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Interesting stuff

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:48 pm
by Heracleum Persicum
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 11:41 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids

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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 2:00 am
by Miss_Faucie_Fishtits
Angelina a spy? Source says she may be a CIA asset

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The so-called “leading expert” on the relationship between Hollywood and the US government is to be believed, Angelina may have been recruited as an asset by the spy agency at some point in the 2000s.
https://asiatimes.com/2021/01/angelina- ... cia-asset/

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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:44 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids
2070 year anniversary of Caesar crossing the Rubicon

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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2022 7:57 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids

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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 10:30 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 3:02 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids
More lost and found ships, this time The Endurance
The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found at the weekend at the bottom of the Weddell Sea.

The ship was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915, forcing Shackleton and his men to make an astonishing escape on foot and in small boats.

Video of the remains show Endurance to be in remarkable condition.

Even though it has been sitting in 3km (10,000ft) of water for over a century, it looks just like it did on the November day it went down.

Its timbers, although disrupted, are still very much together, and the name - Endurance - is clearly visible on the stern.

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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:07 am
by noddy
the deep sea drones are really opening up the ocean in our lifetime.

the old joke about us knowing more about the moon than about the ocean is slowly losing its sting.

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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 10:22 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2022 8:46 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids

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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 5:08 am
by Heracleum Persicum
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2022 6:23 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids
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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2022 5:02 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids


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That would be the first burial of the Red Baron. He was later dug up and reinterred several times:

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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 6:01 am
by Heracleum Persicum
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: Thu Apr 21, 2022 5:02 am

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That would be the first burial of the Red Baron. He was later dug up and reinterred several times:

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Re fighter pilot & ace Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen aka "The Red Baron"

highest-scoring pilot in the history of the F-14 Tomcat.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboo ... ran-184856

https://www.ww2wrecks.com/portfolio/jal ... 14-tomcat/

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/intervi ... he-tomcat/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalil_Zandi


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTZbO-DSVpc&t=151s

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-spac ... s-9242012/

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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 5:27 pm
by Nonc Hilaire
That would be the first burial of the Red Baron. He was later dug up and reinterred several times:
Very interr-esting…
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 2:10 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids

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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:24 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids

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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 1:37 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids

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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:16 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids
Sabermetricians have developed a formula applied to baseball players called, "Wins Above Replacement" (WAR for short) to quantify how many more wins a player contributed to a team measured against a theoretical replacement level player.

Well, someone tried to apply a similar formula to military generals.

The Top 10?

10. Alexander the Great

9. Georgy Zhukov

8. Frederick the Great

7. Ulysses S. Grant

6. Hannibal Barca

5. Khalid Ibn al-Walid

4. Takeda Shingen

3. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

2. Julius Caesar

1. Napoleon Bonaparte

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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:33 am
by Typhoon
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:16 am Sabermetricians have developed a formula applied to baseball players called, "Wins Above Replacement" (WAR for short) to quantify how many more wins a player contributed to a team measured against a theoretical replacement level player.

Well, someone tried to apply a similar formula to military generals.

The Top 10?

10. Alexander the Great

9. Georgy Zhukov

8. Frederick the Great

7. Ulysses S. Grant

6. Hannibal Barca

5. Khalid Ibn al-Walid

4. Takeda Shingen

3. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

2. Julius Caesar

1. Napoleon Bonaparte
This reminds me of the one of the "best and the brightest[TM]" using body count and other statistical measures as a proxy for military success during the Vietnam War.

Re: Interesting stuff

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:38 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids
Typhoon wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:33 am
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:16 am Sabermetricians have developed a formula applied to baseball players called, "Wins Above Replacement" (WAR for short) to quantify how many more wins a player contributed to a team measured against a theoretical replacement level player.

Well, someone tried to apply a similar formula to military generals.

The Top 10?

10. Alexander the Great

9. Georgy Zhukov

8. Frederick the Great

7. Ulysses S. Grant

6. Hannibal Barca

5. Khalid Ibn al-Walid

4. Takeda Shingen

3. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

2. Julius Caesar

1. Napoleon Bonaparte
This reminds me of the one of the "best and the brightest[TM]" using body count and other statistical measures as a proxy for military success during the Vietnam War.
Yes, and with about as much success :mrgreen:

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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:22 am
by noddy
its the clutch perfomances in high pressure games that count :)

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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:30 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids
Ah yes. There was a reddit thread complaining that Napoleon was more a complier.

But the same thread also came to a conclusion that, nevertheless, he was worth more per victory than (Angels centerfielder) Mike Trout; so he's got that going for him.