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Elissimpark posted:I'm really starting to like this painting. Dammit, I'll have to go to the Prado again. I like the guy in the chair who is all "Look at this poo poo. Just loving look at it!"
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feedmegin posted:It's not very fast though - 
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ArchangeI posted:I like the guy in the chair who is all "Look at this poo poo. Just loving look at it!" art of the period is full of dudes gesturing at poo poo  edit: AND you can see englishmen running like gently caress in the background edit 2: hapsburg pink and red silk banners on display; bunting on ships was only used for war, so imagine a galley going into combat and unfurling its bunting. everything at this time is deliberately engineered to look as cool as possible HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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feedmegin posted:It's not very fast though - You could speed it up pretty considerably by switching to 200GB microsd cards rather than paper. The problem is then measuring the carrying capacity of an otherwise unladen carrier Pidgeon.
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xthetenth posted:You could speed it up pretty considerably by switching to 200GB microsd cards rather than paper. The problem is then measuring the carrying capacity of an otherwise unladen carrier Pidgeon. Also packet loss from falcons.
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xthetenth posted:You could speed it up pretty considerably by switching to 200GB microsd cards rather than paper. The problem is then measuring the carrying capacity of an otherwise unladen carrier Pidgeon. I wonder if you could attach the data storage to a helium balloon big enough to achieve neutral buoyancy, then tie the balloon to the pigeon so that the pigeon wouldn't be so much carrying but towing the thing. 
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Oct 16, 2015 13:25
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ArchangeI posted:Also packet loss from falcons. "I sent you the report over email, but a cat ate it!"
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Oct 16, 2015 13:46
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Tomn posted:Is...is that describing carrier pigeon? Haha. Yes. It is an IT nerd joke: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
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Oh hey the thread has 700 pages already? Also, know what'd be interesting? if some goon is willing to cover the history of ROCKET ARTILLERY.
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HEY GAL posted:if that happened to anyone, it would have happened to the saxons at breitenfeld. This is interesting. Englund's book makes it sound as if the Saxons practically ran away before the battle really started and the Swedes had to fight the rest alone. Nice to see they apparently at least fought before they crumbled like wet tissue paper. He also claims the Swedes barely had any losses and the Imperialists practically took it up the rear end. (To be fair, I can't even remember if he mentions the four imperial units who didn't break, so I may be off. I can't find the book right now, it seems to be have disappeared after I put it between some books about Soviet robots and spacecraft some time ago.) Pellisworth posted:German science is well-funded and highly reputable, make no mistake. It has a reputation for preserving disciplines otherwise thought insignificant (lol virology that's stupid HELLO HIV/AIDS) but in terms of methodology and instrumentation it's almost always needlessly complex for American research thinking. Well, there's a reason the first programmable computer was made by Germans. Also I've heard people coming back from working in America often say how sloppy American research is.  Hogge Wild posted:I don't think that catapults shot exploding/burning things on battlefields. And they were rarely used on battlefields at all. There were ongoing excavations at the Red Sea in Jordan before the entire Middle East blew up. They found a trading city with lots of weird spherical clay pots all over the ruins, in the weirdest places. Even a lot of them outside the walls. After a lot of research, it was concluded the Babylonians sieging the city 5000 years ago used catapults to shoot those clay-spheres into the city. You could speculate, since a lot of them were hollow or broken shells, that the Babylonians maybe used them like firebombs. Then again, it was a siege and not a battlefield and it was 5000 years ago, so a lot of questions a modern historian would have, can only be answered with a "We don't know".
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Libluini posted:This is interesting. Englund's book makes it sound as if the Saxons practically ran away before the battle really started and the Swedes had to fight the rest alone. the poor things though, i cannot stress how new they were. and it was less "fighting" and more "getting cannoned a bunch"
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Libluini posted:There were ongoing excavations at the Red Sea in Jordan before the entire Middle East blew up. They found a trading city with lots of weird spherical clay pots all over the ruins, in the weirdest places. Even a lot of them outside the walls. After a lot of research, it was concluded the Babylonians sieging the city 5000 years ago used catapults to shoot those clay-spheres into the city. You could speculate, since a lot of them were hollow or broken shells, that the Babylonians maybe used them like firebombs. Maybe they were throwing sassy messages over the walls in an attempt to shame the defenders YO MOMMA SO FAT SHE WAS THE BOAT IN THE ENUMA ELISH
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Nebakenezzer posted:I wanna believe your adventures in wikipedia pissed off some Russian sperg who reported you. Possibly saying 'German big cat tanks are bad' shatters dreams and are thus detrimental to children? I don't edit Wikipedia, but I do sometimes get hits from it, so I guess someone does. Arquinsiel posted:Given that you're not in Russia, as you said... what the gently caress did they expect you to say to that except The blog was blocked in Russia, I guess they didn't care further than that.
