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JohnC
Testing an aircraft carrier to withstand battle conditions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57547885
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57547885
Near misses only allowed?
Sadly, we don't care a fig about them. This book review appeared in The New Yorker over the weekend:I suspect any passing wildlife were suitably unimpressed.
They could have had a heck of a fry up with all the dead fish!
I suspect any passing wildlife were suitably unimpressed.
Sadly, we don't care a fig about them. This book review appeared in The New Yorker over the weekend:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...-filled-with-treasure-but-it-comes-at-a-price
For reasons I can never quite fathom , I've always had a fascination for the deep sea and its inhabitants, and it saddens me enormously that we're going to destroy it without even knowing what we're missing.
Thanks, Joe. The Attenborough deep programmes on the two Blue Planet series are great:^^ Me too - If you haven't already come across this previously, check the following link out, he's the Elon Musk of the deep seas
If you think that water stops a bullet in 4ft, the power behind that explosion is just enormous.
The human race just doesn't deserve to have been blessed with such a beautiful and precious planet
I often find myself wishing the next dominant species on the planet better management skills, or perhaps simply no self-awareness.Yes absolutely. And I doubt we'll change our ways. It's not a nice thought but when the human race finally wipes itself out we'll have been a tiny blip in the history of life on the planet.
It's something that the Americans have done before, a little more 'intensively', and with an even bigger bang. Or, to be precise, two bangs.
Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, 1946, Able & Baker. Both 23kt 'Fat Man' type Plutonium bombs as dropped on Nagasaki the previous year, Able was an airburst, Baker 90' below the surface, the objective to test the effects on a fleet of fully provisioned , stocked and armed ships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads
I used to work with a fellow who was briefly the Radio Operator on one of the target ships, the German Hipper Class Cruiser Prinz Eugen. She's actually still there, capsized off a beach on Kwajalein.