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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1078 on: September 26, 2022, 11:14:28 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on September 26, 2022, 06:17:37 AM
It's in Wilmington, NC, near SC.  There are some ships moored in Charleston that are also of interest, but no BBs.

It's worth touring I think if you are in the area.
I was going to point out that the North Carolina is in North Carolina much like the Texas, New Jersey, Alabama, and Massachusetts are in their respective namesake states. The exceptions (Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin) tend to be named for inaccessible inland states.

The Yorktown and Laffey are great to visit in Charleston but I'd advise skipping the submarine. There are a ton of Gato and Balo class submarines operating as museums and they are nearly identical with the most significant difference being that the Gato Class boats had slightly thicker hulls to allow for deeper dives. The best one to visit, from what I've read is the USS Cod in Cleveland near where I live.

Ironically, the reason the USS Cod is best is because they spent the least preparing it for visitors. Most of the others have large doors cut in them to make them more accessible to tourists but the group that bought the USS Cod basically just towed it to Cleveland, tied it to a pier, and put up a welcome sign. Consequently, it is MUCH more original than the others.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1079 on: September 26, 2022, 11:22:38 AM »
USS Albacore

This is an interesting visit, I thought, in MA.

Albacore served as a sea-going test platform from 1953 to 1972. Albacore's teardrop-shaped hull was the prototype for the Navy's nuclear powered submarine force and was the first boat built specifically to operate underwater. Prior to Albacore, submarines had been characterized as surface vessels that could submerge. With her revolutionary hull design and state-of-the-art systems, Albacore provided the Navy with an engineering platform to evaluate systems and design features before including them in future classes of submarines.  Her motto was Praenuntius Futuri (Forerunner of the Future) and her mission was experimental.

Commissioned in December of 1953, Albacore was only 2/3rds the length of a World War II Fleet Boat and, when outfitted with her special high capacity silver-zinc battery, could outrun a contemporary nuclear submarine. In 1966, she set the record as the world's fastest submarine having attained an underwater speed of nearly 40 miles per hour.

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« Reply #1080 on: September 26, 2022, 12:55:43 PM »
And the Russian subs could launch warheads the size of the Albacore
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« Reply #1081 on: September 27, 2022, 09:19:53 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

The Taliban Captures Kabul (1996)
During the chaotic period that followed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, a militia of Islamic fundamentalist students known as the Taliban became increasingly powerful. In 1996, the Taliban captured the capital city of Kabul and declared itself the legitimate government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, establishing a strict Islamic regime that became a haven for extremists.
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« Reply #1082 on: September 27, 2022, 03:09:33 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on September 27, 2022, 09:19:53 AM
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

The Taliban Captures Kabul (1996)
During the chaotic period that followed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, a militia of Islamic fundamentalist students known as the Taliban became increasingly powerful. In 1996, the Taliban captured the capital city of Kabul and declared itself the legitimate government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, establishing a strict Islamic regime that became a haven for extremists.

The more things change...
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« Reply #1083 on: September 29, 2022, 08:59:22 AM »
During the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, the city of Pittsburgh avoided a potentially violent attack by serving several barrels of free whiskey to 7,000 men who assembled at Braddock’s Field. They drank so much they had no further desire to proceed. Provided by History.com
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« Reply #1084 on: September 29, 2022, 11:06:05 AM »
Feed them to the lions! How Ancient Rome demonstrated its brutality and power

The Roman rulers used gladiator games to entertain the public – but these battles also served as political theater

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-09-18/feed-them-to-the-lions-how-ancient-rome-demonstrated-its-brutality-and-power.html
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« Reply #1085 on: September 29, 2022, 07:35:24 PM »
Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law is the humorous axiom stating that anything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong. Its namesake is likely Edward A. Murphy, an engineer on US Air Force rocket-sled experiments. During one trial, someone methodically wired each sensor involved in an experiment backwards, prompting Murphy to remark, "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."
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« Reply #1086 on: September 29, 2022, 07:41:52 PM »
I was watching one of those "what if" war scenario videos on youtube, and it was said that one of our nuke-equipped subs would be the 6th-highest threat in terms of actual warheads that are operational.  
And the fact that it could concieveably launch them all in 7 min...
And the fact that it's basically invisible....
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Cue the Owen Wilson WOWWWW!!
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« Reply #1087 on: September 29, 2022, 08:02:48 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 29, 2022, 07:41:52 PM
I was watching one of those "what if" war scenario videos on youtube, and it was said that one of our nuke-equipped subs would be the 6th-highest threat in terms of actual warheads that are operational. 
And the fact that it could concieveably launch them all in 7 min...
And the fact that it's basically invisible....
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Cue the Owen Wilson WOWWWW!!
They don't call the Boomers Nation Killers for no reason. .

Each Ohio Class Submarine carries up to 24 missles and each missile contains up to eight warheads that are each more powerful than all the bombs dropped in all the wars fought.
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« Reply #1088 on: October 01, 2022, 08:55:37 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Honeymooners Premiers on CBS (1955)
The Honeymooners was a short-lived American sitcom based on sketches by comedian Jackie Gleason. It starred Gleason and Audrey Meadows as a struggling working class couple in New York—a drastic departure from other popular comedies of the era that depicted their characters in comfortable, middle-class, suburban environments. Though The Honeymooners was cancelled after just 39 episodes, it has been aired for decades in syndication.
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« Reply #1089 on: October 01, 2022, 01:17:57 PM »
On this day in 1879, Lt. Isaac Webster started a 12-member band, the first at the university. It would later grow in talent and ability into what is today known as The Cornhusker Marching Band, “The Pride of All Nebraska."

In earliest known photo of the Nebraska band, cadets stand in uniform outside University Hall in 1884
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« Reply #1090 on: October 01, 2022, 04:20:19 PM »
On this day in 1872, the poster Cincydawg was born.  Here he is on UGA's first football team:

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« Reply #1091 on: October 01, 2022, 04:22:28 PM »
Ha,did you photo shop or just a sharp eye?
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