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sandyhookhistory · 1 year

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"Owning The Battle Space - The Arrival Of The USS Bogue" Eighty Years Ago, Today – (Friday) March 5th, 1943 – In the Battle Of The Atlantic, a game-changer arrives in the form of the USS Bogue (ACV-9), the lead ship of the Bogue-Class Escort Carrier of the US Navy. Bogue didn't begin her life as an aircraft carrier - she started out as a "C3" class cargo ship named the "SS Steel Advocate." Changed before completion, she is given to the Navy in May of 1942, and commissioned that September. Escort Carriers, to paraphrase that great figure in Western Literature, Eddie Izzard, aren't really aircraft carriers, "but rather more of a gesture." Not quite 500 feet long with a flight deck of just 440 feet in length and barely 82 feet wide, you had just as good of a chance getting killed trying to land on an Escort Carrier as you did fighting the enemy. In heavy seas, they buck like broncos and pitch like rocking chairs, and if you sneezed, you'd have already overshot the flight deck. But... for as rough as they may seem, they are easy to mass produce and give a badly needed naval aviation capability wherever they deploy to. The 24-odd fighters and torpedo bombers they carry provide local commands with serious flexibility and firepower. And that flex is about to come down hard on the German U-Boats. That's why today's date is so important. USS Bogue takes to the North Atlantic as part of the escort of Convoy HX-228, meaning the Convoy now has its very own air cover, and does not have to wait for help from land-based aircraft flying hundreds of miles from shore. This new precedent now allows for US Navy pilots to take off, engage a target, land, and reload as often as necessary from the North American coast until arrival in England or the Mediterranean. The Battle Of The Atlantic has taken a very serious and deadly turn that will prove itself in the months ahead. 🇺🇲🇺🇲 ** Please Like & Follow "Sandy Hook History" on Facebook & Instagram for more amazing maritime and military histories of the Garden State and New York Harbor as well as a review of the 80th Anniversary of the Battle Of The Atlantic and World War 2** 🇺🇲🇺🇲 (at Fort Hancock, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpbrkBBNDgC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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casualazurlane · 5 years

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USS BOGUE [X]

Artist: かえで

#azur lane #azurlane #yostar #uss #uss bogue #bogue #class bogue #light aircraft carrier #artist かえで #eagle union #my post #my edit #common #rare

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tellywoodtrash · 4 years

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shaadi mubarak 03.08.20 lb

woke up at the crack of dawn today coz i was so hyped for this ep! give me the preeti/kusum brotp now now now nowwwwwwwww

lol kusum's passive aggressive way telling preeti to sit.

OUFFFO KUSUM WHY YOU BEING SO MEANNNNNNNNNN SHE A NAAAAZUK SOUL SHE CAN'T HANDLE YOUR TOUGH LOVE

preeti's only hearing the bitter words that kusum is saying, not really absorbing what she reallllly means. LISTEN CLOSER, PREETI-SA.

btw, i don't like how yellow-toned rajashree's base makeup is. it doesn't match with her neckkkkkkk.

AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, AB BATTI JALI. SHE'S TELLING YOU TO APPRECIATE YOUR DAUGHTER AND DAAMAAD'S LOVE!!!!!

“kaunse duniya mein raho? zamaana badal gaya hai! yeh (...) aansoon bahaane ka zamaana naa hai! auraton ka haq se jeene ka zamaana hai, auraton ka baraabari se jeene ka zamaana hai! auratein kahaan ki kahaan pohunch gayi; chaand-taaron tak pohunch gayi, akaash mein rocket chalaave, plane chalaave! aur aap apne itne si shareer ko bhoj maan ke marne chale ho! apne bete ko pet mein athaara mahine rakha ki usse itna zyaada lagaaav hai??? ya beti ke (???) se bohut peed hui thi, ki usse nafrat karo? bete ka ghar apna lage, aur beti ka ghar paraaya?”

I SWEAR TO GOD I LOVE HER THE MOSTTTTTTTT

ooooh kusum's backstory coming out. she's the 7th daughter of the house, after which the "ghar ka chiraag" was born. and so all the betis missed out on the laad (and desi ghee) that raja beta got from maa.

“hum betiyon ke hisse mein aaya aadha pet taane, aur aadha pet bharaa humaare bhai ke jhoothe khaane se. mhaare ko bilkul na bhaata tha. mhaari maa ne jeevan bhar beti aur bete mein bohut bhed-bhaav kiya. kaahe? ki beta ghar ka chiraag hai, budhaape ki laathi banega, swarag ke dwaar pe chod ke aayega! par aisa kuch nahi hua. jab budhaape mein aayi na, bistar pakda na, toh hum betiyon ne seva kii, sabne milke. bete ne kya kiya, arthi ke liye lakdi jutaayi usne. sab kuch humne kiya. lekin ehsaan nahi jataa rahein! bachpan ke karze ko byaaj ke saath chukaaya humne!”

