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If the wheelock is more complex than the flintlock, why did the wheellock come 100s of years earlier? Is it some kind of innovation you need to produce flintlocks to begin with?
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Nothingtoseehere posted:If the wheelock is more complex than the flintlock, why did the wheellock come 100s of years earlier? Is it some kind of innovation you need to produce flintlocks to begin with? Technology doesn't proceed as a straight line of increasing complexity. Sometimes the overcomplicated version comes first. The particular spur to invent the wheel lock probably came from advances in spring-driven clocks in that period. For the inventor, if he had been working on clockwork mechanisms, the idea to use the wheel might seem more obvious, and he would not have been thinking in terms of ease of mass manufacture. That's my speculation anyway, you may also like the 'Leonardo da Vinci did it' theory. Fangz fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 09:55
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The sort of mad artisan who would create a piece of weaponized clockwork like the wheelock probably considered a simpler design and rejected it as being inadequately baroque.
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Oct 2, 2018 10:58
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Nothingtoseehere posted:If the wheelock is more complex than the flintlock, why did the wheellock come 100s of years earlier? Is it some kind of innovation you need to produce flintlocks to begin with? I mean look at the early semi-automatic handguns with their weird toggle-locks like borchardt or Luger. ”New idea to get X done” is usually not the most refined solution.
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Oct 2, 2018 11:14
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the wheellock is the pinnacle of engineering and it's been all downhill from there
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Oct 2, 2018 11:25
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I remember reading an old magazine article from 1977 or so, where there was presented a plan to create self-driving cars in West Germany, and it was technologically entirely feasible. The only real problem was cost, since you'd need a bunch of new infrastructure along every street and road and highway, so the tech at available at the time would have worked. Kinda similar with some forms of military tech.
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Oct 2, 2018 11:33
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HEY GUNS posted:how much chicken can one dude eat at one time? unless he can smoke the meat, salt it, dry it, or can it, it will all go bad within a day Google Blaine Sumner raw chicken shake
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Oct 2, 2018 12:22
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Phanatic posted:That said. Ok this is good and correct
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Oct 2, 2018 12:45
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Cyrano4747 posted:Saskatoon has always sounded to me like a made up name for a joke. I had to go look at an atlas as a kid to prove that yeah, my dad wasn't loving with me. See also: Blagoveshchensk
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Oct 2, 2018 12:49
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Fornax Disaster posted:Anyone have an idea what this might be? One of the old farmers in my family was using it for a tool box. It's about the size of a small microwave. Don't have my book of various ammo calibers, but I can only hazard a guess that the 7.32 is the caliber, which is close to .280 Ross. That being said, its not 100% accurate, so  . Only mention I can find of a 7.32mm bullet was a random book/novel that mentioned the Uzi.Mine box looks like it has a divide between the mines and detonators.
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Oct 2, 2018 12:51
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How do canadians write their units? In the US you'll generally see something like 1st Battalion 8th Marines written like 1/8 but I've seen old German unit markings (think around WW1) that used a period instead of a slash.
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Oct 2, 2018 13:52
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Fornax Disaster posted:Anyone have an idea what this might be? One of the old farmers in my family was using it for a tool box. It's about the size of a small microwave. Doing some googling, I think it might be a kiddy safety seat box... oh Jobbo_Fett posted:Don't have my book of various ammo calibers, but I can only hazard a guess that the 7.32 is the caliber, which is close to .280 Ross. That being said, its not 100% accurate, so Sometimes ammo boxes have caliber marked slightly differently from the official nomenclature to avoid being mistaken for something else in the same caliber resulting in logistical chaos, dunno if that explains.
