Close, but no cigar...
Hint: USSR, the commander in chief would agree
What was the quote, and who said it?
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Close, but no cigar...
Hint: USSR, the commander in chief would agree
What was the quote, and who said it?
Here’s another..
A navy program developed to substitute the use of human divers in certain AO’s.
The tasks performed by these substitutes included: locating and marking enemy mines, rescuing divers, protecting ports and harbors from enemy divers, search and destroy, etc.
What was the program?
What performed the tasks?
A navy program developed to substitute the use of human divers in certain AO’s.
The tasks performed by these substitutes included: locating and marking enemy mines, rescuing divers, protecting ports and harbors from enemy divers, search and destroy, etc.
What was the program?
What performed the tasks?
This wasn't Stalin's comment to the effect that "Ideas are like guns... we don't let them have guns, so why should we let them have ideas?" I paraphrase...
They trained dolphins to Kill Vietcong. And I think put limpet mines on ships.
I think the program failed when their genius students kept getting caught in tuna nets...
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Sirhr
I heard a while back that this program is still in operation or a new one replaced it. I could ask my cousin, but pretty sure CG uses them too. Mostly to harass people that get too close to ships and they try to force divers to surface IIRC. Some even carry cameras.
I heard of planting mines and killing (they kill by play essentially, either taking the diver too deep or injuring him), but what I'm talking about is post 9/11 on US coasts. Forget where I saw that.
Edit: There is a new diving knife made that injects a gas (CO2?) cartridge into the victim... Underwater, this is massively painful and fatal. On the surface it's still pretty nasty. Designed for use against sharks, but anything with a beach ball size bubble inside their body underwater isn't gonna be able to function, let alone fight.
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Didn't Chris Kyle write in his book about being rammed in the ribs by a trained sea lion during a training swim?
Nikita Khrushchev: "The press is our chief ideological weapon"
Just about every communist leader I can find has said something about using ideology as a weapon because it was outlined by Marx and Lenin and the gang from the start. But this particular quote seems to fit your constraints better.
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Bingo! Dolphins and sea lions were the most popular. The program had many names throughout the years, swimmer nullification program, shallow water intruder detection, and the more common, Navy marine mammal program.
That is interesting. At a glance, I thought it was just some copy of the M1 carbine, but after closer inspection it looks like the same action as the P08. Actually, it looks like a pistol with a stock kit similar to the ones they make for glocks today.
If you aren't a little vague, these guy's answer it faster than you can finish writing it! USSR narrowed it down, and this quote also seems like something the CIC would agree with. Good questions; I like the ones about weird, obscure programs and such.
Not sure about Chris kyle’s book, but I think it’s talked about in Brandon Webb’s “ The Red Circle”
Psyops is usually thought of in a modern context, but has been employed for a really long time. In one of the earliest known forms of psyching-out the opposition, who said "I flayed many right through my land and draped their skins over the walls,” and “I burned their adolescent boys and girls ... A pillar of heads I erected in front of the city.”? This guy was not exaggerating.
Assurnasirpil 11?
Sean, more pics of the Luger carbine prototype here: http://www.waffen-werle.de/Prototype Luger M1 Carbine.htm
Sean, more pics of the Luger carbine prototype here: http://www.waffen-werle.de/Prototype Luger M1 Carbine.htm
Yes, sir. Ashurnasirpal II is the winner! The Assyrians created tablets that showed them torturing their enemies to let the next city know what was coming. These showed them skinning their victims alive, blinding them, and impaling them on stakes and other delights!
Ashurnnasirpal left many of these behind and his were particularly terrifying to those in his path. A few for your enjoyment:
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Ok... we need a new question...
What was going on to the background music of Vienna Waltzes and Beatles Music...
Cheers,
Sirhr
What was going on to the background music of Vienna Waltzes and Beatles Music...
Cheers,
Sirhr
During Tet, the VC's captured the main radio station in Saigon and attempted to play a tape they brought with them... Ho Chi Minh calling for the People of the South to Rise up...
The station manager, before they took over the radio station, called the transmitter, which was not under assault and told them to "Play Vienna Waltzes and Beatles songs until further notice." Throughout the city, transistor radios were blurting out a mix of Beatles and Blue Danube, adding to the surreal nature of the battle...
But, yes, Stryker. One of the Tet battles.
Cheers,
Sirhr
The station manager, before they took over the radio station, called the transmitter, which was not under assault and told them to "Play Vienna Waltzes and Beatles songs until further notice." Throughout the city, transistor radios were blurting out a mix of Beatles and Blue Danube, adding to the surreal nature of the battle...
But, yes, Stryker. One of the Tet battles.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Lucky guess, was it the first?
