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3 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

Come on, you need to spice up your descriptions. How about: "it went down quicker than Gleeful Gator on half off big loads day at his laundromat"?

Or, “it went down quicker than 3rdnlng on half off big loads day.” 

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44 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

Your originality has a level even below your country's fighting prowess.

now that's not fair.  the canadians fought bravely on juno beach, provided logistics in Iraq and provided the UK with plenty of trench fodder in WWI

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5 hours ago, Nanker said:

Think the torpedo hit the aviation fuel storage and the ordinance stockpiles blew. It went down quickly. 

 

Edit: Thanking DC Tom in advance for correcting my ignorance. ?

 

She was actually hit by three torpedoes that set off the aviation gas stowage and magazines.  Wasp was not a good carrier; she was a diminutive design - a smaller Yorktown, about 5000 tons lighter to fit under treaty limitations, without armor or torpedo protection.  

 

And though she was ordered abandoned within half an hour (on fire almost her whole length, and had lost all power so had no firefighting capacity left) she stayed afloat for seven hours, until she was scuttled by three American torpedoes.  Even poorly designed capital ships were damned hard to sink.

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37 minutes ago, LBSeeBallLBGetBall said:

Happy St Patrick's Day! Odd bar discussion today. What did cavemen do without toenail clippers? :beer::D

Since they had no shoes they wore them off stubbing them against rocks and such.

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10 hours ago, Nanker said:

Think the torpedo hit the aviation fuel storage and the ordinance stockpiles blew. It went down quickly. 

 

Edit: Thanking DC Tom in advance for correcting my ignorance. ?

 

I just realized, too: every American fleet carrier lost in WWII - Lexington, Yorktown, Wasp, Hornet - has now been found.  

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6 hours ago, LABillzFan said:

 

A day late, but still...

 

as an American of Irish ancestry, I am offended by those black people's cultural appropriation of a leprechaun

well, except for the guy with the flute.  he said his great great something or other was irish

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15 minutes ago, Foxx said:

 

Quote

The Aurora systems’ exaFLOP of performance – equal to a “quintillion” floating point computations per second – combined with an ability to handle both traditional high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) – will give researchers an unprecedented set of tools to address scientific problems at exascale. These breakthrough research projects range from developing extreme-scale cosmological simulations, discovering new approaches for drug response prediction, and discovering materials for the creation of more efficient organic solar cells. 

 

No, it's going to be used to simulate and virtually test new nuclear weapons designs.

 

That's probably what "extreme-scale cosmological simulations" means, in fact.  Same equations govern stellar cores and nuclear warheads.

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5 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

 

as an American of Irish ancestry, I am offended by those black people's cultural appropriation of a leprechaun

well, except for the guy with the flute.  he said his great great something or other was irish

Just from observation, that ancestor was most likely a lusty slave master.

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1 minute ago, 3rdnlng said:

Just from observation, that ancestor was most likely a lusty slave master.

possible but unlikely.  the Irish started arriving in mass after the Civil War as a cheap labor source to build the continental railroad and were referred to as the 'n*gg*rs of europe'

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1 minute ago, /dev/null said:

possible but unlikely.  the Irish started arriving in mass after the Civil War as a cheap labor source to build the continental railroad and were referred to as the 'n*gg*rs of europe'

 

Arriving "en masse."

 

Unless you're referring to them going to church.  Which I believe they were doing before the Civil War.

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9 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

possible but unlikely.  the Irish started arriving in mass after the Civil War as a cheap labor source to build the continental railroad and were referred to as the 'n*gg*rs of europe'

 The complete list includes: Thomas O'Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, James Polk, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant (also the first US president to visit Ireland), Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack O'bama. 

 

Some of these guys were Irish slave owners and could have fathered a child. Furthermore, it's en masse, not in mass, Duckdog.

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