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Offline DoKGonZo

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« Reply #45 on: April 04, 2006, 09:04:40 PM »
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Ezactly why law was passed to keep newspapers from reporting bomb damages and deaths or even to say they mad land. a family died finding a unexploded bomb  they try to take home and it went off. over 1 million acres were burned by ballon bombs.


There was a show I think on the History Channel about some of this stuff. I know they talked about the balloon bombs but I'll be damned if I can recall how far inland they said they got.
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« Reply #46 on: April 04, 2006, 10:48:05 PM »
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The first balloons were launched on November 3, 1944 and began landing in the United States on November 5th (off San Pedro, California) and by the following day (November 6th) were landing as far away as Thermopolis, Wyoming. 285 confirmed landings/sightings were made over a wide area, stretching from the Aleutian Islands, Canada and across the width and breadth of the continental United States: as far south as Nogales, Arizona (on the Mexican border) and easterly, to Farmington, Michigan (10 miles from Detroit). Most of the ballast bags were released in the trip across the north Pacific, but a few balloons crashed without exploding and some of the ballast bags were recovered. All of the bags contained the same type of dark colored sand.



Interesting piece is Here
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« Reply #47 on: April 04, 2006, 11:08:47 PM »
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Interesting piece is Here


Pretty amazing bit of engineering.
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« Reply #48 on: April 05, 2006, 08:58:15 AM »
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I LIKE BUNNIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D


I`m with ya on that one.

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« Reply #49 on: April 05, 2006, 11:38:23 AM »
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I got a few thousand perks I'll never use.

Is there a way to donate them to the "perk needy"?


I've often thought it would be cool to have a club in the game where we could play poker and bet perks :)

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« Reply #50 on: April 05, 2006, 11:42:05 AM »
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Pretty amazing bit of engineering.


Word that.

Also some pretty good forensic work identifying the source and effective use of that intelligence.

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« Reply #51 on: April 05, 2006, 06:20:08 PM »
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Word that.

Also some pretty good forensic work identifying the source and effective use of that intelligence.

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The contrast is also interesting. So often the American sense of "technology" is finding new ways to apply more brute force to a problem. Those balloons were made of paper, for cripe sake ... almost zero resource cost to construct the delivery platform. And won't show up on radar.
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« Reply #52 on: April 05, 2006, 09:04:05 PM »
When I attack an enemy field, FH's are priority and then VH is 2nd priority unless our CO says otherwise.  If I am told to go through the vulchfest and drop the last hanger, its gonna be dropped whether people like it or not. I follow the order of the CO or highest ranking member in charge
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« Reply #53 on: April 05, 2006, 09:09:10 PM »
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The contrast is also interesting. So often the American sense of "technology" is finding new ways to apply more brute force to a problem. Those balloons were made of paper, for cripe sake ... almost zero resource cost to construct the delivery platform. And won't show up on radar.


So, what yer saying is this is the first time you've heard the phrase, "don't force it. get a bigger hammer"?

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« Reply #54 on: April 05, 2006, 09:51:59 PM »
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So, what yer saying is this is the first time you've heard the phrase, "don't force it. get a bigger hammer"?
 


No ... I just appreciate the elegant simplicity of the design and the contrast. While the Germans were firing rockets into London the Japanese launched these things made mostly of organic materials and carried by the wind.
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« Reply #55 on: April 05, 2006, 10:22:23 PM »
Well, the Germans did have a tendency to over engineer everything. But, you have to admit they had some pretty fantastic equipment. Had they had decent leadership we might all be speaking Duetsch right now.


I almost bought a Nambu at an estate a month or so ago. After looking it over it made me wonder how the Japonese were able to get as far in the war as they did.


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« Reply #56 on: April 05, 2006, 10:42:47 PM »
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Well, the Germans did have a tendency to over engineer everything. But, you have to admit they had some pretty fantastic equipment. Had they had decent leadership we might all be speaking Duetsch right now.
 


Yeah ... years ago I read an account from the N. Afrikan campaign. Rommel was so impressed with the Western Desert Force that he ordered that the Afrika Korps set up their own unit to raid the British read area. By the time they finished equiping this unit with armoured cars, light arty, etc. etc. they found it couldn't carry enough fuel to support its own operations. So they scrapped the whole idea.
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« Reply #57 on: April 06, 2006, 03:50:27 AM »
Well my point was to show people believe myths and there own perception instead of FACTS. Most think paul revere Rode thru country saying british are comeing When in FACT he rode 19 miles while another rider rode from boston to Philly over 345 miles on horse back stopping just to change horses. ISrael Bissell was his name. Or people believe old myth Christopher Columbus discover world wasn't flat, And that he told queen i can go to india by going west i'll prove world not flat another myth.


  This game has its urban legends and myths to.  Cable pulling, indestructable tanks for some. i seen sprite u had to be hurt, list goes on. Just play for enjoyment and life becomes easier :) Don't be a old gossip woman.



http://www.dwroth.com/bissell.htm
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« Reply #58 on: April 06, 2006, 08:54:22 AM »
Cable pulling indestructable tank? Thats a new one on me.....I heard about a beer hall you could fly too on one map from one of my squaddies ( & one of the nicest people I've ever talked to in game or in real life ) S2F - or just Sugar that's what we call him. He can't remember what map it was & no one he talks to remembers it. Does anyone remember this? And if so; could you post it so I can tell him what map it was? I know I go nuts when I can't remember something, I wake up in the middle of the night: "AH-HA....HEY WIFE....I REMEMBER!!"......Wife: "That's great, now go back to sleep, you can celebrate your mental victory later."
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« Reply #59 on: April 06, 2006, 09:06:56 AM »
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Or people believe old myth Christopher Columbus discover world wasn't flat
The world isn't flat!  Oh the horror.  Heratic, Heratic! lol  Every map I'm on I flat.  I always come out the other side. :D

And who is this Columbus you speak of?  I have never fought against him, humm he must be a perch sitter.
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