IN THIS YEAR THAT'S BEEN AN ABSOLUTE DUMPSTER FIRE, THE FACT 2020 HAS GIVEN US A CHARACTER LIKE KUSUM KOTHARI????? THAT TOO PLAYED BY A PERFORMER LIKE RAJESHWARI SACHDEV?!?!?!?!?!

"saachi baat hai, thaara na mhaare ko bilkul na suhaaya. iss liye nahi ki tu apni beti ke ghar mein rehne aayi. iss liye ki mhaare ko TU naa suhaati! thaari harkatein, thaari soch, bilkul nahi!"

lmaoooooooo kusummmmmmmm.

“mazza toh ab aata jab tu, bina sankoch, bina sharam ke bohut ghamandd se kehti ki dekho mhaari beti ko mhaare se kitna pyaar hai, kitna parvaah kare hai mhaari. tuney hamesha mhaare ko apni beti ki saas ki tarah se dekha, toh main bhi saas banke rahi! kabhi saheli ki nazar se bhi dekhti!!!!!”

you guys, i'm in actual tears here. is there honestly anything more glorious in the world than female friendship? i think not.

lmao she's fully fessing up to doing naatak to stop preeti from going to pushkar so she could give her a well-deserved reality check.

PREETI EXTENDING HAND OF FRIENDSHIP.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh godddddddddddd, rati's boss from hell is the match that mummy has brought for KT. fucking whyyyyyyy?!?!?!

lmao what is this ainvayi ka collar on KT's kurta???

why is everyone laughing at KT's dumbass jokes?? tum logon ne kuch zyaada hi sar pe chadha rakha hai isko.

literally who falls for this jaake ghar dikhaao schtick anymore?!?!

mummy and chaachi making hopeful eyes at each other. hope you have a backup plan for lunch, coz aapki daal nahi galne waali.

lollllllllllllll kusum's like chalo ab chodo, bohut ho gayaaaa.

"ab yeh aansoon ponch. thaari mhaari been kaiyya bajegi, preeti???"

I WILL LIVE THE REST OF MY LIFE OUT IN THE GLOW OF THIS FRIENDSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!

i keep feeling like the tibrewal house is the same set as in EBSS, just furnished differently. idk, something about the design reminds me of that house.

chanda doesn't care about KT’s shooting stories. she's silently scanning the barcodes of every item in this room with her eyes and having the prices beep through her mind.

she hates the dresser preeti made. ugh, what a piece of work. who comments like this on the decor preferences of someone they're meeting for the first time???

lol KT she realllly doesn't care for your poster wall. learn to read the room, man.

for someone who's so up his own ass about his charm and stardom, he really got bashful the INSTANT someone took him up on it.

me, the moment any one other than my mom and cat shows me any affection:

desi malin akerman does not appreciate being given lecture on consent and compatibility in a budding relationship.

great, she's gonna make a scene.

oh boy, KT's backstory gonna come out via vindictive bitch's rage rant.

biwi chod ke chali gayi. called it.

chaachi is righteously incensed at this bitch coming for Ghar Ka ManBaby.

biwi ran away with aashiq 2 years into the marriage. sigh.

chaachi is me, i am chaachi. this is my permanent mood. like at life itself.

wife left him 20 yearssssssssss ago. aw man, he really isn't over it yet.

maa's just standing here listening to this bs????? when's she gonna jump into the ring to fight for raja beta??

i'm all for the destruction of this bogus celebrity culture we have going on rn, but this one is running her mouth a lil too much.

chacha and dad have entered the game.

oh shit i'm beginning to relate a little too much with chanda's anti-nepotism rant.

daaaang. mummy late aayi, par entry dhaansu thi.

lmao desi malin's dramatic hair flip and chin wobble.

yaaas mama bear. finish her offfffff!

KT has disassociated. #relatable

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preeti is leaving some cheer up laddoos for despondent KT! does she know it's him??!?!?!!?

#shaadi mubarak #sm lbs #episode liveblogs

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judgemark45 · 4 years

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USS Bogue (ACV/CVE 9), one of the most successful U-boat hunters in the Battle of the Atlantic, was commissioned #OTD in 1942.

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xombiedirge · 7 years

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24″ X 36″ 7 colour screen prints, regular edition of 180 and Metallic ink variant edition of 75. Available 1pm EST Friday, March 24th, 2017, HERE.

#Film #Poster #Illustration #Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey #Design #Matt Ryan Tobin #Skuzzles #Artists on Tumblr #Keanu Reeves #Alex Winter #Death #Station!#Evil Usses

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usafphantom2 · 2 years

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Mitsubishi J8M Shusui.

