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Date: 2017-08-29 11:07 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cmcmck
They failed to realise that Luftwaffe High Command had found that fitting a pair of upward firing high calibre cannon in the body of a JU88 (which was a fine night fighter by accident anyway) caused horrific losses which were put down to aircraft failure.

This was only discovered many years after the war.

Date: 2017-08-29 12:11 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
I have often wondered how they failed to work out what was going on.

(My grandfather was a bomber pilot. I have a mild family interest in the subject.)

Date: 2017-08-29 01:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cmcmck
My Great Uncle was a tail end Charlie (rear gunner) on Lancasters- he survived the war which was unusual for tail gunners!

I'm a military historian (although of a much earlier period) so..........

Date: 2017-08-29 02:21 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
My granddad was a pilot.

He managed to dodge the Luftwaffe but not a heart attack in 1950.

Date: 2017-08-29 02:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cmcmck
Great Uncle Les survived to go down to cancer in the sixties. :o(

Date: 2017-08-29 11:45 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] supergee
The vote thing is another blow to American exceptionalism.

Date: 2017-08-29 12:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
I skim read the rull tram report. It's very interesting.

I'm generally in favour of the tram extension and I think the report has made me slightly more in favour.

Date: 2017-08-29 02:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
If we're looking at 2022 before line 1A is finished then it's probably 2024 before they start any work on Line 2.

Date: 2017-08-29 03:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
I don't even want to think about the prospect of North Bridge being closed.

I think what we've learned as a city is that building trams is much harder than we thought it was and we should approach these projects with a bit of humility.

I think any of the additional lines I've seen proposed (running further out to Newbridge or a line down past the University and the Meadows and eventually to Musselburgh will have fewer problems with obscure and mysterious Victorian pipework.

You are right, it's nice to see the project back on the go.

(I am of course waiting for Elon Musk to bring one of his small diameter boring machines and install a subterranian space laser battery powered light rail system so cheaply that he pays us. I assure you Councillor MacInnes, this boring machine is fully operational.)

Date: 2017-08-29 04:13 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
Sadly you are out of luck - the proposed route goes North Bridge, University, Meadows, Cameron Toll, Fort Kinnaird, Craigmillar, Musselburgh.

It's entirely for me to get to work from the gym.

I shan't need it of course because by the time it's built I'll be running ultra-martathons before breakfast just for fun.

Date: 2017-08-30 04:22 pm (UTC)
danieldwilliam: (Default)
From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
Don't worry, you'll have moved closer to the tram network.

Date: 2017-08-29 03:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
Conservative voting: There was a line in the musical 1776 that explained the same thing. "Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor. And that is why they will follow us ..." and he goes back to singing the rest of "Cool Conservative Men."

I spent too much time trying to figure out those electoral maps before realizing it was just a reproduction of the colors in the illustrations, not an indication of which states were most likely to vote for them.

Autonomous cars: I just happened to finish reading this long article about Google's autonomous-car research. Note, however, that despite all the emphasis on the quantity of research they're doing, there's nothing whatever on how good the results are.

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