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zoux posted:The SCRAM procedure was a guy with an axe next to the rope. Leading to "Safety Control Rod Axe Man" as a backronym for SCRAM
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McGann posted:I had no idea who this guy was, but thankfully a quick Google cleared it up The Sun published that?! I wonder if Irving ran over the editor's kid once or something. Maybe Kinsella's got dirt on them.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:lmao at the "six identical copies of the USS We Built This Yesterday" That's a Culture-rear end ship name and concept in general if I've ever seen one
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Very tangentially related recommendation: Ignition! is a fantastic book about the history of rocketry development, specifically from the viewpoint of the chemistry involved. It'll give you a good appreciation for just how hard it was to get rockets to do anything useful, let alone militarily useful. That said, it does not touch on their use in actual engagements beyond saying things like "In 195whatever, we were tasked by the Navy to produce a rocket with X characteristics, because they were tired of the last iteration's tendency to eat crewmen while it was being fuelled..." Also, reading Ignition! will make it so that any time oxidizers comes up in an online discussion, you will start antipating the phrase "hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers" the way your dog waits to hear you say "walk".
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Robert Facepalmer posted:Please tell me deep-frying a whole turkey was involved somehow. If the grill is shakin' and the turkey's green He might be cookin' with hydrazine
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FAUXTON posted:lol yeah gently caress it give Michael Bay a copy of Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, what's he gonna do, make the Johnston seem unrealistic? I like Ryan Reynolds and explosions and Six Underground is the most bored I've ever been watching a Ryan Reynolds explosions movie. I'd trust Peter Berg with the Battle off Samar before I'd trust Bay. Xiahou Dun posted:If we’re just wishing for good milhist shows : how the gently caress is there not a show of the Aubrey/Maturin books. Because only one very expensive tall ships franchise was gonna make it out of 2003 alive, and obviously it was gonna be the one with the funny Keith Richards impersonation But there was a thinkpiece in GQ last year about M&C's 20 year legacy of positive masculinity so who knows, maybe someone will finally pull their head out of their rear end and the Rose out of its berth and get to filming
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BalloonFish posted:Bligh clearly wasn't a 'people person' and a lot of his actions were well intentioned but counterproductive. He was very concerned with the health and morale of his crew (which is admirable) but his men chafed at the daily mandatory ration of sauerkraut (an experiment in warding off scurvy) and Bligh's reaction was to line up the men every day and personally ensure every one ate his ration, which was seen as humiliating. Similarly, Bligh imposed periods of 'mandatory fun' in the evenings where the men were required to dance, sing and sky-lark which was entirely counterproductive. Woof. Morale will continue until the beatings improve. But seriously thanks for the navyposting, y'all are helping to fill in the blanks for me on the stuff I've already absorbed from Aubrey-Maturin. How'd the sauerkraut experiment work out, anyway? I know ascorbic acid is pretty fragile and doesn't survive cooking, but pickling?
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The Lone Badger posted:As a food technologist professionally I can you that Yeah, I keep bottles of from-concentrate lemon and lime juice on hand for cooking, and iirc they both say they're not a source of vitamin C. Wouldn't be surprised if they just don't add it back. It's definitely not in the ingredients list. BalloonFish posted:Apparently the problem that Cook and Bligh had was that the Navy procured large quantities of sauerkraut prepared in iron cooking vessels, which gave it an unpleasant metallic taste. That's why the men had to be almost forced to eat their daily ration of the stuff, and one reason why lime juice became the preferred method. I'd lay actual money that another reason is that sauerkraut tastes terrible mixed into your daily grog ration.
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I've known for years I could never visit that place and keep a straight face
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Nessus posted:Is it the good kind of terraforming like with beavers? Beavers are great where the local vegetation has evolved in concert with beavers Not so much in Tierra del Fuego
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Sorry to barge in with WW2 poo poo but does anyone have a copy of the meme that was like Who Would Win: IJN Glorious Victory of the Shining Dawn Wind vs USS Me and My Thirteen Brothers That Look Exactly Like Me E: VVV thank you! Phy fucked around with this message at 18:32 on May 8, 2024 |
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