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Post by Kriegsspiel » Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:59 am

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The Bronze Age Collapse.
Another one, with more detail and higher production value.

I like the passage from the first video:
As we get into the late Bronze Age, the region was in the midst of a chariot arms race. And then... the Sea Peoples came.

Unlike the Bronze age civilizations of Western Asia, the Sea Peoples fought on foot. Instead of using spearmen and archers to form a defensive shield for their chariots, the Sea People wielded longswords and javelins, and fought with an unmatched aggression.

I've seen the Sea Peoples described as skirmishers... but I don't think that quite covers it. A much better word I've seen used is

Runners.
Doesn't that just give you the mental image of 28 Days Later-style psychopaths? I'm imagining the Med civs would send out their chariots thinking they were about to fuck up these retards who didn't even have chariots, only to see crazed demons sprint out and drag the charioteers down and hack them apart with swords, drink their blood, and then charge en masse into a line of spears who are all shitting their pants.
I finished 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Cline recently, recommended.
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Drone video of MSG John Chapman's fight on Takur Ghar, for which he was posthumously awarded the Medal Of Honor.
The drone operators wrote a book (Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves: How a Team of Renegades Broke Rules, Shattered Barriers, and Launched a Drone Warfare Revolution) with their perspective, excerpts below:
“We may have a man down at the initial point of attack, and we’re probably the best asset to find him. We’re working the CAOC to get in there, but in the meantime, keep looking around for the needle in a haystack.”

I glanced at the clock. A bare few minutes had ticked by, minutes that felt like an eternity waiting for the gears of authority to give a grudging turn. It was hard to imagine what time felt like on the snow-covered ridge below. Even from this distance, we could see that the whole damn ridgetop was rippling with enemy fire.

I churned through the few facts on hand. Razor Zero-Three now sat in a smoking heap in the valley. The Navy SEALs on board were already humping their way back up the mountain to rescue the man they’d lost—seven miles straight up in deep snow with shit-thin air, with a lot of bad guys in the way. A flash of pride cut through the storm of emotions inside me. “No man left behind” wasn’t just a marketing slogan.

The second chopper, Razor Zero-Four, flew straight into the meat-grinder to drop its own team of SEALs, call sign Mako 30, on the ridge. By the sound of things, the Taliban had a lot more guys on the mountain than anybody expected. A continuous rain of heavy machine guns and RPGs were pushing the SEALs back off the mountaintop.
A flash of heat cut across the screen, a streak of white against a background of gray in the monochrome eye of thermal imaging.

“What the fuck was that?” Darran was in the mission-commander seat, leaning forward to stare at the screen as the glowing blob of helicopter thumped down hard on the mountaintop.

“Holy shit,” Genghis snarled, “I think we just lost a chopper.”

Andy zoomed in and out, slewing the camera to find the shooter.

A Chinook looks like an Oscar Meyer Wienermobile with rotors above both ends. As targets go, a hovering Chinook is like the broad side of a barn. The huge ramp door at the ass end of the chopper dropped open, and guys scrambled out, guns firing.

In the ghost-gray of infrared, we saw the explosion of black as the RPG slammed into the Chinook. Through the distant IR view, every rock, shrub, and crevice lit up with the starburst of muzzle flash. The helo lurched, side-slipped, and dropped out of the sky. It slammed down on the snowy peak in a spray of burning debris, the giant rotor blades slowly churning to a stop.

“Probably Razor Zero-One or Zero-Two.” The intercom voice came from the double-wide.

Call signs were a best guess for us at this point, just what we could pick up on radio. We were twelve miles away. Our mission was farther north, our presence here little more than a drive-by. Being there when the shit hit the fan was only happenstance.

That fan was Takur Ghar, a rugged ten-thousand-foot peak jutting up along the eastern edge of the Shahi-Kot valley. This was Taliban country, the kind of rugged stronghold that helped predecessors stand off the might of the Soviet Union years before. Judging from the AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) overhead, and the AC-130 that had lapped through just beforehand, whatever was playing out on that jagged spike of rock was a big deal, something to which we hadn’t been invited.

In an instant, Genghis was on it, immediately requesting AWACS clear us into the airspace. It wasn’t budging. “They said they already had assets in the area,” she called out. As best she could, she explained that we weren’t some run-of-the mill observation platform—we had fangs. But despite her pushing, she was told to “stand by.”