A Japanese fighter jet Mitsubishi J8M Shusui at the u.s. base in Yokosuka, Japan. 1945, The Mitsubishi J8M Shūsui (Sharp Sword) deriving from the swishing sound swords make) was a Japanese World War II rocket-powered interceptor aircraft closely based on the German Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. Built as a joint project for both the Navy and the Army Air Services, it was designated J8M (Navy) and Ki-200 (Army).

The J8M1 was intended to be a licence-built copy of the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. Difficulties in shipping an example to Japan meant that the aircraft eventually had to be reverse-engineered from a flight operations manual and other limited documentation. A single prototype was tested before the end of World War II.

The Japanese were quite aware of the results of the strategic bombing of Germany, and knew that the B-29 Superfortress would be bombing Japan and the resultant problems which would arise from trying to combat this. Japanese military attachés had become aware of the Komet during a visit to the Bad Zwischenahn airfield of Erprobungskommando 16, the Luftwaffe evaluation squadron charged with service test of the revolutionary rocket-propelled interceptor. They negotiated the rights to licence-produce the aircraft and its Walter HWK 509A rocket engine. The engine license alone cost the Japanese 20 million Reichsmarks.[1]

The agreement was for Germany to provide the following by spring 1944:

Complete blueprints of the Me 163B Komet and the HWK 509A engine.

One complete Komet; two sets of sub-assemblies and components.

Three complete HWK 509A engines.

Inform Japan of any improvements and developments of the Komet.

Allow the Japanese to study the manufacturing processes for both the Komet and the engine.

Allow the Japanese to study Luftwaffe operational procedures for the Komet.

The broken-down aircraft and engine were sent to Kobe, Japan in early 1944. It is probable that the airframe was on the Japanese submarine RO-501 (ex-U-1224), which left Kiel, Germany on 30 March 1944 and was sunk in the mid-Atlantic on 13 May 1944 by the hunter-killer group based on the escort carrier USS Bogue. Plans and engines were on the Japanese submarine I-29, which left Lorient, France on 16 April 1944 and arrived in Singapore on 14 July 1944, later sunk by the submarine USS Sawfish on 26 July 1944, near the Philippines, after leaving Singapore.

The Japanese decided to attempt to copy the Me 163 using a basic instructional manual on the Komet in the hands of naval mission member Commander Eiichi Iwaya who had travelled to Singapore in the I-29 and flown on to Japan when the submarine docked.

From its inception, the project was a joint Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (JAAF)/Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (JNAF) venture. The JAAF wanted a new design to be drawn up. The JNAF, on the other hand, felt the design should mimic the German Komet because it had already proven to be a stable aerodynamic body. It was the JNAF which won and issued the 19-shi specification in July 1944 for the design of the rocket-powered defence fighter. The contract went to Mitsubishi Jukogyo KK, which would produce both the JNAF version the J8M1 Shūsui and the JAAF version Ki-200.

The project was headed by Mijiro Takahashi. The JAAF, however decided to undertake their own design to meet the 19-shi specifications, working at their Rikugun Kokugijitsu Kenkyujo (JAAF Aerotechnical Institute) in secret.

At the 1st Naval Air Technical Arsenal in Yokosuka, in association with Mitsubishi and Yokosuka Arsenal, work began to adapt the Walter HWK 509A engine to Japanese manufacturing capabilities and techniques. This was also where efforts were underway to produce a glider version of the J8M to provide handling data. While working on this glider, the MXY8 Akigusa (秋草, "Autumn Grass"), Mitsubishi completed a mock-up of the J8M1 in September 1944.

Both the JAAF and JNAF approved its design and construction and a prototype was built. In December 1944, the MXY8 was completed and, on 8 December 1944, at the Hyakurigahara Airfield, Lieutenant-Commander Toyohiko Inuzuka took the controls of the MXY8. Once in the air, Inuzuka found the MXY8 almost perfectly emulated the handling characteristics of the Komet. Two additional MXY8 gliders were constructed in the naval yard at Yokosuka, one being delivered to the Rikugun Kokugijitsu Kenkyujo (JAAF Aerotechnical Institute) at Tachikawa for evaluation. The JNAF initiated the construction of another prototype, production designation Ku-13. This was to use water ballast to simulate the weight of an operational J8M complete with engine and weapons. This variant was to be built by Maeda Aircraft Institute, while the JAAF version was to be constructed by Yokoi Koku KK (Yoki Aircraft Co). The JNAF also proposed a more advanced trainer, designated the MXY9 Shūka (Autumn Fire") which would be powered by a 441 lbf (1.96 kN) thrust Tsu-11 ducted-fan engine. The war, however, ended before this model could be built.

Mitsubishi and partners Nissan and Fuji proceeded with development of the airframe and Yokosuka Arsenal was adapting the engine for Japanese production, designated the Ro.2. The Japanese succeeded in producing prototypes that outwardly looked very much similar to the Komet. The J8M1 had a wet weight that was 900 lb (410 kg) lighter, the aircraft having a plywood main spar and wooden vertical tail. The designers had also dispensed with the armoured glass in the cockpit and the aircraft carried less ammunition and slightly less fuel.

