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So it came up on the first page, but how exactly did banners control units? Did they have a flag under them that would signal various things, and someone would blow a horn when it was time to look? Were they purely rallying points? Did the scots actually use bagpipes to give orders?
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2018 16:36 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 12:07 |
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Canister is the buckshot one?
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2018 17:11 |
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That krrc entry where the guy killed 3 germans in a cellar with an axe
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2018 14:40 |
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Epicurius posted:This is more of a true crime book than a military history one, but David King's "Death in the City of Light", which is about the manhunt for a serial killer in Paris. The thing is, this is going on in 1943, while Paris is under German military occupation. That sounds super interesting. Will see if I can find this
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2018 13:37 |
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With phalanxes and the poke/push thing it always seemed unlikely to me that in a fight where there's a good chance your enemy is trying to kill you that you'd not try and stab him first instead of pushing him around. Has anyone ever given a bunch of phalanx equipment to those reenactor folks and told them to figure it out? Even with blunted weapons and whatnot would that still likely result in some serious injuries?
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# ¿ Jan 2, 2019 16:18 |
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When it runs out of torpedoes you load it up with filler metal start ramming the poo poo out of everything.
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2019 12:17 |
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Currently accepted reason for the explosion is the poorly designed control rods with carbon tips dropping. Massive upswing in moderation led to a huge spike in power flash boiling all the water and blowing the roof off, ejecting the now ruined fuel rods. The doc they showed us in training spoke about 30000 % rated power. The whole thing was a goddamn mess. Another plant refused to do the test because they thought it was loving stupid. "Let's flip all the safety systems off and see what happens". Commissioning exists for a reason, test that poo poo when it's empty.
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# ¿ May 30, 2019 23:40 |
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chitoryu12 posted:I think it might depend on exactly how you transition. If your method of ending the monarchy is storming the palace and decapitating everyone whose clothes look too fancy, your new government is probably going to be full of sociopaths looking for people to oppress and kill because those are the kinds of people who have no qualms about violent revolution. This should be posted every time someone goes harping on about the guillotine and killing every person with more money than them.
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2019 09:23 |
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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:It'd be nice if we could cut that down even more so we aren't tempted to join in any more overseas jollies I don't think anything will stop the brits from getting tanked overseas
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2019 16:47 |
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I realise they're protective vests but every part of this makes me scream no internally
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# ¿ Jun 2, 2019 19:59 |
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zoux posted:Watching Chernobyl and I'm reminded there are so many different units for radiation: curies, Roentgens, rads, rems, gY, sieverts, etc. Are these are measuring different things or could there be some sort of unified metric Different measures of radiation based on some poo poo I can't remember. rem (radiation equivalent?) are meant to be a standard that take into account the different dangers of the different types of radiation. Like alpha has a (dose in gray?)*20 and beta like a *5 I think. 100 rem = 1 sievert and if you absorb that much you've died. I think our annual dose limit set by regulation was 20 milli, but the company would cut you off for the year at 10. Someone who has google a bit more handy can probably answer that clearer
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# ¿ Jun 3, 2019 21:28 |
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GotLag posted:Sounds like what you're really saying is "it's too expensive to safely remediate them all" Not neccessarily expensive, but dangerous. If it's inert and safely being held in the walls then it's fine, if cracks start showing or in the event of a fire/collapse then yeah, you gotta do something about it.
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2019 18:17 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 12:07 |
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Squalid posted:this thread isn't much use if people are just yelling and posturing. There's plenty of other places to do that on the forum. I realise this was a week ago, but this is atrociously written satire about labour day in France right?
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2019 21:53 |