. . .

It was time for me to swap seats with Darran. Alec hit the line first, reading my mind. Watching the same feed we had, he led off with, “Go direct with the ground; you’ve got whatever support you need from here.”

That was exactly what I wanted to hear. With warfighters in mortal peril this was no time to discuss interagency agendas or conflicting mission priorities. On his own authority Alec had just chucked our existing task and committed the full weight of the CIA behind saving American lives.

“We’re reaching out to the CAOC Predator LNO now,” I responded, snapping hand gestures to people around the GCS. No matter what the urgency, barging into controlled airspace in a crisis was a sure way to get shot out of the sky. It’s one thing to play cat and mouse with MiG fighters, but I wasn’t about to have a midair with one of ours. I shifted my focus.

The guys on the mountain continued to take fire. I don’t think the bad guys were all that surprised, I grumbled inwardly. By the looks of things, the bad guys had a pretty good idea we were coming.

Even from this distance we could see damage to both sides of the wrecked Chinook as rounds tore in one side and out the other. The inside of the helo had to feel like a garbage disposal. Bodies scrambled out the wide rear door, guns blazing. Some fought their way to scant cover; others dropped motionless on the edge of the ramp.

Still wrangling for clearance to enter the fight, we could only watch in horror.

Somebody on the ground started calling for air support. Identifying himself as Slick Zero-One, the beleaguered Airman had to split his bandwidth between moving, shooting, ducking, and coordinating an ad hoc air strike on what amounted to his own position. From ground level, he described the primary source of enemy fire as coming from a bunker some fifty to seventy-five meters uphill from the nose of the helo. Stealing glimpses between bullet strikes, he had to see the rise as a gravel wall speckled with muzzle-flash.
The long and the short of it was that we were about to send a Hellfire missile screaming over their heads. Trying to explain it to Slick Zero-One would have been like trying to describe a one-mile sniper shot to a guy in a nose-to-nose pistol battle.

In this case, though, the sniper analogy was a little unsettling. We weren’t a mile away; we were over two miles above a ten-thousand-foot peak. With only fifty meters separating a hit dead-on the enemy from one dead-on our own men, our margin of error was somewhere on the order of one-quarter of one degree. Factor in for the blast and frag radius, and we could cut that margin to about an eighth of one degree. In sniper parlance, a one-eighth minute of angle shot was akin to hitting an aspirin dead-center from a football field away. Miss that shot by just the diameter of the bullet, and good guys die. Add to that freezing cold and high-altitude winds, and a team that had been on-station for the last fifteen hours. But if we don’t take the shot, everybody dies. Nah, we had no pressure at all.

But if anyone around me was aware of the difficulty, it didn’t show. I watched my team perform like it had on every other shot, with skill and precision and no skipped steps and no shortcuts. Nobody was unprepared. It all came down to this.

The optic ball tracked smoothly as Wildfire swept in, and I ran through the final checklist: “Missile Armed. Laser on. Lasing. Confirm Lasing.”

Gun flashes burned from inside the bunker, the massive forked flare of a heavy machine gun centered on the screen.

American voices were on the radio, nearly drowned out by the chatter of gunfire.

“3 … 2 … 1 … Rifle.”
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Post by pp4me » Sat Sep 04, 2021 6:35 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuVuxKTJeBI&t=396s

Michio Kaku with 3 predictions about the future. Unlike Nostradamus they are based on technology that already exists.

1.) Interplanetary travel - it is already possible to send a small payload to a distant earth-like planet.

2.) Steven Hawking had some device in his glasses that allowed him to communicate telepathically with a computer.

3.) It is already possible to detect cancer cells in your poop.
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Post by Hal » Mon Sep 20, 2021 1:22 am

First Air Force 1.
If in a hurry, watch from 17 min mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je7sTk1oQMs
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Post by Mark Leavy » Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:46 am

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First Air Force 1.
If in a hurry, watch from 17 min mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je7sTk1oQMs
I'm not sure if I've seen that exact plane, but I've seen similar ones at Dynamic Aviation. They are a great company. Run by Mennonites and pretty much employ the entire local church. The whole place is different aged men and women and they can all do everything. And everybody in the company is a pilot. They specialized in outfitting Beechcraft King airs for government contracts and we did a lot of work together. I just had to remember not to cuss while on site.