The Ki-200 and the J8M1 differed only in minor items, but the most obvious difference was the JAAF's Ki-200 was armed with two 30 mm (1.18 in) Type 5 cannon (with a rate of fire of 450 rounds per minute and a muzzle velocity of 2,350 ft/s (720 m/s), while the J8M1 was armed with two 30 mm (1.18 in) Ho-105 cannon (rate of fire 400 rounds per minute, muzzle velocity 2,460 ft/s (750 m/s). The Ho-105 was the lighter of the two and both offered a higher velocity than the MK 108 cannon of the Me 163 (whose muzzle velocity was 1,705 ft/s (520 m/s). The Toko Ro.2 (KR10) rocket motor did not offer the same thrust rating as the original, and Mitsubishi calculated that the lighter weight of the J8M1 would not offset this. Performance would not be as good as that of the Komet, but was still substantial.

The engine still used the German propellants of T-Stoff oxidizer and C-Stoff fuel (hydrogen peroxide/methanol-hydrazine), known in Japan as Ko and Otsu respectively.

A total of 60 of the training version (Ku-13, Ki-13, MXY-8, MXY-9) were produced by Yokosuka, Yokoi and Maeda[disambiguation needed]. Seven of the operational version (J8M1/Ki-200) were built by Mitsubishi.

In 8 January 1945, one of the two J8M1 prototypes was towed aloft, water ballast added in place of the fuel tank and rocket engine to test its aerodynamics. The test flights confirmed the design. Training courses for JAAF and JNAF pilots began on the Ku-53 glider, which shared a similar configuration to the J8M1. The 312th Naval Air Group was selected to operate the first J8M1. Mitsubishi, Fuji Hikoki, and Nissan Jidosha all had tooling for mass production well into the advanced stages, ready to produce both the J8M1 and the J8M2 variant, which differed from the J8M1 in sacrificing one of the Type 5 cannon for a small increase in fuel capacity. The first J8M1 prototype to be equipped with the Toko Ro.2 (KR10) was ready in June 1945. They were then transferred from the Nagoya plant to Yokoku for final checks before powered flight testing, after final glide tests with the engine installed.

The J8M took to the air for its first powered flight on 7 July 1945, with Lieutenant Commander Toyohiko Inuzuka at the controls; after his "sharp start" rocket-powered takeoff, Inuzuka successfully jettisoned the dolly upon becoming airborne and began to gain speed, climbing skywards at a 45° angle. At an altitude of 396 m (1,300 ft), the engine stopped abruptly and the J8M1 stalled. Inuzuka managed to glide the aircraft back, but clipped a small building at the edge of the airfield while trying to land, causing the aircraft to burst into flames. Inuzuka died the next day.[4] While Mitsubishi and naval technicians sought to find the cause of the accident, all future flights were grounded. The engine cutout had occurred because the angle of climb, coupled with the fuel tanks being half-filled for this first flight, caused a shifting of the fuel, which in turn caused an auto cutout device to activate because of an air lock in the fuel line. Requests to continue flight testing were denied pending the modification of the fuel pumps in the aircraft. The sixth and seventh prototypes were to be fitted with the modified Ro.2 engine.

Full scale production readiness was almost at hand and in fact, component construction was already underway. Flight testing was to resume, despite another explosion of the fuel mixture during a ground test days after the crash, in late August 1945 and the J8M2 design was finalized. But on 15 August 1945, the war ended for the Japanese and all work on the J8M ceased. The end of the war also spelled the end of the JAAF's Ki-202 Shūsui-Kai (Modified Shusui), whose design had begun in secret months before. The Ki-202 was to offer improved flight endurance over the Ki-200 and was slated to be the priority fighter for the JAAF in 1946, but no metal was cut before Japan's surrender.

Germany tried to send another Komet in U-864, but the submarine was sunk near Bergen by British submarine HMS Venturer in February 1945.

Role Interceptor

Manufacturer Mitsubishi

First flight 7 July 1945

Primary users IJA Air Service

IJN Air Service

Produced 1944-1945

Number built 7

Developed from Messerschmitt Me 163

Variants Yokosuka MXY8

Yokosuka MXY9

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bibhabmishra · 4 years

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8 movies that really got science wrong

Science has been a dependable companion to Hollywood, giving the hereditary enchantment that breathed life into dinosaurs back, the errant medication that gave our planet to the gorillas, and the radiation that helped man become bug.

In any case, has Hollywood regarded science consequently?

In the tallness of summer blockbuster season, we asked everybody from George Church to Dr. Richard Besser to specialists went government officials to certainty check the big-screen science behind some paramount films and detail the scenes that made them squirm in the theater.

What's more, we'd prefer to give a cap tip to @TheSciBabe otherwise known as Yvette d'Entremont, a previous systematic scientific expert, for rousing this rundown. Her own pick is 2012's "The Avengers."