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Oct 2, 2018 14:06
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Cyrano4747 posted:How do canadians write their units? In the US you'll generally see something like 1st Battalion 8th Marines written like 1/8 but I've seen old German unit markings (think around WW1) that used a period instead of a slash. As an appropriate representation of Canada it is a mix of new and very, very succinct (brigade groups just have a number and nothing else, ie, "37 Brigade Group") and most profoundly British. For example in Afghanistan I worked with "Princess Louises' Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada Regiment" Also a bunch of them are in French, not sure why
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Oct 2, 2018 14:09
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Cyrano4747 posted:How do canadians write their units? In the US you'll generally see something like 1st Battalion 8th Marines written like 1/8 but I've seen old German unit markings (think around WW1) that used a period instead of a slash. Could also be a date. July 1932. Fake edit: I might have it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32_Canadian_Brigade_Group 32nd Canadian Brigade Group - Located in Toronto (IE: Southern Ontario) and active from 1942 to 1946 (which fits with the A/T Mine box timeframe) Double edit: Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps / Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers No.2 Group, No.1 (Reserve) Divisional Workshop, (RCOC) RCEME No.5 (Reserve) Light Aid Detachment, (RCOC) RCEME No.6 (Reserve) Light Aid Detachment, (RCOC) RCEME No.7 (Reserve) Light Aid Detachment, (RCOC) RCEME No.8 (Reserve) Light Aid Detachment, (RCOC) RCEME Note unit number - Engineers/Ordnance Triple edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corps_of_Royal_Canadian_Electrical_and_Mechanical_Engineers "The majority of RCEME (/ˈriːmiː/ REE-mee, even though there is a "C" in it, just as "REME" is pronounced) technicians were, and still are, vehicle mechanics, but the original RCEME structure incorporated 25 different trades and sub-trades, employing specialists for each particular job in order to train and deploy them in time to meet the war's demand. While it was somewhat bulky, it was nonetheless a centralized structure for maintaining the Army's everyday equipment which was more efficient than the previous system of having each corps perform its own equipment maintenance, and also allowed for a greater degree of specialization within trades." Jobbo_Fett fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 14:15
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Nebakenezzer posted:Chapter 1 had a dude who joined up and had been a postman, so he was a military postman for his entire time in the service So out of 700,000 men in the army mentioned in the book, 70,000 became casualties. That doesn't sound too much in a World War and for a country of 11 million... So how come there was a shortage? E: Well, I understand the whole teeth: tail thing, and that they also had a Navy and an Air Force to take care of, but it seems like everyone started running out of people fast in WWII. JcDent fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 14:37
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MikeCrotch posted:Google Blaine Sumner raw chicken shake
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Oct 2, 2018 14:46
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Nothingtoseehere posted:If the wheelock is more complex than the flintlock, why did the wheellock come 100s of years earlier? Is it some kind of innovation you need to produce flintlocks to begin with? Sometimes stuff is over-designed, and the innovation is to refine it. Like with harpoons. For centuries europeans used these big arrow-shaped two flue harpoons. Then in the 19th century they discovered if you just leave one of the flues off it becomes hugely more effective, and that's why we don't have very many whales any more (also later on European and American whalers start using the toggling harpoon, which was invented by arctic people from pre-historic times, because technology doesn't move in straight lines).
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Oct 2, 2018 15:01
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It works with uniforms too, practical designs and styles are taken and just absorbed in or adapted from the environment.
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Oct 2, 2018 15:07
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ChubbyChecker posted:I have few questions for Canadians: Beaten pretty much on every point, but I wanted to say: The 'hunky' thing caught me by surprise, too. I lived in Saskatoon for a few years, and never heard the term. In Saskatchewan, anyway, it'd be a bit dumb, as it is the single largest ethnic group people are descended from. I also have to repeat that Canada was coming off of the Great Depression, and was considerably more rural. That sometimes translates to poor AF. As for booze, well, drinking and loving are, ahem, in proportion to other personal histories, its just collected under topic headings, so 1. almost certainly yes, and 2. we will get there.
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Nebakenezzer posted:The 'hunky' thing caught me by surprise, too. I lived in Saskatoon for a few years, and never heard the term. In Saskatchewan, anyway, it'd be a bit dumb, as it is the single largest ethnic group people are descended from. People tended to be more casual about throwing around ethnic slurs in the '30s than today, too.
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Oct 2, 2018 15:49
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So I've been reading a book on booby traps and holy poo poo, there's nothing that has given me a better appreciation for the work combat engineers do. 
