"The brilliant and energetic man makes the best staff officer. He handles routine work with accuracy and completeness. The brilliant and lazy man makes the best commanding officer. He tends to see the big picture accurately and avoids preoccupation with detail work which might distract him. The stupid and lazy man makes the best subordinate. He will do what he is told properly, no more no less. The stupid and energetic man, however, is to be avoided at all costs. He is quite capable of ruining the best laid plans."
--Erich von Manstein, WW2 German field marshal; often misattributed to Napoleon or Clausewitz
Sounds like it was built like a tank to resist U-boats
No, built like a speedboat to outrun them. Submerged U-Boats were agonizingly slow, and their chances of spotting the ship on the horizon and getting into position for a torpedo shot before it passed by were essentially nil. Hitler offered a whopping bounty to any U-Boat skipper who nailed the Queen Mary or Queen Elizabeth, but nobody ever got a shot off.
More accurately, it was designed to be easily reconfigured as a troopship, which made a big federal subsidy available for its construction. That option was never exercised.
The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth did carry troops during WW2. They ran the North Atlantic without escorts, because they were so fast a U-Boat spotting them would have essentially no chance of getting into position for a shot.
That started to happen with the Olympic Restaurant in Denver in 1976, but Colorado told the Olympics to piss off for different reasons, and the lawsuit fizzled out.
What amiga3d said: Either you or your dad dropped a zero. The F-104 didn't get a very bad rep in the USAF, because they got rid of the damn thing as fast as they could; some 90% of the production was exported in deals you could smell from a mile upwind.
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The FCC was able to prohibit municipalities from banning antennas, but failed with HOAs because property covenants are contractual matters.
If you want to kill stuff than is not neatly lined up in the stockyards it's generally going to be messy and horrible.
And even if it is, it doesn't exactly measure up to your appendectomy.
Ummm, you're aware the read/write head doesn't touch the disk, right?
my alma mattar's engineering school
Or its liberal arts department.
its cold up there
Since the damaged object was a solar panel, I suspect it might have been exposed to, y'know, the sun? In which case it would not be very cold.
They're thermoerotic...global warming gives them a boner.
Give me a 500 kph wind and I'll design you a small-diameter turbine to use it, Professor.
Yes, most everybody. The Brits are calling it the Big Bum.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
Imagine sharks with live ordinance
Ummm, "shark with ordinance" would seem to describe a lawyer.
I'll see your pointless pedantism and raise you pedantry.
"The brilliant and energetic man makes the best staff officer. He handles routine work with accuracy and completeness.
The brilliant and lazy man makes the best commanding officer. He tends to see the big picture accurately and avoids preoccupation with detail work which might distract him.
The stupid and lazy man makes the best subordinate. He will do what he is told properly, no more no less.
The stupid and energetic man, however, is to be avoided at all costs. He is quite capable of ruining the best laid plans."
--Erich von Manstein, WW2 German field marshal; often misattributed to Napoleon or Clausewitz
Rumors are exactly what you heard.
Where's you're evidence?
I see no evidence that he's evidence.
Sounds like it was built like a tank to resist U-boats
No, built like a speedboat to outrun them. Submerged U-Boats were agonizingly slow, and their chances of spotting the ship on the horizon and getting into position for a torpedo shot before it passed by were essentially nil. Hitler offered a whopping bounty to any U-Boat skipper who nailed the Queen Mary or Queen Elizabeth, but nobody ever got a shot off.
fitted with diesels
Steam turbines.
More accurately, it was designed to be easily reconfigured as a troopship, which made a big federal subsidy available for its construction. That option was never exercised.
The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth did carry troops during WW2. They ran the North Atlantic without escorts, because they were so fast a U-Boat spotting them would have essentially no chance of getting into position for a shot.
wood wasn't allowed in the framing or decoration
A bit of good sense that navies had long since figured out...
That started to happen with the Olympic Restaurant in Denver in 1976, but Colorado told the Olympics to piss off for different reasons, and the lawsuit fizzled out.
Who else has the money to buy them?
What amiga3d said: Either you or your dad dropped a zero. The F-104 didn't get a very bad rep in the USAF, because they got rid of the damn thing as fast as they could; some 90% of the production was exported in deals you could smell from a mile upwind.
...and a Faraday cage is passive jamming.
http://i.imgur.com/FApqk3D.jpg
Coincidentally...
https://sofrep.com/60334/briti...
There's a dude trying to make a flying car
News is when there's nobody trying to make a flying car.
Yeah, mine's a bit smaller, but no big deal.
Oh, did I mention I'm in Colorado?