it!
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  496. What naive fool would think an American carrier in the 1960s wasn't armed with nuclear weapons? Whether operating off Vietnam or patrolling elsewhere, all ships on deployment are expected to be ready for war with the USSR, in which case Vietnam becomes an insignificant sideshow. And let's be adults: Japan relied heavily on the US "nuclear umbrella" during the Cold War, and still does today against its aggressive evil neighbors to its west. US nuclear protection is likely the only thing keeping Japan from building their own nuclear deterrent, despite a vocal public opposition.
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  497. That business with the Filibusters would make a great video or two on its own. Imagine the private security firms of 2003 Iraq fame basically taking over a whole countries and fighting their own private wars with next to no oversite and lots of shady dealings.
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  498. My dad served in the US Navy from 1964 to 1968. Sometime during his enlistment he was stationed at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and doing some kind of maintenance work on aircraft and ground equipment. HE told me a story of how one day he had to taxi a De Havilland Beaver around the field, and he opened the throttle for the hell of it, and accidentally became airborne for a short time. He throttled down and the aircraft settled back on its wheels and no one was ever the wiser. Said it scared the hell out of him though.
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  499. He lived long enough to see America gain independence. A brave soldier and a loyal patriot, a life well-lived. We should all look up to him.
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  500. This video makes me hungry and eager to go to a supermarket for some Betty Crocker products.
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  501. 5:45 is that Pappy Boyington?
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  502. It pisses me off that the Navy sent a task force to relieve the Marines and then recalled it, but I can see the logic. One US carrier equipped with crappy Brewster Buffaloes and green pilots against two Japanese carrier equipped with Zeroes and veteran pilots, it would've been a disaster for the US fleet. Still pisses me off, though, to think of those Marines and company being hung out and left to the tender mercies of the Imperial Japanese.
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  503. I have been aboard the New Jersey at Camden. I've been aboard a lot of ships, but I've never seen anything like that. The Tomahawk launchers, the Phalanx 20mm Gatling rotary cannons, the 1980s computers and electronics, next to the 1930s mechanical wonders of machinery and weaponry. The beautiful wooden deck planking, the massive anchor chains. The thick armor on the faces of the turrets, the massive guns, the conning tower with it's walls so thick you wonder how anything could penetrate all that steel. What a beast. Just the hatch to get into the wheelhouse makes a bank vault door look like a porch screen door. And the wheel itself actually has polished metal and wood. All that brutish and she's still got that touch of 1930s class.
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  504.  @navyskaterdude  Different times back then lol. I spent most of my deployments ashore but got attached to a Harrier squadron on a float aboard USS Nassau, and finally learned what the definition of "bad weather" was.
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  505. Are commerce raiders really pirates, though? Pirates generally aim to steal stuff, while WWII commerce raiding was more about sinking enemy shipping, no?
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  506.  @_Thoughtful_Aquarius_  Do what you want, just stay away from kids, typhoid mary.
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  507. So, what are we talking about, here? I'd like to know so I can try to avoid it.
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  508.  @weasel2htm  For example, Bill used to say, "Rape."
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  509.  @brachiator1  No, the ideal sin tax makes people stop doing the harmful activity. If you tell me smoking is horrible and then pass a tax to make money off of smoking, you are horrible.
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  510. I saw a painting once of an American soldier, just back from the Mexican War I think, telling stories to an old man, presumably his grandfather or great grandfather, himself a veteran of the American Revolution. The old man was sitting in a chair, obviously very old and perhaps a bit ill, but he looked at the young man with pride in his gleaming eyes. It was a very moving painting, I wish I could remember the artist. Charles Waterhouse, maybe (in which case the two men would've been Marines, not soldiers).
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  511. "The NY legislature passed a bill to move the facility to New Jersey in 1849 but did not act on it." Typical New Yorkers dumping their problems in Jersey, while using the courts to solidify their bogus claim that the Statue of Liberty is in NY waters.
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  512. 12:07 an episode of Law & Order 1858
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  513.  @nghtwtchmn129  The known German spies who were captured in the US and Canada were generally morons who got caught through poor tradecraft and poor training of how to dress and act like an American or a Canadian. Generally the Germans didn't pick their best and brightest for these missions.
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  514. While being occupied sucks, being occupied by Americans or Brits is certainly favorable to being occupied by Nazi bastards, and you were going to get one or the other, so bless your luck.