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Oct 2, 2018 15:52
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bewbies posted:Also a bunch of them are in French, not sure why You...have heard of Quebec, right? 
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Oct 2, 2018 16:02
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feedmegin posted:You...have heard of Quebec, right? Yeah but we're talking about canada, not quebec. Vive la Quebec libre
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Oct 2, 2018 16:09
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feedmegin posted:You...have heard of Quebec, right? Yeah it comes after Papa and before Romeo
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Oct 2, 2018 16:17
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Could also be a date. July 1932. This could well be it, these were found only a few kms from the former site of the old BCATP airfield at Hagerville, which according to this was a RCEME depot post war: http://militarybruce.com/abandoned-canadian-military-bases/abandoned-bases/ontario/ quote:Opened on 8 August 1941 under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan near Hagersville, with Relief Landing Fields at Kohler and Dufferin. No. 16 SFTS closed on 30 March 1945.
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Oct 2, 2018 17:06
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Jobbo_Fett posted:So I've been reading a book on booby traps and holy poo poo, there's nothing that has given me a better appreciation for the work combat engineers do. Tell us about hard to remove traps or better, rear end in a top hat surprise traps!
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Oct 2, 2018 17:16
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Fornax Disaster posted:Anyone have an idea what this might be? One of the old farmers in my family was using it for a tool box. It's about the size of a small microwave. it's a microwave oven with 7:32 time left
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Oct 2, 2018 17:24
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Don Gato posted:So we've been bringing up Japanese guns a lot over the past two pages, and I've got a few related question. I've seen some drawings of Japanese musketeers with some kind of box over the back end of the gun, is that to keep the powder and match dry? And was there any particular reason I haven't seen the same kind of box on European arquebuses of the same era? post pics
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Oct 2, 2018 17:32
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I'm reading Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Trilogy (which is his take on Arthurian Legends if you don't know) and I'm curious what the architecture looked like in sub-Roman Britain? Was it all repurposed villas or did the Britons build their own poo poo? Secondary question: do you guys find Cornwell to be a good author of historical fiction?
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Oct 2, 2018 17:50
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zoux posted:I'm reading Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Trilogy (which is his take on Arthurian Legends if you don't know) and I'm curious what the architecture looked like in sub-Roman Britain? Was it all repurposed villas or did the Britons build their own poo poo? yes
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Oct 2, 2018 17:52
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zoux posted:Secondary question: do you guys find Cornwell to be a good author of historical fiction? I read a bit of one of his Agincourt books which seemed decent enough and thought it is a history book I did like his account of Waterloo.
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Oct 2, 2018 17:53
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i really loved the saxon stories and like 3 of his standalone books but my tastes are pretty plebeian by the standards of this thread
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Oct 2, 2018 17:55
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I like him, he is no Patrick O’Brien but that’s a pretty high bar.
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Oct 2, 2018 18:02
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He's not bad but all of his books feel very samey. Reminds me of G.A. Henty but with a dash of anticlericalism.
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Oct 2, 2018 18:04
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He's very workmanlike but perfectly acceptable reads. He usually has notes at the end of each book about what was accurate, what was changed, and what was made up entirely.
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Oct 2, 2018 18:10
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bewbies posted:i really loved the saxon stories and like 3 of his standalone books but my tastes are pretty plebeian by the standards of this thread Did you watch The Last Kingdom? It's all on Netflix.
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Oct 2, 2018 18:16
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He's alright. I might be biased though.
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Oct 2, 2018 18:33
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Tias posted:Tell us about hard to remove traps Have you heard of Tomb of Horrors? KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I like him, he is no Patrick O’Brien but that’s a pretty high bar. 
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Oct 2, 2018 19:13
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zoux posted:Did you watch The Last Kingdom? It's all on Netflix. I tried to watch that, and the main character seems just seems so lost and inexplicably foolish that I couldn't keep going.
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Oct 2, 2018 20:34
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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is it young Uhtred because he is a loving idiot knob in the books
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