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Quote from: Jolly Blue Giant on Today at 02:16:26 PMWow...you've done your research, Rich. I'm impressed 

I am a huge naval history buff.  I subscribe to Naval History (I am a member of the Naval Institute).  I have watched many of the videos on the two channels I posted.  I have watched countless hours of naval documentaries, and I have more than my fair share of naval books.

Elsbeth was a phenomenal watch that put a spin on whodunits and a police procedural.

Also Mayor of Kingstown is back today.

That is all.

Quote from: BluesCruz on Today at 02:11:20 PMJones can be traded if we pay his deal forward to the other party

Remember Simone Biles- She was great then comes the olympics and she cannot see the ground and withdraws from competition?

Jones cannot "see"the long ball connection outside the numbers.....he is terribly gun-shy.  The Danny Dimes of his rookie year I now a fantasy.

At this point you have to consider it unfixable and get rid of him

Yes he did well in the weird Pandemic 2022....but it was again with short passing game and a soft schedule

Hes done...cant take the heat and is a deer in the headlights

Time to move on or continue to lose...he is now fatally flawed as an NFL QB

So wait you are comparing Simone Biles mental health struggles, because that's what it was to Jones throwing down field? I thought the Usain Bolt, Brightwell, and Devito stuff was wild but man....

Mental health struggles are real and happen, to compare that to someone throwing deep is pretty tasteless.

Wow...you've done your research, Rich. I'm impressed 

Jones can be traded if we pay his deal forward to the other party

Remember Simone Biles- She was great then comes the olympics and she cannot see the ground and withdraws from competition?

Jones cannot "see"the long ball connection outside the numbers.....he is terribly gun-shy.  The Danny Dimes of his rookie year I now a fantasy.

At this point you have to consider it unfixable and get rid of him

Yes he did well in the weird Pandemic 2022....but it was again with short passing game and a soft schedule

Hes done...cant take the heat and is a deer in the headlights

Time to move on or continue to lose...he is now fatally flawed as an NFL QB

Quote from: AZGiantFan on Today at 02:04:42 PMIt should have died after everyone had a good laugh but somehow the troll kept getting fed.

And continues to...

Quote from: MightyGiants on Today at 10:01:46 AMI have to confess, I am embarrassed as sin that this thread (one I consider one of the silliest I have seen in some time) continues to be near the top of the board   

It should have died after everyone had a good laugh but somehow the troll kept getting fed.

Watched "Retribution" (Hulu w/Starz add-on) with Liam Neeson, who is one of my favorite "tough guys"...although he didn't look so tough in "A Million Ways to Die in the West" when he is laying face down in the dirt with his pants pulled down and Charlize Theron sticking a daisy in his butthole, LOL...but I digress

Scene "fuzzed out" to avoid pornography on this board

Anyway, pretty good movie and lots of action/bloodshed/explosions, etc. Sorta along the theme of "Speed" with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in which a bus blows up if it stops. Only, in this one, the car with Neeson and his two children blow up if anyone gets up off their seat, which will trigger a bomb and the bad guy giving instructions to steal 208 million Euros over the phone, and also has a remote switch to detonate the bomb


Supposedly, the best Neeson movie since "Taken", is dropping on Netflix today called "In the Land of Saints and Sinners", which I will get around to sometime this week...maybe tonight 

Quote from: Jolly Blue Giant on Today at 01:16:04 PMThe computerized firing was probably not available in WWII. Far more sophisticated than the days of pirate ships, but pretty much the same type of warfare as the days of pirates. The New Jersey loaded cannons with black powder (albeit - an incredibly larger amount), and a spearheaded (more accurate because of rifling in the barrels) cannonballs

Radar was pretty crude and could only detect sounds (usually planes) before the planes were seen. Submarines had a crude model of sonar towards the end of WWII, but it could only detect other submarines, torpedoes, or underwater mines less than a couple thousand yards...which was too late if a torpedo was coming directly at the sub. Sonar was not yet used by top water ships. Battleships were not equipped with sonar during WWII or Korea

Although they had a type of mechanical "computer", what they really had were knobs and gauges, to set speed, target range/distance, etc. To calculate moving targets during battle, sailors used slide rulers (if you can remember them...LOL). I still have my old slide rule that I used before the first digital calculator came out that could help me out when using trig. Pain in the ass to use is an understatement. I bring it out to show my grandkids and they are unimpressed. Computers in that day (WWII/Korea) were advanced mechanical renditions of the old Chinese abacuses, and slide rulers were America's answer to a scientific calculator



Ships weaponry and advanced technology was pretty crude during WWII and Korea. Black powder cannons and eyesight was used over everything, compared to today

Actually, the battleships did have computers.  They were mechanical and analogue but they worked rather well

The Mark 8 fire control computer in the aft secondary battery plotting room of the battleship USS IOWA





Here is a good rating of both optical as well as radar-guided fire control

http://www.combinedfleet.com/b_fire.htm

Here is a good article of one of the earlier fire control computers


http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-056.php