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  515. My great aunt worked in the building when this happened. When I was little I overheard the grownups talking about her finding a piece of the airplane on her window sill after the accident, no idea if there was any truth to that.
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  516.  @wlewisiii  Sorry I triggered you. But how does that make you feel?
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  517. And I agree, we need THG to do a USMC miniseries.
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  518. Wasn't that a monster made up for the X-Files episode?
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  519. Upon arrival at Parris Island, sitting in the bus in the dead of night, the first thing you see is the top of one of these covers as the drill instructor climbs the steps at the front of the bus. The next thing you see is a blur of unruly civilians rushing out to the yellow footprints.
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  520. It was the 70s and you were young...drugs, maybe?
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  521.  @GiordanDiodato  The 717 is the latest member of the DC-9 family of jetliners. Douglas created the DC-9, later merged with McDonnell to become McDonnell Doulas, who later merged with Boeing. The DC-9 changed names as it got upgraded, from DC-9 to MD-XX to 717, with lots of variants. The name 717 once referred to a 707 variant temporarily but that got renamed 720, so the history is a bit confusing and goes back 50 or 60 years of design changes and corporate mergers. Bottom line is that the 717 is a modern DC-9.
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  522.  @janbadinski7126  Obviously my point went right over your head like an airliner.
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  523. I'm surprised nobody has made a TV show or something based on this woman's story. I was watching The Alienist the other night, a show about detective work in the late 1800s USA, and this seems like it'd fit into that genre.
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  524. It seems to me that Jamestown was a terribly mismanaged operation.
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  525. I once worked a summer job for a small family business that made and installed awnings and canopies. To make the awnings they had to stitch large sheets of custom cut fabric together. They had a large room in their shop with a giant work table, and a bunch of sewing machines. The fabric was thick and tough to withstand the weather, so the boss and his family would sometimes go hunting for old heavy duty Singer sewing machines, the old ones that were made of iron or steel. They'd find them at antique shops or auctions and they got heavy use. So whenever you see a marquis canopy in front of a hotel or a restaurant, chances are it was stitched together using a Singer machine. Also, Gandhi sounds like an idiot.
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  526. 8:28 very odd photograph?
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  527.  @skydiverclassc2031  Or the super awesome photographer who snapped that photo, and how fast the shutter would have to be given that the relative speed between the two planes would be enormous.
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  528. Hollywood would have to find some kind of flaw in him to make the story dramatic. He'd be a fearless photographer who beats his wife or some nonsense.
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  529. Every one of those "patriotic" ass clowns in that photo should've been rounded up and sent to France to parade around in no man's land with their cute little flags and search for landmines in full view of German machine gunners. Whenever I hear stories of lynchers getting off in a court room it boils my blood. Stupid herd animals.
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  530. It's worth noting that the aircraft commander made a deliberate decision that got his entire crew killed, likely without their knowledge of it, and he was rewarded for it. Same goes for any aircraft or ship commander who makes a decision that will knowingly get their vessel and crew killed. War sucks.
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  531. The new material technology is a good thing, but the newer helmets just don't look as cool as the M1.
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  532. 4:14 this also turns into an Internet History Cat video, just keeps getting better and better!
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  533. I learned to play the bass line for The Trooper by Iron Maiden when I was in a band as a teenager.
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  534. @88Gibson LesPaul Every communist has an excuse for their wretched beliefs.
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  535. It's rare to survive being blown up by a grenade in close contact but it has happened. David Hackworth, in his book About Face, describes being wounded in the same manner in Korea. He didn't jump on the grenade on purpose, though, he tripped and fell on it and the steel receiver of his Thompson sub gun took most of the blast. Still, he was thrown up in the air and busted up pretty bad, had to spend a lot of time in the hospital.
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  536. In New Jersey there's also a city (and a neighboring county) called Gloucester. Anyone who lives in the Philadelphia or South Jersey areas knows how to pronounce it.
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  537.  @dudefromkeene  Look up the anthropic theory (or principle?) to answer your question. Or at least, give you something to think about.
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  538. You should do a whole video on Chuck Yeager. His passing was not paid enough attention to.
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  539. That era was a time of superstar scientists. We don't really have guys like those today. The last one I remember was Freeman Dyson, who passed away recently.
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  540. Oh man, lots of ways to get in trouble with that one!
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  541. Fort Washington, south of DC along the Potomac River, is a national park now but for a while after the 9/11 attacks the Army had a surface to air missile battery deployed there.
