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Bolt blog ties it into groupthink pattern
stewgreen
stewgreen
not lightning maybe cigarettes arson.
"Mounties said for the first time Tuesday the Fort McMurray wildfire was “most likely the result of human activity” and is now asking the public for assistance as they investigate what caused the massive blaze."
stewgreen
Patrick Michaels comments on preliminary aerosol experiment results
http://www.cato.org/blog/climate-alarm-death-knell-sounds-again
stewgreen
Yeh well their MO is dirty PR not science
http://theweek.com/articles/629054/how-liberal-bias-killing-science
stewgreen
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/06/denmark-germany-join-the-uk-in-breaking-wind.php
stewgreen
Some warships of WW2 had Dazzle according to the websites you inspired me to look at last night. Do you know whether this was before both sides realised the other had radar, or was it because radar was not (?) fitted to aircraft that may have been on spotting duty?
Dazzle was/is to hinder visual accurate identification of course, speed & ship & hence its capabilities and to confuse enemy gunners trying to hit it.
In low light conditions at sea, large shapes painted black can be more visible! I don't know whether this is a trick of reflectivity, or human optics, but in a totally unscientific experiment, small markers fixed on buoys for lobster pots (scourge of yotties!) are easier to pick out with one A4 sized 'flag' white, and another black.Navigation buoys are now identified by lights, but traditionally, colours and shapes. You can spot dark shapes at night.
Black shows up against wave crest phosphorescence. In dark only B&W rods in eyes work. Humans have mostly colour vision cones. Dogs see well in dark as they have mostly rods.
Aircraft camouflage in the RAF has also evolved. From brown(ish) in WW1 to green and brown or green and grey, through to pale grey nowadays.
BVR A2A misiles have made fast-jet camo irrelevant. Grey is to blend in better on ground with concrete and hinder visual G2A weapon acquisition.
Pcar
@Adam Gallon, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:05 PM
Something's going off in Shanghai. Had fighter jets orbiting the city all afternoon & it's still going on at 9.05pm.
Tibetan monks about to invade and burn many Ca Nd Les ;)
Pcar
Rhoda, thank you for the name! I also said Fleet Air Arm, when it was the Royal Navy Air Service.
Salopian, the attack on the French Med Fleet at Mers el Kebir, after the Vichy deal with Germany, seems more significant if Hitler had planned a larger surface fleet. Taranto Dec 1940 and Cape Matapan took the Italian Navy out of the equation.
SandyS, the Royal Navy had observers with the Japanese as they destroyed the Russian Fleet at Tsushima 1905, it confirmed the design principles of HMS Dreadnought. Was there any attempt by the Japanese to take advantage of WW1?
golf charlie
golf charlie
I'm not a great student of WWI, but I know there was some Cooperation between the RN and IJN. There was a Japanese destroyer flotilla in the Mediterranean and they patrolled in the Indian Ocean at the request of the UK, an argument can be made that without Japanese assistance Great Britain would have lost control of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The RN suffered a major naval defeat at the hands of Admiral Graf Spee at Coronel in late 1914. After the removal of German warships they used disguised merchant raiders
After the war Japan hoped to gain the German Pacific colonies as a reward for their help. The fact that they didn't, coupled with naval treaty restrictions they thought unfair, is said to be factor in their subsequent move into militarism and hostility to the USA and UK. Not that they didn't already want a Pacific empire, but it had an influence on their approach to gaining one.
It's all interesting and not irrelevant today.