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sullat posted:On the other hand, I doubt parents are going to be spending $20 bucks to have their kids watch Tom Hanks drive a boat just to get 90 minutes of WFH peace which is what drove Trolls: World Tour's success. On the one hand, yes I agree. On the other don't underestimate the power of bored adults. I caught my wife watching the Gummi Bears on Disney+ a few days ago. . . . I joined her. It holds up surprisingly well. It's no Tail Spin but not bad after a few beers. Pairs well with moderating internet slap fights.
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Fly Molo posted:And there’s that recent DNA evidence that the Plague of Justinian was actually Bubonic Plague. The people who did survive probably weren’t too fond of public gatherings after a few rounds of plague swept through. So, wait, did people start to think bathing spread disease and stopped bathing?
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# ? May 22, 2020 00:51 |
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Cyrano4747 posted:I caught my wife watching the Gummi Bears on Disney+ a few days ago. Needs more David the Gnome, though.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Not only that, but any money you have tied up that hasn't been earning is basically wasted. Once you've invested, say, $50 million you need it to be loving working. The opportunity costs of letting the product sit are huge, because the revenues are money that you can't reinvest in other projects. There's a business argument for releasing it even if you're going to take a loss on the product if it allows you to fund other projects that might be more profitable. The deal with Apple is for $70 million for the streaming rights for 15 years. Sony keeps the China distribution rights and some other foreign markets. So Sony is in a position where it will break even and if does $30 million in China and another few million in the rest of the world then it becomes slightly profitable until the accountants get to it. And Apple is desperate for content. Apple TV+ hasn't had the uptake Apple hoped for, and it's looking for content. They likely overpaid but Sony gets an influx of cash for a film that would have been crushed in the post pandemic glut. And Apple gets something to advertise as HBOMax comes out.
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sullat posted:On the other hand, I doubt parents are going to be spending $20 bucks to have their kids watch Tom Hanks drive a boat just to get 90 minutes of WFH peace which is what drove Trolls: World Tour's success. My parents would 100% have done this if the lockdown had happened when I was 10
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# ? May 22, 2020 02:13 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:So, wait, did people start to think bathing spread disease and stopped bathing? Sitting in a communal tub of lukewarm water alongside everyone else in town will absolutely, definitely spread disease
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# ? May 22, 2020 12:27 |
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Cessna posted:$5 says they made their grad students do it. No, it was themself.
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# ? May 22, 2020 12:40 |
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MrYenko posted:
David the Gnome was called David der Kabauter in German, which always confused the heck out of child-me. I basically only watched to hope for an explanation, but was always disappointed. (In German, a "Kabauter" is some sort of dwarf-spirit, which in my part of Germany was completely unknown. Instead, we were more acquainted with the "Klabauter", which is some sort of ship-dwelling kobold. The trifecta of stupid is the fact that German kids would have known what a loving Gnome is. We call them Gnome instead of Gnomes. That's it.)
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You guys need a new compound word for regional Gnome confusion.
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How much small arms do warships carry in their ships armouries? Do smaller ships that are more likely to be boarding carry proportionally more than their bigger cousins. Just how much would a Battleship likely to have stowed away. I know modern warships sometimes carry stingers or their equivalent SAM. What about ATGM's like the Javelin, or mortars/grenade launchers?
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SeanBeansShako posted:You guys need a new compound word for regional Gnome confusion. Gebietlichgnomeausdruckverwechslungschwierigkeit Roughly translated as "Regional Gnome word confusion problem" Usually abbreviated GeGnomAusVerSchi
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Deptfordx posted:I know modern warships sometimes carry stingers or their equivalent SAM. What about ATGM's like the Javelin, or mortars/grenade launchers? 1) there are no real space or weight constructions on a ship, so you could, but you could also carry something beefier instead 2) for naval purposes, those weapon classes are very short ranged and of limited firepower, might just bring more AAA/HMG which can be used against air and surface targets 3) many ATGM'S like the TOW can't actually be used over bodies of water - the IR beacon gets reflected which screws up the guidance system. Javelin works differently, but you would probably rather bring some longer ranged missile that packs more punch
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# ? May 22, 2020 13:57 |
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Park an Ontos on the deck of a ship
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# ? May 22, 2020 14:43 |
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if you have need of a javelin on a surface warship you have considerable problems
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If you don't have a Javelin how are you going to kill that rear end in a top hat in the tank spawn-camping all your planes?