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  542. Great story. Is this the History Guy Halloween episode, or is that yet to come? I'm hoping for a good creepy one.
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  543. Great, looking forward to it!
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  544. I remember as a little kid in the 70s there was a push to get us to use metric in the US, speed limit signs were being put up in both systems, and of course cars sold in the US to this day have metric markings on the speedometers next to the ASE ones. Didn't stick, though.
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  545. Or the cruise ship Costa Concordia in 2012, where the captain abandoned his ship and left his passengers to their fate to save his own skin. The tapes of the Italian coast guard yelling at him and his officers over the radio to get back on their ship and do their duty is sickening.
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  546. I can only imagine if I were a sailor that morning how pissed off I would be at those sons of bitches attacking my ship out of the blue like that, seeing my buddies getting bombed and strafed. I'd be throwing as much lead downrange as I could melting the barrels on those god damned guns. The Japanese definitely made a poor decision to start that fking war.
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  547. A devil's bargain: it has killed many people with illness but saved unknown numbers of people from fire. Like mercury, a material that is very useful but sadly really toxic.
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  548. The original Atlas missile designed in the 1950s had a stainless steel fuselage which is also the main propellant tank. The steel is so thin that the missile has to be pressurized or else it will crumple like a beer can under its own weight. While it didn't serve long as a weapon, this low mass design allowed the Atlas to have a very long life as a space launch vehicle, with the final stainless tank Atlas launching in the mid-2000's before being replaced by the more conventionally designed Atlas V. The original Atlas was right on the edge of being single stage-to-orbit. The later Atlas II designs had a stretched stainless steel main fuselage and all used an upper stage, usually the Centaur, a version of which is still used with the Atlas V today. After the teething pains (aka "explosions") common to early space age endeavors, the Atlas went on to have a remarkably high reliability.
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  549. Nowadays fighter pilots get the cool names. Maverick, Iceman, Merlin, Viper, Jester...
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  550.  @skydiverclassc2031  lol yes!
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  551. Nowadays people would all be out there with their smart phones trying to shoot video up close.
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  552. This is why you don't practice pointing weapons at ships carrying presidents. LOL you'd think that wouldn't need to be explained to Navy officers. It's like pointing shoulder-fired surface to air missiles at Air Force One just to practice tracking and aiming; I imagine that sort of thing is frowned upon.
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  553. The fact that your bowties and eyeglass frames match is a bit distracting but it's a good look.
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  554. "Increase Mather", "Cotton Mather", who the hell names their kids this? THG you should do some kind of video on the history of naming customs or something.
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  555. We laugh as if this stuff is ancient history, but thanks to the darker side of the internet you can actually see video of witches being burned alive in Africa in modern times. And of course IS and AQ and actual governments still do this kind of shit in the Arab world. You know they actually crucify people in Saudi Arabia? Outside your comfy little air-conditioned, internet-connected home, the world is still a nasty place with no shortage of cruel-hearted assholes.
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  556. Paper can't melt steel!
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  557. People were caught looting the dead. In Texas. I'm guessing that did not end well for them folks.
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  558. I would think having a prosthetic leg would be a drawback for a spy, as it makes you stand out in any crowd.
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  559. THG, another great little museum is DeBence Antique Music World in Franklin, PA. Also, check out the band Compressorhead, which is made up entirely of robots playing real rock instruments and does covers of stuff like Motorhead's Ace of Spades and so on.
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  560. Every time a comet comes by it's cloudy where I live :-(
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  561.  @markn2904  There isn't a USA example. Even if you claim you are the lost son of JFK nobody would care because the US is not an hierarchical monarchy. But if you go back to the colonial pre-USA days you have the Cromwell phase of British history, when there was no king for a while. There was some craziness there to be sure.
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  562. Has Chicago ever NOT been corrupt and crime-ridden?
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  563.  @JohnDoe-pv2iu  She probably agreed to donate to his reelection campaign all was lovey dovey lol
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  564. The first part of this video is like a who's who of psychos and stupid dangerous animals.
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  565. He had it all wrong: the result of overpopulation is endless insufferable remakes of movies that are already good and don't need a "reboot".
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  566. Yeah thanks for reminding us all.
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  567. The "only"? YouTube alone has quite a few good history channels. Mark Felton for example.
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  568.  @flashgordon6670 Oh dear.
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  569.  @phillipbrewster6058  Do you have a reference or a link for this? I've got to read that.