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Libluini posted:There were ongoing excavations at the Red Sea in Jordan before the entire Middle East blew up. They found a trading city with lots of weird spherical clay pots all over the ruins, in the weirdest places. Even a lot of them outside the walls. After a lot of research, it was concluded the Babylonians sieging the city 5000 years ago used catapults to shoot those clay-spheres into the city. You could speculate, since a lot of them were hollow or broken shells, that the Babylonians maybe used them like firebombs. Yeah, on sieges all kinds of machines and ammunition were used, but on battlefields they were rare. Romans and Alexander the Great used some of the smaller machines in small numbers on battlefields. FAUXTON posted:Maybe they were throwing sassy messages over the walls in an attempt to shame the defenders They did this with sling bullets, from Wikipedia: Very often, symbols or writings were moulded into lead sling-bullets. Many examples have been found including a collection of about 80 sling-bullets from the siege of Perusia in Etruria from 41 BC, to be found in the museum of modern Perugia. Examples of symbols include a stylised lightning bolt, a snake, and a scorpion - reminders of how a sling might strike without warning. Writing might include the name of the owning military unit or commander or might be more imaginative: "Take this," "Ouch," and even "For Pompey's backside" added insult to injury, whereas dexai ("take this" or "catch!")[7] is merely sarcastic.
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Found a book in the library called Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 by Graydon Tunstall, about the Austro-Russian front in the mountains during WW1. Anyone know if it's worth a read? I've never read anything about that theater of the war.
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lol http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3747012
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You are German? Did you apply for citizenship when we weren't looking? Man, rowdy trouts are as stupid as I would have imagined. I am disappointed.
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:The soviets won world war ii and defeated fascism OP This thread gets it.
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Don't you know that having even a passing interest in German military history makes you German and a Nazi?
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Knock it off w this helldump poo poo
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Libluini posted:You are German? Did you apply for citizenship when we weren't looking? I guess they classify America as an unsafe country of origin because of all the shootings, so she's a refugee like all the others She's also in Saxony so it all checks out Molentik posted:Don't you know that having even a passing interest in German military history makes you German and a Nazi? I was actually German before I became interested in German military history. I also learned recently that my Great-Grandpa thought the Nazis did a lot of good for the country, so take that as you will.
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ArchangeI posted:I was actually German before I became interested in German military history. I also learned recently that my Great-Grandpa thought the Nazis did a lot of good for the country, so take that as you will. They managed to get rid of all that antiquated industrial machinery and those cramped medieval cities so that General Marshall could build brand new ones.
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That actually raises a question for me: How/why did you get into 30yw reenacting? Is it a common thing for grad students studying the 30yw to do? I can't imagine there are enough grad students to make up a significant portion of your, uhhh, squad or whatever. Running crew?
