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Japanese Balloon Battle
mw2040 writes "Slate reports on a little-known method used by the Japanese during WWII - hydrogen-filled paper balloons with deadly payloads floated without a guidance-system across the Pacific. Both amazing low-tech warfare and a cautionary tale about censorship during wartime. More links (even one for our neighbors to the North) (shamelessly stolen from the article)."
... the pinnacle of the science of precision bombing. Can't really see it catching on.
If you look at a Map of Sunnyvale and Mountain View, you'll see that Moffett Federal Air Field is right next to Sunnyvale Municipal Gold Course. So the airfield must be right next to the city boundary. I can't imagine what it must be like when a Hercules transport planes flies over during take off or landing.
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Next headline on Slashdot:
"What hath God wrought?"
To be quickly followed by an article on how to transmit such digital singals without wires.
KFG
The part that really makes me unhappy is hearing about the fatalities caused by this technology.
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One Bit of censorship I think is funny is the number of times the Canadians burned down the Whitehouse.
simpsons did it! sorry, just figured i'd hop on the "not-news!" wagon :]
Is this news not 60 years old?
You mean the Norwegian?
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One Bit of censorship I think is funny is the number of times the Canadians burned down the Whitehouse.
which is why we dont have you guys over for parties anymore...
sheesh, get a few kegs of beer in you guys and holy crap things get wild....
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
And they wonder what is holding up their applications for statehood......
wouldn't that be "But of course, R'ing TFA is a lost art"?
There is no such thing as 'chocohol' or 'workahol'.
That's neighbours, eh.
Boy, now you are just getting me depressed. Now if all major conflicts could just be determined on the ice we could really kick ass.
Stay tuned for new sig...
Was it the same rabble rousers that are always on South Park? "Rabble rabble rabble" God that cracks me up.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
> around 800,000 crack troops who had been beating back the 6-8 million Chinese troops who opposed them.
Imagine how much better they would have done if they were meth troops instead.
'Nuff said.