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  570. Likeable as he was, I always thought TR's emphasis on manhood was a bit overdone. I always thought the most real "badass" US president was Andrew Jackson, who would literally fight you at the drop of a hat, and was tough enough to back it up. Gotta give TR props, though, IIRC he took a bullet while giving a speech and refused to leave the podium for medical attention until his speech was finished, speaking for 90 minutes while bleeding.
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  571. Never heard this before, this story of horrible savagery and callousness. How quickly an army of soldiers becomes a mob of filthy monsters with absolutely no empathy for helpless victims nor any sense of restraint in their cruelty. It's awful how someone you knew as a good guy can be transformed into such a beast. I am not one of those misanthropes who proudly and idiotically declares his hatred for his own species, but I freely admit that there are times when people really suck.
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  572. The first Richard Parker mentioned here was a first rate fool. Refusing to follow a simple order to square away his bed gear was a sign of greater stupidity, and allowing himself to be a pawn of mutineers was the confirmation of idiocy. Poor discipline and low intelligence often go hand in hand.
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  573. 13:28 OMG that Jerrold button box thing, I completely forgot those things ever existed, huge flashback right there. God how I am glad I don't have to use that ever again.
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  574. A 25 pound lobster?! TWENTY FIVE POUNDS?! Wow...
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  575. And lately we see young people out in the streets with hammer and sickle emblems burning stuff, assaulting people and chanting "death to America" and it makes me sick to think of what these unknown soldiers died for and how these people show such disrespect for their own inheritance.
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  576. Girl mullets are called femullets.
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  577.  @goodun2974  Fine, then, stick with coal.
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  578.  @goodun2974  As opposed to what? A druid priestess?
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  579.  @goodun2974  Those things are all built by engineers.
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  580. I visited an industrial facility once that employed Pinkerton security guards. Maybe the Pinkertons were scary in the old days, but the ones I saw were fat, lazy, and sleepy. Times change I guess.
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  581. Because the Constitution is not respected as it once was. We pick and choose which parts we believe in based on which candidate we want to see elected (not that elections are meaningful anymore) and swamp creatures see the Constitution as a barrier to enacting their schemes. So we all pay it lip service while blowing it off.
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  582. Funny, but obviously untrue. Certain discoveries were only possible with massive funding due to the cost of the equipment and infrastructure involved. You can't build particle accelerators, nuclear reactors, and orbiting telescopes without a decent budget.
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  583.  @thomosburn8740 Techmoan has them all.
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  584. Excellent topic choice. More science history, please! James Burke's got nothing on you.
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  585.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  I bet. We got our cat a bell collar once when I was growing up. Once. She made her displeasure very clear.
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  586. Great video. I used to have a deck of cards from Delta Airlines, back in the 70s and 80s when airlines had stuff like that. Wish I still had it. I also had a WWII deck that has silhouettes of Japanese ships on them to train sailors to identify enemy ships.
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  587. 8:53 I am disappoint...
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  588. Anything on the French and Indian War is appreciated, a hugely interesting time in a wild country, with a lot of interesting people. One of my favorite movies was Last of the Mohicans, and it was my favorite period to study in history when I was growing up. It's fascinating to know that both the US and Canadian armies have Ranger regiments, who share a common lineage dating back to Rogers' Rangers in the 1750s. (The Confederate army also had Ranger units with similar common heritage). I supposed Canadians pay the F&I War more attention in school and so on, but in the US it's pretty much overshadowed by the Revolution and the later Civil War, but it was a huge influence in shaping modern North America.
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  589. Little known fact: those wheelbarrows all had dash cams and were paying techno music during the races.
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  590. I was very young then but I do actually recall this getting a blurb on the news back then.
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  591. There was a guy I read about a few years ago who was collecting that uranium kitchenware. I think he got a visit from the FBI one day when everyone was all jittery after 9/11 but he wasn't doing anything illegal. I'm pretty sure you can still buy a can of uranium ore from science lab supply companies, basically a box of rocks from areas where natural uranium is common.
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  592. So let me get this straight: this woman correctly stated that Barham was sunk, so that makes her a "fraud"? LOL government. Imprisoning people for guessing secrets nobody even knew were secrets.
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  593. Funny about the ZIP+4; it's been so long since I bothered to use the extra 4 I had to think really hard to remember it. Kind of like how the government tried to switch the US to metric in the 70s and Americans just blew it off until they finally took down those stupid speed limit signs and gave up. Also, Mr. Zip reminds of Mr. Saladfingers, hits a little too close.