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Grenrow posted:The guy being quoted here...wasn't a historian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Wallingford_(d._1214) Because it's funny and also if you don't like sources from 3-400 years after the fact, you won't like the 1st millenium AD in Europe
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Deptfordx posted:How much small arms do warships carry in their ships armouries? As always, it depends on the ship, era, etc. Pretty much any ship is going to have something. Pampanito (a WWII submarine) had a small arms locker located below the galley. (This is because the deck gun was located over the galley, and the small arms locker was in the magazine for the deck gun shells.) There wasn't an exact inventory, but I'd say there was space for about a dozen rifles and pistols. The very well restored WWII destroyer, USS Kidd, says: quote:Just aft of the Captain’s stateroom and under the ladder leading up to the 01 level is a small closet known as the Small Arms Locker. In the Small Arms Locker was space for 22 rifles. The ship was equipped with rifles, pistols, and “Tommy guns”—Thompson submachine guns like those used by mobsters in the 1930s—to provide shipboard security and to equip a landing party should such a need arise. The rifles were also used by shipboard personnel on occasion to detonate floating mines found drifting near the ship.
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Libluini posted:(In German, a "Kabauter" is some sort of dwarf-spirit, which in my part of Germany was completely unknown. Instead, we were more acquainted with the "Klabauter", which is some sort of ship-dwelling kobold. The trifecta of stupid is the fact that German kids would have known what a loving Gnome is. We call them Gnome instead of Gnomes. That's it.) Given it was coined by Paracelsus, gnome is more a German word than an English one.
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It varies depending on era quite a bit as well. A 1900 era protected cruiser designed for showing the flag and trade protection in the colonies is going to carry enough small arms plus various boats launches etc to land a significant percentage of the crew as naval infantry - probably a full company sized formation. Several nations included specialized naval landing artillery for the purpose (notably the Russians), as well as of course a few automatic weapons and rifles, bayonets, and sidearms galore The cruiser had to be fully self-sustaining over a long period of time and conduct a lot of different types of operations. An Arleigh Burke carries two RHIBs, so basically the maximum number of dudes you can put anywhere in one trip is 16 (two 8 person squads). They have M240s, M4s/16s, M14s, shotguns, sidearms, and less lethal weapons. I presume they also have hand grenades and possibly M203s. The most you will ever do is board a ship or post a shore guard. If it gets beyond that, different resources are required.
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When did most ships stop having a detachment of marines for boarding/shore harassment/putting down mutinies as was common during the age of sail?
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The Marines had to put down that lieberal who was trying to mutiny and take over an aircraft carrier like six weeks ago.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:When did most ships stop having a detachment of marines for boarding/shore harassment/putting down mutinies as was common during the age of sail? Marine detachments on capital ships (carriers, cruisers) were a thing up to the early 90s; I think 1995 was the last year. These days that role is handled by Navy Masters-at-Arms (essentially MPs).
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Nenonen posted:3) many ATGM'S like the TOW can't actually be used over bodies of water - the IR beacon gets reflected which screws up the guidance system. Javelin works differently, but you would probably rather bring some longer ranged missile that packs more punch I watched a video of ISIS putting an ATGM onto an Egyptian navy boat a few years ago. It seemed extremely effective, but no idea what kind of launcher/guidance system it had. *I'm probably thinking of this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/fphqe0/egyptian_navy_frigate_is_hit_with_an_isis_kornet/ It seems like some of the wire based guidance systems just short out over water. The French SS.11/SS.12 is an example of a naval wire guided missile that sort of worked. Pryor on Fire fucked around with this message at 18:04 on May 22, 2020 |
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SS.11/SS.12 is MCLOS isn't it? So you're just steering it with a joystick, not having the launcher track an IR beacon in the missile.
