Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Mark Felton Productions"
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llewellyn evans I see no reason to use the word cruel in light of the care and expense they went to in outfitting the return modules with parachutes. Mechanical failure was obviously not expected, so the monkey deaths were accidents, certainly sad ones.
The noise, vibrations, and acceleration at launch and descent could have been distressing, I grant you. Whether such distress, if any, were passing and mild, emotionally shattering, or in between, I cannot guess. As for weightlessness, I'm not sure the Alberts would have sensed it, strapped in as they were, or if it would have bothered them if they did.
On the whole I would say, because of the deaths being accidental, that if you want to talk about human failings and cruelty you could easily find much worse very near at hand. (Not that I find what you say ludicrous.)
One could say things were more clear-cut in the case of Laika, the Russian space dog. She was never meant to return alive, and died up there.
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@LTPottenger "They were killed by the allied bombing though, they don't tell you that part LOL" This seems a childishly simplistic 14-year-old's point to make.
A great many German industrial workers died from Allied bombs and we can safely assume many of them were thoroughly decent human beings, plenty of whom had voted against Nazis in earlier elections. You could say something similar about numberless Wehrmacht conscripts, too, for that matter.
So what were the Allies to do? Ought they to have said "Oh, no, we mustn't make war on Germany. We can't know if we're killing Nazi enthusiasts, reluctant participants, or innocent bystanders. Best to write letters to the Reich Chancellery instead, denouncing them in strong language and pleading with them to leave off'?
Dresden may count as an atrocity, but bombing armaments factories cannot.
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1:36 Here an estimate of the value of the Merkers treasure is quoted, $7 billion. At the current gold price of about $1,850 per troy ounce, a ton of gold is worth $53.9 million. Thus $7 billion will buy 129.8 tons. And as a ton of gold can be cast into a cube measuring a mere 14.75" on a side (1.86 cubic feet), the pictures would seem to call the estimate into serious doubt.
There is little in them besides the light bulbs and the ceiling height to give scale, but it appears unlikely the gold in all those bags could be formed into a cube measuring only 6'3" on a side. It appears, I stress. Maybe each bag contains only a single bar, and a small one at that. But maybe the cache amounted to many thousands of tons, not 130. At any rate, the estimate wasn't Mr. Felton's own.
12:50 At the current price of about $1,850 per troy ounce, 10.5 kg of gold is worth not $1,772,000 but around $625,000.
I know I am picking nits, but there you have it. Of course the video is marvellous, just as we always expect!
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What you say is striking and evokes pity in us all. But I must strongly disagree with your respondents who claim that the Allied attacks there constituted an immorality on those grounds exactly.
Say a Wehrmacht unit of a hundred kills ten people in a Dutch village. The unit, having left the village, is then encircled by Allied troops and a firefight begins. Is the Allied commander obliged to estimate the German casualties as it proceeds and then at some point say "Right, cease fire! We've now killed fifteen of them and that's more than enough. It's not right to go on, since they only killed ten. We move out now."? No. It is right to battle them until they are wiped out or surrender.
In like fashion, it is in my view right to bomb armaments factories in a war without qualms specifically about the record of destruction of the devices made there. It is right in the same sense that makes it wrong to bomb factories where uniforms are sewn together. Bombing the bomb factories is very much an act of self-defence, an effective one at that, which also might save more enemy soldiers and civilian lives than civilian lives are lost at the time, by ending the war earlier.
And, not to seem hostile, but tell me, are there statistics enumerating war deaths which are not awful to contemplate?
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A plot twist which will surprise most people: His eyebrows outlasted the rest of his person and survive to this day. Initially they were revived, which was reportedly not difficult, and maintained on life support by the notably odd — and more oddly yet, Jewish — Sir Keith Joseph. This was a year after he left Mrs. Thatcher's cabinet. (He was Minister of State for Education and Science, which in this story is the sole unsurprising element.)
Later they dwelt in the spare bedroom of an obscure rich woman in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, widow of a onetime successful skier and owner of petrol stations. Rumours have Michael Jackson, David Cameron and Boris Johnson as later owners, but these appear to be entirely speculative, defamatory, or meant to be funny.
No one knows who has the brows now.
But if one is to believe specialists in video identification who have certified its authenticity, on a Dark Web site you can observe 24-hour streaming video of Deputy Führer Hess's last chapter, still without an ending.
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@John_1_0 It has never meant 'lady', that much is sure, but it has certainly not been "always somewhat discourteous." It almost always is now, but well within living memory it has ranged all the way up to merely informal, as well as affectionate. Social class had a lot of bearing on its use. People much above lower-middle class, meaning the 'top' half or third of society, used it more rarely.
Period movies and other depictions don't properly indicate its onetime popularity and versatility (not that I've seen many thousands of movies). Its main purpose, I daresay, was to indicate a certain freedom from sentimentality. Women, of course, used it too. ("I'm at the bowling alley with the rest of the broads from work. We're havin' a great time, Marilyn, you should come down.")
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