I had this youngish woman (with the mennonite head covering) design and machine a mounting bracket for me, and when we were ready to try it out, she hopped in the pilot's seat and took us for a spin.
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Mark Leavy wrote:
Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:46 am
Hal wrote:
Mon Sep 20, 2021 1:22 am
First Air Force 1.
If in a hurry, watch from 17 min mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je7sTk1oQMs
I'm not sure if I've seen that exact plane, but I've seen similar ones at Dynamic Aviation. They are a great company. Run by Mennonites and pretty much employ the entire local church. The whole place is different aged men and women and they can all do everything. And everybody in the company is a pilot. They specialized in outfitting Beechcraft King airs for government contracts and we did a lot of work together. I just had to remember not to cuss while on site.

I had this youngish woman (with the mennonite head covering) design and machine a mounting bracket for me, and when we were ready to try it out, she hopped in the pilot's seat and took us for a spin.
Super cool!
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Post by dualstow » Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:12 am

Love it
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Post by Mark Leavy » Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:39 pm

Hal wrote:
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First Air Force 1.
If in a hurry, watch from 17 min mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je7sTk1oQMs
Okay. After watching the whole video I was a bit teary eyed. Seems like I should share some stories.

I don’t think I ever talked directly to Karl (the guy that bought the plane) but I saw him several times. He was revered by everyone around him. Not just for being a leader in the church and employing half the Shenandoah Valley, but also because he was a man of his word. When he gave you a schedule and a price, you could take it to the bank.

He was 70 something last time I saw him. He kept an old WWI biplane on site and everyone made sure it was spit shined and ready to fly at all times. He was still flying it several times a month back then.

About a dozen of the staff were certified flight instructors. He offered free instruction and flight time to anyone in the company that wanted a pilot’s license. Secretary, janitor, whomever. And if you didn’t have your license or were working on it you didn’t last long.

In watching that video again, the Air Force One was not on site while I was there. But the B52 that they used for photo shoot was. I saw it take off once but never got a crew slot.

This may be off… but the story I heard on how he started was that he bought about 200 King Airs in a military surplus sale for pennies on the dollar. The were all scrap boxed up in crates. He managed to build about 10 working planes by sorting through the mess. Then he built an airport on his land in Bridgewater VA. And then the rest was history.

There were only two roads into Bridgewater. One year the floods took out the old iron one lane bridge - which was the only sane way to get into town. The city decided to close it and give up on it. Karl sent his guys out one weekend and completely rebuilt the bridge from the ground up. He denied any involvement, but I was there at the time and happy to have an hour cut off from my hotel commute.

He died a couple years ago and it was a sad day for everyone.
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Post by Mark Leavy » Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:52 pm

The last plane I worked on in Bridgewater.
A De Havilland 7

Short take off and landing. Slow cruise speed.

Gorgeous plane. Beautiful work by Dynamic.


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Great story!
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This young woman discovered a surprisingly touching cure for wokeness:


https://www.facebook.com/bradandlex/vid ... 514265696/
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Post by Hal » Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:49 am

Nice little anime on ethics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_rd7TZyqgQ

ps: My father lived near Peenemunde during WW2
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Post by pp4me » Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:38 pm

This clip of animals with high IQ's was amaziing.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA0WFLF ... 1&index=49

There are two scenes of artistic elephants that I find almost hard to believe. One starts around 1:52 and the other around 7:45.
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https://www.d-archive.org

Just watched "On the Beach" and "The Gallant Hours"
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Post by sweetbthescrivener » Wed Nov 17, 2021 9:51 am

I have no idea why this ended up in my suggested videos since I never watch skating, but I watched it anyway.

This is Galina Valieva, a 15 year old Russian skater, skating in her first competition as an adult. She ends up scoring higher than anyone has ever scored in woman's skating.

Quite an amazing fusion of artistic expression and athleticism, which I haven't seen since Oksana Baiul's performance in the Olympics in 1994.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIntekPlfo

For the second time this month, Kamila Valieva has registered the highest-ever scores in women's singles figure skating.

The 15-year-old Russian broke the world records she set a few weeks ago at Finlandia Trophy with a runaway triumph at Skate Canada International in Vancouver on Saturday (30 October), the second Grand Prix of the Olympic season.


https://olympics.com/en/news/highest-ev ... ating-2021
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