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At least some Finnish Navy warships carry AGS-17's on board for close up work.
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We (marines) would supplement the navy’s defense with some heavier stuff for ports and straits crossing but the navy just had rifles, shotguns, pistols, and mounted machine guns. Never saw any grenades or grenade launchers, that’d be a bad idea on a boat. Our recon guys didn’t even take GLs for ship clearing
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The Navy also had F/A-18Es and cruise missiles, to be fair Did the MEF take planes or ships to Iraq in 03
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:When did most ships stop having a detachment of marines for boarding/shore harassment/putting down mutinies as was common during the age of sail? The USMC essentially transitioned from being ship's police/landing parties to dudes whose job is amphibious warfare and/or "interventions" in the first decade or so of the 1900s. The fact the US might have to fight Japan was a major driver in this because to reach Japan US ships would need bases along the way, some of which had Japanese garrisons that had a different opinion. Suddenly having detachments of dudes who were basically infantrymen aboard ships made a lot of sense and there were was a weird period where, prior to creating permanent Marine ground units, it was expected the necessary marines would be carried in the fleet's individual ships instead of their own special transports. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 19:58 on May 22, 2020 |
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zoux posted:The Navy also had F/A-18Es and cruise missiles, to be fair Both I believe
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The USMC essentially transitioned from being ship's police/landing parties to dudes whose job is amphibious warfare and/or "interventions" in the first decade or so of the 1900s. This is true, but the USMC still had Detachments on ships for another 90 or so years. The USMC has lots of those "other duties" jobs, like providing guards for embassies.
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Cessna posted:This is true, but the USMC still had Detachments on ships for another 90 or so years. The USMC has lots of those "other duties" jobs, like providing guards for embassies. Yeah. I was speaking more in terms of organizational identity than their actual work and even then I was oversimplifying immensely.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Yeah. I was speaking more in terms of organizational identity than their actual work and even then I was oversimplifying immensely. If you want to get REALLY nitpicky, that was job #2 of the USMC under their mission statement from the National Security Act of 1947, which was foundational to the post-WWII military: quote:(1)The Marine Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to:
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Kemper Boyd posted:At least some Finnish Navy warships carry AGS-17's on board for close up work. Is that because of all the islands in the surrounding waters connecting via ice or ?
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Cessna posted:Marine detachments on capital ships (carriers, cruisers) were a thing up to the early 90s; I think 1995 was the last year. These days that role is handled by Navy Masters-at-Arms (essentially MPs). So, in cases where nuclear weapons are embarked, who guards them ? Navy or USMC personnel ? I had a buddy who's duty assignments on the Midway included a lot of standing around with loaded weapons outside a specific magazine.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Is that because of all the islands in the surrounding waters connecting via ice or ? Prolly, they've also used them for Atalanta patrols near the Somalian coast.
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I've always been curious about Vietcong traps post Vietnam war . Do they still find those things? Do civilians get maimed/killed by those things frequently?
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Alan Smithee posted:I've always been curious about Vietcong traps post Vietnam war . Do they still find those things? Do civilians get maimed/killed by those things frequently? I can't really speak for traps, but there's still a few million mines buried in Vietnam, and they continue to claim victims
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# ? May 23, 2020 12:48 |
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Speaking of Vietnam, Here's something I'd love to hear Cessna's opinion on.
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Berlin WW2 bombing survivor Saturn the alligator dies in Moscow Zoo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52784240quote:
I’m loving the idea there was a sewer gator hanging around WWII era Berlin for 3 years and somehow survived the Battle of Berlin as well.
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