"Jurassic Park" (1993)

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Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and Laura Dern

IMDB plot rundown

During a review visit, an amusement park endures a significant force breakdown that permits its cloned dinosaur displays to go crazy.

Master truth check

One of my preferred bloopers was "Jurassic Park" utilizing "Lysine Contingency" for biocontainment. [Editor's note: Lysine Contingency was a presented hereditary change that made the dinosaurs reliant on lysine supplements from the staff so they couldn't get by outside the recreation center, as indicated by Jurassic Wiki.] But lysine is available in all nourishments on the planet.

— George Church, geneticist and manufactured scientist who instructs at Harvard Medical School and helped found the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Among his many research activities, Church and his associates at Harvard effectively put wooly mammoth qualities into the genome of an Asian elephant.

I love the special visualizations. I went to see it with my then beau (presently spouse) on the big screen and it truly caught my creative mind. However, even in those days, I realized eradication isn't reversible!

— Dr. Reshma Kewalramani, official VP and boss medicinal official at Vertex Pharmaceuticals

"Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (1979)

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William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley

IMDB plot outline

At the point when an outsider shuttle of tremendous force is spotted moving toward Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes direction of the upgraded USS Enterprise so as to capture it.

Master reality check

In the old "Star Trek" motion pictures, it used to trouble me a great deal when a character was shot with a phaser. The individual was killed down to their shoes however it left the ground underneath totally immaculate.

— Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.), previous physicist

"Episode" (1995)

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Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, and Morgan Freeman

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Armed force specialists battle to discover a solution for a dangerous infection spreading all through a California town that was brought to America by an African monkey.

Master certainty check

"Episode" was dreadful. How on the planet did they get enough plasma from a solitary monkey to spare a great many individuals from a destructive Ebola-like infection? How is it conceivable the first flare-up in an African town slaughtered, obviously, 100 percent of the populace, but then there were survivors when it arrived at white people in the U.S.A.? … Some fear inspired notions asserting HIV was "made in a CIA lab" refer to that film. It has demonstrated unthinkable, on account of Hollywood, to get the world to comprehend that Richard Nixon shut down the U.S. hostile bioweapons program during the 1970s, and there is no CIA bioengineering mystery lab.

— Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer-prize-winning columnist, creator of "The Coming Plague," and specialist on Steven Soderbergh's 2011 film, "Infection"

The revealed motivation for Dustin Hoffman's character in the motion picture additionally had a few musings.

In all the time I was in the Army or at CDC, we never "nuked" an African town to contain a flare-up. The monkey that carried the sickness from Africa to the U.S. was a capuchin or Cebus monkey, which is a South American animal categories. To spare a town passing on from the illness, they plasmapheresed [Editor's note: removed antibodies from the blood of] said monkey and this around 20-pound monkey yielded a unit of plasma for each inhabitant of the town — a serious accomplishment. The monkey more likely than not been drained a while later.

— Dr. C. J. Subsides, a virologist who took a shot at Ebola and other lethal pathogens at the U.S. Armed force Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and at the CDC

"Frenzy" (2018)

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Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman

IMDB plot rundown

At the point when three unique creatures become contaminated with a perilous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist collaborate to prevent them from decimating Chicago.

Master certainty check

"Frenzy" messes around with CRISPR quality altering, however makes large, George-sized errors en route. CRISPR could speculatively be utilized to attempt to give animals new highlights like wings, however you'd almost certainly need to begin with one-cell undeveloped organisms. Additionally, even in some popular, weaponized structure making an infectious quality drive, CRISPR couldn't influence the genomes of a sufficiently high level of cells to cause changes in an entire existing creature and it'd to be too moderate a procedure for Hollywood. You'd presumably get a great deal of asymmetry, as well, with the end goal that that wolf beast in the film, for example, could simply have made them wing and flew around and around, or developed that wing out of its nose or butt. An animal growing up mixes of inconsequential attributes like wings and a porcupine tail from CRISPR is much harder to clarify. At long last, the possibility of a cure or on-off switch for quality alters is less absolutely outlandish and the last is really being investigated in the lab, however most likely couldn't influence only one characteristic like hostility and wouldn't take 10 minutes.

— Paul Knoepfler, immature microorganism researchers at the University of California, Davis

Two STAT correspondents additionally went out to see the films to check whether "Frenzy" got the study of CRISPR right. Peruse our audit.

"Skyfall" (2012)

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Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, and Naomie Harris

IMDB plot rundown

Bond's dependability to M is tried when her past causes issues down the road for her. When MI6 goes under assault, 007 must find and pulverize the risk, regardless of how close to home the expense.

