I think capitalism is pretty terrible for bringing us atrocities like the slave trade. I think Christianity is pretty terrible for encouraging children to not ask questions. And I think America has done a pretty shit job of protecting what little reputation remained to us over this last year.
So come and get me, I guess.
Just to make sure I’m understanding you correctly, you’re talking about an exchange like this?
Person 1: It sure is hot today.
Person 2: I know, right?
Thinking about some other conversational ways to respond, I think saying, “It sure is, isn’t it?” or, “Don’t I know it!” feel pretty similar. I wonder what it is that makes us ask rhetorical questions like that.
They tried that once and they were all fired
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The way I understand it, yes, Point Detonating rounds operate exactly like the 40mm rounds, which are supposed to have a 10 meter arming distance. But they’re not much more complicated than that.
That being said, CVT technology was certainly classified during world war 2. I think it’s even called “controlled variable timing” to make it sound more mechanical than it actually is. Interestingly, it’s part of the reason people think that carrots make eyesight better.
Hopefully I’m not misremembering, but when the Allies developed more miniaturized radar technology they wanted to keep it a secret from the Germans, and so started a rumor that the reason the Brits had such early warning for air raids was because the country was eating a lot of carrots due to rationing. Carrots, they said, are good for your eyes and can make them more acute.
In reality we were using radar, not only for early warning, but also for our anti-aircraft artillery. From what I recall, using the new radar-equipped CVT rounds took AA fire from 5% accuracy to nearly 40% accuracy, because the fuzes were no longer hand set.
I don’t know how strong CVT “radar” is, but I imagine it’s in the several yards range rather than some crazy distance that might make the round ineffective from long range. Actually, the “controlled” part is really just referring to the set arming distance of the fuze, which only needs to be long enough to get past any potential friendlies.
Ah, gotcha. Well, I appreciate the conversation regardless.
CVT rounds in the Navy are a generalist round, kinda used for everything. The idea is indeed proximity, but it works against all sorts of metal stuff, (including ground targets) with a supposed 50 yard kill radius, but I never got to see any of them land, so I’m going off of what little I can remember of various manuals.
Even the “dumb” point detonating fuzes worked on setback and spin, so the round actually has to be fired and in flight in order to arm.
You don’t often see “US Secret Service” abbreviated like that. Maybe because calling them “the US SS” makes them sound like Nazi secret police.
I’ve never done 155mm artillery, but I assume it’s similar enough to naval artillery.
What kind of fuzes do they normally shoot, do you know? I think we always shot controlled variable time fuzes (that have point detonating backups, of course) and I’m struggling to imagine what would make a round explode in midair like that. They basically require a strong electromagnetic return from a nearby metal object in order to initiate. But maybe 155mm rounds are different, I don’t know.
I don’t think we ever shot over people’s heads, and any time we did have to shoot over a road (out at Cherry Point) it was closed off, because shit happens. If we did have to, we would use ordnance approved for OverHead Fire (OHF), which is just a fancy way of saying “highly reliable.”
And even then what the fuck is the benefit here versus the very obvious and severe risks?
Great song, cute video
It’s so crazy that 10 million subscribers is huge by YouTube standards but practically meaningless in the larger context.
Insane that anybody thought this was a good idea.
I’ve been looking into this recently because The Algorithm wanted me to (I don’t always do what The Algorithm wants, but sometimes it’s really fucking spot-on so maybe I’m just institutionalized) and I simply don’t see why this is really any different from anything else available.
Is it really that much better? Is it the same thing just with better execution? As we’ve seen time and again, popular doesn’t always mean good.
That’s a good one. I like this guy’s series on the topic
I don’t clap when planes land safely, but I’m sure I would celebrate if the train I was on landed safely!
Noooo, getting the bay leaf is lucky!
My friends and I play video games and talk for hours on end, I definitely count it.
Didn’t I read somewhere that they were operating at a faster than normal pace?
Opportunity as a way to reframe a bad situation is a good argument. “Is English your first language” is a very poor argument. Merriam-Webster shows it as positive, Cambridge says between positive and neutral, and Oxford just says neutral. As a native English speaker I feel comfortable saying that the connotation of opportunity is generally positive.
In “playing” sight isn’t a misheard phrase I’ve encountered before, but that’s a little surprising given how much sense it makes.
Like you said, it’s been around for a while, so most of the actual dungeons have been picked clean and all we’ve really been left with over the last 30-40 years barely fit the legal definition!