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Post by missouriboy on Jun 4, 2021 17:03:01 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jun 4, 2021 22:25:08 GMT
Things could be worse.
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Post by nautonnier on Jun 4, 2021 23:57:35 GMT
Only UK/TV watchers will get this (that may include New Zealand North South and West Island)
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Post by Ratty on Jun 5, 2021 11:47:09 GMT
It seems Astro has gone into a new line of business .... (Seen locally)
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 6, 2021 1:22:47 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 6, 2021 12:47:35 GMT
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Post by blustnmtn on Jun 6, 2021 13:04:13 GMT
Sadly, June 6th doesn’t mean anything to most anymore. I had the privilege of working with a man who worked in early radar during WWII. His stories were always extremely interesting to me. He actually ended up in the English Channel when the plane he was in was damaged by the Germans and couldn’t make it back to England! He arrived in Normandy on D-Day + 3. He would cry when I brought up the subject. I wasn’t born yet but I will always honor and be awestruck by what they achieved.
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Post by missouriboy on Jun 6, 2021 13:49:22 GMT
While on a different scale, Winston's "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" is stll valid. The many need to pay more attention and ponder their debt.
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Post by blustnmtn on Jun 6, 2021 14:14:06 GMT
While on a different scale, Winston's "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" is stll valid. The many need to pay more attention and ponder their debt. The old axiom: “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.” We live in a society intent on wiping out all forms of perceived prejudice. I believe prejudice is an innate element of our survival instinct. We all have a “prejudice” towards gravity. We don’t necessarily want to destroy gravity, we coexist quite well with it. However, it can and will kill you. 🤓
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Post by nautonnier on Jun 6, 2021 14:20:38 GMT
Sadly, June 6th doesn’t mean anything to most anymore. I had the privilege of working with a man who worked in early radar during WWII. His stories were always extremely interesting to me. He actually ended up in the English Channel when the plane he was in was damaged by the Germans and couldn’t make it back to England! He arrived in Normandy on D-Day + 3. He would cry when I brought up the subject. I wasn’t born yet but I will always honor and be awestruck by what they achieved. I can remember commuting by train to work at London Air Traffic Control Centre in the early '80's. I would be in uniform and that always seemed to attract people with 'war stories'. However, one turned out to be interesting someone who had worked with Watson-Watt on the team developing radar systems. The main problem early on was that it was really difficult to transmit the content of the radar response any distance. The radar crews would need to be literally under their radars and calling in the positions of traffic to the operations centres. This was not the best place to be as the radar acted like a beacon for bombers to home onto. (As in the famous quote - the problem with tracers is they work both ways ) So there was a lot of engineering research with different coaxial cables and the person who had 'button holed' me had been the NCO I/C the team that would go out to an empty field set up a cable from one corner to the other, then the 'boffins' would appear and set up a signal generator at one end and a sensor at the other, and assess the effects of the changes they had made. Usually, not a lot, then the team would reverse and pack everything back into the 4 tonner trucks, and prepare changes for the next day's assessment. As you can imagine this was not the most interesting of tasks ( research is actually BORING for the most part) So when it was the NCO I/C birthday and he invited 'the team' to get hammered at the local pub everyone attended and duly got hammered. They all arrived late at the test site and rushed to get everything put together before 'boffin' time. The 'boffins' appeared and set up a signal generator at one end and the sensor at the other, this time the boffins at the sensor end got really excited a huge powerful signal had been received - but what had they changed - turns out the boffins had changed nothing but the hung over team had not put the central core into the oversize coax it was still in one of the trucks - they had accidentally demonstrated a wave guide. Sounds a little far fetched but it is the way research often goes.