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  594.  @michaelcollier9368  I use a twook to tune my guitar.
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  595. I was in a car museum recently that had several Model T's, and I don't think any of them were black. I remember seeing one that was dark green and another in dark blue. The guy who worked there told me that you could get a T in almost any color you wanted, and the whole black-only thing is largely a myth. Maybe black was cheaper and other colors were a custom option or something, or maybe he was wrong, I don't know.
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  596. Etta is quite beautiful in that photograph. Thumbs up for the In Search Of... callout
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  597. According to Wikipedia the ship was also armed with 12 42-pounder carronades.
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  598. Massachusetts has an official state sandwich. As if that weren't bad enough, it's called a "fluffer nutter". Massachusetts, explain yourselves.
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  599. The one enemy Nelson could not defeat: bureaucrats.
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  600. So Pennsylvanians, did he pronounce Wilkes-Barre correctly? ;-) 8:25
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  601. Fighting over Toledo. SMH
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  602. Thundar the Barbarian! Featuring Ookla the Mok! And his fantastic Sun Sword.
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  603. Anything Kelly Johnson was involved in was worth a look. This aircraft is the spiritual Lockheed ancestor of the F-104, the SR-71, and the F-22.
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  604. I have never been able to keep track of who hates who in that part of the world.
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  605. 1:54 the Soviets put a bombardier canopy on the nose of a passenger jetliner? Were they planning on a little sport bombing during the trip?
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  606. I guess that makes sense to some degree.
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  607.  @HM2SGT  Yes, I am aware of how celestial navigation works, and it's not arrogance, it's mathematical truth. GPS is accurate to within a few feet. Celestial navigation is not.
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  608. Mouth watering intensifies
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  609. The reactor building at Fort Belvoir is still there on the bank of the Potomac River, clearly visible on google maps. Not sure what the Army plans to do with it, but it was defueled 40 years ago or so.
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  610.  @jamesbehrje4279  Hoping for a plane to crash because you don't like the politician is aboard is pretty straightforward. Even for "guys like me", whatever that means.
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  611. My senior drill instructor at the Island only came up to my chin. But he could do one-arm pullups while laughing in your face and could knock you through a wall if you opened your pie hole. When he was pissed off, which was often, the whites of his eyes would show like a rabid pit bull and he was lightning fast, crossing from the far side of the room to your face instantly. He was among a handful of the scariest people I ever knew, most of them Marines. God help the poor enemy soldier who found himself face to face with that guy.
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  612.  @ralfie8801  All I know is what I read in the history books (aka Wikipedia), same as everyone else, sorry.
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  613. American destroyer captains in WWII were crazy and fearless. USS Johnston and her sister ship destroyers took on a force of Japanese battleships and punched way above their weight class. Johnston's action alone, commanded by Ernest Evans, is legendary, right up there with Constitution's battles or Nelson at Trafalgar. Charging into battleship fire repeatedly and actually defeating the Japanese cruiser Kumano, she took multiple hits from battleship shells and kept fighting until she was sinking. Capt. Evans, shot through the hand, abandoned the blown-up bridge and stood on the stern, shouting orders down an open hatch to sailors below who were steering the ship's rudder manually. Evans was lost during the evacuation and never seen again. He is legend.
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  614.  @BeachsideHank  Oh wow, you stalked my profile. Smooth move.
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  615.  @BeachsideHank  Nope, don't care enough. Looks like you won the Internet tonight. Go celebrate.
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  616.  @BeachsideHank  So how'd it go?
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  617.  @ronfullerton3162  Years ago I had a big Aimor boom box with dual cassette deck and a 4 band radio, including two SW bands. It had dual rabbit ear antennae, and a phono preamp, was one of the nicest boomboxes you could get in the 80s. I wish I still had it, besides sounding great with music it was also the best SW radio I ever had.
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  618.  @DuRoehre90210  Well, one American life certainly means more to me than the opinion of some commie or islamofascist jackoff on the internet, that's for sure.
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  619. 11:18 you can actually see the 16" shell exiting the barrel. Awesome photo.
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  620. We are fascinated by serial killers because we don't know what makes humans tick and wonder why some of us malfunction when it comes to morality. A serial killer is an insidious monster that looks and acts like a normal human on the outside but behind the eyes is broken in the worst possible way.