Master actuality check

The scoundrel in the James Bond motion picture "Skyfall" is a disenthralled previous government agent whose jaw was as far as anyone knows liquefied away by a hydrogen cyanide suicide pill turned sour. With the exception of … hydrogen cyanide is most popular as a toxic gas and hydrocyanic corrosive, from which it very well may be inferred, is less destructive than lemon juice. On the off chance that it was that destructive, it would have liquefied the container itself some time before. I was irritated to such an extent that my child later said he could never go with me to a decent government agent film again.

— Deborah Blum, chief of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT, writer of "The Poisoner's Handbook" and the up and coming "The Poison Squad"

"Excursion to the Center of the Earth" (1959)

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James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl

IMDB plot outline

An Edinburgh teacher and arranged partners follow an adventurer's path down a wiped out Icelandic fountain of liquid magma to the world's inside.

Master truth check

I still can't seem to experience any individual who has visited the focal point of the earth, cruised an underground ocean in a mushroom vessel, or wellbeing drifted on of magma — or all the more precisely, magma.

— Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), previous specialist

"Disease" (2011)

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Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, and Jude Law

IMDB plot rundown

Medicinal services experts, government authorities, and ordinary individuals wind up amidst an overall plague as the CDC attempts to discover a fix.

Master Fact-check

From multiple points of view it gets the science right, yet I was struck by the speed by which they made another antibody and spared the world. That is deluding. As we've seen with HIV, Ebola, Zika, jungle fever … making immunizations that are protected and compelling can take quite a while and can be slippery. The quick making of an immunization in "Infection" can add to the bogus desire for what science can do during a general wellbeing emergency.

— Dr. Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and previous acting chief (during the beginning of the H1N1 flu pandemic) of the CDC

"Prometheus" (2012)

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Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, and Michael Fassbender

IMDB plot outline

Following hints to the starting point of humanity, a group finds a structure on a removed moon, yet they before long acknowledge they are not the only one.

Master truth check

I need to state the film that truly irritated me was "Prometheus." The cartographer gets lost promptly, and when the scholar sees an outsider creature he needs to snuggle with it. At that point the entire team just keeps on doing numbskull things to place everybody in harm's way.

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uss-edsall · 6 years

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Part of Styx’s album ‘The Mission’, which is about a mission to Mars, this song is used in the album because the ship they’re on is named the ‘Khedive.’

The Real reason, however, is that Lawrence Gowan’s father was a sailor aboard Bogue/Ruler-class escort carrier HMS Khedive [D62, (ex-USS Cordova CVE-39)] during World War II.

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neskire · 7 years

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USS Bogue (CVE-9) was the lead ship in the Bogue class of escort carriers in the United States Navy during World War II. Aircraft operating from Bogue sank eleven German and two Japanese submarines, making her the most successful anti-submarine carrier in World War II. She is named after Bogue Sound in North Carolina.

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January 3, 1942/January 3, 2000

“We would make a team together that cannot be beat”: The Fighting Sullivan brothers/ “We Stick Together”: The USS Sullivan

Okay, listen. I hadn’t ever intended to make one post on two things. These are stories that came my way a day late whoops and I was magnificently intrigued by the way life can kind of come full circle. This, from a girl who isn’t particularly interested in military history. Brace yourselves, this is a long one.

The Fighting Sullivan brothers were born and raised in Waterloo, Iowa. Their growing up seems to have been a little spotty, littered with absentee parenting and poverty. Their father, Tom, was said to have been an abusive alcoholic. Their mother, Alleta, suffered from what we can only assume was depression, taking to her bed for days at a time. This resulted in unruly little boys, who left school around age 16 or so and who also seemed to exist solely as trouble-makers and bad influences. The Sullivan family lived just a stone’s throw from the black neighborhood; while most of the white working-class folks of Waterloo avoided the neighborhood, the Sullivan boys are reported to have spent time lurking in the alleys of the black neighborhood where they “stirred the shit,” initiating fights with their black neighbors. They were all also reportedly members of a local motorcycle club, a large group of men parading around in what equated to soldiers’ uniforms (of Italian Fascist design, no less) and causing a general ruckus to the neighborhood.

By the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, two of the Sullivan brothers had already served time with the Navy: oldest brothers George and Frank enlisted in 1937 and served together for four years before returning home in May of 1941. After the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, all five brothers -- including the youngest, Al, who had married at 17 and already had a 21-month-old son -- decided to enlist. George wrote to the Department of the Navy, explaining that they had friends killed in the attack at Pearl Harbor, and all but begging that he, his four brothers, and two friends from the motorcycle club be allowed to serve together. The Navy didn’t directly encourage family members to serve together, but they also didn’t actively discourage it, so after passing their physicals, they were all assigned to the light cruiser, USS Juneau. The Sullivan brothers became local and national heroes.

