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Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson -
Did we not try to make an ice aircraft carrier?
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Turtleing!
We stayed in good old blightly and let Hitler waste lots of time fuel and money sending planes over here when it cost us limited fuel to defend against the luftwaffe.
When our planes got shot down the pilots could jump out and be popped into another plane since they landed on freindly territory, no so with the Germans.
We just nibbled away until we had build up enough to charge over en-masse and whip some Jerry ass. Don't forget that those were also the times when the Queens Navy ruled the oceans which prevented Hitler from doing anything but sending planes in at us.Comment
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Pykrete, Churchill supposedly wanted several gigantic ones built. The concept isn't quite as barmy as it sounds as it melts at quite a high temperature, theoretically it would have been bomb, fire and torpedo proof and it's thoroughly bouyant stuff.Originally posted by minestrone View PostDid we not try to make an ice aircraft carrier?
The panjandrum aside there were plenty of off the wall ideas that worked rather well in practice. Barnes Wallace came up with the supersonic earthquake bomb (a direct descendant of which is still in use) and the bouncing bomb, there were mine and obstacle clearing tanks and even swimming tanks (most of which sank, but some worked). We have modern radar and radio communications, arguably modern computing, satellite launching systems (mostly nabbed from German scientists), jet engines, long range airliners and reliable parachutes as a direct result of WW2 developments. You could also add plastic and reconstructive surgery and instruments to the list if you feel like it and probably thousands of other things including the ancestor of the diode which is the basis for all modern electronics.Comment
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We did not win WW2, we were just on the winning side, the yanks and the soviets were more interested in Europe than us, we were never a concern, just a location to locate troops in.Comment
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They did not properly understand how metal sheared until all the liberty ships the US built for us to carry food for the UK snapped in half.
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We didnt. The yanks did! Seen it on the tv!I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!
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My mum told me stories of having V1 flying parallel to her on a train into London. Many people told me when I was young that as a weapon of terror the V1 was far more effective that the V2.Originally posted by zeitghost
If you want to upset the septics - tell 'em that the Russians won the war.
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...or tell them it actually started in 1939, not 1941Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View PostMy mum told me stories of having V1 flying parallel to her on a train into London. Many people told me when I was young that as a weapon of terror the V1 was far more effective that the V2.
If you want to upset the septics - tell 'em that the Russians won the war.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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