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  621. THG, where did you get the NASA footage and animation for use in your video?
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  622.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Thanks!
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  623. It took me all of two whole days to see the whole museum in Dayton, and I feel like I could've easily spent an extra day. I was dead tired from being on my feet the whole time, too. It is truly amazing the size of the place and the number of exhibits. I think it's bigger than the Smithsonian's two museums in the DC area put together.
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  624. The US Congress has the power to issue letters of marque to this day. It was briefly suggested as a means to contract out the hunting of Bin Laden and his ilk after 9/11, but of course it wasn't taken seriously. Pity. I'd love to see Dog the Bounty Hunter tangle with the tangos.
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  625. My takeaway from this is that serving on submarines is a good way to get killed.
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  626. I wonder if any of the old DEW sites can be visited...would be a cool field trip.
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  627. I often pause these vids to look up locations in google maps when THG mentions them. I immediately looked up 129 Spring St. in Manhattan, and looked at the indoor photos. Sure enough, there's that well, right against the wall on the sales floor next to the cash register! It's like 6 feet tall so you can't just walk up and look down into it, and it looks like it has some sort of planks covering the top, but I wonder if the store's owner or employees ever climb up and look down into that creepy hole where that poor woman's body was found. Just being in that shop in broad daylight with people walking around looking at clothes next to that thing seems creepy enough. https://www.google.com/maps/place/COS/@40.7239954,-74.0004869,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipNoBgnokbTM6HwxIuQxFLoNwcNmko9Y6hpJ3pAl!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNoBgnokbTM6HwxIuQxFLoNwcNmko9Y6hpJ3pAl%3Dw203-h114-k-no!7i5312!8i2988!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x89c2598c5e51e2f3:0xce2f3449f490f818!2sSoHo,+New+York,+NY!3b1!8m2!3d40.723301!4d-74.0029883!3m4!1s0x89c2598ea0e79733:0xbf80e2cfade1daaa!8m2!3d40.7239953!4d-74.0004871
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  628. This reminds me of all the confusion after President Reagan was shot. If I recall correctly the extent of the danger he was in wasn't revealed until much later, and the decision to drive him straight to the hospital instead of to the White House saved his life. Meanwhile, at the White House, there was a lot of confusion as to who was in charge of the nuclear forces, with Secretary of State Haig claiming to be in charge until Vice President Bush could arrive. Some officials were worries that the assassination attempt was a precursor to a Soviet surprise attack.
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  629. 13:35 Harrier!
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  630.  @stevedietrich8936  Same video he mentions a Concorde intercept as well. As for the Tu-144, it was a total piece of shit deathtrap, which was noisy and uncomfortable to fly in when it wasn't killing you.
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  631. Philadelphia "The Quaker City", an old name that still gets used sometimes. Quakers are still there but vastly outnumbered these days I'd guess.
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  632. The State of California has entered the chat
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  633. Don't forget the famous Killdozer incident of 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
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  634. It makes you sigh to think about how, even after a century or two of experience with hurricanes, idiots can still build entire subdivisions below grade in places like New Orleans, and then are shocked when the inevitable happens.
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  635. This reminds of "Radioactive Boy Scout" David Hahn, the kid who tried to build a nuclear reactor in his mom's Michigan garden shed back in the 1990s. He actually knew what he was doing was dangerous but had no common sense. He was known for having radiation burns on his skin, and a photo of him taken after an arrest in the late 2000's showed him with weird marks al over his face. He died a few years ago, ironically from a drug overdose or something unrelated to radiation. Read the book about him, it's fascinating. He was at once both pretty clever and a complete idiot.
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  636. 6:08 pesky fly.
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  637. "Hence the name: Minuteman" Of course, the name was a tribute to the Minutemen militia of the American War for Independence.
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  638.  @gasfiltered  If your neighbor went back to England his family would tell him he sounds like an American, I'd wager. I grew up in the Northeast and moved to North Carolina for a few years; my family all told me my accent changed, but Carolinians all told me I still sounded like a Yankee.
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  639. When they found an island with "gorillas" on it I immediately thought King Kong
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  640. BTW I've never heard anyone pronounce the word Tarawa the way you do here; the US Navy has had two ships named Tarawa, and I knew some guys who served aboard the most recent one, LHA-1, who pronounced the name with emphasis on the first syllable. "TAR-a-wa" Every Marine or sailor I've talked to pronounced it this way.