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Post by blustnmtn on Jun 6, 2021 14:42:44 GMT
Sadly, June 6th doesn’t mean anything to most anymore. I had the privilege of working with a man who worked in early radar during WWII. His stories were always extremely interesting to me. He actually ended up in the English Channel when the plane he was in was damaged by the Germans and couldn’t make it back to England! He arrived in Normandy on D-Day + 3. He would cry when I brought up the subject. I wasn’t born yet but I will always honor and be awestruck by what they achieved. I can remember commuting by train to work at London Air Traffic Control Centre in the early '80's. I would be in uniform and that always seemed to attract people with 'war stories'. However, one turned out to be interesting someone who had worked with Watson-Watt on the team developing radar systems. The main problem early on was that it was really difficult to transmit the content of the radar response any distance. The radar crews would need to be literally under their radars and calling in the positions of traffic to the operations centres. This was not the best place to be as the radar acted like a beacon for bombers to home onto. (As in the famous quote - the problem with tracers is they work both ways ) So there was a lot of engineering research with different coaxial cables and the person who had 'button holed' me had been the NCO I/C the team that would go out to an empty field set up a cable from one corner to the other, then the 'boffins' would appear and set up a signal generator at one end and a sensor at the other, and assess the effects of the changes they had made. Usually, not a lot, then the team would reverse and pack everything back into the 4 tonner trucks, and prepare changes for the next day's assessment. As you can imagine this was not the most interesting of tasks ( research is actually BORING for the most part) So when it was the NCO I/C birthday and he invited 'the team' to get hammered at the local pub everyone attended and duly got hammered. They all arrived late at the test site and rushed to get everything put together before 'boffin' time. The 'boffins' appeared and set up a signal generator at one end and the sensor at the other, this time the boffins at the sensor end got really excited a huge powerful signal had been received - but what had they changed - turns out the boffins had changed nothing but the hung over team had not put the central core into the oversize coax it was still in one of the trucks - they had accidentally demonstrated a wave guide. Sounds a little far fetched but it is the way research often goes. Unfortunately the fellow I worked with has left us. He had so many stories of his time in England (he married an English girl he met while there). I’d be willing to bet he knew that fellow Naut. I doubt the universe of folks there involved with radar development and implementation was so large that the technical folks were not all aware of each other.
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Post by duwayne on Jun 6, 2021 17:08:51 GMT
That’s an interesting story about the RAF helping pick a good date for the D-Day invasion. My first “boss's boss” when I graduated from college was a former navyman who served in WWII. In early June, 1944, he was a meteorologist stationed on a navy ship a few hundred miles west of the D-Day landing site. Here’s the story he told me and others. In those days weather forecasting was an inexact science and a lot of weight was given to actual observations of approaching weather a day or so away. D-Day was scheduled for June 5th. But on June 4th, a storm was battering their ship, a “weather-day” away from the invasion site. He said despite the fact that there was tremendous pressure applied by the top military decision-makers to sugar-coat their observations because everything was ready to go, they reported the bad conditions and the invasion was called off. Eisenhower delayed the D-Day invasion for a day until June 6th. As time passed, the weather around the ship got even worse until suddenly early in the A.M. of June 5th, there was a patch of clear sky and the stars became visible and the winds dropped. They passed along this information and the plans for the invasion the following day were confrimed to full speed ahead. But then an hour later the winds and rain returned. There was a consensus that the weather would improve, but with the heavy weight given to actual observations, there were nervous moments given the enormity of the situation. I could tell the nervous period he went through still haunted him when he said "You can't imagine the relief when the winds and rain died down a little later".
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Post by missouriboy on Jun 6, 2021 18:28:35 GMT
While on a different scale, Winston's "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" is stll valid. The many need to pay more attention and ponder their debt. The old axiom: “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.” We live in a society intent on wiping out all forms of perceived prejudice. I believe prejudice is an innate element of our survival instinct. We all have a “prejudice” towards gravity. We don’t necessarily want to destroy gravity, we coexist quite well with it. However, it can and will kill you. 🤓 The defined meaning of prejudice according to web sources is decicedly negative. I agree with your definition. Prejudice can be both positive and negative. The listed antonyms of prejudice are numerous and unneccesary if prejudice is plural. prej•u•dice prĕj′ə-dĭs► n. The act or state of holding unreasonable preconceived judgments or convictions. n. An adverse judgment or opinion formed unfairly or without knowledge of the facts. From the latin, the term seems to mean "prejudge", with or without facts.
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Post by missouriboy on Jun 6, 2021 18:32:17 GMT
The old axiom: “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.” We live in a society intent on wiping out all forms of perceived prejudice. I believe prejudice is an innate element of our survival instinct. We all have a “prejudice” towards gravity. We don’t necessarily want to destroy gravity, we coexist quite well with it. However, it can and will kill you. 🤓 The defined meaning of prejudice according to web sources is decicedly negative. I agree with your definition. Prejudice can be both positive and negative. The listed antonyms of prejudice are numerous and unneccesary if prejudice is plural. prej•u•dice prĕj′ə-dĭs► n. The act or state of holding unreasonable preconceived judgments or convictions. n. An adverse judgment or opinion formed unfairly or without knowledge of the facts. From the latin, the term seems to mean "prejudge", with or without facts. "Woe to the vanquished". The Romans carried that grudge for 300+ years before Caesar repaid it ... with extreme prejudice. And ... what goes around, comes around.
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Post by walnut on Jun 7, 2021 16:05:12 GMT
This guy was on my front porch last night.
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