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LordSaturn posted:That actually raises a question for me: How/why did you get into 30yw reenacting? Is it a common thing for grad students studying the 30yw to do? I can't imagine there are enough grad students to make up a significant portion of your, uhhh, squad or whatever. Running crew? she is a huge nerd
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LordSaturn posted:That actually raises a question for me: How/why did you get into 30yw reenacting? Is it a common thing for grad students studying the 30yw to do? I can't imagine there are enough grad students to make up a significant portion of your, uhhh, squad or whatever. Running crew? WoodrowSkillson posted:she is a huge nerd hey woodrow, it's been a while
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Cythereal posted:Found a book in the library called Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 by Graydon Tunstall, about the Austro-Russian front in the mountains during WW1. Anyone know if it's worth a read? I've never read anything about that theater of the war. If I'd discovered it 12 months ago instead of 6 months ago I would have spent the entire 1914-1915 winter stealing liberally from it; as it is, that theft will have to wait until I start kicking 1915 into shape for the next book releases. It's both very good and absolutely horrible. From the recollections of Colonel Georg Veith: quote:On 23 January we rushed forward into the icy hell. We stormed the Uzsok, Verecke and Wyszkov Passes, but on the northern slope of the mountains we encountered a blizzard. The reports from these days are shocking. Every day, hundreds froze to death. The wounded that were unable to drag themselves forward were left behind to die. It continues at some length on this theme. The narrative itself is slightly dry and full of "The escalating threat to Third Army's right flank lines delayed the decision of whether their units could transfer to bolster the Second Army...", but that's exactly the kind of official history-level stuff you need in a book that's the first major English-language work on the theatre. Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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HEY GAL posted:hey woodrow, it's been a while hey bb
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Trin Tragula posted:If I'd discovered it 12 months ago instead of 6 months ago I would have spent the entire 1914-1915 winter stealing liberally from it; as it is, that theft will have to wait until I start kicking 1915 into shape for the next book releases. It's both very good and absolutely horrible. Sounds great, thanks! I'm reading the introduction now and Jesus Christ is the entire Carpathian front sounding like one of the most godawful military theaters in the history of war.
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Endman posted:The best way to ride an APC is on top and then jump off when the shooting starts. Not in an NBC environment it isn't!
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Molentik posted:Don't you know that having even a passing interest in German military history makes you German and a Nazi? It's largely an honesty thing. "Passing Interest" doesn't mean deifying Ferdinand Porsche or Wallenstein, it means being interested in learning their flaws, too, and at times making stupid jokes about bad armor design, surprise onboard pyrotechnics, ridiculous letter-writing, or comically mismanaged industrial output. It means you've got to take the record as it happened and not exclude aspects of a design or plan or strategy for convenience. There's a lot of colorful poo poo going on in German/Prussian military history, but the reason people talk poo poo about wehraboos is because they ignore how German factories could only make like 2 tanks a day in the best of conditions at insane cost.
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Libluini posted:Well, there's a reason the first programmable computer was made by Germans. The first programmable modern computer is agreed to be the the Colossus codebreaker, made by the British in December 1943. What are you referring to? The Z1? It's not versatile enough to be called a computer as we understand them today.
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Blood on the Snow posted:Readers of this investigation will note the frequent depiction of Habsburg troops as utterly exhausted and increasingly apathetic. At the risk of sounding repetitive, the mental and physical condition of Habsburg troops is critical to understanding the Carpathian Winter War. The exhaustion experienced in combat under winter conditions is incomprehensible to those who have not suffered under such circumstances. Reading the daily log-books of Habsburg units participating in the Carpathian Winter War, one would be hard-pressed to find an entry that did not include the words ganz eschopft ("utterly exhausted"). The men's physical and mental exhaustion was exacerbated by hunger. Food supplies often did not reach the front, and those that did were often frozen solid. The men began to hallucinate about food, driving them to near insanity. In the winter of 1915, not only did Habsburg Supreme Command decide to deploy massive armies into a region unfit for a major combat operation, but also, it did so with no provision for the most basic of necessities - food, clothing, and shelter. 
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It's almost like winters in Eurasia are harsh as hell and have crucially contributed to the defeat of many an army over the past 1000 years and change. But on the other hand there's land to be grabbed and enemy to be vanquished!
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How to make an already infamously brutal and miserable war worse: set it in the high mountains, during the winter, and make one of the combatants Austria-Hungary. Making the other side Russia is optional but recommended.
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Cythereal posted:How to make an already infamously brutal and miserable war worse: set it in the high mountains, during the winter, and make one of the combatants Austria-Hungary. Making the other side Russia is optional but recommended. You may wish to reconsider this assessment by the time we get to the Eighth Battle of the Isonzo.
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Keldoclock posted:The first programmable modern computer is agreed to be the the Colossus codebreaker, made by the British in December 1943. What are you referring to? The Z1? It's not versatile enough to be called a computer as we understand them today. The Z3. Konrad Zuse did develop his ideas, you know
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Trin Tragula posted:You may wish to reconsider this assessment by the time we get to the Eighth Battle of the Isonzo. I never said that was the only way to make WW1 even worse. I've read bits and pieces about the clusterfuck known as Italy's involvement in the war. This is my first time reading about the Carpathian front.
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