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  641. Not applicable in this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Mount_Hood_(AE-29)
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  642. I did some reading up on US coastal defense a while back and found it pretty interesting. The US operated coastal dense artillery until about the 1950s when the US Coastal Artillery Corps was disestablished, and from then until the 1970s Nike missile batteries were the main means of ground-based defense, mainly against Soviet bombers. Apparently the proliferation of reliable and numerous ICBMs made these missile batteries "obsolete", and so now the US has absolutely no fixed defenses against attacking ships or aircraft. What prompted me to look into it was when I read that F-16 jets scrambled from Andrews air field near DC on Sept. 11, 2001, were completely unarmed, no missiles or even cannon shells. Seems like a dumb way to defend your capitol city to assume the only threat is from doomsday missiles.
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  643. Those in the Philadelphia area know the Commodore Barry Bridge over the Delaware River south of the city, which carries US Rt. 322.
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  644. In 1975 the tanker Corinthos was involved in a collision near Marcus Hook, PA, on the Delaware River. I was a little kid at the time and lived a few miles away on the New Jersey side. I remember the house shaking, and my dad watching the news on TV. The two ships were burning furiously and one's deck had lifted up and draped over the side like a canvas sheet. It apparently busted out windows in Marcus Hook and there was a big firefighting effort. It was huge, but almost nobody remembers it now. Would make a good THG episode, history deserves to be remembered.
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  645. A lot of old truss bridges in rural Pennsylvania had that singing metal decking, used to love driving over them with my grandfather. A lot of those old pretty bridges are gone now, replaced with ugly cheap concrete things.
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  646. That image at 3:45 would make an awesome metal album cover.
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  647. 2 days ago a 4 year old in Philadelphia was killed after being impaled by glass from a picture frame that fell off the wall and shattered.
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  648.  @liamroggenkamp  Lomgstreet was an oddball in the CSA, being a Republican.
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  649. My grand daddy was a horse Marine Everything he wore was Marine Corps green Liked his steaks three inches thick Picked his teeth with the guide on stick
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  650.  @jliller  You need food more than you need health care. So let's nationalize all farming, food production, distribution. Worked great in the USSR. Added benefit, when people resist, you can starve them to death to show 'em who's boss. I for one welcome our new Stalinistic overlords.
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  651.  @Menaceblue3  Cornfields, soybean fields, tomatoes, lately lots of wineries, and as always lots of Italian restaurants. If you don't like New Jersey, good, stay out, nobody wanted you here anyway.
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  652. July 4th Barbecuing is canceled this year. Racist. Sorry :-/
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  653. I read about this incident on Wikipedia a while back. Astounding what people are willing to get violent about, or foolishly allow themselves to be led into by political "leaders". I have always hated crowds because riots start off as crowds. And people who deliberately get involved in riots are basically giant retards looking for trouble.
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  654. I don't know if they still do, but MREs used to have these things called "oatmeal bars" which we sometimes called "sharpening stones" and joked you could use one to sharpen your bayonet. Damn things were harder than your teeth, but once you broke it up it tasted okay. I bet those freaking things last forever.
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  655. Years ago I read the book "Tarawa: Story of a Battle" by Robert Sherrod, and recommend it to those who wish to learn more about this battle. This was basically the first real test of the US Marines using their amphibious doctrine developed between the wars under the leadership of John Lejeune, in which they developed tactics, techniques, and equipment for assaulting defended shorelines. Lejeune and his contemporaries had foreseen the coming war with Japan and its island-hopping warfare, and had worked hard to get the Marine Corps ready for when the day came. Tarawa was the first real hard opposed landing and a lot of hard lessons were learned that day by the Marines and Navy, which would later be applied on future landings by both the Marines and the Army.
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  656. @Just Looking FFS you totally can't comprehend what I wrote? Can I make it simpler for you? Want me to type slower maybe?
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  657.  @sid2112  What a country!
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  658. I always thought the Air Force's policy on disclosing the presence of nuclear weapons, while normally a good idea, was way too rigid and prone to putting a lot of civilians needlessly at risk. The Titan silo explosion was another time where pig-headed idiot AF officers decided to put local Americans at extreme risk by not giving the police and firefighters sufficient information. This is something that never seems to reach the White House or Congress fast enough to prompt them to take action and direct the Air Force to change its policy in order to safeguard American civilians.