The USS Juneau participated in several naval engagements during the extensive Guadalcanal Campaign that began in August 1942. But, on November 13, 1942, the Juneau was hit by a Japanese torpedo and forced to withdraw from the fighting. Juneau and two other cruisers -- the Helena and the San Francisco, also damaged from the fight -- were heading to the US Naval base at Espiritu Santo for repairs when the Japanese submarine I-26 launched two more torpedoes. They were intended for the severely damaged San Francisco, missed, one hitting Juneau in the same place as the previous hit. There was a great explosion, the Juneau broke in two and, in twenty seconds, the entire ship was gone. Fearing more attacks, the Helena and the San Francisco continued to Espiritu Santo without attempting to rescue any survivors. One hundred men survived the sinking, including two fo the Sullivan brothers, left to fend for themselves for eight days until rescue aircraft arrived; of those one hundred, only ten were lost to shark attacks and the elements, including the two remaining Sullivan brothers.

The Sullivan family became almost like a mascot for the US Navy after the attack. The parents toured the country at the behest of the Navy, stopping at war bond rallies and production plants to promote pro-military sentiments and move the workers into enlisting. On February 22, 1943, Alleta Sullivan even christened a new Navy ship, the USS Tawasa, and the again, less than two months later, when the Navy commissioned the new destroyer The Sullivans. This version of The Sullivans remained in active duty until it was decommissioned on January 7, 1965. The second destroyer The Sullivans was commissioned by the Navy on April 19, 1997. It’s the second destroyer that sort of brings the story of the Fighting Sullivans full circle. And, I promise, this bit is a quick one. In October 2000, the USS Cole was attacked by suicide bombers while she sat in port in Aden, Yemen. The FBI launched an investigation into the bombing with the Yemeni government; the Yemeni government confirmed the Cole had been the target of a terrorist plot. Yemeni officials arrest two suspects in the bombing and, while in custody, one of the suspects explains that there had been another attempt to attack an American warship in January 2000. One official thought the report was bogus, but the suspect gave so much credible information into the attack of the Cole that they felt it must be true. The suspect claimed the first attack had been planned for January 3, 2000, but that it had been aborted. Why? Because the boat used by the attackers was overloaded with ammunition and began to sank before hitting its desired target. And the target? Supposedly the United States destroyer ship The Sullivans, ported in Aden, Yemen for refueling.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_brothers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Juneau_(CL-52)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_The_Sullivans_(DD-537)

https://www.navytimes.com/veterans/2019/11/10/the-deaths-of-these-5-sailors-changed-how-us-manned-military-units/

https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/18/world/meast/uss-cole-bombing-fast-facts/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_The_Sullivans_(DDG-68)

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/10/world/failed-plan-to-bomb-a-us-ship-is-reported.html

Additional Reading:

If you're militarily inclined, the United States Navy has an entire website called Naval History and Heritage Command. On it is a section devoted to Disasters and Phenomena with an entire area of interesting information devoted to the Sullivan brothers. You can read it here.

On March 17, 2018, the expedition crew of Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel found the remains of the wreckage of the USS Juneau! You can read about that here and here.

#military history #happened today #wwii history

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Guam-based B-52s flying low past USS Nimitz

Story by former USAF B-52 commander Doug Aitken

I am a retired USAF pilot who also flew for AA for 17 years. I was an OV-10 Forward Air Controller in Vietnam and got into the B-52 in the second half of my career. I was the Ops Officer for the 37th BMS, 28th BMW, at Ellsworth AFB in 1979, during the Iranian Hostage crisis. We were surprised with a no-notice Operational Readiness Inspection from SAC Headquarters in early Dec 79. During the prep for that ORI mission, we were halted in our tracks and told to prepare for a deployment to Guam. Six hours after that notice, the first KC-135s were airborne and three hours after that the first three B-52H’s deployed. We ended up sending a Squadron’s worth of B-52H’s to Guam -- a mixture of crews from the 77th BMS and the 37th. The deploying crews were led by the 28th BMW Vice Commander, Col Wayne Lambert, and the 37th BMS Commander, LTC Jim Dillon and 77th BMS/DO, Major Bill McCabe. LTC Bob Murphy, 77th BMS/CC, and I stayed behind with the remaining crews who flew that ORI mission. At Guam, the deployed crews immediately began training in the conventional missions they were not proficient in -- sea surveillance, mine laying, and conventional “iron bomb” missions. The B-52s stationed at Guam permanently were the “D” model, and while those crews were specifically trained to do conventional missions, their B-52’s did not have the range to get all the way into the Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf. Previously, the B-52H crews at Ellsworth only had a nuclear mission, so for most of them, this was new (we did have a few older members who had flown conventional missions during the Vietnam War.) This effort went on for approximately a month until all the crews were trained. Then the majority of the crews returned to Ellsworth, and a small staff, led by Major McCabe, stayed with four of the Ellsworth crews. Around the first of the year, I led two more B-52’s as we deployed with staff to relieve Major McCabe and two of the deployed crews. We continued his work in formalizing the training program and started training the new crews. After being there about a week, we were tasked by the JCS to fly a mission deep into the Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf to surveil the Soviet Fleet. At this time, the US 7th Fleet was in the area, being shadowed by the Soviets, and their Bear bombers, launching from Afghanistan, were harassing our carriers. The JCS evidently wanted to show the Soviets AND the Iranians that our strategic airpower could reach them that far out. Our small staff, with some assistance from the local staff, planned this mission overnight and launched early the next day. Since the Soviets always maintained an intelligence gathering trawler off the coast of Guam, these two B-52Hs launched in darkness, filed as KC-135s to Diego Garcia, complete with bogus KC-135 crew lists on the ICAO flight plan. Gunners were instructed to leave their radar off, and radar navigators were instructed to use frequencies that KC-135s would use. The Airborne Commander was Captain Wally Herzog (copied on this message), who was the most experienced pilot available from the local crews. An instructor pilot in the B-52D, he had been the person leading the conventional qualification of the B-52H crews. The two crews, one from the 37th BMS and one from the 77th BMS faced a total of five air refuelings and 30 hours, 30 min of flight time (These missions eventually earned the name “Winchester” missions due to the 30–30 time.) After refueling with tankers based in Diego Garcia, these B-52s flew “due regard” (i.e. no flight plan) into the Persian Gulf. At any rate, this deception was successful. The crews made contact with the US Navy and were vectored to the Soviet fleet. On their first pass, the Soviet crew were on deck waving, at first assuming the aircraft were their BEAR bombers. On the second pass, not one member of the Soviet navy was to be seen. The BUFFS then went over and did a flyby for the US Navy, and returned to Guam. The following week, two crews from the 319th BMS at Grand Forks AFB, ND deployed to Guam and we returned the two crews who had flown the original mission. We then flew a second “Winchester” mission with those 319th crews. After that success, I returned to Ellsworth as we were relieved by two more 319th crews and staff.

