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@MrLuchenkov Now, now , we shouldn't mock the afflicted.

@LarryRickenbacker Actually the torpedo bombers were Swordfish from HMS Ark Royal. Of the ships chasing her the Rodney (9 16 inch guns) could only manage 22 knots, and the King George V (ten 14 inch guns) was running out of fuel. Without the damage to the steering gear, the Bismarck would have ...

I was at first surprised to find a Gospel (in content not style) song written by Jake. But then all his other work ridicules the self-righteous, the self-important and the hypocritical.

The worst evil of war is that the agenda rapidly becomes set by people who in peacetime would be locked up in institutions for the criminally insane.

The only real hero of that dreadful conflict - and he never carried a gun!

I can't see any precession mechanism - I'm surprised it stays upright for so long. However, it illustrates the point that even if the balance system fails, the vehicle will not immediately topple.

It appears to use Schilovski's precession mechanism, using friction drive from the gyro motors to force precession, plus top-heavy gyro mounts to accelerate the precession. Counter-rotating gyros to cancel effecs of pitch/yaw motion. Neat, but shouldn't the precession mechanism be geared down f...

A love song with all the usual bogus mawkish pap removed. The woman is a genius.

I think it is commendable that despite being neighbours for over two hundred years the US and Canada had only the one war. Compare that with Britain and France, Britain and Spain, Britain and Holland, Britain and Germany, Britain and just about everybody else.

Start with socialism, add xenophobia and racism, with a bit of old-fashioned snobbery, with nostalgia for past national greatness, and you end up with fascism. The ranks of the facists consist of those who from their background should be socialists. It is a ploy of the military-industrial comple...