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  659. A tale from the days when you could issue your own currency and not have a federal SWAT team break down your door at 4 AM and drag you off to a dungeon.
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  660.  @jamesaustralian9829  video game =/= real war
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  661. "War to end all wars" was just a propaganda slogan to get people to support...the war. And if you didn't support it, President Wilson would jail you.
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  662.  @TedBronson1918  Sedition Act of 1918
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  663. I've ridden in military transports and I don't recall seeing any "seats", only nylon strap webbing facing sideways. In a bad crash we were all gonners no doubt. But since there were pallets full of 500 lb bombs in front of my knees I figure I wouldn't feel a thing.
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  664.  @grantsmythe8625  Among the fruits of his experiments was life extension.
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  665. Nixon's history as VP is well known in the US, especially his run for president against Kennedy in 1960, in which Kennedy had mastered the art of looking good on television during the debate, while Nixon appeared on screen unprepared to deal with hot lights and cameras, with sweat all over his face, and got owned as a result. It's a famous moment in political and television history.
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  666. This remind me of today's Cajun Navy. Someday in the future they will deserve to be remembered also. Also reminds me of the civilian boats in the movie Dunkirk. Nothing like taking your unarmed sailboat out to patrol in a sea infested with U-boats.
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  667. This is why when you buy a house in a nice new development you need to do some research into the area. I have little sympathy for those why buy a house next to an airport and then complain about the noise. Buy a house next to a rocket engine and nuclear test site? Maybe not the best investment? As for the city wanting to turn this into parkland, ha ha, "Hey, hon, let's take the kids out to play in the toxic sandbox."
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  668. I always think of Dana Dulaney's portrayal of Josephine in the movie Tombstone, when she first sees Earp at a distance and says, "I like it. I want one."
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  669. Looked this up. The airplane was repaired and stayed in service for 12 more years. It's currently sitting in a storage hangar in Tijuana and reportedly in poor condition. I have to say that the 747 is one of the most beautiful airplanes ever built and it will be a sad day when the last one lands for good.
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  670. 11:40 cue awesome Ozzy song
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  671.  @albertseabra9226  STOP YELLING AT US
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  672.  @albertseabra9226  lol no biggie
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  673. The courage and honor of those men is beyond description. And as much as I love Japan today and respect their culture and society, the stories of how the Imperials treated their prisoners and conquered civilians makes me sick to my stomach and fills my heart with anger, that such people could be so cruel and heartless.
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  674. 10:10 Gotta love those old photos. Those look like some tough dudes living in a tough world. Even that kid looks like he could handle himself in a scrap.
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  675.  Peter Rogan  So it's kind of like Pennsylvania German (aka "Pennsylvania Dutch") that is spoken by Amish and Mennonite peoples, then? I have spoken to many Amish people and they speak English that sounds like they are from a Philadelphia suburb (they are, after all), but when you hear them talk to each other they speak a dialect of German that sounds kinds of countryish even to non-German speakers.
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  676.  Peter Rogan  Yeah. Even now there are places in South Carolina, for example, where it's almost impossible for me to understand the locals when they talk to each other.
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  677.  Peter Rogan  Yes, there is a good BBC documentary out there about the English language and they spend some time on those SC islands discussing that dialect.
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  678. I really want to find out how mail sorting machines work, especially in the days before any kind of AI existed to help read the random crappy handwriting of the senders.
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  679. 1984 cult classic film: Night of the Comet
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  680. My dad served aboard the carrier USS Shang-ri La in the Med in the 60s. He said he loved it and it was beautiful, except that Naples was a dump and one day the Israeli and Egyptian air forces started shooting at each other in the sky above the ship.
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  681. I remember when this happened. The guys who did it cracked me up. They made the cops and the media look stupid and showed what a bunch of nervous reactionaries we all became after 9/11. Of course you have to realize that Leviathan not only has no sense of humor, but also simply can't tolerate being mocked, so these guys were going to get prosecuted for something the moment the cops got involved; glad the charges got dismissed.
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  682. Wait...did you say, "snow"? That sounds rather unpleasant.
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  683. This guy was always an asshole but I still like some of his art. I like cubism and other art of that era in general. Too bad such talent was wasted on such a POS.
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  684. NOAA's emblem looks like the USMC emblem with an extra anchor. How does one join the NOAA Corps? Get hired like a regular government job?
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  685. 5:00 that hatchback version is actually not completely ugly and even looks useful.
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