Kinda like that elevator music playing at WTC on 9/11 while people jumped from the windows I guess. It would be surreal... Juxtaposition of "everything is fine" against "everything is screwed" kinda has that effect.
Keep it coming, I can't think of anything right now and you always have good questions.
Kinda like that elevator music playing at WTC on 9/11 while people jumped from the windows I guess. It would be surreal... Juxtaposition of "everything is fine" against "everything is screwed" kinda has that effect.
Keep it coming, I can't think of anything right now and you always have good questions.
Here's one: Why were the steps on the Aztec and similar pyramids so steep? (Kind of stretching the military connection, but there is one).
Didn't it have to do with something about only the fittest being sacrificed? So weak or small individuals wouldn't be able to make it up there (though children were also sacrificed). It is said that they were volunteers, but others doubt that.
Ritual combat was also practiced at the top. The obsidian sword they used was a question on here. There's a legend of a warrior that was killed up there but not before he killed all (or almost all?) of his opponents. I forget the particulars, but it had something to do with the manufacture of his sword/club.
Ritual combat was also practiced at the top. The obsidian sword they used was a question on here. There's a legend of a warrior that was killed up there but not before he killed all (or almost all?) of his opponents. I forget the particulars, but it had something to do with the manufacture of his sword/club.
FM got it. When you are feeding hearts to Huitzilopochtli, the God of the Sun and war, its best to have a huge spectacle and it just won't do to have your heartless bodies piling up on top of the pyramid.
The military connection to the sacrifice was that captives were often sacrificed. That being said, captives weren't the only ones sacrificed. You may be on a feature of pyramid design that I'm unaware of, but the only reason for the steepness of the steps I've ever heard or read was for the improvement in moving bodies to the bottom. Seems reasonable to me that keeping your god fed provides you victory and domination over your neighbors. It is a huge big burning thing in the sky after all, so ... why not?
The extreme-level sacrifice that we think of when pondering Aztecs was a, relatively, recent development. When I say recent, I mean relative to when Cortez arrived. Tlacaelel, an important imperial vizier-like individual, restructured the Aztec pantheon. Tlacaelel raised Huitzilopochtli to the preeminent position in the hierarchy, a move consistent with the Aztecs’ push toward militarism at the time. Huitzilopochtli needed very regular nourishment (tlaxcaltiliztli), which was freshly harvested human hearts. Being “people of the sun,” the Aztecs were responsible to provide old Huitzilopochtli with his very favorite Atkins-friendly meal. The sacrifices were, as I understand it, more often than not sourced from people who were not “of the sun.” The Tlaxcalan people, Aztec neighbors, provided the lion’s share of those sacrificed. As you can imagine, if you lived in Tlaxcala you probably hated the Aztecs. This made the Tlaxcalan people ripe for the picking for Cortez and we all know how that worked out for old Montezuma.
Just as an aside, the common consensus seems to be that the Aztec empire crumbled under the combined force of colonial subjugation and imported European diseases (mostly smallpox). There is evidence that there was already a demographic crisis based on all this human sacrifice before the Spanish arrived that would have toppled the Aztecs without European intervention. No way to know that one way or the other, but all the indignation over how they were treated by the Conquistadors when they were doing their own mass killings is, at the very least, ironic. I'm not saying if I were an Aztec I wouldn't be pissed at Cortez, but they were killing their own people and neighbors at an alarming rate. Just sayin ..
I follow you. I just recall seeing this documentary about those obsidian swords and it mentioned that ritual combat was also performed at the top. Now the guy may have been a captive --I'm not 100% clear on that. I do know he kicked ass up there. "Not of the sun" makes a lot of sense though.
Still boggles the mind how Cortez did what he did. I mean, outnumbered is one thing, but they literally could have just stampeded his ass and came out on top! It was what, 1million vs. a few thousand? I guess the culture had a lot to do with it though.
Still boggles the mind how Cortez did what he did. I mean, outnumbered is one thing, but they literally could have just stampeded his ass and came out on top! It was what, 1million vs. a few thousand? I guess the culture had a lot to do with it though.
NASA has most of the old U2's. They use them for high-altitude stuff of all kinds.
I don't know with authority... but am sure there are a few doing 'black' things. The U2 platform has a lot of utility in places that don't have high-altitude interceptor/missile capability.
Related question: "What left a chain of BB's?"
Cheers,
Sirhr
I don't know with authority... but am sure there are a few doing 'black' things. The U2 platform has a lot of utility in places that don't have high-altitude interceptor/missile capability.
Related question: "What left a chain of BB's?"
Cheers,
Sirhr
This will probably give it away... but also called chain of pearls or donuts on a rope.
Cheers,
Sirhr
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Sirhr
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