#airplane #cold war #navy #B-52 Stratofortress

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SHOWS AND MOVIES COMING *(AND LEAVING)* NETFLIX IN MARCH

Available 3/1/17: Angry Birds: Season 2 (2013) Blazing Saddles (1974) Chicago (2002) Deep Run (2015) Dirt Every Day: Season 1 (2013) Epic Drives: Season 2 (2015) Friday After Next (2002) Head 2 Head: Season 2 (2013) Hot Rod Unlimited: Season 1 (2013) Ignition: Season 1 (2013) Impossible Dreamers (2017) Jurassic Park (1993) Jurassic Park III (2001) Kate and Mim-Mim: Season 2 (2015) Know Your Enemy – Japan (1945) Kung Fu Panda (2008) Let There Be Light (1946) Memento (2000) Midnight in Paris (2011) Nacho Libre (2006) Nazi Concentration Camps (1945) Roadkill: Season 2 (2013) Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane (2012) San Pietro (1945) Singing with angels (2016) Sustainable (2016) Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) The Craft (1996) This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944) The Negro Soldier (1944) Thunderbolt (1947) Tunisian Victory (1944)

Available 3/3/17: Greenleaf: Season 1 (2016)

Available 3/4/17: Safe Haven (2013)

Available 3/5/17: Señora Acero: Season 3 (2016)

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Available 3/8/17: Hands of Stone (2016) The Waterboy (1998)

Available 3/9/17: Thithi (2015)

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Available 3/13/17: Must Love Dogs (2005) Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Available 3/14/17: Disney’s Pete’s Dragon (2016) Jim Norton: Mouthful of Shame—NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/15/17: Disney’s The BFG (2016) Notes on Blindness (2016)

Available 3/16/17: Beau Sejour: Season 1 -NETFLIX ORIGINAL Coraline (2009)

Available 3/17/17: Deidra & Laney Rob a Train—NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM Julie’s Greenroom: Season 1—NETFLIX ORIGINAL Marvel’s Iron Fist: Season 1—NETFLIX ORIGINAL Naledi: A Baby Elephant’s Tale (2016) Pandora—NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM Samurai Gourmet: Season 1—NETFLIX ORIGINAL

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Available 3/24/17: Bottersnikes & Gumbles: Season 2—NETFLIX ORIGINAL Déjà Vu (2006) Felipe Neto: My Life Makes No Sense—NETFLIX ORIGINAL Grace and Frankie: Season 3—NETFLIX ORIGINAL Ingobernable: Season 1—NETFLIX ORIGINAL Spider (2007) The Square (2008) The Most Hated Woman in America—NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Available 3/25/17: The Student Body (2017) USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)

Available 3/26/17: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

Available 3/27/17: Better Call Saul: Season 2

Available 3/28/17: Archer: Season 7 (2016) Jo Koy: Live from Seattle—NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available 3/30/17: Life in Pieces: Season 1 (2015)

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Leaving 3/2/17: Black or White Sweetwater

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For your reading pleasure or displeasure: Movies and shows coming to and going from Netflix in March 17