Search found 9016 matches

by Eternal_Freedom
2024-03-13 01:09pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

Zaune wrote: 2024-03-13 10:48am The M113 is almost as versatile as Mike Sparks makes it out to be, isn't it?
I couldn't possibly comment :D
by Eternal_Freedom
2024-03-12 02:52pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

TIL...that NASA had it's own fleet of APC's for evacuating shuttle astronauts from the launch pad in emergencies, a process that also involved a 1200 foot zip line:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH8IKG9cjU8
by Eternal_Freedom
2024-03-07 04:20pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

Crazedwraith wrote: 2024-03-06 07:31pm
Eternal_Freedom wrote: 2024-03-06 04:35pm TIL that I was successful in my interview to be a Magistrate (Criminal bench) and will be recommended to the Senior Presiding Judge for appointment. Excellent.
Congratulations.

Do you get a wig?
Alas no.
by Eternal_Freedom
2024-03-06 04:35pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

TIL that I was successful in my interview to be a Magistrate (Criminal bench) and will be recommended to the Senior Presiding Judge for appointment. Excellent.
by Eternal_Freedom
2024-02-28 12:22pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Are my numbers right (ANH trench run)?
Replies: 4
Views: 1196

Re: Are my numbers right (ANH trench run)?

Or he may have been using the 160 km diameter that has been floating around in, among others, the old ICS books - this would give a circumference of 502 (and change) km.
by Eternal_Freedom
2024-01-17 06:13pm
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: Enterprise- Federation flagship?
Replies: 20
Views: 2734

Re: Enterprise- Federation flagship?

I'm guessing it is mostly a diplomatic function, serving the function of waving the flag. It's why Picard, who in many respects seems more like a diplomat than a soldier, has the command. The traditional job of a flagship isn't needed given the level of communications they have, as well as the leve...
by Eternal_Freedom
2024-01-06 03:16pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump from State Ballot
Replies: 76
Views: 5006

Re: Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump from State Ballot

Or maybe they just don't trust that someone who stole classified documents will be loyal to their interests over his own. Honestly, I tihnk this might be the key part. How often did various GOP'ers have to go on CNN/Fox/whatever to "justify" and "clarify" whatever piece of insan...
by Eternal_Freedom
2024-01-01 07:36am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump from State Ballot
Replies: 76
Views: 5006

Re: Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump from State Ballot

Well shit. Having read that thread, I withdraw my comments about Republicans (even a few of them) having any sense of self-preservation and don't want to escalate things. Holy fucking shit, that just flops it all out on the table.
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-12-30 03:24pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump from State Ballot
Replies: 76
Views: 5006

Re: Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump from State Ballot

It's also possible that they don't want to escalate things too much. They know they're at a popular vote minority and have been for, what, 4 elections now? Removing Biden from a ballot for such blatantly political reasons could see a fairly massive backlash from Republican voters who actually are d...
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-12-30 01:16pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump from State Ballot
Replies: 76
Views: 5006

Re: Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump from State Ballot

Okay, let me rephrase that - Under what grounds, that would survive a Supreme Court challenge if the court wasn't stacked? For all their talk, they might not even do anything but threaten to boot Biden off a ballot. Or they might try to kick him off the ballot at the last minute, so there isn't any...
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-12-19 12:20pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137759

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

German army troops posted near the Russian border? I shudder to think what Putin's propaganda crew will make of this. No doubt lots of references to historical fighting fascism etc.
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-12-14 06:22pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Replies: 802
Views: 386937

Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II

Yeah that jumped out at me in a WTF? moment. In other UK politics news, the national minimum wage is due to go up in April. Which is good. The bad news is that my government department are sufficiently stingy that my grade will be only 46p an hour about said minimum wage - and I'm not the lowest gra...
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-12-05 05:39pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

TIL that one of my colleagues, a Welshman living in Wales, is a full-on Fox-koolaid-drinking, "he did nothing wrong" Trumper. I...I have no idea how to process the sheer weirdness of this.
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-12-04 12:35pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

TIL (from a colleague who has recently returned from a holiday in Poland) that Auschwitz...has a gift shop.
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-11-18 08:33pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Trump and the Jan 6 investigation
Replies: 262
Views: 26740

Re: Trump and the Jan 6 investigation

On the plus side, this is a judicial ruling that says Trump incited the insurrection. Methinks that Jack Smith fellow will like that precedent.
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-11-18 08:53am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

TIL that Jupiter has gained/we discovered another moon, bringing it up to a total of 93 (Saturn still wins though with 140 or so). What did they name this one? Dunno yet. I was doing a talk on the solar system and mentioned that Jupiter and Saturn keep going back and forth on which has the most moo...
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-11-17 07:07pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

TIL that Jupiter has gained/we discovered another moon, bringing it up to a total of 93 (Saturn still wins though with 140 or so).
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-11-05 09:45am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

TIL that my house is the perfect size for me and all my associated stuff, everything fits!

....right up until I need to move everything out of the basement so the builders can do their stuff this week. Then it's a case of "oh shit where's this gonna go for a week?"
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-10-21 09:16am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US Soldier Captured Crossing N Korea Border
Replies: 65
Views: 7311

Re: US Soldier Captured Crossing N Korea Border

It might also explain why this dude decided to try crossing the border - he knows he's being investigated for other stuff, his pc (or whatever) he used for child porn is seized, and he thinks "fuck it" and legs it. Perhaps remembering so many old US tv shows/films where someone "runs ...
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-09-19 05:14pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

True. And even Yamamoto recognised that pre-war. What was his estimate? We have to win on the first day, or in six months they'll overwhelm us. Pretty accurate prediction really.
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-09-19 02:31pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

With Midway what is important is the type of craft lost then the actual number, the Japanese lost pretty much their whole Fleet Carrier fleet and could never really replace those losses, US lost 1 aging Carrier and 1 Cruiser and those were quickly replaced. in Essence the Imperial Japanese Navy los...
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-09-19 12:40pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: BREAKING NEWS: FBI RAIDS TRUMP RESIDENCE IN MAR-A-LAGO FOR CLASSIFIED NUCLEAR DOCUMENTS, AMONG OTHERS
Replies: 196
Views: 45884

Re: BREAKING NEWS: FBI RAIDS TRUMP RESIDENCE IN MAR-A-LAGO FOR CLASSIFIED NUCLEAR DOCUMENTS, AMONG OTHERS

Seemingly every time I see a news article about Trump it's "but wait there's more!"

It's like he's some weird fractal pattern of incompetence.
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-09-19 12:37pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

Midway is a strange battle. It's touted as one of the most decisive ever (and it is), yet only 7 ships were lost - 4 Japanese carriers, 1 US carrier, 1 US destroyer (USS Hannan if memory serves) and 1 Japanese cruiser ( Tone I think??) It also could so easily have gone the other way. As one historia...
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-09-18 02:38pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

Ghetto edit: The other two ships surveyed were Kaga and Yorktown. Yorktown still has visible hull markings.
by Eternal_Freedom
2023-09-18 02:22pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 478
Views: 113733

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

TIL...they've actually managed to not only find the wreck of Akagi but also get ROV's deep enough (in the last week or so) to get video footage. She's 5.5 km beneath the surface, and parts of the flight deck still show battle damage. EDIT: The video in that article mentions the wrecks of three carri...