"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
07/16/2020 at 19:45 • Filed to: None
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
07/16/2020 at 19:45 • Filed to: None | 2
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Make sure you read Skyfire77’s post from earlier today .
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A couple of related links I found tonight via Hacker News . The first is probably the most interesting, despite the lack of a Kinja preview.
https://svedic.org/history/demon-core
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ranwhenparked
> Just Jeepin'
07/16/2020 at 19:59 |
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We would obviously be better off today if nuclear weapons were never invented. In retrospect, it would have probably been better in the long run if we had taken our lumps and sacrificed huge amounts of troops in a ground invasion of the home islands in exchange for not having the nuclear fears and tensions of the next 75 years and the risk that something could one day go wrong. But, the only way to prevent that was for nobody to ever start a nuclear weapons development program in the first place, not for one test to fail.
By 1945, a nuclear bomb was going to happen. Even if the Trinity test had failed, the program had come so far, they would go back to the drawing board, make corrections, and try again. And it isn’t like we were the only country with a nuclear weapons research program, either. The Soviets got a big boost by stealing stuff from us, but their people weren’t idiots, they probably would have figured it out on their own eventually.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Just Jeepin'
07/16/2020 at 20:13 |
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Have you read The English Patient ? The movie by the same name isn’t even worth mentioning.* The book can be a bit of heavy sledding at times, but it has one of the best endings I’ve ever read. Lyrical, sensual, flowing, fabulous, beautiful book. But The Bomb figures prominently in the precipitous denouement of the story.
In the novel, the main characters are barely even adults. The author refers to Kip, the Indian sapper, 19 years old, as the boy . The girl, whose name I do not recall, I believe, was 18 when she entered military service. In the film, the actors were in their 30s. Whatever else The English Patient is, the book is a coming of age story, and you can’t have that with thirty-somethings as the actors. As my brilliant second daughter said, when she was about 14, “Never judge a book by its movie, Daddy.”
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> Just Jeepin'
07/16/2020 at 23:05 |
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There’s a recent opera, yes OPERA written about it, John Adams’ DOCTOR ATOMIC. It’s great, very dramatic and creepy.
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> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2020 at 23:06 |
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I t would be cool to see a movie made that followed the book better. I like the book Life of Pi, I thought the movie was pretty good and was very much like the book. Irfan Khan was great, RIP, I liked that guy.
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MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> Just Jeepin'
07/16/2020 at 23:08 |
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koawaft1
> ranwhenparked
07/16/2020 at 23:44 |
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Im not sure if is that obvious. Not just talking about the ending of WWII. There are some benefits of mutually assured distruction. Korea and Vi etnam may h ave g rown in geography and scale. When you don’t know how it ends you are more likely to start something.
In theory that money could have been spent on something more beneficial to society but in reali t y I just think our tanks and helicopters would be the main recipients.